<p>THERE is a Fish, to Fishers say,<lb/> Of mood so giddy and so gay;<lb/> So fond of glare and dazzling light,<lb/> That even in the darkest night,<lb/> 'Twill crowd thereto in sportive play,<lb/> And e'en more ready than by day<lb/> Become the wily Fisher's prey.<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac038"/> The Fisher who these fish would get,<lb/> Needs neither baited hook nor net:<lb/> A blazing torch, his only lure,<lb/> Fix'd in his boat, is far more sure<lb/> Than bow-net, seine, or hook and bait,<lb/> His skiff in little time to freight.<lb/> As up and down the stream they float;<lb/> The fish enchanted with the light<lb/> That makes a mimic day of night,<lb/> From far and near toward the blaze<lb/> Directing their enraptur'd gaze,<lb/> Swim up in shoals, and sport around,<lb/> Till giddy with delight they bound<lb/> Into the fisher's bark, and there<lb/> Forseit their life for love of glare.<lb/> Those who on Love or Pleasure bent,<lb/> Leave their own home and element;<lb/> And wander far to court the grace<lb/> Or win the smile of stranger face,<lb/> Of whom they nothing farther know,<lb/> Than their mere outward charm and show,<lb/> Have frequent reason to repent<lb/> They were not with their home content;<lb/> And like the fishes of our tale,<lb/> Their folly, when too late, bewail.<lb/> Wooers and wooed! to both of you,<lb/> Alike applies a maxim true,<lb/> Which cannot be too oft repeated: -<lb/> Who far away a-courting goes,<lb/> Where one of t'other little knows,<lb/> Or goes to cheat- or to be cheated.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac039"/> <p>FALLITUR ignotis, aut fallit amator in oris.</p> <p>UT cephalum Venetis fallat piscator in oris,<lb/> Praesiget parvae lumina magna reti:<lb/> Mox piscis, quà teda micat, salit, inque phaselum<lb/> Cùm ruit, in praedam navita promptus aest.<lb/> Quid tibi cum flammis, cum sint tua regna sub undis,<lb/> Quid salis in Cymbam stulte, natare tuam est:<lb/> Ni cupiat vel fraude capi, vel fallere quemquàm,<lb/> Errat, in ignoto littore si quis amat.</p> <p>Domus amica, domus optima.<lb/> THE finger of God points to home, and says to us all, ''There is the place to find<lb/> your earthly joy!''REV.J.ABBOTT.<lb/> If you find a young man who does not love home, whose taste is formed for other<lb/> joys, who can see no happiness in the serene enjoyment of the domestic circle, you may<lb/> depend upon it he is not to be trusted.- Ibid.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac040"/> <p>MY Light is best maintain'd with little Oyle,<lb/> Too much of that which feeds me, doth me spoile.<lb/> Deluge of waters drownes the fertile ground,<lb/> Soft dropping raines makes it with grasse abound:<lb/> Riot in cheere the body kils and minde,<lb/> The meanest fare, the best for both we finde:<lb/> Rather in Mica than Apollo dine,<lb/> If you wouldst wit and health still to be thine.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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