<p>As good for man, like many other fish,<lb/> A well dress'd Thornback is a dainty dish;<lb/> But in the cooking, less of art there lies,<lb/> Than how to hold it when you've caught the prize:<lb/> For he who doth not know this fish's ways,<lb/> And grips him just as he would take another,<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac046"/> Most dearly for his want of knowledge pays<lb/> With unexpected pain, too great to smother:<lb/> While the more skill's and cautious fisher, he<lb/> Seizing him first by one gill, then the other,<lb/> Short work of him soon makes, and as you see,<lb/> Laughs in hus sleeve to hear his neighbour's pother.</p> <p>Non omnibus omnia.<lb/> All things are not good for all.<lb/> WHO think that they the faculty possess,<lb/> All things alike to do with like success;<lb/> And that alike all things may be achiev'd,<lb/> Ne'er fail'd alike to find themselves deceiv'd.<lb/> Not ev'ry one is apt to ev'ry thing,<lb/> Nor the same talent to the purpose bring:<lb/> To take or this or that be what it may,<lb/> Each certain thing has itw own certain way.<lb/> T'achieve success in all we would acquire<lb/> Needs something else beyond the mere desire.<lb/> And when obtain'd how oft 'tis but to find,<lb/> The thing desir'd, nor suited nor design'd<lb/> Or to our talent, health, or frame of mind.<lb/> All is not good for all, though all would be<lb/> Alike possessors of some thing they see:<lb/> What joy to one imparts and is his gain,<lb/> Is both at once another's loss and pain,<lb/> And ev'ry day doth some example shew<lb/> That one man's weal is but another's woe.</p> <p>ARTE citae remoque rates veloque reguntur,<lb/> Arte leves currus, arte regendus amor.-OVID I.Amand.<lb/> Qui secundos optat eventus, dimicet arte, non casu.-VEGET.lib. 3 in Praef<lb/> AMABIT sapiens, cupient caeteri. APUL. ex Afran.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac047"/> <p>Without knowledge meddle not.<lb/> DILUIS helleborum certo compescere puncto<lb/> Nescius quantum? vetat hoc natura medendi.<lb/> Wilt thou mix hellebore, who doth not know<lb/> How many grains should to the mixture go?<lb/> The art of medicine this forbids, I trow.</p> <p>Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum.<lb/> THAT is a twofold knowledge, which profits alike by the folly of the foolish, and<lb/> the wisdom of the wise; it is both a shield and a sword; it borrows its security<lb/> from the darkness, and its confidence from the light. -COLTON. Lacon.<lb/> ONE man's meat is another man's poison.<lb/> One man's fault is another man's lesson.<lb/> It is better to learn late than to remain ignorant. -PHOCYLIDES.<lb/> WHAT is the true good? Knowledge.<lb/> And the true evil? Ignorance. -SENECA.</p> <p>Disappointment in Marriage.<lb/> LISTEN, I pray you, to the stories of the disappointed in marriage: -collect all their<lb/> complaints: hear their mutual reproaches; upon what fatal hinge do the greatest<lb/> part of them turn? -''They were mistaken in the person.''-Some disguise either of body<lb/> or mind is seen trough in the first domestic scuffle: -some fair ornament- perhaps the<lb/> very one which won the heart, the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit-falls off; It is<lb/> not the Rachael for whom I have served, -Why hast thou then beguiled me?<lb/> Be open-be honest: give yourself for what you are; conceal nothing, -varnish<lb/> nothing,-and if these fair weapons will not do, -better not conquer at all, than con-<lb/> quer for a day: -when the night is passed, 'twill ever be the same story,-And it came<lb/> to pass, behold it was Leah!<lb/> If the heart beguiles itself in its choice, and imaginations will give excellencies<lb/> which are not the portion of flesh and blood:-when the dream is over, and we awake<lb/> in the morning, it matters little whether 'tis Rachael or Leah-be the object what it<lb/> will, as it must be on the earthly side, at least, of perfection, -it will fall short of the<lb/> work of fancy, whose existence is in the clouds.<lb/> In such cases of deception, let not man exclaim as Jacob does in his, -What is<lb/> it thou hast done unto me?-for 'tis his own doings, and he has nothing to lay his fault<lb/> on, but the heat and poetic indiscretion of his own passions. -STERNE'S Sermons, vol. iv.<lb/> p.11.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac048"/> <p>SOMETIMES I was the brood of Gold'n-haird sunne,<lb/> More pure, more chast, than Vesta's watchfull nunne,<lb/> Purer than Easterne gemmes, than Saphirs bright,<lb/> Purer than Ophirs gold, than Rubies light,<lb/> Purer than Pactols gravell often try'd<lb/> In fire, and furnace seven times purify'd:<lb/> But since the fates to grease did me combine,<lb/> His filthy dregges are judged to be mine:<lb/> For why conjuction doth contagion make,<lb/> And from th'impure the pure infection take.<lb/> The soule once plung'd into the body darke,<lb/> Forgets it was a chast and divine sparke.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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