MAKE Love with cheerful heart,
Of what use thoughts of sadness?
Do as the Patridge doth,*
That fattens on Love's gladness:
Do ad doth the pretty bird±
Which on the banks of Nile,
*La perdrix s'engraisse à couvrir la femelle.-PLUTARCH.
±On the subject of this bird, the Trochilus of Pliny, see Plin. lib. 8, cap 25. De Trochilo sive
avium rege, crocodilo dentes scalpente et se saginante.
The while he feasts his fill, no less
Doth service to the Crocodile.
Nay n'er repine, sweet youth,
'Tis senseless, downright Folly,
To let thine ardent flame
Give caufe for Melancholy:
He that loves and serves a maid,
In truth, achieves two ends;
For while her wish he pleases most,
So he no less himself befriends.
Er puer es, nee te, quidquàm nisi ludere oportet.
Lude, decent annos mollia regna tuos.
Cur aliquis rigido fodiat sua pectora ferro?
Invidiam caedis pacis amator habes.
OVID, lib, I. de Remed. Amor. ad Cupidinem.
AMOR immoderatus ipsi amori novissimè inutiles sic facit: nam quùm fruendi
cupiditate insatiabili quis flagrat, tempora suspicionibus, lachrimis, querelis perdit, otium
sui facit et novissimè sibi est odio. -HIERON.
LES violences qu'on se fait pour s'empêcher d'aimer sont souvent plus cruelles que
les rigueurs de ce qu'on aime. -LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
Non id agis, quod agis.
Pubica praetexuntur, privata curantur.
QUELQUE personage que l'homme joue, il joue toujours le sien parmy. -MICH. DE
MONTAIGNE.
WITH Public men, great fault the Publix find,
That while the business of the State they do,
They shew themselves the while somewhat inclin'd
To look to self, and mend their own state too.
In this withall, we see not much to blame;
And those who most the impulse oft condemn,
Or even worse than those whom they contemn.
In this as in all else 'tis the excess
That constitutes the fault, and those alone
Who steer the middle course, the best express:
'Serve well the Public ends, but serve thine own.'
The wisest Statesman of a surety.
Is he who lab'ring for the Public weal,
His own alike with the same glance can see
And feel for that for which none else would feel.
On this world's stage, whate'er the Part man Plays;
In act and speech however seeming fair;
He always something of his own betrays,
Ans in the Part- the Man himself is there.
A LA cour du Roy chacun pour soy.
Sois serviteur, sans crévecaeur.
Onder Vrientschaps schyn, besorght hy't syn.
O prodiga rerum luxuries!
WHEN gorged with food, the greedy Crocodile
Extended lies upon the sands of Nile;
The pretty King bird with an appetite
Gross as the Vulture, or the bird of Night;
Hies to the monster's wide extended jaws
To cleanse his fetid teeth with beak and claws.
That bird so pretty! should a taste display
For food so filthy, doth too well pourtray
And symbolise the grosser appetites
Which some men shew for sensual delights;
And who while doing service as they seem,
The service of their bellies most esteem.
WHOSE end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their
shame, who mind earthly things.-Philip. iii. 19.
STOLEN waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.-Prov. ix.17.
WHILST stormy winds about the Lanterne rage,
THe light ought to have lurked in his cage;
Untimely love undoes him, while he lends
His Light, loe how his harmelesse life he spends.
When troops of enemies besiege the wall,
For feare of hurt, shut gates, though friends doe call.
If that a friend accompanyed with a foe
Doth come, feare neighbour danger, let him goe.
If thou lov'st to be charitable, doe
So good to others, that it hurt not you.
FARLIE'S Emblem.
WHO IS HURTFUL TO HIMSELF, BENEFITS NO ONE
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