THE cunning Hedgehog, with instinctive art,
In ball-like shape, rolled up, upon the ground,
With open hole-like mouth, knows well his part,
T'entrap the giddy mice that sport around.
And lo! when one, more prying than the rest,
Draws near, to peep within a hole so nice,
And mousey pays for peeping, in a trice!
Let caution guide your sport, be what it may;
For where expected least, some snare may lay:
And venus' boy was painted blind of yore,
For that in darkness he worked mischief more.
FORMOSAS intueri jucundissimum, tangere autem et tractare sine periculo non licet.
PLUTARCH.
AMOR latebricolarum hominum corruptor. PLAUT. Trin.
DETUR aliquid aetati, sit adolescentia liberior, non omnia voluptatibus denegentur.
Dummodò illa in hoc genere praescriptioque moderatioque teneatur, parcat juventus
pudicitae suae, ne spoliet alienam, ne probrum castis, labem integris, infamiam bonis
inferar. -CIC. pro Mar. Calio.
Parva Patitur ut Magnis Potiatur.
NIUNO piu facilmente inganna gli altri, che chi è solito, e ha fama, di non gli
ingannare. -GIUCCIARDIN.
No one so easily deceives others as he who is expert in deceit, and has a repute
for Integrity.
He is not the greatest cheat who begins with cheating.
TO gain his ends, the Hedgehog first permits
Each sportive freedom that the mouse would take;
For well he knows if he to that submits,
More sure is he, his prey of him to make.
So is't with those who most to wrong intend;
They first assume the semblance of the friend;-
And e'en sometimes to make the cheat more sure,
Some favour offer, or some loss endure:
Till having gain'd the vantage ground they sought,
And lull'd suspicion with most fair pretence,
Their too reliant dupe at length is caught,
And rues too late his ill plac'd confidence.
VIGOR ingentibus negotiis par, eò acrior, que somnum et inertiam magis ostentat.
TACITUS.
PELLICULAM veterem retines, et fronte politus,
Abstruso rapidam gestas sub pectore vulpem. -PERS. Satyr. 5.
FRAUS in parvis sidem sibi praestruit, ut, cùm operae pretium est, cum mercede
magnâ fallat. -LIVV.
Objexta movent.
Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh
about, seeking whom he may devour. -I Peter v. 8.
THE Hedgehog knows the mouse's wanton ways,
And knowing this, knows well to profit by it:
He shows the mouse a hole, nor aught betrays
That might abate his annate bent to try it:
Within his mouth in hole-like fashion hollow'd
The mouse soon creeps-and is a quickly swallow'd.
With just such baits as these Man's mortal foe
Lures man to ill, and fills this world with woe:
He knows our hearts, he knows our love of sin,
And by that knowledge strives our souls to win,
Tempts each alike, by that which most allures
The hear of each, and thus his prey secures.
BUT I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve trough his subtilty, so
your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.-2 Corinth. xi. 3.
IT is the Devil's part to suggest: Ours, not to consent. As oft as we resist him,
so often we overcome him: As often as we overcome him, so often we bring joy to
the Angles, and glory to God, who opposeth us, that we may contend, and assisteth
us, that we may conquer. -S.BERNARD in Ser.
FOURE Elements in this my body are
All jockt in one, yet ever still at warre;
As all agree to nourish this my light
So to my ruine they combine their might:
Aire maketh way for the flame, Earth builds a pyre,
My moisture feeds the still consuming fire.
Still as I shine by light, by light I dy,
As cause of life, so of mortality,
It was Prometheus fault who stole away
Heav'ns fire, and joyn'd it to his mortall clay.
Moisture doth heat, and heat doth moisture quale,
That dryes our body, this makes it dampe and fraile,
That which doth give, doth likewise spend our breath;
The first of being, is first houre of death.
FARLIE'S Emblems.
PLAY, BUT CHASTELY
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