<p>THE cunning Hedgehog, with instinctive art,<lb/> In ball-like shape, rolled up, upon the ground,<lb/> With open hole-like mouth, knows well his part,<lb/> T'entrap the giddy mice that sport around.<lb/> And lo! when one, more prying than the rest,<lb/> Draws near, to peep within a hole so nice,<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac066"/> The Hedgehog snaps him up with eager zest,<lb/> And mousey pays for peeping, in a trice!<lb/> Let caution guide your sport, be what it may;<lb/> For where expected least, some snare may lay:<lb/> And venus' boy was painted blind of yore,<lb/> For that in darkness he worked mischief more.</p> <p>FORMOSAS intueri jucundissimum, tangere autem et tractare sine periculo non licet.<lb/> PLUTARCH.<lb/> AMOR latebricolarum hominum corruptor. PLAUT. Trin.<lb/> DETUR aliquid aetati, sit adolescentia liberior, non omnia voluptatibus denegentur.<lb/> Dummodò illa in hoc genere praescriptioque moderatioque teneatur, parcat juventus<lb/> pudicitae suae, ne spoliet alienam, ne probrum castis, labem integris, infamiam bonis<lb/> inferar. -CIC. pro Mar. Calio.</p> <p>Parva Patitur ut Magnis Potiatur.<lb/> NIUNO piu facilmente inganna gli altri, che chi è solito, e ha fama, di non gli<lb/> ingannare. -GIUCCIARDIN.<lb/> No one so easily deceives others as he who is expert in deceit, and has a repute<lb/> for Integrity.</p> <p>He is not the greatest cheat who begins with cheating.<lb/> TO gain his ends, the Hedgehog first permits<lb/> Each sportive freedom that the mouse would take;<lb/> For well he knows if he to that submits,<lb/> More sure is he, his prey of him to make.<lb/> So is't with those who most to wrong intend;<lb/> They first assume the semblance of the friend;-<lb/> And e'en sometimes to make the cheat more sure,<lb/> Some favour offer, or some loss endure:<lb/> Till having gain'd the vantage ground they sought,<lb/> And lull'd suspicion with most fair pretence,<lb/> Their too reliant dupe at length is caught,<lb/> And rues too late his ill plac'd confidence. </p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac067"/> <p>VIGOR ingentibus negotiis par, eò acrior, que somnum et inertiam magis ostentat.<lb/> TACITUS.<lb/> PELLICULAM veterem retines, et fronte politus,<lb/> Abstruso rapidam gestas sub pectore vulpem. -PERS. Satyr. 5.<lb/> FRAUS in parvis sidem sibi praestruit, ut, cùm operae pretium est, cum mercede<lb/> magnâ fallat. -LIVV.</p> <p>Objexta movent.<lb/> Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh<lb/> about, seeking whom he may devour. -I Peter v. 8. <lb/> THE Hedgehog knows the mouse's wanton ways,<lb/> And knowing this, knows well to profit by it:<lb/> He shows the mouse a hole, nor aught betrays<lb/> That might abate his annate bent to try it:<lb/> Within his mouth in hole-like fashion hollow'd<lb/> The mouse soon creeps-and is a quickly swallow'd.<lb/> With just such baits as these Man's mortal foe<lb/> Lures man to ill, and fills this world with woe:<lb/> He knows our hearts, he knows our love of sin,<lb/> And by that knowledge strives our souls to win,<lb/> Tempts each alike, by that which most allures<lb/> The hear of each, and thus his prey secures.</p> <p>BUT I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve trough his subtilty, so<lb/> your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.-2 Corinth. xi. 3.</p> <p>IT is the Devil's part to suggest: Ours, not to consent. As oft as we resist him,<lb/> so often we overcome him: As often as we overcome him, so often we bring joy to<lb/> the Angles, and glory to God, who opposeth us, that we may contend, and assisteth<lb/> us, that we may conquer. -S.BERNARD in Ser.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac068"/> <p>FOURE Elements in this my body are<lb/> All jockt in one, yet ever still at warre;<lb/> As all agree to nourish this my light<lb/> So to my ruine they combine their might:<lb/> Aire maketh way for the flame, Earth builds a pyre,<lb/> My moisture feeds the still consuming fire.<lb/> Still as I shine by light, by light I dy,<lb/> As cause of life, so of mortality,<lb/> It was Prometheus fault who stole away<lb/> Heav'ns fire, and joyn'd it to his mortall clay.<lb/> Moisture doth heat, and heat doth moisture quale,<lb/> That dryes our body, this makes it dampe and fraile,<lb/> That which doth give, doth likewise spend our breath;<lb/> The first of being, is first houre of death.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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Play, but Chastely

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Close to a puddle a hedgehog waits for an opportunity to catch one of the mice that are playing in front of him

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<p>PLAY, BUT CHASTELY</p>

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