<p>THE Peach-tree with too eager haste<lb/> To shew its blossoms to the sun,<lb/> Gives oft its pretty bloom to waste<lb/> Before the frosts of Spring are done.<lb/> Much wiser is the Mulberry,<lb/> Which only thinks its leaves to shew,<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac070"/> When leaves are green on ev'ry tree,<lb/> And roses have begun to blow.<lb/> They most ensure Success and Praise,<lb/> Who, guided by the Rule of Reason,<lb/> Do sitting things on sitting days,<lb/> And dress as most becomes the season.</p> <p>PLUTOST meurier,<lb/> Qu'amandrier.<lb/> D'AMANDEL bloeyt vroeg, de Moerbesy laet;<lb/> Maer let eens wie het beter gaet!<lb/> SAT citò, si sat benè.<lb/> Assez tost, si bien.<lb/> HAEST genoeg,<lb/> Is't wel genoeg.<lb/> Soon enough begun,<lb/> That which is well done.<lb/> DRESS drains our Cellar dry,<lb/> And keeps our Larder lean. -COWPER.<lb/> FOND pride of Dress is sure a very curse.<lb/> Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. -BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.<lb/> THE most vionlent Passions will sometimes allow us a repsite, but Vanity leaves us<lb/> no response. -LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.</p> <p>PROIN quidquid est, da tempus ac spatium tibi:<lb/> Quid ratio nequit saepè sanavit mora.-SENECA, Agam.<lb/> Si quid benè factum velis, tempori trade.-Ibid.<lb/> DA spatium tenuemque moram, malé cuncta ministrat<lb/> Impetus.-STATIUS.<lb/> DIFFER, habent parvae commoda magna morae.-OVID.<lb/> THE mean, is the point nearest to Wisdom: it is better not to reach it at all,<lb/> than to over-run it.-Chinese Proverb.<lb/> LET Reason guide you at all times, even in the nost unimportant things.<lb/> PYTHAGORAS.<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac071"/> AVOID doing that which may draw down upon you the reproaches and the envy<lb/> of our neighbours. -PYTHAGORAS.<lb/> Know your oppurtunity, and do not speak before-hand of that which you will <lb/> do. Should your project fail, you will furnish subject for ridicule to those who are<lb/> jealous of you. -THALES.</p> <p>Esto cultu modicus.<lb/> WE are told by Jewellers that there is no Diamond of so fine a water, but it <lb/> requires some aid to improve its lustre. This observation has been also<lb/> applied to young women.<lb/> No objection can be made thereto, provided it be understood in a sitting and<lb/> healthy sense. For it is indisputable that Virtue and Modesty are the greatest<lb/> ornaments or auxiliaries to the Beauty of Woman.<lb/> LA chasteté est la première beauté.<lb/> EXTERNAL Show and costlines of Dress are pernicious in their effects upon the<lb/> female mind, and tend to sap the principles of Virtue and Modesty. As regards her<lb/> attire, the motto, of a virtuous young Woman should be:-<lb/> Nitidè, non delicatè.<lb/> Reyn gekleet,<lb/> En niet te breet.<lb/> Clean in Dress,<lb/> Without Excess.<lb/> Ne sois Paon à toy parer,<lb/> Ny Perroquet en ton parler,<lb/> Ny Cicogne en ton manger,<lb/> Ny Oye aussi en ton marcher,<lb/> SUSPECTA semper ornamenta ementibus.<lb/> VEEL vlaggen, luttel boters.<lb/> WHOSE adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of<lb/> wearing of gold, or of putting on a apparel. - I Peter iii. 3.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac072"/> <p>THE Crafts-man did me of pure tallow frame,<lb/> And made me fit to nourish heav'ns flame;<lb/> One thing remain'd, that I should take with fire,<lb/> When season due, and sit houre doth require:<lb/> Loe how the rats catching me all alone,<lb/> With envious teeth my body cease upon;<lb/> I dye before my day, they life prevent;<lb/> Before I live, my livelesse body's spent:<lb/> I dying could with teares my death bemoane,<lb/> But this untimely death doth yeeld me none.<lb/> The infant so oft doth it selfe entombe,<lb/> Before it see the day, in mothers wombe.<lb/> So by untimely death youths hope decayes,<lb/> Which might have well deserved many daies.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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