<p>HIGH up in air, the sea-mew spies<lb/> AN oyster lying on the strand,<lb/> Gaping with open shell t'inhale<lb/> The summer breeze from off the land.<lb/> To seize the luscious morsel quick-<lb/> With suffen swoop and deadly pick,<lb/> The sea-bird darts his horny beak<lb/> Between the oyster's shell:<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac098"/> But closing on it quick as thought,<lb/> The bird is by the oyster caught!<lb/> And nipped so tight and well;<lb/> That strive and struggle as he may,<lb/> To free his beak, and get away;<lb/> He keeps him captive, firmly bound,<lb/> Till with return of tide he's downed.<lb/> Who to themselves would all appropriate<lb/> Of that they see, deserve the sea-mew's fat;<lb/> Nor doth he fail to meet it, soon or late,<lb/> Whose nose is thrust in everybody's plate.</p> <p>The Event is often different from the Intent.<lb/> DEFEATING our intent and expectation,<lb/> In strange revers of that we think to see;<lb/> When certain most, -we find ourselves mistaken,<lb/> And he is caught, who would the catcher be.<lb/> To curb the pride and malice of man's nature,<lb/> 'Twas wise ordained, that he should sometimes see,-<lb/> In his own toils the hunter captive taken;<lb/> And he despoiled, who would the spoiler be;-<lb/> The evil doer, 'gainst his calculation,<lb/> By his own mischief foiled and hurt, alone,<lb/> The slander of a neighbour's reputation,<lb/> Recoil with deeper wound upon his own.</p> <p>The same in another sense.<lb/> Konst van beswaren, gaet voor't vergaren<lb/> How to retain, is more than how to gain.<lb/> THE mew is in a fix, as we have seen;<lb/> With beak well jamm'd the oyster's shells between:<lb/> But what avails the shell-fish his success?<lb/> Strange case it is-yet nothing less than true,<lb/> His very fortune causes him distress,<lb/> Nor knows he with his capture what to do!<lb/> A very load to him, a trouble quite,<lb/> The catcher would be well rid of the caught,<lb/> 'Tis almost'gainst his grain to hold him tight-<lb/> Yet, to let go- were perhaps with peril fraught!<lb/> Just so in life, whom management doth fail,<lb/> Success nor riches to their good avail.<lb/> </p> <lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac099"/> <p>HARM seek, harm find.<lb/> As you sow, so you must reap.<lb/> As you make your bed, so you must lie on it.<lb/> Qui mal cherche, mal trouve.<lb/> Ut sementem feceris, ita metes. -CICERO.<lb/> Comme on fait son lit on se couche.<lb/> Tute hoc introisti, tibi omne est exedendum.-TERENCE.</p> <p>THE Power and the Richer acquired by a life of anxious toil, slip not unfrequently<lb/> from their possessor's hands, from defective government, or mismanagement:<lb/> because it is easier to acquire power and to gain wealth than to keep and use them<lb/> prudently when gotten. An especial virtue is needful to this, more than is required<lb/> for the gradual heaping up of riches.</p> <p>Non labore, sed munificentiâ Domini.<lb/> Not by labour, but by the blessing of the Lord.<lb/> THE oyster without change of place, or toil,<lb/> Propers in peace, and easy takes his spoil:<lb/> The sea-mew, restless, sweeps the shore and main<lb/> In quest of food, and, little oft to gain:<lb/> The oyster toils but little, yet he thrives;<lb/> The sea-mew, less from his great toil derives;<lb/> And so all labour is in vain, unless<lb/> God of His blessing doth our labour bless.</p> <p>Ecclesiaster IX. 11.<lb/> I SAW under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,<lb/> neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet<lb/> favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.</p> <p>THE Righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be<lb/> taken in their own naughtiness. -Proverbs xi.6.<lb/> Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof,<lb/> when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.-Proverbs xxv. 8.<lb/> WITHOUT counsel, purposes are disappointed.-Proverbs xv. 22.<lb/> He that is greedy of gain, troubleth his own house. -Proverbs xv. 27. </p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac100"/> <p>THE glassie gulfe joyn'd with Earth's globe in one<lb/> Gives waters to the rivers, looseth none;<lb/> The Sunne that makes so many glorious dayes,<lb/> Doth loose no light, and still he wast's his rayes:<lb/> The Loadstone to the iron gives vertue rare,<lb/> And yet no wayes his owne he doth impaire;<lb/> So this my torch can give to others light,<lb/> And still, as is his wont, shine perfect bright.<lb/> Thus Divine Wisdome doth communicate<lb/> Herselfe, that others may participate.<lb/> The good more common, better is, and grace<lb/> Wisheth, all were partakers of her cafe.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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The Biter Bitten

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A sea-gull has tried to open an oyster, but it has closed its shell on the beak of the gull; a beach scene with a city-view in the distance

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<p>THE BITER BITTEN</p>

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