<p>LOOK at these Girls! -When they first came to me<lb/> They were so sluttish and untidy both,<lb/> I never had a saucepan fit to see,<lb/> And scarely ever a clean kitchen cloth.<lb/> But now it is a pleasure to behold;<lb/> They are become so wondrous clean and neat;<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac106"/> I never have to rate them, not to scold,<lb/> Nor ever now an order to repeat.<lb/> They're scouring, scrubbing things continually,<lb/> 'Tis rare indeed such girls as them to meet;<lb/> Their kitchen's quite a palace, as you see,<lb/> And look, their dresser1 isn't it a treat?<lb/> They never now require to be told<lb/> A single thing: and, what is even more,<lb/> I'm often now almost obliged to scold,<lb/> They've got so over nice, 'tis quite a bore!<lb/> They're now what I call cleanly to excess,<lb/> And make themselves more work than need be made.<lb/> So much, that oft I'd rather see a mess,<lb/> That I might have some reason to upbraid.<lb/> There, look! 'tis quite ridiculous to see!<lb/> Those pans and kettles which they're scrubbing so;<lb/> Although I've said it don't require to be,<lb/> They clean the very bottoms of them too!<lb/> 'Tis just the way with foolish people all,<lb/> When once their old bad habits they forsake,<lb/> In th'opposite extreme too oft they fall,<lb/> And of a virtue then a folly make.<lb/> The Spendthrift, when he takes to save, a Miser oft becomes,<lb/> And, where he squander'd thousands once, will make his meal of crums.<lb/> The niggardly, when he the part of liberal would play,<lb/> Is generous beyond his means, to give, to lend, or pay.<lb/> But both are in excess, and act in opposition quite<lb/> To Sense and Reason's rules for doin e'en the thing that's right.<lb/> So be advised by me, my friends, and keep withing the mean;<lb/> The path of Light, the line of Right, lies all extremes between.</p> <p>POR Medio y no caereys.<lb/> Allez par le Milieu, et vous ne tomberez.<lb/> -MEDIO intissimus ibis.<lb/> IL n'y a banquet que de chiches.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac107"/> <p>Zu weinig und zu viel<lb/> Verderbet alle Spiel.<lb/> Zu viel ist ungesund.<lb/> Al zu scharff macht schärtig.<lb/> IL molio e'l poco.<lb/> Rompe le givoco.<lb/> NI tan hermosa que mate,<lb/> Ni tan sea que espante.<lb/> Ni tant belle, qu'elle tue:<lb/> Ni tant laide, qu'elle espouvente.<lb/> Noch y! noch sy.<lb/> OGNO bel givoco vuol durar poco.<lb/> Tien la Strada di mezzo.<lb/> PERGE viâ mediâ: medium tenuêre beati.<lb/> Qui commence à être libéral, devient prodigue.<lb/> BAULLU curium etion vetra mensaran carnadu. -Turkish Adage.<lb/> OMNIS intemperantia est a tota mente ac a recta ratione defectio. -CICERO.<lb/> INCIDIT in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim.-HORACE.<lb/> ID arbitror adprime in vita esse utile ''ne quid nimis''.-TERENCE.</p> <p>Avoid Extremes.<lb/> 'Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother<lb/> About one Vice, and fall into another;<lb/> Betwixt excess and famine lies a mean;<lb/> Plain, but nog sordid; though not splendid, clean-POPE.</p> <p>Never exaggerate.<lb/> THE Wise never speak in the superlative, for that mode of speecht always offends<lb/> either Truth of Prudence. Exaggerations are so many prostitutions of reputation,<lb/> inasmuch as they expose the shallowness of the understanding and the bad taste of <lb/> the speaker. Exaggeration is a species of lying; he who exaggerates shews himself to <lb/> be a man of bad taste, and, what is worse, a man of mean intellect. -GRACIAN.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac108"/> <p>MY Light into a snuffe is almost turn'd,<lb/> And now the candle to smoaking ashes burn'd,<lb/> Behold another Light stands ready by,<lb/> Which to enjoy my place will make me dye.<lb/> Yet not unpunish'd it puts out my breath,<lb/> My very ashes doe revenge my death.<lb/> So doth the sonne his Father make away,<lb/> If not with sword, with griefe, before his day,<lb/> That he his Fathers goods and meanes may joy,<lb/> Which Nemesis revenging doth convoy.<lb/> For oft the spendthrifts good so evil gotten<lb/> Are spent before his Fathers bones are rotten.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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<p>WHEN SLOVENLY SERVANTS GET TIDY, THEY POLISH THE BOTTOMS OF THE SAUCEPANS</p>

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