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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>''WHO claimeth kindred with the Poor?'<lb/>
                                        So few! that 'twas the reason why<lb/>
                                        The question was first put, no doubt,-<lb/>
                                        And truly! it doth much imply.<lb/>
                                        Replete with meaning are those words,<lb/>
                                        Though few- to picture and express<lb/>
                                        In time of yore, as even now,<lb/>
                                        Man's all-absorbing selfishness.<lb/>
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                                        The sage* who said in antient days:<lb/>
                                        ''When the strong-box contains no more,<lb/>
                                        And that the kitchen fire is out,<lb/>
                                        Both friends and flatt'rers shun the door,''<lb/>
                                        Attested then, what even now<lb/>
                                        Is daily seen on every hand:<lb/>
                                        The prosperous in life, alone<lb/>
                                        Have proffer'd service at command.<lb/>
                                        Let Fortune with propitious winds<lb/>
                                        Wast but the laden bark to shore,<lb/>
                                        He finds a host of helping friends,<lb/>
                                        Who never had a friend before.<lb/>
                                        Beyond his need on ev'ry side,<lb/>
                                        He sees unask'd-for sympathy;<lb/>
                                        Officious zeal to help and aid<lb/>
                                        The tide of his posperity.<lb/>
                                        ''Grease the fat sow! all help! all aid!''<lb/>
                                        On ev'ry hand the harpies cry;<lb/>
                                        'Tis easy rowing in the wake<lb/>
                                        Of others'toil and industry!<lb/>
                                        Thus 'tis in life, we constant see<lb/>
                                        THe Drones and Idlers of our kind,<lb/>
                                        Prey on the labours of the Bee,<lb/>
                                        And fatten on what others find.<lb/>
                                        The Foxes of the human race,<lb/>
                                        The Beavers of their own despoil;<lb/>
                                        Craft, lord it in poor Merit's place,<lb/>
                                        And take the credit of his toil.</p>
                                   <p>DONEC eris felix, multos numerabis amicos:<lb/>
                                        Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.<lb/>
                                        Aspicis ut veniant ad candida tecta columbae,<lb/>
                                        Accipiat nullas sordida turris aves?<lb/>
                                        *Plutarch.<lb/>
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                                        Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquàm:<lb/>
                                        Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.<lb/>
                                        Utque comes radios per solis euntibus umbra 'est:<lb/>
                                        Cùm latet hic pressus nubibus, illa fugit:<lb/>
                                        Mobile sic sequitur fortunae lumina vulgus:<lb/>
                                        Quae simul inductâ nube tegentur, abit. -OVID, i. Trist. 8.<lb/>
                                        GRANARO vuoto formica non frequenta.-Italian Proverb.<lb/>
                                        Op ledige solders en komen geen Kalanders.-Duthc Proverb<lb/>
                                        WER da liegt, über dem läuft alle Welt hin.-German Proverb.<lb/>
                                        PARENTE con parente<lb/>
                                        Guai à chi non ha niente.<lb/>
                                        VRIENDEN sijn vrienden, maer wee diese van doen heeft.<lb/>
                                        A BON vent chaque sainct aide.<lb/>
                                        IN borsa serrata, amico non si trova.<lb/>
                                        VRIENDEN in der noot<lb/>
                                        Vier-en-twintigh in een loot.<lb/>
                                        FELICIUM omnes consanguinei.<lb/>
                                        MEN kent geen vrient als in der noot;<lb/>
                                        Den rijcken na den doot.<lb/>
                                        DIEWEIL die Henn' Eier legt, legt man ihr auch. -Old German Proverb.<lb/>
                                        WHILE the Pot boils, Friendship blooms.<lb/>
                                        IN Prosperity FRIENDS are numerous and cheap.<lb/>
                                        INFELICIUM nulli sunt affines.<lb/>
                                        L'HOMME pauvre est toujours en pais étranger. -JUAN RUFO, Aphph. 541.<lb/>
                                        THE Vulgar find Friends neither in Prosperity nor Adversity: because in the former<lb/>
                                        they know nobody, and that in Adversity nobody will know them. -GRACIAN.<lb/>
                                        INTERESR makes all seem Reason that leads to it. -DRYDEN, Sec. Love.<lb/>
                                        The noblest Friendship ever shown,<lb/>
                                        The Saviour's history makes known,<lb/>
                                        Though some have turned and turned it:<lb/>
                                        And whether being crazed of blind,<lb/>
                                        Or seeking with a biassed mind,<lb/>
                                        Have not, it seems, discerned it.-COWPER.<lb/>
                                        <lb/></p>
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                                   <p>WHILST I did shine fierce Boreas put me out,<lb/>
                                        Agiane he kindles me at the second bout:<lb/>
                                        As sometimes did the clowne, now Boreas doth,<lb/>
                                        Both heat and cold he breatheth from his mouth,<lb/>
                                        The billow whom it cast into the main,<lb/>
                                        Returning threw him in the Shippe againe;<lb/>
                                        Fortune throwes downe, then raiseth from the ground;<lb/>
                                        Achilles speare doth cure whom it did wound.<lb/>
                                        Losses prove good to some; whom Greece condemnd,<lb/>
                                        The Persian for his vallour could commend.<lb/>
                                        Be not cast downe, dispaire not at mischance,<lb/>
                                        God who hath crossed thee, will thee advance.<lb/>
                                        FARLIE'S Emblems.</p> <lb/>
                              
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; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
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; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
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MOTTO_EN <p>GREASE THE FAT SOW!</p>
                              
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