<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/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac110"/> 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/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac111"/> 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> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac112"/> <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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Grease the Fat Sow!

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<p>GREASE THE FAT SOW!</p>

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