AS in the garden yesterday,
In full Court suit, I coax'd our Tray,
And with each friendly pat and stroke,
The usual words of kindness spoke;
He in return for my caress,
Sprang up, unmindful of my dress,
Besmear'd my handsome cloak and hose.
In spite of all that I could say,
To keep in bounds his ruthless play;-
Grown bolder still, the vexing brute,
As though intent to spoil my suit,
Jump'd up again-my shoe-ties soil'd,
My satin knee-bows fray'd and spoil'd;
Till finding all my chiding vain,
His wanton fondness to restrain;
In wrath I kick'd th'unmanner'd hound,
And laid him sprawling on the ground.
As with the brute, with man no less,
The friendship of th'uncultur'd mind
Is irksome oft, from sheer excess
Of zeal to do the thing that's kind.
However friendly you may be
Disposs'd your serving-man to treat,
Let not your partiality
Be shewn beyond the bound that's meet:
With equal care your fondness shew,
When you your child or dog caress;
For both alike as little know,
How far the friendship may transgress,
That ruffles self-love through the Dress.
BURLAOS con el asno, daros ha en la barba con el rado.
Cria corvo, y sacar te hal el ojo.-Old Spanish Proverb.
LES enfans et serviteurs il ne les faut mignarder, si tu veux en jouir.
FAITES feste au chat, il vous sautera au visage.
Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.
Il troppo conversar partorisce dispregio.
NULLI te facias nimis sodalem.
Gaudebis minùs? Et minùs dolebis. -MARTIAL.
JAMAIS trop compagnon à nul ne te feras:
Car bien que moins de joye, moins d'ennuy tu auras.
N'est past for prisée.
A CASA de tu tia,
Mas no cada dia:
A caso de tu hermano,
Non iras cada ferano.
A la maison de ta tante,
Mais pas tous les jours:
A la maison de ton frère;
Mais non tous les soirs.
Ale luporum catulos.
IN eos qui laeduntur ab iis, de quibus bene meriti sint, aunt in ingratos. Nam plerunque
solet id usu venire illis, qui catulos Iuporum enutriunt.-ERASM. in Adagio.
Qui se fait brebis, le loup le mange:
Qui se fait porceau, se met dans la fange:
Amignotte ton enfant, et il te donnera maint effroy:
Joue-toi avec lui, et il te contristera.
Ne te joue point avec un homme mail appris.
IN eos qui laeduntur ab iis, de quibus bene meriti sint, aut in ingratos. Nam plerunque
solet id usu venire illis, qui catulos luporum enutriunt.-ERASM. in Adagio.
Qui se fait brebis, le loup le mange:
Qui se fait porceau, se met dans la fange:
Amignotte ton enfant, et il te donnera maint effroy:
Joue-toi avec lui, et il te contristera.
Ne te joue point avec un homme mal appris.
IN reverse sense of what has been said above, the Hebrew proverb saith, ''If your
friend be sugar you must not eat him all up.''i.e. that we must not require too
much of whose who are willing to serve us; that we should never misuse any one's
courtesy; nor over-ride a willing horse:
SHOULD any ask the reason why
I use nor whip or spurs to ply
The mare I ride?-It is that she
Requires nor whip nor spur from me:
Because her mettle is so good,
And she's so willing in her mood,
That since I've her bestrode, I ne'er
Found her dispos'd her legs to spare.
For whip or spur no use I see
Whene'er a horse goes willingly:
And this I hold: -From horse nor man
That willing gives, take all you can:
Nor is he wise who tries his friend
Beyonc his will to give or lend.
Who overloads his ass, no less
T' obtain his wish the worst way chooses:
His ass stands still from sheer distress,
And greed of gain the market loses!
NOW Boreas puffing in his boistrous ire
Blows as he were to kindle Vulcans fire:
He doth undoe me by his churlishnesse,
I am consumed more, and shine the lesse:
He spends his labour, so I lose mine oyle,
As no wayes fit to undergoe such toyle.
You beat the Asse lingring under his load,
The generous Horse deserveth not a goad:
The muses sonnes cannot away with lashes,
Which are more fitting for Arcadian asses.
Each strength within his limits, Nature bounds,
Which who to passeth, Nature he consounds.
FARLIE'S Emblems.
PLAY WITH THE DOG, AND HE'LL SPOIL YOUR CLOTHES
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