<p>AS in the garden yesterday,<lb/> In full Court suit, I coax'd our Tray,<lb/> And with each friendly pat and stroke,<lb/> The usual words of kindness spoke;<lb/> He in return for my caress,<lb/> Sprang up, unmindful of my dress,<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac114"/> And with his dirty feet and nose<lb/> Besmear'd my handsome cloak and hose.<lb/> In spite of all that I could say,<lb/> To keep in bounds his ruthless play;-<lb/> Grown bolder still, the vexing brute,<lb/> As though intent to spoil my suit,<lb/> Jump'd up again-my shoe-ties soil'd,<lb/> My satin knee-bows fray'd and spoil'd;<lb/> Till finding all my chiding vain,<lb/> His wanton fondness to restrain;<lb/> In wrath I kick'd th'unmanner'd hound,<lb/> And laid him sprawling on the ground.<lb/> As with the brute, with man no less,<lb/> The friendship of th'uncultur'd mind<lb/> Is irksome oft, from sheer excess<lb/> Of zeal to do the thing that's kind.<lb/> However friendly you may be<lb/> Disposs'd your serving-man to treat,<lb/> Let not your partiality<lb/> Be shewn beyond the bound that's meet:<lb/> With equal care your fondness shew,<lb/> When you your child or dog caress;<lb/> For both alike as little know,<lb/> How far the friendship may transgress,<lb/> That ruffles self-love through the Dress.</p> <p>BURLAOS con el asno, daros ha en la barba con el rado.<lb/> Cria corvo, y sacar te hal el ojo.-Old Spanish Proverb.<lb/> LES enfans et serviteurs il ne les faut mignarder, si tu veux en jouir.<lb/> FAITES feste au chat, il vous sautera au visage.<lb/> Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.<lb/> Il troppo conversar partorisce dispregio.<lb/> NULLI te facias nimis sodalem.<lb/> Gaudebis minùs? Et minùs dolebis. -MARTIAL.<lb/> JAMAIS trop compagnon à nul ne te feras:<lb/> Car bien que moins de joye, moins d'ennuy tu auras.<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac115"/> CHOSE accoustumée<lb/> N'est past for prisée.</p> <p> A CASA de tu tia,<lb/> Mas no cada dia:<lb/> A caso de tu hermano,<lb/> Non iras cada ferano.<lb/> A la maison de ta tante,<lb/> Mais pas tous les jours:<lb/> A la maison de ton frère;<lb/> Mais non tous les soirs.</p> <p>Ale luporum catulos.<lb/> IN eos qui laeduntur ab iis, de quibus bene meriti sint, aunt in ingratos. Nam plerunque<lb/> solet id usu venire illis, qui catulos Iuporum enutriunt.-ERASM. in Adagio.<lb/> Qui se fait brebis, le loup le mange:<lb/> Qui se fait porceau, se met dans la fange:<lb/> Amignotte ton enfant, et il te donnera maint effroy:<lb/> Joue-toi avec lui, et il te contristera.<lb/> Ne te joue point avec un homme mail appris.</p> <p>IN eos qui laeduntur ab iis, de quibus bene meriti sint, aut in ingratos. Nam plerunque<lb/> solet id usu venire illis, qui catulos luporum enutriunt.-ERASM. in Adagio.<lb/> Qui se fait brebis, le loup le mange:<lb/> Qui se fait porceau, se met dans la fange:<lb/> Amignotte ton enfant, et il te donnera maint effroy:<lb/> Joue-toi avec lui, et il te contristera.<lb/> Ne te joue point avec un homme mal appris.</p> <p>IN reverse sense of what has been said above, the Hebrew proverb saith, ''If your<lb/> friend be sugar you must not eat him all up.''i.e. that we must not require too<lb/> much of whose who are willing to serve us; that we should never misuse any one's<lb/> courtesy; nor over-ride a willing horse:<lb/> SHOULD any ask the reason why<lb/> I use nor whip or spurs to ply<lb/> The mare I ride?-It is that she<lb/> Requires nor whip nor spur from me:<lb/> Because her mettle is so good,<lb/> And she's so willing in her mood,<lb/> That since I've her bestrode, I ne'er<lb/> Found her dispos'd her legs to spare.<lb/> For whip or spur no use I see<lb/> Whene'er a horse goes willingly:<lb/> And this I hold: -From horse nor man<lb/> That willing gives, take all you can:<lb/> Nor is he wise who tries his friend<lb/> Beyonc his will to give or lend.<lb/> Who overloads his ass, no less<lb/> T' obtain his wish the worst way chooses:<lb/> His ass stands still from sheer distress,<lb/> And greed of gain the market loses!</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac116"/> <p>NOW Boreas puffing in his boistrous ire<lb/> Blows as he were to kindle Vulcans fire:<lb/> He doth undoe me by his churlishnesse,<lb/> I am consumed more, and shine the lesse:<lb/> He spends his labour, so I lose mine oyle,<lb/> As no wayes fit to undergoe such toyle.<lb/> You beat the Asse lingring under his load,<lb/> The generous Horse deserveth not a goad:<lb/> The muses sonnes cannot away with lashes,<lb/> Which are more fitting for Arcadian asses.<lb/> Each strength within his limits, Nature bounds,<lb/> Which who to passeth, Nature he consounds.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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