<p>HEAR now what has befallen me; I'm nicely taken in!<lb/> All through my Wife! who thought at once a mine of wealth to win:<lb/> A Dealer shew'd his Ostrich and its egg to her one day,<lb/> And making her believe 'twas such a wondrous bird to lay;<lb/> I bought it at her bidding-brought it home, and, like her, thought<lb/> A Bird that lay such eggs as that, could not be dearly bought.<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac154"/> Hens'eggs (thought I), however good, were at the best but small,<lb/> And, as compar'd to Ostrich eggs, were of no size at all.<lb/> Off such an egg as that, why, two could make a dinner quite,<lb/> 'Twas big enough to satisfy a ploughman's appetite.<lb/> Such was my mind: but very soon I'd reason to regret<lb/> I'd parted with my money, or an Ostrich ever met.<lb/> It eat! Oh! such a bird to eat as that I never saw!<lb/> No end of food and things could satisfy its hungry maw;<lb/> But Eggs! not one it laid! though all the while I did my best<lb/> With hay and straw and feathers soft to make the bird a nest.<lb/> When, after waiting long, -t'was just about the month of May-<lb/> I found one egg! Eh! now, thought I, it had begun to lay!<lb/> But all my joy was very short, for from that time till now,<lb/> It hasn't laid another egg, nor will it any how.<lb/> Yet all this while our Hens, as is with Hens the usual way,<lb/> THey've always laid at intervals, and often ev'ry day.<lb/> At length, all patience losing, and my temper put about,<lb/> Away with you, you rav'nous brute, you shall no longer stay!<lb/> You're big enough, and eat enough, and yet no eggs you lay.<lb/> I see how 'tis with you, you're all appearance, nothing more;<lb/> In buying you I've learnt what I ought well t'have known before:<lb/> The biggest things are not the best, the brightest often dross;<lb/> And when we grasp at profit most, we oft get greater loss.</p> <p>A PIUMA à piuma se pela l'oca.<lb/> A gotta à gotta il mar si secherebbe.<lb/> VON kleinen fischlin werden die hecht gross.<lb/> PEU à peu file la vieille sa quenouille.<lb/> Qui s'agite, senrichit.<lb/> LITTLE pot, soon hot.<lb/> IL bue s'è fatto grande, e la stalla piccola.<lb/> The ox fattens in a little stall.<lb/> EN petite maison Dieu a grand part.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac155"/> <p>FORTUNAM qui avidè vorare pergit,<lb/> Hanc tandem male concoquat necesse est.<lb/> CELUI qui méprise les petites choses, tombera petit à petit.-Syrach. xxix. I.<lb/> LE peu est siffisant à l'homme bien appris.-Ib. xxx. 21.<lb/> KLEYN visje, soet visje.<lb/> MAJORA perdes, parva ni servaveris.<lb/> Who neglects the little, loses the greater.<lb/> ADDE parum parvo, tandem fit magnus acervus.<lb/> Gutta cavat lapidem.-OVID.<lb/> WER keinen Pfenning achtet,<lb/> Der auch nimmer eines Gulden Herre.<lb/> ALBAXANSE los adarves,<lb/> Y alcanse los muladeres.<lb/> MET veel schlagen wort de Stockvisch murw.<lb/> GRANO á grano hinche la gallina el papo.<lb/> Grain à grain<lb/> Amasse la fourmy son pain.<lb/> DOET by een kleyntje diekmael wat,<lb/> Soo wort'et noch een groote shat.<lb/> DIIS proximus est, quicunque eget pauccissimus.</p> <p>Tandem fit Surculus Arbor.<lb/> HOW small soe'er your Profit be,<lb/> Despise it not, but learn to know,<lb/> That almost ev'ry thing you see<lb/> From small at first to large did grow:<lb/> Do but a little oft, and you<lb/> Will find that little grow apace;<lb/> The Penny to the Pound accrue,<lb/> And ''slow and sure oft win the race.''</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac156"/> <p>THE Smith the steele, so tempers in the fire,<lb/> As that it may indure flints stroke and ire;<lb/> The flint and steel, 'gainst others while they strive,<lb/> Give sparkles, which the tinder keeps alive;<lb/> Untill the sulphure to the match gives flame,<lb/> Which keeps, and to the candle doth give the fame;<lb/> The candle thus lighted proper use hath none:<lb/> Thus all ordained is for man alone.<lb/> Dame Nature so commandeth ev'ry thing<lb/> In his owne kind to serve his Lord and King;<lb/> Things of meere being, and which doe not live,<lb/> As Elements, food to the living give;<lb/> The living herbs doe beasts with sense mainetaine,<lb/> And these, to feede us, ev'ry houre are slaine:<lb/> So every thing is for the use of man,<lb/> To God should he not doe then, what he can?<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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A Hen Lays Every Day, But an Ostrich Only Once a Year

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A man points at the eggs in his basket, his wife holds up the egg of their ostrich

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<p>A HEN LAYS EVERY DAY, BUT AN OSTRICH ONLY ONCE A YEAR</p>

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