<p>THE Proverb is of antient date,<lb/> That he who well would learn to shave,<lb/> His fullest wish to consummate,<lb/> Should on a Fool's beard practice have.<lb/> As with each phrase of antient lore,<lb/> The sense implied hath ta'en its rise<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac174"/> From long experience gone before,<lb/> That Fools to deal with maketh wise.<lb/> For Fools, of all men most precise.<lb/> In things of import least, e'er gave<lb/> The widest scope for practice nice<lb/> Of Patience and of Virtues grave.<lb/> In shaving Fools the barber'll find<lb/> Those Virtues to the utmost tried,<lb/> And howsoe'er to please inclined,<lb/> Both skill and patience misapplied.<lb/> Of head and beard each sep'rate hair<lb/> Must be arranged with nicest care,<lb/> And just as Fool will have it laid:<lb/> At ev'ry clip he says, ''Take heed!''-<lb/> And in the looking-glass must view<lb/> If all is done as he decreed,<lb/> And what the Barber next must do:<lb/> This lock is now somewhat too long,<lb/> And this too short-now here, now there,<lb/> There something ails, a curl lies wrong<lb/> In beard or whisker, or somewhere.<lb/> On this side now there needs anew<lb/> Just-just a leetle snipp'd away,-<lb/> ''So! let me look! yes! that will do-<lb/> But here! this turn!- looks well? nay! nay!<lb/> No moustache ever look'd well so,<lb/> Like that indeed it cannot stay!''<lb/> And all the Barber strives to do<lb/> Is vain as all he tries to say:<lb/> Yet! just this place behind the ear?<lb/> Aye! Fool! that's just the place that ail'd thee!<lb/> From what we've seen 'tis very clear<lb/> It was the brainds from first that fail'd thee!<lb/> Who wants now this, not that, nor knows<lb/> WHat 'tis he needs, doth clearly show it:<lb/> For lacking brains, he feels and shows<lb/> He wants within the means to know it.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac175"/> <p>BY moeyelicke heeren<lb/> Is veel te leeren.<lb/> 'T moet een wijse hant sijn, die een sotten Kop wel scheren sal.<lb/> It must be a wise hand to cut the hair of a Fool's head.<lb/> WAT let, dat leert.<lb/> Quae nocent, docent.<lb/> [GREEK]<lb/> VEXATIO dat intellectum.<lb/> HOMINE imperito nil quidquàm est injustius, qui, nisi quod ipse facit nihil rectum<lb/> putat.-TERENT. Adelph.<lb/> MEN heeft groote kunst van doen<lb/> Om de narren te voldoen.<lb/> All those who appear Fools, are so, and no less, half of those who do not appear to be so.<lb/> FOLLY has a wide dominion in the World; and if there be some little Wisdom,<lb/> it is pure Folly compared with the Wisdom of the Most High. But the greatest<lb/> Fool is he, who does not believe that he is so, and who imputes Foolishness to every<lb/> body else. To be Wise, it is not sufficient to appear so to one's self. He is Wisest<lb/> who does not think that he is Wise; and he who does not perceive that others see,<lb/> does not see himself. How full soever the World be of Fools, there is no person who<lb/> thinks himself one, nor even, who suspects himself of folly.-GRACIAN.<lb/> THERE are People (in every class of Society) who entertain a high opinion of them-<lb/> selves, but those more particularly, who are the least worthy. Each consider himself<lb/> the centre of the Universe, and destined for and exalted position. Hope undertakes <lb/> rashly, and Experience renders it no assistance. Vain imagination finds an executioner<lb/> in Reality, who undeceives it. Every one should know his proper sphere of action,<lb/> and his fittest condition. Reality would then be the regulator of Self-Opinion.-Idem.</p> <p>FORTUNE takes care that Fools should still be seen:<lb/> She places 'em aloft, o'th'topmost spoke<lb/> Of all her wheel. Fools are the daily work<lb/> of Nature, her Vocation: If she form<lb/> A man, she loses by't; 'tis too expensive;<lb/> 'T would make ten Fools: A Man's Prodigy.<lb/> DRYDEN, CEdip.<lb/> UN Sot n'a pas assez d'étoffe pour être bon.-LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac176"/> <p>MUCH like as wine the nurse of Poets veine,<lb/> When prison-like the caske doth it conteine;<lb/> Farre from the bottome while you draw the wine,<lb/> You will it find more plenteous and more fine;<lb/> But when you come to dreg, no wine abounds,<lb/> Both least and worst remaineth in the grounds:<lb/> Such like the shining of a candle we see,<lb/> Which kindled once burnes not still equally;<lb/> At first it giv's greater and clearer light,<lb/> And is more pleasant both to smell and sight;<lb/> But when it comes to snuffe and even spent,<lb/> It shineth lesse, and gives a filthy sent.<lb/> The candle and wine's our life, which, in its prime,<lb/> Doth flourish more, and hath more hope of time;<lb/> But when with mustie age our life decayes,<lb/> Then many sorrowes have we, and few dayes.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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