<p>WHEN the old Sow has play'd her pranks,<lb/> And upset tubs and pails around her,<lb/> Out comes the Master in a rage,<lb/> With broom in hand, resolv'd to pound her:<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac178"/> But she, well vers'd in all his oaths,<lb/> And in their meaning full confiding,<lb/> Runs off and leaves her pigs behind<lb/> To bear the blame and get the hiding.<lb/> And they, poor pigs, though innocent<lb/> Of all the harm, despite their squeaking,<lb/> Get beat all round and made to smart<lb/> For all the big Sow has been breaking.<lb/> 'Tis thus we often see in life,<lb/> The great misdoers save their bacon,<lb/> While blame and punishment alike<lb/> Fall on the smaller folks when taken:<lb/> How Kings and Statesmen for their faults<lb/> Get scatheless off, nor fear vexation,<lb/> While all the ills which they have wrought<lb/> Are felt and paid for by the nation.</p> <p>CE que la truye forfait, les porceaux souffrent.<lb/> QUIDQUID delirant Reges, plectuntur Achivi.-HORACE i. Epist.2.<lb/> DAT veniam Corvis, vexat censura Columbus.-JUVEN. Sat. 2.<lb/> [GREEK]<lb/> Id est,<lb/> SAEPE universa civitas viri mali scelera luit.<lb/> Il peccato del Signore souvente fa piangere il vassallo.<lb/> Un fa il peccato, l'altro la penitenza.<lb/> DER Herrn sünd, der bauren büss.<lb/> WANNEER een Prinz springt uyt den bant,<lb/> Daerom lijdt dickmael al het lant.<lb/> MANCHER muss entgelten des er nie genossen hat.<lb/> QUID amigus hoe casu? feramus. Nam quemadmodùm sterilitatem, aut nimios<lb/> imbres, aut caetera naturae mala; ita luxum, ambitionem et avaritiam dominantium<lb/> habeamus.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac179"/> <p>SICHEM rapuit, et agricola plecitur.-Arabian Adage. Vid. RICHT. Axiom.CEcon.24,25.</p> <p>[The same in another sense.]<lb/> IT'S GOOD FISHING IN TROUBLED WATERS.<lb/> The Reader will imagine a picture, representing a Fisher disturbing the water with a<lb/> long pole, and driving the fish towards the net.<lb/> YOU with to know what I'm about?<lb/> My bus'ness is soon told"<lb/> I'm going to fish upon a plan<lb/> Advis'd from time of old.<lb/> In waters that are most disturb'd,<lb/> Most fish are caugt, they say;<lb/> But when the water's calm and clear<lb/> The fish all swim away:<lb/> For then too cautiously they scan<lb/> The meshes of the net,<lb/> Or be your bait however good,<lb/> No bite from them you get.<lb/> But quite another sport it is<lb/> If you disturb the stream;<lb/> The troubled water then gets thick,<lb/> And roach, perch, eels and bream<lb/> Are taken then alike at once,<lb/> Large fish as well as small,<lb/> All caught together in the net;-<lb/> That's what I fishing call!<lb/> Need I say more? He who knows not<lb/> To make a stir in this World's stream,<lb/> Will but a sorry Fisher prove,<lb/> Nor minnows catch, much less a bream.<lb/> Stir, Fisher, stir! Stillness does harm;<lb/> It little profits when the water's calm.</p> <p>-ET multis utile bellum.-LUCAN. i. v. 182.<lb/> OPPURTUNI magnis conatibus transitus rerum.-TACITUS.<lb/> MULTI honores quos quietâ republicâ desperant, perturbatâ se consequi posse<lb/> arbitrantur.-LIVV.<lb/> EAU trouble gain de pêcheur.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac180"/> <p>I CARRY about with me, my frugall store,<lb/> With which I am content, and seeke no more;<lb/> If it be meane, I can with it agree,<lb/> What state soever, welcome comes to me:<lb/> I know not; but once dead, I care for t' lesse.<lb/> Some live on the others trenchers, and doe eate<lb/> The bread of sloth, for which they never sweat:<lb/> They're greedy ravens of mankind, kitching drones,<lb/> Rich tables harpyes, rats, Chamelions,<lb/> The wiseman howsoever he doth finde<lb/> Fortune, to it he fits and frames his mind,<lb/> He doth proferre his course and country faire,<lb/> Unto his Patrons dole and dishes rare.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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