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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>PORT! hard a-port! starboard your helm! look out!<lb/>
                                        See what our neighbour in the Schuyt's about!<lb/>
                                        Upon a sand-spit there as sure as day,<lb/>
                                        He's hard and fast; right in the course we  lay!<lb/>
                                        Give her a good wide berth, my mate, that we<lb/>
                                        Clear well the sand-tail where those breakers be.<lb/>
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                                        They'll never pole her off-to strive is vain;<lb/>
                                        With ebbing-tide as now, there she'll remain:<lb/>
                                        And should the wind chop round and blow to shore,<lb/>
                                        She'll break her rudder, or get damage more.<lb/>
                                        Reader! look well to this, and let it be<lb/>
                                        A caution in Life's voyage unto thee.<lb/>
                                        The Skipper who descries a ship aground,<lb/>
                                        No beacon needs to guide, nor lead to sound:<lb/>
                                        And truly prudent is that man alone,<lb/>
                                        Who by another's fault can mend his own.<lb/>
                                        Many who have themselves but little skill<lb/>
                                        To shape their course where peril may accure,<lb/>
                                        Avert full oft the greater share of ill,<lb/>
                                        Who take example from what others do.<lb/>
                                        For Youth, than this, there is no better school;<lb/>
                                        For Men, no milder discipline and rule,<lb/>
                                        Than well t' observe, and weigh with prudent care<lb/>
                                        The acts of others from the fruit they bear.</p>
                                   <p>Ex vitio alterius Sapiens emendat suum.-P. SYRUS.<lb/>
                                        FELIX quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum.<lb/>
                                        HOMINES amplius oculis quam auribus credunt. -SENECA.<lb/>
                                        LONGUM iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla. -Ibid.<lb/>
                                        WE do not want precepts, but patterns, for example is the gentlest and least invidious <lb/>
                                        way of commandig.-PLINY.<lb/>
                                        EXAMPLE is a living rule that teaches without trouble to the learner, and lets him<lb/>
                                        see his faults without open reproof and upbraiding. -SERJ. PALMER'S Aphorisms.<lb/>
                                        EXAMPLE works more than precept; for words without practice are but counsels<lb/>
                                        without effect.-Ibid.<lb/>
                                        I HAVE given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.-<lb/>
                                        John xiii. 15.<lb/>
                                        CHRIST suffered for us, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps.-<lb/>
                                        I Pet. 11. 21.</p>
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                                   <p>Chi ha mal vicin, ha mal matin.<lb/>
                                        'TIS well that ev'ry one should know,<lb/>
                                        Something of his next door neighbour;<lb/>
                                        What are his hours of to and fro?-<lb/>
                                        Habits of life, and trade or labour?<lb/>
                                        For, whate'er our love of quiet,<lb/>
                                        And our care to keep aloof,<lb/>
                                        If he's giv'n to drink and riot,<lb/>
                                        Mischief soon may reach our roof.<lb/>
                                        Peaceful neighbours are a treasure<lb/>
                                        To be wish'd for in this life;<lb/>
                                        But distressing beyond measure,<lb/>
                                        Neighbours prone to noise ans strife:<lb/>
                                        All such people much require<lb/>
                                        Watch and ward on all they do;<lb/>
                                        Lest if their house should take fire,<lb/>
                                        It perchance may spread to you.</p>
                                   <p>TUNC tua res agitus paries cùm proximus ardet.-HORACE, i. Epist. 18.<lb/>
                                        NE mala vicini pecoris contagia laedant. -VIRGII, Ed. I.<lb/>
                                        HINC benè commendavit Philosophus domum à bonis vicinis,<lb/>
                                        Aliquid mali propter vicinum malum. PLAUTUS, Merc.<lb/>
                                        MIEUX vaut être seul, que mal accompagné.<lb/>
                                        Brebis rogneuse font les autres tigneuses.<lb/>
                                        EVIL communications corrupt good manners.<lb/>
                                        Better alone than in bad company.<lb/>
                                        DIE ontrent den molen woont,<lb/>
                                        Bestuyft het meel.<lb/>
                                        CHI ha mal vicin,<lb/>
                                        Ha mal matin.<lb/>
                                        QUANDO egli arde in vicinanza,<lb/>
                                        Porta l'acqua à casa tua.</p>
                                   <p>IN the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked<lb/>
                                        is trouble. -Proverbs xv. 6.</p>
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                                   <p>LIGHTS starre-like splendor doth allure this flye,<lb/>
                                        Not knowing that she may be burnt thereby:<lb/>
                                        Thus whilst she kindled with a great desire<lb/>
                                        Of Light, loe now shee dies in flaming fire.<lb/>
                                        Glory in purple robes is set on hie,<lb/>
                                        Envious to many, lovely to the eye:<lb/>
                                        But many times glory doth fooles undoe,<lb/>
                                        Whilst, without wit and reason, they it wooe:<lb/>
                                        It raiseth them that with the greater fall,<lb/>
                                        It may them overthrow and crush withall.<lb/>
                                        Whilst Icarus soares to Hyperions beames,<lb/>
                                        He headlong fals into th' Icarian streames;<lb/>
                                        And Pha'ton daring for to rule the day,<lb/>
                                        Was thunder-beate, and burnt with Phoebus ray.<lb/>
                                        We nearer to the Sunne more glorious are,<lb/>
                                        If of the scorching rayes we be aware. <lb/>
                                        FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>
                              
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; EMBLEMS
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MOTTO_EN <p>A SHIP AGROUND, IS A BEACON AT SEA</p>
                              
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