<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/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac182"/> 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> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac183"/> <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> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac184"/> <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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