ALL ye who would a Moral learn,
Your eyes upon this Emblem turn:
Two dogs in combat fierce you see,
For Dogs, like Men, will disagree.
The cause of quarrel was a bone,
With dogs a very frequent one;
Half blind with rage, bark, tear and bite,
More bent each other's flesh to wound
Than heed the bone upon the ground;
Up comes a third, attracted by
The brawl, and, quick the cause t'espy,
Snaps up the bone without ado,
And with it disappears from view.
The combatants, whose kindled bile
Hard somewhat settled down the while,
Exhausted almost with the fight,
At once both miss the bone from sight!
And quick as thought, with one consent,
They cease the fray, and, both intent
To find the prize for which they fought,
With eager haste the bone is sought:
But all in vain, no bone is there,-
But foam and bloodstains everywhere,
Mingled with clotted flakes of hair.
At length away the dogs depart,
In pain and discontent of heart,
That they, who fought the prize to gain,
Should doubly losers thus remain;
While some one, who no risk had run,
The ''bone of their contention'' won.
Such things and like results are seen
T' occur full oft young folks between;
Amond the People oft'ner still,
And Princes, where there's want to skill.
But while I'm on this subject now,
An instance I'll relate to you,
Of which I've known before to-day
Full many end the self-fame way.
Two suitors woo'd a Burgher maid,
With dow'ry rich, and each afraid
His rival should with her prevail,
Bethought him all he could t'assail
And prejudice the other's name,
With feelings such on either side,
Throughout the City, far and wide,
Reports were current soon of each,
Which did so mutually impeach
Their name and same, that swords alone
Could for such calumnies atone.
They met-they fought- the younger fell;
His rival's blade prov'd all too well
The bitter rancour of the thrust
That stretch'd him prostrate in the dust.
Though victor, yet compell'd to fly,
T'escape the Duel's penalty,
The field at once of both made clear,
Another suitor now drew near;
Who, though before but little seen.
Had ne'er the less, like them too, been
A Fisher in the self-fame stream,
Though not presuming such to seem:
And boldly now he sets his sail,
To profit by the fav'ring gale;
Declares in all its honest truth
The love that had o'ercast his youth;
Subdues at once the damsel's pride,
And changes Sweetheart into Bride.
The Brawlers, when they both return'd
To health and home, the tidings learn'd,
That one far more discreet than they,
Advantage taking of their fray,
Had won the Prize the proper way.
DUMOS concussi, sustulit alter aves.
Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves.
Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves.
Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes,
Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves.
TEL bat les buissons
Qui n'a pas les oisillons.
WHAT e'ere my stat's my love proves constant still,
To this my Soule, we part against our will;
Or when fierce Boreas with his blustring gale,
Or some mischance my lovely light doth quale:
Else I and Light my life, would never part,
Before to ashes fates did me convert.
Nature commands us to maintaine our breath
And being, shunning life-destroying death.
Yet man from Atropus oft takes the knife,
And cuts his fatall thred devouring life:
For why, he fearing death before his day,
Before th'allarum, makes himselfe away.
Ah wretch! unworthy to behold the skye,
Who will not live, and knowes not how to dye.
FARLIE'S Emblems.
THE DOGS AND THE BONE
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