<p>ALL ye who would a Moral learn,<lb/> Your eyes upon this Emblem turn:<lb/> Two dogs in combat fierce you see,<lb/> For Dogs, like Men, will disagree.<lb/> The cause of quarrel was a bone,<lb/> With dogs a very frequent one;<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac198"/> But while the two in deadly fight,<lb/> Half blind with rage, bark, tear and bite,<lb/> More bent each other's flesh to wound<lb/> Than heed the bone upon the ground;<lb/> Up comes a third, attracted by<lb/> The brawl, and, quick the cause t'espy,<lb/> Snaps up the bone without ado,<lb/> And with it disappears from view.<lb/> The combatants, whose kindled bile<lb/> Hard somewhat settled down the while,<lb/> Exhausted almost with the fight,<lb/> At once both miss the bone from sight!<lb/> And quick as thought, with one consent,<lb/> They cease the fray, and, both intent<lb/> To find the prize for which they fought,<lb/> With eager haste the bone is sought:<lb/> But all in vain, no bone is there,-<lb/> But foam and bloodstains everywhere,<lb/> Mingled with clotted flakes of hair.<lb/> At length away the dogs depart,<lb/> In pain and discontent of heart,<lb/> That they, who fought the prize to gain,<lb/> Should doubly losers thus remain;<lb/> While some one, who no risk had run,<lb/> The ''bone of their contention'' won.<lb/> Such things and like results are seen<lb/> T' occur full oft young folks between;<lb/> Amond the People oft'ner still,<lb/> And Princes, where there's want to skill.<lb/> But while I'm on this subject now,<lb/> An instance I'll relate to you,<lb/> Of which I've known before to-day<lb/> Full many end the self-fame way.<lb/> Two suitors woo'd a Burgher maid,<lb/> With dow'ry rich, and each afraid<lb/> His rival should with her prevail,<lb/> Bethought him all he could t'assail<lb/> And prejudice the other's name,<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac199"/> That he might best secure the game.<lb/> With feelings such on either side,<lb/> Throughout the City, far and wide,<lb/> Reports were current soon of each,<lb/> Which did so mutually impeach<lb/> Their name and same, that swords alone<lb/> Could for such calumnies atone.<lb/> They met-they fought- the younger fell;<lb/> His rival's blade prov'd all too well<lb/> The bitter rancour of the thrust<lb/> That stretch'd him prostrate in the dust.<lb/> Though victor, yet compell'd to fly,<lb/> T'escape the Duel's penalty,<lb/> The field at once of both made clear,<lb/> Another suitor now drew near;<lb/> Who, though before but little seen.<lb/> Had ne'er the less, like them too, been<lb/> A Fisher in the self-fame stream,<lb/> Though not presuming such to seem:<lb/> And boldly now he sets his sail,<lb/> To profit by the fav'ring gale;<lb/> Declares in all its honest truth<lb/> The love that had o'ercast his youth;<lb/> Subdues at once the damsel's pride,<lb/> And changes Sweetheart into Bride.<lb/> The Brawlers, when they both return'd<lb/> To health and home, the tidings learn'd,<lb/> That one far more discreet than they,<lb/> Advantage taking of their fray,<lb/> Had won the Prize the proper way.</p> <p>DUMOS concussi, sustulit alter aves.<lb/> Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves.<lb/> Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves.<lb/> Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes,<lb/> Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves.<lb/> TEL bat les buissons<lb/> Qui n'a pas les oisillons.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac200"/> <p>WHAT e'ere my stat's my love proves constant still,<lb/> To this my Soule, we part against our will;<lb/> Or when fierce Boreas with his blustring gale,<lb/> Or some mischance my lovely light doth quale:<lb/> Else I and Light my life, would never part,<lb/> Before to ashes fates did me convert.<lb/> Nature commands us to maintaine our breath<lb/> And being, shunning life-destroying death.<lb/> Yet man from Atropus oft takes the knife,<lb/> And cuts his fatall thred devouring life:<lb/> For why, he fearing death before his day,<lb/> Before th'allarum, makes himselfe away.<lb/> Ah wretch! unworthy to behold the skye,<lb/> Who will not live, and knowes not how to dye.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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The Dogs and the Bone

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Two dogs fighting, a third walking away with a bone

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<p>THE DOGS AND THE BONE</p>

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