Moral emblems : with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie : with illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works (1860)
Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660, Farley, Robert, Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662, ill, Leighton, John, 1822-1912, ill, Pigot, Richard · London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts · leaf 199
ce my lovely light doth quale :Elfe I and Light m.y life, would never part.Before to afhes fates did me convert. Nature commands us to maintaine our breathAnd being, fhunning life-deftroying death.Yet man from Atropus oft takes the knife,And cuts his fatall thred devouring life :For why, he fearing… … TWO SIR POSITIVES CANT MEET WITHOUT A SKIRMISh180 BETWIXT TWA STOOLS THE DOUP FAS DOUN. hemo potest Tlietidetn simid et Gnlatean amare.
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