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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 255

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or have I wherewithal more light to lende;Greafe fpente, wick burned and fmoake all pafled away,Of Light berefte, what bootes it here to stay ?Yet while I am permitted to remaine,It is to fhewe that I may ferve againe:In patient Hope I therefore byde my time,Until in me frefhe Light the Fates do…

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