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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 170

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■.T UYT LUST, MAE .4H OM TE L.EVEN. WHO RUNS FAST CANNOT RUN LONG. Nimia Ubertas fit servitus. … EXCESS OF LIBERTY LEADS TO SERVITUDE. NTIL this haplefs moment I was free.And went whereer my will or fancy led ;But now oh ! where—where is that libertySo long my boaft ? alas ! for ever fled.Ah ! woe is me that ever I was lurdBy aught fo poor and taftelefs as this rind,To enter here, before I was…

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