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 174
UEARN TO RESTRAIN THINE HAND, AND TO CURB THINE ANGER. 152 cs<^ HE WHO IS BORN A FOOL IS NEVER CURED, -s^ A Barbe de Fol apprent a raire. … WHO WOULD LEARN TO SHAVE WELL, SHOULDFIRST PRACTISE ON A FOOLS BEARD. fHE Proverb is of antient date,Tliat he who well would Icarii to ihave,His fulleft wifh to confiimmate, Should on a Fools beard practice have.As with each phraie of antient lore,The fenfe implied hath taen its rife A WISE LOOK…
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![An illustration from Moralia Horatiana, das ist, Die Horatzische sitten-lehre : aus der ernst-sittigen geselschaft der alten weise-meister gezogen, und mit 113 [i.e. 103] in kupfer gestochenen sinn-bildern, und eben so viel erklärungen und andern anmärkungen vorgestellet (1656)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-moraliahoratiana00hora-150-126.webp)
