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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 89

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and cannot to the center move;Hold you it under, it will upward reach.And through its ruinous body make a breach. Our foule doth bend our bodies ftraight and even, As with it felfe, it would them raife to Heaven ; But all in vaine it undergoes fuch toyle. The body will not leave its native foyle:… … (S<&^£f<^ VANITY WILL. PROVE ;xATiON. -■s>£-s>s; EN AMOUR, EN COUR, ET A l_A CHASSE, Inter manuin et meiitum.

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