WELL-DONE OUTLIVES

DEATH. ADDEDEDE

AS YOU SOW, YOU SHALL REAP.

HOU goeft about mischiefe and ftill doft feare,

THO

Least this my light 'gainst thee fhould witneffe beare;

So having put me out thou think'ft to worke

Thy will, and yet in fecret ftill to lurke.

Thou art deceiv'd, the darkneffe of this cell
Containes a light, that fees the lowest hell.

But thou a Want, canft not perceive this light,
Neither difcerne Sun-fhine from cloudy night.
Then fhalt thou fee it, when the Deity

Shall kindle that fparke which in thy breaft doth ly.
What e're thou doft, looke to that Light which made
All Lights, and fhines as day in midnight fhade.

BE RIGHT

TO-MORROW.

IS WHAT

NEITHER

HANDSOME

ENOUGH

TO

KILL

Als morfige lieden Kuys worden, foo fchuerenfe de Panne van achteren.

L

OOK at these Girls!-When they firft came to me,

They were fo fluttish and untidy both,

I never had a faucepan fit to fee,

And scarcely ever a clean kitchen cloth.

But now it is a pleasure to behold;

They are become fo wondrous clean and neat ;

NEITHER A LOG, NOR A STORK, GOOD JUPITER.

NOR

UGLY ENOUGH

TO FRIGHTEN.

TOO

MUCH SPOILETH,

TOO MUCH IS STARK NAUGHT.

I never have to rate them, nor to fcold,
Nor ever now an order to repeat.
They're fcouring, fcrubbing things continually,
'Tis rare indeed fuch girls as them to meet;
Their kitchen's quite a palace, as you see,

And look, their dreffer! isn't it a treat?
They never now require to be told

A fingle thing and, what is even more,
I'm often now almost obliged to scold,

They've got fo over nice, 'tis quite a bore!
They're now what I call cleanly to excess,

And make themselves more work than need be made.
So much, that oft I'd rather fee a mess,

That I might have some reason to upbraid.

There, look! 'tis quite ridiculous to see!

Those pans and kettles which they're scrubbing so;
Although I've faid it don't require to be,

They clean the very bottoms of them too!
'Tis juft the way with foolish people all,

When once their old bad habits they forfake,

In th' oppofite extreme too oft they fall,
And of a virtue then a folly make.

The Spendthrift, when he takes to fave, a Mifer oft becomes,
And, where he fquander'd thousands once, will make his meal of crumbs.
The niggardly, when he the part of liberal would play,

Is generous beyond his means, to give, to lend, or pay.

But both are in excefs, and act in oppofition quite

To Sense and Reafon's rules for doing e'en the thing that's right.

So be advised by me, my friends, and keep within the mean;

The path of Light, the line of Right, lies all extremes between.

POR Medio y no caereys.

ALLEZ par le Milieu, et vous ne tomberez.

-MEDIO intissimus ibis.

Il n'y a banquet que de chiches.

TOO MUCH BREAKS THE BAG.

TOO LITTLE IS

NOTHING.

Qui commence à être libéral, devient prodigue.

BAULLU curium etion vetra mensaran carnadu.-Turkish Adage.
OMNIS intemperantia est a tota mente ac a recta ratione defectio.-CICERO.

INCIDIT in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim.-HORACE.

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ID arbitror adprime in vita esse utile ne quid nimis."—TERENCE.

TOO

MUCH

CARE

MAY

BE

AS

BAD

Avoid Extremes.

'Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
About one Vice, and fall into another;

Betwixt excess and famine lies a mean;

Plain, but not sordid; though not splendid, clean.-POPE.

THE

Never exaggerate.

HE Wise never speak in the superlative, for that mode of speech always offends either Truth or Prudence. Exaggerations are so many prostitutions of reputation, inasmuch as they expose the shallowness of the understanding and the bad taste of the speaker. Exaggeration is a species of lying; he who exaggerates shews himself to be a man of bad taste, and, what is worse, a man of mean intellect.-GRACIAN.

TOO MUCH CORDIAL WILL DESTROY.

AS DOWNRIGHT

NEGLIGENCE.

DO BUSINESS, BUT BE NOT A SLAVE TO IT.

GOOD

FOR

NOTHING.

SI