This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... curtal jade will shew his hackney tricks, And snarling curs will bite a man behind; The blackthorn shrub is best known by his pricks; A kestrel cannot choose but show her kind; Wise men sometimes must wait till fools have din'd; And yet these fools in common Wits' conceit, Are wise when Wisdom on their Wealth doth ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... curtal jade will shew his hackney tricks, And snarling curs will bite a man behind; The blackthorn shrub is best known by his pricks; A kestrel cannot choose but show her kind; Wise men sometimes must wait till fools have din'd; And yet these fools in common Wits' conceit, Are wise when Wisdom on their Wealth doth wait. And yet the wealthy Fool is but a Fool; The Knave with all his wealth is but a Knave; For truest Wisdom reads in Virtue's School, That there is no man happy till his grave; The hermit has more quiet in his cave Than many a king that long usurps a crown, That in the end comes headlong tumbling down. PasjuiPi Passion.) FORKS WITH KNIVES), AN INNOVATION AND LUXURY. For us in the country, when we have washed our hands after no foul work, nor handling any unwholesome thing, we need no little forks to make hay with our mouths, to throw our meat into them. ( The Courtier and the Countryman.') Cf., ' King John, ' i. I, 190. WEARERS OF THE FOOL'S CAP. If thou chance to meet an idle mate, Whose tongue goes all too glib upon the seare = trigger And chief delight is so much in his prate, As when he comes, will be chief prater there: In friendly kindness tell him in his ear, That in the rules of Wit and Reason's School, He will be counted but a prating FOOL. And if you hap to light upon a Gull, That is conceited of his mother-wit, And doth apply his beetle-headed scull But to an humour of an idle sit; In honest kindness let him hear of it, That in the rolls of Wisdom's rules you read, Less hope of him than of a Fool indeed. And if you chance to see the Son of Pride Look fifteen thousand mile above the moon; And lie abed until his idle hide Must make a morning of an afternoon, For fear his Worship mould be up too soon; Lest that the air should hap to do h...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Original covers with gilt decorative imprints on front cover; gilt title on spine; spine splitting; internally clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 250grams, ISBN: