Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages ...

PRIDE AND POVERTY ARE ILL. MET,
Which in his felf-conceit he deem'd
Too little by his friends efteem'd
Who neither would allow nor fee
That he pofTefs'd a quality
Of form or of intelligence,
Beyond
their Tortoife common-fenfe.
Refolv'd ne'erlefs that they mould be
Convinc'd of his ability
To mine where they could never hope
With his fuperior mind to cope,
t Seeing one day the bird of Jove
Alighting from the clouds above,
He urged him with addrefs polite
To bear him upward in his flight ;
9: That he might prove to all his race
How qualified he was to grace
A ftation more exalted than
I- Their weak intelligence could fcan :
< Whence he at once might grafp and fee
The glories of the land and fea,
And like the eagle gaze upon
< The full effulgence of the fun,
High up above the puny ken
Of grov'lling Tortoifes and men.
3 The Eagle, quick as thought to fee
tti The filly reptile's vanity,
Exprefs'd
himfelf but too content
To do what from the firft he meant :
And feizing him right quickly too,
He upward with the Tortoife flew,
So high into the realms of light,
That almoft lofing fenfe and fight,
The Tortoife wimed himfelf again
Below upon the humble plain.
But upward ftill the Eagle rofe,
As though pretending to difclofe
YET OFTEN TOGETHER.