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

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From long experience gone before,
That Fools to deal with maketh wife.
For Fools, of all men moft precife
In things of import leaft, e'er gave
The wideft fcope for practice nice
Of Patience and of Virtues grave.
In fhaving Fools the barber '11 find
Thofe Virtues to the utmoft tried,
And howfoe'er to pleafe inclined,
Both (kill and patience mifapplied.
Of head and beard each fep'rate hair
Muft have the fame attention paid,
Muft be arranged with niceft care,
And juft as Fool will have it laid :
At ev'ry clip he fays, "Take heed!"-
And in the looking-glafs muft view
If all is done as he decreed,
And what the Barber next muft do :
This lock is now fomewhat too long,
And this too mort now here, now there,
There fomething ails, a curl lies wrong
In beard or whifker, or fomewhere.
On this fide now there needs anew
Juft juft a leetle fnipp'd away,
" So ! let me look ! ! yes that will do
But here! this turn! looks well? nay! nay!
No mouftache ever look'd well fo,
Like that indeed it cannot ftay !"
And all the Barber ftrives to do
Yet !
Is vain as all he tries to lay :
juft this place
behind the ear ?
! Aye Fool ! that's
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the place that ail'd thee !
From what we've feen 'tis very clear
It was the brains from firft that fail'd thee !
Who wants now this, now that, nor knows
What 'tis he needs, doth clearly mow it :
For lacking brains, he feels and mows
He wants within the means to know it.
THERE IS NO CONCLUSION.
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