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FORCE WITHOUT FORE-CAST IS OF LITTLE AVAIL.
But clofing on it quick as thought.
The bird is by the oyfter caught !
And nipped fo tight and well ;
That ftrive and ftruggle as he may,
To free his beak, and get away ;
He keeps him captive, firmly bound,
Till with return of tide he's drowned.
Who to themfelves would all appropriate
Of that they fee, deferve the fea-mew's fate ;
Nor doth he fail to meet it, soon or late, o
Whofe nofe is thruft in everybody's plate.
'The Event is often different from the Intent.
P\EFEATING our intent and expectation,
In strange reverse of that we think to see ;
When certain most, we find ourselves mistaken,
And he is caught, who would the catcher be. J UJ
To curb the pride and malice of man's nature, (/)
'Twas wise ordained, that he should sometimes see,-
In his own toils the hunter captive taken ;
And he despoiled, who would the spoiler be ; Q
The evil doer, 'gainst his calculation,
By his own mischief foiled and hurt, alone,
The slander of a neighbour's reputation,
Recoil with deeper wound upon his own.
The fame in another fenfe.
Konst van besiuaren, gaet voor't vergaren
How to retain, is more than how to gain. Q
HpHE mew is in a fix, as we have seen ;
With beak well jamm'd the oyster's shells between : It
But what avails the shell-fish his success ?
Strange case it is yet nothing less than true,
His very fortune causes him distress,
Nor knows he with his capture what to do !
A very load to him, a trouble quite,
The catcher would be well rid of the caught,
'Tis almost 'gainst his grain to hold him tight
Yet, to let go were perhaps with peril fraught !
Just so in life, whom management doth fail,
Success nor riches to their good avail.
A HASTY MAN NEVER WANTS WOE.
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