George Withers' Emblemes

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Wbemvee by Hunger,Wifdome gaint*
Our Guts, are "toifer then our Braine.
ILLVSTR. I I. Book.z
He Crowe, when deepe within a clofe-mouth'd-JW.
She water finds, her thirftinefle to flake ;
(And, knoweth not where elfe it might be got)
Her Belly, teacheth her, this courfe to take :
She flies, and fetcheth many Ptbbles thither,
Then, downe into the Feffell, lets them drop
Vntill, fo many (tones are brought together,
As may advance the water to the top.
From whence, we might this observation heed 5
That, Hunger, Tbirfi, and thofe ttecefities,
(Which from the Bellies craving, doe proceed)
May make a Toole, grow provident and wife.
And,though(in fport) we fay , the brums of feme.
Not in their Heads,but in their Gutts, doe lye
Yer,that,by wants, Men wifer mould become,
Diflenteth not from true Phihfophy :
For, no man labours with much WiU'mgnefle,
To compafle, what he nought at all defires ;
Nor feeketh fo,his longing to poflcfle,
As, when fome urgent neede,the fame requires.
Nay,though he might, a wiSingtieJfe ,retaine,
Yet, as the Belly, which is ever full,
Breeds fumes, that caufe a fottifh.frtiles-brain* .
So, plenteous Fortunes, make the Spirits dull.
Airborne to Riches, have not all-times, witt
To keepe, (much lefle,to better) their degree:
But, men to nothiog borne, oft, paflage get,
(Through many wants) renown'd, and rich ro bee
Yea, Povcrtic and Hunger, did produce,
The bc(iInvenUons,and }
of chiefeft ufe.
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