Moral emblems - with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie - with illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works (1860) (14561107089)

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Title: Moral emblems : with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie : with illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660 Farley, Robert Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662, ill Leighton, John, 1822-1912, ill Pigot, Richard
Subjects: Emblems
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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WHEN SLOVENLY SERVANTS GET TIDY, THEY POLISHTHE BOTTOMS OF THE SAUCEPANS. OOK at thefe Girls !—When they firft came to me,They were fo fluttifh and untidy both,I never had a faucepan fit to fee. And fcarcely ever a clean kitchen cloth.But now it is a pleafure to behold ; They are become fo wondrous clean and neat; NEITHER A L.OC3, NOR A STORK, GOOD JUPITER. TOO MUCH IS STARK NAUGHT. I never have to rate them, nor to fcold, Nor ever now an order to repeat.Theyre fcouring, fcrubbing things continually, Tis rare indeed fuch girls as them to meet;Their kitchens quite a palace, as you fee, And look, their drefler ! isnt it a treat ?They never now require to be told A fingle thing : and, what is even more,Im often now almoft obliged to fcold, Theyve got fo over nice, tis quite a bore !Theyre now what I call cleanly to excefs, And make themfelves more work than need be made. i So much, that oft Id rather fee a mefs. That I might have fome reafon to upbraid. i q There, look ! tis quite ridi