7.
Though God provides our daily bread,
Yet all must seek that bread I ween;
Though all must die, there is no need
To rush the dragon’s jaws between.
8.
THE KING AND HIS FOLLOWERS.
If in the boor’s garden the King eats a pear,
His servants rapacious the tree will uptear;
For every five eggs he gives bounteously, more
Than five hundred fowls will his armies devour.
9.
THE DEVOUT MAN AND THE TYRANT.
If the half of a loaf the devout man receives,
The half of that half to the wretched he gives;
But no sooner a tyrant one kingdom has ta’en,
Than the wish of his heart is another to gain.
10.
THE CAT AND THE BEGGAR.
If a cat could the power of flying enjoy,
She all the world’s sparrows would quickly destroy;
If power in the hands of a beggar you place,
No mercy he’ll show to the beggarly race.
11.
THE KING AND TAYLOR.
The taylor who travels in far foreign lands,
Can always get bread by the work of his hands;
But the King who from throne and from country has fled,
Must oft without supper go sighing to bed.
12.
GOLD COIN AND STAMPED LEATHER.
Of the children of wisdom how like is the face
To pure gold that’s accepted in every place;
But the ignorant great are much like leather cash,
At home which though current, abroad is but trash.