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1The
Indian moose1
three young at once doth bear,2Which
trebles2
both her comforts and her care3
.3Them equally she loves, none worst or best:
4Not like the ape which doth her love attest
5By
huggling4
that she loves until it die;6The other,
railing5
, at her back hangs by6
.7To see
her7
policy would make one wonder8
,8In placing
every one9
a mile asunder,9That if her foes on one of them should light,
10The other two are savéd by this
sleight10
.11The
patr’arch so divided his three bands11
,12To save them from his cruel brothers’ hands.
13So merchants will not venture all they have
14Within three inches of the swelling wave.
15Let parents learn by what is writ above
16To manifest to children equal love:
17Not like the
eagle12
, who her young doth try18By the transcendent brightness of
her13
eye;19Those which can’t stare on
Sol’s14
refulgent15
face,20She
disesteems16
as bastard brats and base;21These,
wanting17
then her noble education,22Degenerate to
kites18
and keep their fashion.23So ’tis when parents do a difference make:
24Then, O, that counsel let me ever take.