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 try

18By 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.