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Study these pictures, with their verses, / You will certainly learn no little good from them
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Sheet with 16 depictions from the fables of Aesopus. Below each image a six-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 177.
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Credit lineWil deeze prentjens, met hun versjens, bestudeeren / Gy zult 'er zekerlyk niet weinig goeds uit leeren. 1806 - 1830. Gerrit Oortman. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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See, to the joy of your spirit, / While you read the following, / O youth! the most beautiful and strange things, / Which you can make to your benefit
Thus the gardener works, whose diligence hopes for fruit, / Until he sells the mature crop at market for profit
Little Thumb and Puss in Boots
When the Desire for Print Viewing, / Then One May Safely Trust, / In You, O Youth! It Reveals Itself, / That You Choose Your Choice with Judgment
See, children, what strange things this print shows you, / How trade is carried on in various fields, / Thus diligent industry is crowned in every craft, / Thus the lowest estate still finds something to live on