Would you not laugh, and thinke it beastly fine, To see a durtie, and ill-favour’d _Swine_, Weare on her snout, a _Diamond_, or a _Pearle_, That might become the _Ladie_ of an _Earle_? And hold it head, as if it meant to show It were the _Pigg_ of some well-nurtur’d _Sow_? Perhaps, you thinke there be not any where Such _Antickes_, but in this our _Emblem_ here. But, if you take these _Charmes_, and then goe forth Among some troupes, which passe for folkes of worth, You shall discover, quickly, if you please, A thousand sights, as mimicall as these. Here, you shall see a noble _Title_ worne, (That had not mis-beseem’d one better borne) By him, whose vertues are of little price, And, whose estate, was gotten by his _Vice_. You shall behold another _Mushrome_, there, Walke with our _Lords_, as if hee were their _Peere_, That was well knowne, to be but tother day, No fit companion for such men as they; And, had no other meanes to climbe this height, But _Gaming_, or to play the _Parasite_. Yet (though he neither hath his _Trade_, nor _Lands_, Nor any honest _In-come_, by his _hands_) Hee, oft consumes at once, in _Games_ or _Cheare_, More than would keepe his _Better_ all the yeare. Yea, many such as these, thou shouldst behold, Which would bee vext, if I describe them should: For, thus, unworthily, blind _Fortune_ flings, To _Crowes_, and _Geese_, and _Swine_, her precious things. _The best =good-turnes= that =Fooles= can doe us, Proove disadvantages unto us._ [Illustration: STULTORUM ADIUMENTA NOCUMENTA. ILLVSTR. XVII. _Book. 4_]