The _Barrell_, from whose bottome, sides, and bung, The liquor (as in this our _Emblem_) flowes, May fitly typifie the babling _Tongue_, Of him that utters ev’ry thing hee knowes. For, such as are their taskes, who strive to fill An ever-leaking _Vessell_, to the brim; Ev’n such are his, who laboureth to still A _tatlers_ tougue; for, paines are lost on him. This _Figure_, also, serveth to expresse, The trustlesse nature of a _whorish woman_; For, shee to all displayes her wantonnesse, And, cares to keepe her secresies, from no man. Within her bosome, nothing long shee keeps, But, whatsoever shee conceives or knowes, Streight, from the heart, up to her tongue, it creeps; And, round about the _Citie_, then, it goes. Bee warned therefore, and commit thou not Thy person, state, or fame, to such as these; Lest, they thy _Reputation_ doe bespot, Consume thy _Substance_, or thy _Minde_ disease. But, most of all, bee wary, lest the crime, Which here wee doe reproove, thy mind infect: For, _Vice_, like _weeds_, will grow in little time, And, out-grow _Vertues_, if Wee them neglect. The surest way to keepe such errors out, And, in our selves true _Vertnes_ to maintaine; Is, to bee _hoopt_ with _Temp’rance_, round about, And, our out-flowing humors to restraine. If thus we practise, 'twill prevent the wrongs Of our owne errors, and of others tongues. _How ever thou the =Viper= take, A dang’rous hazzard thou dost make._ [Illustration: UTCUNQUE. ILLVSTR. XXXIX. _Book. 4_]