Note 1 — ISAIAH.
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The stall-fed ox, that is grown fat, will know His careful feeder, and acknowledge too; The generous spaniel loves his master’s eye, And licks his fingers though no meat be by; But man, ungrateful man, that’s born and bred By Heaven’s immediate power; maintained and fed By His providing hand; observed, attended, By His indulgent grace; preserved, defended, By His prevailing arm; this man, I say, Is more ungrateful, more obdure than they. Man, O most ungrateful man, can ever Enjoy Thy gift, but never mind the Giver; And like the swine, though pampered with enough, His eyes are never higher than the trough.—Frances Quarles.