678 o B. Verf.8. ,I ap of hoflility; as if it had been laid, as we often fay in fuch cafes, Touch him if thou dare; thaw bait as good have let him alone, thouhad.Of as goodeat thy nails' as meddle withhim; tire the leaft violence to him at thy ,peril be ir, he will quickly make thee re- pznt thy rafhnefs, and thou wilt have little mind to fight it out with him. Thirdly, Lay thins hand upon him, may be taken in this gene- ral fenïe ; improve the urmoll of thy skill and lirength, of thy force andfraud, do thybsfl everyway, yet thou (hair not be able to take him, Remember the battle, or ( as ltïl . Broughton renders )look for war, ïlitamaudaa Confider what will come of it, if thou layefi thy hand upon furs ut ferire hm ; for doubtlefs, he will be upon thy backprefently. There- ipfum fußinu -- fore, erA, cogita il- lumpugnatu- Do no more, sum,(Yjiipates fugo,neque ite- Some render it as a threat, -1 If thou fhalr do more, he will quick.. .resiEtum.Coc. ly diïpatch thee, or thou wilt have little mind to meddle any more with him. We read it, as an admonition, do no more ; that Non exit tibi is, forbear. Some put both theft latter branches of theverfe to- pojibacdepr`e nether thus Thou .ifialt no more remember the battle that is there Ilium will be an end of thee, thou wilt have done fighting with him or e!F'lum enim eritdete fmui anyother,if thou beginnefl to fight withLeviathán,The clear fenfe BCmanum im- of the whole, to me, is this : If thou pat thine hand upon him, if vrifers}.Merc, thou meddler'. to tale him either by force or craft, if thou doff pifcaror ingage any way withhim, thou wilt be fared to remember the hat- D r, /Wag. :le, thouwilt find thou haft eau[e to remember it as lentos thou livet; if thou layefl, or (halt lay thy hand upon him, thou wilt think of the battle, that thou half madea nag) adventure, nor wilt thou venture foagain, thyown harms willma,l a theewirer, and tby fad experience (the Mijtrejo offools) will teach thee to take heed. Now according to this reading, and the fente given of it , the Impe- rative is put for the Future, which (as the Learned tell us) is ufual in Scripture, and the conditional term If is underflood and placed at the beginning of the fentence, which is familiar in the Idebrew tongue : And fo inRead of, lay thy band on him, &c. (as we render) the words run thus, If thou (hait lay thy band on him
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