The Closet of Counsells conteining The aduice of diuers wyse Philosophers, touchinge sundry morall matters, in Poesies, Preceptes, Prouerbes, and Parrables, translated, and collected out of diuers aucthors, into Englishe Verse: by Edmond Eluiden. Wherunto is anexed a pithy and pleasant discription of the abuses: and vanities of the vvorlde |
Of the tonge. |
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Of the tonge.
As by the tonge the treasures ofthe harte are so dysclosd
That thearby frendshypp is begonn
and thearto truste deposd,
And earthlye substaunce is increaste
and lyfe is brought to staye,
And eke the bodye well preserud
and kept from his decaye,
So lykewyse purchaseth the same
muche hatred and dyspyght:
Greate mischyfes: and in euerye thing
the losse of his delyght.
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