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 kynges courte. |
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Of the kynges courte.
The courte or pallayce of the prynceor dwellinges of the kynge,
Is as a fountayne to his realme
from whence if cleannes sprynge
Unto his peoplle do proceede
the fruictes of honeste lyfe,
But if vncleannes then dothe rayne
eche fylthye vyse as ryfe.
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