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 Loue. |
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Of Loue.
Of loue fyue seuerall sortes ther bee,and one deserueth prayse,
And three bee wicked, and the fourthe
to natures will obayes.
The firste is mutuall loue, which loue
to eche man dothe abounde,
Prouoked be the feare of God,
or els by frendshipp founde.
The other loue is naturall
whiche loue him selfe extendes,
Unto his kinred or his stocke
or other suche his frendes,
An other loue ther is whiche loues
an other man, for that
That louelye vse might purchase him
aduaunsement to his state:
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by flattrye to attayne:
When as they neede, some redye help
or els some pryuate gayne,
And laste, therbee whiche dote in loue,
by louinge that whiche thaye,
In tyme doo fynde a fruictles loue
that woorkes theyr owne decaye.
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