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 |
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Of the lyberall man. |
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Of the lyberall man.
The lyberall man doth not receauethe ryght of this his name,
By valewe of the thynges he giues
nor purchaseth his fame:
But by the frendelye gentlenes
aboundynge in his harte,
Which moueth him by louynge zcale
his substance to imparte.
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