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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Pure Uertue is a fortresse strong,that neuer can be wonne:
A pleasaunt riuer, that, by forse
can neuer be vndone:
A sea, that neuer moues his waues:
a Fire that dooth defende
His heate, whiche neuer quenched is
a treasure hathe no ende:
An Armie neuer vanquished:
a burden very light:
A Spie, that neuer taken is
a token pointyng ryght.
A parfecte pathwaye neuer fayles:
a Sirrope whiche dooth cure
And healeth streight: a hye renoune
that euer dooth endure.
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