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 |
Who knowes. |
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Who knowes.
The man that vnderstandes not thatwhyche hee by right should knowe,
Amongst the feloship of men
a brutishe beaste dothe growe:
And hee that knowes nomore then sarues
to satisfie his neade,
Amonge brute beastes is as a man
and sarues no further steade,
But hee ye knows all should be known
and eche thynge vnderstandes
Amongste men is a God, and lyues
vnbounde from errors bandes.
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