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 men whych liue in sorowe. |
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Of men whych liue in sorowe.
There be syxe sorts of wretched menwhyche euer lyue in wooes,
And drousye care, and by no meanes
maye bee deuoyd of those.
The fyrste is hee whose memorye
can not forgett hys payne
Or trouble, but recordes his greife
whiche moues him to complayne:
Another is the enuyous man,
whose harte dothe melt by spyghte
And care, to see his fooe aduaunste
or lyue in happie plighte,
Another hee who dwells in place
wheare as hee can not thryue,
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whom fate dooth not depriue:
Another is the hautye man
suppressed by decaye:
Another hee whiche can not get
his wisshe by anye waye,
And last, the man which doth enhaunte
the felowship of wise,
And can not yet obtayne suche skyll.
as fayne he woulde deuise.
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