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 Equall Frendship. |
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Of Equall Frendship.
Tis seldome seene that frendship dothendure in full effecte.
where as the same vnegall seemes,
in anye one respecte:
As with the sturdye stoburne man
the easye gentle harte,
Can not continew but by time,
their frendshipp will departe:
Nor hee whom Fortune hath aduaunst
or sett in hye estate:
with him whose case decaid by chaunce,
is ouerthrowne by fate:
Nor hee whiche seeketh to ascende
with hym whose greedy mynde
is likewise bent to clime a lofte
his honour for to fynde.
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and natures workes alyke,
And stomakes luker do dispyse
there stedfaste loue dothe sticke.
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