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 a Prynces office. |
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Of a Prynces office.
Lyke as the sonne is equall tothe ryche man and the poore,
And shines as well on barren grounde,
as on the firtile store:
So ought a prince to haue regarde
vnto the thynge hee heares,
And not vnto the persons, but
vse equallye his eares.
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