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 study. |
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Of study.
Like as the earth sustaynes the rooteof any herbe or tree:
But yet the Sunne by holesome heats
doth cause there blossomes be.
So study bredes the sappy dewe
of knowledge and of skill:
And loue and fauor moues the same
his vertues to distill.
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