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 an Enuious man. |
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Of an Enuious man.
The serpents spew their venim outand poyson, to intente
To damage other men therwith,
and therefore is it spente.
But the malicious man doth more
him selfe with filth infecte
Then any els, and therfore most
his owne wealth doth detecte.
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