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 giftes. |
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Of giftes.
If thou wouldst giue, & wouldst therinauoyde suspitious fame:
Thou must with measure vse thy gifts
and wisely weigh the same.
For if too little they be, then
report will say in hast:
Thou art a niggarde, if too great
it iudgeth thee to waste.
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