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The Mirrour of Mutabilitie

or Principall part of the Mirrour for Magistrates. Describing the fall of diuers famous Princes, and other memorable Personages. Selected out of the sacred Scriptures by Antony Munday, and dedicated to the Right Honorable the Earle of Oxenford
  

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GLVTTONY.

G Lut not thy self vvith vain desire of vvelth,
L et modest mean alvvay thy state suffice,
V se not excesse for to impaire thy helth,
T he drunken Sot all vertue dooth despise,
T he pamperd paunch his belly makes his God.
O happy man that keeps the golden mean:
N ought more reproche, or more deserues his rod,
Y ou vvel may see then such a life vnclean.