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 Fortune. |
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Of Fortune.
The propertie of Fortune isso cruell fierce and fel:
That she will punish them who most
doo seeme to serue hir well.
And she beguyleth euery man,
but none beguileth her:
And she will promise much and yet
the time will still deferre.
Hir songe is weeping, and hir teares
is laughter both to dead:
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she serueth in their neede.
And spurneth them that present be
the absent threatning sore:
A wise man shonnes hir, but a foole
will care for hir the more.
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