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The Arbor of Amitie

wherin is comprised pleasant Pohems and pretie Poesies, set foorth by Thomas Howell

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An admonition to his Friend.

Learne honest mirth in humble curtesie,
Let person, time and place, regarded be.
Serue God in hart and loue his statutes true,
Then thee with goods and heauen he will indue.
Flee ydlenesse alwaies, to labors frame,
Of thone comes good, of thother, sinne and shame.