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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
 

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Of deffe and blinde men.

Such men as deffe or blind are borne
more pure and perfect haue

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Their inward powers, because their sence
of pleasures least do craue.