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 vayne benefites. |
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Of vayne benefites.
The man which to the wilfull fooledoth study to do good:
Shall gayne as much as if he gaue
a strangers dogge his foode.
The which will barke and bite aswell
the feeder as the rest:
Although he giue him of his meate
the daintyest and the best.
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