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 the wearines of nature.
There is no thing so perfect goodso pure or perfect wise:
But tract of time doth cause vs loath
and vtterly dispise.
For such is foolishnes of man
that that which most he may:
He least estemes, but that which least
he holdeth for a pray.
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