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 abstinence.
As men be wary to receaueand dainty for to take
Unholesome meates, least that their health
of body should aslake.
So likewise should they warily
from vice and sinne abstayne:
That they therby may likewise shunne
the soules eternall payne.
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