The Life and Poems of Richard Edwards By Leicester Bradner: A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy |
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The fruites of fained frendes.
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The fruites of fained frendes.
In choise of frends what hap had I, to chuse one of Cirenes kind,
Whose harpe, whose pipe, whose melodie, could feede my eares & make me blinde:
Whose pleasant voice made me forget, that in sure trust was great deceit.
Whose harpe, whose pipe, whose melodie, could feede my eares & make me blinde:
Whose pleasant voice made me forget, that in sure trust was great deceit.
In trust I see is treason founde, and man to man deceitfull is,
And whereas Treasure doeth abounde, of flatterers there doe not misse:
Whose painted speache, and outward showe, doe seme as frends and be not so.
And whereas Treasure doeth abounde, of flatterers there doe not misse:
Whose painted speache, and outward showe, doe seme as frends and be not so.
Would I have thought in thee to be, the nature of the Crokadill,
Which if a man a slepe maie see, with bloudy thirst desires to kill:
And then with teares a while gan wepe, the death of hym thus slaine a slepe.
O flatterer false, thou traitor borne, what mischief more might thou deuise,
Which if a man a slepe maie see, with bloudy thirst desires to kill:
And then with teares a while gan wepe, the death of hym thus slaine a slepe.
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Which still a frende pretends to be, and art not so by profe I se.
Fie, fie, upon such trechery.
Finis.
W. H.
If such false Shippes doe haunte the shore
Strike downe the saile and trust no more.
Strike downe the saile and trust no more.
M. Edwardes.
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