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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
Elviden, Edmund
 
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Of knowledge.

That realme in pouerty doth liue

Socrates

in famine and in dearth:
Wheras intelligence is scant
the king of heauen and earth.
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