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 tongue or wordes.
By the disposing of the tonguethere is a tryall true:
To knowe how the disposer can
his fleshly lustes subdue.
For he that can not brydell wordes
according as he lyst:
Hath much lesse power to bridle lustes
or appetites resist.
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