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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
 

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Of meeke witted men.

It is a seldome thing to finde

Hermes.

though labor longe do seeke:

A man that doth abounde in witte
and therwithall is meeke.