A garden of graue and godlie flowers Sonets, elegies, and epitaphs. Planted, polished, and perfected: By Mr. Alexander Gardyne |
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Fortis est falsam infamiam contemnere.
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Fortis est falsam infamiam contemnere.
All they that loue, and liueth be the law,And they that stur, hir statutes to trangres,
All they of God, that his commands do knaw,
Than leud Reports, they nothing compt of lesse,
All they in life, who puritie professe,
Than sland'ring tongues, they nothing more detest,
Wha seiks to smoir, while they the more increase,
The giltles Fame, the pure, and perfect best,
The Scripture shewes, the wiser sort, expreems,
Detracting tongues, a vice vnworthiest,
Which God most vile, and odious esteems,
Of falls infamous lies, than think no mair,
Bot as words lost, and Echoes in the air.
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