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 |
Of goods ill gotten. |
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Of goods ill gotten.
The treasures which a man by fraudeand falsehode doth augment,
By suche collusion ill are got
and worser are they spente:
Who therfore to be ryche in store
doth purpose and intende,
Ought trewlie riches for to wynne
and dewlye them to spende.
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