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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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The closet of counsells.
 
A Pithy and pleasante discription of the Abbusions, and Uanities, of the Worlde.

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Of Lust.

yf thou wouldst think of man how much
his nature doth excell,
Supposing thus thou shouldst perceaue

Cicero.


and vnderstande it well:
How muche vnnaturall it is
for man for to abuse
Him selfe by lust, and howe deuine
the same for to refuse.
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