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 a fooles good fortune. |
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Of a fooles good fortune.
Ther can not bee a thing which manmay suffer more with payne,
Or matter harder to forbeare
or lesser to sustaine:
Then for to see a foole aduaunst
or sit in hie estate,
Whom foolishe fortune hath inhaunste
to vndeserued fate.
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