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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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Of ignorant men.

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The boldenes which vnskilfull men
retayne in their conceyt:

Socrat.


Is that which most do let their wittes
and them of skyll defeate.
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