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 |
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which many do bewayle:
Reioysing at his death or harme
or when his state doth fayle.
It is the greatest sinne in earth
for man to seeke a prayse
By fayned vertue and deceyt,
and fraude, to guide his wayes.
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