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 slaunder and flattery. |
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Of slaunder and flattery.
Of slaundrers wel beware, and seethou flattrers do dispise:
If to thy selfe thou purchase would
to be accompted wise.
For neither tamed beast nor brute
nor beaste of sauage kinde:
Do bite so niely, as this same
doth pinch and payne the minde.
Whose clawes so teare and rankell all
they do attayne to touch
That better is it to be torne
of beastes then caught of such.
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