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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Of too much escrutiositie.
If thou wouldst not thy trauell haueor labor to be vayne:
Wish no such secreat things wherto
thy will may not attayne.
For thou thy selfe and other none
art causer of thy let:
If that thy trauell may not reach
thou labor for to get.
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