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 lyfe and wealth. |
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Of lyfe and wealth.
It is much better for a manthis tedious life to lose:
And so to ryse to richer welth
then heart may well suppose.
Then to escape the sting of death
and life for to retayne:
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and ouerflowes in payne.
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