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 thankfullnes. |
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Of thankfullnes.
Yf thou a profitt doest receaue,or benefite doest finde,
As well as in thie hande thou must
receaue it in thy minde,
For hee vnthankfull is who hides
the friendship is bestowde,
And hee vngratfull, who receaues
and payes not that is owde:
But hee doth least deserue to haue
of profit anie parte,
Who neither thankes nor doth requite
nor printes it in his harte.
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