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 the worldes misery.
It is a misery to viewand penury to see:
How in this worlde all mortal things
in vaine compacted be.
The fathers clime for to attayne
vnto their children wealth:
And yet the children nought regarde
their fathers needefull health.
The fathers tediously prouide
to yelde their children rest:
And yet the children both their payne
and fathers do detest.
The fathers by their painfull toyle
do get their children fame:
The children thankles do requite
the fathers with much shame.
The fathers sometime die for griefe
to see the luckles state
Of such their children, yet they thinke
their fathers death to late.
And all the goodes the fathers reape
with pensiuenes and payne:
The children wilfully consume
and kepe them selues no gayne.
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