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THE BOKE OF THREE FOOLES.
M. SKELTON, POETE LAUREATE, GAUE TO MY LORD CARDYNALL.
THE FYRST FOOLE.
The man that doth wed a wyfeFor her goodes and her rychesse,
And not for lygnage femynatyfe,
Procureth doloure and dystresse,
With infynyte payne and heuynesse;
For she wyll do hym moche sorowe,
Bothe at euyn and at morowe.
THE SECONDE FOOLE.
The dartes ryght cursed of EnuyeHath rayned sythe the worlde began,
Whiche bryngeth man euydently
Into the bondes of Sathan;
Wherfore he is a dyscrete man
That can eschewe that euyll synne
Where body and soule is lost in.
THE THYRD FOOLE.
Dyuers by voluptuousnesOf women, the which be present,
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Forgettyng vertues excellent
Of God, the whych is permanent,
And suffreth themselfe to be bounde
In cordes, as it were a hounde.
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