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The meane is best.
The fire doeth frye, the frost doeth freesethe colde breedes care, the heate doeth harme,
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nor ouer-cold, nor ouer-warme.
I dreame it not the happy life
the needie beggers bag to beare:
Ne yet the blessed state of all
a mightie Kaisars crowne to weare.
That one is cloied with sundry cares,
and dies ten thousand times a day:
That other still in danger goes,
for euery traitors hand to slay.
The highest hill is not the place
whereon to build the stately bower:
The deepest vale it is as ill,
for lightly there doth rest the shower.
The sailing ship that keepes the shore,
vpon the rocke is often rent:
And he that ventures out too farre,
and tries the stream with waues is hent.
For there the wind doth worke his will,
there Neptunes churlish imps do raign:
The middle way is safe to saile,
I mean the mean betwixt the twain.
So that the meane is best to choose,
not ouer hie, nor ouer lowe:
Wherfore, if you your safetie loue,
imbrace the meane, let mounting goe.
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