The bayte and snare of fortune Wherein may be seene that money is not the only cause of mischefe and unfortunat endes: but a necessary mean to mayntayne a vertuous quiet lyfe. Treated in a Dialoge betwene man and money [by Roger Bieston] |
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Regarde well all my Lordes that shall this treatise readeOf man and his money, this is the disputacion,
Great reasō make they both who to the same taketh hede,
Euer him boasteth money as high in reputacion,
Recording vp his valour, but man makis denegacion.
Unto all men my reason I say as I haue thought,
Solas is most in season whan siluer is vnsought.
By penny to preferment many a man is brought
In borough, towne and citie, all men of eche estate
Enforce them selfe to please him, the poore is sette at nought,
Succour he seketh, but siluer and he be at debate.
Therfore to make conclusion I say now at my gate,
Of great good dedes by Money full manye be done doubtles,
Neuertheles yet is it cause of many a wyckednes.
Explicit nomen authoris.
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