One and Thyrtye Epigrammes wherein are briefly touched so many Abuses, that maye and ought to be put away. Compiled and Imprinted by Robert Crowley |
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Of Dicears. |
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Of Dicears.
Emonge wyttye saiyngesthis precept I finde
To auoid and fle dice (mi son)
haue euer in mynde
For diceynge hath brought many
wealthye menne to care
And manye ryche heyre
it hath made full bare
Some menne it hath sette vp
I wyll not denye
And brought to more worship
than they be worthye
he suffereth thys thing
Perchaunce to rewarde them
wyth hel at their endynge.
For doubtlesse those goodes
are gotten amisse
That are gotten from him
that prodigall is,
And especially at the dyce
where boeth do intende
To get others goods,
or else hys owne to spende
Nowe if prodigalitye
or couetise be vyce
He can not but offend
that playeth at the dyce
For be they two or mo
thys thyng is certayne
Prodigalytie and couetise
do in them all raygne
Besyde the wycked othes
and the tyme myspent
Wherof they thincke they nede not
them selues to repent,
that though dyceyng were no sin,
Nor the good is mysgoten
that men do ther at wynne
Yet the othes that they swere
and the tyme myspent
Shall be theyr damnacion
vnlesse they repent
Leaue of your vayne dyceyng
ye dycers therefore
For vnlesse ye repent,
god hath vengeaunce in store
And when ye thynke least
then wyl he pour it oute
And make you to stoupe,
be ye neuer so stoute.
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