Minerva Britanna Or A Garden of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures, Newly devised, moralized, and published, By Henry Peacham |
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The worldly wretch, that day and night doth toile,
And tire himselfe in bodie and in minde,
To gather that by all devises vile,
He must be faine ere long to leaue behinde:
All shapes like PROTEVS gladly entertaines,
No matter what, so that they bring the gaines.
And tire himselfe in bodie and in minde,
To gather that by all devises vile,
He must be faine ere long to leaue behinde:
All shapes like PROTEVS gladly entertaines,
No matter what, so that they bring the gaines.
Abroade Religion, Flatterie at the Court,
Plaine dealing in the Countrie where he dwells,
Then Gravitie among the wiser sort,
Where Fooles are rife, his Follie most excells:
Thus every way transforme himselfe he can
Saue one, in time to turne an honest man.
Plaine dealing in the Countrie where he dwells,
Then Gravitie among the wiser sort,
Where Fooles are rife, his Follie most excells:
Thus every way transforme himselfe he can
Saue one, in time to turne an honest man.
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