Flamma sine Fumo or, poems without fictions. Hereunto are annexed the Causes, Symptoms, or Signes of several Diseases with their Cures, and also the diversity of Urines, with their Causes in Poetical measure. By R. W. [i.e. Rowland Watkyns] |
A good Report. |
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A good Report.
Honestus rumor optimum est patrimonium:
Qui malè facit, malè audit.
Qui malè facit, malè audit.
Do not neglect the candor of thy Name,
Thou shouldst not stain thy clothes, much less thy fame:
Fine houses men will build, repair and trim,
And keep them neat without, and fair within;
But little they regard, if by foul ways
They blot their names, and slubber o're their days:
Such men in life are odious, and shall be
In death a scandal to posterity.
I'll tread a righteous path; a good Report
Makes men live long, although their life is short.
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