The Closet of Counsells conteining The aduice of diuers wyse Philosophers, touchinge sundry morall matters, in Poesies, Preceptes, Prouerbes, and Parrables, translated, and collected out of diuers aucthors, into Englishe Verse: by Edmond Eluiden. Wherunto is anexed a pithy and pleasant discription of the abuses: and vanities of the vvorlde |
Of Uaynglorie. |
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Of Uaynglorie.
Euen as the famyshed for wanteof sustenaunce or foode
Is somtyme forste to eate his fleshe
and drynke his proper bloode:
So the vayne glorious man for lacke
of others good reporte,
Is fayne to prayse him selfe to them,
in seekinge their resorte.
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