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 Luste & Lecherye. |
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Of Luste & Lecherye.
No sinne dooth sooner man inuadethen lecherye or luste,
And nothing sooner workes his wooes
or layes hym in the duste:
For it reprooueth Goulden fame
and maketh all thynges waste,
And that which long the fathers paine
hathe reapte it spendes in haste.
And maketh faynte the force of man
and takes his strengthe awaye,
And doth deforme the flower of youth
longe tyme before hys daye:
And fauour doth dysfygure cleane
and beawtye dothe deface
And healthe indeuours to appare
and shortens vytall race:
And all diseases doth it brynge,
and damps and dulles the wyte,
And graffes abeastelie minde in man,
a fylthye and vnfytt,
And plungeth hym, and suffeth hym
in puddle and in myre,
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his harte in scorchyng fyer.
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