The Castell of Courtesie Whereunto is adioyned The Holde of Humilitie: With the Chariot of Chastitie thereunto annexed. Also a Dialogue betweene Age and Youth, and other matters herein conteined. By Iames Yates |
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When as occasion moueth,
To answere it behoueth.
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When as occasion moueth,
To answere it behoueth.
When
vrgent cause doth moue,
who can withhold his hand:
The Worme when she is troden on
doth seeme for to withstand.
The Owle of vgly hue,
doth thinke her birdes are best:
The miser pincheth at his feast,
although he bids his ghest.
The windes that rise in skyes
doe threaten surges sore:
And tatling tales doe moue Debate
where none was ment before.
The valiant Champion Stoute,
which hath a Victors minde:
Doth thinke ther's none so good as he,
vntill by proofe he find.
The fop and fauning foole
doth like his bable so:
As for the Tower of great price,
he will not let it goe.
The Scholler younge in schoole,
may proue a learned Clarke:
The whelpe by Natures kinde we see
is giuen for to barke.
The Scholler though but young
hath wrote this verse to those,
Which pleaseth for to answere him
in Meeter or in prose.
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some loue to prattle much:
And finde three faultes, yet mend not one,
yea Minstrelles oft be such.
At euery dog which barkes,
if one should throw a stone:
Perchance in end he would haue wisht
to let such Curs alone.
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