Petrarchs seven penitentiall psalms paraphrastically translated: With other Philosophicall Poems, and a Hymne to Christ vpon the Crosse. Written by George Chapman |
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Of Attire.
Inhabite, nor in any ill to th'eie,Affright the vulgar from Philosophie:
But as in lookes, words, workes, men witnesse thee
Comely and checklesse, so in habite be.
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For wit, skill, iudgement, neuer so extended,
That goes fantastically, and doth fit
The vulgar fashion; neuer thinke his wit
Is of a sound peece, but hath bracks in it.
If slouenly and nastily in weeds
Thou keep'st thy body, such must be thy deeds,
Hence, to the desart, which thou well deseru'st,
And now no more for mans societie seru'st.
Externall want to this height doth expresse
Both inward negligence, and rottennesse.
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