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The flickeryng fame

Of the choise of a wife.

The flickeryng fame that flieth from eare to eare.
And aye her strength encceaseth

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encreaseth

with her flight
Geues first the cause why men to heare delight,
Of those whom she dothe note for beauty bright.
And with this fame that flieth on so fast,
Fansy dothe hye when reason makes no haste
And yet not so content they wishe to see
And thereby knowe if fame haue sayd aright.
More trustyng to the triall of their eye,
Then to the brute that goes of any wight.
Wise in that poynt that lightly will not leeue,
Vnwise to seke that may them after greue.
Who knoweth not how sight may loue allure,
And kindle in the hart a hotte desire:
The eye to worke that fame could not procure,
Of greater cause there commeth hotter fire.
For ere he wete him self he feleth warme,
The fame and eye the causers of his harme.

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Let fame not make her knowen whom I shall know,
Nor yet mine eye therin to be my guide:
Suffiseth me that vertue in her grow,
Whose simple life her fathers walles do hide.
Content with this I leaue the rest to go,
And in such choise shall stande my welth and wo.