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Againe in these likening a wise man to the true louer.
_As true loue is constant with his enioy,
And asketh no witnesse nor no record,
And as faint loue is euermore most coy,
To boast and brag his troth at euery word:
Euen so the wise without enother meede:
Contents him with the guilt of his good deede._
And in this resembling the learning of an euill man to the seedes sowen in
barren ground.
_As the good seedes sowen in fruitfull soyle,
Bring foorth foyson when barren doeth them spoile:
So doeth it fare when much good learning hits,
Vpon shrewde willes and ill disposed wits._
And in these likening the wise man to an idiot.
_A sage man said, many of those that come
To Athens schoole for wisdome, ere they went
They first seem'd wise, then louers of wisdome,
Then Orators, then idiots, which is meant
That in wisedome all such as profite most,
Are least surlie, and little apt to boast._
Againe, for a louer, whose credit vpon some report had bene shaken, he
prayeth better opinion by similitude.
_After ill crop the soyle must eft be sowen,
And fro shipwracke we sayle to seas againe,
Then God forbid whose fault hath once bene knowen,
Should for euer a spotted wight remaine._
And in this working by resemblance in a kinde of dissimilitude betweene a
father and a master.
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