Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Volume 1Macmillan, 1951 |
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Page 49
... Vertue . OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION ( first given in 1625 ) Dissimulation is but a faint kind of Policy , or ... Vertue of Pros- peritie , is Temperance ; The Vertue of Ad- versity , is Fortitude : which in Morals is the more ...
... Vertue . OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION ( first given in 1625 ) Dissimulation is but a faint kind of Policy , or ... Vertue of Pros- peritie , is Temperance ; The Vertue of Ad- versity , is Fortitude : which in Morals is the more ...
Page 51
... vertue in himselfe , ever envieth Vertue in others . For Mens Mindes , will either feed upon their owne Good , or upon others Evill ; And who wanteth the one , wil prey upon the other ; And who so is out of Hope to attaine to anothers ...
... vertue in himselfe , ever envieth Vertue in others . For Mens Mindes , will either feed upon their owne Good , or upon others Evill ; And who wanteth the one , wil prey upon the other ; And who so is out of Hope to attaine to anothers ...
Page 140
... vertue now I raise . A vertue , like Allay , " so gone 10 His Altars kept from the Decay , That envie wish'd , and Nature fear'd . And on them burne so chaste a flame , With so much Loyalties expence As Love t'aquit such excellence ...
... vertue now I raise . A vertue , like Allay , " so gone 10 His Altars kept from the Decay , That envie wish'd , and Nature fear'd . And on them burne so chaste a flame , With so much Loyalties expence As Love t'aquit such excellence ...
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