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¶ Thys lityll ditty concludyth in menyng,
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Who that cast hym thys reule for to kepe,
Mot conforme hym like in euery thyng,
Where he shall byde, vnto the [Thy A.] felyshype:
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with wachemen wake, with sloggy folkes [men A.] slepe
with wode men wode, with frentyke men [men A, om. C.] sauage;
Renne with bestys, with wyldë [wyld C, wielde A.] wormys crepe,
And like the [thyn A.] audience, vttyr thy [hys C, so vtter thy A.] langage.
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¶ Among all these, I counsell the [Among . . the A, Mong . . ȝit C.] take hede
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Where thow abydyst or rest [Restis A.] in any place.
In chefe, loue god, and with þi loue haf drede, [folio 83]
And be fereful, agayne hym to trespace:
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with vertuose folk [man A.] encresë shall þi grace;
And viciose men [folk A.] arn cause of gret damage;
In euery feliship so for þi self purchace
Where vertu regnyth, there [so A.] vttyr thi langage.
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¶ Be payed [pleased A.] with litell, content with suffisance;
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Clyme not to hygh, thus byddyth [saith A.] socrates,
Glad pouert is of tresours [of tresoure is A.] most substance;
And Caton seyth, is [there is A.] none so gret encrese
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Of worldly tresowre, as for to lyve in pease,
Which among vertues hath þe vasselage;
I takë record of [to recorde . the philosofre Diogenes A.] diogenes,
which to Alysaunder had thys langage:—
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¶ Hys palace was a lytyl poore tonne,
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Which on a whelë he gan with hym cary, [with hym he dide A.]
Bad thys emperowre 'ryde out of hys sonne,'
which [MS. wihch] demyd hymself richar than kyng dary;
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