Bel-vedére, or, The Garden of the muses

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Bel-vedére, or, The Garden of the muses
Publication
Imprinted at London :: By F.K. for Hugh Astley ...,
1600.
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English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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"Bel-vedére, or, The Garden of the muses." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16269.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2024.

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THe Emperour Sigismond strooke a flatterer, And said: He bit worse than a Scorpion. Augustus so detested flatterie, He could not bide his seruants kneele to him. Tyberius seruants might not call him Lord, Because he said, therein they flatter'd him. Clisiphus was call'd Philips counterfeit, Because like him he fashion'd all he did.

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Phocion said to king Antipater, He could not be his friend and flatterer. Wise men (saith Bias) make not all their friends, But haue a speciall eye to flatterers.
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