Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.

Pouertie.

O pouertie, chiefe of the heauenly broode. Ed. Fairfax.

—Such is the world, this cros-blis world of ours, That vertue hardly hides her self in poore & desart bowers, And such be best as seeme not best, content exceeds a crowne VV. Warner.

—Powerfull need (arts auncient dame, and keeper) The early watch clocke of the slothfull sleeper. I. Syluester.

—Lacke is thrall and slaue to euery thing. Th. Churchyard.

Need is mistresse of all exercise. Th. Bastard.

A schollers want exceeds a clownes content. Idem.

No danger but in hie estate, none erre in meane degree. W. Warner.

—Where imperious need doth tyrannize, The holy heate through worldly cares doth pawse Its soild with earthly thoughts and downward drawes. Hence come those dull conceits among the wise, Which coy eard readers censure to proceed From ignorance, whereas they grow by need. D. Lodge.

The citizens like ponned pikes, the lesser feeds the great, The rich for meat seek stomachs, and the pore for stomach meat. ƲƲ. ƲƲarner.

Be as thou art, not as thou wouldst, it will be as it is, Learne then to lack, and learn to liue, for crosses neuer misse. Idem.