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.
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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.
Author
Albott, Robert, fl. 1600.
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Imprinted at London :: For N. L[ing,] C. B[urby] and T. H[ayes],
1600.
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English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16884.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Ʋice.
Vice rides a horseback, Ʋertue doth from out the saddl•• boult.W. Warner.
What licour first the earthen pot doth take,It keepeth still the sauour of the same,Full hard it is a camocke straight to make,Or crooked logges with wainscot fine to frame,Tis hard to make the cruell Tyger tame:And so it fares with those haue vices caught,Nought (once they say) and euer after nought.M. of M.
Although ••hat vertue oft wants due reward,Yet seldome vice wants due deserued blame,S. I. H.
Where vice is countenanc'd with Nobilitie,Art cleane excluded, ignorance held in,Blinding the world with meere hypocrisie,
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Yet must bee sooth'd in all their slauish sinne,Great malcontents to grow they then beginne,Nursing vild wittes to make their factious tooles,Thus mightie men oft prooue the mightiest fooles.M. Drayton.
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