Wisedome.
Our God himselfe for wisedome most is praysed,
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.
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- 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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"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 7, 2024.
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And men to God thereby are nighest raysed. Ed. Spencer.
Wisedome doth warne, whilst foe is in the gate. To stay the step, ere forced to retreate. Idem.
VVisedome must iudge twixt men apt to amend, And mindes incurable borne to offend. S. D.
—In daunger wisedome doth aduise, In humble termes to reconcile our foes. D. Lodge.
—Wisedome and the sight of heauenly things, Shines not so cleere as earthly vanities. G. Chapman.
Tis sayd a wise man all mishaps withstands, For though by starres wee borne to mischiefes are, Yet prudence bailes vs quite from carefull bands. M. of M.
Fore-sight doth still on all aduantage lie. Wise men must giue place to necessitie. M. Dr.
— A wiseman poore Is like a sacred Booke that's neuer read, T'himselfe hee liues, and to all else seemes dead: This age thinkes better of a gilded foole, Then of thred bare saint in wisedomes schoole. Th. Dekkar.
VVise men let faults ore-passe, they cannot mend. Ch. Middle.
VVho can themselues beware by others costs, May bee accounted well among the wise. S. I. H.
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—Whatsoeuer Starres seeme to importune, Wisedome predominates both fate and fortune. Ch. Fitz Griffon.