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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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 7, 2024.
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Folly Fooles.
Folly in youth is sinne, in age is madnes.S. Daniel.
A greater signe of Folly is not showne,Then trusting others force, distrust our owne:
S. I. Harr. Transl.
— Wicked men repine their sinnes to heare,And Folly flings, if counsell touch him neare.D. Lodge.
Faire fooles delight to be accounted wise.Ch. Marlowe.
Fooles will find fault without the cause discerning.And argue most of that they haue no learning.S. I. Harr. Transl.
— There is a method, time, and place,Which fooles obseruing do cōmence, ere wise mē haue their grace.W. Warner.
Tis better be a foole then be a foxe,For Folly is rewarded and respected,Where subtiltie is hated and reiected.D. Lodge▪
— The foolish commmons vseObey them most, who doth them most abuse.
S. I. Harrington. P.
A witlesse foole may euery man him gesse,That leaues the more, and takes him to the lesse.G. Gascoigne.
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