Grandsire graybeard. Or Machiauell displayed.
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- Title
- Grandsire graybeard. Or Machiauell displayed.
- Author
- Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
- Publication
- London :: Printed [by William Stansby] for Richard Higgenbotham, and are to bee sold in the bulwarke neere the Tower at the signe of the Vnicorne,
- 1635.
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- Subject terms
- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1900.
- Cite this Item
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"Grandsire graybeard. Or Machiauell displayed." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16803.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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TO THE READER A Transition.
NOw hauing tane a view of villany,
Whereby thou maist Wits wicked wiles discern
W••ose wisedome is vntruth and tyrannie,
More wh••lesome read heere (Reader) maist 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 learne:
Wits-Wisedome, let it crue thy contemplation,
But Wisedoms-Wit, thy life and conuersation.
The world (it) aimes at wealth pompe, & delight,
And him it doth account for wittie wise;
Who hath the craft, the cunning, and the sleight,
By my plot to mount and to arise:
Plaine-dealing loe, dies begger, that's the worst,
But Fraude foreuer dies with shame accurst.