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r of my paine._ The _Tuskan_ poet vseth this _Resemblance_, inuring as well by _Dissimilitude_ as _Similitude_, likening himselfe (by _Implication_) to the flie, and neither to the eagle nor to the owle: very well Englished by Sir Thomas Wiat after his fashion and by myselfe thus: _There be some fowles of sight so prowd and starke, As can behold the sunne, and neuer shrinke, Some so feeble, as they are faine to winke, Or neuer come abroad till it be darke: Others there be so simple, as they thinke, Because it shines, so sport them in the fire, And feele vnware, the wrong of the desire, Fluttring amidst the flame that doth them burne, Of this last ranke (alas) am I aright, For in my ladies lookes to stand or turne I haue no power, ne find place to retire, Where any darke may shade me from her sight But to her beames so bright whilst I aspire, I perish by the bane of my delight._ Againe in these likening a wise man to the true louer. _As true loue is constant with his enioy, And asketh no witnesse nor no record, And as faint loue is euermore most coy, To boast and brag his troth at euery word: Euen so the wise without enother meede: Contents him with the guilt of his good deede._ And in this resembling the learning of an euill man to the seedes sowen in barren ground. _As the good seedes sowen in fruitfull soyle, Bring foorth foyson when barren doeth them spoile: So doeth it fare when much good learning hits, Vpon shrewde willes and ill disposed wits._ And in these likening the wise man to an idiot. _A sage man said, many of those that come To Athens schoole for wisdome, ere they went They first seem'd wise, then louers of wisdome, Then Orators, then idiots, which is meant That in wisedome all such as profite most, Are least surlie, and little apt to boast._ Againe, for a louer, whose credit vpon some report had bene shaken, he prayeth better opinion by similitude. _After ill crop the soyle must eft be sowen, And fro shipwracke we sayle to seas againe, Then God forbid whose fault hath once bene knowen, Should for euer a spotted wight remaine._ And in this working by resemblance in a kinde of dissimilitude betweene a father and a master. _It fares not by fathers as by masters it doeth fare, For a foolish father may get a wise sonne, But of a foolish master it haps very rare Is bread a wise seruant where euer he wonne. An
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