I. _The Courtier._

Long haue I liu'd in Court, yet learn'd not all this while,

To sel poore sutors, smoke: nor where I hate, to smile:

Superiors to adore, Inferiors to despise,

To flye from such as fall, to follow such as rise;

To cloake a poore desire vnder a rich array,

Not to aspire by vice, though twere the quicker way.

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