Social Commentaries
Piero to Turberuile
From Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets (1567)
Social Commentaries
GOod is the counsell (Turberuile) you giue,
It is a vertue rare well to aduise,
But if your selfe in Peacoks sort doe liue
Men déemen may you are not perfite wise:
Whose chiefest point in act consisteth aye,
Well doing farre excelleth well to saye.
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