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Wouldst haue a friend, wouldst knowe what friend is best?
Haue God thy friend, who passeth all the rest.
[102.]
¶ Posies for the gests chamber.
1
The slouen and the careles man, the [roinish][E477] nothing [nice],
To lodge in chamber comely deckt, are seldome suffred twice.
2
With curteine som make [scaberd] clene, with couerlet their [shoo],
All dirt and mire some [wallow] bed, as spanniels vse to doo.
3
Though bootes and spurs be nere so foule, what [passeth] some thereon?
What place they foule, what thing they teare, by tumbling thervpon.
4
Foule [male] some cast on faire boord, be carpet nere so cléene,
what maners careles maister hath, by knaue his man is séene.
5
Some make the chimnie chamber pot to smell like filthie sink,
Yet who so bold, so soone to say, [fough], how these houses stink?
6
They therefore such as make no force what comly thing they [spil],
Must haue a cabben like themselues, although against their wil.