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Through vertue have be set in greet honour,
And ever have lived in greet prosperitee
Through cherisshing of vertuous labour.
Thinketh also, how many a governour
Called to estat, hath oft be set ful lowe
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Through misusing of right, and for errour,
Therfore I counsaile you, vertue to knowe.
Thus 'by your eldres may ye nothing clayme,'