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<p> <term id="embstma_1667_10401"/>THE Goddes agreed, two men their wishe should haue:<lb/> And did decree, who firste demaunde did make,<lb/> Shoulde haue his wishe: and he that last did craue,<lb/> The others gifte shoulde double to him take.<lb/> The Couetous wretche, and the Enuious man:<lb/> Theise weare the two, that of this case did scanne.<lb/> They longe did striue, who shoulde the firste demaunde:<lb/> The Couetous man refus'de, bicause his mate,<lb/> Shoulde haue his gifte then doubled out of hande:<lb/> The thought whereof, vppon his harte did grate.<lb/> Wherefore the Goddes, did plague him for his sinne,<lb/> And did commaunde, th'Enuious man beginne.<lb/> Who did not craue, what <persName>MIDAS</persName> cheife did choose,<lb/> Because his frende, the fruite thereof should finde:<lb/> But onelie wish'de, that he one eie might loose,<lb/> Vnto the ende, to haue the other blinde:<lb/> Which being say'd, he did hid wishe obtaine:<lb/> So but one eye, was lefte vnto them twaine.<lb/> See heare how vile, theise caytiffes doe appeare,<lb/> To <rs>GOD</rs>, and man: but chieflie (as wee see)<lb/> The Couetous man, who hurreth farre, and neare,<lb/> Where spytefull men, theire owne tormentors bee.<lb/> But bothe be bad, and he that is the beste,<lb/> <rs>GOD</rs> keepe him thence, where honest men doe reste.<lb/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_10401" lang="la"><name type="author">Auth.</name> de Gueuara<lb/> in Epistolis suis.</gloss> </p> |
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An avaricious and an envious man are granted a wish by the gods on the condition that the first who makes a wish will get what he wants while the second will receive the same thing twice; the envious man is forced to go first and wishes to lose one eye ... |
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De Invido & Avaro, iocosum |
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Of the envious and the avaricious, in a humorous tale |
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De Invido et Avaro, iocosum |