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ON goulden fleece, did
And landed safe, within the wished baie:
By which is ment, the fooles that riches haue,
Supported are, and borne throughe Lande, and Sea:
And those enrich'de by wife, or seruauntes goodds,
Are borne by them, like
An other of the like argument.
Is like a foole of natures finest moulde:
To whome, shee did her rarest giftes bequethe.
Or like a sheepe, within a fleece of goulde.
Or like a clothe, whome colours braue adorne,
When as the grounde, is patched, rente, and torne.
Thoughe nature bothe, and fortune, bee our frende;
Thoughe goulde wee weare, and purple on our backe,
Yet are wee poore, and none will vs comende
But onlie fooles; and flatterers, for their gaine:
For other men, will ride vs with disdaine.
Pulcrum ornatum tur-
pes mores peius coeno
collinunt.
Lepidi mores turpem
ornatum facile factis
comprobant.
Decor, qui cum
veste induitur, &
cum vetse depo-
nitur: vestimenti
est, non vestiti.