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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=515871" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Of Hym That Togyder Wyll Serve Two Masters</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A fole he is and voyde of reason<br>Whiche with one hounde tendyth to take<br>Two harys in one instant and season;<br>Rightso is he that wolde undertake<br>Hym to two lordes a servaunt to make;<br>For whether that he be lefe or lothe,<br>The one he shall displease, or els bothe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A fole also he is withouten doute,<br>And in his porpose sothly blyndyd sore,<br>Which doth entende labour or go aboute<br>To serve god, and also his wretchyd store<br>Of worldly ryches: for as I sayde before,<br>He that togyder will two maysters serve<br>Shall one displease and nat his love deserve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he that with one hounde wol take also<br>Two harys togyther in one instant<br>For the moste parte doth the both two forgo,<br>And if he one have: harde it is and skant<br>And that blynd fole mad and ignorant<br>That draweth thre boltis atons in one bowe<br>At one marke shall shote too high or too lowe....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He that his mynde settyth god truly to serve<br>And his sayntes: this worlde settynge at nought<br>Shall for rewarde everlastynge joy deserve,<br>But in this worlde he that settyth his thought<br>All men to please, and in favour to be brought<br>Must lout and lurke, flater, laude, and lye:<br>And cloke in knavys counseyll, though it fals be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If any do hym wronge or injury<br>He must it suffer and pacyently endure<br>A double tunge with wordes like hony;<br>And of his offycis if he wyll be sure<br>He must be sober and colde of his langage,<br>More to a knave, than to one of hye lynage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oft must he stoupe his bonet in his honde,<br>His maysters back he must oft shrape and clawe,<br>His brest anoyntynge, his mynde to understonde,<br>But be it gode or bad therafter must he drawe.<br>Without he can Jest he is nat worth a strawe,<br>But in the mean tyme beware that he none checke;<br>For than layth malyce a mylstone in his necke.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He that in court wyll love and favour have<br>A fole must hym fayne, if he were none afore,<br>And be as felow to every boy and knave,<br>And to please his lorde he must styll laboure sore.<br>His many folde charge maketh hym coveyt more<br>That he had lever serve a man in myserye<br>Than serve his maker in tranquylyte.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But yet when he hath done his dylygence<br>His lorde to serve, as I before have sayde,<br>For one small faute or neglygent offence<br>Suche a displeasoure agaynst hym may be layde<br>That out is he cast bare and unpurvayde,<br>Whether he be gentyll, yeman grome or page;<br>Thus worldly servyse is no sure herytage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wherfore I may prove by these examples playne<br>That it is better more godly and plesant<br>To leve this mondayne casualte and payne<br>And to thy maker one god to be servaunt,<br>Which whyle thou lyvest shall nat let the want<br>That thou desyrest justly, for thy syrvyce,<br>And than after gyve the, the joyes of Paradyse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sebastian+Brant">Sebastian Brant</a><div class=q>
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Whiche with one hounde tendyth to take
Two harys in one instant and season;
Rightso is he that wolde undertake
Hym to two lordes a servaunt to make;
For whether that he be lefe or lothe,
The one he shall displease,..."></div>
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