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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

Poems of Sentiment: IV. Thought: Poetry: Books

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From “The Kaléder of Sheperdes,” 1528

HE that many bokes redys,

Cunnyinge shall he be.

Wysedome is soone caught;

In many leues it is sought:

But slouth, that no boke bought,

For reason taketh no thought;

His thryfte cometh behynde.