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  • Title: The Passionate Pilgrim (Octavo, 1599)
  • Editor: Hardy M. Cook
  • ISBN: 978-1-55058-411-0

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    Author: William Shakespeare
    Editor: Hardy M. Cook
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    The Passionate Pilgrim (Octavo, 1599)


    Whilst as fickle Fortune smilde,
    Thou and I, were both beguild.
    385Euery one that flatters thee,
    Is no friend in miserie:
    Words are easie, like the wind,
    Faithfull friends are hard to find:
    Euery man will be thy friend,
    390Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend:
    But if store of Crownes be scant,
    No man will supply thy want
    If that one be prodigall,
    Bountifull they will him call:
    395And with such-like flattering,
    Pitty but he were a King.