To light a candell, etc. 
But where the mighty may 
of force the weake constraine, 
It shal be wysely doone to bow 
to voyd a farther payne, 
Like as in tempest great, 
where wind doth beare the stroke, 
Much safer stands the bowing reede 
then doth the stubborne oke. 
And chiefly when of all 
thy selfe art one of those 
That fortune needes, will haue to dwell 
fast by the Deuils nose: 
Then (though against thine hart) 
thy tongue thou must so charme 
That tongue may say, where ere thou come, 
the Deuill doth no man harme. 
For where as no reuenge 
may stand a man in steede, 
As good is then an humble speech, 
as otherwise to bleede. 
Like as ye see by him 
that hath a shrew to wife, 
As good it is to speak her faire 
as still to liue in strife. 
Put thou no Deuill in boote 
as once did master Shorne: 
Take heede as from madde bayted bull 
to keepe thee fro his horne. 
And where ye see the Deuill 
so bold to wrest with lawe, 
Make congé oft, and crouch aloofe, 
but come not in his clawe. 
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