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From worldly cares himselfe he did esloyne, And greatly shunned manly exercise, From every worke he chalenged essoyne,° For contemplation sake: yet otherwise, His life he led in lawlesse riotise; By which he grew to grievous malady; For in his lustlesse limbs through evill guise A shaking fever raignd continually: Such one was Idlenesse, first of this company.