Of Talke And Felloweshippe Poem by Nicholas Bacon

As tree by frute and goulde by fyer,
Soe shewed by talke is hartes desyer:
Thye nature aye is knowen alsoe
By choyse of mates resorters to:
For as thye talke and fellowes be,
Soe thee inclined all menne maye se:
Yea filthye talke and fellowes lewde
Make the wise fooles and the good shrewde:
And fellowes good and honeste speche
To make naughte good is the beste Leeche.
Amonge the thornes and thistelles thycke
Harde to goe soe, but some will pricke:
Therfore if thowe loueste honestee,
By vse of theis, lett menn it see.