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Three morall Treatises

no lesse pleasaunt than necessary for all men to reade, whereof the one is called the Learned Prince, the other the Fruites of Foes, the thyrde the Porte of rest [by Thomas Blundeville]
Blundeville, Thomas

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The fruytes of Foes. Newly corrected and cleansed of manye faultes escaped in the former printing. Anno domini. M.D.LXI.
 
[Lyke as the mightie Oke whose rootes]
 
To the true louers of Wisedome Iohn Asteley, mayster of the Queenes Maiestyes Iewell house, and Iohn Harington Esquier Thomas Blundeuille, greeting.

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[Lyke as the mightie Oke whose rootes]

Lyke as the mightie Oke whose rootes,
In thearth are fixed fast:
Is hable to withstande eache winde,
That blowes most boystrous blast.
Euen so eache frowarde Fortunes happe
That euer maie betyde:
The constant minde with vertue fraught
is hable to abyde.
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