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A treatyce of Moral philosophy containing the sayinges of the wise

Wherein you maye see the worthye and pithye sayinges of ye Philosophers, Emperors, kinges, and oratours, of their liues, their aunswers, of what lignage they came of, and of what cou[n]trey they were, whose worthy and notable preseptes, counsailes parables and semblables doth hereafter folow: First gathered and englished by Willia[m] Baldwin, after that, twise augmented by Thomas Paulfreyman ... & now once againe enlarged by the first aucthor
  
  

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The summe of all.

[In mans soule there is set, at his fyrst entraunce]

In mans soule there is set, at his fyrst entraunce:
into this shorte lyfe, of care and miserie,
certaine hid seedes, of pure and liuely substaunce
Rules of sciences, as Plato doth testifie.
whereby at all times, we may the more worthelye
as men among men, through science and learning
differ from beastes, in wyse mens companye
els as beastes among men regarded nothinge.