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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.

[the wyne freshly florisheth & yeldeth in his kinde]

the wyne freshly florisheth & yeldeth in his kinde,
three sundry grapes, and of contrary condicion:
of pleasure, of drunkennes, and of sorow, thus we find
by daily experience, through our grosse affeccion,
wine inordinately taken troubleth mans reason,
and the filthynes of drunkerds, if thou see & remember,
shall sufficiently admonishe thee to kepe thee sober.