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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.

[Man that consisteth of body and of soule]

Man that consisteth of body and of soule
Is gods good creature, specially made
to know his maker, also to controll
Such lustes in fleshe, as elements perswade.
a beaste, if that his life be beastly trade,
an earthly God, if void, of hope and hate
he liue content, and know his owne estate.