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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.

[Life whiche chaineth the body and soule in one]

Life whiche chaineth the body and soule in one
is fraile and vaine, more slipper then the slyme:
heapt full of cares, but quiet hath it none,
ordainde of God a prison for a time
to plague and purge the body & soule fro cryme:
which whoso spendeth vertuously & well
Shall after it, in ioyes and glory dwell.