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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.

[VVisedome the most high and diuine estate]

VVisedome the most high and diuine estate,
the roote of all noble and laudable thinges:
the great guift of god, most sweete & delicate:
the tree of all pleasure, that in the heart springes,
whose deare and daintie fruit the tonge forth bringes.

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and thei that to wisedome, themselues woulde applye,
must diligently haunt wyse mens companye.