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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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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The summe of all.

[A king which in earth is euen the same]

A king which in earth is euen the same
that god is in heauen (of kinges king eternal)
should first feare god, and busily him frame
himselfe to rule, and then his realme gouerne,
by lawe, by loue, by iustice and by right,
cherishing the good, and punishing the stubberne
the lengthening of this reigne & doubling of his might.