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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.

[Lawes be the rules of iustice and equitie]

Lawes be the rules of iustice and equitie
VVhereby we vnderstand, our charge and duetie.
to liue with due order in peace and amitie:
as god and nature our heartes hath bound,

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and that praise also may worthyly redound
to such as make lawes thorough wisedome and vertue
auctorising ministers both faythfull and true.