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.
[the vertue of iustice, both precious & incōparable]
the vertue of iustice, both precious & incōparableShould be fast fixed in the heartes of all gouernours.
without whiche vertue, nothing may be commendable
before god, the king, and the higher powers.
or otherwise relife to base inferiours,
for the wicked and vniust mā, that hath iustice to kepe.
to defraud the poore righteous, full closely doth crepe.
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