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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.

[Iudges, to whome aucthoritie is geuen]

Iudges, to whome aucthoritie is geuen
from their liege lord, & most deare soueraigne
to rule rightly his lawes, they should be driuen
by wisedome and learning oh iefly to refrayne,
from couetise that hath truthe in disdaine.
for iudges that shoulde ease, and asswage many griefes,
are sometime thoccasion of greater mischiefes.