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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.

[obedience is a vertue, that god derely loueth]

obedience is a vertue, that god derely loueth,
which mightely doth extole, the glory of his name.
and to the effect of gods loue, it directly looketh,

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as the philosopher full worthely, writeth the same.
gods holy loue and obedience, excludeth all shame,
obey the kinge, thy parents all lawes & authoritie
then doubtles shalt thou leade thy lyfe most quietly.