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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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[Pueritia virtutibus imbuenda]

Euripides
Pueritia virtutibus imbuenda,
Institutiones prime, in primis diuturne.

what thing a man in tender age hath most in vre,
The same to death alwaies to keepe he shal be sure,
therfore in age who greatly longeth good fruit to mow
in youth he must applye himselfe good seede to sowe.
Horas
as long as a tunne or a vessell may last,
of the first licour it kepeth the taste:
and youth being seasoned in vertuous labour,
will euer after therof kepe the sauour.