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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[He that gladly seeketh the company of a wife]
He that gladly seeketh the company of a wifeought onely to winne her by vertuous disposicion
to embrace her for her vertue, and to leade a quiet life,
refusing her riches with her whorishe condicion.
weomen be commonly of most tender affeccion,
and better it is with a serpent to be in company
then with a wicked woman to liue vnquietly.
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