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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.

[all goodnes is geuen vs from god aboue]

all goodnes is geuen vs from god aboue,
th'auctour of vertue, grace, and good gouernaunce:
VVhose loue and liuely lyght, should euer moue

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mankinde his good lyfe, his glorie to aduaunce.
the goodnes of god as of longe continuance.
and those that be wise men and learned will say,
nothing is good that maybe taken away.