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.
[friendship which is thagreement of mindes]
friendship which is thagreement of mindesIn truth and loue, is the chiefest vertue:
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wherefore in the world, to lyue who so mindes,
ought friendship to get, and got to ensue:
by loue (not by luore, that true friendship blindes.)
knit with an hart, where rancoure neuer grewe,
which knot, estates, equally so byndes,
that to dissolue, in vayne may fortune sue,
though malice helpe, whiche .ii. all glorye griendes.
so strong is friendship, as no stormy windes,
haue might to moue, nor feare force to subdue,
where all these pointes be setled in their kindes.
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