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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[Gentlenes and affabilitie are, ii. worthy vertues]
Gentlenes and affabilitie are, ii. worthy vertuesthat most happely purchaseth friendship and fauour.
yea euen princes and rulers that these vertues do vse.
causeth subiectes to obey them, & giue thē due honour.
hate crueltie, be lowly, and of gentle behauour,
for as pryde slayeth loue, & engendreth al wickednes:
so loue liuely florisheth, by the meanes of gentlenes.
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