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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

[The greatest treasure without comparison]

The greatest treasure without comparison
for mans felicitte, here in this life
aboue golde and siluer: is witte and discrecion.
to temper the ioyfull, and comfort the pensife
or otherwise to enstruct man, in pease or strife
witte also is encreaced by often reading
and like the fruitles tree, is witte without learning.