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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.
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The summe of all.

[in geuing these things must be considered]

in geuing these things must be considered,
what thing, to whom, where & wherefore it should be,
first the good and needie ought to be remembred.
and thei or els god againe shall requite thee,
but se thou be mindfull of thine habilitie.
then, if to giue thou shalt be disposed,
giue not to receiue, lest thou be deceiued.