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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[fortune is a variable, and straunge maisters]
fortune is a variable, and straunge maisters,and vncertaine to trust to in all doinges,
for fortunes croked euils her nature doth expresse,
which daily are felt, with her hasty short turninges,
she quickenneth and destroieth her sharpe prefounde beinge,
and for this entent chiefly, misfortune should be suffred,
because that true friendes are best therby declared.
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