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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 honour and glory that worldlynges desire.]

the honour and glory that worldlynges desire.
surmounting others in riches and dignitie,
can not long florish, but that with small hire,
shall ende their daies in woful miserie.
but vertue susteineth no such calamitie,
therefore or euer thou desire honour,
call for grace to be thy gouernour.