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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.

[Pouertie with pleasure or paine doth appeare]

Pouertie with pleasure or paine doth appeare
In all estates by sundry condicion
pouertie with ioy is more blessed and deare
before god (then riches) without exception
wretched pouertie is of beastly affection
and those sort of men that are poore and vertuous,
are more woorthy honouor then the riche and vicious.