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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.

[although honoure, wealth, riches and dignitie]

although honoure, wealth, riches and dignitie,
be deintie pleasures, that nature doth embrace,
yet libertye as writers doth testifie,
is the best thing, that man can purchace.
the poore man libertie, doth plainely deface,
the riche in pryson or bondslaue to riches,
whose liues are wasted in most wretched distres.