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.
[God that is most glorious, was thalmighty beginner]
God that is most glorious, was thalmighty beginnerof all things that in heauen or in earth hath their beinge.
which was without beginning, he is the onely helper.
and furtherer of good workes to come to good ending.
without counsaile and aduisement begin not any thinge.
but consider well the ende and waie it discreetly,
for happely it preserueth bothe soule and bodye.
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