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.
[as the soule, which by vertue, is chiefly garnished]
as the soule, which by vertue, is chiefly garnisheddoth shewe and set forth, goddes eternal glory:
so the soule that with vice is replenished
forgeateth god, and sinneth most wickedly,
embrace then vertue, for vice is most filthy,
and vertue at no time, in man can shine clere,
while vice and wickednes in him shall appere.
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