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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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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The summe of all.

[there is to mankinde no greater enemy]

there is to mankinde no greater enemy
and that more hindereth his estimacion
then the lothsome burden of bestly foly,
which plainly appeareth in eche condicion.
fooles are ouerthrowne with light affection.
and as corne vppon stones is all sowne in vaine,
euen so are good counsailes to a foolishe braine.