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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.

[Ignoraunce of the soule, is very madnes]

Ignoraunce of the soule, is very madnes,
which while it laboureth the truth to attaine,
Is confounded and wrapped in heauines,
through selfe knowledge, and feblenes of braine,

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yea, this is also most euident and playne,
that as ignoraunce is bredde by idlenes:
euen so is errour by ignoraunce doubtlesse.