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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 second booke conteining the lyues of sundrye princes, poets, oratours, & doctours, aswel hethen as christien
  
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The second booke conteining the lyues of sundrye princes, poets, oratours, & doctours, aswel hethen as christien

added by maister Paulfreman, with his epistle dedicatory, and prologue to the reader.

If wisedome enter into thy harte, and thy soule delyght in knowledge: then shall Counsaile preserue the, and vnderstandinge shall keepe thee. Prouer. ii.

The summe of the seconde booke.

In this last booke of lines, I briefly haue declared
the right order of theire liues, and godly conuersation
whose ensamples of vertue ought ioyfully be embraced,
and to be followed of all men without exception.
theire counsailes are comfortable in euery condicion,
and next the diuine scriptures nothing is more true,
than theire godly good doctrine to trade men in vertue.