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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.

[The soule with lying is often infected]

The soule with lying is often infected
as with a pestilent and hurtfull maladie.
the soule in that state is knowen to be wicked
wherof shame or reason is the onely remedy.
flye therfore and forsake all liers company.
and as great tellers of newes are seldome credited
so liers and bosters are alwaies dispysed.