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.
[fylthy lustes and lechery are most disobedient euils]
fylthy lustes and lechery are most disobedient euilswhich with violence hurteth where thei fasten on idlenes,
the stinking lothsome lecher with their idle pretēsed wils.
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shame, euill ende & damnacion, foloweth their filthines,
flie from whordom loue dennies, & leaue to liue wantōly:
and seeke the praise of temperance sobernes & chastitie.
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