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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Of flatterie.
Diogenes.of slaunderers and flatterers take heede if ye will,
for neither time nor wilde beaste an byte vs so ill
for of wilde beastes, slaunderer is the worst biter,
and of the time most biteth a flatterer.
Theophra.
for a man muche better it is amonge rauenes
to fall, and be taken, then among flatterers
for rauens but of fleshe deade bodies do depriue.
but flatterers deuoure men while they be aliue.
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