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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[flattery from friendship is hardly disseuered]
flattery from friendship is hardly disseueredbeing mutually knit, with the affects of the minde.
busy bodyes and picktbanks, are not to be trusted,
as wisemen their subtletie will quickly out fynde.
nobles by flattery are often made blynde.
and as wormes in softe woode do breade moste gladlye,
so gentle and noble wits, are hurt by flattery.
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