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 THYNGES THAT causeth a quiet life, writen by Marciall.
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THE THYNGES THAT causeth a quiet life, writen by Marciall.
My friend, the things that do attainethe happy life, be these I finde:
the riches left, not got with paine,
the fruitfull grounde, the quiet minde,
the equall friende: no grudge, no strife
no charge of rule, nor gouernaunce,
without desease, the healthie lyfe
the householde of continuance,
the meane diet, no deinte fare
wisedome ioyned with simplenes
the night discharged of all care,
where wine the witte, may not oppresse,
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such sleepe as may beguile the night
content thy selfe with thine estate,
neither wishe death nor feare his might.
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