The Seconde Part of Morall Philoʃophie, ſhewing the wonderfull abuſes of this wretched Worlde.
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MANY and diuers are the ſayinges of our wyſe and auncient Fathers ſpoken to exhort man to quietneſſe, and to make himſelfe wonderfull in behauiour, wyſe and ware in theſe wordly thinges, and pacient of life. That noble Romaine that fought and laboured to bring the people and communaltie to loue their Magiſtrates and ſuperiours, tolde them a pretie tale (to write it happilye in this Booke for him that knoweth it not) howe the handes were angrie with the bodie, and thus at variaunce would not for malice giue meate to the mouth: as thoſe that thought themſelves inferiour to no other member, and thought ſcorne to take ſuche paynes, and the other members not. By reaſon whereof vſing this