The Royal Exchange Contayning sundry aphorismes of phylosophie, and golden principles of morrall and naturall quadruplicities. Vnder pleasant and effectuall sentences, dyscouering such strange definitions, deuisions, and distinctions of vertue and vice, as may please the grauest cittizens, or youngest courtiers. Fyrst written in Italian, and dedicated to the Signorie of Venice, nowe translated into English, and offered to the cittie of London. Rob. Greene, in Artibus Magister.

Consigliare. A Counsellor.

Foure things are necessarie for him y^t gi∣ueth coūsaile.

• 1. To heare the reasons of both parties.
• 2. To consider of that which he heareth with discretion.
• 3. To demaund equal hier for his pains.
• 4. To giue counsaile conformable to the Lawe.

To be partiall saith Seneca in giuing of counsayle, dif∣fereth nothing in preportion from trecherie, for the one deceiueth vnder the pr••ten••e of ayde, and the other vnder the colour of fre••ndship.

Four counsailes are profitable to man.

• 1. To stand•• far from strife & brawles.
• 2. To preuēt perils before they be past.
• 3. To leaue pleasures that are moste desired.
• 4. And to make no choyse of delicate vi∣ands.

Est virtus placidis abstinuisse bonis: tis a great vertue saith the Poet, to abstaine from things that are pleasant, and therefore séeme good: for vertue euer goeth bare fa∣ced, but vice to allure with the more pollicie, hideth her impoysoned hookes with a s••ge••ed bayte.