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The aboundance of foure thinges are hurtfull.
The Philosophers whose sayings haue béene holden as Oracles, haue sette downe this for a principall, that howe perfect a woman be eyther in vertue, beauti••, or wealth, yet they are to men necessarie euils: so that Ty∣mon of Athens who was called Mysanthropos, seeing a
trée whereon diuers women had hanged th••mselues, wi∣shed that euery trée might yeelde such fruite. More sayth the wise man, hath died by gluttonie then by the sworde. E••cesse of meates is preiudiciall both to soule and bodie, inferring (saith Socrates) both sinne and pouertie. Too much gaming in olde time was so odious, that Chilon the Lacedaemonian béeing sent Embassadour to Corinth and finding the noble men playing at dice, hee returned with∣out vnfolding the cause of his comming: not so much as naming the league that hee shoulde haue intreated o•• be∣twixt them, saying: that he woulde not eclipse the glorie of the Spartanes with so great an ignominie, as to ioyne thē in societie with dice-players. Antisthenes was wont to say, that in many words, did eyther lye hid much fraud or follie: wishing his disciples to take heede to their talk, for that words had wings, which once let slyp, could ne∣uer be recalled.