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.

Affetto. Affect.

In foure things princi∣pally men doe affect.

• 1. The gayne of money.
• 2. In clyming vnto dignitie.
• 3. In gouerning a familie.
• 4. In dooing euill.

These foure bréede a restlesse desire, and affectionate passion in the minde of man, being couetous to get coyne, ambicious to seeke after preferment, imperious in rule, and insatiate in dooing euill.

Foure affects are insatiable in man.

• 1. The will to profit.
• 2. The desire of knowledge.
• 3. The sight of the eye.
• 4. And to heare.

Tullie in his Orator, calleth Laelyus helluo Librorum, a deuourer of Bookes, as one neuer satiate with reading ouer many and sundry Authours. Plato spent the greatest

part of his life in trauell, onely for the desire of learning. And the Bragmaes and Gymnosophists, counted not those bearers amongst their liues wherein they learned not somewhat. Zeno the Stoick, b••eing foure-score and four∣teene yeeres olde, lying on his death-bedde, and hearing some in disputation, lifted himselfe vppe to heare, and bee∣ing demaunded why he did so, aunswered, that when I haue learned this principle I may die.