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Antisthenes. It is far better to chaunce among crowes then flatterers: For crowes eat the dead, the flatterers cōsume thē which are aliue.
HE which sitteth with iiij. armes, two to deliuer & two to receaue: The iiij. hands signifieth, without reward there is little gotten, that is to say, those ij. handes that doth deliuer the writings, doth declare prefermēt for smal gaine, the other as deceit, and they receiue priuily.
THere can be no greater mischief in a cōmō wealth then vnsatiable or dissem∣bling iustice. For where coueteousnes is in ye harte once planted: there true lawes are eftsoones euel-fauouredlye racked. The couetous dissembler, will not be openly seene to re∣ceaue anye rewarde: but with ypocriticall gloses, he will be sure, eyther by countenaunce, or by some fayned frendship to bring his deceauable purpose to passe, vnto such and of such there is no trauaile for him which meaneth truth, or for the poore, No peny, no Pater noster. The poore for lacke of substaunce oft loseth that, the which might do him good, ye rich speedeth, or him that hath ought yea and sometime the flatterer, also vnder coulour of such like frendship as may pleasure the like: and in the end their owne deceiuable couetousnes deceiueth them. In thend there followeth ruine of their riches for open oppressiō, and without amendment in time, hell is their portion.
* 1.1Despise not thou the iust poore man, and magnifie not the rich and vngodly, great is the iudge and mighty in honour, yet is there none grea¦ter then he that feareth God.* 1.2 O ye priestes, heare this, take hede O thou house of Israell. &c.
In time to beware I thinke it best, For that shall bring thy soule to rest.
Eccle. 10.
Oseas, 5.