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That the pleasynge of communes is diffi∣ficile and also dangerous, and what peryll is in hastye and vnadui∣sed speche. Cap. vi. (Book 6)
IN lyke wyse as there is nothynge more propise and conueniente for a man, than the vertuous bryngynge vp of his children, so it is expe∣diente, that he sette them in a holsome and vncorrupted countreye, farre from the fantasyes and vayne glosynges of people. For he that endeuourethe hym to please the multitude, must nedes discon∣tent the wyse men, as wytnesseth Euripides the wryter of tragedies,
Thus am I called fole and ignoraunt Amonge rude people, my verses to auaunt But to meane men, egall to my degre I 〈◊〉〈◊〉 thought wyse, eche as they fauour me. For of whom wyse men set lytell price Contenteth the people Best with their deuyse.
Verily I perceyue that they, whiche put they•• holle prac••ise, to obteyne the grace and fauoure of the troublous cōmunes, be for the more parte prodigall, and desirous of inordinate pleasure / and by reason bit ••uste be so. For they that ne∣glecte honestie to content other mens appetites, can not always pref••rre good dilectations, or fo∣lowe