The garden of wysdom wherin ye maye gather moste pleasaunt flowres, that is to say, proper wytty and quycke sayenges of princes, philosophers, and dyuers other sortes of men. Drawen forth of good authours, as well Grekes as Latyns, by Richard Tauerner.

¶ zeno.

ZEno Cittieus to a certayn yong mā which was alwayes pratlyng, sayd, I trowe (good felowe) thy eares be fallen into thy tonge. Declaryng her∣by, that it shulde be a yong mans pro∣pertie to heare moche & speake lytell.

Demaunded what is a frende, he aunswered an other I. Signifyenge that an entier and hartie frende no les loueth his frend then hym selfe.

Kynge Antigonus to such as won dered why he made so moche of zeno, aunswered, bycause where as he hath receyued moch of me, yet he lyueth ne∣uer the softer a lyfe. When he harde that he was dead, he syghed, sayeng: What a loker and examiner of my life haue I now lost? Forzeno was a man of most sharpe tugement, & most farre from all flatterie.

Zeno was a man of moste sharpe iud∣gement, and most farre from all flatte rie.

Zeno had a bond man which imbe∣seled awey certaine thinges from him: he commaūded he shulde be whypped: When the bond man excused him self vnder this colour sayeng, It was his destiney that he shulde steale: whiche destyney it laye not in hym to with∣stande. It is also, {quod} zeno, thy destiney to be whypped. The seruaunt alled∣ged the necessitie of destyney to the ex∣cuse of his fault, zeno retourned that necessitie also to his punishment, that that was also his destyney.

A yonge man whose tongue neuer stinted babblyng, he toke vp with this propre sayenge: For this purpose we haue two eares & but one tonge, that we shuld heare very moch, and speake very lytle.