The second booke of the Garden of wysedome wherin are conteyned wytty, pleasaunt, and nette sayenges of renowmed personages collected by Rycharde Tauerner anno. M.D.XXXIX. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.

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The second booke of the Garden of wysedome wherin are conteyned wytty, pleasaunt, and nette sayenges of renowmed personages collected by Rycharde Tauerner anno. M.D.XXXIX. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.
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Taverner, Richard, 1505?-1575.
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[Prynted at London :: By [E. Whitchurch for] Richard Bankes,
[1542?]]
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Aphorisms and apothegms -- Early works to 1800.
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"The second booke of the Garden of wysedome wherin are conteyned wytty, pleasaunt, and nette sayenges of renowmed personages collected by Rycharde Tauerner anno. M.D.XXXIX. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13401.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.

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¶ Cyrus the yonger.

CYrus ye yonger, what tyme he shuld pitche hisfeld ayenst hys enemyes, hys freende Clearchus coūsailled him to kepehim selfe behynd the Macedonians, & not to cast himselfe in to the daunger of ye warres. What saiest thou clearchus

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{quod} the kyng? Dost thou connsaille me that where as I couette a kyngdom, I shulde shewe my self vnworthy for a kyngdome?

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