Introduction to wisedome Banket of sapience. Preceptes of Agapetus.

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Title
Introduction to wisedome Banket of sapience. Preceptes of Agapetus.
Author
Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540.
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[Imprinted at London :: In Fletestrete in the hous of Tho. Berthelet,
Anno domini 1550]
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Wisdom -- Early works to 1800.
Quotations -- Early works to 1800.
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"Introduction to wisedome Banket of sapience. Preceptes of Agapetus." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14531.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.

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Communicacion.

VUhan thou arte amonge fooles, kepe thy wordes in store.

¶Amonge wise men be redy to commune.

¶In the presence of great men presume not to speake, & where as be thyne elders, talke not to muche.

¶Honor and praise bee in the woordes of a wyse man: The tunge of a foole is his propre

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subuercion.

¶Dispute not with a persone disdainfull, leaste he syttynge styll, doo lye in awaite for thy wordes.

¶It is a thynge foule and re∣bukefull, in a sadde matter, to brynge in wordes wanton, or mete for a banket.

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