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.
Publication
[Imprinted at London :: In Fletestrete in the hous of Tho. Berthelet,
Anno domini 1550]
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Subject terms
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 6, 2025.
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SO leat your light shine be∣fore
all men,* 1.1 that they maie
behold your good warkes,
and maie glorifye your father,
whiche is in heauen.
¶Who so euer liueth yl in the
sight of them,* 1.2 ouer whome he
hath rule, as muche as in hym
is, he sleeth the beholders.
¶The bysshops conuersacion
and householde,* 1.3 is set as it wer
maisters of the commune disci∣pline
on the toppe of a moun∣tayn.
For what soeuer he doth,
all other men thynke, they may
lefully doo it.
¶deuout conuersacion with∣out
cōmunicacion,* 1.4 as muche as
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by exaumple it profiteth, by si∣lence
it hurteth. For with bar∣kyng
of dogges and staues of
the shepardes, the rageyng wul∣••es
be let of theyr purpose.
¶More auaileth example then
wordes.* 1.5 And muche better bee
men taught by doing, than they
are by speakyng.
¶In the knowlage of things,* 1.6
this is it, whych is chiefly most
holsom and profitable, to mark
well the lessons of euerye exam∣ple,
whiche is put in famouse
remembraunce, whereof thou
maist take for the and thy coun∣treye,
that thou mayste ensue,
or that whiche hath an yll be∣gynnynge,
or a foule endynge,
thou mayste the better eschewe.