Introduction to wisedome Banket of sapience. Preceptes of Agapetus.
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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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Nobilitee.
VUhat nobilitee rythesse
or puissaunce mai be sted
faste and sure, sens god
may make kinges baser ye than
those that be lowest?
¶The only lyberty before god
is, Not to dooe seruyce to syn.
¶The thiefe nobility before
god is, To excell in all vertue.
¶What auaileth noble linage
to hym, whiche is with vilaine
maners reproched? or what re∣proch
is a pore stocke vnto him,
whiche is with good maners
adourned?
¶He that bosteth alwaie of
his auncestours, declareth hym¦selfe
to be vnworthy of preyses.
¶The more honourable that
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the life of the auncestoure is af∣ter
estemed, the mo••e reproche∣ful
is the vice of the linage that them
succedeth.
¶Iphicrates a valiaunte cap∣tain,
but the sonne of a shoema∣ker,
beyng therwith imbrayded
of Hermodius a noble manne
borne, aunswered in this wyse:
My bloude taketh begynnynge
at me, and thy bloudde at the
nowe taketh hir farewell.