The morall philosophie of Doni drawne out of the auncient writers. A worke first compiled in the Indian tongue, and afterwardes reduced into diuers other languages: and now lastly englished out of Italian by Thomas North, brother to the right Honorable Sir Roger North Knight, Lorde North of Kyrtheling.

T. N. To the Reader.

OF wordes and of examples is a sundrie sort of speache, One selfe same thing to mindes of men in sundrie wise they teache. Wordes teache but those that vnderstande the language that they heare: But things, to men of sundrie speache, examples make appeare. So larger is the speache of beasts, though mens more certaine bee: But yet so larger as conceyte is able them to see. Such largenesse yet at length to bring to certaine vse and plaine, God gaue such grace to beasts, that they should Indian speach attaine. And then they learnde Italian tongue, and now at length they can, By helpe of NORTH, speake English well to euery English man. In English now they teache vs wit. In English now they saye, Ye men, come learne of beasts to liue, to rule and to obaye, To guide you wisely in the worlde, to know to shunne deceite, To flie the crooked pathes of guile, to keepe your doings streight. As ••arst therefore you vsed beasts, but for your bodies neede, Sometime to clothe, sometime to beare, sometime your selues to feede. Now vse them for behoofe of minde, and for your soules delite, And wish him well that taught them so to speake and so to write.