The boke of wisdome otherwise called the flower of vertue. Folowing the auctorities of auncient doctours [and] philosophers, deuiding and speaking of vices [and] vertues, wyth many goodly examples wherby a man may be praysed or dyspraysed, wyth the maner to speake well and wyselie to al folkes, of what estate so euer they bee. Translated first out of Italion into French, [and] out of french into English, by Iohn Larke. 1565.
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- The boke of wisdome otherwise called the flower of vertue. Folowing the auctorities of auncient doctours [and] philosophers, deuiding and speaking of vices [and] vertues, wyth many goodly examples wherby a man may be praysed or dyspraysed, wyth the maner to speake well and wyselie to al folkes, of what estate so euer they bee. Translated first out of Italion into French, [and] out of french into English, by Iohn Larke. 1565.
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"The boke of wisdome otherwise called the flower of vertue. Folowing the auctorities of auncient doctours [and] philosophers, deuiding and speaking of vices [and] vertues, wyth many goodly examples wherby a man may be praysed or dyspraysed, wyth the maner to speake well and wyselie to al folkes, of what estate so euer they bee. Translated first out of Italion into French, [and] out of french into English, by Iohn Larke. 1565." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16439.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2025.
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OF Noblenesse and highnes of Courage, it is red in the Historyes of Rome, that there was a Phisicion that serued a Baron, the whiche Baron made great war againste the Romaines. This Phisicion came on a daye to the Senatours of Rome, and to the Counsalie, and said vnto them. If ye wil geue me a good summe of money, I wyl poyson my Mayster, which hath done you so much euyl. And they aunswered, we will not vanquyshe hym by treason, but by force and strength. And then they dyd shewe the case to the Baron, to thintent that he myght beware of the Phisycyon.