[Thus endeth the secrete of secretes of Arystotle]

t. ¶Of the merry of a kynge.

DEre sone I councell the that thou make grete prouysyō of corne and vytayles in suche wyse that thy countrees may ha∣ue haboundaunce / in eschew••nge (as it chaunceth often) to haue scarcyte•• and fa¦myn. In so moche that by the grete prudence thou mayst saue and maynteyne thy subgectes And thou ought to haue thy garuers stuffed / and to preclayme thrughout all thy realme and cytees / how thou hast gadred and stored the of greynes and other vytayles And that thou kepest thē to the prouysyon of thy real me / and to vtter them with plente to the saluacyon of thy subgectes. The which doynge wyll cause thy people to be coragyous to do thy cōmaundementes. And so thou shalt prospere / and euery man wyll mer∣uayle of thy grete lyberalyte / & of y^• prouydence afo∣re hande in thy besynesses. And they wyll repute the

as holy and lawde and magnyfye thy worthynesse. And euery man wyll feare to dysplease the.