[Thus endeth the secrete of secretes of Arystotle]
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[Thus endeth the secrete of secretes of Arystotle]
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[[London] :: Imprynted by Robert Copland at Londo[n] in the flete-strete at the sygne of the Rose garla[n]de,
The yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC.xxviij. the. vij. day of August the. xx yere of the reygne if our moost dradde souerayne and naturall kynge Henry the. viij. defender of the fayth. [1528]]
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Education of princes -- Early works to 1800.
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"[Thus endeth the secrete of secretes of Arystotle]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A21368.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2024.
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F. ¶Of a kynges messagers.
MYghty emperour ye messagers alway she∣weth
the wysoome of hym y• sendeth thē.
They ben ye eyes ye eeres / & the mouthe of
theyr lord It behoueth for thy messagers
or ābassadours to chuse suche as bē moost
suffycyēt / of clere vnderstādyng / wyse / honourable / &
trusty / which loueth thy honour / & hateth thy dysho¦nour.
(For in thy court yu mayst finde thē bothe). And
yf yu fynde suche discouer & shewe thy courage to thē.
And yf yu fynde none suche or better / fynde one y• wyll
trustely bere thy lettres / & brynge the an answere of
them. And yf yu fynde y• thy messager be coueytous to
do his owne prouffyte & to gete gyftes / truste not in
hym / but ētyerly forsake hym. And also make no mā
thy messager y• wyll be drōke / for by suche one it shall
be sayd & knowē y• ye lorde is not wyse. And ferthermo¦re
make not thy messager of thy gretest offycer / & lete
hym not be ferre from the / for it may well be the vn∣doyng
of the & y• realme. And yf yu sende messagers by
whome ony treason come to the / I tel the not y• mea¦sure
of payne y• they ought to suffre but do therin as
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thou semest best.
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