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[ 1280] How a Man should demean himself, being fallen into bad Company.

IT is said of Antigonus,* 1.1 that being invited to a great Feast, where a notable Harlot was to be present, he asked Counsel of Menedemus, a dis••reet Man, What he should do, and how he should behave himself in such Company? Who bade him, onely to remember this, that he was 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the Son of a King:* 1.2 So good Men may be invited where none of the best may ••eet; Ma∣ny an honest Man may fall into a Knaves company; the best counsel is, Keep ever in mind, that they are Kings Sons, Gods Children; and therefore it were a base thing for them to be allured by the Wicked to do things unseemly, and that they should much degenerate, if they should make any sinfull compliance with such as are notoriously wicked.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Plutarchi moralia.
• * 1.2

  Ante circum∣spiciendum est cum quibus edàs et bibas, quam quid edas et bibas. Sen. ep. 11.