The gouernement of all estates, wherein is contayned the perfect way to an honest life gathered out of many learned authors, a boke right profitable for all estates, but especiallie for the trayning [and] bringing vp of the yonger sort: written in Latin by that excellent learned man Andreus Hesse, translated into Englishe.
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The gouernement of all estates, wherein is contayned the perfect way to an honest life gathered out of many learned authors, a boke right profitable for all estates, but especiallie for the trayning [and] bringing vp of the yonger sort: written in Latin by that excellent learned man Andreus Hesse, translated into Englishe.
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Schottennius, Hermannus.
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Imprinted at London :: By Henry Denham, for Thomas Hacket, and are to be solde at his shop in Lumbart streate,
[1566]
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Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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"The gouernement of all estates, wherein is contayned the perfect way to an honest life gathered out of many learned authors, a boke right profitable for all estates, but especiallie for the trayning [and] bringing vp of the yonger sort: written in Latin by that excellent learned man Andreus Hesse, translated into Englishe." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03082.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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¶ What maner of Wyfe is to be sought.
WHat tyme as the vn∣quenchable thirst, and greadie desire of coue∣tousnes, was but of smal force, if a yong honest man coueted a wyfe, ther was no questioning of muche substance, no reaso∣ning of ryches, small demaun∣ding of lande, and scarce anie question propoūded of ye beau∣tifulnesse of hir persō, but how honest shee was & ciuill, which shuld marrie the foresaid yong man. But nowe a dayes, we demaund how rich is she, what
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heritage doeth she loke for, ac∣cording to the saying of Horace. We seeke euen to the very ap∣parell of hir backe, as for hir maners that is no matter, that is last. A proude Damasell, a wicked Mayd, if she be riches if she haue coyne, or if she be lan∣ded, makes vp our mouth.