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DIONYSIUS CATO His Four BOOKS OF Moral Precepts Translated out of Latine Hexameter into English Meeter By J. M. EDINBVRGH Printed in the Year 1700. DIONYSIUS CATO HIS Moral Precepts THE PREFACE WHEN I observ'd how many Men In manners went awry And grosly erred in their course From Paths of Piety I thought my counsel to amend If happily I might Was not amiss And teach Men how To live in happy plight Now therefore my beloved Son I will inform thy mind To walk a course whereby thou may'st Both praise and profite find So then my precepts read as that They may be understood For why to read and not regard Is to neglect thy Good THE INTRODUCTION PRay to thy God with rev'rent fear And allways love thy Parents dear Respect thy kindred with good will Fear to offend your Teachers still Keep what is given to thee in Trust And to the Court prepare thou must With upright men walk where thou wald To council come thou not uncall'd Be neat and cleanly as thou can And bid Good Day to ev'ry Man To all Superiours give due place Slight no Inferiours with Disgrace Keep your Estate with serious care Be bashful ay where you repair Ply well your care in every thing Read Books for Learning's cherishing And what ye read strive to retain Your Family seek to maintain Be fair spoken at all essays And let not anger blind your eyes Mock none least you be mock'd again The poorest Wretch do not disdain Spare not to lend but look to whom And to the Judgment you must come Feast rarely And sleep in due time To break your Oath abhorre the crime By too much wine wrong not your health Fight for your Countries Common wealth Trust nothing rashly I advise you Flee from all Whores least they abuse you Ply Learning for your future bless Let good Men feel your Bounteousness Avoid ill speaking Do not raill An honest Name 's of great avail Judge righteous Judgment By deserts And patience win your Parents hearts Mind well a Benefite receiv'd Keep watch and waird when thou art crav'd Give your advice when it is sought Make use of Valour not for nought Asswage your anger and subdue it Let Tops be us'd and Dice eschew'd Though thou be strong no violence do And no Inferiour overthrow Covet not what 's none of thine Love thy Spouse and ' gainst foes combine Train up your Children vertuously Thine own Law thou must underly Speak spareingly at Banquet-Table Press what is just when thou art able And willingly endure Loves pain To love and to be lov'd again DIONYSIUS CATO HIS MORAL PRECEPTS Translated out of Latine Hexameter into English Meeter By J. M. BOOK I. 1 IF GOD Almighty be a Sp'rit As Writings testifie He must be worshiped aright In Sp'rit and Veritie 2. Be watchfull always And to sleep Let not thy Mind be bent For Ease continual unto Vice Affordeth nourishment 3. Of moral Virtues hold it chief Th' unbridled Tongue to tame Next unto GOD is He that can With reason rule the same 4. Repugnant to thy self in ought By varying scorn to be For he that from himself dissents With no Man will agree 5. If thou survey the Lives of Men And manners of the time While each reproves anothers faults What Man is free from Crime 6. Abandon things that hurtful are Though dear to thee they seem In time thy private profite more Than Wealth thou must esteem 7. Be constant and if cause require Unstable seem to be Wise Men their Manners sometimes change And yet from fault are free 8. Believe not rashly what thy wife Of Servants shall relate For oftimes whom the Husband loves The Wife is found to hate 9. If thou in kindness warne a man Self-will'd and loath to hear Yet leave not off thy course begun If he to thee be dear 10. With jangling fellows full of words Contend thou not in vain For speech is common unto all But Wisdom few attain 11. So love thy Friends as to thy self A loving Friend thou be So bound thy Bounty to the best As harm pursue not thee 12. Flee Tales and Rumors Least of News A Coiner thou be thought For silence seldom hurts a Man But speech much care hath wrought 13. On trust to others words make thou No promise least thou break For Faith and Truth is rare Because Most mean not as they speak 14. When other Men commend thee most Judge of thy merite so As thou believe not more their Words Then what thy self does know 15. Each pleasure done thee by a friend To many make thou known But what to others thou hast done Keep to thy self alone 16. When thou art old and shalt report The Acts of diverse Men Remember well thy youthful times And what thy self did then 17. Take no regard what Standers by In private whisp'ring chat A guilty Conscience still mistrusts Her self is aimed at 18. In time of wealth remember woe Mutations are not strange All humane things are ordered so To have their Interchange 19. Since frail and doubtful is our life Unknown our dying day To live in hope of others Death Great folly doth bewray 20. If from thy poor well-wishing Friend Some slender Gift be sent In thankful ways accept his love And praise his good intent 21. Since naked from the womb thou cam'st As Nature form'd thee there The burden of external wants With patience see thou bear 22. Dread not thy death in time to come Nor fear the fatal Knife Who dreads his end therein exiles The comforts of his Life 23. If Friends to whom thou hast been kind Thy kindness naught regard Accuse not Fate But blame thy self Be wiser afterward 24. The better to supply thy want Spare what thy hand hath got And that thou may'st thy penny save Suppose thou had'st it not 25. What in thy power rests to perform Twice promise not for shame Least while thou would be civil thought Thy lightness all Men blame 26. Who speaks right fair and loves thee not Like measure let him find So Art by Art is met withall And falshood in her kind 27 Approve not fawning Flatterers Whose words are full of Wiles Most sweetly sounds the Fowlers call Whiles he the Bird beguiles 28. If wedded thou have Children store And little wealth to give Then train them up in honest Arts That each may learn to live 29. Things that be cheap imagine dear Things dear as cheap esteem So neither niggard to thy self Nor greedy shalt thou seem 30. What fault thou finds with other Men Let not be found in thee Foul shame in him that vice reproves Himself not to be free 31. What is thy due thou may'st require Or what seems honest crave But folly were it to desire A thing thou should not have 32. Things known before things never try'd Prefere if thou be wise Sith those by Judgment are discern'd But these by meer surmise 33. Since Life in daily danger lyes and issues doubtful are Each