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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13401	The second booke of the Garden of wysedome wherin are conteyned wytty, pleasaunt, and nette sayenges of renowmed personages collected by Rycharde Tauerner anno. M.D.XXXIX. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.; Garden of wysdom. Book 2	Taverner, Richard, 1505?-1575.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. Apophthegmata.	1542 (1542)	STC 23713; ESTC S111350	25,134	97

wherwyth in the myddes of the dalyaunce they shulde kyll the Persians whych thynge was done in dede For of these yonge men the Persiās were slayne euery one and by this meanes was theyr knauerye greuously punyshed Chys Alexander is nombred amonge the auncestours of Alexander the great ¶ Of kynge Scilurus SCilurus kyng of the Scythiās hauyng foure score sonnes when he laye on hys deadebed called them all afore hym A 〈…〉 ended a bounche of roddes to be brought vnto hym whych forthwyth he delyuered fyrste to one and then to an other to breake When euery one of them refused it bycause it semed impossyble hymselfe toke in hys owne hande rod by rod and so easely brake them al monyshynge hys sonnes wyth these wordes Yf ye shall continue together in loue concorde so shall ye remayne stronge and inuincible but contrarie wyse yf ye dysseuer your selues by debate sedition so shall you be weake and easye to be vaynqueshed Gelo. GElo kynge of Sicile at a certayne banket when accordynge to y e guyse of the countrey the lute was caryed aboute and al the rest dyd synge at the lute in order for that was amonge 〈…〉 es counted a thyng of greate comendacion and honestye whē it came to the Kynges course to playe vpon the lute he commaunded hys horse to be brought into the bankettynge house and forthwith he easely and lyghtelye lepte vpon hym Signifyenge by thys hys doynge that chyualrye is muche more princely and mete for a kynge then to synge at the lute albeit in very dede lutynge is an honest pastyme and mete for gētylmen so that it be moderately vsed and be no impediment to thexercyses of chyualrye Thys kynge on a tyme exacted money of hys comons whom when he perceyued in a hurly turly for the same and ready to make an insurrection he thus sodaynly appeased he sente them worde that he wolde but borowe the money that he requyred of them for he wold restore it them agayne wythin a certayne tyme. Thā they wyllyngly gaue theyr money By thys gentle sufferaunce and pollecie he brought about that he wanted not money necessarie to hys warres and neuertheles he had hys comons hartes fast vnto him Whych thinge brought to passe y t he anone had the victorye ouer hys ennemyes where as peraduenture yf in that sodeyne tumulte and rore he had continued to exacted of hys obstinate comons vnexpedyētly the thynge y t had bene neuerthelesse leful he myght haue chaūced soner in y t rage furye of the people to haue bene destroyed of hys owne comōs then by hys comens to haue vaynquyshed hys ennemyes Suche a thinge it is otherwhyles to gyue place to a multytude by wyse dome to compasse that thinge which by dyrecte meanes coulde not elles be brought aboute Albeit in dede thys kynge when the warres were fynysshed consyderynge the grea 〈…〉 ueryshynge of hys subiectes 〈◊〉 by contynuall warres and gre 〈…〉 e exactiōs they had susteyned he repayed them theyr lone Paule wylleth vs to rendre vnto all men that is due to whome tribute tribute to whom custome custome to whome feare feare to whom honour honoure He byddeth vs be subiecte to oure prynce not onelye for feare of the prynces indignacion but euen for conscience And for thys cause he sayeth we paye trybutes Thys I wryte to thintent we shuld paye our dueties wyllyngly to our prynce and obey hym as gods ministre for so Paule calleth hym to the terrible damnacion of the moost cursed Anabaptystes whych at thys daye go aboute to plucke men frome theyr allegiaunce and due obedience vnto theyr prince ¶ Of Hieron HIeron which succeaded the for sayde Gelon in the kyngdome of Sicile sayd that noman that freelye spake hys mynde vnto hym was eyther importune or greuouse But suche as blabbed out mens secretes those he thoughte hurted them also vnto whome they blabbed them for asmuch as we hate not only thē that dysclose our coūsayles but also them that haue herde suche thynges as we wolde not haue knowen One vbrayded hym y t hys breath dyd stynke He conuneth home and chydeth hys wyfe bycause she neuer shewed hym that his mouth sauered Uerely ꝙ she I thought that al men had sauered in lyke wyse These wordes declared an exceadynge great chastitie of the woman whyche neuer in all her lyfe had approched so nere vnto any man that she 〈…〉 de feale the breath of hys mouthe saue only her husbande Thys kynge also bycause in the quene hys wyfes presence the poete Epicharmus spake certayne rybawdouse wordes set a fyne on the poetes head Yf hethen princes thus punyshe knauery and wanton wordes what ought christians do whych be expressely by Christes mouth threate ned to yelde accomptes for euery ydle worde that procedeth forth of theyr mouthes ¶ Demetrius the sonne of Antigonus KYnge demetrius was of such excedynge clemēcie that whē he had reconquered the Athe nians whych sediciously had shrunke from hym and perceyued they were welnere famyshed for default of corn he callyng them togyther in an open assemble graunted them frely a great quantitie of grayne And when in hys spekyng of these thynges to the people he chaunced to cōmit a barbarysme pronouncyng a certayneword otherwyse then it ought to haue ben pronounced and one of thassemble interrupted hym in hys speakynge and shewed hym howe to pronounce that worde ryghtly Truly ꝙ he for thys correction I graunte you other fyftye thousande busihelles I doubt in thys facte whether we maye meruayle at the greath benignitie of thys prynce towardes them which alytle tofore were hys ennemyes or rather at hys excedynge courtesye and ciuylitie whyche not onely toke in good parte that one of hys subiectes corrected hym in hys wordes but also estemed the same worthie of so great a rewarde When this kyng Demetrius had wonne the citie of Megara and hys men of warre had dispoyled made hauocke of all togither accordynge to theyr maner it was shewed hym that an excellent philosopher named Stiibon was amonges them The kynge whyche euer had lernynge in hyghe pryce and admiracion badde that y e philosopher shulde be brought forthe vnto hym He came the kynge him louingly receiued after he had awhile wyth gentle communication interteyned him he asked hym yf hys souldiours had taken anye of hys goodes from hym Nomā ꝙ the philosopher hath takē awey our goodes For I could espye nomā that dispoyled vs of our lernyng and knowlege Meanynge that only the goodes of the mynd which be the true goodes be not subiect to y e violēce of warres ¶ Demosthenes DEmosthenes y e moste famouse and excellent Dratour amonges the Atheniās of whō in my former boke I haue made mention on a certayne tyme whyle he was makynge an oration in the parlyament house amonges the commons of Athens of moste weyghtye thynges belongyng to the common welth perceyued that the people gaue no eare vnto him but rather murmured ayenst him to make him hold