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Title: The Example of Vertu
The Example of Virtue

Author: Stephen Hawes

Release Date: August 26, 2007 [EBook #22415]

Language: English

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[P] Here begynneth the boke called the example of vertu.

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Tabula libri

[P] Fyrste a prologue.

[P] How youth mette with discrecyon in a medowe in his dreme & was
reformed by her prouerbes ca.i.

[P] How youth with discrecyon sayled ouer the daungerous passage
of vayne glorye and arryued in a fayre Ilonde longynge to foure
ladyes named Hardynes / Sapyence / fortune / & nature. ca.ii

[P] Of the meruaylous palays of fortune ca.iii.

[P] Of the triumphaunt estate of hardynes. ca.iiii.

[P] Of the gloryfyed towre of sapyence. ca.v.

[P] Of the stronge operacyons of nature ca.vi

[P] How these foure ladyes pleeded at the barre before Iustyce
whiche of theym was moost proufytable vnto mankynde & of the
Iugement of Iustyce. ca.vii.

[P] How after the Iugement of Iustyce / Sapyence c[om]maunded
Discrec[