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    A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure
    A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure
    A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure
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    A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure

    By Desiderius Erasmus

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure
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    Desiderius Erasmus

    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (28 October 1466 – 12 July 1536), known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Christian humanist who is widely considered to have been the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance. (Wikipedia)

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      A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure - Desiderius Erasmus

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      Title: A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure

      Author: Desiderius Erasmus

      Release Date: July 8, 2005 [EBook #16246]

      Language: English

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      A VE-

      ry pleasaunt &

      fruitful Dio-

      loge called the

      Epicure,

      made by that fa-

      mous clerke Eras

      mus of Rotero-

      dame, newly

      translated.

      1545.

      S. Paule to the Ephesians

      You that haue professed Christ,

      suffre not your selues to be deceyued

      vvith false doctrine, nor vaine

      and noughtie talkyng, but herken

      vnto all Godly thynges, and

      especially too the doctryne

      of the Gospell.

      THE HABOVN-

      daunt mercie and grace of our

      heauenly father Iesu Christ,

      maye alwaies strengthen

      and defende oure noble

      & vertuous Prynce Ed-

      ward too the mainte-

      naunce of the liue-

      ly woord of

      God.

      HERE as manye histories of olde & auncient antiquitie, and also al godly & Christiã writers most playnely consêt together, and agree in this, that dignitie, riches, kinred, worldly pompe, and renoume, doo neither make men better, ne yet happiar, contrarie too the blynde & fonde iudgement of the most part of menne: but by the power and strength of the mynde, that is, learnyng, wysedome, and vertue, all menne are hyghly enriched, ornated, & most purely beutified, for these bee thinges bothe notable, eternall, and verye familiar betwene the heauenly father & vs. It is therefore euidente (most excellent Prince) that the fittest ornamêtes for your graces tender age, bee, eruditiõ and vertue. Wherunto you are bothe so ernestly addicte and therin so wõderfully doo preuaile, that I nede not too exhorte & exstimulate your grace vnto the study thereof. For that God him self hath wrought, and fourmed your mynde so apt and desirous too attayne and diligêtly too seeke for al godly doctrine, that euê now you doo shewe in all youre saiynges and dooinges suche a wonderfull pleasaûtes much lyke vnto a certayne swete musike or harmonie, that any honest hart exceadinglye woulde reioyce in the sight therof. Verely, your grace thinketh plainly all time lost, that is not bestowed vpon learnyng, which is a verie rare thyng in anye childe, and rarest of all in a Prince. Thus youre noblenes, rather desireth vertue and learning the most surest and excellent treasures, which farre surmounte all worldly ryches, then anye vanities or trifles. Nowe youre grace prepareth for the holsome and pleasaunt foode of the mynde. Now you seke for that whiche you shal fynd most surest helper and faythfulst councellour in all your affaires. Now your magnificêt mynde studieth that, whiche all Englyshe menne with meke and humile heartes shuld desire GOD to endue your grace with all. Now with diligent labour you searche for a thyng, as one most myndeful of this saiyng: Happy is that realme that hath a lerned Prince. Nowe you trauaile for that, whiche conquereth, and kepeth doune all greuous tourmentes & outragious affections of the mynde, too the furderaunce of good liuyng, and maintenaûce of vertue, I meane holsome erudition and learnyng. Many Heathen Princes forsoth, are highly magnified with most ample prayses, which gaue them selues too the study of Philosophie, or knowledge of tongues, for their owne commoditie, and especially for the weale of their subiectes. Who is nowe more celebrated and worthelier extolled then Mithridates? that noble

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