<p><term id="embstma_1667_06601"/><persName>PYTHAGORAS</persName>, vnto his schollers gaue,<lb/> This lesson firste, that silence they shoulde keepe:<lb/> And this, wee reade Philosophers moste graue,<lb/> Yea in theire hartes, this Princes printed deepe:<lb/> <persName>VLISSES</persName> wordes weare spare, but rightlie plac'd:<lb/> This, <persName>NESTOR</persName> lik'de. <persName>LYCVRGVS</persName> this embrac'de.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_06602"/>This, famons made <persName>EPAMINONDAS</persName> boulde:<lb/> By this, great praise did <persName>DEMARATVS</persName> gaine:<lb/> This, Athens made to reuerence <persName>ZENO</persName> olde:<lb/> <persName>SIMONIDES</persName> condemned speaches vaine,<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_06603"/>Whose sayinge was, my wordes repentance had,<lb/> But Silence yet, did neuer make mee sad.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_06604"/>And <persName>CATO</persName> sayeth: That man is next to <rs>GOD</rs>,<lb/> Whoe squares his speache, in reasons rightfull frame:<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_06605"/>For idle wordes, <rs>GOD</rs> threatneth with his rodde, <lb/> And sayeth, wee must giue reckoninge for the same:<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_06606"/><persName>Sainct PAVLE</persName> likewise, this faulte doth sharpelie tutche,<lb/> And oftentimes, condemneth bablinge mutche.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_06607"/>One calles the tounge, the gate of life, and deathe,<lb/> Which wiselie vs'd, extolleth men on earthe:<lb/> Which lewdlie vs'de, depriueth men of breathe,<lb/> <pb n="embstma_1667_fac061"/> <term id="embstma_1667_06608"/>And makes them mourne, whoe might haue liu'de in mirthe:<lb/> For euell wordes, pierce sharper then a sworde,<lb/> Which ofte wee rue, thoughe they weare spoke in boorde.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_06609"/>Not that distroyes, into the mowthe that goes,<lb/> But that distroyes, that forthe thereof doth comme:<lb/> For wordes doe wounde, the inwarde man with woes,<lb/> Then wiselie speake, or better to bee domme<lb/> The tounge, althowghe it bee a member small,<lb/> Of man it is the best, or worste of all.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_06610"/>The foole, is thought with silence to be wise,<lb/> But when he prates, him selfe he doth bewraye:<lb/> And wise men still, the babler doe dispise,<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_06611"/>Then keepe a watche when thou haste owght to saie,<lb/> What labour lesse, then for to houlde thy peace,<lb/> Which aged daies, with quiet doth increase.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_06612"/>Th'<rs>Aegyptians</rs> wise, and other nations farre,<lb/> Vnto this ende, <persName>HARPOCRATES</persName> deuis'de,<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_06613"/>Whose finger, still did seeme his mouthe to barre,<lb/> To bid them speake, no more then that suffis'de,<lb/> Which signe thoughe oulde, wee may not yet detest,<lb/> But marke it well, if wee will liue in reste.<lb/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_06601" lang="la">De laude silentij<lb/> <name type="author">Aul. Gel.</name> lib. 11.<lb/> cap. 10. Idem de va-<lb/> niloquio lib. 1.<lb/> cap. 15.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_06602" lang="la"><persName>Epaminondas</persName> cele-<lb/> bratur apud <name type="author">Pinda-<lb/> rum</name> qui, quanquam<lb/> multa sciret, pauca<lb/> tamen loquebatur.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_06603" lang="la">Locutum fuisse poeni-<lb/> tuit, tacuisse ver<lb/> nunquam.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_06604" lang="la"><name type="author">Cato</name> lib. 1.<lb/> Proximus ille deo, qui<lb/> scit ratione tacere,</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_06605" lang="la">Cor. 1. cap. 15.<lb/> Corrumpunt mores bo-<lb/> nos, colloquia praua</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_06606" lang="la">De vaniloquio.<lb/> <name type="author">Paul.</name> Timoth. 2. cap. 2.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_06607" lang="la"><name type="author">Guill. Lill.</name><lb/> Est vitae ac pariter ia-<lb/> nua lingua necis.</gloss> <pb n="embstma_1667_fac061"/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_06608" lang="la">Pet. 1. cap. 3.<lb/> Qui enim vult vi-<lb/> tam diligere, &amp; dies<lb/> videre bonos: coër-<lb/> ceat linguam à malo.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_06609" lang="la">Marc. 7.<lb/> Nihil est extra ho-<lb/> minem introiens in<lb/> eum, quod possit<lb/> eum coinquinare, sed<lb/> quae de homine pro-<lb/> cedunt, &amp;c.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_06610" lang="la"><name type="author">Hor.</name> 1. Serm. 4.<lb/> Fingere qui non visa<lb/> potest, commissa tacere<lb/> Qui nequit: hic niger<lb/> est, hunc Romane<lb/> caueto.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_06611" lang="la"><name type="author">Ouid.</name> 2. Amor. 2.<lb/> Quis minor est autem<lb/> quàm tacuisse labor?</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_06612" lang="la"><name type="author">Horat.</name> 1. Ep. 18.<lb/> Nec retinent patula com-<lb/> missa tacuisse labor?</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_06613" lang="la"><name type="author">Plutarch.</name> in Moral.</gloss> </p>

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