A very excellent and learned discourse touching the tranquilitie and contentation of the minde : conteining sundry notable instructions and firme consolations most necessarie for all sortes of afflicted persons in these latter dayes (1592)
L'Espine, Jean de, 1506?-1597 · Cambridge : Printed by John Legate · leaf 68
arne tofeeke the quiet of the mind in thehumiiitte of the heart, remembrtng what the mofl excellent devtnest haue written, how that nothing is fo highly exalted as true humilttie, \yctl viky Jp y- and that as the tree which we dejirefhouldincreafe&grow in height,* Z{/ m. tnuH take deepe rooting… … THE SeCO^JD $°°KE. ^Agahift ^Ambition. Ext vnto this avaricious and covetousdefire, followeth Ambition, which isanother vnquietnes of the mind .-andthis is nothing but a defirc we hauetomake a (hew and to be exalted aboueother men. This defirc is not in al alike, Ambitionbut is in greater meafure…
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