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 foure: For that ame notable man ved to teach none without wages, hauing alwaies in his mouth that aying of Epicharmus, One hand rubbeth another: giue omewhat, and omewhat take. And it is not long ithence, that he making a dicoure of Philoophye in the houe of Callias the onne of Hipponicus, uch and o many things he pake againt the tate of life: that I alo account life in the number of thoe thinges which be of lee waight. And euer ince that time O Axiochus, my oule gapeth after death, daily longing to die.

VVhat then was aid of Prodicus?

Marrie I will tell you as they come to my minde. For what parcell (quod he) of our life is not full of wretchednes? dooth not the babie euen taken frō the mothers wombe, powre our plenty of teares, beginning the firt tep of life with griefe? neither afterward hath it once any breathing or reting time from orrow, being either ditreed with pouertie, or pinched with colde, or cortched with heate, or payned with tripes: and whatoeuer it uffereth, vtter once it cannot, but onely with crying dooth