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 Nature euer waiting as a greedy vurer, taketh paynes aforehand, natching and pulling from this man his ight, from that his hearing, from om both two enes. And if any fortune lōger then commonly is eene in this life to linger, Nature weakening hir powres, dooth looe, lame, and bow downe all partes of his body, but they whoe bodies in old age long flouriheth in minde, as the aying is, become twie children. And therfore the gods, knowing what is mot expedient for men, thoe whome they mot deerely loue, do oonet take out of this vale of wretchednes. And for this caue Agamedes and Trophonius, when they had built a Temple to Pythius Apollo, deiring of the god therefore to grant them the bet rewarde that might be giuen, oone after when they layde them downe to ret, neuer roe againe.

Likewie Cleobis & Biton, the onnes of the Argine Nunne, whē their mother had made hir praier to Iuno, that to her onnes for their great godlines might be giuen ome inguler gift (for that they when her yoake of Oxen were not readily to bee found at the time of acrifice, themelues being yoaked in the charriot, drew their mother to the Temple) vpon this their mothers requet, the two onnes the next morning were found dead. It were too long in this place to rehere the tetimonies of Poets which in their diuine poeies do diuinely bewaile and lament