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 orrow and teares. Let vs els uruew the life of Marriners and Seafaring men, which make a hole through o many dangers, & which as Bias aid, are neither in the number of the liuing nor yet of the dead, for man being borne to abide vpon the earth, dooth as it were a creature of a double kinde, thrut himelfe into the maine ea and wholy put his life into the hands of fortune. But the life of husbandmen will ome ay is pleaant, and o in deed it is: but haue they not a continuall ranckling gall, euer breeding new caue of greefe and diquiet, ometime by reaon of drought, ometime becaue of raine, otherwhile for cortching, oft through blating, which parcheth the vntimely eare oftentimes, becaue of importunate heate or nmeaurable colde, mierably weeping and complaining. But aboue all, that honourable tate of gouernement and principallitie (for I let pae many other things & wrap them vp in ilence) through how many dangers is it toed and turmoiled, for if at any time if haue any caue of ioye, it is like vnto a blowne bliter or a welling ore, oone vp, and ooner downe: oftentime uffering a foule repule, which eemeth a thouand times wore then death it elfe. For who at any time can be bleed, that hangeth vpon the wauering will of the witelee many? And albeit the Magitrate deerue fauour and praie, yet is he but a mocking tocke and coffe of the com-