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Rh lyke to the blinde man, that wanting his ight, taketh vpon him to go ouer Mountaynes, Hilles, and Dales, through mot daungerous and perillous wayes. He therefore that doth reade mut vndertand what he readeth, and why he readeth it: and not to be o defirous to come to the ende, that he marke not the beginning, and forget the ene (full of knowledge) lincked with the middet and end. For he that readeth o, readeth without fruite, and rather troubleth the minde, and wearieth his body than otherwie, not forcing the benefite and knowledge of the truth. Folow therefore thee graue precepts and ruled order, and let no vaine thoughts poee your mindes to withdraw you from reading it. For to finde o riche a treaure, and not to know how to take and laye it vp: is rightly to folow him, that finding a Mae of Golde and Siluer, had not the wyt to take it, and cary it away.

A Husbandman of Peria going one daye to plough his lande, by chaunce stumbled of a marveylous treasure, fyndinge store of pottes of