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20 bought the price of hys folly, abyding the britter smart of pouertie and miserie.

The dicrete Reader that hall looke in this Booke mut giue attentiue eare, and note eche thing perticulerly he readeth, diligently marking the ecret leions. For alwayes the worke of thee age Fathers carieth two enes withall. The firt, knowne and manifet. The econd, hidden and ecret. Of the firt we wetely enioy the tate: but of the econd we receyue mall knowledge, if we deeply ponder not the wordes. And hereof we may take enample of the Nut, which giueth no maner of tate to man if he doe not firt breake and open the hell, and then comen to the wyhed kernell, he beginneth to tate the auor thereof, and to reape the fruit of o excellent a doctrine. Let us not doe therefore as the vndicrete and imple man that had a deire to eeme learned, and to ee counted aloquent in peach as you hall heare.

On a time one earnestly besought a Poet and an excellent Rhetorician (his very friende) to giue