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24 which euer desireth that that is profitable, but follow alwayes in deede things that are hurtfull, A man of such life and gouernement we may compare to him that knoweth good meates light of digestion, and the grosse ill and heauie: get ouercome with desire taketh that that is most hurtfull, and so being hurt, him selfe alone is the cause of all his yll.

Even uch a man is he whome affection uldueth. He vndertandeth and is learned, and able to dicerne troth from falehoode, and yet will not put in proofe the true profit, nor once fellow and diire knowledge and wiedome. We might bring this man in the example of him that hauing his light good and perfite, hutting his eyes would needes le ledde by a blinde man, o that both they falling into a diche were drowned, and mierably died. Every man will condeme him for a foole, and wore than mad, that hauing his ight good and without blemihe, that might haue eene the daunger and caped it, and of mere foolihnee would not. Therefore euerie wie and dicrete peron mut continually labour to reade, and to vndertande that he readeth, and mut then teache it to as many as deire to knowe it, and to doe the good workes of the knowledge he teacheth, that