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Rh great trauell, expence of time, and money: and hauing his houe full tored anew to the toppe, he could find none that had o much readie money as to paye him for it all at one time and to carie it away. Then he aide to him elfe: If by little and little I hould pende it, when hall I euer make an ende? Life will not alwayes lat, neyther can I liue o long as I woulde: I knowe there can be no ende of our mieries: and thus dipiing all pompe and riches he forooke the deceytfull life with trouble, and withdrewe him to a better, taking vpon him another coure. A man ought to beleeue the true and diuine carecte, and not mans writing: not to trut the fale ayings of wicked men (which continuallye liue of the poyle of their neighbour beguiling them) but to his owne experience. For who o eaily beleeueth the words of light perons, falleth into a grieuous errour, to his owne loe and hurt, as ye hall heare reading that that followeth.

Two theeues very kilfull in picking and opening lockes with ginnes (but nothing aduied nor