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58 yll digeted the Judge's entence, but much wore the paiment, greuing him to the heart to paye o deare for o hort a pleaure, where he might haue gotten much by the others worke, if like a foole he had not let him.

Let men that giue themelues to the pleaures of this vnhappie life be warned by the example of this merchaunt, to leaue aide the weete deceits of the bodie, and to attende onely to the precious tone of our oull, pullihing and keeping that cleane. Lorde howe many are there that leauing profit follow loe, and all for a fayned howe, or worldlye hadowe. The Greyhounde that hath pinched the Hare, and taken hir in hys mouth, cannot runne after another he eeth go before him and take hir alo: for o the one may cape from him quite, and the other eaily vanih out of his ight. O mierable worlde, naye rather mot mierable and wretched our mindes and willes: that plainly eeing our hurt and mierie, we till hedlong purue and follow the ame. What is he liuing o ignoraunt, that knoweth not our life paeth quicklyer awaye than the lightening that commeth before the thunder clap, and in the darke clowdes giueth moft hort light: and that our ight (the lightening pat) comming into the darke is blinded more?