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60 vs: to liue long it werieth vs: to haue little miliketh vs: and ufficient contenteth vs not. The thought of death on the one ide aaulteth our life: and on the other, the paions of the minde to forake our goodes, friends, wife, children, and the worlde, doe till pricke vs. O what troubles and afflictions, what terrors and paions, abideth this our confued bodie: which the mot part of our time is replete with anger, rancor, and malice, but often voyde (rather euer) of iutice, mercie, and pittie. And latly, what doth one man for another? He caueth that by force the good is troden downe with the euill. The foole taketh away the reputation of the wife: the lyer plucketh out of his eate him that alwayes telleth troth: the noble Gentleman well brought vp is ruled by the vndicrete and rude Cloyne. What more? vertue alacke dieth, but ignoraunce liueth. Wherefore our tate is in more daungers and troubles than his, that flying the fiercenee of fower Lions to aue himelfe, leapt into a Well with greater daunger. As writeth the great Philoopher Tiabonus.

A certayne luty yong man trauelling throughe a deert countrie, wandering to and fro amongt