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bought the price of hys folly, abyding the britter smart of pouertie and miserie.
The diſcrete Reader that ſhall looke in this Booke muſt giue attentiue eare, and note eche thing perticulerly he readeth, diligently marking the ſecret leſſions. For alwayes the worke of theſe ſage Fathers carieth two ſenſes withall. The firſt, knowne and manifeſt. The ſecond, hidden and ſecret. Of the firſt we ſwetely enioy the taſte: but of the ſecond we receyue ſmall knowledge, if we deeply ponder not the wordes. And hereof we may take enſample of the Nut, which giueth no maner of taſte to man if he doe not firſt breake and open the ſhell, and then comen to the wyſhed kernell, he beginneth to taſte the ſauor thereof, and to reape the fruit of ſo excellent a doctrine. Let us not doe therefore as the vndiſcrete and ſimple man that had a deſire to ſeeme learned, and to ſee counted aloquent in ſpeach as you ſhall heare.
Of the ſimple ignorant man deſirous to ſeeme learned.
On a time one earnestly besought a Poet and an excellent Rhetorician (his very friende) to giue