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marking to what end and purpoſe that was written that he hath red, to profit thereby at any time. I knowe there will be wiſe men that will beleue they can ſaye and doe more wonders than this commeth to: yet for all that, the more we reade, the more we knowe, and the quicker is our vnderſtanding, beſides, there is obteined euen profounde knowledge. Learning bringeth with it a great priuiledge; forby that men are exalted, and to a man of knowledge and vnderſtanding it giueth life. But to him that hath iudgement and vnderſtanding, and that gouerneth not himſelfe and his actions according to the preſcribed rule of reaſon: His knowledge I ſay dyeth within him without fruit. As by reading this example folowing you may eaſilye perceiue.