lyke to the blinde man, that wanting his ʃight, taketh vpon him to go ouer Mountaynes, Hilles, and Dales, through moʃt daungerous and perillous wayes. He therefore that doth reade muʃt vnderʃtand what he readeth, and why he readeth it: and not to be ʃo defirous to come to the ende, that he marke not the beginning, and forget the ʃenʃe (full of knowledge) lincked with the middeʃt and end. For he that readeth ʃo, readeth without fruite, and rather troubleth the minde, and wearieth his body than otherwiʃe, not forcing the benefite and knowledge of the truth. Folow therefore theʃe graue precepts and ruled order, and let no vaine thoughts poʃʃeʃʃe your mindes to withdraw you from reading it. For to finde ʃo riche a treaʃure, and not to know how to take and laye it vp: is rightly to folow him, that finding a Maʃʃe of Golde and Siluer, had not the wyt to take it, and cary it away.
Of a Huʃbandeman, and of the treaʃure he founde.
A Husbandman of Perʃia going one daye to plough his lande, by chaunce stumbled of a marveylous treasure, fyndinge store of pottes of
