marking to what end and purpoʃe that was written that he hath red, to profit thereby at any time. I knowe there will be wiʃe men that will beleue they can ʃaye 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 vnderʃtanding, beʃides, 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 vnderʃtanding it giueth life. But to him that hath iudgement and vnderʃtanding, and that gouerneth not himʃelfe and his actions according to the preʃcribed rule of reaʃon: His knowledge I ʃay dyeth within him without fruit. As by reading this example folowing you may eaʃilye perceiue.
A compariʃon of the ʃlouthfull man for the Reader.
An honest man lying in his bedde hearde a Theefe going up and downe in his house: and thinking to paye him home (to take the more aduantage of him) suffered him to take his pleasure antu lodsing, that hauing in deede his packe at his backe, he might euen then as he
