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THE FIRST PART OF MORALL PHILOSOPHIE.
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great trauell, expence of time, and money: and hauing his houſe full ſtored anew to the toppe, he could find none that had ſo much readie money as to paye him for it all at one time and to carie it away. Then he ſaide to him ſelfe: If by little and little I ſhould ſpende it, when ſhall I euer make an ende? Life will not alwayes laſt, neyther can I liue ſo long as I woulde: I knowe there can be no ende of our miſeries: and thus diſpiſing all pompe and riches he forſooke the deceytfull life with trouble, and withdrewe him to a better, taking vpon him another courſe. A man ought to beleeue the true and diuine carecte, and not mans writing: not to truſt the falſe ſayings of wicked men (which continuallye liue of the ſpoyle of their neighbour beguiling them) but to his owne experience. For who ſo eaſily beleeueth the words of light perſons, falleth into a grieuous errour, to his owne loſſe and hurt, as ye ſhall heare reading that that followeth.

Here you may ʃee how light beliefe bringeth damage.

Two theeues very ſkilfull in picking and opening lockes with ginnes (but nothing aduiſed nor