It is moſt true that lightly beleiuing theſe worldly thinges hath made many a man fall into ſundrie daungers, and hedlong to plunge himſelfe into the deepe miſeries of this worlde. Sometimes men detirmine to obey the lawe. At another time they contemme it and ſet it at naught, following ſenſuall appetite. Oft times they beleeue the counſell of their good friend, but very often they follow the counſell of the flatterer. To-day we are pleaſed with true doctrine: to-morrow we folow the falſe. In euery wit and arte there is abuſe, and who runneth not to this riuer? and the more they weene to gaine, the more they runne in daunger and loſſe of life and ſoule. Behold here is one man pricked in his conſcience, there is another oppreſſed with paſſion and ſorow, and there neuer wanteth ſome that follow the continuall ſeruitude of this deceitfull life, either for goodes, fauor, and eſtimation, or elſe of their owne free willes: and there is neuer none (or fewe at the leaſt) that in ſo ſhort time of life can forget this knowne and manifeſt daunger. For death aſlaulting us, we knowe not whither to retire, and then with all our might we flie the force of his moſt piercing dart: and thus weening to hide our ſelues in ſure place, we hedlong runne to our ſhame and vndoing. As is manifeſtly
