bought the price of hys folly, abyding the britter smart of pouertie and miserie.
The diʃcrete Reader that ʃhall looke in this Booke muʃt giue attentiue eare, and note eche thing perticulerly he readeth, diligently marking the ʃecret leʃʃions. For alwayes the worke of theʃe ʃage Fathers carieth two ʃenʃes withall. The firʃt, knowne and manifeʃt. The ʃecond, hidden and ʃecret. Of the firʃt we ʃwetely enioy the taʃte: but of the ʃecond we receyue ʃmall knowledge, if we deeply ponder not the wordes. And hereof we may take enʃample of the Nut, which giueth no maner of taʃte to man if he doe not firʃt breake and open the ʃhell, and then comen to the wyʃhed kernell, he beginneth to taʃte the ʃauor thereof, and to reape the fruit of ʃo excellent a doctrine. Let us not doe therefore as the vndiʃcrete and ʃimple man that had a deʃire to ʃeeme learned, and to ʃee counted aloquent in ʃpeach as you ʃhall heare.
Of the ʃimple ignorant man deʃirous to ʃeeme learned.
On a time one earnestly besought a Poet and an excellent Rhetorician (his very friende) to giue
