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The giftes of other folke declare that thei wish their frendes to be worldly fortunate| ; myne testifieth, that I desire to haue you godly prosperous 1.

Neither to thatchieuyng of temperance in prospertitie|, nor to the purchasing of pacience in aduersitie|, nor to the dispising of world/y vanitie|, nor to the desiring of heauenly felicitie 2.

Who is of you eyther so negligent that he knoweth not|, or so forgetfull that he remembreth not|, or so harde hearted that he pitieth not.

For like as death maketh a seuerance of the body & the soul, whan thei by course of nature must nedes depart a sonder|, so (said thei) dothe the study of philosophy, labor to seuer the soule fro y° loue & affeccions of the body while thei be together #.

And sureli no litle cause ther is to drede that the great haboundance and plentie of the tone|, is no litle cause and occasion of the greate dearthe and scarcitre of the tother 5.

But be thou of the one the herer|, of the other the disciple or scholer 6.

Prepare thy selfe so, that in vertue thou maiest be iudge of them, whiche therin be thine inferiours|, and a contendar with them that be thy superiours 7.