Affluit incautis insidiosus amor. (I

Desidiam puer ille sequi solet : odit agentes : (I, 149) 9. Da vacuae menti, quo teneatur, opus. (I, 150) 10. Sunt fora, sunt leges, sunt quos tuearis, amicei : (I, 151)

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enriche thy cofers, and carry credite in thy Countreyt. If lawe seeme loathsome vnto thee, searche the secretes of phisicke, whereby thou maist know the hidden natures of hearbes, whereby thou maiste gather profite to thy purse, and pleasure to thy minde ?.

If this seeme to straight a dyet for thy straininge disease, or to holy a profession, for so hollow a person, then employ thy selfe to martial feats 3, to iusts, to turrnayes, yea, to al torments rather then to loiter in loue, & spend thy life in y° laps of Ladyes 4 :

Goe into the countrey looke to thy grounds5, yoke thine Oxen, follow thy Plough6, graft thy trees7, beholde thy Cattel 8, and deuise with thy selfe how the encrease of them may encrease thy profite. In Autumne pull thine apples, in Sommer ply thy haruest, in the Springe trimme thy gardens, in the Winter, thy woodes ?, and thus beginning to delight to be a good husband 1, thou shalt begin to detest to be in loue 11 with an idle huswife, when profite shall begin to fill thy purse with golde, then pleasure shall haue no force to defile thy