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minde wyth loue. For honest recreation after thy toyle, vse hunting ! or haukeing, either rowse the Deere?, or vnperch the Phesaunt3, so shalt thou roote out the remembraunce of thy former loue, and repent thee of thy foolishe lust. And although thy sweete heart binde thee by othe alwaye to holde a candle at hir shrine, & to offer thy deuotyon to thine owne destruction, yet goe 4, runne, flye, into the countrey, neither water thou thy plantes, in that thou departest from thy Pigges nye, neither stand in a mammering whether it be best to departe or not, but by how much the more thou arte vnwillyng to go, by so much the more hasten thy steppes 5, neyther fayne for thy selfe any sleuelesse excuse whereby thou mayste tarry 6. Neyther lette rayne 7 nor thunder, neyther lyghtening nor tempest, stay thy iourney, and recken not with thy selfe how many myles thou hast gone, that sheweth wearinesse, but how many thou hast to go8, that proueth manlynesse. But foolish & franticke louers, wyll deeme my precepts hard, and esteeme my perswasions haggarde : I must of force confes ?, that it is a corasiue to the stomacke of a louer, but a comforte to a godly lyuer, to runne through a thousande pykes, to escape ten thousand perills 10, Sowre potions bringe sounde health, sharpe purgations make shorte diseases 11, and the medicine y°