le you please a beast: and
pleasing such, ought to be displeasing to your selfe. Please
your selfe, you displease God: please him, you incurr a thousand
dangers in the world, with purchase of a thousand displeasures.
Whereof it growes, that if you could heare the talke of the
wisest and least discontent of this kinde of men, whether they
speake aduisedly, or their words passe them by force of truth,
one would gladly change garment with his tenaunt: an other
preacheth how goodly an estate it is to haue nothing: a third
complaining that his braines are broken with the noise of Courte
or Pallace, hath no other thought, but as soone as he may to
retire himself thence. So that you shall not see any but is
displeased with his owne calling, and enuieth that of an other:
readie neuerthelesse to repent him, if a man should take him at
his word. None but is weerie of the bussinesses wherevnto his
age is subiect, and wisheth not to be elder, to free himselfe of
them: albeit otherwise hee keepeth of olde age as much as in him
lyeth.

What must we then doe in so great a contrarietie and confusion
of mindes? Must wee to fynde true humanitie, flye the societie
of men, and hide vs in forrestes among wilde beastes? to auoyde
these vnrulie passions, eschue the assemblye of creatures
supposed reasonable? to plucke vs out of the euills of the
world, sequester our selues from the world? Coulde wee in so
dooing liue at rest, it were something.

But alas! men cannot take heerein what parte they woulde: and
euen they which do, finde not there all the rest they sought
for. Some would gladly doo, but shame of the world recalls them.
Fooles to be ashamed of what in their heartes they condemne: and
more fooles to be aduised by the greatest enemye they can or
ought to haue. Others are borne in hande that they ought to
serue the publique, not marking that who counsell them serue
only themselues: and that the more parte would not much seeke
the publique, but that they founde their owne particular. Some
are told, that by their good example they may amende others: and
consider not that a hundred sound men, euen Phisitions
themselues, may sooner catch the plague in an infected towne,
then one be healed: that it is but to tempt God, to enter
therein: that against so contagious an aire there is no
preseruatiue, but in getting farre from it. Finally, that as
litle as the freshe waters falling into the sea, can take from
it his saltnes: so little can