for they most comunely that bee of euill condicions, knowe that heauen and all thinges contained therin, were made for mannes sake. _HEDO._ Almoste al knowe that, but some dooe not remembre it, shewyng theselues vnthakeful for the great and exhuberat benefittes of god, & al though thei remember it, yet that ma taketh || greater delight in the sight of it whiche hath more loue vnto the maker therof, in like maner as, he more chearfully wyll behold the element whiche aspireth towarde the eternall life. _SPV._ Your saiynges are muche like too bee true. _HED._ Nowe the pleasures of feastes dooeth not consist in the delicates of the mouth, nor in the good sauces of cookes, but in health of body and appetite of stomacke. You may not thynke that any delicious person suppeth more pleasauntly hauyng before hym partriches, turtelles, leuerettes, bekers, sturgeon, and lamprayes: then a vertuous man hauyng nothig too eat, but onely bread potage, or wortes: and nothyng || too drynke, but water, single bere, or wyne well alayde, be cause he taketh these thinges as prepared of God vnto all lyuyng creatures, and that they bee now yeoue vnto him of his gentyll and mercifull father, praier maketh euery thyng too sauour well. The petition in ye begynnyng of dyner sanctifieth all thynges and in a while after there is recited some holy lesson of the woorde of God: whiche more refresheth the minde, then meate the body, and grace after all this. Finally he riseth from the table, not ful: but recreated, not laden, but refreshed: yea, refreshed both in spirit and bodie, thynke you that any chief deuiser of these muche vsed bakets, & || deintye delicaces fareth nowe more deliciously? _SPudeus._ But in _Venus_ there is greate delectacions if we beleue _Arestotell_. _Hed._ And in this behalfe the vertuous manne far excelleth as well as in good fare, wiegh you now the matter as it is, the better a manne loueth his wife, the more he delecteth in the good felowship and familiaritie that is betwene theim after the course of nature. Furthermore, no menne loue their wiues more vehemetly then thei that loue theim eue soo, as Christ loued the churche. For thei that loue the for the desire of bodely pleasure, loue the not. More ouer, the seldomer any man dooeth accompany with his wife, the greater pleasure, it || is to hym afterwarde, and that thyng the wato poete knew full well whiche writeth, rare and seldome vse stereth vp pleasures. Albeit, the lest parte of pleasure is in the familiare company betwene theim. There is forsothe far greater in the continuall leadyng of their liues too gether, whiche emongest none can be so plesaunt as those that loue syncerely and faithfully together in godly and christian loue, and loue a like one the other. In the other sort, ofte whethe pleasure of ye body decaieth & waxeth old loue waxeth coold & is sone forgotto, but emogest right christe me, the more ye the lust of ye flesh decreaseth & vanisheth away,