Rede Tullius warkes the worthy Oratour. And writen shalt thou fynde in right fruteful sentence That neuer wyseman loued ouer great honour. Nor to haue great riches put ouer great diligence But onely theyr mynde was set on Sapience And quyetly to lyue in Just symplycite. For in greatest honour is greatest ieoperdye. He that is symple, and on the grounde doth lye And that can be content with ynoughe or suffisaunce Is surer by moche than he that lyeth on hye. Nowe vp nowe downe vnsure as a Balaunce. But sothly he that set wyll his plesance Onely on wysdom and styl therfore labour. Shal haue more goode than all erthly tresour. Wysdom techeth to eschewe al offence. Gydynge mankynde the ryght way to vertue. But of couetyse Comys all Inconuenyence. It cawseth man of worde to be vntrue. Forswerynge and falshode doth it also ensue. Brybery and Extorcion, murder and myschefe. Shame is his ende: his lyuyinge is reprefe. By couetyse Crassus brought was to his ende. By it the worthy Romayns lost theyr name. Of this one yl a thousand ylles doth descende. Besyde enuy, Pryde, wretchydnes and Shame. Crates the Philosopher dyd Couetyse so blame: That to haue his mynde vnto his stody fre. He threwe his Tresour all hole into the see. But shortly to conclude. Both bodely bondage. And gostly also: procedeth of this couetyse. The soule is damned the body hath damage As hunger, thyrst, and colde with other preiudice. Bereft of the ioyes of heuenly Paradyse. For golde was theyr god and that is left behynde Theyr bodyes beryed the soule clene out of mynde THE ENUOY OF ALEXANDER BARCLAY TRANSLATOUR. Therefore thou couetouse thou wretch I speke to the. Amende thy selfe ryse out of this blyndenes. Content the wyth ynoughe for thy degre. Dam nat thy soule by gatheringe frayle riches Remembre this is a Uale of wretchednes. Thou shalt no rest nor dwellynge place here fynde. Depart thou shalt and leue it al behynde. * * * * * Of newe fassions and disgised Garmentes. [Illustration: Who that newe garmentes loues or deuyses. Or weryth by his symple wyt, and vanyte Gyuyth by his foly and vnthryfty gyses Moche yl example to yonge Comontye. Suche one is a Fole and skant shal euer thee And comonly it is sene that nowe a dayes One Fole gladly folowes anothers wayes.] Drawe nere ye Courters and Galants disgised Ye counterfayt Caytifs, that ar nat content As god hath you made: his warke is despysed Ye thynke you more crafty than God onipotent. Unstable is your mynde: that shewes by your garment. A fole is knowen by his toyes and his Cote. But by theyr clothinge nowe may we many note.