290 That aliVorldlr thing! drebutmeere vanities. and place themfelues in the feate ofhonour. The which is the more vfuall path which is traded in thefe daies,men be- ingnow become fo politike, that they will not take fubflan- tiall paines,to bee rewarded with a fhadow,but fitting their worke according to their wages, they compaffe vaineho- nours with femblances ofgoodand vaine fhewes. But yet in the meane time by vfing thefe wicked and vnlawfull meanes to attaine veto theirdefires,they hazard theirfalua- tion,and for the purchafingofhonours by vnlawfull means, theyfet their foules to laic; and therefore it is nomaruell if hauing obtained them, they doe highly value them, feeing they hauebought them at finch deere rates. And thus riches are molt highly efteemed, when as they are moll hardlie compaffed; that only being thought worth the hauing, which cannot be had without muchpaines and peril!; and all other things being efteemed worthleffe andlight, which hauenot difficultieand dangerputinto the skole with them, to make them downe waight. This maketh pearles trulie precious, becaufe they are farcefetched from theEaflerne parts ofthe world, and not onelybought at deare rates, but allobrought home with great danger. This maketh gold and filuer elleemable, becaufe they are digged out of the Wefierne mines withmuch fweate,and notprocuredbut by great labourand.trauell,hazard anddanger,both by fea and land.This improueth riches farreaboue their worth,becaufe they areobtained with much labour,care, andwatching, by pinching and affli&ing the body whilefl they let it goe of- ten empue, that theymaymore fpeedilyfill their chefls; and that which is wont ofall, by hazarding the eternal! falua- tionoftheir foules,in vfingwicked meanes, aslying, decei- isi-ng, (wearing, forfwearing, opprellion and all manner of crueltie,fpr the increafing oftheir wealth. All which diffi- culties in getting riches, make men the more to loue and efleeme themwhen theyhaue them : whcreofit is, thathee who bath thus dearely purchafed his.wealth; doth alwaies much more affect and valueit,then his heire who commeth lightly by it; cuco as the mother dothmuch more account ofachildefor which her felfe hath laboured,then otanother which
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