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2 88 That all worldly things &s kit were vanities with great labour 'and difñçultie;' and by their wit and in duarie haueoutflrippedmanywho were competitours with them in this golden fuite? Whereas contrariwife if their ap- petite were not fharpened by this corrivalfhip,ifin their ea- gerneffe and emulation they did not thinke that theyhad loft all that,which they fee others gaine; they would- not fo much elk-erne and fecke after needleffe abundance and fu- perfluitie, but would rea contented with that which they did know bow to vfe. And thusalfo pleafures are made tru- ly pleafaut and delightful!, and are then chiefly effeemed to be of fome value,and worth the hawing, when as many con- tending for them,fome one among the refl,hath theinioy- ing them; which ifthey did lie out in-common,and might eafily be inioycd without any emulation or competition,no man almoa would looke after them, or thinke flick fruiti- on worth their coil and labour. 4'Se '7' herebyra 1 eareth;oin thatethe vanitie of Worldly things Y PP Y are commended on from any excellencie that we find in them,when we haue yea vs by the them,as from the great difficultie, which we haue found in difficulties roe obtaining and comming by them, our labouring, fuffering, findtn obi at.. hazards and dangers,endearing our affeetion,and increafing fling tbcm our loue ; and making vs apt to proportion our eflimation, not according to the worth ofthefe vaine wares,but to our own ventureand paines which we haue taken in compelling of them; becaufewe would not be Pubic& to the cenfure of follie,for not making ofa good bargaine. And hereofit is, that thefethings,though they be but offmall worth,yet are they greatly, elieemed,becaufe they are purchafed and pro- curedwith no finall lábour; for as nothing is more eafilie contemned, then that which is eafilie gotten, according to the common pronerbe:'Lightly come,aud lightly gone; fo nothing maketh a thing more deare -and precious, how worthlefl'e foeuer it be in it felfe, then when it isbought at. thefe deare rates,and compaffed with much paines and great dif cultie;;Itbeing -the nature of man to haue deligbt:of combing to his ends by the wayofoppofition and ro *think it more gloeiouato inioy his delires by a doubtfulll vibìorie, then