30Example proufe her of in erth is well founde

31Manife st open and verie euident

32For except the husband man suffer his ground

33Sum tymes to re st, it woll bere no frute verament

34Therfore the leat the filde lye euerie second yere

35To the end that aftir re st it may the better corne beare

36Thus than (as I haue sayed) it is a thing naturall

37And naturallie belonging to all liuing creatures

38And vnto man especiallie aboue others all

39To haue at times cõueniẽt, pa staũce, mirthe & pleasurs

40So they be ioyned Wt hone stie & keape Wt in due mesars

41And the same well allowen not onlye the said Cato

42But also ye Philosophers, Plutarke, Socrates & Plato

43And Cicero Tullius a man sapient and wyse

44Willeth the same in that his fir st boke

45Which he wrot and entytelid of an hone st mans office

46Who so is disposid therupon to looke

47Wher to define and affirme he boldlie on him tooke

48That to heare Enterluds is pa stime conuenient

49For all maner men, and a thing congruent

50He rekeneth that namelie as a verie hone st disport

51And a boue all other thinges commendeth ye old cõmedie

52The hearing of which may doo the mynd cumfort

53For they be repleni shed with precepts of Philosophie

54The conteine mutch wisdome & teache prudent pollecie

55and though thei be al writẽ of mattiers of non ĩportaũce

56yet the shew great wite and mutch pretie conueiaunce

57And in this maner of making Plautus did excell