for the wonted company & ſurpaſſing delights of that æternal fellowſhip; whereby it is euident that the paſſage from life, is a change from much euill to great good.

Since therefore O Socrates thou deemeſt this life ſo tedious and troubleſome, why dooſt thou ſtill abide in the ſame? beeing as thou art a man of ſo great wiſedome and experience, whoſe knowledge reacheth farre aboue our common ſence and beyond the vſuall reaſon of moſt men.

Thou Axiochus dooſt not report rightly of me: for thou iudgeſt as the common people of Athens, that becauſe you ſee I am giuen to ſeeke and ſearch out many things, therefore I know ſomehwat. But to ſay the truth, I would hartely wiſh, and would the ſame account in great parte of happineſſe, if I knew but theſe common and cuſtomable matters: ſo farre am I from the knowledge of thoſe high and excellent things. For theſe things which I nowe declare, are the ſayings of Prodeus the wiſe man: ſome of them beeing brought for a pennye: ſome for two groats, and other ſome ^{(illegible text)}