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This Life is a way, or a place divided into two ways, like Pythagoras's letter Y; broad 1. on the left-hand track, narrow 2. on the right; that belongs to Vice 3. this to Vertue, 4.
Minde, Yong man, 5. imitate Hercules. leave ye left-hand way, turn from Vice.
the Entrance is fair, but the End, 7. is ugly & stéep down.
Go on the right hand, though it be thorny: 8. no way is unpassable to Vertue; follow whither Vertue lead∣eth, through narrow places to stately places, to the tower of honor, 9
Kéep the middle and straight path and thou shalt go very safe.
Take héed thou do not go too much on the right hand: 10. Bridle in, 12. the wilde horse, 11. of Affection, lest thou fall down headlong.
Sée thou dost not go amiss on the left-hand, 13. in an Ass-like sluggishness, 14. but go onwards constantly, persevere to the end, and thou shalt be 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 15.