Learne the Precepts of Virtue, not as Physitians buy Pearles, to make Magisterys & Cordialls; but as Ladys do, to weare them (as Ornaments) in Necklaces & Pendants for which they hope to be taken notice of: [ 'In which, too many, like Toades, thouh they weare Jewels in their Heads, are yet Unclean & poysonous all over; & like Astronomy-Professors (but more guiltily,) study Heav'n to purchase Earth; [ '& as ignobly' deleted] (tho the whole Earth be but a Point in comparaison of that Heav'n men loose for the least parts of it:) In which, the highest Notions are ignobly prostituted to the lowest Interests; as Kites that soare as if they would leave Heav'n beneath them, only <the better> to discover Carrion, which, from their aspiring height they greedily use to stoope <at>, & In which (to listen from such wretched company,) the bright [noone][unclear] of the Gospell, serves not to prevent but aggravate men's Crimes: as in Egypt, where the Sun shines so clearly & without Clouds, the People are blacke or Tawny: & in our Times as well as Climats, <but too many of> those that keepe most in the Sun shine, have the feckledest Faces & most discoulour'd Skins' deleted]. [approximately 3 lines illegible]