Of the fame of his vertue and the r • sorte vnto hym therfore

HEre vpon shortly the same of his noble connynge and excellent vertue bothe ferre & nygh began gloryously to sprynge for which many worthy philosophres (& that were taken in nōbre of the moost connynge) resorted bisely vnto hym as to a market of good doctryne / some for to moue questions and dyspute / some (that were of more godly mynde) to here and to take the holesome lessons and instruccyon of good lyuynge: whiche lessons were so moche y• more set by: in how moche they came from a more noble mā and a more wyse man and hym also whiche had hym selfe some tyme folowed y• croked hilles of delycyouse pleasure / to the fastenynge of good dyscyplyne in the myndes of y• herers those thynges seme to be of grete effecte: whiche be bothe of theyr owne nature good & also be spoken of suche a master: as is cōuerted to the way of iustyce from the croked & ragged path of voluptuouse lyuynge.