An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowedAn exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed

This is an Addition to his foresaid exhortation and doctrine, as though he should say: I have well marked what happeneth to such as will do, and have all things done justly, and in exacting of justice, are too just, how things succeed not with them, and how while they will be too wise, they become fools. I have found,¹ that sometime it is the point of great wisdom to dote. Again I have considered all kinds of life to know how the wicked went to work, & how fools succeeded with their matters, whether were better to cast from me all care (as fools use) or to be too just. For he speaketh again of things done, or to be done, by fools and ungodly, as he spake before ⟨p. 130⟩of things done politically by just men.

THis is an Addition to his forsayd exhortation and doctrine, as though he should say: I haue wel marked what happeneth to such as will doo, and haue all thinges donne iustly, and in exacting of iustice, are too iust, how thinges succeade not with them, and how while they will be too wyse, they become fooles. I haue founde,¹