What meaneth hit Spudeus, too applye hys booke so ernestlye I praye you what is the matter you murmour so with yourselfe? SPVDEVS. The truth is (O Hedoni) I seke too haue knowledge of a thing, but as yet I cannot fynde that whych maketh for my purpose. HEDO What booke haue you there in your bosome? SPVDE.  Ciceros ||dialoge of the endes of goodnes. HEDO. It had bene farre more better for you, too haue sought for the begynnynges of godly thynges, then the endes. SPVDE. Yea, but Marcus Tullius nameth that the ende of godlines which is an exquisite, a far passing, and a very absolute goodnes in euerye puincte, wherein there is contained all kynde of vertu:  vnto the knowledge ther of whosoeuer can attaine, shuld desire none other thig, but hold himselfe hauyng onely that, as one most fully content and satisfied. HED. That is a worke of very great learning and eloquence.  But doo you thynke, that you haue preuailed in any thig there, whereby you haue the ||rather come too the knowledge of the truth? SPE. I haue had such fruite and comoditie by it, that now verelye hereafter I shall doubt more of the effect and endes of good thinges, then I did before. HEDO. It is for husbad menne too stande in doubt how farre the limittes and merebakes extend. SPE. And I cannot but muse styll, yea, and wonder very muche, why ther hath been so great controuersie in iudgementes vpon so weightie a matter (as this is) emongist so well learned menne:  especially suche as bee most famous and auncient writers. HEDO. This was euen the cause, where the verite of a thyng is playne and manifest, cotrarily, ye errour through || ignoraunce againe in the same, is soone great & by diuers meanes encreaseth, for that thei knewe not the foundation and first beginnyng of the whole matter, they doo iudge at all auentures and are very fondly disceaued, but whose sentence thynke you too bee truest? SPE. Whan I heare MARCVS Tullius reproue the thyng, I then fatasie none of all their iudgementes, and whan I heare hym agayne defende the cause:  it maketh me more doubtfull the euer I was and am in suche a studie, that I can say nothyng.  But as I suppose ye Stoickes haue erred the lest, and nexte vnto the I commend the Peripatetickes. HEDo. Yet I lyke none of their opinions || so well as I doo the Epicures. SPV. And emogist all the sectes:  the Epicures iudgement is most reproued and condemned with the whole consent and arbitremet of all menne. HED. Let vs laye a side all disdayne and spite of names, and admitte the Epicure too bee suche one, as euery man maketh of hym.  Let vs ponder and weighe the thyng as it is in very deed.  He setteth the high and principall felicitie of man in pleasure, and thiketh that lyfe most pure and godly, whiche may haue greate delectatio and pleasure, and lytle pensiuenes. SPV. It is euen so. HED. What more vertuouser thyng, I praye you, is possible