Note that in Goa they vse not to abate any tare of any goods, except of sacks or wraps, and therefore it requireth great aduisement in buying of the goods, especially in the muske of Tartaria which commeth by way of China in bladders, and so weigh it without any tare rebating.

The very same Idol deliuers oracles vnto them, and sometimes requireth the blood of fourtie virgins for his hire.

Consider we, that our state and condition, while here, calleth for those vicissitudes, and requireth the blowing of the north as well as of the south winds?

But it requireth more knowledge, than his, to form general rules, which people strain (when ignorant) to false deductions to make them out.

For what is the hope of the godless, When God requireth his life? Will God hear his cry, When trouble comes upon him?

And when he had long sought and demanded where he should find Christ, at last he came into a great desert, to an hermit that dwelt there, and this hermit preached to him of Jesu Christ and informed him in the faith diligently, and said to him: This king whom thou desirest to serve, requireth the service that thou must oft fast.