Des

Teutschlandts

Wohlfahrt.

Vorrede.

If one should accept old proverbs as good instructions, one should also not reject this one (as it is not one of the least), which rightly reads: He who will not listen must later feel. This is to say: when someone is warned, but he despises such a warning and does not accept it, and subsequently comes to harm, everyone says it served him right; why did he not accept the honest warning? Who shall help him now? Thus it goes for very many who live so securely, and