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Show _ Of the .Aduancement Oj!Learning,, . I • 'Mill4 fa~rlfJ. . his introdutl~on .. · c teterum 'aNt m.~ am or ne!, otijfofteptifaUit·, a11t n~/la -unq11'!"'-. rejlnb(t~a, n~c ~aior ' nee {a1iEiitJr, nee bo n ts exemplts dtttQr ftitt; nee m "' . /' . . . - 'lftJilfn_ tamfer~· au~~it.i~ ~~~~~~~que t~tgr.~ttertn_t '· ne.:c '!Vbi tanttU ac tam:iltu.~4upert-att -acfaiftn:()nt~ honosfu-rriti. lMe fee likewife after that the State of Rome· ·AWas not ·it felfe, but did degenerate·; how' that p e~- fon that tooke vpon him to be (~oun{~llor ~t0 Iulitu e.epi~~afte~ hts vitlorie, wh~re to begt.n. fits refian:ratioA of the :State; maketh lt of all p01nts tl1e moft: ~(ummarie to take away the efiimat~ofj of wealth. (f;erum httc & omnia mala pariter cum honore fJ.ecuni~ Jifment; Si .neque ~ag~flrateu, ·nequ~ alia Vtll£o cu- ;ikRtli!J 'VJ»Ali~ r:rt~nt; To con<;lude this point,. as it -wastruely fa ~d," that Rubor e_ft. virtt~tis color, though Jometitne it come from vice: So it may be fitly fayd,. ~Hat J'tttf(r:tas efl7Jirttuis .fortttna.· 1lhough forn e:. times it ma1-'Ptf:lceede fro1n· tnitgouernc=m.ent ·an~· accul'ent.. .surely· s~lomon hath pronounced it b ,th· ·in c enfu.r e, f&i fejlint~t ad diteititts non erif, in fons; and in precept: Btry the tfttth, and .fell it not : ttnd fo of ~wif~do.meandk~uwledge; iudging .that mearies wer~ ~ . t.o be·fp,ent ~onlearning,ana not learning to be ap-. plyedtomeanes: And asfbrltliepriuatene!fe ·or ob ... .kllrene[e (as it Lnay be in vulgar· eftimation accoun.. ted) df ~ife ~£ contemplatiue men ; it is a Thea me .fo.-coml!lon, to extoll a p.riuatelife, not taxed with· • oqfualitie and·fl~t~in.cO.mparifon,~ and ·to .the dif· I .tadUantag~·oB.a. ct.u~le hfe, for fafety, libertie, plea· ·~tand d1gn1ue, or at.!~~~ f~e~~ome from indigni-. ' .. ~ .. . tie,. ' ; ...... . · fEIJejifjlXBo()~~~. · r3 tie, as no man ·Iiaadleth it_,but handlerh it. well:· fU:Cbr a con[onancie it hath to mens conceitS: in, the .cxprefsing,~ nd to mens confents in the allowing ; this on ely I will adde ,; that learned· men forgot~cn ia ~tates, and not liuing in rhe eyes·ormeri, ar:elik the I mag~~ ofi:cafius and Bruttu in the ~unerall of Ittnia; · of whttrh_ not being· reprefented, as many others were Taclttu fa~th) Eo ipfo prefufotbarJt, qNod non vi.fo :b11nt11r. • ,;· · - . ~ · · '1 Andformeaneffeofemploymenr, that which is 'moft trad~1ce.d to contempt, is that the gouernment ·'Of_yom~ ~~ common! y allotted to ~~~e~, ~hich age, :becaufe lt Js the age of Ieafi aurhortue It ts transfer.- . t:ed it? tl:le di_fefteeming of thofe, employments whertn youth 1s conuerfant,and whichare .. conuer. ·, fant ~~out youth. But bow vniuft this traducement -ls, .<r~ you will r~duce thinges from popuJat itie ~f 'OPI.nton to me~fi1re of reafon) may appeare in that ' wefeemenaremorecurious what they put inroa . n.ew, V elf ell, than into a Veffell feafoned , and \V hat mould they lay about a· young plant, than about a P~ant ~orrobora_te; fo as the weakefi Teomes :ama . Ttmes ?f al~ things vfe tO" haue th~ beft apRlications ·and helpes • . And will you hearken to the Hebre\~ . Rabynes? r ()/tr )'ottng 1nen fhal((t~e Kifions, and )'OIJY old men (hall dreame dre~mes, fay the yot this the wo~thier ag~, for that Vtfions are neerer app·aridons of .God, than.dreatn~s? And let it bee noted, that how 10euer the Conditions of life of P edante.r hath been . kor.ned vpbn Theators, a~ the Ape of Tyrarinie ; D 2 .. an·c1 ' |
