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Show Tfie jirjl fBookj. · ~ · 7 tnatter of gouernetnent and policie ; in ma~ing t,h~nl teo curious and ir.relolute by ya.rietie of~ea- 1· ding; or. too peremptorie or pofitiue by firick~nelfc. of rules and axion1es; or. too -in1moderate and o;. . uerweening by reafon of tlle greatne!fe of exain- · · .. p,les; o~ too inco!ilpatible and differing from the . . times, by reafon of th~ di(similitude of exatnples; . er at leaft> that it doth diuert mens trauaiies from action and, hufinelfe, and bringeth·rliem to a loue of Ieafitre and priuatenelfe; and · that it doth bring in-t_ o Stat~s a relaxation of dt.fcipline, whilfi euerie·. man is more readie to argue, than to obey and execute. Out .of this conceit, Cato furnamed~ the Cen[or, one ofrhe \Vifeft men' indeed that euer Jiued, wl~en C~,1rntades ~h·e Philofopher came in , Embaff'age to Rome, arnd that the' young men of_· · R?me besan to flocke about him, being a11ured.·t Wltl'l ·the ~weetn( lfeand ·Maiefiie of hi's eloquence-·: · .and learn1ng ~ gane £()unfell in. open Senate, that : . they fr1ould giue ~1im his dll~atch with all fpeede, ; · Jeafi hee n-~ould .1nfetl. an·d tnGnaunt tlie mindes : ~d affetlions of the youth, a11d at vnawares bring "' · lO· an alteration of;the martners and·· Cnflomes · o~ the Stene.· Out of the fatn·e cone eire or humor , d~d ~irgill, . turning his penne to the aduamage . of hts ~ountrey an~ the dtfad~tantage of his owne ~r?fefston, make-a.·kn:td offeparation betwcene po- , l1c1e and gouernemeht, and betweene Arts and Sci-· ( ~nces, in the .. verfes fo much renowned·, .atttiou~ t .tmg and .~h~Uenging the one ro. ae R4)lll~nes, and .: · - B 4 ~cauin~ ·- |