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Show ,. ' • • t · Of the AduancemeniifLearnin~, . many (not vnlearned) haue abbafed & abufed rhe1r . wits arfd pens, turning ~as Du Bart~s faith,) H tcub~ into H ei'en~,and Fauftina l~to L.u~retta, h~t~ mofi d~nlini! hed the pr_ice an~ efl!mauon o£Learntng Ne~ther is the morall dedtcauons of Bookes and W rttings, as to Patrons to bee cotnu1ended: for that Bookes (fuch as are worthy the ].Jan1e of Bookes) ought to haue no Patrons, but Trud~ .and Reafon: And tho ancient cufiome was, to dedtcate them on· ly to .pduate and equall friend~s, or to iiuitle the Bookes with their Natnes, or if to Kings and great per[ons)it was to (orne fi1ch as the arg_ument of the Booke was fit and proper for; but the·ieand the 'like· ·Courfes may de(erue rather reprehenfion, than de ... , fence. , Not that I can taxe or conde1nne the morigera- · ~ion or application of learned men to men in for- , tune. For the an(\vere \Vas good that Diogenes n1ade to one that asked him in tnockerie, How it came to . paffi tl'at Philofophers were the [oflowe;s of rich men and not rich men of Philo{ophm? He anfwered fob~rly, and· yet lbarpely; Bec~t~{e tEe one fort ·kNew what they had need qf, & the other did not; And oft he like nature ~as the an~~er~ which .A rijlippu1 ma~e, when ha .. u!ng a petttton to Dio~ifitu, and no e'are giuen to , htm, he fell down~ at hts feete; wheupon Dioni(ius flayed,an~ ·gaue hun the hearing, and graunted ir, an~ after~ard fome perfon tender on the behalfe Phtlofophte, re~rooued "t.Ariffippm, that he would ~ offer the Profefs1on o~ PhUofophie· fitch an in~igni- - . tie · ' ',• · :. rr'he jYfl :Boo~, · 16' tie,~as for a priuatSuit to fall at a Tyrants feet: But he a~fw.ered; It was not ~is fault·, but it was .the fault ·of DtfJ!Jt{ltU,tha~ had his ettre.s in his feet e. Neither was it accounted weakenelfe, but difcr~tion in him that would n.ot difpute his .be~ vv.ith Adrianus C£/ar; ex- . cufing htmfelfe, That tt was rea jon to )'eetd to him that co~m~und~d thirtie Legions. Tqefe and the lik~ apphcauons and Hooping to points of necefsirie and conuenience cannot bee difallowed : for though · they may haue fome outward bafeneffe ·. yet in a -Judgement truely made, they are to bee a~ counted {ubmifsions to the occafion> and not to the perfon. Now I proceede to rhofe errours and vanities which haue interueyned atnongft the flu dies them~ . f~lues of the learneol; which is that which is prin- _ctpall and pr?per to the prefent argument, wherein my ,purpofe 1s not to~ make a iufiification of the errors, but .by~ 'cen~tr~ and reparation of the -errors,' ·to make attdhficatto of that which is good & found·· and to de!iuer.th.at.from tfie afperfion of the other~ ~or we fee, that u ts the manrier of men, to fcanda ... hze and depra~te that vv hie·~ retaineth the fiate) and .vertue, by taking aduantage vpon that which is cor ... r!lpt and degenerate; as ~·~e Heathens in the priOJi~ tue C~urch vfed to blemtili and taynt the Chrifii ·ans, wuh the faults and corruptions ofHeretiq-ues: ._-But neuerthelelfe, I. hane no meaning ~t this time to !Jtake ~ny exa~ antmadueriion of thf errors and ~ .1t11pedtments tn matters of learning, which are ·m0ref~cretand remote from yulgarop.inion; but E 2. ·onely |
