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Show · . 0 f the aduttncement of learning~ . on ely to ~peake vnto fuc~ as doe fall vnder, o.r nee~e vnto, a popular obferuauon. . . . · . There be therfore chiefel y three vantues 1n Studt .. es, whereby learning hath bee~ moft c~aduced: For thofe things we do dleem~ vat~e, wluch are enher. falfe or friuolous;thofe whtch etther h.aue n~ truth, . or no vfe:& thofe per.fons we eftee~ vat?, .w~tch a~e either credulous or curions,& cur1oftue 1~ euher 1~ .mater or words;fo that in rcafon,as wel as 111 expert• ence there fal out to be thefe 3. diftepers (as I ntay tear~ the)of lear nino; 1·he firft fantafticallealiping: The fecond cont.enti~us learning, & the laft delicatQ: · learning, vain~-Imagi~ations, v~in~ Alt~rcation~, .&. vain atfeetanos= & wuh the lafi I wd.,begtn,l~1drttn Luther conduCted (no doubt) by an higher prouidence but in d.ifcou~re of reafon, finding what a Proui~ce he hacl vndertaken againft the BHhop of Rome,and the degeneratetraditi~ns ofth~ .church, · and·findino his owne folitltde:Jbetng no wates ayded b~aheopi~ionsofhisowne time, was enfurced to awake all Antiqtiitie, and to call f(,tmer tini.es to his {ilccors, to make a· partie againR the prefent time: fo that the ancient Authors, both in Diuini~ie , and in Humanitie, which had long time flept in Libra ... ries, began generally ~o be read and reu61ued. 'fhis. by confequence, did draw on a necefsitie of a more exquifite trauaiJe in the languages original1, wherin thpfe Authors did write:For the bett.ervnderfiading of thofe Authors, and the bette~ aduantageof pref.. ~nga~dapplying th~!~ ~~~d~~ ~~~ t~ereof gr.ew agatne, _:. . . rhe ffirfl15oo~~ : . . . t8. ~gaine;a lieligfit ih their niann~r ofStileand Phrafe,' and an admi~~tion of that kinde of writing ; which was mHch furthered & ·precipitated by the enmity & eppofttion, that the propounders of thofe (primitiue, put (eeming new opinions) had . againft the ·Schoole:men: who were generally of the contrarie part: and·whofe Writings were altogether in a· differing Stile and fourme, taking libertie t9 coyne, and frame new teartns of Art, to exprelfe their ow a fence, and to auoidecir.cuite of tpeech, without regard to tne purenelfe,. pleafantneffe, and. (as I rnay ca!l it) lawfi.llnelfe of the Phrafe ~r word : And againe, becaufe the great labour t~at theri was wirlt the people(ofwhomethe Pharifeesw·erewont to · (ay: ~xecrabilisifla turka qtltt nonnouit legem)for the ·wtnntng and perfwadtng of them, there grewe of: ~ecefsitie in~ cheefe price, and requell,eloquence and varietie of difcourfe, as the fitteft and forcible',ft accetl~ into the capacitie of the vulgar fort: Co. that thefe toure cau(es ·concurring, the admiration of ancient A.~thors) the hate of the Schoole-men,~he ex-· aa fiudte of Languages: and the efficacie of Pre~ ,ching did bring _i~ ap affeaionate fluqie ·of elo-· . quen~e, and ~opte offp~ech, whic~ then began to fiourt!p. Thts grew fpeeaily to an excetfe: for men . began to nunt more after wor.des, than n1atter and - more afi:er tfie choif~rletre. o£ the·. P~rafe, and the. round and cl~ane compofition o~ the fenterice, apd .!he fwe.et ~lhng ~f the clatifes._ ana the varying,aqd ~~~~a~!~~~~ ~~~~! ~~£kesEWith ~~~P~! ana figureS! ' ~ ~ 1 . ~~~ |