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Show . ' 0 f the Adttaneement o/(Lear~ing, "· feafon,and f0"r'alatiutde of ground W:het.e th~y falt: . ~ But the other~ is indeed hke the benefits of Heatlen, whicl1 are p·ermanent ana \7niuerfall. · .1·he forn1 er againe iS mixt with firife ariO pe~t~rhat~on; but the · latet hath ~he.t~ue €ara&e1 ofdt\llfl~ P-reJen~e·~<onlra in aura leni, without noifeoragitation;·1 . ~ .t \ - . ' , . Neither. is cer~ainely that other merite of learning, ii1 reprefsing.the inaonueniences. which grow .. ij-om man to man;: much inferiour to the former, of relieuing the necefsities which arife from nature; · · which .merite was·liuely fet forth by the Ancients in that fayned relation of orpheus Theater; where. ·all beafis and birds affernbled; and forgetting their feuerall appetites; fom·e ofpray; fotne o.f game ,Come· of q.uarrell.,fiood all fociably together lifteningynto the _ayres and accp~ds of the H~rpe ; the found. · whereof no Cooner ceafed, or was drowned by fome lowder noyfe ) but euerie beaft retur-ned to his owne nature 1 whereihis a·pdydefcribed the na-. :ture and condition of men; who aJJe fitll of [auage· and vnreclaymed defires; of profi.te, of luft, of re· .uenge; which as long as they giue eare to precepts, to law·es, to religion; fweet.ely touched vvith elo~ uence and-perf waGon of Bookes, of Sermons, of t haranges ; fo long 'is focietie and peace maintained·; but if theft\ infiruments bee filent; or that [edition and tt~mult make t'1em not audible ; all thinges dif· folue tnto Anarchie and Confi1fion. .But this appeareth more manifefile, when Kings· themfelues) or Eerfons of a~lthoritie vnder thetn Qr · · othet • I • ,q-:pe frfl13oo~; . : 33 . other Gouernours in con:mon wealth~s, and popu- ·. lar E~ates, are endued w.nh Dea~ning.For alt~ough he mtght be thought paruall to hts owne protefsion; that fayd, Then (huuld peofle and ejlates be bappie,when , either I<ings were Philojopher;, or P'hilojophers f(tnos: . · · yet (o mt1ch is verified by experience; that vn~er learned Princes· and Gouernours, there bauc · been eue~ the befi tin1es ; for howfoeuer Kinges may haue their imperfetlions in their pafsions and E'uftome~; yet if they be illuminate by Iearninglthey · ~a~1e thof~ Notions of Religion, policie, and morahue; whtch doe preferue them, and refraine the1n frol? all~uinousane peremptory errors & ·exceffes; whtfper1ng euermore in their eares,when Counfel· Iors and feruants fiand mute, and filent; a.nd Sena.. - tc>rs, or Counfellours likewjfe, which bee learned,. d~e proceede vpon more fafe an fnbfiantiall princtples.; then Counfellors which are on ely men of experience ; r the one fort keeping dangers a farre off; whereas the other difcouer them not; till they co~ e n.eere· hand.: and then truft to the agilitie of their Wtt, to ward or auoide them. . · . · ~ Which fe.licitie of times, vnder ltarned Princes, (to "keepe fhll the. La we of breuiue, by vfing the moft e?linerit and fele_aed ex~rnples) doth bell ap .. peare ·tn the age, whtch pafied from the death of · DomitiAntu the Empe~our, vntill the raigne of Commod~ s: ·comprehending a fi1ccefsion of {ixe Sci en- . . ces,atlle~(ned or finguler fauourers and Aduancers: · . o£ lcar~'lng: which age for te.mporall refpeets,was I 2 t~ |