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Show Of the adt}ttnCem~nt 1" learning, .. Cured. trut ·which is conta1n:d tn the verfes; Stilicll ingentttt-f didiciffi ftdelttcr artes, · , BmoUit mores nee fintt e~e [eros. . · It taketh away the wildneffe and barbartfine and fierceneffe of mens minds: but i!1deed the.ac~ent had need be_vpon,fi.deliler. For a lutle fuperfictalllear .. . ning doth rather WCF~~ a cont~ary elf~. It taket~l · awayallleuitie, remertue, Wid tnfol~n~te, ?Y coptous fuggefHon of all doubts and ddftct~lues, and acquainting the min de to ballance reafons on both fides· and to turne backe the firfi offers and con .... ceits' of the minde ,, and to accept of nothing but· . ~xamined and tryed. It ta~et~ away vaine ad .. miration·of any thing, .whtclt ts t~e ro~te of all weakenelfe. For· all things are adtntred, e1ther becaufetheyarenew, or becaufe they are great. For nouelty ,no man that wade~h in learning ?r co~te~plation throughl y, but will fin~ that prtnted m hts heart, Nilnoui.fuperterram: Neuber can any !Dan inaruaile at the play ofPuppets,.that goeth behtnde a:he curtaine, and aduifeth well of the Motion. And for· magnitude , as tA !exander the Great , afier that bee wa·s vfed to great Armies, and:the great eonquefts of the fpatious ·"~rouinces in tAfia, when bee receiued Lette t of Greece, of fome fights and feruices there, which were commonly fOr ~ palfage • pr a Fort, or fome walled 'rowne at toe moft, he fayd ; It feemea t~ him, that he w.1s aduertifod t?f the battailcs '.{the Frogs, 1111d the ll:tife, th4t '1he ottld tAles wefJt tf. SQ cettainely, if a n1a!1 - · · · . - ~ m editat~ 'the firfl 'Boo~. 42 meditate ffiu(h .vpponthf! v11iaerfall f11fine .of n~· ·ture, the earth with men vppon it (the ditJ_incffe of . Coules except) will n~t feeme much other,~han an Ant-Hill, wherea~ fome Ants - ~arrie corne, and fome carrie t~eir ~oung: -·~nd fome goe empt'ie', and all tOO and fro, a littfe· heipe-of otlft It taketh away, ot mitigateth feare of death, or aduerfe for.. . tune: whi(;h is one .-of the great eft in1ped.iments of vertue , and itnperfeClions of: manners. For ~if a mans minde, be deepely feafoned w.ith the con~ •fideration 'of the mortalitie ana corruptible nature· of thinges_, hee will eaLily concurre with ' 'EpiOettt-s, who went foorth one day,. and fawe a woman weeping for her Pitcller ·of-earth, that was broken ; and went· foo(th ~the next · day, and lawe a woman weepinge :for ~ her Sonne that · \Vas deade, and the~euppon fay de .: He- . ri, vid~ .fra;~iltm fr.angi, hodie 'Uidi mortaltm ~mfiri. Anti therefo~~ · P:irjJll did~ excellently~· .a.nd J>tofoundlye couRle tHe knowledge: of caufes, and the Co,nqueft .• of all ·.feares., together, as Cowcomitantia. · ' .. . Fmlix qui jotuit rtcrum tDgnofctre C4ttfos, . t. • r ' , ~ique met114'iJmnes.,~eJrintxtJrabilefarum Subiecit pedibus,ftrepittlmq~te Acheroniis auari. lt were too long to goe ouer the particnJar remedi~ s, whiell,!earning doth minifier, to all the. difea• fet of the mi~dc, fometimes purging the ill hu~ ~ours, fo)lTettmes_ opening the obflruetions, forrte-- ~~ ~elping. digefUori, fo~c~ime~ cncre3:~ng L 3 ~ · appe~~e,_ |