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Show ... .. 0 f the adet~ticC;nent of learning, conioyneM V s ICKEand ~ED~ CINE in Apo.'l~, b · ur:ethe Office of Medtctne, ts but to tnne tht$ cuecriao uL•s Harpe of mans bo d"1 ~, an d. to re. dn c~ . tt to ' Harmonie. So then the subtefl bemg fo V areablt, bath made the ufrt by confequent more con- , ietlt~raU, and ~he Art being Conietlurall , hath made fo much the more place to be~ !_eft for impofiure. For almofi all other Arts and .,ctence•, iudged by ACts , or Mafter peeces. as I maytermethem, and not by the fucceffes, and euents. The Lawyer is iudged by the v~rtue of hts plea. ding, and not by the yffue of the ~aufe_: Th~ Mafler in-the ~hippe, is iudged by the dtreCttng bts courfe aright, and not by the fortune of the .V. oyage : But the Phi6tian, and perhap~ the P~huq~~~~ hathn? particular Aas demonftrauue ?f ~ts abtlme, bu_t ~s iudged moft b\r the eue~ : wht~h ts e!ler but as tt ts taken ; for who can tell .tf a Pa~tent dte or recouer, or if a State bepreferued,or ruyned, "':hether it b~ ' Art or Accident? And therefore many ttmes the Jm .. . poftor is prized, ~nd the map of y~rtue taxe~. , ), Nay,we fee weakenelfe a:nd credultue of men,ts - fuch as they will often preferre a Montabanke or. Wit~h before a learned Phifitian. And therefore the Po~ts were cleere fighted in difcerning this ex· treame folly, when tlj~v made u£ftulapius ,and circt, Brother and Sifter) both Children of the Sunne, as in the verfcs. ' · · Ipft repertflrem medicin.e talis & ~,rtis, ·. - F11~im Ph<rbigenam ft~!)as dm~fit ad -vnJas, And 'The fecond hoolc.!. 40 ~mu111cs inacceflos vbi Solis filia Lucos, &c. in all times in the opinion of the multitude, s, and old wotnen~and Impofiors haue had a · · with Phifitians.And what followethl .is that Phifitians fay to th~mfelues, as sa/o. effeth it vpon an higher occafion: If it be- , 11s befa!leth to the foolcs, why foould l labour e w1{e? And therefore I cannot much blame· that they vfe commonly to intend fome · or pratlife, which they fancie,more than. rooo•telsion. For -you iliall haue of them: Anti- Poets, Humanifis, Statef-men, Mar chants ~in euerie of thefe better feene, than n;. w.c~tets.ton, & no ddubt, vpon this ground that ) that. mediocrity & excellency in their Art, . n~ difference in profite or reputation to. u fortune: for the weakene{fe of Patients IIM'ftnelfe of life, and Nature of hope maketh: pon Phiilt-ians, .with all their defeas •. ertbeleife, thefethings which we hauefpo-. courfes begotten betweene a little occa, a great deale of floath and default: for if llftl~cxc~I·t· e _and awake o~1r obferuation, we lhall: ~··u.•~a.a. mfianees, what a· predominant faculsubtiltic of Spirit.e, liath ouer. the· ~f Matter, or Four1ne :. Nothing more: tfte~~: fafcs and' countenan~cs ; yet men i . ~--at~· 1n memorie· t~e · infinite· difiin8ions· ~ ~ay,.. a.Painter with a fe:wc fuelles of ~k, 4 . C.OJOIS_, . I • |