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Show OfthC AtJuancement of Learning, . colours an4 the ben~6t~ . of his Eye~· ana hab>ite_of his imaimarioncan imitate them all that cner h~ue bert', ar >or may be,i~ they were br_ought before h1m. Nothing more vartable than votces, yet men can likewife tii[cern th~m per(onaUy·, nay )'Oll .il1all haue a 'BujfiTI, or P a#tomi$tu Will ~xprell e as many as ~ee . plealetR. Nothing morevanable,tha:nthe d1!fermg {ounds of words, yet men haue found the. ~a y to re .. dnce t\le'to a few fitnple ·Letters; _fo that n_ts. not the ittfofficicnc:J' or incapacity ofrtians intnd; bnt 1t IS the rc· 'fiJOtejlandr~~ or placin;, thereoF, that breedeth the(e Ma7es and incompreheAftons ; for as the fence a fa~ · off 'is fuH of tniftal<ing,' but is exact at hand> f9 is it of ~he vnderftanding; 1~he remedie whereof, is not to quicken or fire~gthen the Organ, but. to goe ncerer totheobie8; and therefore there 1s no doubt, but if tf1e Phifitianswilllearne; and vfe the true ap· proithes and ,4uenttes of Nature, 'they tnay aOiune as muth as the Poet fayth; ·. 'Et quoniam iMriant }J orbi, variabi1i111s ttrtts, , MiUe A1ali.ffecies,mille Saltnis ert!nt. Which that they fhould doe, the nobleneil'e of their Art doth de(erue; well {h~dovved by the Po· · ets, in that they·made Aefulapieu to be the fonne of Sunne, the o~1e being thefo.nntaine of life, the other a~ the fecon4 Oreame; but infinitely n1ore honored " by the example of our Sauiour, who tnade the body - of man the obieB: of hiS:miracles, as the fonle was tile obietl of his Doctrine ~ For wee rea de not that . cuer be voucbfafed tO doe any miracle about honor' I · - ~ ·-- ~ -· · · · . . · or |