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Show iJ; the Adunnce~ent of Learning, mannaged) it i~ barrcin, not ~urde~f~nte, .nor dan. g~ro~s to ~aturall .fr/etno-rie, ·as 1s nnagtned, but ·barren, that ts, not dexterous to be ayplyed to the ferious vfe of buHneffe and occafions. And therefore I make rio tnore efiin1ation of repeating a oreat number of Names or Wordes vppon once ~earing ; or the powring fvorth of a m1~1ber of V erfes. or 1\imes ex te1npore; or the n1ak1ng of a s atyrtcall Simile of euerie thing, or the turning of euerie thing to a Iefi, or the falfifying or conrra .. ditti~g ofeuer~e thing by c.auill, or the !ike (vvher. of in the faculttes of the Mznde, th~re 1s great co. pie, ~ndfitch, as by deui[e and praetife tnay bee ex· alted to an extreame degree of woonder ;) than .1 doe of the trickcs of Tumbler-s, Funambu!oes, Ea· lad7ne-s; the one being the fame in the JVI .n:!e, th.at the othe.r is in the bodic rMatters of firangene[e without worthynefle~ . This Art of lrf emorie, is.but built vpon t_wo Intend· . ons: Theone Pr~enotiorJ-; rhe other Er,tz!J/enze : Pr£· n~tiP.n, difchargeth the Indefinite feeking of that we . would ren1ember, and direCteth vs to {eeke -in a narrowe Compalie : that is, fon1ew hat that hath 'Congruitie with our PltJ.re of M erJJorie: ErtJblrn~e re· dticeth conceits intelletluall to Images fenf~le, which firike the Memorte tnore ; out of whtch Axiomes may bee qrawne much· better Praetique, than. that in vfe, and beudes which AxionuJ, th~re are diuers moe, touching helpe of .Jr1t etnorie, not .m· iecior to them. But I did in the beginning diftingtu01; · · · not ' 'The fecond 'Boo~~ 59 report thofe thinges deficient, which are bl,IJ ill Ma~1ag ed, . e ren1_a yneth the fourth kinde of RAT 1 o .. .c · L K No vv LED G E, which is tranfitiue.~ contheexpref~ ing or trttn.iferri~~.our Knowledg ....,ir.arr, which I will tearm.e .by the generall name ~DITIO ' N OR DELIVERIE. TRA- f • oN hath three parres : the firfi concernina b R G A N E 0 F "f R A D I T I 0 N : the fe .. toncerningthe METHoDE OFt R AI o N : And the thirde, concerning the S T RAT I 0 N 0 F T R AD IT I 0 N. the 0RGANE OFTRADITION,itiseiPEECH OR VVRITING: for Arijlot/e ell: lf' orde.s ({rt the Ima~es of CfJ6itations, and •re the I1n11£es oft 'I or des: But yet is not of nethat c o.._~ttatiotts bee expreffed by the .~.v ec(il" o;dts. For wf.,atjottt!r ts c4pab!e of jifficient e.r,~,nd rhoje perceptible by tlu'fenfe; is"'t~ Narpetent toexprefleCo~itario;ts: And therefore in thee otnrnerce of barbarous P~opie, that d not one anothersJanguage'J & in rhe.pradiuers that ar dumb & deafe that mens minds lll't:\Plllal 4 din getlures,though n~t exaaiy' yet [Q turne. And \Ve vnderfland fi1rther, that vfe of CIJ)'1ut, and the Kingdomes of the ~~"·'lTtf, to write in cf,t~ra8crs rea'!, which exher. lettcrs,norworc!s in ero{.(e but Things info tnuch as (ountre'~ and Prouinces, I MLaertt2nd not one anorher~ l<tngnage, can [etead one another \A/ritings, becat1fe · · P p 3 · the ' . |