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Show Of the a~uancement of learning~ . iuet1iRule howe f~rr·e one knowledge ought to ~rc:rmeddte wi~n the Prouinc e of another, w hicb, i~ tlie ule the.y.call Kct9~wro. The other giuet h Rtde, vnt~- what degree of p~rticul~r~tie) a knowledge fuould.dt{cend.:: whic.hlatter I.hnde pafied ouer in. filence ;, being in my Judg~tnent,the more tnateri~ :til. For certainely, there mufi bee fotnewhat left. ~ w.pratlife. ;_ but howe much is \V~rthy the·E~q.ni~ , r:ie : \vee: fee remote and fuper.fictall Generaltues,. · doe but otter l(nowledge, to fcorne of pra~icall . m · andarenomore ayding to praetife, than an, ()r;tlius v.niuerfaU Mappe, is to .iirea the way betweene London a.nd r orkt. The better. fort ofi · Rule , haue beene not vnfitly compared, to -g!atTes . gfft~~lev.npullifued; where you n1ay fee thelma~ ges o£ tninges' but fir.fi they mufi bee filed : s~· De ProJu .. the Rules 'YY.ill helpe., if they bee lab~~1red and put. n. · A lifucd· by pra8ife. B11t howe C l1rtflallyne they; "stone x- c· c. 1 h. ~~a_tnm. may bee ma~e_at t~ firft, and h?\Ve l-arre IO.rt 1 ~ ~y · may be puHifued·afore-hand, ts the q;t~fbon, the· · ~nquirie whereof, {eeemeth to me detictenr •. There hath beene alfG..laboured; and put 1n pr~~ iife a.. ll:tethod.t, whi~h is not a law full J1ethode,buta~ .~.v tthodt of Impoft.ure; which is to deliu~r know· l~dges in fuch manner, as men may fpeedtly. comel· , tO· make a lhewe of·Learning·, who haue~tnor~ .. . · f~ch was the trauaile of: Raymundtu LuUiHS, 10 rna· Joing that (./frt, which_beares his name ·~ norvn~ ljJce.to . fom.e,. Bookes of Typorofony, wh1ch haue, ~~.ma_d.e: finc.,e ;., bCeing. nothing but a Ma:. . '7"'he ftCond 'Boo'<!. , ·· .'66 tlvf.ds of all ·Arts; to giue men countenance~ that fe which v{e the tearmes; n1ight bee ~hought ..... ""~~rftand the t\rt; which Colleaions are much a Frippers or. Broker.s :>ho~pe; that ha~h ends ~erie thing, but nothtng of \VOrth • . owe wee defcend to that part, which concer...,, n"theiLLVSRATION OF TRADITION~ ~rehended in th~t Science , which wee call M ! T 0 R I C K E, 0 R A R T 0 F E L 0· E·N c EJ A Science excellent, and excellentelllaboured • ., For although. in true value, it · eriour to Wifed orne, as it is fayd by God ra· fiJ I when ~e difabled himfelfe, for want of this ,···~, · LA aronfhall bee thy Speaker,. and.thou fhalt 'M 11a:'hi.m as God .· Yet with people it ·is the more _ · ie • For fo Salomon fayth : Sapiens Cor de ap.,; Prudms, fod dulcis F./oqteio Maiora rept- . : Signifying that profoundnc£fe o_f ~ifc:do.me, . · 411iW~pe a Man· to a Nam~ or A.dmt~auon ; ~ut i~ Eloquence, that ·preuayleth tn an aettue · · And as to the labouring ·of it, the Emulati-f c::Arijlotle, with the Rhetoricians ·of his time, 'lt'.Mi~.:exp'e!!ience of cicero, hath made them iA ~~~~;uorkes of Rhetorickes, exceede~hem(elues. the excellencie of Exatnples of Etoquenct., Orations of Demof/henes and cicero$ ad .. the perfeC\:io~1 oft~~ Pr~cep~s of Elo1'"enc~, · leo the progreiSlon· n.thls Ar.re .: ~d MMr'~t~fhe Deficienc·es which I iliall note, w1M _ l'i.~!C' in fome Goltetlions , which may ~ R .r 2. Hanel- |