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F’opisc.jn Tacit.
Pfotarch. in
CorioUno.
Mutropiuti.
Plutarch.
AUiat. tn Em-
Hem,
Of the dignity And necejjity os Learning,
Hence the royall Salmon, above all riches os God3
desired wisdome and understanding, that he might
govern, aj?d go before so mighty a people. And the
ancient Rowans, when their voyces were demanded at
the Ele&ion of their Emperor, cryed with one con-
sent, Quit welior quam Htertm ? Hence the Re'sians
would elest none for their King, except he were a
great Philosopher : and great Alexander acknowledg-
ed his, from his Matter Arijhtle.
Rome savv her best daies under her most learned
King*, and Emperours: as Kama, Augustus, Litus, An-
toninus, Conflantine, Lbeedosnss, and seme others. Plu-
tarch gives the reason : Learning ( saith he ) resorms
the lise and manners, and affords the wholesomest ad-
vice for the government of a Gommon-wealth. I am
not ignorant, but that ( as all goodness else ) she hath
met with her mortall enemies , the Champions of ig-
norance, as Licimus gave for his Mot or Poesy , Peftes
Reipbl‘C£ liter a j and Lewis the eleventh, King of
France, would ever charge his sonne to learn no more
Latine than this, nejcit dijjimulare, neseit regnarey
butthese are the fancies of a few,and those of ignorant
and corrupt judgments.
Since learning then joyned with the fear of God, is
so faithfull a guide, that without it Princes undergo
but lamely ( as Chrysossome saith ) their greatest af-
fairs ; are blind in diseretion, ignorant in know-
ledge, rude and barbarous in manners and liv ing: the
necessity of it in Prinees and Nobility, may easily be
gathered, who, howsoever they flatter themseives with
the savourable Sunshine of their great ettates and For-
tunes, are indeed of no other account and reckoning
with men of wisdome and understanding, than Glo-
worms, that only shine in the dark of Ignorance^ and
are admired of Idiots and the vulgar for the out-ssde§
Statues or huge Col Jfors sull of Lead and rubbijh within^
©r the JFgypian Asse, that thought himsels worshipfull
sor beaming golden Ists upon his back.
F’opisc.jn Tacit.
Pfotarch. in
CorioUno.
Mutropiuti.
Plutarch.
AUiat. tn Em-
Hem,
Of the dignity And necejjity os Learning,
Hence the royall Salmon, above all riches os God3
desired wisdome and understanding, that he might
govern, aj?d go before so mighty a people. And the
ancient Rowans, when their voyces were demanded at
the Ele&ion of their Emperor, cryed with one con-
sent, Quit welior quam Htertm ? Hence the Re'sians
would elest none for their King, except he were a
great Philosopher : and great Alexander acknowledg-
ed his, from his Matter Arijhtle.
Rome savv her best daies under her most learned
King*, and Emperours: as Kama, Augustus, Litus, An-
toninus, Conflantine, Lbeedosnss, and seme others. Plu-
tarch gives the reason : Learning ( saith he ) resorms
the lise and manners, and affords the wholesomest ad-
vice for the government of a Gommon-wealth. I am
not ignorant, but that ( as all goodness else ) she hath
met with her mortall enemies , the Champions of ig-
norance, as Licimus gave for his Mot or Poesy , Peftes
Reipbl‘C£ liter a j and Lewis the eleventh, King of
France, would ever charge his sonne to learn no more
Latine than this, nejcit dijjimulare, neseit regnarey
butthese are the fancies of a few,and those of ignorant
and corrupt judgments.
Since learning then joyned with the fear of God, is
so faithfull a guide, that without it Princes undergo
but lamely ( as Chrysossome saith ) their greatest af-
fairs ; are blind in diseretion, ignorant in know-
ledge, rude and barbarous in manners and liv ing: the
necessity of it in Prinees and Nobility, may easily be
gathered, who, howsoever they flatter themseives with
the savourable Sunshine of their great ettates and For-
tunes, are indeed of no other account and reckoning
with men of wisdome and understanding, than Glo-
worms, that only shine in the dark of Ignorance^ and
are admired of Idiots and the vulgar for the out-ssde§
Statues or huge Col Jfors sull of Lead and rubbijh within^
©r the JFgypian Asse, that thought himsels worshipfull
sor beaming golden Ists upon his back.