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Of the styli in speahjng and writing. See.
How to keep
your books#
Gentie-man,tbe Porch; of a Citizen, the carved gate
and painted pofts carry away the glory from the reft;
so is it with our common Authors ; if they have any
wit at all, they set it, like Velvet, before, though the
back,like (a bankrupt’s doublet) be but of poldavy or
buckram.
A not,as sonie do,that bookish Ambition, fo be
s ored with books and have wed furnished Libraries.yet
keep their heads empty of knowledge : To dejSreto
have many books,and never to use them, tslikf a child
that ro ll have a candle burning by him, all the while he is
seeping.
Laftly, have a care of keeping your books handsoai,
and well bound,nor calling away overmuch in their gil-
ding or stringing for ostentation sake, like the prayer-
books of girls and gallants,which are carried to Church
blit for their out-sides. Yet for your ©wn use spare them
not for noting or encerlining (if they be printed);for it
is not likely you mean to be a gainer by them, when
you have done with them: neither luffer them through
negligence to mould and bemoath-eaten,or want their
sirings and covers.
The anfwer of King Alpkonsus about to lay the foundation of a Ca-
King Alphonjus, stle at Naples^caMed for Vitruvius his book os Archite*
concerning Vi- sturc; the book was brought,in very bad case,all dusty,
and without covers : which the King observing, Paid,,
He tkatmust cover us all, must not go uncovered himsels :
then commanded the book to be sairly bound and
brought unto him. So say I,Suffer them nor to ly e neg-
lected, who must make you regarded ; and go in tom
ck>ths,who must apparel your mind with the ornaments
of knowledge, above the robes and riches of the moil
Magnificent Princes.
To avoid the inconvenience of mothes and mouldi-
ness,Ietyour study be placed,and your windows open,
if it may be,toWards the East. For where ic looketh
South or West, the air being ever subjesl to moisture,
Biothes are bred and darkiftmesse encreased, whereby
you?:
ttuvm.
Mapps and Pi
sturcs.
Of the styli in speahjng and writing. See.
How to keep
your books#
Gentie-man,tbe Porch; of a Citizen, the carved gate
and painted pofts carry away the glory from the reft;
so is it with our common Authors ; if they have any
wit at all, they set it, like Velvet, before, though the
back,like (a bankrupt’s doublet) be but of poldavy or
buckram.
A not,as sonie do,that bookish Ambition, fo be
s ored with books and have wed furnished Libraries.yet
keep their heads empty of knowledge : To dejSreto
have many books,and never to use them, tslikf a child
that ro ll have a candle burning by him, all the while he is
seeping.
Laftly, have a care of keeping your books handsoai,
and well bound,nor calling away overmuch in their gil-
ding or stringing for ostentation sake, like the prayer-
books of girls and gallants,which are carried to Church
blit for their out-sides. Yet for your ©wn use spare them
not for noting or encerlining (if they be printed);for it
is not likely you mean to be a gainer by them, when
you have done with them: neither luffer them through
negligence to mould and bemoath-eaten,or want their
sirings and covers.
The anfwer of King Alpkonsus about to lay the foundation of a Ca-
King Alphonjus, stle at Naples^caMed for Vitruvius his book os Archite*
concerning Vi- sturc; the book was brought,in very bad case,all dusty,
and without covers : which the King observing, Paid,,
He tkatmust cover us all, must not go uncovered himsels :
then commanded the book to be sairly bound and
brought unto him. So say I,Suffer them nor to ly e neg-
lected, who must make you regarded ; and go in tom
ck>ths,who must apparel your mind with the ornaments
of knowledge, above the robes and riches of the moil
Magnificent Princes.
To avoid the inconvenience of mothes and mouldi-
ness,Ietyour study be placed,and your windows open,
if it may be,toWards the East. For where ic looketh
South or West, the air being ever subjesl to moisture,
Biothes are bred and darkiftmesse encreased, whereby
you?:
ttuvm.
Mapps and Pi
sturcs.