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THESBCONS BeOKECHAP.ZII. )ij

Cittro reproveth tome of hii fnetida, beeaiiw Ctffltempt
ihey were wont to beitow mote tlm* about ''^^*?*
Attrology, Law, Lo^lte, and Geometi^i than ^f^™,
■tth Arts could deterre; and diverted' Ihtm ^g^
from the deroin of thdr life, more ivofii^t
and more honeM; The Cjreamie PhitoM^ifaei:*
equally contemned naturall PhiloMp)^ and
Lrf>gicke. Zmo in the beginning of hia^ bookd
ftf the ComnwD-wealth declared all the liberall
Scieocea to be unprofitable. Cbrjt^pmt taiA
that which Plate and jMinoIr Had ^written, of
Logike, they had written the aame iojeit and
for exercite take; and coald not beleere that
evcT' they spak» in good •amen of to vain*
audi idle a nibjecL Plutarte eaith .the .aame of
the Mecaphysikea; ^^ccunu would hare said it
of Rethorikc, of Grammar, t^ Poeaie, of the
Ma^ematikes, and (exc^t naturall Philosophy)
of all other iciences i Aod Soeraiet of all ; but
of the Art of cinll manBcn and litcj :What-
•oever he was demanded of any man, he would
ever fim eoijirire of him, to give an, accompt of
bia- life, both prcBeiTt and pait : whic^ he would
terimwly examine and judge of: Deeming all
other apprentiihips la tubsequente utd of siipere-
rogation in regard of that. Pttmrn tmhipiaceaal
tM Rterie qut admrtattm doetorOut tMlpraJvenaa.
