And yet peraduenture in all points it may not be so taken, but
in such onely as may discouer his grossenes or his ignorance by*
some schollerly affectation : which thing is very irkesome to aU
men of good trayning, and specially to Courtiers. And yet for all
that our maker may not be in all cases restrayned, but that he may
both Yse, and also manifest his arte to his great praise, and need no
more beashamed thereof, than a shomaker to haue made a cleanly
shoe, or a Carpenter to haue buylt a faire house. Therefore to dis-
cusse and make this point somewhat cleerer, to weete, where arte
ought io appeare, and where not, and when the naturall is more
commendeble than the artificiall in any humane action or work*
manship, we wil examine it further by this distinction.
In some cases we say arte is an ayde and coadiutor to nature,
and a fiirtherer of her actions to good effisct, or peraduenture a
meane to supply her wants, by renforcing the causes wherein shoe
is impotent and defectiue, as doth the arte of plusicke, by helping
the naturall concoction, retention, distribution, expulsion, and other
Tertues, in a weake and ynhealthie bodie. Or as the good gar*

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