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cautions of application; so that in all these it doth rectify 
more effectually than it can pervert. And these medicines 
it conveyeth into men’s minds much more forcibly by the 
quickness and penetration of examples. For let a man 
look into the errors of Clement the seventh, so lively 
described by Guicciardine, who served under him, or into 
the errors of Cicero, painted out by his own pencil in his 
Epistles to Atticus, and he will fly apace from being 
irresolute. Let him look into the errors of Phocion, and 
he will beware how he be obstinate or inflexible. Let 
him but read the fable of Ixion, and it will hold him 
from being vaporous or imaginative. Let him look into 
the errors of Cato the second, and he will never be one 
of the Antipodes, to tread opposite to the present world. 
5. And for the conceit that learning should dispose 
men to leisure and privateness, and make men slothful ; 
it were a strange thing if that which accustometh the mind 
to a perpetual motion and agitation should induce sloth- 
fulness: whereas contrariwise it may be truly affirmed, 
that no kind of men love business for itself but those that 
are learned; for other persons love it for profit, as an 
hireling, that loves the work for the wages; or for honour, 
as because it beareth them up in the eyes of men, and 
refresheth their reputation, which otherwise would wear; 
or because it putteth. them in mind of their fortune, and 
giveth them occasion to pleasure and displeasure; or 
because it exerciseth some faculty wherein they take 
pride, and so entertaineth them in good humour and 
pleasing conceits toward themselves; or because it 
advanceth any other their ends. So that as it is said 
of untrue valours, that some men’s valours are in the 
eyes of them that look on; so such men’s industries 
are in the eyes of others, or at least in regard of their 
