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they lay about a young plant than about a plant cor- 
roborate; so as the weakest terms and times of all things 
use to have the best applications and helps. And will. 
you hearken to the Hebrew rabbins? Your young men “ 
shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams ; say 
they youth is the worthier age, for that visions are nearer 
apparitions of God than dreams? And let it be noted, 
that howsoever the condition of life of pedantes hath been 
scorned upon theatres, as the ape of tyranny ; and that 
the modern looseness or negligence hath taken no due 
regard to the choice of schoolmasters and tutors; yet the 
ancient wisdom of the best times did always make a just 
complaint, that states were too busy with their laws and 
too negligent in point of education: which excellent part 
of ancient discipline hath been in some sort revived of 
late times by the colleges of the Jesuits; of whom, al- 
though in regard of their superstition I may say, Quo 
meliores, eo detertores; yet in regard to this, and some 
other points concerning human learning and moral mat- 
ters, I may say, as Agesilaus said to his enemy Pharna- 
bazus, Zalis qguum sis, utinam noster esses, And thus 
much touching the discredits drawn from the fortunes of 
learned men. a 
4. As touching the manners of learned men, it is a 
thing personal and individual: and no doubt there be 
amongst them, as in other professions, of all tempera- 
tures: but yet so as it is not without truth which is said, 
that Adbeunt studia in mores, studies have an influence and 
operation upon the maniiers of those that are conversant 
in them. 
5. But upon an attentive and indifferent review, I for 
my part cannot find any disgrace to learning can pro- 
ceed from the manners of learned men; not inherent 
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