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whereupon Dionysius stayed and gave him the hearing, 
and granted it; and afterward some person, tender on 
the behalf of philosophy, reproved Aristippus that he 
would offer the profession of philosophy such an indig- 
nity as for a private suit to fall at a tyrant’s feet: but he 
answered, J¢ was not his fault, but tt was the fault of 
Dionysius, that had his ears tn his feet. Neither was it 
accounted weakness but discretion in him that would not 
dispute his best with Adrianus Cesar; excusing himself, 
That tt was reason to yield to him that commanded thirty 
legions. These and the like applications and stooping to 
points of necessity and convenience cannot be disallow- 
ed; for though they may have some outward baseness, 
yet in a judgement truly made they are to be accounted 
coment 
~~ |TV) 1. Now I proceed to itl errors and vanities ‘Ngee 
which have intervened amongst the studies themselves 7 - 
of the learned, which is that which is principal and 
proper to the present argument ; wherein my ly purpose is 
not to inake-w justification” of the” errors, but by a_censure 
that which is good and sound, and to deliver that from 
ea . or we see that it 1s the 
manner of men to scandalize and deprave that which 
retaineth the state and virtue, by taking advantage upon 
that which is corrupt and degenerate: as the heathens 
in the primitive church used to blemish and taint the 
Christians with the faults and corruptions of heretics. 
But nevertheless I have no meaning at this time to make 
any exact animadversion of the errors and impediments 
in matters of learning, which are more secret and remote 
from vulgar opinion, but only to speak unto such as do 
fall under or near unto a popular observation. 
