48 OF THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. [VI. 10. 
\ another place, Qui factt Arcturum, et Oriona, et Hyadas, et 
intertora Austri ; where again he takes knowledge of the 
depression of the southern pole, calling it the secrets of 
the south, because the southern stars were in that climate 
~ unseen. Matter of generation; Axnon-sicut lac mulsist 
me, et stcut caseum coagulasti me P &c. Matter of minerals ; 
Habet argentum venarum suarum principia: et auro locus 
est in quo conflatur, ferrum de terra tollitur, et lapis solutus 
calore in es vertitur : and so forwards in that chapter. 
PAs So likewise in the person of Salomon the king, we 
Vv f ce the gift or endowment of wisdom and learning, both 
2 in Salomon’s petition and in God’s assent thereunto, 
preferred before all other terrene and temporal felicity. 
By virtue of which grant or donative of God prise 
became enabled not only to write those excellent parable 
or aphorisms concerning divine and moral philosophy ; 
but also to compile a natural history of all verdure, from 
(4 the cedar upon the mountain to the moss upon the wall 
(which is but a rudiment between putrefaction and an 
herb), and also of all things that breathe or move. Nay, 
the same Salomon the king, although he excelled in the 
glory of treasure and magnificent buildings, of shipping 
and navigation, of service and attendance, of fame and 
renown, and the like, yet he maketh no claim to any of 
those glories, but only to the glory of inquisition of truth; 
i, for so he saith expressly, Zhe glory of God ts to conceal a 
thing, but the glory of the king ts to find tt out ; as if, accord- 
ing to the innocent play of children, the Divine Majesty 
took delight to hide his works, to the end to have them 
found out; and as if kings could not obtain a greater 
honour than to be God’s playfellows in that game; con- 
sidering the great commandment of wits and means, 
whereby nothing needeth to be hidden from them. 
