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their great jangesées and donatives, and distributions of — 
lands to so many* legions. And_no doubt it is hard to 
say whether. arms or learning have advanced _ greater 
numbers. And in case of sovereignty we see, that if arms 
or dean HANG Camicd away the kingdom, yet learning 
hath cdrried the priesthood, which ever hath been in some 
competition with empire. 
5. Again, for the pleasure and delight of eeledas 
and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature. For, ) 
shall the @leasures of the affections so exceed the plea- 
sure gf the sense, as much as the obtaining of desire or 
victory exceedeth 4 song or a dinner? and must not of 
consequence the pleasures of the intellect or understand- 
ing exceed the pleasures of the affections? We see in all 
other pleasures there is satiety, and after they be used, 
their verdure departeth ; which showeth well they be but 
deceits of pleasure, and not pleasures: arid that it ‘was 
the novelty whith pleased, and not the quality. And 
therefore we see that voluptuous men turn friars, and 
ambitious princes turn melancholy. But of knowledge 
there is no satiety, but satisfaction and appetite are per- 
petually interchangeable; and therefore appeareth to be 
good in itself simply, without fallacy or accident. Nei- 
ther is that..pleasure of small efficacy and contentment 
to the mind of*man, which the poet Lucretius describeth 
elegantly, ~~ 
Suave mari magno, turbantibus zquora ventis, &e. 
It ts a view of delight (saith he) ¢o stand or walk upon 
the shore stde, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon the 
sea; or to be ina fortified tower, and to see two batiles join 
upon a plain. But it ts a pleasure incomparable, for the 
mind of man to be setiled, landed, and fortified in the cer- 
tainty of truth ; and from thence to descry and behold the 
