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3.) THE SECOND BOOK. "4 
For as water, whether it be the dew of heaven, or the 
springs of the earth, doth scatter and leese itself in the 
ground, except it be collected into some receptacle, where 
it may by union comfort and sustain, itself: and for tha 
cause the industry of man hath made and framed spring- 
heads, conduits, cisterns, and pools, which men have 
accustomed likewise to beautify and adorn with accom- 
plishments of magnificence and state, as well as of use 
and necessity: so this excellent liquor of knowledge, 
whether it descend from divine inspiration, or spring 
from human sense, would soon perish and vanish to 
oblivion, if it were not preserved in books, traditions, 
conferences, and places appointed, as universities, col- 
leges, and schools, for the receipt and comforting of 
the same. 
4. The works which concern the seats and places of 
learning are four; foundations and buildings, endowments 
with revenues, endowments with franchises and privileges, 
institutions and ordinances for government; all tending 
to quietness and privateness of life, and discharge of 
cares and troubles; much like the stations which Virgil 
prescribeth for the hiving of bees : 
Principio sedes apibus statioque petenda, 
Quo neque sit ventis aditus, &c, 
5. The works touching books are two: first, libraries 
which are as the shrines where all the relics of the an- 
cient saints, full of true virtue, and that witheut delusion 
or imposture, are preserved and reposed; secondly, new 
editions of authors, with more correct impressions, more 
faithful translations, more profitable glosses, more diligent 
annotations, and the like. 
6. The works pertaining to the persons of learned men 
(besides the advancement and countenancing of them in 
