3.] THE SECOND ROOK. 77 



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 that 

 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 : 



Principle sedes apibus statioque petencla, 

 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 without delusion 

 or imposture, are preserved and reposed ; secondly, new 

 editions of authors, with more correct impressions 

 faithful translations, more profitable glosses, more diligen 

 annotations, and the like. 



6. The works pertaining to the persons of learned men 

 (besides the advancement and countenancing of them in 



, more 

 liligent^ J 



