CCCC LIKE OF BACON. 



thority, it is transferred to the disesteeming of those 

 employments wherein youth is conversant, and which are 

 conversant about youth. But how unjust this traduce- 

 ment is, if you will reduce things from popularity of 

 opinion to measure of reason, may appear in that, we see 

 men are more curious what they put into a new vessel, than 

 into a vessel seasoned ; and what mould they lay about 

 a young plant, than about a plant corroborate ; so as the 

 weakest terms and times of all things used to have the best 

 applications and helps ; and, therefore, the ancient wisdom 

 of the best times did always make a just complaint, that 

 states were too busy with their laws, and too negligent in 

 point of education : which excellent part of ancient disci 

 pline hath been in some sort revived of late times, by the 

 colleges of the Jesuits; of whom, although in regard of their 

 superstition I may say, quo mellores, eo deteriores ; yet in 

 regard of this, and some other points concerning human 

 learning and moral matters, I may say, as Agesilaus said 

 to his enemy Pharnabasus, Tails qunm sis, utinam noster 

 esses&quot; (a} 



His application was not successful ; the King answered 

 that it had been designed for Sir William Beecher, but 

 that there was some hope that, by satisfying him elsewhere, 

 his majesty might be able to comply with the request. 

 Sir William was satisfied by the promise of 2500, but 

 the provostship was given to Sir Henry Wotton,(6) &quot;who 

 had for many years, like Sisiphus, rolled the restless stone 

 of a state employment; knowing experimentally that the 

 o-reat blessing of sweet content was not to be found in 

 multitudes of men or business : and, that a college was 

 the fittest place to nourish holy thoughts, and to afford 



(a) Advancement of Learning, vol. ii. p. 26. 

 r t&amp;gt;} Wotton s Remains. 



