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a proceeding. Surely, readers in the chair are as 

 the parents in sciences, and deserve to enjoy a con 

 dition not inferior to their children that embrace the 

 practical part ; else no man will sit longer in the 

 chair, than till he can walk to a better preferment : 

 and it will come to pass as Virgil saith, 



&quot; Ut patrum invalidi referant jejunia nati.&quot; 



For if the principal readers, through the meanness of 

 their entertainment, be but men of superficial learn 

 ing, and that they shall take their place but in pas 

 sage, it will make the mass of sciences want the chief 

 and solid dimension, which is depth ; and to become 

 but pretty and compendious habits of practice. 

 Therefore I could wish that in both the universities, 

 the lectures as well of the three professions, divinity, 

 law, and physic ; as of the three heads of science, 

 philosophy, arts of speech, and the mathematics ; 

 were raised in their pensions unto TOO/, per annum 

 apiece : which though it be not near so great as they 

 are in some other places, where the greatness of the 

 reward doth whistle for the ablest men out of all 

 foreign parts to supply the chair ; yet it may be a 

 portion to content a worthy and able man ; if he be 

 likewise contemplative in nature, as those spirits are 

 that are fittest for lectures. Thus may learning in 

 your kingdom be advanced to a farther height ; 

 learning, I say, which under your majesty, the most 

 learned of kings, may claim some degree of eleva 

 tion. 



Concerning propagation of religion, I shall in 



