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but the body changed, shall be advanced to immortality, 

 do disclaim in these rudiments of the senses. But it must 

 be remembered both in this last point, and so it may likewise 

 be needful in other places, that in probation of the dignity of 

 knowledge or learning, I did in the beginning separate divine 

 testimony from human, which method I have pursued, and so 

 handled them both apart. 



Nevertheless I do not pretend, and I know it will be 

 impossible for me, by any pleading of mine, to reverse the 

 judgment, either of .^Esop's cock, that preferred the barley- 10 

 corn before the gem ; or of Midas, that being chosen judge 

 between Apollo president of the Muses, and Pan god of the 

 flocks, judged for plenty ; or of Paris, that judged for beauty 

 and love against wisdom and power ; or of Agrippina, 

 Occidat matrem, modo imperet, [Let him kill his mother, provided 

 that he become Emperor,] that preferred empire with any con 

 dition never so detestable ; or of Ulysses, Qui vetulam 

 prcetulit immortalitati, [who preferred an old woman to im 

 mortality^ being a figure of those which prefer custom and 

 habit before all excellency ; or of a number of the like 20 

 popular judgments. For these things continue as they have 

 been : but so will that also continue whereupon learning hath 

 ever relied, and which faileth not : Justificata est sapientia a 

 Jiliis suis [ Wisdom is justified by her children.] 



