PLAN OF THE WORK. XV11 



" Hee should be a goode knower of countries, and 

 well used to high wayes, that by taking the readiest 

 pathes to every lake, brook, or river, his journies may 

 be more certaine and lesse wearisome. Hee should have 

 knowledge of proportions of all sorts, whether circular, 

 square, or diametricale, that when hee shall be ques- 

 tioned of his diurnall progresses, hee may give a geo- 

 graphical description of the angles and channels of 

 rivers, how they fall from their heads, and what com- 

 passes they fetch in their several windings. Hee must 

 also have the perfect art of numbering, that in the 

 sounding of lakes or rivers, hee may know how many 

 foot or inches each severally contayneth, and by adding, 

 subtracting, or multiplying the same, hee may yeeld 

 the reason of every river's swift or slow current. Hee 

 should not be unskillfull in musick, that whensoever 

 either melancholy, heavinesse of his thought, or the 

 perturbations of his owne fancies, stirreth up sadnesse 

 in him, hee may remove the same with some godly 

 hymne or an theme, of which David gives him ample 

 examples. 



" Hee must then be full of humble thoughts, not 

 disdaining, when occasion commands, to kneele, lye 

 down, or wet his feet or fingers, as oft as there is any 

 advantage given thereby unto the gaining the end of 

 his labour. Then hee must be strong and valiant, 

 neither to be amazed with storm es nor affrighted 

 with thunder, but to hold them according to their na- 

 turall causes and the pleasure of the Highest : neither 

 must he, like the foxe, which preyeth upon lambs, 

 imploy all his labour against the smallest frie, but, like 

 the lyon, that seazeth elephants, thinke the greatest 



