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teich horfes, dogges, apes, hawkes , parrats , and Come kind ot 

 fifties, to hunt, to play,and in a word, to doe fomewhat either tor 

 our profit , or for our plcafure : and again, by others we ufe their 

 natures to our ends; as when wee lay baits to catch them , when 

 when we fetegges under hennes, to have the chickens, and the 

 like : by other arts, we Work as powerfully upon iofenfible crea- 

 tures; among which, by knowing the natures of divers trees, 

 herbcs, minerals, &c. we are able to bring any of them to whit 

 ufefoeverwefind moft expedient for our fervice: from hence 

 grow all thofc arts and trades , in which we fee men dayly fpend 

 their whole lives ; fo as it is needlefle to infill upon the par- 

 ticulars of them, fince Townes and the Cities are cornpofcd 

 of the fcverall Tribes of perfons that profeflc them and live by 

 them. 



But we muft not leave this fubj'cft , without noting how ad- 

 mirably mans wit turneth it felfe to fo different forts , and to 

 fachan infinite variety of things.For what man is there,(if he be 

 a manj but might have become Mafterin any of thefe fo differing 

 trades, in cafe he had applycd himfelfe as conftantly to that , as 

 he hath done to fome other he is perfect in? Agiine , let us confi- 

 der how it happcneth often , that hee deth not the fame thing 

 twice the fame way, but according to his own , or another mans 

 fanfi,changeth his work at will, now doing it after ene fafhion, 

 now after another; as having no law or determination from na- 

 ture, but being wholly left to his own: direction. 



There remaineth one art, not yet fpoken of; which knoweth * * 

 not where to challenge a place, whether among the moderatours?^ r 

 of our owne actions, or among thofe whereby we to vern things: 

 and that is Arithmetickf : which fcemeth to belong unto things, 

 and yet it medleth not with them: andagaine, it feemeth to be a 

 maine direftour of our internall actions, and yet beloageth nei- 

 ther to Mards, ner to Logicke. Whercfoever its due be to place 

 k, I am furc its not to be forgotten ; feeing it is fo principall an 

 one, as our life can hardly confift without it. It worketh upon 

 notions that are no where ; for every thing that is in the world, 

 is but one; and to be, or to make a number, cannet happen with- 

 out an underftanding .- the affeftions likcwife of them , are as the 

 fubjecT:, all in vifible; as to be even or odde, to be cubes , fquares, 

 rootes, &c. and yet how 1 great the power and extent of this 



Ccc 3 art 



