A TREATISE 



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m its body jit it ir.a'Ke i ight ute ol its dwelling chcre, Let us coo- 

 fidcr the body of a man,wcU nd ixa&ly fttped in all Ms mem- 

 bcrs;yet if he never ufe care nor pains to excrcife thofe welifia- 

 med 'limbcs ot his ; t* w ill want much of ihofc corporeall per- 

 fections \vhich others *ill have, *ho employ themfedulotflj^ 

 Though his legges, armes,and handes, be'oi an exact fymme- 

 try^yet he will not be able to rufine,to wre(tJe,or to throw a 

 dart, with thofe who labour to perfect themfelves in fuch 

 exercifes: though his fingers beneverfo neatly moulded or 

 <x>mpofed to all advantages of quick and /mart motion; yet if 

 he never learned and praclifed on the Jute^he will not be able 

 with them to make anymufike nponthatinftrument^even 

 after he fecth plainly , and comprefiendeth fully all that the 

 cunningefi Lutenift dothjneither wiJl he be able to play , as 

 he doth with his fiagers,which of themfelves are paradven- 

 ture Ic 5 apt or thofe voluble motions then his are-That which 

 maketh a man dexterous in any of thefe arts , or in any o. 

 ther operation s,proper to any of the partes or Jimbes of his 

 bodyjsthe often repetitions of the fame A6b; which do a- 

 mend^and pet feel thofe limbes in their motions, and which 

 make them fit & ready for the a&ions they are defignedunto. 

 In the fame manner it fareth with the fbule; whole ef- 

 fencerst-hat w-hkrh fiieknoweth : tier feverall knowledge* 

 may be cotrpared^o arme^hands^ngersjegges^hights &c^, 

 in a body: and ail her knowledges taken together , do com- 

 pofe(as I may layjand make her up,what fiie is. Now 3 thofe 

 Jimbes of hers though they be, when they are at the worft, 

 entire,and well fliaped in bulke ( to ufe the comparifon of 

 bodiesjyet they are fufceptible of further perfection , as our 

 corporeall limbes are, by often and orderly uge of them. 

 When we iterate our afts of our understanding any object, 

 the fecond acl: is of trie fame nature^ as the flrft, the third as 

 the fecond.,and fo.of the reft : every -one-of which perfe&eth 

 the underftanding of that thing . and of all that dependeth 

 upon the knowledge of it 3 and maketh it become more vigo- 

 rous and ftron;even the often throw ngofa boule at the 

 fame marke.begetteth ftill more and more ilrength and juli 

 aefie in the Arme that delivereth it for.rr can not be denyed - 







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