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which men have accustomed likewise to beautify and 

 adorn with accomplishments of magnificence and state, 

 as well as of use and necessity : so this excellent liquor 

 of knowledge, whether it descend from divine inspira- 

 tion, or spring from human sense, would soon perish 

 and vanish to oblivion, if it were not preserved in 

 books, traditions, conferences, and places appointed, 

 as universities, colleges, and schools, for the receipt 

 and comforting of the same. 



4. The works which concern the seats and places of 

 learning are four ; foundations and buildings, endow- 

 ments with revenues, endowments with franchises and 

 privileges, institutions and ordinances for government ; 

 all tending to quietness and privateness of life, and 

 discharge of cares and troubles ; much like the stations 

 which Virgil prescribeth for the hiving of bees : 



Principio sedes apibus statioque petenda. 

 Quo neque sit ventis aditus, &c. 



5. The works touching books are two : first, libraries 

 which are as the shrines where all the relics of the 

 ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without 

 delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed ; 

 secondly, new editions of authors, with more correct 

 impressions, more faithful translations, more profitable 

 glosses, more diligent annotations, and the like. 



6. The works pertaining to the persons of learned 

 men (besides the advancement and countenancing of 

 them in general) are two : the reward and designation 

 of readers in sciences aheady extant and invented ; 

 and the reward and designation of writers and inquirers 

 concerning any parts of learning not sufficiently laboured 

 and prosecuted. 



7. These are summarily the works and acts, wherein 

 the merits of many excellent princes and other worthy 

 personages have been conversant. As for any par- 

 ticular commemorations, I call to mind what Cicero 

 said, when he gave general thanks ; ' Difficile non 

 ahquem, ingratum quenquam praeterire.' Let us 

 rather, according to the scriptures, look unto that part 



