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' Diligite inimicos vestros, benefacite eis qui oderunt 

 vos, et orate pro persequentibus et calumniantibus 

 vos, ut sitis filii Patris vestri qui in coelis est, qui solem 

 suum oriri facit super bonos et maios, et pluit super 

 justos et injustos.' So in the first platform of the 

 divine nature itself, the heathen religion speaketh thus, 

 ' Optimus Maximus ' : and the sacred scriptures thus, 

 ' Misericordia ejus super omnia opera ejus.' 



16. Wherefore I do conclude this part of moral know- 

 ledge, concerning the culture and regiment of the mind ; 

 wherein if any man, considering the parts thereof which 

 I have enumerated, do judge that my labour is but to 

 collect into an art or science that which hath been pre- 

 termitted by others, as matter of common sense and 

 experience, he judgeth well. But as Philocrates sported 

 with Demosthenes, ' You may not marvel (Athenians) 

 that Demosthenes and I do differ ; for he drinketh 

 water, and I drink wine ' ; and like as we read of an 

 ancient parable of the two gates of sleep. 



Sunt geminae somni portae: quarum altera fertur 

 Cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris: 

 Altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, 

 Sed falsa ad coelum mittunt insomuia manes: 



so if we put on sobriety and attention, we shall find it 

 a sure maxim in knowledge, that the more pleasant 

 liquor {of wine) is the more vaporous, and the braver 

 gate {of ivory) sendeth forth the falser dreams. 



17. But we have now concluded that general part 

 of human philosophy, which contemplateth man segre- 

 gate, and as he consisteth of body and spirit. Wherein 

 we may further note, that there seemeth to be a rela- 

 tion or conformity between the good of the mind and 

 the good of the body. For as we divided the good of 

 the body into health, beauty, strength, and pleasure ; 

 so the good of the mind, inquired in rational and moral 

 knowledges, tendeth to this, to make the mind sound, 

 and without perturbation ; beautiful, and graced with 

 decency ; and strong and agile for all duties of life. 

 These three, as in the body, so in the mind, seldom meet, 



