L I B. I. of the Adancement of Learning. 1 1 



imputations upon Learnings which redargution neverthelefs, favethat 

 we know not whether our labours may extend to other ages, feemsnot 

 fo needful for the prefent , feeing the afpeft and favour of two moft 

 learned Princes {^een Elizabeth and Tour Majeffji , being as C^Jior 

 and Pollux, Lucida Siclera, Stars of a raofl: benign influence) hath 

 wrought in us of Britain^y^ r^uch love and reverence towards Learning. 



Chap. III. 



I. Djfcredits of Learning from Learned mens Fortunes , Manners, 

 Nature of ftudies. II. In the Fortunes fcarcity of Means ^ § Oh- 

 fcurity of life. § Meannefs of Imployment. Ill, In their Manners, 

 ■foo Regular for the times, §. Too fenfible of the good of others,and 

 ncgleciive of their own. ^ They fail in applying themjelves to Parti- 

 cular Perjons. § They fail in fontc points of Behaviour. ^ Grofs 

 Flattery pracfis'd by fofne Learned--) ^ Injiiincedin the Modern De- 

 ii cat ion of Bookj. ^. Difcreet Morigeration alloxped. 



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I. 1W lOwceme we to the third (brt of Difcredit or Diminution of 

 [^ Credit, that redounds upon Learning from learned men them- 

 ielves , which commonly cleaveth fafteft. It is derived either from 

 their Sgrtune, or from their Manners, or from the Nature of their Jiudies , 

 wherrof the firft is not in their power j the fecond is not to the point 5 

 lb as the third alonefeemeth properly to fall into enquiry : but becaule 

 we are not in hand with the true value of things , but with popular 

 eftimation, it will not be amifsto inlinuate fomewhat ahbof the two • 

 former. 



II. The Derogations therefore^or Diminutions of Credit which grow 

 to Learning from the fortune of the Learned men , are taken either 

 from their Poverty and Scarcity of Means , or from their ohfcure and pri- 

 vate courfe of Life j or from the meannefs of imployment wherein they are 

 converfant. 



§. As concerning rf4?/7f, and that ulually is the cafe of Learned men, 

 that they are poor^ and commonly begin with little, and grow not rich 

 fofaft as other men, which convert their labours cheifly to lucre and 

 encreafe; it were good to leave the common Place in Cammendatioa 

 oi Poverty to (bme Frier Mendicant to handle, (if by their leaves I may 

 be fo bold) to whom much was attributed by Alachiavei/ in this point, Deii.Hi^. 

 when h»*^d, that the Kingdom of the clergie had been long before at an Ficr.Ub.i.' 

 end^ if the reputation and reverence towards the poverty of Friers and 

 Monkj^ had not born out the fcandals of the fuperfiiities and excejfes of 

 Biffwps aud Prelates : (b a man might (ay that the felicity and magnifi- 

 cence of Princes and great Perfons, had long fince turned toBarbarilm 

 and Rudenefs, if the Poverty of Learning had not kept up civility and 

 honour of life. But without fuch advantages of hunting after the 

 prai(e thereof it is worthy obfervatioUjWhatalacredand reverend thing 

 Poverty of Fortune was , for fome ages in the Koman State, which yec 

 was a State without Paradoxes : For thus fiiih Titus Livius in his in* 



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