I §0 Of the Advancement of Learning. Lib. VL 



there isno drubt but fomewhat muft be left to ufe and Praftice, for 

 Dion. in for vve ought to avoid the precile error oiAntomus Pius^ that we be not 

 Anton.P. Cftfjjifij feUores in Scientits^ Mincers of Commin in fciences '-^ nor that 

 we multiply divifions to the loweft Particularity. Wherefore how we 

 ftiould moderate our (elves in this point is well worth the enquiry. For 

 we fee too remote Generalities, unlefs they be drawn down, do little 

 inform, nay rather expofe Knowledge to the fcorn of Pradical menj 

 and arenomoreaydingtoPrafticej thanna Ortelws'sVMiverfdlAfappis 

 to direft the way between London and Torl^. Surely the better (brt of 

 Rules have not unfitly been compared to Glafles of fteel, wherein you 

 may fee the Images of things, but firft they muft be filed and burnilht : 

 fo Rules and Precepts do then help, after they have been laboured and 

 polifht by Practice 3 but if thofe Rules may be made clear and Chry- 

 ftalline aforehand, it would be the more excellent, becaufe they would 

 left ftand in need of diligence, labour and exercife after. And thui 

 much of the Knorcledge of Method^ which we have named the IVifdom of 

 Delivery. Nor can we here pretermit that many more vain-glorious, 

 than learned have laboured about a Method^ which is not worthy the 

 name ofa lawful Method, (eeing it is rather a Method oflvtpojiurej which 

 yet tofome vaporous, and vain-boafting natures, without doubt hath 

 been moft acceptable. This AMhod doth (b fprinkle drops of any 

 Knowledge, that any half-learned Clerk may with a little fuperficiary 

 Knowledge make a glorious (hew. Such was the Art of LttUiHr-, fuch 

 Luilius. the Typocojmie drawn by many , which were nothing elfe but a heap and 

 mafs of vvords of all Arts, to give men countenance^ that thofe which 

 have the terms of Art, might bethought tounderftand the Arts them- 

 felves. Which kind ofColle*^tons are like a Fripper's or Broker's Ihopj 

 that hath ends of every thing, but nothing of worth. 



HAP. 



HI. 



I Tht Grounds and Duty of Rhetoricl{. II. Three Appendices of Rhe- 

 torickjphich appertain only to the Preparatory Part. The Colours of 

 Cood and Evil^as vpellfimple as Compared.Ul. The Antithcta of things, 

 IV. Lefferjiiles^ or ujual forms offpeech. 



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Ww come we to the KnoTpledge vphich concerneth the jUuJlration of 

 \ Speech'-, it is that which is c2}\^dRhetorick:, or Art of Eloquence^ 

 a Science certainly both excellent in it (elf, and by Authors excellent- 

 ly welllaboured. But Eloquence, if a man value things truly, is with- 

 out doubt inferior to Wifdom. For we (ee how far this leaves that be« 

 Exod.7. hind, in tho(e words o(God to Aiofes, when he difabled himfelffor that 

 (ervice impofed upon him, for want of this F^cw/r^i There is Aaron, he 

 fliall be thy Speaker, thoufl?alt be to him as God. Yet in profit and po- 

 pular efleem, tVifdom gives phce to Eloquence':) for Co Solomon, Sapiens 

 rordc appcl/aturprudens 5 fed dulcis elcquio Major a reperiet i fignifying 

 ^'^^- not obicurely that profoundnef of VTifdom will help a man to fame and ad- 

 miration --i but that it is Eloquence which prevails in bujinef^ and aSivi 



life. 



