Lib. VI. Of the Advancement of Learning, \o^ 



without their ll/iijiratiotts and Reprehenfions , which at this time we 

 have now leifure to perfedtand digeft 3 wherefore we thought it in- 

 congruous to expofe thofe Colours naked, without their lUuJirations ^ 

 (eeing thefe other come abroad attired. Yet thns much in the meaa 

 time we adraonifli, that this branch of knowledge, in our judgement, 

 whatfbevcr it may fecm, is of no contemptible confequence, but a 

 matter of high price and ufe, as that which participates both oi Primi- 

 tive, Thilofophy, of rolicy, and of Rhcthorick. Thus much of popular 

 marks, or of the Colours of Good and Evil in apparence, as welljimple as 

 comparative. 



111. A fecond coIledion,which appertains to axeady provi^on, or pre- * 

 paratoryjiore, is that which Cicero intimates (as we have noted before ^^l{\ 

 inLogic^") where he gives it in Precept, that we have Common-places keru'm,' 

 in ready preparation argued and handled Pro and Contra^ fuch as are, ^"^"'*- 

 For the vpords and letters of Law , for the fetice dttd hiind of Lave , and 

 the like. And we extend this Precept to other things alfo j as that 

 it may be applied , not only to 'judicial Forms , but td Delibera- 

 live and Demonstrative alio. Generally this is it we would have done 5 

 namely, that we have all places, whereof there is more frequent ule 

 (vphether vpe refpeS Probations and Confutations, or Perfwaftons and Dif~ 

 fwajions, or Praifes and Vituperations ^') ftadied and meditated before- 

 hand , and the fame extoll'd and deprefled by the higheft (train's of 

 Wit and Invention j and perverfely wrefted, as it were, of purpole ut- 

 terly beyond Truth. And in our opinion the manner of this Col/e- 

 Sion , as well for ufe as for brevity, would be the beft, if (uch common- 

 places, and feeds of feveral Arguments were abridg'd and caft up into 

 ibme brief and acute fentences, as into Skains or Bottoms of Thread 

 to be drawn out , and unwinded into larger Dilcourfes as occafion 

 Ihould be prefented. A Col/e&ion in this nature we find in Seneca^ but s<n. Con- 

 in (uppofitions only,or Cafes. Of this fort(in regard we have many ready ''*« 

 prepared J we thought good to fet down (bme of them for example: 

 Thefe we call Antitheta Rerum. 



Examples of the Antitheta. 



NOBILITY. L 



Pro. Contra. 



THey whofe vertue is altogether T^ "T Obility feldom fprings from 



derived from the fioc^jthcfe \^\\ f^ertue ^ I'ertue more fel- 



not only have not a tvill,but -*- ^ dom from Nobility. '^. 



want a power to be wicked. Nobles by birth more often ufe the ti 



. .Nobility is a. Garland of Bays , intercejjion of their Anccjiors for 



vhcrewith time CroTpns men. Pardon, than their fuffr age for Ho- 



We reverence Antiquity even in nours. 



dead Monuments , how much more The ifidufiry ofnere rifing men is 



in living. oftentimes fuch, as 'Nohlescompar'd 



with them are but Statues. 



Bb 2 ff 



