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fufficient. ^s for example^ if a m^n maybe Bird-rv/ttcdj that is.quick- 

 ly carried away, and hath not the patient faculty of attention , the Ma- 

 ibematicks gwta. remedy thereunto, wherein, if the wit be caught a- 

 way but for a moment, the demonftration is new to begin. 



^ So ofexercrjes in courfe of teachings there is matter of great ccfffc' 

 fjuence : but there is\a point here that kith been noted of few, that there 

 flwtddbe ofexercifes^ not only a rvife injlitution, but aljo a wife intermijfion. 

 It hath been excellently obferved by Cicero, That in exerdfes it often 

 falls out ^ that men praSife as well their faults, as their faculties •-, fb that 

 an /// habit is fometimes gotten, and infinuates it felf together with a 

 Good'-) wherefore it is a fafer way to break exercises, and after to fall 

 to them again, than inceflantly to purfue and prels them. But ofthefr 

 enough. Certainly thefe things at firft view feem no fuch fblemn and 

 grave matters, yet are they in the ilTue found efficaciou^and ufeful. F<?r 

 as in Plants, the wronging or cheriftiing of them while they are Young, 

 is that, that is moft important to their thriving or mifcarrying : or as 

 theimraenfegreatnefs of the ftate of Rome, is by (bme defervedly 

 attributed to the virtue and wifdom oftho(e(ix Kings, which were as 

 Tutors and Fofter-fathers of that ftate in the Infancy thereof; fo fiarely 

 the culture and manuraoce of minds in young and tender years, hath 

 fuch a forcible operation (though unleen and not obvious to every mans 

 obfervation) which neither length of time, oraffiduity and contention 

 of Labour in riper age afterwards, can any way countervail. And it 

 is not amift to obferve how fmall and mean faculties, if they fall into 

 Great men. or upon Great matters, do fometimes work Great and im- 

 portant effeds. Hereo/ jre will fet down a memorable example, which 

 we the rather note, becaufethe Jefuites themfelves fecm not to defpife 

 this kind of Difcipline ^ in our opinion upon found judgement, and it 

 is a matter, which if it b© made profeflory, is ignominious, ifdifcipli- 

 nary, one of the beft qualities: IVe mean AQ ion upon the Jiage :, as that 

 xohichfirengthens memory, moderates the tone and emphafis ofvoice^ and 

 Pronunciation J compofes the ccuntenance and gefiure to a Decorum^ pro" 

 cures a good affurance, and likfwife inuretk Touth to the faces of men. The 

 example (hall betaken out of T<««7«/-, ofone Vibulenus, who had been 

 fometimes an Aftor upon theftage, but at that time a common fouldi- 

 €r in the Pannonian Garrifbns. This fellow upon the death of JuguFf us 

 had rais'd a mutiny, fo that sUfus theLievtenant, committed fbme of 

 the mutiners to Prifon 5 but the fouldiers by violent impreffion brake 

 open the Prifbns, and fet them at liberty 5 and ribulenus about to make 

 a Tribunitial fpeech before the Souldiers, began in this manner. "You 

 Anna! I "have given light and life to thefe poor innocent wretches 5 but who 

 " reftores my brother to me, or hfc unto my brother, that was fent hi- 

 " ther in meflage from the Legions of Germany, to treat of the cora- 

 *' mon caufe, and he hath murthered him this laft night by fome of his 

 *'^ Fencers, that he hath about him for his executioners upon fouldiers. 

 " Anfwer BUfus^ where haft thou thrown his body ? the moft mortal 

 *' enemies, do not deny burial : when I have performed ray laft duties 

 " unto the corps with kifles, with tears, command me to be (lain be- 

 " (ides him 5 fo that thefe my fellows for our good meaning, and our 

 *' true hearts to the Legions, may have leave to bury us. With which 

 fpeech he put the Army into fuch an infinite fury and amaze, that if it 



had 



