Part.I .Setl:.2. Caufes of..'Melancholy. M em b. 3.Subf.t 5, J 3 6 be no more hope ofreward, no better encouragement. I fay a5aine . Frt~~tgt levu calamos, & fi:indc Tha!ta libel!os; let's turne fouldiers, fell our'bookes and buy Swords, Gunncs and Pikes, or fl:op bottels with them, turne ou; PhiloCophers gownes,as cleamhes once did into millers coatcs, leave all and rather bctake our [elves to any other courfe oflife, than to continue lono-~r in • s.t.lllmip. this mifery. * Pr£Jl;at dentifi:.•lpia radert, q"amltterMiif 17Jo/111/1:emif mag~a111m fa't:orem emendicafe. rea, but me thinkes I hcarc fome man except at thefc words1 that thouoh this be true whtch I have faid of the efl:ate of Schollers, and efpecially~f Divines, that.it is miferablc and dtfheifed at this tune, that the Church fuf. fcrs f11ipwrackeofhergoods, and that they have jufl: caufe to complaine. there is afault, but whence proceeds it? If the caulewere julily examined i; would be retorted upon our felves, ifwe were cited at that Tribunall of rru;h we fhould be found guilty, and not able to exct1fe it, That there is a fault a: mong us, I confeife,and were there nota buyer, there would not be a feller: bur to i)im that will confider better of it, it will more than manif~fl:ly ap. peare, that the fountainc of thefe .miferies proceeds from thefe griping Pa. trons. In accufingthem, I doe not altogctherexcufe us; both are faulry,thcv and we: yet in my JUclgement, theirs is the greater faults mOre apparantca~ fes, and much to be condemned. For my part,ifit be not with me as I would • Lib. 1 .<i<cof. or as it fhould, I doe afcribe the caufe, as • Cardandid in the like cafe. ,.,; 'J had nomo- inforumio poti>tf q11am illvrum (cderi,to * mine ·owncinfelicity,ratherthan~hcir ~ey, r wanted naughtilieife: Although I have beene baffled in my time by fomeofthern, ~~~ldd~~~e,I and have as jull: caufe to complaine as another : or rather indeed to mine fc.mbic,:e~:· ownc negligence; fori was ever like that · Alexander in * pf,tarch,cr~«udJis Ei:~!:~;~~:~· tutor iu Philofophy, who though he lived _many ycares familiarly with rich dn·ttob.s,&c. Cr~tjfu-, was even as poore when from, (whrch many wondred at) as when he "";d"""', ad camefirll:to liim· heneverasked,theothernever gave him any thing. wllen 'df.1~;1:J,:,:,. !le tra~ellcd with' Cr.1fu; he borrowed an_hat ofhim0 at his -returne r~fl:orcd "'''"'*fi•lf<.s, rt agame. I have had fo rhe firch n6ble fnends acquatntance and Schollcrs, ;.;:,;,1:'::J,~f£; but mofl: part, (commoncourrefies and ordinary rcfpeets excepted) they and wtfimtali,,& I parted as we met; they gauemeas much as I requell:~d,andthat was-- ~;;~:;1;~;;;· And as. A/exa<d~r ab Alexandro Genial: dier: lib: 6. cap. r6.. made anfi,·etto m/ <tin,.,, Hterommm Majfamm,that woudred, quum pl••res t;~l:at·os & rgnobtles ad dtgm· ;;;,~~,t;J:i,. tares & facerdotiapromotos quotidil: vid;ret? whenother men rofe,Hill he was in, titefc.m. the fame fl:ate, eodemtenqre & formna cut mercedem laborum fludtorumque debm • Vit.craffi . flutam, whom he thought to defcrve as well as the reil:. He made anfirer that :~~f;;;;~/:~··I~e was content with his prefentefl:ate,was not ambitious, and althoughob- ,,...mpaupe;·i" }'trgabtmdu.< fuam ygm11em acctt(arer, cum obfi:ur£ form lmnmes ad(acerdotta & ~;;;;;:;;/ pomi{icatt« n;tEfos &c. he chid him for his backwardneife, yet he was flill · ' the fame: and for my part (though I be not worthy perhaps to carry A/exandm bookes) yet by fome ouerweening and wellwifhing friends, the like fJ1eeches have beeheufed tome; but Ireplicdfl:il! with Alexander that I had enough, and moreperadvenmre than I defervcd; and with Libaniu.< Sophi· fl• that rather chofe (when honours and offices by the Emperourwcrc offe· red unto him) to be tal if Sophiff•, quam talil Magiffratu.<. I had as live be llill Democrit~« junior, and privu;prit•atw, Ji mil1i jam dawur optio, quam tali> for· t~~jt Doflor, talir Domimt.<,-Sed qttorfitmbtt( f Forthe reil:, 'tis on both fides facm!lr
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