. Part.I.SeCl,2.. C aufu of.:Melancholy. Memb. 3.Subf.1 ~. 140 not deny it the m.aine fault is in our felves. Our Academicks ro? frequently • (hi/.4. Ce~<t. offend mneglechng patrons,as *Erafmm well taxeth ,ormakmg 111 choice of f.•d•t·• · them ,; mgltgimw o~latoJ aut ampleflimurparttm apt•J, or if we get a good one mn ftudemu~ T(JUtuif officiisftworem ej'" alere, we doe not pi ye'and follow bin; as we ibould.J~e": mihi a~cidit Adoleftemi (faith Er4fmu.<)acknowledaing his I Hat! do•e fault, & gravifltmeptccavt,and fomay I I fay myfelfe,I have offended inrhis ;:;~;';.,1~:, ·and fo peradventure have many others. \Ve did not fPondere magnatum(auori· £o:ward, I bttJ, qut crl!perum nor 4mpleEii, apply our {elves with that readineffc we !honld: i:''gh\h~e idleneffe, love ofliberty, immodictJJ amor libertatti dfwt ut di,< cem perfidit a· .;~~{, ,·~~' micu,as he confcffetb, &pminaci p~upmate collu!Jarer, baibfulnert'e, mdan. •• mmy of my choly, timouroufneffc caufe many ofus to be too backward and remiffc. So ·~•·Is· fome offend in one extreame, but too many on the other, we are moft part too forward, too fohcitous, too ambitious, too impudent; We commonly ~omplaine de1f"e M<Lw:ate.r, want ofencouragement, want of meanes, when as the truedefeCl: is in our ownewantofworrb,our infufficicncy: did M,ece, n..r take notice of Horace or Virgil till they had ibewed tbemfelves firft, or bad BaviuJ and Mn!iuJ any patrons? Egr~~ium fpecimendem, faith Eraj'miiJ,let them approve themfelves worthy firll, fufliciently qual ificd for learning and . manners,before they prcfumeodmpud~ntly intrude and put themfclves on great men as too many.d~, with fuch bafe flattery, parafiticall collo<>ing, fuch hyperbolical! elogies they doe ufually infinuate, that it is a fha~e to heareand fee. lmm~dic£/4YdeJ concdiam invidiam,potitiJ quamla•dem,and vaine , commendations derogate·from truth;and we thinkc in conclulion, non meliur de laudato, pejrtJ de laudqnte, ill ofbotp, the eommender and commended. So we offend, bur the •maine fault ts in their haribneffe, defeel: of patrons. How ' beloved ofold, and bowmuch refpeCl:cd was Plato to Dionyjitlf t How deare ' t9 Alexander was Arifl:edt,DemeratuJ to Pbilip, Solon to Cr£jus, Anexarcur and TrebatittJto Au,~uftuJ, CajiiaJ to VeJPatian,Pbttarch to Trajan, Smerato · · Nero, Simonid(J toHieron t how honoured? • stdheu prius fuere,nunc recondita Semnt quieu, thofedaies are gcme: E.t .fPu,& ratio ftudiorum in C£jare tantum: iNtmo•flqNi Ashefaid ofold,we may truly fay now, he is our AmRlet, our' Sunne, our '::,;:,~~,"(.1, foie comfort and refuge, our Ptolomy, our common M£cen.u, JacobNJ mumfij!Ztllitstubm- cur,Jacobu~paciftcur,myfttJ Mttfarum,Rtx Platomcur: Grande ~ems,colummq;. 116tioremreddat. ftrum: A famous Scholler himfelfe,and the foie Patron, PJ!lar, and fullamer oflearnmg :but his worth in this kind is fowell knowr.e, that as Patercu!uJ ~ l'tmegy>'. ofCato,Jamipfumlaudarenefarjit:andwhich* Pliny toTrajr.n. Seriatecar• mina,bomrquetttl'1'nuJ awnalium,non b£chrevil &pudenda pr£dtcatto eo/er. But he is now gone,the Sunne of ours fer, and yet no night followes,· - · -solecetthuir,nox nuUa foqut~taeft. We have lilch another in hi! t00l\le--*aureuJ alter Avul{t•I,.fimili frondeftitvirgametAUo, ~nd longmay he raigne and B.ourilh amongft us. Let
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