we would have it true recreation play and profit both and this very thing was my after-consideration That for the boyes sake I have gained of the intelligent Master to excuse the child though he doe not give him rime the very next morning saying his part without booke For I remember well that was a tedious worke once to me and of no benefit then nor since but account it reasonable enough that he can his Declensions and Verbes exactly well giving such an account of both every day as that it may appeare hee takes all the rules of English and Latin Etymologie the Latine supplies what the English doth want along with him for they containe all and will evidence That the boy is not led one inch further then his senses those great intelligencers shall give him through-passe to the understanding of the same a mighty helpe to memory besides delight to boote It is indeed the greatest ease to the Scholar and the Master that I can thinke of whereby to gratifie both and so will hee say that shall take leasure to consider throughly thereof So much to the Rules which may serve to promote him that comes after and thinks fit to Practice the same way CHAP. X. What esteeme the Grammar hath how little esteeme the Grammarian The Dignity of the understanding The conclusion of the first a Transition to the second part AND now I had almost said Wee have done with the Grammar but indeed we cannot tell when we have done For though it be of small use in our Mother-tongue yet in forraigne tongues of more use it is of most use in such which cease to be vulgar and are rightly called learned tongues All these three we would still perfect as well for intercourse of speech and understanding of Authors as also for examining the power and nature of words as they are the foot-steps and prints of reason And all this we cannot doe by any other Art then by the Art of Grammar The following words are to be noted Man still striveth to reintegrate himselfe in those benedictions from which by his fault he hath been deprived And as he hath striven against the first generall curse by the invention of all other Arts so hath he sought to come forth of the second generall curse which was the confusion of tongues by the Art of Grammar But though the Grammar is of so much and so generall use yet we must not dwell upon it nor must we make it our ambition to make our childe a Grammarian and no more for that were a very meane promotion He may haply having knowledge therein pick up a poore living if his Salary be duly paid For Homer they say gives many a man his dinner much good may it doe him But he will be a despised man for all that A Grammarian anciently it was a word of reproach and it was well knowne That a base Hypocrâ—te a Stage-player a Fidler had their precedency a mile before him And a Barber waighed downe this Wordy-man above ten thousand pounds in bad money and as much more in good Land What his worth is now I will not dispute but if he be a Grammarian and no more he is as a meere Logician and he hath esteem to the top of his worth and somewhat above it He is in very deed a Babler c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 17. 18. a man of ragges made up of words Such a one as he was who stood in the Corne-Market gathering up the Corne that fell besides the sack in emptying that is a Babler indeed of Casaubon no more worth in judgement then in purse of no worth in either Surely if our work be to promote the childe wee must not set up our staffe here here must not be our Pillars we must not dwell upon words as the Sophister may doe too long upon Genus and Species The Grammar teacheth no more but words it hath indeed some jagges centons or old ends of things nothing of worth It is the unfittest booke to gain the knowledge of things by that I know in the world I mean such books now which may properly be called so for all that passe under that name are not Books said the Noble Scholar b Bockes such as are worthy the name of bookes ought to have no Patrons but Truth and Reason Adv. p. 32. Though Voces and Res should never be distinct in learning yet we must take a more distinct notice of things and not of this or that or the third thing of three things or of foure for this were to emprison the understanding or to keep the immortall soule in a Cloyster nay to seale it up in a dungeon We must informe the understanding what we can concerning this totum scibile this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All that may be knowne of God and we must take the very way that God Himselfe hath revealed for such His Grace He hath made it knowne unto us It was well answered by one who was thought that hee could live but in one place Yes said he in any place where it is possible to live in any place of the world for I am a Citizen thereof Certainly so is man such a Citizen though he may be confined for many waighty reasons to this or that place yet he is a Citizen of the world for he is the very modle thereof he is made after the pattern I know my word is too low and for his understanding it hath for its Range the whole world too what a wrong then to consine f Asperâ—atur certorum finium prâ—scriptionem Sc Exca 307. sect 11. this so noble a faculty and to impale it within a circle which will not keep in a mouse The understanding is quicker then any bird more soaring then an Eagle nay it came from heaven and thitherward it is pointed It hath appealed thither in its right and straight motion and therefore to heaven it shall goe so we say for it is our main scope the white we ayme at We may like enough fall short of it But hee that threatens a starre will shoote higher then he that bends to a mole-hill g Altius ibunt quâ—ad summa nitentur quain qui c. Quint. Orat Prefat And so we leave the Grammar that dull work and set upon that which is more noble and besitting so noble a faculty But it is the work of another day a second task FINIS A GATE TO SCIENCES OPENED By a Naturall Key OR A PRACTICALL Lecture upon the great Book of Nature whereby the childe is enabled to reade the Creatures there 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clem. Alex. li. 6. p. 501. Deus ita est Artifex Magnus in magnis ut non minor fit in parvis c. Aug. de Civ 1. 11. cap. 21. Quicquid essentiâ dignum est id etiam scientiâ Nov. Org. 1. 120. Printed at London for Iohn Bartlet 1641. To His worthy Friend Mr. SAM HARTLIB by
needfull first To remember Man what he is sith he is so forgetfull What is hee For it is a maine point Wee will heare what others say A wild fellow he is A Colt an Asse Colt a wild Asse Colt yet vaine man he would be wise and somebody so Job told a Job 11. 12. us He is naturally as brutish as a Swine so saith another b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cl. Alex. protr p. 44 Bas I Hex Hom. 7. In spirituall things as unteacheable as a Fish so another Are all so No but yet he with his de meliore Luto c Juvenal was quite out we are not all such not altogether so rough nor so untractable some some more restrayned but wee were all in the same lump and have all the same mould the same mould of heart too till the good Spirit come to frame mould and fashion there Job cuts the knot wee are all borne so Vnder this Consideration I deale with Man that he may understand in the first place for it is the ground of all our proceedings That all our helps are too weake to shore him up ever since hee tooke his fall which was before he lay in his cradle and will never outgrow it so also that all our lights are few enough to cleare up his understanding so darke he is so slow to conceive so hard to understand And all this â— An et quâ—d disci non opus sit sid delecta iâ— non necessitas sed voluntas Hier. ad Gaudent but too little all to make him vile in his own sight To hide pride from his eyes 2. It must be known what we meane by precognition and what accommodation we have from our senses at that point that the childe may see his work before him and delight in it then it goes on b. 3. Sith all Sciences have them not not the highest and most excellent that touching God and Christ nor the lowest that of Grammar necessary it was I should goe a middle way betwixt Nature and Art and when we could not finde a precognition as we say of an occasion then to make it 4. Yet all this while I am not come to Grammar for that comes in almost at the fag-end of all But for all that here is no just cause of exception if it be well weighed and considered that I follow Nature all along keeping pace with her which is constant not Grashopper-like hopping and leaping now up then downe againe presently so must he not leape but goe who followes her gradually with good heed and leasure making good riddance all along else he doth not goe but dance one step forward two backward for one mistake or error at the first entrance through a preposterous haste will multiply upon us in our proceeding and puts back more then will be imagined It is a sure rule and holds here as in higher matters The antidating a worke mars our reckoning in the end You have the sum of the first Part. 2. Yee doe not expect I should give a Precognition of every thing I speake of it had beene a tedious labour and the driest worke in the world My worke in this way is to make the sense a leading hand so making it a delight some and speedy way but to tell you on all particulars how I doe it had beene needlesse and a vaine way Consilium resque locusque dabit Onely this hee that can stoope lowest and soonest fit his Precognition to the Child he is the best teacher what ever his wants are otherwise It is not what I understand but how I can fit my self to the Childs capacity taking him out of his rode and so working upon his understanding I need say it but once The Precognition is arbitrary one useth this and another that as his mind leads him and his ingeny can suggest 3. I have made reference to my owne Scrible nay I will call it a Booke by allowance of a great Scholar having two Patrons which should be the onely Licensers of bookes Truth and Reason I am sure it hath both else I durst not have counted it a Sons Patrimony or a Daughters Portion I have I say made reference to my own Booke more then once or twice there was a necessity because at these places there is a want desideratum aliquid which must be supplied there if wee will have it for memory failes me and my little skill both if here or elsewhere I have mentioned any one materiall thing twice You see my account and how cleare I am in it you will judge of it as you are well able and account me still Your servant in the Common service of love and otherwise Hezekiah Woodward Alderm London Novemb 20. 1640. Decemb. 3. 1640. Imprimatur T. WYKES The Contents of the first Part. CHap. I. Serving for an Introduction The difference in children That the strongest but weak so are all the sons of Adam in their best estate vanity in their worst and in themselves considered vile How necessary the consideration hereof and how conducting to our scope Chap. II. How to order the childe order must be kept what danger in inverting that order Love feeles no wearinesse feare tires presently and works unnaturally The candle in the hand how to walk by it What we meane by Precognition Chap. III. Of what use our senses are specially the leading sense how bound to improve them how to discipline and spiritualize them Chap. IV. Every Science hath not precognitions or preparatories making way for the more easie understanding thereof grounded in Nature yet Nature improved helps much towards the knowledge of God nothing at all to the knowledge oâ— God in Christ that high and excellent Science Notwithstanding we must not neglect the Aids which Nature affords though by our fall all our Spirituals are lost our Naturals weakned Chap. V. When to begin with the Childe in the learning of languages the childe will help us there The English Schoole how ill ordered how it should be i and j with u and v to be noted how fundamentall the Mother tongue is what our care thereabout Chap. VI. Necessary the childe should be taught to write Objections against it answered It helps the understanding very much but as it is commonly abused hurts more then it helps The Writing-Master might heare a twofold lesson but that his eare is stopt His copy doth the greatest good or the most hurt though he thinks of none of all this Chap. VII Of Grammar the practise thereupon through the severall parts thereof Chap. VIII Of the Figures and Tropes The childes eye and naturall Logick cleares all there Chap. IX Rules of practise declaring the Method the tenth clearing the same The fourth and ninth Rules of infinite use to the Catechist whether Master in Israel or Doctor there Chap. X. What esteeme the Grammar hath how little esteeme the Grammarian The Dignity of the understanding The conclusion of the first a Tansition
way of Preface SIR It was not my purpose that this should follow at the heele of the other But since it must be so it is as necessary I should give you some short account of this part also which promiseth more then the first That setting forth a light to Grammar onely this a greater and brighter light That opening a gate to words or languages this to a world of Disciplines Libri titulus ingentis cujusdāillecebre ad legendum Ant. Cel. 18. 6. Melissus ibid. There cannot bee a fairer frontispice for it seemes to hold forth the great Volume of Gods workes And this was but a good Lure to call every man to the reading of the booke which was the policy of an old Grammarian before me who gave an high Title to a low Booke and it may bee suspected to bee my end also But I can speake clearely here I had not a thought that way nor could I ever bend to a mercenary designe I have well weighed Plinies Counsell a Saepe respiciendum est ad litulum Hee that writes must still have an eye backe to the Title else it will stand as some Portall I have seene alone from the house and holding no correspondency thereunto I cannot judge how close I have kept hereto but it was the White in my eye all along I am sure I had a good respect therunto The first promised to set open the naturall Gate whereat Arts and Sciences must enter and Grammar is gone in first of all you may say now I should have carried in other Arts and Sciences after Grammar and by the same way the way of anticipation or precognition But I have so the objection may runne on done as if one that professed the Art of Shoo-making should not know how to make up a Shoo but onely exhibit in a readinesse a of Shoes of all fashious and sizes True it is and so I could tell my selfe That in a direct proceeding I should have made provision or preparatory store for the conveying of all the Sciences into the understanding But do we well consider what a worke this had beene I must have set downe Generall precognitions first then the particular to such and such Sciences beginning in true method with the Mathematickes for if the wit be dull they sharpen it if too wandring they fixe it if too inherent in the sense they abstract it so necessary they are But what a worke had this beene to him who is so scanted of time and abilities too Againe I must not have staied here and then when should I have left off for there are a world of disciplines I thought it not impossible but tedious and useless to tread such a maze with the Child The Title tels us that all Sciences are lighted into the understanding through the doores of the Senses And this is true enough so certaine it is that a child yea a man also doth taste or relish no knowledge but what he finds drencht in flesh and blood Therefore in reference to my Title my ayme was to steepe the Childs little judgement as deepe as I could in his senses and from that grosse substance to Light the Candle whereby to convey Grammar into his understanding which without doubt I have done I hen can it not bee doubted neither but sith Grammar is gone in all Sciences will and must follow by the same light and at the same doores Thereafter my practise here is by the senses to enfranchise the understanding and to make it a free Denizon of the world which I could not doe in a readier way then by apprompting singulars so helping not invention only but directing an inquiry also for the faculty of wise interrogating is halfe Adv. 197. a knowledge As in going of a way we do not only gaine that part of the way which is passed but wee gaine the better sight of that part which remaineth So every degree of proceeding giveth a light to somewhat more which light if wee strengthen by drawing it forth into questions or places of enquiry we do greatly advance our pursuit And so I should have done I should have workt up the understanding by degrees beginning at the lowest step first and so upward whereas I run uppresently It could not be otherwise here for I workt with the pen To proceed by question and answer the most naturall way is to goe by the hand and by making experiments and thence enquiries thereby to steep the childs judgement the deeper in his sense And this I suppose was your scope when you enjoyned me this taske speaking to mee of sensuals the word is ill spoken of as it doth deserve but not in this place What ever the Logicians doe you must take it in good part or take an other speaking to mee of singulars an infinite circuit to our scant compasse But where the way is so various I must take a compendious path and where the plenty so copious I had beene infinite had I minced it into particulars by way of question This is the account I can give you here you will not see what all amounts unto till you come to the bottome In the meane time alwaies thinke me your ready friend to take part with you in the labour of love Hezekiah Woodward A GATE TO SCIENCES CHAP. I. The Scope herein the excellency of the understanding preparatories thereunto of what use our senses are what our care over them To discourse of Generals is to beat the wind WEE left at the Grammar the understanding whereof wee gained by way of precognition whereto our sense gave us great accōmodation so also to the understanding of higher matters as it will to the knowledge of all Learning For if Grammar be conveyed into the understanding by a naturall Light and through its owne Gates much more easie it is to carry in all Arts and Sciences by the same way that is out of doubt if we take the straight and naturall Method thereunto And this were a worke fecible in length of time and by such helpes that are at hand But of no use at all to the Youth wanting we suppose those Training Principles which are as I may say preparatories even to those precognitions My undertaking was in the close of the first part to ennoble the understanding what I could To sinde it work sutable to the dignity of so high and excellent a faculty Surely we may say of it it is the great Peripatetick of the World So wide is its Range and it hath its Emissaries its Scoutes and Spies which it can send forth to the very corners of the earth the depth of the seas and the highest of the Heavens also So that wee cannot fit it with any booke so genuine and naturall as is the booke of Nature which wee called the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the worlds are its Book and every creature there its lesson And very sutable to its capacity is all this of so large an extent
And now having these helps about us the higher we soare the better for the higher the nearer we come to the highest and the more discerning we have there the more we shall discerne our selves and our owne vilenesse which will cause us to walk humbly below and to avoid the snares there 5. It must be considered for the closing up of the method else there will be a gaping That I have led the childe through the earth already and over the deep waters upthrough this great gulf the Aire to the Starry heaven and above them I shall not doe what is already done but rather adde thereunto In the last place I suppose the child is still asking questions so he should be a Z 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read Asch Schoole p. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist Met. 3. 1. and my selfe giving hints thereof or making answer thereunto So these premised we suppose where we are upon the Pinnacle of the Temple for there our prospect hath the largest compasse and best fits so capacious a subject And here we would behold all the works of God and operations of His Hand All Hee hath created and all that Man hath made All the works of Nature and of Art upon dry land We would to Sea also to behold the wonders there specially the Ship the oldest house of the new world and then to the remotest regions of the earth or aire to behold all the workes there And if all this in our Imaginary wee could doe yet the understanding would not bee satisfied with all this One world is not enough nor had we such another could it bee sufficient But where abouts are we now in the world for where the minde is there are we In a Maze sure enough And by grasping all we have lost the benefit of all that is certain It puts me in minde of a very merry fellow and mee thinkes I have done somewhat like him He would spend a whole day in fetching a round about Europe thence stepping into Asia so striding into Africa thence leaping into America then home againe to supper and to bed In good time all this but wee hope his benefit was not much which hee made of his travell This is the way to let the under standing remaine confused without fruit as lyeth the field where they cast over much seed Hee that goes with a child in his hand must goe as the child can goe and he must drop-in instructions as the Nurse fed him by little spoonefuls and even that little by little degrees too for of that little much goes beside in and out as Nurses know best But this we see very well as the Nurse feeds the body so we the understanding Wee must bee dropping drop after drop and many a drop falls by too Hee that poures altogether upon a child or gives it him in a lumpe loseth all his labour and choaketh the understanding CHAP. II. Singulars best fit a Childs underftanding how to supply their want Pictures how usefull two maine Cautions touching them VVHat way then with the Youth to insist upon Generals is to leave him in a maze without any thread in his hand and to give him singulars is impossible for they are infinite unto us That is true yet we must give him as many as wee can though those many will be but a few We must lead him from the Schooles to the Colledges Innes of Court Monasteries yea Shops too c. he must go through them all But this is impossible also unlesse wee could carty the Child from place to place as fast as Fame can flye which was if she be not belied her selfe that hath told so many lyes of others 2500. miles in one day a Liv. 25. Hist of the world B. 3. 6. 10. This cannot be how then may we help the Child I know no better way then to furnish him with Emblemes To let him observe the Aegyptian manner that Nation was one of the most ancient Schooles in the World by Hieroglyphicks They have the darkest interpretation I will unfold one or two that the Child may the better conceive the use of them The Persian manner was when they expected a full surrender of all into their hands To demand a quantity of earth and water to be sent unto them which should bee a signe that all was yeelded and such a message hee sent to the Scythian But the Scythian teturned an Hieroglyphicall answer sending instead of Earth and Water a Bird a Frog a Mouse and five Arrowes which dumbe shew the Persian interpreted according to his wish and thought That the Scythian had yeelded all the elements where these Creatures live and his weapons withall The Scythians meaning was quite contrary as the event proved That unlesse the Persian could get wings like a Bird or dive under water like a Frog or creepe into holes like a Mouse hee should not escape their Arrowes By this example wee make judgement how significant this manner of teaching is So also to verse the Child in Muthologie To let him heare Parables and see Maps Travell upon the Globes To read some lectures there To give him as many Images or Representations of things as possible can bee A sure way of teaching said the Philosopher I remember Sextius my old friend a quick-sighted man taught mee very much by an Image or representation he set before me which was this of an Army so quartered that it was prepared for the enemy though hee should march on as in a cloud in so darke a path as is the way of the wind so prepared should every man be still having his succours about him and doing their office keeping their watch and ready to take the Word present at the Captaines Sen. Ep. 59 command and this is right reason The Philospopher closeth this with a very usefull speech That mans standing is ever safest who is lesse secure about it So much the Philosopher hath touching the use of Images as he cals them or representations Certainly the use of this is great If wee could make our words as legible which was said to Children as Pictures are their information there-from would bee quickned and surer But so wee cannot doe though wee must doe what wee can And if wee had such bookes wherein are the pictures of all Creatures Hearbs Beasts Fish Fowles they would stand us in great stead For Pictures are the most intelligible bookes that Children can looke upon They come closest to Nature nay saith Scaliger Art exceeds her A strange speech Natâ—ram sâ—perat Ars. Exer. 207. Ser. 11. but he will have it so I verily beleeve said he That Nature never framed any humane body I except onely two the one of the first Man the other of Him who was God and Man so artificially so exactly well as hath the cunning Limner or curious Arts-man A strange speech I say againe and exceeding But indeed if our eyes may bee Jedges which see not the body but
The Child must marke his Parents now servants may bee negligent see how they pick it up not a graine shall be lost This shews the happy peace and security of all them who truly feare God Though the be sisted with temptations c. as wheat with a sieve yet shall not the least graine fall upon the ground 3. We Amos 9. 9. must observe the Sieve also The Foole thought he could make it hold water so hee set about the stopping up the holes but when he viewed it well hee spake out plainly hee could not tell where to begin To such a confusion the Church may be brought they that beare good will to her and would mend her breaches may not know where to begin It was the state of the Germane Church an hundred yeares agoe saith Melancthon using the very Cam. in vita Mel. p. 29. comparison so confused they were in Doctrines and in Manners both And then hee with others prophesied of those after desolations that very deluge of wrath under which those Churches lye now quite covered waiting when the Lord will withdraw His hand and call in those waters that the face of that land may againe appeare But let us note herewith That hee was a Foole who could discerne nothing but confusion Indeed the face of things may bee so overcasted as that a naturall eye can discerne nothing but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all things like a desolate and empty wildernesse But a cleared eye sees a spirit moving there all that while and hee knowes Light will come anon the clearer the thicker the darknesse was and then he can track the prints of a Providence which he cannot doe lesse then adore For it is His way whose manner is To carry His Church into Babel there to give Deliverance To give her into the enemies hands thence to worke Redemption Mic. 41. To bring her into the wildernesse there to speak comfortably to her that she Hos 2. 14. may speak out to His praise How c. a Job 26. 2 3. 7. To the garden now wee would observe there what might bee observed so in the Orchard too but this cannot be such variety there is Seeds Herbs Flowers Plants Trees we can observe but this and it is a great observation What ever evil comes upon the earth yet the tree which brings forth fruit shall bee spared But if barren Deut. 20. there better it had never beene there for we know its doome There may be a Snake there the best places are not priviledged from such Creatures but if the Swine come thither they make havock The Bees are commonly thereabouts but wee cannot stand to looke upon them nor is it safe for if they be Ira modum supra est Virg. Georg. 4. stirred they be very angry There are bookes written of them and yet all fearce enough to satisfie touching the beauty of their commonwealth A certaine Philosopher giving himselfe 30. yeares to study the knowledge of B. Och. Ser. 3. all the properties in the Bee could never perfectly attaine his designe And very likely for if a man will bee too curious in his inquiries hee may lose himselfe in the search We must reade the booke of the Creatures but not dwell upon them Wee leave the Garden and will goe no farther then the Fathers Wind-mill CHAP. VIII The Milstone a very precious stone a precious instruction therefrom IT shall not bee said that the Child hath lived in a Tub and never was so farre as his Fathers Wind-mill Thither I will carry him from thence to Church then I shall make towards a Conclusion If in our way now we chance to see or heare a Toad let it instruct us it doth better service then wee and is lesse poysonfull if wee are as we were in our blood a Eze. 22. 16. and in our owne way the way of sin and death which consideration is enough to smite to the earth the wisdome of man and to make him all humble and subject to God The sight thereof remember us also of that person who being at the last point of time which he had throwne away and feeling his heart ready to breake his eye-strings also then said Oh that I had beene made a Toud even such a Creature for then I had glorisied my Maker in such a being but I have dishonoured him altogether and so making my selfe vile a Sam. 3. 13. I must looke now to be lightly esteemed b 1 Sam. 2. 30. If the little Worme be at our foote it teacheth us That so low the Lord bringeth even His Church His owne people so as they have bowed downe and laid their body as the ground or as the street to them that went over c Esay 51. 23. And when her estate is so low she is called Iacob a poore Worme one that saw very much evill in a few daies but it never hurt him therefore hee must not feare * Esay 41. 14. for all that nor doubt but that small though he be yet he shall rise againe and be exalted he shall like a Prince have his Charrets and Horsemen so he shall prevaile with God and shall bee called Israel So much the Worme in our way may teach us The stones yeeld us a good lesson also if wee looke upon them wee see our hearts as face in water answers face Iron will melt in the fire so will brasse so will not a stone Neither mercy nor misery can melt the heart If the premisses are true then say what they will the conclusion is cleare That in point of conversion we are us dead as a doore naile The voyce of the Sonne of God that onely makes us heare and live And now we are come as farre as the Wind-mill where against all expectation we shall finde a very precious stone nor shall the Millar doubt thereof by that time we have viewed it well There Guilliam disp of Herauld p. 136. is a stone saith the Herauld more precious then that wee weare upon our finger though it be too heavy to be appendant at the eare And this is the Milstone he gives good reason for what he saith and better Scripture The Milstone saith he brings in many a man his living It was noted long ago Advanc â— 1. 86. that Homer hath given more men their livings then either Sylla or Cesar or Augustus ever did not withstanding their great largesses and donatives and distributions of lands to so many legions so wee may say of this stone it hath done more this way then all the precious stones in the World for it maintaines that precious thing which we call life therefore the Mil-stone is put for any thing that brings in a mans livelihood a Quicquid â—â—niâ—â—is â—itam exâ—eâ—essitaâ—e â—â—erat luâ—â—us Dcut. 24. 6. What lesson learne we hence for therefore came weehither A mighty lesson fitter for men of more account and