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A03573	A copie of the speache: made by the mathematicall lecturer unto the worshipfull companye present. At the house of the worshipfull M. Thomas Smith, dwelling in Gracious Street: the 4. of Nouember, 1588. T. Hood.	Hood, Thomas, fl. 1582-1598.	1588 (1588)	STC 13694; ESTC S108609	8,236	16

thus I will answere directly therunto although the pleasure might suffise as being a studye plesant in youth delightfull to age beautifull in prosperitie reléeuing our aduersitie and yéelding vs comfort it pleasureth at home it hindreth not abroad it watcheth with vs and trauelleth with vs vp and downe and dooth vs seruice euery where The minde is able Right woorshipfull to conceiue that which the bodily eye cannot sée the eye can beholde more then the tung can expresse yet deuise with your minde and cast your sight about and trye if you can either spye with your eye or thinke in your minde what thing is frée from the vse of these artes Look vp if you please to the heauen aboue or turne your eye downe to earth beneath or round about to the wandering Sea thinke on your warres and traffique abroad or other your priuate affaires at home your busines at home your wares abroad your traffique beyond sea the earth beneath you the Sea about you the heauen aboue you is fully fraught with the praise héerof In heauen Astronomye dooth raigne as Queene commaunding all the secrets thereof and laying them open to our eyes Yet Astronomye is but a parte of this science whose proffit notwithstanding is wonderfull greate What can be compared to the knowledge of God which is the butte and end of our creation next to the ordenary meanes of our instruction I meane his woord the arte of astronomye dooth cheefely bréede the knowledge of him First in considering the number of the heauens which being 10. are so cunningly wrought and knit togeather that the hand of man is not able to counterfeite the woorste of them all without some blemish either swelling outward or dented in their rowndnesse is such so precize so perfect so correspondent to it selfe If then the fashion be so strange and broedeth this proffit what maye we conceiue of the wonderfull course which rolling about without any reste is an higher steppe to the foresaide knowledge Of these 10. Spheres or Orbes there are not two whose naturall course precizelye bendeth one manner of way Some runne from East to West and others againe from West to East an other in trembling manner from North to South reuersed backe from South to North. The Nethermost 7. from west to East in such a sundrie and manifolde course that neither the one is like the other nor in many yéeres scarse like themselues yet all so certaine in their race that neither the time dooth bréed an error nor yet their number a confusion Which constancie of course being wel known to Dionysius Areopagita an heathen man it made him crye out when our Sauiour Christe was nailed to the Crosse though he him selfe were then in Egipt that then either the God of nature did suffer or the frame of this worlde did breake a sunder because against the order and time of naturall course he sawe the Moone eclipse the Sunne Séeing then Astronomye leadeth vs to the knowledge of God that were proffit enough if it had no more but this commoditie is not alone for as this is the welfare of the soule so dooth it woork our bodies good as phisick can witnes sufficiētly which taking care of this our bodye can warrant vs nothing without this arte For if it dooth not deligently obserue the face of heauen in ministring potions or opening vaines it maye serue vs as Paris did Achilles at Troy whose pricke in the héele did pearse his hart What shall I say of Nauigation the chéefest piller of your gaine how much dooth Astronomy helpe therin whose launching foorth and haling in and restlesse course both too and fro is surelye guided by this heauenly arte though Sea dooth roare and windes doo rage and heauen and earth should méete together As for the tilling of the ground or whatsoeuer else the Cuntrie dooth it is as much for it to want this Arte as Vulcanes forge to lack his fier or Apelles shop his cullours and oyle I would not haue you measure eche thing by the price for commonlye schollers are not couetous men There is among you a little booke the Almanacke I mean vsually bought for a peny or two if it were wanting but a time I gesse it would be woorth a pound Right woorshipfull I wil vse your patience a little longer because I sée you giue such attentiue eare You haue heard what great commodity Astronomy yeeldeth being but a parte of the Mathematicall science there are other two as good as it harken also what profit they bring Arithmeticke namely teaching the art of number and Geometrie the knowledge of measuring wel Beleeue me for why I speake the thing I knowe being daylye conuersant in those parts and hauing conference with many mē there is no calling whatsoeuer that can want the aide of one of these Perhaps you will except Astronomie because the heauen séemeth very high beyond the reach of rule and compasse Our Globes and Spheres and celestiall draughts which héere we haue will witnes the falsehood of that exception wherein eche seuerall starre is so truelye prickt that they misse not an haire of their naturall place Then if Geometrie reache so high that it can iustly measure the Cope of heauen no doubt on earth it performeth most excellent thinges Let Geographie witnesse in vniuersall Mappes let Topographie witnesse in seuerall Cardes let Hydrographie witnesse in the Mariners plat you your selues may witnesse in Martiall affaires let the Gunner witnesse in planting his shot witnesse the Surveior in measuring land witnesse all those that labor in mines and those that practise conueying of water whose skill being tolde vs we would scarsely beleeue it were it not lying at our doores The Lawyer thinketh him selfe cunning enough to handle his case and therfore would laugh if he should héere that he standeth in néed of our profession yet haue I knowne his sentence reclaimed by one of my coate Diuinitie containeth matter of saluation and nothing is superfluous in the woord of God yet can it not be expounded without these artes else let them describe the feaste of Easter or iustefie the historye of the three wise men If you your selues were not Merchant men I would tel you what proffit you reape héerby but your dayly experince saueth me that labour The Scholler in reading of his Poet must haue this helpe or els perhaps he may quickly be posed The Historiographer must not want these artes nor he that readeth the historie penned or else their labour and light maye be lost 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It was the sentēce Right woorshipfull auditors of Plato the wise set ouer his Schoole wherby he forbad them the entrance in that were nōt capable of this learning for as it is pretely so it is truely saide by one Vt ignis aurum ita Mathemataeca ingenium The Mathematickes are vnto the wit as fire is to the golde and he that in some measure is not capable therof is fitter for a stie then for a studie Perswade your selues Captains of excellent hope for now I turne my spéeche to you for whose commoditie this thing is intended perswade your selues I saye that there is some notable thing in this kinde of studie that is not common to other artes els could it not breed such exceeding ioy in the louers therof as we see it dooth Thales the Philosopher offred vp an Oxe for ioy and Plato an hundred hauing found out certaine Geometricall conclusions Archimedes sifting out the Goldesmithes deceipte in making of King Hiero his Crown could not contain him self for ioy but ran as he was stark naked through the stréet Aristippus suffering shipwracke on the coast of Rhodes found described in the sande Geometricall figures wherin he took such singuler comforte that forgetting his losse and cause of sorrow he cryed out thus vnto his fellowes be of good cheere my mates quoth he for loe I sée the footesteppes of men If then noble Captaines and louing Schollers for now I am bolde to vse that name If the commodities of our profession be so great as nothing more if the pleasure be without comparison if these be the footsteppes of men wherin you must treade whose very sight may counteruaile your sorrow if you haue a care of your honorable name if you thinke it a fowle disgrace for want of knowledge to be circumuented as Haniball was by Fabivs Maximus or as Cyrus the King by Tomiris the Quéene If it be the hazarde of your life and name in skaling a forte to bring a Ladder too shorte by the halfe as King Phillip did wherby he cast away all his men if you loathe to haue your inferiour Souldiers triumph ouer you for want of arte as Palamedes did ouer Agamemnon the King begin better séen in marshalling his men to be shorte If you thinke it a blessed thing to compasse the worlde and returne again enriched with golde or if you tender your credit in any respect which ought to be more deer then gold now haue an especiall care vnto the same Let not the thing begun to your honor be intermitted to your disgrace so many woorshipfull men bearing witnesse therof but buckle your selues to purchase knowledge that by your endeuour out of this place as out of the Gréekish Horse at Troy many woorthy wise and learned Captaines may procéede Your cost is small your paines as little for all the labour shall be mine your profit greate your comfort more there wantes but will which if you bring vpon my credit God going before whom I beséeche to blesse our studies you shall not thinke your time 〈…〉 but be beholding as to this Gentlem●● 〈…〉 place so vnto me for taking paines Dixi.