A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…

In this my broken and dejected case, Pardon me, if I shame to show my face. To Polymestor, whose Eyes once have seen, Me, a now spoiled Captive, then a Queen.

In this my broken and dejected case, Pardon me, if I shame to shew my face. To Polymestor, whose Eyes once have seene, Me, a now spoyled Captive, then a Queen.

Again, Ignorance and Ineptitude in our own proper functions and miscarriage in our own Arts and professions, is an Exprobration, either¹ of indiligence, or of weakness. As want of proficiency in a Student, of Elocution in an Orator, of Military wisdom in a Soldier, &c. And therefore a Physician will seldom stay to see his Patient buried, he usually departs before the sick man, because Funerals are Convicia Medi corum. Yet all Ignorance is not matter of disgrace, for some things there are below the inquiry, or Studies of some men. And therefore though Tully tells us that when Themistocles declined² the Lute▪ he was esteemed more Ignorant then became a person of quality, yet it was a brave Apology which he made for himself, ⟨p. 308⟩That though he knew not to handle a Lute, yet³ he knew to conquer a City. And Gel• when others after a Feast sang to an Instrument, called for his great Horse, and did excellently manage that. And as it was a cautelous Answer which Favorinus gave touching Adrian the Emperor, who had censured him in his own profession of⁴ Grammar. That he durst not be learnedner then he who commanded thirty legions; so it was a ruer answer which another Artificer gave in the like case unto a Prince. God forbid Sir that you