[Sidenote: The colledge for Philosophie.]
3. If _Philosophie_ with her three kindes had the third colledge, were it thinke you vnproper? Then the naturall might afterward proceede to _Physick_, whom she fitteth: the Politicke to _Lawe_, whom she groundeth: the morall to _Diuinitie_, whom she helpeth in discourse. Which three professions, _Diuinitie_, _Lawe_, _Physick_ should euery one be endowed with their particular colledges, and liuinges. 4. To haue the _Physician_ thus learned, it were nothing to much, considering his absolutenesse is learning, and his ignoraunce butcherie, if he do but marke his owne maister _Galene_[70] in his booke of the best profession. 5. For the _Diuine_ to tarie time, and to haue the handmaiden sciences to attend vpon their mistres profession, were it any hindrance to his credit, where discretion the daughter of time is his fairest conusance, and if he come without her, what sternesse so euer he pretend in countenance, we will measure the man, though we marke his sayinges? 6. The _Lawyers_ best note in the best iudgementes is contentment, not to couet to much, and for that desire not to striue to gaine to much: not beyond the extremitie of lawe, but farre on this side the extremitie of right. And can digesting time be but commodious in this case, and contempt of toyes eare he enter into them, be but mother to contentment? Time to bread sufficiencie, and sufficiencie to bring sound iudgement, cut of all matter of blame, and leaue all matter to praise. But in this distribution where is _Logicke_ and _Rethoricke_, some will saye? Where is _Grammer_ then will I saye? A directour to language. And so _Logicke_, for her demonstratiue part, plaieth the _Grammer_ to the _Mathematicalles_, and naturall _Philosophie_: for her probabilitie to morall, and politike, and such other as depend not vpon necessitie of matter. _Rhetoricke_ for puritie without passion doth ioyne with the writer in any kinde, for perswasion with passion, with the speaker in all kindes, and yet both the speaker dealeth sometime quietly, and the plaine writer waxeth very hoate.
[Sidenote: The necessitie of the college for toungues.]
1. Of these colledges, that which is for _toungues_ is so necessary as scant any thing more. For the toungues being receites for matter, without the perfect vnderstanding of them, what hope is there to vnderstand matter? and seeing wordes be names of thinges applyed and giuen according to their properties, how can thinges be properly vnderstood by vs, which vse the ministrie and seruice of wordes to know them by, onelesse the force of speeche be thoroughly knowen? And do you not thinke that euery profession hath neede to haue a title of the signification of wordes, as well as the ciuill lawyer? I do see in writers, and I do heare in speakers great defectes in the mistaking of meaninges: and euident errours thorough insufficiencie herin. And as _toungues_ cannot be better perfitted, then streight after their entrie by the grammer schoole: so they must be more perfitted, then they can be there. And what if some will neuer proceede any further, but rest in those pleasaunt kinde of writers, which delite most in gaing of their language as poetes, histories, discourses, and such, as will be counted generall men?