4. Againe wittes misplaced most vnquiet and seditious: as any thing else strayned against nature: light thinges prease vpward, and will ye force _Fire_ downe? Heauie thinges beare downeward: and will ye haue _Leade_ to leape vp? An imperiall witte for want of education and abilitie, being placed in a meane calling will trouble the whole companie, if he haue not his will, as winde in the stomacke: and if he haue his will, then shall ye see what his naturall did shoote at. He that beareth a tankarde by meanesse of degree, and was borne for a cokhorse by sharpenes of witte, will keepe a canuase at the Conduites, tyll he be Maister of his companie. Such a stirring thing it is to haue wittes misplaced, and their degrees mislotted by the iniquitie of _Fortune_, which the equitie of _nature_ did seeme to meane vnto them.
_Plato_ in his wished common weale, and his defining of naturall dignities, appointeth his degrees and honors, where _nature_ deserueth by _abilitie_ and _worth_, not where _fortune_ freindeth by _byrth_ and _boldnes_, though where both do ioyne _singularitie_ in _nature_, and successe in _fortune_, there be some rare iewell. Hereupon I conclude, that as it necessary to preuent to great a number for the _quantitie_ thereof: so it is more then necessarie, to prouide in the necessarie number for the _qualitie_ thereof, wherein _restraint_ it selfe will do much good for the one, and _choice_ in restraint will do more for the other. Sure all children may not be set to schole, nay not though priuate circumstance say yea. And therefore scholes may not be set vp for all, though great good will finde neuer so many founders, both for the place wherein to learne, and for the number also which is for to learne: that the state may be serued with sufficiencie enough, and not be pestered with more than enough. And yet by the way for writing and reading so they rested there, what if euerie one had them, for _religion_ sake, and their necessarie _affaires_? Besides that in the long time of their whole youth, if they minded no more, these two were easely learned, at their leasure times by extraordinary meanes, if the ordinarie be daintie and no schoole nigh. Euerie parish hath a minister, if none else in the parish, which can helpe writing and reading.