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sciences were redacted into strict rules and certaine
observations, he had so perfect knowledge of them,
that all those which since his time have lahored to
establish pollicies or common-wealths, to manage
warres, and to write either of religion or philosophy,
in which sect soever or of all artes, have made use of
him as of an absolutely perfect master in the knowledge
of all things; and of his books, as of a seminary,
a spring-garden or store-house of all kinds of sufficiency
ana learning.
Qui quid sit pulchi um, quid turpc. quid utile, quid non,
Plentus ac melius Chrysippo, ac Ctantore dicit. 1
What is faire, what is foule, what profit may, what not,
Better than Grantor or Chrysippus, Homer wrot.
And as another saith :
a quo ceufonte perrenni
Vatum Pierus labra rigantur aquis.²
By whom, as by an ever-flowing-filling spring,
With Muses liquor poets lippes are bath'de to sing.
And another:
Adde Heliconiadum comitcs, quorum unus Hornet us
Astta potitus. 3 ,
Muses companions adde to these, of all
One onely Homer hath in heav'n his stall.
And another:
cujusque ex ore prqfuso
Omnis posteritas latices in caimma duxit,
Amnemque in tenues, ausa est deducere rivos:
Uniusfaecunda bonis, 4
From whose large mouth for verse all that since live
Drew water, and grew bolder to denve
Into thinne shallow rivers his deepe flood;
Richly luxuriant in one man's good.
1 HOR. 1. i. Epist. xxiii.
² OVID. Am, 1. in. Eleg, viii. 25.
³ LUCR, 1. iii, 1081. 4 MANIL. Ast. 1. ii, 8.