and docile, [2003]_ex omniligno non fit Mercurius_:  we can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars:  kings can invest knights and barons, as Sigismund the emperor confessed; universities can give degrees; and Tu quod es, e populo quilibet esse potest; but he nor they, nor all the world, can give learning, make philosophers, artists, orators, poets; we can soon say, as Seneca well notes, O virum bonum, o divitem, point at a rich man, a good, a happy man, a prosperous man, sumptuose vestitum, Calamistratum, bene olentem, magno temporis impendio constat haec laudatio, o virum literarum, but ’tis not so easily performed to find out a learned man.  Learning is not so quickly got, though they may be willing to take pains, to that end sufficiently informed, and liberally maintained by their patrons and parents, yet few can compass it.  Or if they be docile, yet all men’s wills are not answerable to their wits, they can apprehend, but will not take pains; they are either seduced by bad companions, vel in puellam impingunt, vel in poculum (they fall in with women or wine) and so spend their time to their friends’ grief and their own undoings.  Or put case they be studious, industrious, of ripe wits, and perhaps good capacities, then how many diseases of body and mind must they encounter?  No labour in the world like unto study.  It may be, their temperature will not endure it, but striving to be excellent to know all, they lose health, wealth, wit, life and all.  Let him yet happily escape all these hazards, aereis intestinis with a body of brass, and is now consummate and ripe, he hath profited in his studies, and proceeded with all applause:  after many expenses, he is fit for preferment, where shall he have it? he is as far to seek it as he was (after twenty years’ standing) at the first day of his coming to the University.  For what course shall he take, being now capable and ready?  The most parable and easy, and about which many are employed, is to teach a school, turn lecturer or curate, and for that he shall have falconer’s wages, ten pound per annum, and his diet, or some small stipend, so long as he can please his patron or the parish; if they approve him not (for usually they do but a year or two) as inconstant, as [2004]they that cried “Hosanna” one day, and “Crucify him” the other; serving-man-like, he must go look a new master; if they do, what is his reward?

[2005] “Hoc quoque te manet ut pueros elementa docentem
        Occupet extremis in vicis alba senectus.”

       “At last thy snow-white age in suburb schools,
        Shall toil in teaching boys their grammar rules.”

Like an ass, he wears out his time for provender, and can show a stump rod, togam tritam et laceram saith [2006]Haedus, an old torn gown, an ensign of his infelicity, he hath his labour for his pain, a modicum to keep him till he be decrepit, and that is all. Grammaticus non est felix, &c.  If he be a trencher chaplain in a gentleman’s house, as it befell [2007] Euphormio, after some seven years’ service, he may perchance have a living to the halves, or some small rectory with the mother of the maids at length, a poor kinswoman, or a cracked chambermaid, to have and to hold during the time of his life.  But if he offend his good patron, or displease his lady mistress in the mean time,