looke what science he doth most addict himselfe unto, he shall in short time attaine to the perfection of it.  His lecture shall be somtimes by way of talke and sometimes by booke:  his tutor may now and then supply him with the same Author, as an end and motive of his institution:  sometimes giving him the pith and substance of it ready chewed.  And if of himselfe he be not so throughly acquainted with bookes, that hee may readily find so many notable discourses as are in them to effect his purpose, it shall not be amisse that some learned man bee appointed to keepe him, company, who at any time of need may furnish him with such munition as hee shall stand in need of; that hee may afterward distribute and dispense them to his best use.  And that this kind of lesson be more easie and naturall than that of Gaza, who will make question?  Those are but harsh, thornie, and unpleasant precepts; vaine, idle and immaterial words, on which small hold may be taken; wherein is nothing to quicken the minde.  In this the spirit findeth substance to bide and feed upon.  A fruit without all comparison much better, and that will soone be ripe.  It is a thing worthy consideration, to see what state things are brought unto in this our age; and how Philosophie, even to the wisest, and men of best understanding, is but an idle, vaine and fantasticall name, of small use and lesse worth, both in opinion and effect.  I thinke these Sophistries are the cause of it, which have forestalled the wayes to come unto it:  They doe very ill that goe about to make it seeme as it were inaccessible for children to come unto, setting it foorth with a wrimpled [Footnote:  wrinkled.] gastlie, and frowning visage; who hath masked her with so counterfet, pale, and hideous a countenance?  There is nothing more beauteous, nothing more delightful, nothing more gamesome; and as I may say, nothing more fondly wanton:  for she presenteth nothing to our eyes, and preacheth nothing to our eares, but sport and pastime.  A sad and lowring looke plainly declareth that that is not her haunt.  Demetrius the Gramarian, finding a companie of Philosophers sitting close together in the Temple of Delphos, said unto them, “Either I am deceived, or by your plausible and pleasant lookes, you are not in any serious and earnest discourse amongst your selves;” to whom one of them, named Heracleon the Megarian, answered, “That belongeth to them, who busie themselves in seeking whether the future tense of the verbe ___, hath a double, or that labour to find the derivation of the comparatives, [omitted] and of the superlatives [omitted], it is they that must chafe in intertaining themselves with their science:  as for discourses of Philosophie they are wont to glad, rejoyce, and not to vex and molest those that use them.”

Deprendas animi tormenta latentis in agro Corpore, deprendas et gaudia; sumit utrumque Inde habitum facies. [Footnote:  Juven, Sat. ix, 18]

     You may perceive the torments of the mind,
     Hid in sicke bodie, you the joyes may find;
     The face such habit takes in either kind.