leape on horsebacke, because they are not sufficiently strong in their legs to march on foot.  Even as in our dances, those base conditioned men that keepe dancing-schooles, because they are unfit to represent the port and decencie of our nobilitie, endevour to get commendation by dangerous lofty trickes, and other strange tumbler-like friskes and motions.  And some Ladies make a better shew of their countenances in those dances, wherein are divers changes, cuttings, turnings, and agitations of the body, than in some dances of state and gravity, where they need but simply to tread a naturall measure, represent an unaffected cariage, and their ordinary grace; And as I have also seene some excellent Lourdans, or Clownes, attired in their ordinary worky-day clothes, and with a common homely countenance, affoord us all the pleasure that may be had from their art:  but prentises and learners that are not of so high a forme, besmeare their faces, to disguise themselves, and in motions counterfeit strange visages and antickes, to enduce us to laughter.  This my conception is no where better discerned than in the comparison betweene Virgils AEneidos and Orlando Furioso.  The first is seene to soare aloft with full-spread wings, and with so high and strong a pitch, ever following his point; the other faintly to hover and flutter from tale to tale, and as it were skipping from bough to bough, always distrusting his owne wings, except it be for some short flight, and for feare his strength and breath should faile him, to sit downe at every fields-end;

     Excursusque breves tentat.
     [Footnote:  Virg.  AEn. 1. iv. 194.]

     Out-lopes [Footnote:  Wanderings out.] sometimes he doth assay,
     But very short, and as he may.

Loe here then, concerning this kinde of subjects, what Authors please me best:  As for my other lesson, which somewhat more mixeth profit with pleasure, whereby I learne to range my opinions and addresse my conditions, the Bookes that serve me thereunto are Plutarke (since he spake [Footnote:  Was translated by Angot] French) and Seneca; both have this excellent commodity for my humour, that the knowledge I seeke in them is there so scatteringly and loosely handled, that whosoever readeth them is not tied to plod long upon them, whereof I am uncapable.  And so are Plutarkes little workes and Senecas Epistles, which are the best and most profitable parts of their writings.  It is no great matter to draw mee to them, and I leave them where I list.  For they succeed not and depend not one of another.  Both jumpe [Footnote:  Agree] and suit together, in most true and profitable opinions:  And fortune brought them both into the world in one age.  Both were Tutors unto two Roman Emperours:  Both were strangers, and came from farre Countries; both rich and mighty in the common-wealth, and in credit with their masters.  Their instruction is the prime and creame of Philosophy, and presented with a plaine, unaffected, and pertinent fashion.