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158 upon this as to make it both the beginning and end of your studies. These are to be our rudiments but not our work; our way but not our Goale. In a feast (I suppose) you would not feed only upon Quelkchoses or Junkets; but would gratifie your stomach with something that is more solid. In this publick banquet of Learning, why do you not the same? Why add you not the firmer food of Philosophy, to those delicious Viands of Oratours and Poets? For (mistake me not) I would not that the one should be deserted, but that the other should be superadded, and that those looser, and by themselves more fluid Nymphs should be tempered and mixed, with this (as I may call it) severer Bacchus. Penelope's Suitors in Homer are justly laughed at; who deserting the Mistress fell to courting the Maids: Take heed you do not the same, that despising the great and excellent Princess, you Rh