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153 memory; If he Conferre little, he had need have a Present Wit; And if he Reade litle, he had need have much Cunning, to seeme to know that he doth not. Histories make Men Wise; Poets Witty ; The Mathematicks Subtill; Naturall Philosophy deepe; Morall Grave ; Logick and Rhetorick Able to Contend. Abeunt studia in Mores. Nay, there is no Stond or Impediment in the Wit but may be wrought out by Fit Studies; Like as Diseases of the Body may have Appropriate Exercises. Bowling is good for the Stone and Reines; Shooting for the Lungs and Breast; Gentle Walking for the Stomacke; Riding for the Head; And the like. So if a Man's Wit be Wandring, let him Study the Mathematicks; For in Demonstrations, if his Wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: If his Wit be not Apt to distinguish or find differences, let him Study the Schoole-men; For they are Cymini sectores. If he be not Apt to beat over Matters, and to call up one Thing to Prove and Illustrate another, let him Study the Lawyers' Cases: So every Defect of the Minde may have a Speciall Receit. 

have an Opinion not wise, That for a Prince to Governe his Estate, Or for a Great Person to governe his Proceedings, according to the Respect of Factions , is a Principall Part of Policy: whereas contrariwise, the Chiefest Wisdome is, either in Ordering those Things, which are 