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 with the Learned in Spain, ſhewing unto them the Errors of our Arts, and how they might be corrected, and front whence they ſhould gather the true Inditia of the Times to come, and wherein they ought to agree with thoſe things that are paſt; alſo how the faults of the Church and the whole Philoſopia Moralis was to be amended: He ſhewed them new Growths, new Fruits, and Beaſts, which did concord with old Philoſophy, and preſcribed them new Axiomata, whereby all things might fully be reſtored: But it was to them a laughing matter; and being a new thing unto them, they feared that their great Name ſhould be leſſened, if they ſhould now again begin to learn and acknowledg their many years Errors, to which they were accuſtomed, and wherewith they had gained them enough: Who ſo loveth unquietneſs, let him be reformed.

The ſame Song was alſo ſang to him by other Nations, the which moved him the more (becauſe it happened to him contrary to his expectation,) being then ready bountifully to impart all his Arts and Secrets to the Learned, if they would have