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 point in Trygonoigneo, whoſe flame now ſhould be more and more brighter, and ſhall undoubtedly give to the World the laſt Light.

Such a one likewiſe hath Theophrastus been in Vocation and Callings, although he was none of our Fraternity, yet nevertheleſs hath he diligently read over the Book M: whereby his ſharp ingenium was exalted; but this man was alſo hindered in his courſe by the multitude of the learned and wiſe-ſeeming men, that he was never able peaceably to confer with others of his Knowledg and Underſtanding he had of Nature. And therefore in his writing he rather mocked theſe buſie bodies, and doth not ſhew them altogether what he was: yet nevertheleſs there is found with him well grounded the aforenamed Harmonia, which without doubt he had imparted to the Learned, if he had not found them rather worthy of ſubtil vexation, then to be inſtructed in greater Arts and Sciences; he then with a free and careleſs life loſt his time, and left unto the World their fooliſh pleaſures. But