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 the dull follow in Pliny, ''who could never learn to count further then five, they dwell alwayes upon one lesson. They are like an acquaintance of mine, who had alwayes a book indeed lying open upon a Desk; but it was observed that it lay alwayes open at one and the same place, and by long custome, could lye open no where else. He then that will know much out of this great Book, the World, must read much in it: and as Ulisses is set forth by Homer as the wisest of all the Grecians, because he had travelled much, and had seen multorum hominum mores & Urbes, the Cittyes and Customes of many men: so his son Telemachus is held for a very shallow witted man: and Homer gives the reason, because his mother Penelope, instead of sending him abroad to see forrain Countries, had alwayes kept him at home, and so made him a meere Onocephalus, and a homeling Mammacuth. So true is the saying of Seneca, that ''Imperitum est animal homo, & sine magna experientia rerum, si circumscribatur Natalis soli sui fine.

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