study serve for delight for ornament and for ability their chief use for  delight be in privateness and retire for ornament be in discourse and for  ability be in the judgement and disposition of business for expert man can  execute and perhaps judge of particular one by one but the general counsel and  the plot and marshal of affair come best from those that be learned to spend  too much time in study be sloth to use they too much for ornament be  affectation to make judgement whole by their rule be the humour of a scholar  they perfect nature and be perfect by experience for natural ability be like  natural plant that needs proining by study and study themselves do give forth  direction too much at large except they be bind in by experience crafty man  contemn study simple man admire they and wise man use they for they teach not  their own use but that be a wisdom without they and above they win by  observation read not to contradict and confute nor to believe and take for  grant nor to find talk and discourse but to weigh and consider some book be to  be taste other to be swallow and some few to be chew and digest that be some  book be to be read only in part other to be read but not curious and some few  to be read whole and with diligence and attention some book also may be read  by deputy and extract make of they by other but that will be only in the less  important argument and the mean sort of book else distil book be like common  distil water flashy thing read make a full man conference a ready man and  write a exact man and therefore if a man write little he have needs have a  great memory if he confer little he have needs have a present wit and if he  read little he have needs have much cunning to seem to know that he do not  history make man wise poet witty the mathematics subtle natural philosophy  deep moral grave logic and rhetoric able to contend  to go from application in  more nay there be no stand or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by  fit study like as disease of the body may have appropriate exercise bowl be  good for the stone and reins shoot for the lung and breast gentle walk for the  stomach ride for the head and the like so if a man wit be wander let he study  the mathematics for in demonstration if his wit be call away never so little  he must begin again if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find difference  let he study the schoolman for they be cumin one who cuts if he be not apt to  Beatrice over matter and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another  let he study the lawyer case so every defect of the mind may have a special  receipt