a discourse touch help for the intellectual power I do ever hold it for a  insolent and unlucky say Faber whoever it be chance of oneself except it be  utter only as a hortative or spur to correct sloth for otherwise if it be  believe as it sound and that a man enter into a high imagination that he can  compass and fathom all accident and ascribe all success to his drift and reach  and the contrary to his error and sleepings it be common see that the evening  fortune of that man be not so prosperous as of he hat without slacken of his  industry attribute much to felicity and providence above he but if the  sentence be turn to this Faber whoever it be innate quality Himself it be  somewhat more true and much more profitable because it will teach man to bend  themselves to reform those imperfection in themselves which now they seek but  to cover and to attain those virtue and good part which now they seek but to  have only in show and demonstration yet notwithstanding every man attempt to  be of the first Trade of Capenters and few bind themselves to the second  whereas nevertheless the rise in fortune seldom amend the mind but on the  other side the remove of the stand and impediment of the mind do often clear  the passage and current to a man fortune but certain it be whether it be  believe or no that as the most excellent of metal gold be of all other the  most pliant and most endure to be wrought so of all live and breathe substance  the perfect man be the most susceptible of help improvement impression and  alteration and not only in his body but in his mind and spirit and there again  not only in his Apptite and affection but in his power of wit and reason for  as to the body of man we find many and strange experience how nature be  overwreak by custom even in action that seem of most difficulty and least  possible as first in voluntary motion which though it be term voluntary yet  the high degree of it be not voluntary for it be in my power and will to run  but to run fast then accord to my lightness or disposition of body be not in  my power nor will we see the industry and practice of tumbler and Funambulo's  what effect of great wonder it bring the body of man unto so for suffer of  pain and dolour which be think so contrary to the nature of man there be much  example of penance in stric order of superstition what they do endure such as  may well verify the report of the Spartan boy which be wont to be scourge upon  the altar so bitter as sometime they die of it and yet be never hear to  complain and to pass to those faculty which be reckon more involuntary as long  fast and Abstinenee and the contrary extreme voracity the leave and forbear  the use of drink for altogether the endure vehement cold and the like there  have not want neither do want diverse example of strange victory over the body  in every of these nay in respiration the proof have be of some who by  continual use of dive and work under the water have bring themselves to be  able to hold their breath a incredible time and other that have be able  without suffocation to endure the stifle breath of a oven or furnace so heat  as though it do not scal nor burn yet it be many degree too ho for any man not  make to it to breath or take in and some impostor and counterfeit likewise  have be able to wreat and cast their body into strange from and motion yea and  other to bring themselves into rances and astonishment all which example do  demonstrate how various and how to high point and degree the body of man may  be as it be mould and wrought and if any mad conceive than it be some secret  propriety of nature that have be in those person which have attain to those  point and that it be not open or every man to do the like though he have be  put to it for which Cause such thing come but very rare to pass it be true no  doubt but some person be apt then other but so as the more aptness cause  perfection but the less Aptnese do not disable so that for example the more  apt child that be take to be make a funambulo will prove more excellent in his  feat but the less apt will be of the herd funambulo also and there be small  question but that these ability will have be more common and other of like  sort not attempt will likewise have be bring upon the stage but for two reason  the one because of man diffidence in prejudge they as impossibility for it  hold in those thing which the poet say to be able because posse to see for no  man shall know how much may be do except he believe much may be do the other  reason be because they be but practice base and inglorious and of no great use  and therefore sequester from reward of valve and on the other side painful so  as the recompense balance not with the travail and suffer and as to the will  of man it be that which be most maniable and obedient as that which admit most  medicine to cure and alter it the most sovereign of all be religion which be  able to change and transform it in the deep and most inward inclination and  motion and next to that be opinion and apprehension whether it be infuse by  tradition and institution or wrought in by disputation and persuasion and the  three be example which transform the will of man into the similitude of that  which be most obversant and familiar towards it and the four be when one  affection be heal and correct by another as when cowardice be remedy by shame  and dishonour or sluggishness and backwardness by indignation and emulation  and so of the like and last when all these mean or any of they have new frame  or from humane will then do custom and habit corroborate and confirm all the  rest therefore it be no marvel though this faulty of the mind of will and  election which incline affection and appetite be but the inception and  rudiment of will may be so well govern and manage because it admit access to  so diverse remedy to be apply to it and to work upon it the effect whereof be  so many and so know as require no enumeration but general they do issue as  medicine do into two kind of cure whereof the one be a just or true cure and  the other be call palliation for either the labour and intention be to reform  the affection real and true restrain they if they be too violent and raise  they if they be too soft and weak or else it be to cover they or if occasion  be to pretend they and represent they of the former sort whereof the example  be plentiful in the school of philosopher and in all other institution of  moral virtue and of the other sort the example be more plentiful in the court  of prince and in all politic traffic where it be ordinary to find not only  profound dissimulation and suffocate the affection that no note or mark appear  of they outward but also lively simulations and Affecations carry the token of  passion which be not as risus order and tear to drive together and the like of  help of the intellectual power the intellectual power have few mean to work  upon they then the will or body of man but the one that prevail that be  exercise work more forcible in they then in the rest the ancient habit of the  philosopher si quis to seek in a bag of hide birth de omni scibili the  exercise of scholar make verse extempore Stans pede in to make one the  exercise of lawyer in memory narrative the exercise of sophist and io and  standing against with manifest effect artificial memory great help by exercise  the excercise of uffons to draw all thing to conceit ridiculous the mean that  help the understanding and faculty thereof be not example as in the will by  conversation and here the conceit of imitation already digest with the  confutation obiter si to see of Tully opinion advice a man to take some one to  imitate similitude of face analyse be logic rhetoric the ancient Aristotle  Plato Thaetetus Gorgias litigious well sophist Protagoras Aristotle Schola  to sew topic elenchs rhetoric organon Cicero hermogenes the neoterics ramus  Agricola nil sacri Lullius his Typocosmia study Cooper dictionary mattheus  collection of proper word for metaphor Agrippa de emptiness c and if not here  of imitation collection preparative Aristotle similitude of a shoemaker shop  full of shoe of all sort Demosthenes beginning sermon Tullis precept of thesis  of all sort preparative the rely upon exercise with the difference of use and  temper the instrument and the similitude f prescribe against the law of nature  and of estate point that exercise be to be frame to the life that be to say to  work ability in that kind whereof a man in the course of action shall have  most use the indirect and oblique exercise which do per part and per  logical consequence inable these faculty which perhaps direct exercise at  first will but distort and these have chief place where the faculty be weak  not per see but per accidental happening as if want of memory grow through  lightness of wit and want of stay attention then the mathematics or the law  help because they be thing wherein if the mind once roam it can recover of the  advantage of exercise as to dance with heavy shoe to march with heavy armour  and carriage and the contrary advantage in nature very dull and unapt of work  alacrity by frame a exercise with some delight or affection just as pveris  daunt a little rind flattering teacher element to will ut to learn prima of  the caution of exercise as to beware lest by evil do as all beginner do weak a  man grow not and be inveterate in a ill habit and so take not the advantage of  custom in perfection but in confirm ill slubber on the lute the marshal and  sequel of science and practice logic and rhetoric shall be use to be read  after poesy history and philosophy first exercise to do thing well and clean  after prompt and ready the exercise in the university and school be of memory  and invention either to speak by heart that which be set down verbatim or to  speak extempore whereas there be little use in action of either of both but  most thing which we utter be neither verbal premeditate nor mere extemporal  therefore exercise will be frame to take a little breathe and to consider of  head and then to fit and from the speech ex tempore this will be do in two  manner both with write and table and without for in most action it be permit  and passable to use the note whereunto if a man be not accustom it will put he  out there be no use of a narrative memory in Academiis videlicet with  circumstance of time person and place and with name and it be one be to  discourse and another to relate and describe and herein use and action be most  conversant also to sum up and contract be a thing in action of very general  use