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cases. So every defect of the mind, may have a special receipt. 。 for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the Schoolmen。 and the like. So if a man39。 gentle walking for the stomach。 like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises. ? Bowling is good for the stone and reins。 moral grave。 the mathematics subtitle。 if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not. Histories make men wise。 conference a ready man。 and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them bothers。 that is, some books are to be read only in parts。 nor to find talk and discourse。 but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute。 and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. ? Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them。