works contain all things knowable, it mu&longs;t follow al&longs;o that they <lb/>
may be therein di&longs;covered.</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>Good <emph type="italics"/>Sagredus,<emph.end type="italics"/> make no je&longs;t of this advice, which me <lb/>
thinks you rehear&longs;e in too Ironical a way; for it is not long &longs;ince <lb/>
that a very eminent Philo&longs;opher having compo&longs;ed a Book <emph type="italics"/>de animà,<emph.end type="italics"/> <lb/>
wherein, citing the opinion of <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle,<emph.end type="italics"/> about its being or not be <lb/>
ing immortal, he alledged many Texts, (not any of tho&longs;e hereto <lb/>
fore quoted by <emph type="italics"/>Alexander ab Alexandro<emph.end type="italics"/>: for in tho&longs;e he &longs;aid, that <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/> had not &longs;o much as treated of that matter, much le&longs;s de <lb/>
termined any thing pertaining to the &longs;ame, but others) by him&longs;elf <lb/>
found out in other more ab&longs;tru&longs;e places, which tended to an er <lb/>
roneous &longs;en&longs;e: and being advi&longs;ed, that he would find it an hard <lb/>
matter to get a Licence from the Inqui&longs;itors, he writ back unto <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg240"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
his friend, that he would notwith&longs;tanding, with all expedition <lb/>
procure the &longs;ame, for that if no other ob&longs;tacle &longs;hould interpo&longs;e, <lb/>
he would not much &longs;cruple to change the Doctrine of <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle,<emph.end type="italics"/> <lb/>
and with other expo&longs;itions, and other Texts to maintain the con <lb/>
trary opinion, which yet &longs;hould be al&longs;o agreeable to the &longs;en&longs;e of <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s><margin.target id="marg240"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>A brave re&longs;olu <lb/>
tion of a certain<emph.end type="italics"/> <lb/>
Peripatetick <emph type="italics"/>Phi <lb/>
lo&longs;opher.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>Oh mo&longs;t profound Doctor, this! that can command <lb/>
me that I &longs;tir not a &longs;tep from <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle,<emph.end type="italics"/> but will him&longs;elf lead <lb/>
him by the no&longs;e, and make him &longs;peak as he plea&longs;eth. </s><s>See how <lb/>
much it importeth to learn to take <emph type="italics"/>Time<emph.end type="italics"/> by the <emph type="italics"/>Fore-top.<emph.end type="italics"/> Nor <lb/>
is it &longs;ea&longs;onable to have to do with <emph type="italics"/>Hercules,<emph.end type="italics"/> whil'&longs;t he is en <lb/>
raged, and among&longs;t the Furies, but when he is telling merry tales <lb/>
among&longs;t the <emph type="italics"/>Meonion Damo&longs;els.<emph.end type="italics"/> Ah, unheard of &longs;ordidne&longs;&longs;e of <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg241"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
&longs;ervile &longs;ouls! to make them&longs;elves willing &longs;laves to other mens opi <lb/>
nions; to receive them for inviolable Decrees, to engage them <lb/>
&longs;elves to &longs;eem &longs;atisfied and convinced by arguments, of &longs;uch effi <lb/>
cacy, and &longs;o manife&longs;tly concludent, that they them&longs;elves can <lb/>
not certainly re&longs;olve whether they were really writ to that pur <lb/>
po&longs;e, or &longs;erve to prove that a&longs;&longs;umption in hand, or the contrary. <lb/>
</s><s>But, which is a greater madne&longs;&longs;e, they are at variance among&longs;t <lb/>
them&longs;elves, whether the Author him&longs;elf hath held the affirmative <lb/>
part, or the negative. </s><s>What is this, but to make an Oracle of a <lb/>
Log, and to run to that for an&longs;wers, to fear that, to reverence <lb/>
and adore that?</s>

<s><margin.target id="marg241"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The &longs;ervile &longs;pi <lb/>
rit of &longs;ome of<emph.end type="italics"/> Ari <lb/>
&longs;totles <emph type="italics"/>followers.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s>SIMPL. </s><s>But in ca&longs;e we &longs;hould recede from <emph type="italics"/>Aristotle,<emph.end type="italics"/> who have <lb/>
we to be our Guid in Philo&longs;ophy? </s><s>Name you &longs;ome Author.</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>We need a Guid in unknown and uncouth wayes, but <lb/>
in champion places, and open plains, the blind only &longs;tand in need <lb/>
of a Leader; and for &longs;uch, it is better that they &longs;tay at home. <lb/>
</s><s>But he that hath eyes in his head, and in his mind, him &longs;hould <lb/>
a man choo&longs;e for his Guid. </s><s>Yet mi&longs;take me not, thinking that I <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg242"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
&longs;peak this, for that I am again&longs;t hearing of <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/>; for on the