Memorie.
AS bookes are consumed with wormes, that are neuer looked
Wits common wealth The second part. A treasurie of diuine, morall, and phylosophicall similies, and sentences, generally vsefull. But more particularly published, for the vse of schooles. By F.M. Master of Arts of bot Vniuersities.
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- Wits common wealth The second part. A treasurie of diuine, morall, and phylosophicall similies, and sentences, generally vsefull. But more particularly published, for the vse of schooles. By F.M. Master of Arts of bot Vniuersities.
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- Meres, Francis, 1565-1647.
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••pon: so memory perisheth except it be renued. Seneca.
Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken: so small things ••lip out of memory, when as great matters stay still. Erasmus.
As Pyes haue a wonderfull desire to ••mitate the voyce of man, so that ••hrough extreame endeuour they some∣times kill themselues: so it is maruel∣••ous pleasant and delightsome to many to learne by heart poems, songs and sonnets, and to sing them, albeit they vnderstand them not. Conradus Lycost∣••e••es Rubeaquensis.
As Lupus Ceruarius, a beast in∣gendered of a Hind, and a Wolfe, doth in the time of hunger and famine forget his food, if so he see any body: so from many that are presently ••lippeth out of memory, which they purposed to speake of when as they heare words spoken to an other effect: Plin. lib. 8. cap. 22.
Cast any thing into a standing water, and circles will arise, which put out one another: so when one thing com∣meth into the memory, another thing
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is thrust out, therefore the memory i•• alwayes to bee repaired, that as one matter passeth; another may be present. Gregor Nazianzenus orat, in funere patris.
As Seneca was of such perfect me∣mory, that he could rehearse after one, by hearing two hundred verses: yea, a greater maruaile of memory, he could recite two thousand names of men, be∣ing repeated once before him, with as good a memory, as he that first named them: so Carmides of Greece was so famous for this facultie, that he neuer heard any reading, but hee could re∣peate it word by word without wri∣ting, were the writing or reading ne∣uer so long, hee would not misse a s••llable.