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WOnderest thou that wisedome hath not as yet attained her perfe∣ction? Iniquitie is not yet wholly discouered. Shee is but new borne, and we bestow all our labour vpon her, our eies and hands are at her seruice. Who is he that se••keth after wisedome? who iudgeth her worthy any more but a superficiall knowledge? who respecteth Philosophie or the liberall studie thereof, but when the Plaies and
Pastimes are put downe, or when it rayneth, or when a man knoweth not how to loose the time? Therefore is it that so many schooles of the Philosophers are emptie. The old and new Academique haue no Reader left them: Who is he that will teach the precepts of Pyrrhon. The schoole of Pithagoras, whose scholers were so enuious, findes not a Master. The new sect of the Sextians more powerfull amongst the Romans, then any other, hauing begunne with great vehemencie, is extinguished in his infancie. Contrariwise, what care is there had that the name of some famous stage-player should not be obscured. The families of Pylades and Batillus, two famous Players, continueth by suc∣cessions, there are diuers Scholers and a great number of Professors in those sciences. Priuately through the whole Citie their Pulpit soundeth: hether men and women trot. Both husbands and wiues contend which of them shall bee nearest, afterwards hauing lost all shame vnder their maskes, they enter into Tauernes, caring in no sort what becomes of Philosophie. So farre are we therefore from comprehending any of those things, which the an∣cients haue left in obscuritie, that for the most part most of their inuentions are forgotten. But vndoubt••dly, when we shall trauell with all our power after it, if sober and modest, youth would studie this, if the elders would teach this, and then yonger learne it, yet scarcely should they sound the depth of it, where truth is placed, which now we seeke with idle hands and aboue the earth.
His Conclusion is such, that he complaineth of the contempt of Philoso••hie, and the affectation of vanities, which if it be not a mi∣sery of this time, let euery wise man iudge.