CHAP. XV. Of Memory.
MEmory is many times taken by the vulgar sort for the sense and vnderstanding, but not so truly and proper∣ly:
Of wisdome three bookes written in French by Peter Charro[n] Doctr of Lawe in Paris. Translated by Samson Lennard
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- Of wisdome three bookes written in French by Peter Charro[n] Doctr of Lawe in Paris. Translated by Samson Lennard
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- Charron, Pierre, 1541-1603.
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for both by reason (as hath beene said) and by experi∣ence, the excellency of the one is ordinarily accompanied with the weaknesse of the other, and to say the truth it is a fa∣culty very profitable for the world, but yet comes far short of the vnderstanding and of all the parts of the Soule is the more delicate, and most fraile. The excellency thereof is not very requisite, but to three sorts of people: Merchants or men of Trade, great talkers, (for the storehouse of the memory is more full and furnished, than that of inuention, for hee that wants it comes short, and must be faine to frame his speech out of the forge of his owne inuention) and liars, mendacem o∣portet esse memorem. From the want of memory proceed these commodities: to lie seldome, to talke little, to forget offences. An indifferent memory sufficeth for all.