MAXIME C.

The Man undeceived. The Christian Sage. The Courtly Philosopher.

It is fit to be so, but not to appear to be so, and far less to affect to be thought so. Though to Philosophize be the most worthy exercise of the wise, yet it is now Page  95 a-days out of fashion. The learning of able men is despised. Seneca having in∣troduced it into Rome, it was sometime in vogue at Court, and at present it passes there for folly. But Prudence and a good mind are not fed with prejudice.