Of wisdom and foolishnesse
THat we call wisdom doth not onely consist in perfect knowledge, or clear understanding, but observations care∣fully put in practise in times of occasion, which is that we cal pru∣dence, and where accidents are not observed, but follows the appetites, the senses perswade to take, are called fools, so wisdom is the clerk to mans life, to write down all, and the trustee to receive all, the steward to lay out all, but not the sur∣veigher to know all, for that belongs to a clear and general un∣derstanding; & one may be wise, and yet not know all; the diffe∣rence betwixt a fool and a wise man is that the wise man seekes the food of his appetite with care, observing all accidents, watching all times, taking all opportunities to the best for himself: the fool runs wildly about without a sking or learning the best, neerest or right wayes, yet greedily hunts after his desires, which desires are according to every mans delectation,