CHAP. XXI.
The forme wherein honest and profitable Artes and sciences were treated.
THe profitable sciences were no lesse meete to be imported to the greater number of ciuill men for instruction of the peo∣ple and increase of knowledge, then to be reserued and kept for clerkes and great men onely. So as next vnto the things histo∣ricall such doctrines and arts as the common wealth fared the bet∣ter by, were esteemed and allowed. And the same were treated by Poets in verse Exameter sauouring the Heroicall, and for the gra∣uitie and comelinesse of the meetre most vsed with the Greekes and Latines to sad purposes, Such were the Philosophicall works of Lucretius Carus among the Romaines, the Astronomicall of A∣ratus and Manilius, one Greeke th'other Latine, the Medicinall of Nicander, and that of Oprianus of hunting and fishes, and many moe that were too long to recite in this place.