The logicians school-master: or, A comment upon Ramus logick.: By Mr. Alexander Richardson, sometime of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge. Whereunto are added, his prelections on Ramus his grammer; Taleus his rhetorick; also his notes on physicks, ethicks, astronomy, medicine, and opticks. Never before published.

Sic pater & mater procreant, nutrix tuetur.

Before he shewed us an example out of an Author, he wils us to look for the use of them out of Authors. The matter of the first belongs to Ethicks, the mat∣ter of the second to History. Logick is a general Art, ergo his examples are best out of Poetry, and Oratory, wherein the use of all Art is. Now the aliquid before is love, which we should have heard of, against which Ovid makes a medicine. In this example Dido is the aliquid, for here the aliquid is the causa. Dardanus had two sons, Assaracus and An∣chises, and of him came Aeneas: now here she takes away the true causes, and sayes Caucasus begot thee:

so there Caucasus in duris cantibus is causa procreans, and Hyrcanae tigres are preserving causes: but this is false, for here is non causa pro causa.

Object. But doth he well to bring fallaces?

Answ. Yes out of Poets, for here non ens, or ens fictum, hath the nature of ens in it: neither are all fables lyes, but by continued allegories they teach us notable truths: now she challengeth Aeneas with this for his manners, because he forsook her.