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.

Dimensio est Poëica vel orat.

So that here comes in Poetry, so that 'tis not a distinct art by it self, and therfore not to be handled by it self, but is a branch of Rhetorick: Poetry is before, because Oratory is borrowed from it: again Poets were long before Orators: and the first Poets we read of were the Pythagorians; and after them was Homer which is one most ancient, and this Poe∣try was the first measure that was in speech, and this was invented for the rudeness of the people that it might every way answer the eare from the one end to the other. Poetica of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 facio, because th••y made things which were not as though they were; as Chimaeraes monsters, and in ancient time all the truth was so delivered.