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.

Differenda igitur quaedam sunt & praesumenda.

Some words therefore (saith he) are to be put back, and some to be put before: and even as in buil∣ding of Stones, every stone must not be laid as they come next to hand, but as they will best lye together: so nothing will make a more sweet speech than a fit mutation of the order of words. This oratorical number hath no rythme in it, but only in a certain re∣petition that is in epizeuxis and epistrophe, as we shall hear hereafter, but is only in the observation of feet, which Tully esteemed of so much worth, as that he affirmed the speeches to exclaim, when the words fell fitly: and so our Sermons do much delight; yet in them we must take heed we be not too curious, lest we draw the peoples minds from the matter to the words, and so rob God; for so the speech will so delight the eare and the affections, that the matter

will not enter into the heart: and without question Demosthenes had never laid his thunder-bolts so, had they not been cast from him with number: and ther∣fore (saith Tully) as wrestlers and sword-players do shun every thing warily, and do not strike vehement∣ly, that whatsoever is profitable unto fight, the same may be comely unto the sight: so an Oration doth not make any deep wound, unlesse the stroke be fit, neither doth it well enough fly the force, except it know what is comely in the flying of it: therefore as their motion is who are 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, unskilful at that play of Olympus; so is their Oration who do not shut up their sentences with numbers.