only a great Phyfician to himfelfe, and, to his friends, but also may at fome time or other, fave an Army by this frugall, and expenceleffe meanes only; and not let the healthy and ftout bodies of young men rot away under him for want of. this difcipline, which is a great pitty, and no leffe a fhame to the commander. To fet forward all thefe proceedings in nature and mathematicks, what hinders, but that they may procure, as oft as fhall be needfull, the helpfull experiences of Hunters, fowlers, Fishermen, Shepherds, Gardeners, Apothecaries; and in the other fciences, Architects, Engi-, neers, Mariners, Anatomists; who doubtleffe would be ready fome for reward, and fome to favour fuch a hopefull fe

minary.

minary. And this will give them fuch a reall tincture of naturall knowledge, as they fhall never forget, but dayly augment with delight. Then alfo thofe poets which are now counted moft hard, will be both facil and pleafant, Orpheus, Hefiod, Theocritus, Aratus, Nicander, Oppian, Dionyfius, and in Latin Lucrctius, Manilius, and the rural part of Virgil.

By this time, yeers and good general precepts will have furnifht them more diftinctly with that act of reafon which in Ethics is called Proairefis; that they may with fome judgement contemplatupon morall good and evil. Then will be requir'd a speciall reinforcement of conftant and found endoctrinating to fet N 4 them

them right and firm, inftructing them more amply in the knowledge of vertue and the hatred of vice: while their young and pliant affections are led through all the morall works of Plato, Xenophon, Cicero, Plutarch, Laertius, and those Locrian remnants; but ftill to be reduc't in their nightward ftudies wherewith they close the dayes work, under the determinat fentence of David or Solomon, or the evangels and Apoftalic Scriptures. Being perfit in the knowledge of perfonall duty, they may then begin the ftudy of Economies. And either now, or before this, they may have eafily learnt at any odde hour the

Italian tongue.

And foon after, but

with warineffe, and good antidote, it

would

would be wholfome anough to let them taft fome choife comedies Greek, Latin, or Italian: thofe tragedies alfo that treate of houfhold matters, as Trachinia, Alceftis and the like. The next remove must be to the study of Politics: to know the beginning, end, and reafons of politicall focieties; that they may not in a dangerous fit of the common-wealth be fuch poor, fhaken, uncertain reeds, of fuch a tottering confcience, as many of our great counfellers have lately fhewn themfelves, but ftedfast pillars of the State. After this they are to dive into the grounds of law, and legal juflice; deliver'd first, and with beft warrant by Mofes; and as farre as humane prudence can be trusted,

in

in thofe extoll'd remains of Grecian Law

givers, Lycurgus, Solon, Zaleucus, Charondas, and thence to all the Romane Edicts and tables with their Iuftinian; and fo down to the Saxon and common laws of England, and the Statutes. Sundayes alfo and every evening may be now understandingly fpent in the highest matters of Theology, and Church Hiftory ancient and modern: and ere this time the Hebrew tongue at a fet hour might have been gain'd, that the Scriptures may be now read in their own originall; whereto it would be no impoffibility to adde the Chaldey, and the Syrian dialect. When all these employments are well conquer'd, then will the choife hiftories, heroic poems, and Attic

tragedies