an especial care of his hawks, hounds, horses, dogs, &c.; a
musician will string and unstring his lute, &c.; only scholars neglect that
instrument, their brain and spirits (I mean) which they daily use, and by
which they range overall the world, which by much study is consumed."
_Vide_ (saith Lucian) _ne funiculum nimis intendendo aliquando abrumpas_:
"See thou twist not the rope so hard, till at length it [1982]break."
Facinus in his fourth chap. gives some other reasons; Saturn and Mercury,
the patrons of learning, they are both dry planets: and Origanus assigns
the same cause, why Mercurialists are so poor, and most part beggars; for
that their president Mercury had no better fortune himself. The destinies
of old put poverty upon him as a punishment; since when, poetry and beggary
are Gemelli, twin-born brats, inseparable companions;

[1983] "And to this day is every scholar poor;
Gross gold from them runs headlong to the boor:"

Mercury can help them to knowledge, but not to money. The second is
contemplation, [1984]"which dries the brain and extinguisheth natural heat;
for whilst the spirits are intent to meditation above in the head, the
stomach and liver are left destitute, and thence come black blood and
crudities by defect of concoction, and for want of exercise the superfluous
vapours cannot exhale," &c. The same reasons are repeated by Gomesius,
_lib. 4, cap. 1, de sale_ [1985]Nymannus _orat. de Imag._ Jo. Voschius,
_lib. 2, cap. 5, de peste_: and something more they add, that hard students
are commonly troubled with gouts, catarrhs, rheums, cachexia, bradiopepsia,
bad eyes, stone and colic, [1986]crudities, oppilations, vertigo, winds,
consumptions, and all such diseases as come by overmuch sitting; they are
most part lean, dry, ill-coloured, spend their fortunes, lose their wits,
and many times their lives, and all through immoderate pains, and
extraordinary studies. If you will not believe the truth of this, look upon
great Tostatus and Thomas Aquinas's works, and tell me whether those men
took pains? peruse Austin, Hierom, &c., and many thousands besides.

"Qui cupit optatam cursu contingere metam,
Multa tulit, fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit."

"He that desires this wished goal to gain,
Must sweat and freeze before he can attain,"

and labour hard for it. So did Seneca, by his own confession, _ep. 8._
[1987]"Not a day that I spend idle, part of the night I keep mi