(without which a man may be ashamed to account 
     himself a scholar) Hebrew, Arabick, Chaldean and Latine. 
     Printing likewise is now in use, so elegant, and so correct, 
     that better cannot be imagined, although it was found 
     out but in my time by divine inspiration, as by a diabolical 
     suggestion on the other side was the invention of 
     Ordnance. All the world is full of knowing men, of most 
     learned Schoolmasters, and vast Libraries: and it appears 
     to me as a truth, that neither in Plato’s time nor Cicero’s, 
     nor Papinian’s, there was ever such conveniency for 
     studying, as we see at this day there is. . . . I see robbers, 
     hangmen, free-booters, tapsters, ostlers, and such like, of 
     the very rubbish of the people, more learned now, than 
     the doctors and the preachers were in my time. . . . What 
     shall I say? The very women and children have aspired to 
     this praise and celestial Manna of good learning. (45)