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(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)