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Reading and Practising (The use of a book, not reading makes men wise)

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The use, not the reading, of a book makes men wise

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86(USUS LIBRI, NON LECTIO PRUDENTES FACIT)

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<p>THE volumes great, who so doth still peruse,<lb/> And dailie turnes, and gazeth on the same,<lb/> If that the fruicte thereof, he do not vse,<lb/> He reapes but toile, and neuer gaineth fame:<lb/> Firste reade, then marke, then practice that is good,<lb/> For without vse, we drinke but <rs>LETHE</rs> flood.<lb/> Of practice longe, experience doth proceede;<lb/> And wisedome then, doth euermore ensue:<lb/> Then printe in minde, what wee in printe do reade,<lb/> Els loose wee time, and bookes in vaine do vewe:<lb/> Wee maie not haste, our talent to bestowe,<lb/> Nor hide it vp, whereby no good shall growe.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_18101"/><foreign lang="la">Lectio multorum voluminum, &amp; omnis generis auctorum, habet aliquid<lb/> vagum &amp; instabile: certis*ingeniis immorari &amp; innutri ti oportet, si ve-<lb/> lis aliquid trahere, quod in animo fideliter sedeat. <name type="author">Senec.</name> 1. Epist. 2.</foreign> <gloss target="embstma_1667_18101" lang="la">*melius fortè, certis<lb/> ingenia immorari.</gloss> </p>

Usus libri, non lectio prudentes facit

Anwendung des Gelesenen

Ad D. A. P.

One man counting off his arguments on his fingers, one man reading

Vsus libri, non lectio prudentes facit

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