[Sidenote: The necessitie of the colledge for Philosophie.]
3. For _Philosophie_ to haue the third place it will be easily obtained, though there be some pretended doubt in the order of the partes for the training. We vse to set young ones to the morall and politike first and reason against _Aristotles_ conclusion, that a young stripling is a fit hearer of morall _Philosophie_. But _Aristotle_ himselfe being well brought vp in the _Mathematicalles_ placeth naturall _Philosophie_ next vnto them, as very intelligible vnto very young heades, by reason of their necessarie consequence, and _Theoreticall_ consideration. Wheras the other partes being subiect to particular circunstance in life are to be reserued for elder yeares. For not onely the _Philosophicall_ resolution, but also the very religious was in the best, and eldest time to cause youth abide long in study, and to forbeare publike shew, till it were very late. To make _Logicke_, and _Rhetoricke_ serue to those vses, and in those places, where I appointed them, was no absurdity. For _Rhetoricke_, there will be small contradiction, though declamations, and such exercises seeme to make some further claime. _Pythagoras_ his fiue yeares silence, hath a meaning that ye heare sufficiently, eare ye speake boldly. And _Socrates_ that great maister in _Plato_ calleth _Logicke_ the ridge, or toppe of the _Mathematicalles_, as then to succeede, when they were gotten: and good reason, why, bycause their methode in teaching, and order in prouing did bring forth _Logicke_. As he that will make _Plato_ the example to _Aristotles_ preceptes shall easily perceaue.
[Sidenote: The necessitie of three colledges peculiar for Diuinitie, Law, Physicke.]
3, 4, 5. For _Diuinitie_, _Lawe_, and _Physicke_ to haue their owne colledges, for their full exercises, and better learning, then now thus to haue their studentes scattered, it is a thing that implyeth no great repugnaunce with any reason, and is not without president. As for the _Lawe_, if the whole studie were made one and whatsoeuer appertaineth to that profession, for either Ecclesiasticall, or Temporall vse were reduced into one body, had our countrey any cause to complaine? or but great cause to be very glad? wheras now three seuerall professions in lawe, bewraye a three headed state, one _English_ and _French_, an other, Romish Imperiall, the third Romish ecclesiasticall, where meere _English_ were simply our best. I shall not neede to say any more herein, but onely giue occasion to those which can iudge, and helpe it, to thinke of the position: the distraction of temporall, ciuill, and Canon lawe being in many pointes very offensiue to our countrey.