call for the Elders of the Church, and let him pray_, Iames 5. 14.

[Footnote mm: _Cato de rè rustica, cap. 5._]

[Footnote nn: _Columella lib. 1. cap. 8._]

[Footnote oo: _Libro de morbo sacro (siue illius sit, siue
alterius, nam de authore apud eruditos dubitatio est) statim ab
initio. & quædã huc pertinentiæ habet Theophrastus de plantis lib.
9. cap. 21._]

[Footnote pp: _Procopius Gazeus in Leuiticum._]




_The ninth Proposition, and second Corrolary._


There hath alwayes beene some wanton, or peruerse wits, who only to make
triall of their skill, would take in hand to defend absurd positions,
and commend both such things and persons, which were infamous, and
contemptible as [a]_Phauorinus_ writ the praise of the Quartane Ague,
one of the gout, blindnesse, and deafness, [b]_Lucian_ of a flye,
[c]_Erasmus_ of folly, [d]_Synesius_ of baldnesse, [e]_Glaucus_ in
_Plato_ of iniustice. And among the exercises of the [f]ancient Orators,
wee finde those who strained all their vnderstanding to blaze the honour
of that witlesse and deformed Coward _Thersites_. And this they haue
performed with great Art and eloquence, onely to shew their faculty, but
neuer in good earnest took such a matter in hand. And therefore more