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Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. 4 of 6: Now First Collected, With Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author H friend, that I to mine owne Notion Had ioyned but your experience I haue the Theoricke, But you the Praéticke. I perhaps, haue feene what you haue oram read of. Dal. There's your happinefle. A Scholler in his ftudy knowes the times, Their motion and their influence, which are fixt, And which are wandering, can decipher Seas, And giue each feuerall Land his proper bounds But fet him to the Compafl'e, hee s to feeke, When a plaine Pilot can, direct his courfe From hence vnto both th' Indies; can bring backe His (hip and charge, with profits quintuple. I haue read Ierufalem, and fludied Rome, Can tell 1n what degree each City (lands, Defcribe the diftance of this place from that, All this the Scale 1n euery Map can teach, Nay, for a neede could punc'tually recite The Monuments 1n either, but what I Haue by relation only, knowledge by trauell Which {till makes vp a compleat Gentleman, Prooues eminent in you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.