For, as he that playes for nothing, will not heed his game; no more will voluntary imployment so thoroughly affect a Student, except he be very intent of himself, and take an extraordinary delight in the study, about which he is conversant. It should be of that nature his business, which volens nolens he must necessarily undergo, and without great loss, mulct, shame, or hinderance he may not omit.

Now for women, instead of laborious studies, they have curious needle-works, Cut-works, spinning, bone-lace, and many pretty devices of their own making, to adorn their houses, Cushions, Carpets, Chaires, Stools, (for she eats not the bread of idlenesse, Prov. 31. 27. quæsivit lanam & linum) confections, conserves, distillations, &c. which they shew to strangers.

Ipsa comes præsesque operis venientibus ultro Hospitibus monstrare solet, non segniter horas Contestata suas, sed nec sibi deperiisse.

Which to her guests she shews, with all her pelfe, Thus far my maids, but this I did my self.

This they have to busie themselves about, houshold offices, &c. neat gardens, full of exotick, versicolour, diversly varied, sweet smelling flowers, and plants in all kinds, which they are most ambitious to get, curious to preserve and keep, proud to possess, and much many times brag of.

Their merry meetings and frequent visitations, mutual invitations in good Towns, I voluntarily omit, which are so much in use; gossipping among the meaner sort, &c. old folks have their beads; an excellent invention to keep them from idleness, that are by nature melancholy, and past all affairs, to say so many Paternosters, Avimaries, Creeds, if it were not prophane and superstitious.

In a word, body and mind must be exercised, not one, but both, and that in a mediocrity: otherwise it will cause a great inconvenience. If the body be overtired, it tires the mind. The mind oppresseth the body, as with Students oftentimes fals out, who (as Plutarch observes) have no care of the body, but compell that which is mortal, to do as much as that which is immortal: that which is earthly, as that which is etherial.

But as the Oxe tyred, told the Camel, (both serving one master) that refused to carry some part of his burden, before it were long, he should be compelled to carry all his pack, and skin to boot (which by and by, the Oxe being dead, fell out) the body may say to the soul, that will give him no respite, or remission: a little after, an Ague, Vertigo, Consumption, seiseth on them both; all his study is omitted, and they must be compelled to be sick together: He that tenders his own good estate, and health, must let them draw with equal yoke, both alike, that so they may happily enjoy their wished health.