Human Nature Is Fond Of Novelty.

There Is An Herb Named In Latine Convolvulus (i.e. With Wind), Growing Among Shrubs And Bushes, With Carrieth A Flower Not Unlike To This Lilly, Save That It Yeeldeth No Smell Nor Hath Those Chives Within; For Whitenesse They Resemble One Another Very Much, As If Nature In Making This Floure Were A Learning And Trying Her Skill How To Frame The Lilly Indeed.

As Land Is Improved By Sowing It With Various Seeds, So Is The Mind By Exercising It With Different Studies.

Cats Too, With What Silent Stealthiness, With What Light Steps Do They Creep Up To A Bird!

And That All Seas Are Made Calme And Still With Oile; And Therefore The Divers Under The Water Doe Spirt And Sprinkle It Abroad With Their Mouthes Because It Dulceth And Allaieth The Unpleasant Nature Thereof, And Carrieth A Light With It.

But With Man, — By Hercules! Most Of His Misfortunes Are Occasioned By Man.