1) "Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability." (2) Crafty men condemn studies simple men admire them and wise men use them." (3) "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.' (4) Reading maketh a full man conference of ready man and writing an exact man." Here is a sound precept in the same tersc style Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider,