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198 campion's historie for babes to suck in, till they might repaire thither to be wained : But I trust your consents therein are only suspended for a time, and that so much good labour shall not be utterly lost and frustrate : What though certaine imperfections cannot as yet be salved ? What though the summe arise not to make a muster of Col- ledges at the first day? What though the place be not also commodious ? What though other circumstances inferre a feeble and rawe foundation ? These are in- deede objections of the multitude, whose backeward- nesse breedeth an unnecessary stoppe in this our pur- pose. But your wisedomes can easily consider that time must ripen a weake beginning, that other Vni- versities began with lesse, that all experience telleth us so, shall wee be so curious or so testy that nothing will please us, but all in all, all absolute, all excel- lent, all furnished, all beautified, all fortified in the prime and infancie thereof. I remember a tale of Apuleius asse, who being indifferently placed betweene two bottles of haye, because he could not reach them both at once, forbare them both. Let us not so doe, but content our selves by little and little to bee fedde as the case requireth. The rest of your Bills debated and passed by your wisedomes in this Parliament, I must confesse, they are as you say, beneficiall to the Queene my Mistris, and to her Crowne, but how? Verily as the Husband-man soweth his seede, and reapeth much more then he layde downe, so whatso- ever this benefite amounteth unto, it returneth to your selves in a circle, heere it groweth, heere it is eaten,