The Logic Newly Translated, Frontispiece – Dedication
PETRVS R. M. S. AET LVII
THE LOGIKE OF THE MOSTE EXCELLENT PHILOſopher P. Ramus Martyr, Newly tranſlated, and in diuers places corrected, after the mynde of the Author.
PER M. Roll. Makylmenaeum Scotum, rogatu viri honeſtiſſimi, M. Aegidij Hamlini.
ANCHORA SPEI
Imprinted at London by Thomas Ʋautroullier dwelling in the Blackefrieres.
ANNO M.D.LXXIIII.
CVM PRIVILEGIO.
The lyuelie pithe of Platoes witte and Ariſtots ingeine,
The pleaſaunte vayne of Cicero, and of Quintiliane
The iudgment highe, here thou maieſt ſee: therfor if thou be wiſe,
No farther ſeeke but in this booke thy ſelf doe exerciſe.
TO THE WORSHYPFVLL M. ROBERT WYKES OF Dodyngton in the Countye of Glouceter Eſquyer.
ALexander Kynge of Macedone (moſt Worſhipfull Mecaenas) not ſo muche for his valyaunt and martiall factes (althoughe they were moſt victorious) as for his great louelove and ardente zeale whiche he bare to vertue and knowledge, hathe bene of all men hade in moſte worthie estimation and goodlye memorye. Iob called the ſeruaunte of God, althoughe he was worthie to be prayſed of all men for his iustice and equitye, yet he was moste commended for his ſyngular patyence in tyme of tribulation and great calamytie. But when I conſidere with my ſelf your inſatiable deſyre and moste feruent louelove, not onlye in the followynge of your owne ſtudie, but alſo in the promouinge and furtherynge of others: your greate patience and incredible constance, in ſufferynge affliction and abydyng aequitie: I am compelled to confeſſe that there is none neyther amongeſt the prophane and ethnycke authours, neyther amongeſt theccleſyasticall and ſpyrytuall fathers (of what estate or qualitie ſo euer they were) with the whiche ye may not be compared, yea or rather preferred. For yf Alexander were prayſed that in the myddeſt of his triumphant victories he dyd beare abrode with hym Ilyas the famous worke of homer containinge the battayles and destruction of Troye: How muche more are ye to be commended that in the myddeſt of your calamitie doe bothe nyght and day where ſoeuer ye be, carie and reade a more worthie and pretious worke? Alexander in proſperitie tooke pleaſure to reade Homere treactinge, of martiall factes, to thende he mought guyde his armye accordinge to the exacte rule therin declared: ye take pleaſure in aduerſitie to reade the holye Scrypture and worde of God, to thende ye may gouerne your lyfe accordyng to the wyll and commaundemente of God. Where Alexander was, there was prophane Homere: where ye are there is the holye Byble. When Alexander did ſleape Homere was his boulster: when ye doe ſleape, the Byble is your pyllowe Alexander for all hys ryches is prayſed for the continuall reading of one booke: what ſhall I then ſaye of you that hauehave bestowed no lyttle parte of your goodes in buiynge of moſt worthie workes. Iob whiche is ſet before our eyes thexample of a ſyngular patience beinge extreamly afflicted in outward thynges, and in hys bodye, throughe his great tormentes and afflictyons brasted forthe into many inconuenyences both of wordes and ſentences, and ſhewed hym ſelf as a deſperate man in many thynges, and as one that woulde reſyſt God, Ye hauynge no leſſe occaſion to complayne beinge moste vniustly ſpoyled of your goods troubled in mynde and conſcience, threatned dayly by your ennemyes doe notwithstandinge constantly reſyste acknowledgyng God to hauehave ſecret iudgments, to chastyſe thoſe fatherlye whome he loueth, and to lette the reprobate runne to destruction. Theſe and other your moste ſingular vertues hauinge conſidered and experimented the good will and mynd which you beare to the furtheraunce and ſettyng forthe of all ſciences, I coulde fynde none more apte, or worthie vnderunder whoſe name this golden treaſure ſhoulde come abrode, then his whoſe vertue and good behauiour, mighte geue ſome place and authoritie to the ſame. For although therebe many more adorned with ryches and poſſeſſions of this worlde yet in ſettynge forthe of vertue and ſinguler patience I fynde none at all. Nowe therfore to conclude (Sythens, I knowe you to be moſt alienated from all ambition) I beſeeche you to receyue, this my ſmall preſente in good part, hauing rather reſpecte to the mynde of the giuer then to the gyfte it ſelf, althoughe moſt pretious. So I committe you to the protection of God almyghtie wiſhynge his heauenly Maiestie, that ye may constantlie perſeuere as ye hauehave begonne, bothe in your ſpirituall and temporall affaires, to thende that ye liuing godlie in this worlde maye obtayne that heauenly Crowne of glorie whiche our Sauiour Ieſus Christe hathe prepared to all thoſe that doe patiently: watche for his appearynge to whome withe the father and the holy Ghoſt be all laude, honour & prayſe worlde without ende.