[☞] immortall beames meteth with the reflexions, of the light incomprehensible: and so procureth Ioye, and perfection vnspeakable.” Of which true vse of our _Megethica_, or _Megethologia_, _Diuine Plato_ seemed to haue good taste, and iudgement: and (by the name of _Geometrie_) so noted it: and warned his Scholers therof: as, in hys seuenth _Dialog_, of the Common wealth, may euidently be sene. Where (in Latin) thus it is: right well translated: _Profecto, nobis hoc non negabunt, Quicun[que] vel paululum quid Geometriæ gustârunt, quin hæc Scientia, contrà, omnino se habeat, quàm de ea loquuntur, qui in ipsa versantur._ In English, thus. +_Verely_+ (sayth _Plato_) +_whosoeuer haue, (but euen very litle) tasted of Geometrie, will not denye vnto vs, this: but that this Science, is of an other condicion, quite contrary to that, which they that are exercised in it, do speake of it._+ And there it followeth, of our _Geometrie_, _Quòd quæritur cognoscendi illius gratia, quod semper est, non & eius quod oritur quando[que] & interit. Geometria, eius quod est semper, Cognitio est. Attollet igitur (ô Generose vir) ad Veritatem, animum: at[que] ita, ad Philosophandum preparabit cogitationem, vt ad supera conuertamus: quæ, nunc, contra quàm decet, ad inferiora deijcimus. &c. Quàm maximè igitur præcipiendum est, vt qui præclarissimam hanc habitãt Civitatem, nullo modo, Geometriam spernant. Nam & quæ præter ipsius propositum, quodam modo esse videntur, haud exigua sunt. &c._ It must nedes be confessed (saith _Plato_) +_That =[Geometrie]= is learned, for the knowyng of that, which is euer: and not of that, which, in tyme, both is bred and is brought to an ende. &c. Geometrie is the knowledge of that which is euerlastyng. It will lift vp therfore (O Gentle Syr) our mynde to the Veritie: and by that meanes, it will prepare the Thought, to the Philosophicall loue of wisdome: that we may turne or conuert, toward heauenly thinges =[both mynde and thought]= which now, otherwise then becommeth vs, we cast down on base or inferior things. &c. Chiefly, therfore, Commaundement must be giuen, that such as do inhabit this most honorable Citie, by no meanes, despise Geometrie. For euen those thinges =[done by it]= which, in manner, seame to be, beside the purpose of Geometrie: are of no small importance. &c._+ And besides the manifold vses of _Geometrie_, in matters appertainyng to warre, he addeth more, of second vnpurposed frute, and commoditye, arrising by _Geometrie_: saying: _Scimus quin etiam, ad Disciplinas omnes facilius per discendas, interesse omnino, attigerit ne Geometriam aliquis, an non. &c. Hanc ergo Doctrinam, secundo loco discendam Iuuenibus statuamus._ That is. +_But, also, we know, that for the more easy learnyng of all Artes, it importeth much, whether one haue any knowledge in Geometrie, or no. &c. Let vs therfore make an ordinance or decree, that this Science, of young men shall be