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This man hath beene so beholden to
Mercuryes predominant strength in his natiuitie, that without a teacher
hee is become very skilfull in welneere all manner of handy-crafts:
a Carpenter, a Ioyner, a Milwright, a free-Mason, a Clockmaker,
a Caruer, mettall founder, Architect, & quid non? yea a Surgeon,
Phisicion, Alchumist, &c. So as that which Gorgias of Leontium vaunted
of the liberall sciences, he may professe of the mechanicall,
viz. to be ignorant in none.
The Cornish minds thus qualified, are the better enabled to expresse
the same by the strong, actiue, &c healthfull constitution of their
bodies; touching each whereof a little in particular, though we shall
haue a fitter generall occasion to discourse therof, where we handle
their passetimes. For strength, one Iohn Bray (well knowne to me as
my tenant) carried vpon his backe, at one time, by the space welneere
of a Butte length, sixe bushels of wheaten meale, reckoning fifteen
gallons to the bushel, and the Miller a lubber of foure and twenty
yeres age, vpon the whole.


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