universities can give degrees; and Tu quod es, e populo quilibet esse potest; but he nor they, nor all the world, can give learning, make philosophers, artists, orators, poets; we can soon say, as Seneca well notes,
For first, not one of a many proves to be a scholar, all are not capable and docile, ex omni ligno non fit Mercurius: we can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars: kings can invest knights and barons, as Sigismund the emperor confessed;
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O virum bonum, O divitem, point at a rich man, a good, a happy man, a prosperous man, sumptuose vestitum, Calamistratum, bene olentem, magno temporis impendio constat hæc laudatio, o virum literarum, but 'tis not so easily performed to find out a learned man.
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