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XCIX.

The Study. Museum.

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The _Study_, 1. is a place where a Student, 2. apart from Men, sitteth alone, addicted to his _Studies_, _Museum_, 1. est locus ubi Studiosus, 2. secretus ab Hominibus, sedet solus deditus _Studiis_, whilst he readeth _Books_, 3. which being within his reach he layeth open upon a _Desk_, 4. dum lectitat _Libros_, 3. quos penes se & exponit super _Pluteum_, 4. and picketh all the best things out of them into his own _Manual_, 5. & excerpit optima quæque ex illis in _Manuale_ suum, 5. or marketh them in them with a _Dash_, 6. or a _little Star_, 7. in the _Margent_. notat in illis _Liturâ_, 6. vel _Asterisco_, 7. ad _Margiem_.

Being to sit up late, he setteth a _Candle_, 8. on a _Candlestick_, 9. which is snuffed with _Snuffers_, 10. Lucubraturus, elevat _Lychnum_ (_Canelam_), 8. in _Candelabra_, 9. qui emungitur _Emunctorio_, 10. before the Candle, he placeth a _Screen_, 11. which is green, that it may not hurt his eye-sight; ante Lynchum collocat _Umbraculum_, 11. quod viride est, ne hebetet oculorum aciem; richer Persons use a _Taper_, for a _Tallow-candle_ stinketh and smoaketh. opulentiores utuntur _Cereo_ nam _Candela sebacea_ fœtet & fumigat.

A _Letter_, 12. is wrapped up, writ upon, 13. and sealed, 14. _Epistola_, 12. complicatur, inscribitur, 13. & obsignatur, 14.

Going abroad by night, he maketh use of a _Lanthorn_, 15. or a _Torch_, 16. Prodiens noctu utitur _Lanterna_, 15. vel _Face_, 16.