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‘t Is dan een Gift der natuere, die als een Zaet der Konste, de eerste beginselen instort, en den Constenaers bequaem maackt: Waarom vele onder de Oude wijsen twijfelden, of de Konst grooter baet vande natuere, dan vande leeringh hadt. Maer gemerckt datse geen van beyden misschen en kan, soo is light te gelooven dat de natuere veele vermagh, ende datse haere levende kracht daer in duydelijck kan doen uytblincken, selfs tot de neygingh van dees of gene bysondere verkiesinge van study; gelijck dat by Franciscus Iunius, in het vierde Capittel van sijn eerste Boeck, seer geleerdelijck getoont wert.
[suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] It is a Gift of nature, which pours in the first principles as a Seed of Art, and makes the Artists capable: Why many of the Old wise men doubted, whether the Art has greater profit from nature or from the instruction. But as she cannot lack either one, it is easy to believe that nature can do a lot and that she is able to greatly let her living power excel, even for the inclination of one or another special choice of study; as is eloquently shown by Franciscus Junius in the fourth Chapter of his first Book.