For, contrariwise, I heard myself a good husband at his book once say, that to omit study some time of the day and some time of the year, made as much for the encrease of learning as to let the land lie some time fallow, maketh for the better encrease of corn. This we see, if the land be ploughed every year, the corn cometh thin up : the ear is short, the grain is small, and, when it is brought into the barn and threshed, giveth very evil fall. So those which never leave poring on their books, have oftentimes as thin invention as other poor men have, and as small wit and weight in it as in other men's.
Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, First Book of Shooting. This is a very charming book, by the way, consisting of a dialogue between an archer and a scholar in which the archer defends the value of getting away from books on a nice day in order to bend the bow and then gives a brief tutorial on archery.
