Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time

Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.