The Scholemaster

If kyng _Edward_ had liued a litle longer, his onely example had breed soch a rase of worthie learned ientlemen, // _King Ed._ 6. as this Realme neuer yet did affourde. And, in...

AFter that your scholer, as I sayd before, shall cum in deede, first, to a readie perfitnes in translating, than, to a ripe and skilfull choice in markyng out hys sixe pointes,...

_Plato_ also, that diuine Philosopher, hath many Godly medicines agaynst the poyson of vayne pleasure, in many places, but specially in his Epistles to _Dionisius_ the tyrant of...

louse to disobedience, surelie it is hard with ientlenesse, but vnpossible with seuere crueltie, to call them backe to good frame againe. For, where the one, perchance maie bend...

from his booke, and becummeth after eyther student of Hard wits // the common lawe, or page in the Court, or proue best // seruingman, or bound prentice to a merchant, in euery...

more but common porters, caryers, and bringers of matter and stuffe togither. They order nothing: They lay before you, what is done: they do not teach you, how it is done: They...

in teaching them what is good, as in keping them from that, that is ill. Therefore, if wise fathers, be not as well waare in weeding _Ignoratio_ // from their Children ill thing...

[Transcriber's Note: I have omitted signature designations, have transcribed Greek characters but not italicized them, and have expanded the usual Renaissance contractions for "...

There is a waie, touched in the first booke of _Cicero De Oratore_, which, wiselie brought into scholes, // 1. _De Or._ truely taught, and constantly vsed, would not onely take...

other fitte wordes: But if ye alter also, the composition, forme, and order than that is not _Paraphrasis_, but _Imitatio_, as I will fullie declare in fitter place. The scholer...

place: by what meane and order: by what tooles and instru- mentes ye shall do it, by what skill and iudgement, ye shall trewelie discerne, whether ye folow rightlie or no. This...

_Nec nunc cum me vocet vltro, Accedam? an potius mediter finire dolores? Exclusit: reuocat, redeam? non si obsecret. Ecce Seruus non Paulo sapientior: ô Here, quæ res Nec modum...

For what proprietie in wordes, simplicitie in sentences, plainnesse and light, is cumelie for these kindes, _Cæsar_ and _Liuie_, for the two last, are perfite examples of Imitat...

And although the Latin tong did faire blome and blossome in _L. Crassus_, and _M. Antonius_, yet in _Tullies_ tyme onely, and in Tullie himselfe chieflie, was the Latin tong ful...