Phrases.

Dare verba.

abjicere obedientiam.

Your scholer then, must haue the third paper booke: in the which, after The thyrd he hath done his double transla- paper boke. tion, let him write, after this sort foure of these forenamed sixe, diligentlie marked out of euerie lesson.

Or else, three, or two, if there be no moe: and if there be none of these at all in some lecture, yet not omitte the order, but write these.

Diuersa nulla.

Contraria nulla, etc.

This diligent translating, ioyned with this heedefull marking, in the foresaid Epistles, and afterwarde in some plaine Oration of Tullie, as pro lege Manil: pro Archia

Poeta, or in those three ad. C. Cos: shall worke soch a right choise of wordes, so streight a framing of sentences, soch a true iudgement, both to write skilfullie, and speake wittelie, as wise men shall both praise, and maruell at.

If your scholer do misse sometimes, in marking rightlie these foresaid sixe thinges, chide not hastelie: for that shall, both dull his witte, and discorage his diligence but monish him gentelie: which shall make him, both willing to amende, and glad to go forward in loue and hope of learning.

Ientlenes in teaching.

I haue now wished, twice or thrice, this gentle nature, to be in a Scholemaster: And, that I haue done so, neither by chance, nor without some reason, I will now declare at large, why, in mine opinion, loue is fitter then feare, ientlenes better then beating, to bring vp a childe rightlie in learninge.

Loue.
Feare.

With the common vse of teaching and beating in common scholes of

Common

Scholes. England, I will not greatlie contend: which if I did, it were but a

small grammaticall controuersie, neither belonging to heresie nor treason, nor greatly touching God nor the Prince: although in very deede, in the end, the good or ill bringing vp of children, doth as much serue to the good or ill seruice, of God, our Prince, and our whole countrie, as any one thing doth beside.

I do gladlie agree with all good Scholemasters in these pointes: to haue children brought to good perfitnes in learning: to all honestie in maners: to haue all fau[1]tes rightlie amended: to haue euerie vice seuerelie corrected: but for the order and waie that leadeth rightlie to these pointes, we somewhat differ. For commonlie, many scholemasters, some, as I haue seen, moe, as I haue heard tell, be of so crooked a nature,

as, when they meete with a

Sharpe
Schole-

masters.

hard witted scholer, they rather breake him, than bowe him, rather marre him, then mend him. For whan the scholemaster is angrie with some other matter, then will he sonest faul to beate his scholer: and though he him selfe should

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punished.

But

be punished for his folie, yet must he
beate some scholer for his pleasure: though
there be no cause for him to do so, nor yet
fault in the scholer to deserue so. These
we will say, be fond scholemasters, and
fewe they be, that be found to be soch.
They be fond in deede, but surelie ouer-
many soch be found euerie where.
this will I say, that euen the wisest of
Nature your great beaters, do as oft
punishe nature, as they do cor-
recte faultes. Yea, many times, the better
nature, is sorer punished: For, if one, by
quicknes of witte, take his lesson readelie,
an other, by hardnes of witte, taketh it not
so speedelie: the first is alwaies com-
mended, the other is commonlie punished;
whan a wise scholemaster, should rather
discretelie consider the right disposition
of both their natures, and not so moch
wey what either of them is able to do now,
as what either of them is likelie
Quicke wittes
for learnyng. to do hereafter. For this I
know, not onelie by reading of bookes in
my studie, but also by experience of life,
abrode in the world, that those, which be

commonlie the wisest, the best learned, and best men also, when they be olde, were neuer commonlie the quickest of < witte, when they were yonge. The causes why, amongst other, which be many, that moue me thus to thinke, be these fewe, which I will recken. Quicke wittes commonlie, be apte to take, vnapte to keepe: soone hote and desirous of this and that: as colde and sone wery of the same againe: more quicke to enter spedelie, than hable to pearse farre: euen like ouer sharpe tooles, whose edges be verie soone turned. Soch wittes delite them selues in easie and pleasant studies, and neuer passe farre forward in hie and hard sciences. And therefore the quickest wittes commonlie may proue the best Poetes, but not the wisest Orators: readie of tonge to speak boldlie, not deep of iudgement, either for good counsell or wise for maners writing. Also, for maners and

Quicke wittes

and lyfe.

life, quicke wittes commonlie, be, in desire, newfangle[d], in purpose, vnconstant, light✔ to promise any thing, readie to forget euery thing: both benefite and iniurie: