forth the taulke. _Socrates_ doctrine is true in _Plato_, and well
_Plato._ // marked, and truely vttered by _Horace_ in _Arte_
_Horat._ // _Poetica_, that, where so euer knowledge doth accom-
panie the witte, there best vtterance doth alwaies
awaite vpon the tonge: For, good vnderstanding must first be bred
Much wri- // in the childe, which, being nurished with skill, and
tyng bree- // vse of writing (as I will teach more largelie
deth ready // hereafter) is the onelie waie to bring him to
speakyng. // iudgement and readinesse in speakinge: and that
in farre shorter time (if he followe constantlie the trade of this
litle lesson) than he shall do, by common teachinge of the
common scholes in England.
But, to go forward, as you perceiue, your scholer to goe
better and better on awaie, first, with vnderstanding his lesson
more quicklie, with parsing more readelie, with translating
more spedelie and perfitlie then he was wonte, after, giue him
longer lessons to translate: and withall, begin to teach him,
The second // both in nownes, & verbes, what is _Proprium_, and
degree and // what is _Translatum_, what _Synonymum_, what
order in // _Diuersum_, which be _Contraria_, and which be
teachyng. // most notable _Phrases_ in all his lecture.
As:
_{Rex Sepultus est
Proprium. {magnificè.
{Cum illo principe,
Translatum. {Sepulta est & gloria
{et Salus Reipublicæ.
Synonyma. {Ensis, Gladius.
{Laudare, prædicare.
{Diligere, Amare.
Diuersa. {Calere, Exardescere.
{Inimicus, Hostis.
{Acerbum & luctuosum
{ bellum.
Contraria. {Dulcis & lœta
{ Pax.
{Dare verba.
Phrases. {abjicere obedientiam._
_the brynging vp of youth._ 187
Your scholer then, must haue the third paper booke: in
the which, after he hath done his double transla- // The thyrd
tion, let him write, after this sort foure of these // paper boke.
forenamed sixe, diligentlie marked out of eurie
lesson.
_{Propria.
{Translata.
{Synonyma.
Quatuor. {Diuersa.
{Contraria.
{Phrases._
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. Cæs_: shall worke soch a right choise of
wordes, so streight a framing of sentences, soch a true iudge-
ment, both to write skilfullie, and speake wittlelie, 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: // Ientleness
but monish him gentelie: which shall make // in teaching.
him, both willing to amende, and glad to go
forward in loue and hope of learning.
I haue now wished, twise or thrise, this gentle nature,
to be in a Scholemaster: And, that I haue done so, neither by
chance, nor without some reason, I will now // Loue.
declare at large, why, in mine opinion, loue is // Feare.
fitter than feare, ientlenes better than beating, to
bring vp a childe rightlie in learninge.
With the common vse of teaching and beating in common
scholes of England, I will not greatlie contend: // Common
which if I did, it were but a small grammaticall // Scholes.
controuersie, neither belonging to heresie nor