_natura_, which is written _Dorice_, and turne it into soch Greeke,
as _Plato_ vseth in other workes. The booke, is but two leaues:
and the labor wold be, but two weekes: but surelie the proffet,
for easie vnderstanding, and trewe writing the Greeke tonge,
wold conteruaile wyth the toile, that som men taketh, in
otherwise coldlie reading that tonge, two yeares.
And yet, for the latin tonge, and for the exercise of _Para-
phrasis_, in those places of latin, that can not be bettered, if some
yong man, excellent of witte, corragious in will, lustie of nature,
and desirous to contend euen with the best latin, to better it, if
he can, surelie I commend his forwardnesse, and for his better
instruction therein, I will set before him, as notable an example
of _Paraphrasis_, as is in Record of learning. _Cicero_ him selfe,
doth contend, in two sondrie places, to expresse one matter,
with diuerse wordes: and that is _Paraphrasis_, saith _Quintillian_.
The matter I suppose is taken out of _Panætius_: and therefore
being translated out of Greeke at diuers times, is vttered for his
purpose, with diuers wordes and formes: which kinde of exercise,
for perfite learned men, is verie profitable.