a. _Homo autem, qui rationis est particeps, per quam conse-
quentia cernit, & causas rerum videt, earumque progressus, et quasi
antecessiones non ignorat, similitudines, comparat, rebusque præsentibus
adiungit, atque annectit futuras, facile totius vitæ cursum videt, ad_
_the ready way to the Latin tong._ 253
_eamque degendam præparat res necessarias._ b. _Eademque natura vi
rationis hominem conciliat homini, & ad Orationis, & ad vitæ
societatem: ingeneratque imprimis præcipuum quendam amorem in
eos, qui procreati sunt, impellitque vt hominum cœtus & celebrari
inter se, & sibi obediri velit, ob easque causas studeat parare ea,
quæ suppeditent ad cultum & ad victum, nec sibi soli, sed coniugi,
liberis, cæterisque quos charos habeat, tuerique debeat._ c. _Quæ cura
exsuscitat etiam animos, & maiores ad rem gerendam facit: impri-
misque hominis est propria veri inquisitio atque inuestigatio: ita cum
sumus necessarijs negocijs curisque vacui, tum auemus aliquid videre,
audire, addiscere, cognitionemque rerum mirabilium. &c._
The conference of these two places, conteinyng so excellent
a peece of learning, as this is, expressed by so worthy a witte,
as _Tullies_ was, must needes bring great pleasure and proffit to
him, that maketh trew counte, of learning and honestie. But
if we had the _Greke_ Author, the first Patterne of all, and therby
to see, how _Tullies_ witte did worke at diuerse tymes, how, out
of one excellent Image, might be framed two other, one in face
and fauor, but somwhat differing in forme, figure, and color,
surelie, such a peece of workemanship compared with the
Paterne it selfe, would better please the ease of honest, wise,
and learned myndes, than two of the fairest Venusses, that euer
Apelles made.
And thus moch, for all kinde of _Paraphrasis_, fitte or vnfit,
for Scholers or other, as I am led to thinke, not onelie, by mine
owne experience, but chiefly by the authoritie & iudgement of
those, whom I my selfe would gladliest folow, and do counsell
all myne to do the same: not contendyng with any other, that
will otherwise either thinke or do.
_Metaphrasis._
This kinde of exercise is all one with _Paraphrasis_, saue it is
out of verse, either into prose, or into some other kinde of
meter: or els, out of prose into verse, which was // _Plato_ in
_Socrates_ exercise and pastime ( as _Plato_ reporteth) // Phædone.
when he was in prison, to translate _æsopes Fabules_
into verse. _Quintilian_ doth greatlie praise also this exercise:
but bicause _Tullie_ doth disalow it in yong men, by myne
opinion, it were not well to vse it in Grammer Scholes, euen