The title continues: _and Book of Good Nurture for Children and Youth to
Learn their Duty by. Newly perused, corrected and augmented by the first
Auctor, F.S. With a brief declaration of the duty of each degree._ Anno
1557, &c.
This indicates plainly that there had been an earlier edition. Seager
was a poet and translator who flourished 1549-63. He seems to have come
of a Devonshire family, and was perhaps the Francis Nicholson, _alias_
Seager, who was made free of the Stationers’ Company in 1557. Among
other things, he translated from Alain Chartier, and also made a
rendering of the Psalms. His _School of Virtue_ shows as little
originality as poetic merit, but it seems to have been popular in his
day and long after, as it was revised by Robert Crowley and extended by
Richard Weste during the seventeenth century.