more but common porters, caryers, and bringers of matter and stuffe togither. They order nothing: They lay before you, what is done: they do not teach you, how it is done: They busie not them selues with forme of buildyng: They do not declare, this stuffe is thus framed by _Demosthenes_, and thus and thus by _Tullie_, and so likewise in _Xenophon, Plato_ and _Isocrates_ and _Aristotle_. For ioyning _Virgil_ with _Homer_ I haue suf- ficientlie declared before. The like diligence I would wish to be taken in _Pindar_ and _Pindarus._ // _Horace_ an equall match for all respectes. _Horatius._ // In Tragedies, (the goodliest Argument of all, and for the vse, either of a learned preacher, or a Ciuill Ientleman, more profitable than _Homer, Pindar, Virgill_, and _Horace_: yea comparable in myne opinion, with the doctrine _Sophocles._ // of _Aristotle, Plato_, and _Xenophon_,) the _Grecians_, _Euripides._ // _Sophocles_ and _Euripides_ far ouer match our _Seneca_, _Seneca._ // in _Latin_, namely in oikonomia _et Decoro_, although _Senacaes_ elocution and verse be verie commendable for his tyme. And for the matters of _Hercules, Thebes, Hippolytus_, and _Troie_, his Imitation is to be gathered into the same booke, and to be tryed by the same touchstone, as is spoken before. In histories, and namelie in _Liuie_, the like diligence of Imitation, could bring excellent learning, and breede stayde iudgement, in taking any like matter in hand. Onely _Liuie_ were a sufficient taske for one mans studie, _Tit. Liuius._ // to compare him, first with his fellow for all re- _Dion. Hali-_ // spectes, _Dion. Halicarnassæus_: who both, liued in _carn._ // one tyme: tooke both one historie in hande to write: deserued both like prayse of learnyng and eloquence. _Polibius._ // Than with _Polybius_ that wise writer, whom _Liuie_ professeth to follow: & if he would denie it, yet it is plaine, that the best part of the thyrd _Decade_ in _Liuie_, is in _Thucidides._ // a maner translated out of the thyrd and rest of _Polibius_: Lastlie with _Thucydides_, to whose Imita- tion _Liuie_ is curiouslie bent, as may well appeare by that one 1 _Decad._ // Oration of those of _Campania_, asking aide of the _Lib._ 7. // _Romanes_ agaynst the _Samnites_, which is wholie taken, Sentence, Reason, Argument, and order, _Thucid._ 1. // out of the Oration of _Corcyra_, asking like aide of the _Athenienses_ against them of _Corinth_. If some _the ready way to the Latin tong._ 277