For what proprietie in wordes, simplicitie in sentences, plainnesse and light, is cumelie for these kindes, _Cæsar_ and _Liuie_, for the two last, are perfite examples of Imitation: And for the two first, the old paternes be lost, and as for some that be present and of late tyme, they be fitter to be read once for some pleasure, than oft to be perused, for any good Imitation of them. _Philosophicum in_ {_Sermonem_, as _officia Cic. et Eth. Arist._ {_Contentionem._ As, the Dialoges of _Plato, Xenophon_, and _Cicero_: of which kinde of learnyng, and right Imitation therof, _Carolus Sigonius_ hath written of late, both learnedlie and eloquentlie: but best of all my frende _Ioan. Sturmius_ in hys Commentaries vpon _Gorgias Platonis_, which booke I haue in writyng, and is not yet set out in Print. {_Humile._ _Oratorium in_ {_Mediocre._ {_Sublime._ Examples of these three, in the _Greke_ tong, be plentifull & perfite, as _Lycias, Isocrates_, and _Demosthenes_: and // _Lisias._ all three, in onelie _Demosthenes_, in diuerse orations // _Isocrates._ as _contra Olimpiodorum, in leptinem, & pro Ctesi-_ // _Demost._ _phonte_. And trew it is, that _Hermogines_ writeth of _Demosthenes_, that all formes of Eloquence be perfite in him. In _Ciceroes_ Orations, _Medium & sublime_ be most // _Cicero._ excellentlie handled, but _Humile_ in his Orations, is seldome sene: yet neuerthelesse in other bookes, as in some part of his offices, & specially _in Partitionibus_, he is comparable _in hoc humili & disciplinabili genere_, euen with the best that euer 286 _The second booke teachyng_ wrote in _Greke_. But of _Cicero_ more fullie in fitter place. And thus, the trew difference of stiles, in euerie Author, and euerie kinde of learnyng may easelie be knowne by this diuision. {_Poeticum._ {_Historicum._ _in Genus_ {_Philosophicum._ {_Oratorium._