he listed, whan _Varros_ name amongest others was brought in a schedule vnto him, to be noted to death, he tooke his penne and wrote his warrant of sauegard with these most goodlie wordes, _Viuat Varro vir doctissimus_. In later tyme, no man knew better, nor liked and loued more _Varros_ learnyng, than did _S. Augustine_, as they do well vnderstand, that haue diligentlie read ouer his learned bookes _de Ciuitate Dei_: Where he hath this most notable sentence: Whan I see, how much _Varro_ wrote, I meruell much, that euer he had any leasure to read: and whan I perceiue how many thinges he read, I meruell more, that euer he had any leasure to write. &c. And surelie, if _Varros_ bookes had remained to posteritie, as by Gods prouidence, the most part of _Tullies_ did, than trewlie the _Latin_ tong might haue made good comparison with the _Greke_. _Saluste._ _Salust_, is a wise and worthy writer: but he requireth a learned Reader, and a right considerer of him. // _Salust._ My dearest frend, and best master that euer I had // Syr Iohn or heard in learning, Syr _I. Cheke_, soch a man, as // Chekes if I should liue to see England breed the like // iudgement againe, I feare, I should liue ouer long, did once // and coun- giue me a lesson for _Salust_, which, as I shall neuer // sell for rea- forget my selfe, so is it worthy to be remembred // dyng of of all those, that would cum to perfite iudgement // _Saluste._ of the Latin tong. He said, that _Salust_ was not verie fitte for yong men, to learne out of him, the puritie of the Latin tong: because, he was not the purest in proprietie of wordes, nor choisest in aptnes of phrases, nor the best in framing of sentences: and therefore is his writing, sayd he neyther plaine for the matter, nor sensible for mens vnderstanding. And what is the cause thereof, Syr, quoth I. Verilie said he, bicause in _Salust_ writing, is more Arte than nature, and more labor than Arte: and in his labor also, to moch toyle, as it were, with an vncontented care to write better than he could, a fault common to very many men. And therefore he doth not expresse the matter liuely and naturally with common speach as ye see _Xenophon_ doth in Greeke, but it is caried and driuen forth 298 _The second booke teachyng_