_Brutus, Caluus_, and _Calidius_, who found fault with _Tullies_
fulnes in woordes and matter, and that rightlie, for _Tullie_ did
both, confesse it, and mend it, yet in _Cæsar_, they neither did,
nor could finde the like, or any other fault.
And therfore thus iustlie I may conclude of _Cæsar_, that
where, in all other, the best that euer wrote, in any tyme, or in
any tong, in _Greke_ or _Latin_, I except neither _Plato, Demosthenes_,
nor _Tullie_, some fault is iustlie noted, in _Cæsar_ onelie, could
neuer yet fault be found.
Yet neuertheles, for all this perfite excellencie in
him, yet it is but in one member of eloquence, and
that but of one side neither, whan we must
looke for that example to folow, which hath
a perfite head, a whole bodie, forward
and backward, armes and
legges and all.
_FINIS._
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Schoolmaster, by Roger Ascham
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