Good of memorie, a speciall parte of the first note euphues, and a mere benefite of nature: yet it is so // Memorie. necessarie for learning, as _Plato_ maketh it a separate and perfite note of it selfe, and that so principall a note, as without it, all other giftes of nature do small seruice to learning. _Afranius_, that olde Latine Poete maketh // _Aul. Gel._ Memorie the mother of learning and wisedome, saying thus. _Vsus me genuit, Mater peperit memoria_, and though it be the mere gifte of nature, yet is memorie well preserued by vse, and moch encreased by order, as our scholer must // Three sure learne an other day in the Vniuersitie: but in // signs of a a childe, a good memorie is well known, by three // good me- properties: that is, if it be, quicke in receyuing, // morie. sure in keping, and redie in deliuering forthe againe. 3 Philomathes. Giuen to loue learning: for though a child haue all the giftes of nature at wishe, and perfection of memorie at wil, yet if he haue not a speciall loue to learning, he shall neuer attaine to moch learning. And therfore _Isocrates_, one of the noblest 196 _The first booke teachyng_ scholemasters, that is in memorie of learning, who taught Kinges and Princes, as _Halicarnassæus_ writeth, and out of whose schole, as _Tullie_ saith, came forth, mo noble Capitanes, mo wise Councelors, than did out of _Epeius_ horse at _Troie_. This _Isocrates_, I say, did cause to be written, at the entrie of his schole, in golden letters, this golden sentence, ean es philomathes, ese polymathes which excellentlie said in _Greeke_, is thus rudelie in Englishe, if thou louest learning, thou shalt attayne to moch learning. 4. Philoponos.