And to know, what worthie frute, did spring of soch Good sede, // worthie seade, I will tell yow the most meruell worthie // of all, and yet soch a trothe, as no man shall frute. // denie it, except such as be ignorant in knowledge of the best stories. _Athens_, by this discipline and good ordering of yougthe, did _Athenes._ // breede vp, within the circute of that one Citie, within the compas of one hondred yeare, within the memorie of one mans life, so manie notable Capitaines in warre, for worthinesse, wisdome and learning, as be scarse Roma. // matchable no not in the state of Rome, in the compas of those seauen hondred yeares, whan it florished moste. And bicause, I will not onelie saie it, but also proue it, the The noble // names of them be these. _Miltiades, Themistocles_, Capitaines // _Xantippus, Pericles, Cymon, Alcybiades, Thrasybulus_, of Athens. // _Conon, Iphicrates, Xenophon, Timotheus, Theopompus_, _Demetrius_, and diuers other mo: of which euerie one, maie iustelie be spoken that worthie praise, which was geuen to _Scipio Africanus_, who, _Cicero_ douteth, whether he were, more noble Capitaine in warre, or more eloquent and wise councelor _æmil._ // in peace. And if ye beleue not me, read dili- _Probus._ // gentlie, _æmilius Probus_ in Latin, and _Plutarche_ _Plutarchus._ // in Greke, which two, had no cause either to flatter or lie vpon anie of those which I haue recited. And beside nobilitie in warre, for excellent and matchles The lear- // masters in all maner of learninge, in that one ned of A- // Citie, in memorie of one aige, were mo learned thenes. // men, and that in a maner altogether, than all tyme doth remember, than all place doth affourde, than all other tonges do conteine. And I do not meene of those Authors, which, by iniurie of tyme, by negligence of men, by crueltie of fier and sworde, be lost, but euen of those, which by Goddes grace, are left yet vnto us: of which I thank God, euen my poore studie lacketh not one. As, in Philosophie, _Plato, Aris- totle, Xenophon, Euclide_ and _Theophrast_: In eloquens and Ciuill lawe, _Demosthenes, æschines, Lycurgus, Dinarchus, Demades, Isocrates, Isæus, Lysias, Antisthenes, Andocides_: In histories, _He- rodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon_: and which we lacke, to our _the brynging vp of youth._ 213