Translation, is easie in the beginning for the scholer, and bringeth also moch learning and great iudgement to the Master. It is most common, and most commendable of all other exercises for youth: most common, for all your con- structions in Grammer scholes, be nothing els but translations: but because they be not double translations, as I do require, they bring forth but simple and single commoditie, and bicause also they lacke the daily vse of writing, which is the onely thing that breedeth deepe roote, buth in y^e witte, for good vnderstanding, and in y^e memorie, for sure keeping of all that is learned. Most commendable also, & that by y^e iudgement of all authors, which intreate of theis exercises. _Tullie_ in the person of _L. Crassus_, whom he // 1. de Or. maketh his example of eloquence and trewe iudgement in learning, doth, not onely praise specially, and chose this way of translation for a yong man, but doth also discommend and refuse his owne former wont, in exercising _Paraphrasin & Metaphrasin. Paraphrasis_ is, to take some eloquent Oration, or some notable common place in Latin, and expresse it with other wordes: _Metaphrasis_ is, to take some notable place out of a good Poete, and turn the same sens into meter, or into other wordes in Prose. _Crassus_, or rather _Tullie_, doth mislike both these wayes, bicause the Author, either Orator or Poete, had chosen out before, the fittest wordes and aptest composition for that matter, and so he, in seeking other, was driuen to vse the worse. _Quintilian_ also preferreth translation before all other exercises: yet hauing a lust, to dissent, from // Quint. x. _Tullie_ (as he doth in very many places, if a man read his Rhetoricke ouer aduisedlie, and that rather of an enuious minde, than of any iust cause) doth greatlie commend _Paraphrasis_, crossing spitefullie _Tullies_ iudgement in refusing the same: and so do _Ramus_ and _Talæus_ euen at this day in _France_ to. But such singularitie, in dissenting from the best mens iudgementes, in liking onelie their owne opinions, is moch misliked of all them, that ioyne with learning, discretion, and wisedome. For he, that can neither like _Aristotle_ in Logicke and Philosophie, nor _Tullie_ in Rhetoricke and 244 _The second booke teachyng_