Eloquence, will, from these steppes, likelie enough presume, by like pride, to mount hier, to the misliking of greater matters: that is either in Religion, to haue a dissentious head, or in the common wealth, to haue a factious hart: as I knew one a student in Cambrige, who, for a singularitie, began first to dissent, in the scholes, from _Aristotle_, and sone after became a peruerse _Arrian_, against Christ and all true Religion: and studied diligentlie _Origene, Basileus_, and _S. Hierome_, onelie to gleane out of their workes, the pernicious heresies of _Celsus, Eunomius_, and _Heluidius_, whereby the Church of Christ, was so poysoned withall. But to leaue these hye pointes of diuinitie, surelie, in this quiet and harmeles controuersie, for the liking, or misliking of _Paraphrasis_ for a yong scholer, euen as far, as _Tullie_ goeth beyond _Quintilian, Ramus_, and _Talæus_, in perfite Eloquence, * Plinius // euen so moch, by myne opinion, cum they Secundus. // behinde _Tullie_, for trew iudgement in teaching Plinius de- // the same. dit Quin- // * _Plinius Secundus_, a wise Senator, of great tiliano // experience, excellentlie learned him selfe, a liberall præceptori // Patrone of learned men, and the purest writer, in suo, in ma- // myne opinion, of all his age, I except not trimonium // _Suetonius_, his two scholemasters _Quintilian_ and filiæ, 50000 // _Tacitus_, nor yet his most excellent learned Vncle, the Elder numum. // _Plinius_, doth expresse in an Epistle to his frende Epist. lib. 7, // _Fuscus_, many good wayes for order in studie: Epist. 9. // but he beginneth with translation, and preferreth it to all the rest: and bicause his wordes be notable, I will recite them. Vtile in primis, vt multi præcipiunt, ex Græco in Latinum, & ex Latino vertere in Græcum: Quo genere exercitationis, proprietas splendorque verborum, apta structura sententiarum, figurarum copia & explicandi vis colligitur. Præterea, imitatione optimorum, facultas similia inueniendi paratur: & quæ legentem, fefellissent, transferentem fugere non possunt. Intelligentia ex hoc, & iudicium acquiritur._ Ye perceiue, how _Plinie_ teacheth, that by this exercise of double translating, is learned, easely, sensiblie, by litle and litle, not onelie all the hard congruities of Grammer, the choice of _the ready way to the Latin tong._ 245