_Demosthenes_ and _Isocrates_ dailie without missing euerie forenone, and likewise som part of Tullie euery afternone, for the space of a yeare or two, hath atteyned to soch a perfite vnderstanding in both the tonges, and to soch a readie vtterance of the latin, and that wyth soch a iudgement, as they be fewe in nomber in both the vniuersities, or els where in England, that be, in both tonges, comparable with her Maiestie. And to conclude in a short rowme, the commodities of double translation, surelie the mynde by dailie marking, first, the cause and matter: than, the wordes and phrases: next, the order and composition: after the reason and argumentes: than the formes and figures of both the tonges: lastelie, the measure and compas of euerie sentence, must nedes, by litle and litle drawe vnto it the like shape of eloquence, as the author doth vse, which is red. And thus much for double translation. _Paraphrasis._ _Paraphrasis_, the second point, is not onelie to expresse at Lib. x. // large with moe wordes, but to striue and contend (as _Quintilian_ saith) to translate the best latin authors, into other latin wordes, as many or thereaboutes. This waie of exercise was vsed first by _C. Crabo_, and taken vp for a while, by _L. Crassus_, but sone after, vpon dewe profe thereof, reiected iustlie by _Crassus_ and _Cicero_: yet allowed and made sterling agayne by _M. Quintilian:_ neuerthelesse, shortlie after, by better assaye, disalowed of his owne scholer _Plinius Secundus_, who termeth it rightlie thus _Audax contentio_. It is a bold comparison in deede, to thinke to say better, than that is best. Soch turning of the best into worse, is much like the turning of good wine, out of a faire sweete flagon of siluer, into a foule mustie bottell of ledder: or, to turne pure gold and siluer, into foule brasse and copper. Such kinde of _Paraphrasis_, in turning, chopping, and changing, the best to worse, either in the mynte or scholes, (though _M. Brokke_ and _Quintilian_ both say the contrary) is moch misliked of the best and wisest men. I can better allow an other kinde of _Paraphrasis_, to turne rude and barbarus, into proper and eloquent: which neuerthelesse is an exercise, not fitte for a scholer, but for a perfite master, who in plentie hath _the ready way to the Latin tong._ 247