good choise, in copie hath right iudgement, and grounded skill, as did appeare to be in _Sebastian Castalio_, in translating _Kemppes_ booke _de Imitando Christo_. But to folow _Quintilianus_ aduise for _Paraphrasis_, were euen to take paine, to seeke the worse and fowler way, whan the plaine and fairer is occupied before your eyes. The olde and best authors that euer wrote, were content if occasion required to speake twise of one matter, not to change the wordes, but rhetos, that is, worde for worde to expresse it againe. For they thought, that a matter, well expressed with fitte wordes and apt composition, was not to be altered, but liking it well their selues, they thought it would also be well allowed of others. A scholemaster (soch one as I require) knoweth that I say trewe. He readeth in _Homer_, almost in euerie booke, and speciallie in _Secundo et nono Iliados_, not onelie som verses, // _Homerus._ but whole leaues, not to be altered with new, // {2. but to be vttered with the old selfe same wordes. // {IL. { He knoweth, that _Xenophon_, writing twise of // {9. _Agesilaus_, once in his life, againe in the historie // _Xenophon._ of the Greekes, in one matter, kepeth alwayes the selfe same wordes. He doth the like, speaking of _Socrates_, both in the beginning of his Apologie and in the last ende of apomnemoneu- maton. _Demosthenes_ also in 4. _Philippica_ doth borow his owne wordes vttered before in his oration _de Chersoneso_. He doth the like, and that more at large, in his // _Demost-_ orations, against _Androtion_ and _Timocrates_. // _henes._ In latin also, _Cicero_ in som places, and _Virgil_ in mo, do repeate one matter, with the selfe same wordes. // _Cicero._ Thies excellent authors, did thus, not for lacke // _Virgilius._ of wordes, but by iudgement and skill: whatso- euer, other, more curious, and lesse skilfull, do thinke, write, and do. _Paraphrasis_ neuerthelesse hath good place in learning, but not, by myne opinion, for any scholer, but is onelie to be left to a perfite Master, eyther to expound openlie a good author withall, or to compare priuatelie, for his owne exercise, how some notable place of an excellent author, may be vttered with 248 _The second booke teachyng_