Some men of our time, counted perfite Maisters of eloquence, in their owne opinion the best, in other mens iudgements very good, as _Omphalius_ euerie where, _Sadoletus_ in many places, yea also my frende _Osorius_, namelie in his Epistle to the Queene & in his whole booke _de Iusticia_, haue so ouer reached them selues, in making trew difference in the poyntes afore rehearsed, as though they had bene brought vp in some schole in _Asia_, to learne to decline rather then in _Athens_ with _Plato, Aristotle_, and _Demosthenes_, (from whence _Tullie_ fetched his eloquence) to vnderstand, what in euerie matter, to be spoken or written on, is, in verie deede, _Nimium, Satis, Parum_, that is for to say, to all considerations, _Decorum_, which, as it is the hardest point, in all learning, so is it the fairest and onelie marke, that scholers, in all their studie, must alwayes shote at, if they purpose an other day to be, either sounde in Religion, or wise and discrete in any vocation of the common wealth. Agayne, in the lowest degree, it is no low point of learnyng and iudgement for a Scholemaster, to make trewe difference betwixt {_Humile & depressum:_ {_Lene & remissum:_ {_Siccum & aridum:_ {_Exile & macrum:_ {_Inaffectatum & neglectum._ In these poyntes, some, louing _Melancthon_ well, as he was well worthie, but yet not considering well nor wiselie, how he of nature, and all his life and studie by iudgement was wholly spent in _genere Disciplinabili_, that is, in teaching, reading, and expounding plainlie and aptlie schole matters, and therfore imployed thereunto a fitte, sensible, and caulme kinde of speaking and writing, some I say, with very well louyng, but not with verie well weying _Melancthones_ doinges, do frame them selues a style, cold, leane, and weake, though the matter be neuer so warme & earnest, not moch vnlike vnto one, that had a pleasure, in a roughe, raynie, winter 250 _The second booke teachyng_