day, to clothe him selfe with nothing els, but a demie, bukram cassok, plaine without plites, and single with out lyning: which will neither beare of winde nor wether, nor yet kepe out the sunne, in any hote day. Some suppose, and that by good reason, that _Melancthon_ Paraphra- // him selfe came to this low kinde of writing, by sis in vse of // vsing ouer moch _Paraphrasis_ in reading: For teaching, // studying therebie to make euerie thing streight hath hurt // and easie, in smothing and playning all things to _Melanch-_ // much, neuer leaueth, whiles the sence it selfe be _tons_ stile in // left, both lowse and lasie. And some of those writing. // _Paraphrasis of Melancthon_ be set out in Printe, as, _Pro Archia Poeta, & Marco Marcello:_ But a scholer, by myne opinion, is better occupied in playing or sleping, than in spendyng time, not onelie vainlie but also harmefullie, in soch a kinde of exercise. If a Master woulde haue a perfite example to folow, how, in _Genere sublimi_, to auoide _Nimium_, or in _Mediocri_, to atteyne _Satis_, or in _Humili_, to exchew _Parum_, let him read diligently _Cicero._ // for the first, _Secundam Philippicam_, for the meane, _De Natura Deorum_, and for the lowest, _Partitiones_. Or, if in an other tong, ye looke for like example, in like _Demost-_ // perfection, for all those three degrees, read _Pro_ _henes._ // _Ctesiphonte, Ad Leptinem, & Contra Olympiodorum_, and, what witte, Arte, and diligence is hable to affourde, ye shall plainely see. For our tyme, the odde man to performe all three perfitlie, whatsoeuer he doth, and to know the way to do them skilfullie, _Ioan. Stur._ // what so euer he list, is, in my poore opinion, _Ioannes Sturmius_. He also councelleth all scholers to beware of _Paraphrasis_, except it be, from worse to better, from rude and barbarous, to proper and pure latin, and yet no man to exercise that neyther, except soch one, as is alreadie furnished with plentie of learning, and grounded with stedfast iudgement before. All theis faultes, that thus manie wise men do finde with the exercise of _Paraphrasis_, in turning the best latin, into other, as good as they can, that is, ye may be sure, into a great deale worse, than it was, both in right choice for proprietie, and trewe placing, for good order is committed also commonlie in all _the ready way to the Latin tong._ 251