common scholes, by the scholemasters, in tossing and trobling yong wittes (as I sayd in the beginning) with that boocherlie feare in making of Latins. Therefore, in place, of Latines for yong scholers, and of _Paraphrasis_ for the masters, I wold haue double translation specially vsed. For, in double translating a perfite peece of _Tullie_ or _Cæsar_, neyther the scholer in learning, nor y^e Master in teaching can erre. A true tochstone, a sure metwand lieth before both their eyes. For, all right congruitie: proprietie of wordes: order in sentences: the right imitation, to inuent good matter, to dispose it in good order, to confirme it with good reason, to expresse any purpose fitlie and orderlie, is learned thus, both easelie & perfitlie: Yea, to misse somtyme in this kinde of translation, bringeth more proffet, than to hit right, either in _Paraphrasi_ or making of Latins. For though ye say well, in a latin making, or in a _Paraphrasis_, yet you being but in doute, and vncertayne whether ye saie well or no, ye gather and lay vp in memorie, no sure frute of learning thereby: But if ye fault in translation, ye ar easelie taught, how perfitlie to amende it, and so well warned, how after to exchew, all soch faultes againe. _Paraphrasis_ therefore, by myne opinion, is not meete for Grammer scholes: nor yet verie fitte for yong men in the vniuersitie, vntill studie and tyme, haue bred in them, perfite learning, and stedfast iudgement. There is a kinde of _Paraphrasis_, which may be vsed, without all hurt, to moch proffet: but it serueth onely the Greke and not the latin, nor no other tong, as to alter _linguam Ionicam aut Doricam_ into _meram Atticam_: A notable example there is left vnto vs by a notable learned man _Diony_: _Halicarn_: who, in his booke, peri syntaxeos, doth translate the goodlie storie of _Candaules_ and _Gyges_ in 1. _Herodoti_, out of _Ionica lingua_, into _Atticam_. Read the place, and ye shall take, both pleasure and proffet, in conference of it. A man, that is exercised in reading, _Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato_, and _Demosthenes_, in vsing to turne, like places of _Herodotus_, after like sorte, shold shortlie cum to soch a knowledge, in vnderstanding, speaking, and writing the Greeke tong, as fewe or none hath yet atteyned in England. The like exercise out of _Dorica lingua_ may be also vsed, if a man take that litle booke of _Plato, Timæus Locrus, de Animo et_ 252 _The second booke teachyng_