_eamque degendam præparat res necessarias._ b. _Eademque natura vi rationis hominem conciliat homini, & ad Orationis, & ad vitæ societatem: ingeneratque imprimis præcipuum quendam amorem in eos, qui procreati sunt, impellitque vt hominum cœtus & celebrari inter se, & sibi obediri velit, ob easque causas studeat parare ea, quæ suppeditent ad cultum & ad victum, nec sibi soli, sed coniugi, liberis, cæterisque quos charos habeat, tuerique debeat._ c. _Quæ cura exsuscitat etiam animos, & maiores ad rem gerendam facit: impri- misque hominis est propria veri inquisitio atque inuestigatio: ita cum sumus necessarijs negocijs curisque vacui, tum auemus aliquid videre, audire, addiscere, cognitionemque rerum mirabilium. &c._ The conference of these two places, conteinyng so excellent a peece of learning, as this is, expressed by so worthy a witte, as _Tullies_ was, must needes bring great pleasure and proffit to him, that maketh trew counte, of learning and honestie. But if we had the _Greke_ Author, the first Patterne of all, and therby to see, how _Tullies_ witte did worke at diuerse tymes, how, out of one excellent Image, might be framed two other, one in face and fauor, but somwhat differing in forme, figure, and color, surelie, such a peece of workemanship compared with the Paterne it selfe, would better please the ease of honest, wise, and learned myndes, than two of the fairest Venusses, that euer Apelles made. And thus moch, for all kinde of _Paraphrasis_, fitte or vnfit, for Scholers or other, as I am led to thinke, not onelie, by mine owne experience, but chiefly by the authoritie & iudgement of those, whom I my selfe would gladliest folow, and do counsell all myne to do the same: not contendyng with any other, that will otherwise either thinke or do. _Metaphrasis._ This kinde of exercise is all one with _Paraphrasis_, saue it is out of verse, either into prose, or into some other kinde of meter: or els, out of prose into verse, which was // _Plato_ in _Socrates_ exercise and pastime ( as _Plato_ reporteth) // Phædone. when he was in prison, to translate _æsopes Fabules_ into verse. _Quintilian_ doth greatlie praise also this exercise: but bicause _Tullie_ doth disalow it in yong men, by myne opinion, it were not well to vse it in Grammer Scholes, euen 254 _The second booke teachyng_