vsing this exercise, he had not deserued the name of _Tragicus Orator_, who should rather haue studied to expresse _vim Demos- thenis_, than _furorem Poætæ_, how good so euer he was, whom he did folow. And therfore would I haue our Scholemaster wey well together _Homer_ and _Plato_, and marke diligentlie these foure pointes, what is kept: what is added: what is left out: what is changed, either, in choise of wordes, or forme of sentences: which foure pointes, be the right tooles, to handle like a worke- man, this kinde of worke: as our Scholer shall better vnder- stand, when he hath bene a good while in the Vniuersitie: to which tyme and place, I chiefly remitte this kinde of exercise. And bicause I euer thought examples to be the best kinde of teaching, I will recite a golden sentence out of that Poete, which is next vnto _Homer_, not onelie in tyme, but also in worthines: which hath bene a paterne for many worthie wittes to follow, by this kind of _Metaphrasis_, but I will content my selfe, with foure workemen, two in _Greke_, and two in _Latin_, soch, as in both the tonges, wiser & worthier, can not be looked for. Surelie, no stone set in gold by most cunning workemen, is in deed, if right counte be made, more worthie the looking on, than this golden sentence, diuerslie wrought vpon, by soch foure excellent Masters. _Hesiodus_. 2. 1. outos men panariotos, os auto panta noese, phrassamenos ta k epeita kai es telos esin ameino: 2. esthlos d au kakeinos, os eu eiponti pithetai, 3. os de ke met autos noee, met allou akouon en thymo balletai, o d aut achreios aner. ¶ Thus rudelie turned into base English. 1. _That man in wisedome passeth all, to know the best who hath a head:_ 2. _And meetlie wise eeke counted shall, who yeildes him selfe to wise mens read:_ 3. _Who hath no witte, nor none will heare, amongest all fooles the bell may beare._ _the ready way to the Latin tong._ 257 _Sophocles in Antigone._ 1. Phem egoge presbeuein poly, Phynai ton andra pant epiotemes pleon: 2. Ei d oun (philei gar touto me taute repein), Kai ton legonton eu kalon to manthanein. Marke the wisedome of _Sophocles_, in leauyng out the last sentence, because it was not cumlie for the sonne to vse it to his father. ¶ _D. Basileus in his Exhortation to youth._ Memnesthe tou Esiodou, os phesi, ariston men einai ton par eautou ta deonta xynoronta. 2. Esthlon de kakei- non, ton tois, par eteron ypodeicheisin epomenon. 3. ton de pros oudeteron epitedeion achreion einai pros apanta.