place: by what meane and order: by what tooles and instru- mentes ye shall do it, by what skill and iudgement, ye shall trewelie discerne, whether ye folow rightlie or no. This _Imitatio_, is _dissimilis materiei similis tractatio_: and also, _similis materiei dissimilis tractatio_, as _Virgill_ folowed _Homer_: but the Argument to the one was _Vlysses_, to the other _æneas_. _Tullie_ persecuted _Antonie_ with the same wepons of eloquence, that _Demosthenes_ vsed before against _Philippe_. _Horace_ foloweth _Pindar_, but either of them his owne Argument and Person: as the one, _Hiero_ king of _Sicilie_, the other _Augustus_ the Emperor: and yet both for like respectes, that is, for their coragious stoutnes in warre, and iust gouern- ment in peace. One of the best examples, for right _Imitation_ we lacke, and that is _Menander_, whom our _Terence_, (as the matter required) in like argument, in the same Persons, with equall eloquence, foote by foote did folow. Som peeces remaine, like broken Iewelles, whereby men may rightlie esteme, and iustlie lament, the losse of the whole. _Erasmus_, the ornament of learning, in our tyme, doth wish that som man of learning and diligence, would take the like paines in _Demosthenes_ and _Tullie_, that _Macrobius_ hath done in _Homer_ and _Virgill_, that is, to write out and ioyne together, where the one doth imitate the other. _Erasmus_ wishe is good, but surelie, it is not good enough: for _Macrobius_ gatherings for the _æneidos_ out of _Homer_, and _Eobanus Hessus_ more diligent gatherings for the _Bucolikes_ out of _Theocritus_, as they be not fullie taken out of the whole heape, as they should be, but euen as though they had not sought for them of purpose, but fownd them scatered here and there by chance in their way, euen so, onelie to point out, and nakedlie to ioyne togither their sentences, with no farder declaring the maner and way, how the one doth folow the other, were but a colde helpe, to the encrease of learning. But if a man would take this paine also, whan he hath layd two places, of _Homer_ and _Virgill_, or of _Demosthenes_ and _Tullie_ togither, to teach plainlie withall, after this sort. 1. _Tullie_ reteyneth thus moch of the matter, thies sentences, thies wordes: 268 _The second booke teachyng_