of _Isocrates_: and the contrarie iudgement of _Tullie_ against _Caluus, Brutus_, and _Calidius, de genere dicendi Attico & Asiatico_. _Dionis. Halic._ peri mimeseos. I feare is lost: which Author, next _Aristotle, Plato_, and _Tullie_, of all // _Dio. Hali-_ other, that write of eloquence, by the iudgement // _car._ of them that be best learned, deserueth the next prayse and place. _Quintilian_ writeth of it, shortly and coldlie for the matter, yet hotelie and spitefullie enough, agaynst the // _Quintil._ Imitation of _Tullie_. _Erasmus_, beyng more occupied in spying other mens faultes, than declaryng his own aduise, is mistaken of // _Erasmus._ many, to the great hurt of studie, for his authoritie sake. For he writeth rightlie, rightlie vnderstanded: he and _Longolius_ onelie differing in this, that the one seemeth to giue ouermoch, the other ouer litle, to him, whom they both, best loued, and chiefly allowed of all other. _Budæus_ in his Commentaries roughlie and obscurelie, after his kinde of writyng: and for the matter, // _Budæus._ caryed somwhat out of the way in ouermuch misliking the Imitation of _Tullie_. // _Ph. Me-_ _Phil. Melancthon_, learnedlie and trewlie. // _lanch._ _Camerarius_ largely with a learned iudgement, // _Ioa. Cam-_ but somewhat confusedly, and with ouer rough // _mer._ a stile. _Sambucus_, largely, with a right iudgement but somewhat a crooked stile. // _Sambucus._ Other haue written also, as _Cortesius_ to // _Cortesius._ _Politian_, and that verie well: _Bembus ad Picum_ // _P. Bembus._ a great deale better, but _Ioan. Sturmius de_ // _Ioan. Stur-_ _Nobilitate literata, & de Amissa dicendi ratione_, // _mius._ farre best of all, in myne opinion, that euer tooke this matter in hand. For all the rest, declare chiefly this point, whether one, or many, or all, are to be followed: but _Sturmius_ onelie hath most learnedlie declared, who is to be followed, what is to be followed, and the best point of all, by what way & order, trew Imitation is rightlie to be exercised. And although _Sturmius_ herein doth farre passe all other, yet hath he not so fullie and perfitelie done it, as I do wishe he had, and as I know he could. For though he hath done it perfitelie for precept, yet hath he 272 _The second booke teachyng_