not done it perfitelie enough for example: which he did, neither for lacke of skill, nor by negligence, but of purpose, contented with one or two examples bicause he was mynded in those two bookes, to write of it both shortlie, and also had to touch other matters. _Barthol. Riccius Ferrariensis_ also hath written learnedlie, diligentlie and verie largelie of this matter euen as hee did before verie well _de Apparatu linguæ Lat._ He writeth the better in myne opinion, bicause his whole doctrine, iudgement, and order, semeth to be borowed out of _Io. Stur._ bookes. He addeth also examples, the best kinde of teaching: wherein he doth well, but not well enough: in deede, he committeth no faulte, but yet, deserueth small praise. He is content with the meane, and followeth not the best: as a man, that would feede vpon Acornes, whan he may eate, as good cheape, the finest wheat bread. He teacheth for example, where and how, two or three late _Italian_ Poetes do follow _Virgil_: and how _Virgil_ him selfe in the storie of _Dido_, doth wholie Imitate _Catullus_ in the like matter of _Ariadna_: Wherein I like better his diligence and order of teaching, than his iudgement in choice of examples for _Imitation_. But, if he had done thus: if he had declared where and how, how oft and how many wayes _Virgil_ doth folow _Homer_, as for example the comming of _Vlysses_ to _Alcynous_ and _Calypso_, with the comming of _æneas_ to _Cartage_ and _Dido_: Like- wise the games running, wrestling, and shoting, that _Achilles_ maketh in _Homer_, with the selfe same games, that _æneas_ maketh in _Virgil_: The harnesse of _Achilles_, with the harnesse of _æneas_, and the maner of making of them both by _Vulcane_: The notable combate betwixt _Achilles_ and _Hector_, with as notable a combate betwixt _æneas_ and _Turnus_. The going downe to hell of _Vlysses_ in _Homer_, with the going downe to hell of _Æneas_ in _Virgil_: and other places infinite mo, as similitudes, narrations, messages, discriptions of persones, places, battels, tempestes, shipwrackes, and common places for diuerse purposes, which be as precisely taken out of _Homer_, as euer did Painter in London follow the picture of any faire personage. And when thies places had bene gathered together by this way of diligence than to haue conferred them together by this order of teaching as, diligently to marke what is kept and vsed in either author, in wordes, in sentences, in matter: what is added: what is left _the ready way to the Latin tong._ 273