out: what ordered otherwise, either _præponendo, interponendo_, or _postponendo_: And what is altered for any respect, in word, phrase, sentence, figure, reason, argument, or by any way of circumstance: If _Riccius_ had done this, he had not onely bene well liked, for his diligence in teaching, but also iustlie com- mended for his right iudgement in right choice of examples for the best _Imitation_. _Riccius_ also for _Imitation_ of prose declareth where and how _Longolius_ doth folow _Tullie_, but as for _Longolius_, I would not haue him the patern of our _Imitation_. In deede: in _Longolius_ shoppe, be proper and faire shewing colers, but as for shape, figure, and naturall cumlines, by the iudgement of best iudging artificers, he is rather allowed as one to be borne withall, than especially commended, as one chieflie to be folowed. If _Riccius_ had taken for his examples, where _Tullie_ him selfe foloweth either _Plato_ or _Demosthenes_, he had shot than at the right marke. But to excuse _Riccius_, somwhat, though I can not fullie defend him, it may be sayd, his purpose was, to teach onelie the Latin tong, when thys way that I do wish, to ioyne _Virgil_ with _Homer_, to read _Tullie_ with _Demosthenes_ and _Plato_, requireth a cunning and perfite Master in both the tonges. It is my wish in deede, and that by good reason: For who so euer will write well of any matter, must labor to expresse that, that is perfite, and not to stay and content himselfe with the meane: yea, I say farder, though it be not vnposible, yet it is verie rare, and meruelous hard, to proue excellent in the Latin tong, for him that is not also well seene in the Greeke tong. _Tullie_ him selfe, most excellent of nature, most diligent in labor, brought vp from his cradle, in that place, and in that tyme, where and whan the Latin tong most florished naturallie in euery mans mouth, yet was not his owne tong able it selfe to make him so cunning in his owne tong, as he was in deede: but the knowledge and _Imitation_ of the Greeke tong withall. This he confesseth himselfe: this he vttereth in many places, as those can tell best, that vse to read him most. Therefore thou, that shotest at perfection in the Latin tong, thinke not thy selfe wiser than _Tullie_ was, in choice of the way, that leadeth rightlie to the same: thinke not thy witte better than _Tullies_ was, as though that may serue thee that was not sufficient for him. For euen as a hauke flieth not hie with one 274 _The second booke teachyng_