particular colledges and liuinges To haue the Physician thus learned it were nothing to much considering his absolutenesse is learning and his ignoraunce butcherie if he do but marke his owne maister Galene in his booke of the best profession For the Diuine to tarie time and to haue the handmaiden sciences to attend vpō their mistres profession were it any hindrance to his credit where discretion the daughter of time is his fairest conusance if he come without her what sternesse so euer he pretend in countenance we will measure the man though we marke his sayinges The Lawyers best note in the best iudgementes is contentment not to couet to much and for that desire not to striue to gaine to much not beyond the extremitie of lawe but farre on this side the extremitie of right And can digesting time be but commodious in this case and contempt of toyes care he enter into them be but mother to contentment Time to bread sufficiencie and sufficiencie to bring sound iudgemēt cut of all matter of blame and leaue all matter to praise But in this distribution where is Logicke and Rethoricke some will saye Where is Grammer then will I saye A directour to language And so Logicke for her demonstratiue part plaieth the Grammer to the Mathematicalles and naturall Philosophie for her probabilitie to morall and politike and such other as depend not vpon necessitie of matter Rhetoricke for puritie without passion doth ioyne with the writer in any kinde for perswasion with passion with the speaker in all kindes and yet both the speaker dealeth sometime quietly and the plaine writer waxeth very hoate Of these colledges that which is for toungues is so necessary as scant any thing more For the toungues being receites for matter without the perfect vnderstāding of them what hope is there to vnderstand matter and seeing wordes be names of thinges applyed and giuen according to their properties how can thinges be properly vnderstood by vs which vse the ministrie and seruice of wordes to know them by onelesse the force of speeche be thoroughly knowen And do you not thinke that euery profession hath neede to haue a title of the signification of wordes as well as the ciuill lawyer I do see in writers and I do heare in speakers great defectes in the mistaking of meaninges euident errours thorough insufficiencie herin And as toungues cannot be better perfitted then streight after their entrie by the grammer schoole so they must be more perfitted then they can be there And what if some will neuer proceede any further but rest in those pleasaunt kinde of writers which delite most in gaing of their language as poëtes histories discourses and such as will be counted generall men As for the Mathematicalles they had the place before the toungues were taught which though they be now some necessarie helpes bycause we vse forreine language for conueaunce of knowledge yet they push vs one degree further of from knowledge That the Mathematicalles had the place and were proposed still to children he that hath read any thing in Philosophie cannot be ignorant Plato is full of it and termeth them commonly the childrens entraunce but cheifly in the seuenth booke of his common weale So is his scholer though long after his death Philo the Iewe whom euen his countrieman Iosephus a man somwhat parciall in praising other yet calleth a singular man for eloquence and wisdome speaking of his embassage to Caius the Emperour but specially in that treatise which he maketh of the foretraine for so I turne Platoes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Philoes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There he deuiseth as he is a perpetuall allegoriser Sara to be the image of Diuinitie and Agar the figure of all other handmaiden sciences wherin he wisheth a young man to deale very long or he venture vpon Sara which will not be fertil but in late and ripe yeares He construeth both in that place and in Moses his life also those wordes of the bringing vp of Moses in all the doctrine of the AEgyptians to be meant in the Mathematicalles which was the traine of that time and the brood of that soile or there about And to saye the trueth let any man marke the course of all auncient learning and he shall finde that it could not be possibly otherwise but that the Mathematicall was their rudiment though no historie no describer of common weale no setter forth of Philosophers life no Philosopher himselfe had tolde it vs Is not Aristotles first booke of all in course of his teaching his Organum which conteineth his whole Logicke and in his proofes for the piking out of his syllogismes doth he not bewraie wherin he was brough vp I vse Aristotle alone for example bycause our studentes be best acquainted with him whom yet they cannot vnderstand without these helpes as one Brauardine espied well though not he alone who tooke the paines to gather out of Euclide two bookes purposely for the vnderstanding of Aristotle Can his bookes of Demonstratiō the Analytica prosteriora be vnderstood without this helpe His whole treatise of Motion wheresoeuer commonly fetcht from the verie forme of the thing moued His confutation of others by the nature of Motion and site His Mathematicall discriptions in many places His naturall Theoremes echwhere can they be conceiued much lesse vnderstood by any ignorant in this pointe Wherin Aristotle sheweth vs his owne education to whom he commendeth the like if we like of him whose liking will not fall though fooles oftimes shake it It were to infinite to vse proofes in so generall and so knowne a case which the whole antiquitie still allowed of and the famous Athenian common weale vsed euen then when she had the great brood of the most excellent persons for her ordinary traine to her youth as Socrates still alledgeth in Plato or rather Plato fathering the speach vpon Socrates sayth so himselfe Aristippus after his shipwrake found releife thorough that train and encoraged his companions vpon sight of Geometricall figures in the sande He that will iudge of these sciences in genenerall what degree they haue in the course of learning and wherin they be profitable to all other studies whatsoeuer let him read but either Proclus his foure bookes vpon Euclides first in Greeke or bycause the greeke is ill and corruptly printed Io. Barocius a young gentleman of Venice which hath turned them into Latin and corrected the copie Though many haue delt in the argument they be but secondarie to Proclus For he handleth euery question that either makes for them or against them cheifly in his first booke It were to much for me to stand vpon enumeration of testimonies in this place that the aunciēt schooling did begin at the Mathematicall after the first Elemētarie while they minded sound learning in deede and sequestred their thoughtes from other dealinges in the world He that marketh but the ordinary metaphores in the eloquentest Greeke
seene verie substantially Which disorder proceeding from the parentes ouerruleth vs all causing great weakenes much mismatching in the fourmes of our schooles so that we either cannot or may not finde fault euen to amend it whereas the order being one and planted by authoritie though the childe vse to chaunge often yet his profiting is soone perceiued and the parentes also wilbe well contented when they suspect no partialitie by priuate passion and see indifferencie in publicke prouisiō Such be the frutes which varietie bringes foorth perillous in great affaires still gathering strength by traine in those petie principles wheras to the contrarie vniformitie is full of contentment Nothing continueth one in our schooles but the common grammer set furth by authoritie which cōfirmeth mine opinion both by pollicie in the first setting out by profit in the long continuing wherein we all agree perforce as in a case of higher countenaunce already ruled Which booke whether it may stand still with some amendement or of necessitie must be cast some other way for better method it shall then be seene when comparisons come in season that the alteration may shew whether there were cause to chaunge or some iniurie offered to chaunge without cause For both that booke and all the like which serue for direction and method must be fashioned to the matter which they seeme to direct by rule and precept being not of themselues but made to serue others This we haue by it that vniformitie out of al cōtrouersie is best but whether it selfe be best that is yet in controuersie For sparing of expenses the second commoditie which vniformitie bringes with her this is my opinion while it is left to the teachers libertie to make his owne choice both for the booke which he will teach and the order how betweene the varietie of iudgementes inequalitie of learning in teachers which by order must be made one by consent neuer will the parentes purses are pretily pulled poore men verie sore pinched both with chaūge of bookes the maister oft repealing his former choice and also with number while euery booke is commended to the buyer which either maketh a faire shew to be profitable or otherwise is sollicited to the sale as in our dayes necessitie must sell where such an ouerflush of bookes growes chargeable to the printer For the old periode is returned that Iuuenall found in his time learned and vnlearned must needes write he is marde that comes lag Nay ordinarily some few leaues be occupied in the best chosen biggest booke besides the oft leasing much spoiling of them sachels and all to their gaines it may be said that sell them though to the parentes losse that buy them and those of the meaner sort whose children maintaine schooles most and swarme thickest in all places and professions which thing might be farre better vsed if the best onely were bought and with the losse of his kookes the childe lost no more All which inconueniences may easily be remeadied and with small adoe For whatsoeuer is needefull to be vsed in schooles may be verie well comprised in a small compasse and haue all his helpes with him being gathered into some one pretie volume compounded of the marrow of many neither will the charge be great the ware being small and our profession is not to perfit but to enter Neither yet hereby is any iniurie done to good writers whose bookes may verie well tarie for the ripenes of the reader and that place which is dew to them in the ordinarie ascent of learning and studie being no intruders into rowmes to meane for them and content to take that place whereunto they are marshalled by their value and degree to their praise which made them when the student can iudge to the studentes profit when he can vnderstand and the fast retaining of them when order maintanes memorie In our grammer schooles we professe the toungues nay rather the entraunce of toungues Euerie profession that is penned in any toungue ministreth to her student those wordes that be proper to her owne subiect Which wordes be then best gotten when they follow the matter as they will do most willingly in the peculiar studie of the same profession If a grammarian therefore be entred to write speake and vnderstande pretily in some well chosen argument best to follow for aptnes ech way though he neither know all nor most wordes in any toungue which is reserued to further studie yet our schooles be discharged of their dewtie in doing but so much They that assigne grammer maisters wherein to trauell appoint them histories and poetes though they make some choice of men and some distinction of matter in regard of vertuous maners and purenes of stile In our schooles what time will serue vs to runne ouer all these nay to deale but with some few of them throughly how then Is not some litle well pickt and printed alone the praise of our profession and the parentes case And be not the maine bookes to be consigned ouer to the right place in their owne calling Some vaines be rapt and will needes proue poetes leaue them the art of poetrie and the whole bookes and argumentes of poetes Some wlll commend to memorie and posteritie such actes and monumemes as be worthy the remembrance Let them haue the rules whereby the penning of histories is directed to write thereby with order and the matter of histories to furnish out their stile If men of more studie and greater learning haue leysure and list to reade they may vse histories for pleasure as being but an after meates studie neither tyring the braine nor tediouse any way as they be not generally to build on for iudgement bycause ignorance of their circumstances make some difficultie in applying and great daunger in prouing They may also runne ouer poetes when they are disposed to laugh and to behold what brauery enthousiame inspireth For when the poetes write sadly and soberly without counterfeating though they write in verse yet they be no poetes in that kinde of their writing but where they couer a truth with a fabulous veele and resemble with alteration We are therefore to cull out some of the best and fittest for our introductorie and to send away the rest to their owne place in the peculiar professions and that not in poetes histories alone but also in all other bookes whatsoeuer which be at this day admitted into our schooles The poetes wordes be verie good and most significant as it appeareth by Platoes whole penning whose eloquence is thought fit for sainctes if any heauenly creature had a longing to speake greeke And in the latin they haue the same grace in his iudgement which best vnderstoode what wordes were best as being himselfe the best and eloquentest oratour speaking of them in that booke wherein he both sheweth his eloquence most and vseth the personages of the most eloquent oratours to deliuer his minde The quantitie of
syllabes is to be learned of them to auoid mistiming as the wise writer Horace pointeth the poet therfore first to frame the tender mouth of the yong learner Moreouer some verie excellent places most eloquently and forcibly penned for the polishing of good manners and inducement vnto vertue may be pickt out of some of them and none more then Horace We may therefore either vse them with that choice or helpe the point our selues if we thinke it good and can pen a verse that may deserue remembraunce Such an helpe did Apollinarius offer vnto his time as Sozomenus and Socrates the scholer report in their ecclesiasticall histories For Iulian the renegate spiting at the great learning of Basill Gregorie Apollinarie and many moe which liued in that time which time was such a breeder of learned men as in Christian matters religion we reade none like by decree excluded the christian mens Children from the vse of prophane learning wherin the christian diuines were so cunning as they stopt both his and his fauorites mouthes with their owne learning they passed them all so farre Then Apollinarius conueighed into verses of all sortes after the imitation of all the best prophane poetes diuine and holy argumentes gathered out of scripture whereby he met with Iulianes edict and furnished out his owne profession with matter and argument of their owne Now in misliking of profane arguments some such helpe may be had appropriate to our youth But there must be heede taken that we plant not any poeticall furie in the childes habit For that rapt inclination is to ranging of it selfe though it be not helpt forward where it is and would not in any case be forced where it is not For other writers number and choice of wordes smoothnes and proprietie of composition with the honestie of the argument must be most regarded Quintilianes rule is very true and the verie best and alway to be obserued in chusing of writers for children to learne to picke out such as will feede the wit with fairest stuffe and fine the toungue with nearest speach So that neither slight and vnproper matters though eloquentlie set foorth neither weightie and wise being rudely deliuered be to be offered to children but where the honestie and familiaritie of the argument is honored and apparelled with the finesse fitnes of speach Which thing if it be lookt vnto in planting vniformitie and pointing out fit bookes besides many and infinite commodities which will grow thereby to the whole realme assuredly the multitude of many needelesse volumes will be diminished and cut of So that vniformitie in schooling may seeme very profitable seeing it will supplant so great defectes as the likelyhood giues and plant the redresse which in nature it importeth besides that which the common weale doth gaine by acquainting yong wittes euen from their cradeles both to embrace and apply orderly vniformnes which in thinges subiect to sense is delitefull to behold in comprehensions of the minde is comfortable to thinke on in executions and effectes is the staie whereon we stand and the steddiest recourse to correct errors by I am led by these reasons and many the like to thinke that either nothing in deede or very litle in shew can iustly be alleaged to the contrary but that such an order must needes be verie profitable to giue schooles a purgatiō to voide them of some great inconueniences as I take the thing also to be verie compassable if authoritie shall like of it without which any opinion is but shewed and dieth without effect I entend my selfe by the grace of God to bestow some paines therein if I may perceiue any hope to encourage my trauell If any other will deale I am ready to staie and behold his successe if none other will then must I be borne with which in so necessarie a case do offer to my countrie all my duetifull seruice Wherein if any vpon some repining humor shall seeme to stomake me bycause being one perhaps meaner then he is himselfe I do thus boldly auaunce my doinges to the stage and view of my countrie yet till he step foorth shew vs his cunning he hath no wrong offred him if another do speake while he wilbe silent And whosoeuer shall deale in generall argumentes must be content to put vp those generall pinches which repining people do vse then most when they are best vsed and esteeme it some benefit when doing well he heareth ill and thinke that he hath gotten a great victorie if he please the best and profit the most as he may profit all and yet displease many either through ignorance bycause they cannot discerne or through willfulnes being wedded to preiudice or ells through disdaine bycause it spiteth some to see other aboue spite A disease proper to basest dispositions and of meanest desert to pinch the heele where they pricke at the head But such as meane to do well how souer their power perfourme so the height of their argument ouertop not their power to farre and discouer great want of discretion in medling with a matter to much surmounting their abilitie they may comfort and encourage themselues with that meaning if their doing do answere it in any resonable proportion and thinke it a thing as it is in deede naturally and daily accompanying all potentates either in person or propertie therefore no disgrace to any meaner creature to wrastle with repyning sowre spirites euen verie then when they worke them most good which are readyest to repine If the doinges be massiue they will beare a knocke if they be but slender will streight way bruse beware the warranting As in this my labour I dare warrant nothing but the warines of good will which euen ill wil shall see if it haue any sight to see that is right as commonly that way it is starke blinde somuch the more incurablely by cause the blindnes comes either of vnwillingnes to see or of an infected sight that will misconsture depraue the obiect I craue the gentle friendly construction of such as be learned or that loue learning yet I neede not craue it by cause learning that is sound in deede needes no bolstering and all her louers and fauorers be verie liberall of friendly constructiō nothing partiall to speake the best euē where it is not craued I must pray if prayer will procure it the gentle and curteouse toleration of such as shall mislike For as I will not willingly do that which may deserue misliking so if I once know wherein I will satisfie throughly And therefore in one word I must pray my louing countriemen and friendly readers this to thinke of me that either I shall hit as my hope is and then they shall enioy it or if I misse I will amend and my selfe shall not repent it The second remedie to helpe schoole inconueniences was to set downe the schoole ordinaunces betwene the maister and his scholers in a
as they will sooner gather a number of illes at once to corrupt then pare any one ill by litle and litle with minde to amend Concerning discretion there is a circunstance to be obserued in thinges which is committed alwaye to the executours person and hath respect to his iudgement which I call no change bycause in the first setting downe that was also setled as a most certaine point to rule accidētarie vncertainties which be no changes bycause they were foreseene Such a supplie hath iustice in positiue lawes by equitie in consideration as a good chauncellour to soften to hard constructions That is one reason why the monarchie is helde for the best kinde of gouernment bycause the rigour and seueritie of lawe is qualified by the princesse mercie without breche of lawe which left that prerogatiue to the princesse person The cōspiracie which Brutus his owne children made against their father for the returne of Tarquinius euen that cruell Prince leanes vpon this ground as Dionysius of Halicarnassus Liuie and others do note So that discretion to alter vpon cause in some vncertaine circunstance nay to alter circunstance vpon some certaine cause is no enemie to certaintie When thinges are growen to extremities then change proues needefull to reduce againe to the principle For at the first planting euery thing is either perfitest as in the matter of creation or the best ground for perfitnesse to build on as in truth of religion though posteritie for a time vpon cause maye encrease but to much putting to burdeneth to much in the ende procures most violent shaking of both in religious and politike vsurpations But this argument is to high for a schoole position wherefore I will knit vp in few wordes that as conference is most needefull so certaintie is most sure and constancie the best keeper that it is no change which discretion vseth in doing but her duetie but that altereth the maine Which in matters engraffed in generall conceites would worke alteration by slow degrees if foresight might rule but in extremities of palpable abuse it hurleth downe headlong yea though he smart for the time whom the change doth most helpe But in our schoole pointes the case falleth lighter where whatsoeuer matter shalbe offered to the first education conference will helpe it certaintie will staye it constancie will assure it Thus much concerning the generall positions wherin if I haue either not handled or not sufficiently handled any particular point it is reserued to the particular treatise hereafter where it will be bestowed a great deale better considering the present execution must follow the particular Chapter 45. The peroration wherin the summe of the whole kooke is recapitulated and proofes vsed that this enterprise was first to be begon by Positions and that these be the most proper to this purpose A request concerning the well taking of that which is so well ment THvs bold haue I bene with you my good and curteous countriemen and troubled your time with a number of wordes of what force I know not to what ende I know For my ende is to shew mine opinion how the great varietie in teaching which is now generally vsed maye be reduced to some vniformnesse and the cause why I haue vsed so long a preface as this whole booke is for that such as deale in the like argumēts do likewise determine before what they thinke concerning such generall accidentes which are to be rid out of the waye at once and not alwaye to be left running about to trouble the house when more important matters shall come to handling Wherin I haue vttered my conceit liking well of that which we haue though oftimes I wishe for that which we haue not as much better in mine opinion then that which we haue and so much the rather to be wished bycause the way to winne it is of it selfe so plaine ready I haue vttered my sentence for these pointes thus wherin if my cunning haue deceiued me my good will must warrant me and I haue vttered it in plaine wordes which kinde of vtterance in this teaching kinde as it is best to be vnderstood so it letteth euery one see that if I haue missed they may wel moane me which meaning all so much good haue vnhappily missed in so good a purpose Vpon the stearnesse of resolute and reasonable perswasions I might haue set downe my Positions aphorismelike and left both the commenting and the commending of them to triall and time but neither deserue I so much credit as that my bare word may stand for a warrant neither thought I it good with precisenesse to aliene where I might winne with discourse Whervpon I haue writen in euery one of those argumentes enough I thinke for any reader whom reason will content to much I feare for so euident a matter as these Positions be not affailable I suppose by any substantiall contradiction For I haue grounded them vpon reading and some reasonable experience I haue applied them to the vse and custome of my countrey no where enforcing her to any forreine or straunge deuise Moreouer I haue conferred them with common sense wherein lōg teaching hath not left me quite senselesse And besides these some reason doth lead me very probable to my selfe in mine owne collection what to others I know not to whom I haue deliuered it but I must rest vpon their iudgemēt Hereof I am certaine that my countrey is already very well acquainted with them bycause I did but marke where vpon particular neede she her selfe hath made her owne choice and by embrasing much to satisfie her owne vse hath recommended the residue vnto my care to be brought by direction vnder some fourme of statarie discipline Now then can I but thinke that my countreymen will ioyne with me in consent with whom my countrey doth communicate such fauour Seeing her fauour is for their furtheraunce and my labour is to bring them to that which she doth most allow And what conclusion haue I set downe wherin they maye not very well agree with me either for the first impression which set me on worke or for the proofe which confirmeth the impression My first meaning was to procure a generall good so farre as my abilitie would reach I do not saye that such a conceit deserueth no discourtesie for the very motion how soeuer the effect do aunswere in rate but this I may well thinke that my countreymen ought of common courtesie to countenaunce an affection so well qualified till the euent either shrine it with praise or shoulder it with repulse I do not herein take vpon me dictatorlike to pronounce peremptorily but in waye of counsell as one of that robe to shew that which long teaching hath taught me to saye by reading somwhat and obseruing more And I must pray my good countrymen so to construe my meaning for being these many yeares by some my freindes prouoked to publish something and neuer hitherto daring to venture vpon the
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Libro 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cap. 5. de furore Lib. 6. cap. 8. De sani tuen Pla. 2.3.4 de Repub. Phil. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristot. 8. polit Galen â— De sanit tuen 19. part probl 38 Lib. 1. c. 2. Libro 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cap. 1. Lib. 11. Epist. 97. Lib. de re med Lib. 27. cap. 6. Weeping 7. Polit. cap. vlt. Lib. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 7. De Rep. Hier. Mer cu. lib. 3. cap. 6. The blame that daunsing beareth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. De exercitijs SoloÌ„ apud LucianuÌ„ in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lib. 28. cap. 1. lib. 36. cap. vlt. Epist. Lib. 2. Plato in Lachete Plato Lib. de parua pila 3. De Rep. Lib. 1. cap. 9. penul The vse of slow walking after exercise The three principall kindes of walking Walking which is named after y e time of mouing Moderate walking Swift and quick walking Slow walking Vehement to sore Much and oft Litle and seldome Long and outright Long and quicke Walking which is named after the place Plut. in Demost. Walking downhill Walking vpoÌ„ sande In Augusti vita cap. 80. Walking in a close gallerie Walking in an open place It is good to walke where birdes haunt It is better to walke in the shade theÌ„ in the sunne Daungerous walking vnder dewy trees What effecte the faire and cleare aire hath Walking which taketh his name after the time The good of y e morning walk The good and ill of the euening walk 5. part probl 9. De parua pila lib. Lib. de insomnijslaÌ„guentium 3. Lib. de Diaeta 2. part proble 21.33.42 Suetonius in Augusto cap. 83. 34. Lib. cap. 8. 4. de Rep. Gal. 6. epiÌ„ commeÌ„ 3. aph 2. Liuius C. Caes. Appian Gal. 7. meth Pli. epist. 9. lib. 6. Martial lib. 11. Iuuenal Suetonius lib. de Venat 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 De parua pila lib. 3. Commen 13 tract cap. 3. 1. Sanit tuen Valetudinarie Healthy bodyes 2. De tu vali 2. Part. proble 21.33.42 3. De diaeta 2. De tueÌ„ vali 2. Aph. 16. Houres 4 De tueÌ„da sanita 1. De san tu 1 The liking of the executors subiect 2 How to become a skilfull exercising maister 3 Discretion in the trayner 1 To many learned S. Paul 2 To few learned 3 Wittes wel sorted 4 Wittes misplaced Of riche and poore children The choosing time Necessity Xenop 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lawe Two obiections against restraint by lawe Choice What wit is fittest for learning in a monarchie A wit for learning in a monarchie Schoole choice Admission into colleges 1 Offic. 2. 2 The main rot of the Romaine empire The abusing of great personages Quintilian Palaemon 2 PrefermeÌ„t to degrees 3 Auauncement to liuinges The necessitie of this title The proofes why they are to learne The custome of our ountrey Duetie 3 Naturall Towardnesse Proclus vpoÌ„ Platoes common weale and Theodorê° Asinaeus vpon the question whether men and wymen haue all vertues common 4 Excellent effectes Philo Iudaeus in his discours of the ten commauÌ„dementes rips out the perfitnes of that number Plutarch in his booke of wymens vertues The ende of learning in yong maides Which when What. Reading Writing Musike How much Plin. lib. 35. cap. 11. Plut. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Where when The places Of priuate education Priuate EducatioÌ„ Why is priuate teaching so much vsed Send your priuate M. with your child to the coÌ„moÌ„ schoole That the circunstaÌ„ce is one in gentlemen and common mens children 1 Riche meÌ„ no gentlemen The method of the discourse that foloweth Of gentlemanly exercise What is it to be a nobleman or a gentleman Of infirmities in nobility by discent The causes and groundes of nobilitie Plutarch Alexand. Hester lib. AElianus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Plut. Sylla Caesar. A politike counsellour 2 The diuine 3 The lawyer 4 The Physician Why so many desire to be gentlemeÌ„ The geÌ„tlemeÌ„s train Trauelling beyond sea Plato 12. de leg Philo Plut. in Caes. Ad 1. Nicocleon The Princes traine Diuision of publike places Collegiat Elementarie 3 Grammaticall Of bourding abroad Probitas laudatur alget The time Teachers Elementarie Grammaticall Academicall 1 Academicall 2 Elementarie Of the Elementary teachers entertainment 3 GraÌ„mer maisters The GraÌ„mer maisters entertainement his suâ—fficiencie A meane to haue excellent teachers and professours generally The foure particuler meanes Of the diuision of colleges The college of toungues The colledge for the mathematikes Plato 7. de rep Sir Iohn Cheeke The colledge for Philosophie Gal. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 The necessitie of the college for toungues 2 The necessitie of the Mathematicall colledge Philo. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 6. AEneid 3 The necessitie of the colledge for Philosophie The necessitie of three colledges peculiar for Diuinitie Law Physicke The seuenth colledge for training maisters and the necessitie therof 1. 2 The secoÌ„d meane to sorte like yeares into y e same roomes 3 The third meane to better the studentes maintenaunce 4 The fourth meane for readers That this wish is most profitable to the vniuersitie hurthfull no not to any particular The admission of teachers P. Melancthon Vniformitie in teaching Dispatch in learning Sparing of expences De oratore 2 Schoole orders publicke Of curtesie correction 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 7. De rep Plato 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Ad Quintum Frat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The maisters yeares and alonenesse 1 Conference betwene parentes neighbours 2 Conference betwene teachers and neighbours 3 Conferèe betwene parentes and teachers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. 4 Conference betwene teachers 2 Certaintie 1 Certainetie in schooles 2 Certainetie in priuate houses 3 Certaintie in Churches 3 Constancie The examining of all the contentes of this booke