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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07415	Philotimus. The warre betwixt nature and fortune. Compiled by Brian Melbancke student in Graies Inne	Melbancke, Brian.	1583 (1583)	STC 17801; ESTC S109987	173,818	238

you follow you shall neither repent you of your present attention nor repine at the prospering of other Gentlemen and bicause contrary to ordinary you are grounded in the liberal arts which is not vsuall to freshmen when they first come to study I will set you downe no childishe samplers as though I mente to impleade you of Ignoraunce but suche as serue Gentlemen of your estate and maye beseeme Studentes of a good standing First abase not good letters in your imagination for their art is more behoofull for the gouernement of Gentlemen then their want is materiall for a priuate Subiect When Camillus triumphed ouer the Frenchmen the day of his victorye he wrote these woordes in the Capitoll of Rome Thou hast bene mother to all Wisemen stepdame to all Fooles Be studious in your learning but not sottish in your labours for moderate paines imploied in due times increaseth knowledg without bodilye dammage when intricate endles triuious toylings plunge the wits and crucifie the carcas Trifle not your times in vaine settes of wordes but let your greatest trauailes be Philosophicall Institutions for it is not hard for the Tayler to shape a fitte garment for a straight bodie but it is impossible for a crooked body to be framd by his art to fit a streight garment It was one of Socrates his Emblems that he is eloquent inough that deliuers his minde plainly Amonge all other Artes forgett not the Mathematikes for the Etymologie of their name exhortes you to learne them Turne ouer the volumes of auncient histories for so you being yong without experience your knowledge shall stretche further then your fathers remembraunce Haue a sight in all Languages though it bee but superficiall for so you shall be Citizens in all Countreyes and be able to calculate their condicions and manners and that which is not specified in some of our Languages is explaned to the full in an other Tongue For preceptes to be eloquent in any one Tongue I canne assigne you no resolute certeintie For neither are all Orators taught by one maister saith M. Cicero neyther doe they vse the same wayes and meanes Sweete were the sauce would please ech kind of tast straung were the veine that some man thoughte not vaine yet that which is generally receiued of all is conuenable for you First in your entraunce to euery Tongue reade those Authors which ar sound without blemish as Caesar Tully Terence in the Latin tongue for Liuye Salust chiefteynes of Antiquaries being generallie perfitte touching their whole woorks but mancate here and there with some scattering faults are not to be neclected of the Students in Eloquence but to bee diligently read of those that haue iudgement Secondarily mark their phrase Elocution then that which is commonly lightly regarded be painfull to make a swete round number An example of this number doth Sturmius point out in the beginning of Tully his Oration for A. Cecinna the verye firste Sentence of which bycause Tully speakes somewhat and Hermogenes at large I omit to treatise any thing at all Of all other thinges be charie of your companie For we commonly say that like will to like and gather suspition of ones disposition by his compéeres When great Scipio came from the warre of the Poeniens better accompanied with dastardlye michers then with valiaunt Captaines one Oruetus a famous Orator said vnto him of troth it is greate shame to thée and small honour to the Senate that thou hast ouercome the wise Affres and art so wise thy selfe of the bloud of the wise Romaines wilte be accompanyed with these Fooles I say vnto thée that thy wit is in more perill here in Rome then thy life was in Affrick The frequenting of P. Mutius his house made the young Gentleman P. Rutilius be thought honest in life learned in the Lawe The smal acquaintaunce which M Celius in his youth had with Catiline was after in a controuersy concerning him nere somthing preiudiciall to the vprightnes of his cause Let your companions be at least your coequalls for that is comly insinuating to your betters if you may without presumption affable to inferiours with a sober submission Vse the company of your equalls with emulation bee directed by your betters with imitation contemne not the basest for any occasion Learne wisdome of the auncient but affect not their grauity gather wit of the wantons but detest their corruptions learne manners at the Court there are fewe at the Vniuersitie These lessons with a request to print them well in your minds shall suffice at this time what bookes you shall reade in what order we wil assigne at our iourneyes end Philotimus with a gratious bashfullnes gaue him thankes for his good Lecture with protestation that one thinge wherewith hee had comforted him in sayinge that their procedinges were more forward then theirs are vsually which come to an Vniuersitie he either feared was not so or els much meruailed it should be so For I haue read said hee that no man was sufferable to enter Plato his Schoole vnlesse hee had good knoweledge in the perspections of Geometry and then I muse why our maisters of Florence should bee so far ouerseene to admit eyther Children that be ouer younge for their studies or ignorant trewants that be too idle to learne or blockeheaded doultes that haue no capacities Senior Mondaldoes aunswere to this shall be Counsayle for I thinke it better to rest in the midway then run my selfe out of breath get no goale To make recapitulation of all their communication they had by the way were more troublous to my pen then now it can in tend and therefore intermitting all interlacing of many a good discourse nothing vnprofitable I will bring them now at length to their wished Vniuersitie where thus muche I can say in the yong Gentlemens behalfe but in especiall of Philotimus that in application of his booke he was as industrious as if his liuinge had layd on his Learning and so curious circumspect in mainteyning of his credit that he onely was the man whome all men admired In all points of learning Philotimus was commended in all comparisons Philotimus excepted in all exceptions Philotimus preferred His lyfe was more vertuous then his lyne was noble and more notorious was his vertue then the brute of his bloud and his name better credifed then his personage acquainted In one and the onely thinge that belonges to an Orator in soueraigntie of stile a swete and treatable pronunciation he exceeded all others of whom I haue read It is reported of Tullye that for one sentence brauelye deliuered all the people at once cast vp their cappes gaue a shoute Then trust me Gentlemē I doe thinke that if Philotimus had liued in those daies spoken to that people that at euery Period they had bene amased His manners were milde and very amiable For though hee were of a cholerick sanguine complexion whose