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A12121	A treatise of schemes [and] tropes very profytable for the better vnderstanding of good authors, gathered out of the best grammarians [and] oratours by Rychard Sherry Londoner. Whervnto is added a declamacion, that chyldren euen strapt fro[m] their infancie should be well and gently broughte vp in learnynge. Written fyrst in Latin by the most excellent and famous clearke, Erasmus of Roterodame.	Sherry, Richard, ca. 1506-ca. 1555.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. De pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis. English. aut	1550 (1550)	STC 22428; ESTC S111062	82,560	238

thou not thynke that ther were no punyshemente to sore for her myscheuouse deede But that whych thou abhorrest in her thou of purpose doest it thy selfe How huge a beaste is lechery how rauenous and insaciable is ●yot howe wylde a beast is dronken shyp how hurtfull a thing is anger how horrible is ambicion To these beastes dothe he set ouer hys sonne whosoeuer from his tender youthe doth not accustume hym to loue that that is honeste to abhorre synne yea rather not onlye he casteth hym to wyld beastes whych the most cruel casters away are wonte to do but also whych is more greuouse he norisheth this greate and perilous beaste euen to hys owne destruccion It is a kind of men most to be abhorred which hurteth the body of infantes wyth bewitchyng and what shal we say of those parentes whiche thorowe their negligence and euyll educacion be witch the mynd They are called murtherers that kyll their children beynge newe borne and yet kyll but the body ●owe great wyckednes is it to kyll the mynde For what other thynge is the deathe of the soule then foly and wickednes And he doth also no lesse wrong to his contrey to whom asmuch as lyeth in hym he geueth a pestilente citizē He is naught to godwards of whom he hath receyued a chylde for thys purpose to brynge hym vp to vertue Hereby you may se how greate and manifolde mischiefes they committe whych regarde not the bryngynge vp of tender age But as I touched a lytle before they synne more greuouslie then do these whych not onely do not fashion them to honestye but also season the tender and soft vessel of the infante to myschiefe and wyckednesse and teacheth hym vyce before he knowe what vice is How shuld he be a modeste man and dyspyser of pride that creepeth in purple He can not yet sound his fyrste letters and yet he nowe knoweth what crimosine and purple sylke meaneth he knoweth what a mullet is and o● her dayntie fyshes and disdainfullye wyth a proude looke casteth away cōmon dyshes How can he be shamefast whē he is growen vp which being a litel infāt was begon to be fashioned to lecherye How shall he waxe liberal whē he is old which being so litel hath lerned to meruell at money gold If ther be ani kynd of garment lately foūd out as daili y e ta●lers craft as in time paste dyd Africa bringeth forth some new mōster y t we put vpon our infāt He is taught to stand in his own cōceite if it be takē a way he angerly axeth for it again Howe shall he beyng olde hate drūkennes whych when he is an infāt is taught to loue wine They teach them by lytle and lytle suche filthy wordes whych are scant to be suffered as sayth Quintilian of the delicious Alexandrians And if the child speake any suche after them they kysse hym for hys laboure I warant you they knew their yong growynge nothynge out of kynde when theyr owne lyfe is nothynge else then an example of naughtynes Beynge an infant he learneth the vnchaste flatterynge wordes of nurses and as we saye he is fashioned wyth the hand to wanton touchynge He seeth hys father well whetteled wyth drynke and heareth hym bablynge oute that that shulde be kepte in He sytteth at greate and not very honest feastes he heareth the house ful of iesters harpes mynstrels and daunsers To these maners the chyld is so accustumed that custume goeth into nature The● be na●ions that fashion their chyldren to fiersenesse of warre whyle they be yet redde frō the mother They lerne to loke fierslie the learne to loue the swearde and to geue a strype From such beginninges thei are deliuered to the master and do we merueyle if wee fynde them vnapte to lerne vertue whych haue dronke in vyces euen wyth the mylke But I hear some men defendynge theyr folye thus and sate that by thys pleasure whiche is taken of the wantōnes of infantes the tediousnes of nou●syng is recōpēsed What is this Shuld it be to the verye father more pleasaunt if the chylde folowe an euyll deede or expresse a leude worde thē if wyth his lytle stutryng tonge he spake a good sentence or folowe any deede that is wel done Nature specially hathe geuen to the fyrste age an easines to folowe and do after but yet thys folowyng is some what more proue to naughtynesse then to goodnes Is vyce more plesaunte to a good man then vertue specially in hys chyldren If anye fylthe fall vpon the yonge chyldes skyn thou puttest it away and dost thou infect the mynd wyth so foule spottes Nothynge stycketh faster then that that is learned in yonge myndes I pray you what motherlye hertes haue those women whiche dandle in their lap their chyldren tyl they be almost seuen yeres old and in maner make thē fooles If they be so much disposed to play why do they not rather get apes and litle puppets to play wythall O saye they they be but chyldren They be in deede but it cā scant be told how muche those fyrste beginninges of our yong age do helpe vs to guide all our lyfe after howe hard vntractable a wanton and dissolute bryngyng vp maketh the chylde to the teacher callynge the same gentlenes when in deede it is a marring Might not an accion of euyl handlyng children meruelous iustli be laid against such mothers for it is plainely a kynde of witchcraft of murther They be punyshed by the lawe y ● bewitche their childrē or hurt their weake bodies with poisons what do thei deserue which corrupt y e chiefe parte of the infāt w t most vngracious venome It is a lighter matter to kyl the body then the mind If a child shulde be brought vp amōg the gogle eied stutters or haltyng the body wold be hurt w t infecciō but in dede fautes of the mind cr●pe vpon vs more priuely also more quickely settel deper The ●postle Paul worthily gaue this honor vnto the verse of Menāder y ● he wold recite it in his epistels Euyl comunicaciō corrupteth good maners but this is neuer truer thē in infantes Aristotle whē he was axed of a certen mā by what meanes he myghte bringe to pas to haue a goodly horse If he be brought vp quod he ▪ among horses of good kynde And y t if neyther loue nor reason can teach vs howe greate care we ought to take for y e first yeres of our children at y e least waies let vs take example of brute beastes For it oughte not to greue vs to learne of thē a thynge y t shall be so profitable of whome mākinde now long ago hath lerned so many fruitful things seuce a beast called Hippopotamus hath shewed y e cutting of veines a bird of egipt called Ibis hath shewed y e vse of a clister which y e phisiciōs gretly alow The hearbe called dictamum whiche is good to drawe out arrowes we haue knowne

¶ A treatise of Schemes Tropes very profytable for the better vnderstanding of good authors gathered out of the best Grammarians Oratours by Rychard Sherry Londoner ¶ Whervnto is added a declamacion That chyldren euen strayt frō their infancie should be well and gently broughte vp in learnynge Written fyrst in Latin by the most excellent and famous Clearke Erasmus of Roterodame To the ryght worshypful Master Thomas Brooke Esquire Rychard Shyrrey wysheth health euerlastynge⸫ I Doubt not but that the title of this treatise all straunge vnto our Englyshe eares wil cause some men at the fyrst syghte to maruayle what the matter of it should meane yea and peraduenture if they be rashe of iudgement to cal it some newe fangle and so casting it hastily from thē wil not once vouch safe to reade it and if they do yet perceiuynge nothing to be therin that pleaseth their phansy wyl count it but a tryfle a tale of Robynhoode But of thys sorte as I doubte not to fynde manye so perhaps there wyll be other whiche moued with the noueltye thereof wyll thynke it worthye to be looked vpon and se what is contained therin These words Scheme and Trope are not vsed in our Englishe tongue neither bene they Englyshe wordes No more be manye whiche nowe in oure tyme be made by continual vse very familier to most men and come so often in speakyng that aswel is knowen amongest vs the meanyng of them as if they had bene of oure owne natiue broode Who hath not in hys mouthe nowe thys worde Paraphrasis homelies vsurped abolyshed wyth manye other lyke And what maruail is it if these words haue not bene vsed here tofore seynge there was no suche thynge in oure Englishe tōgue where vnto they shuld be applyed Good cause haue we therefore to gyue thankes vnto certayne godlye and well learned men whych by their greate studye enrychynge our tongue both wyth matter and wordes haue endeuoured to make it so copyous and plentyfull that therein it maye compare wyth anye other whiche so euer is the best It is not vnknowen that oure language for the barbarousnes and lacke of eloquence hathe bene complayned of and yet not trewely for anye defaut in the toungue it selfe but rather for slackenes of our coūtrimen whiche haue alwayes set lyght by searchyng out the elegance and proper speaches that be ful many in it as plainly doth appere not only by the most excellent monumentes of our aūciēt forewriters Gower Chawcer and Lydgate but also by the famous workes of many other later inespeciall of y e ryght worshipful knyght syr Thomas Eliot which first in hys dictionarye as it were generallye searchinge oute the copye of oure language in all kynde of wordes and phrases after that setting abrode good lye monumentes of hys wytte lernynge and industrye aswell in historycall knowledge as of eyther the Philosophies hathe herebi declared the plentyfulnes of our mother toūge loue toward hys country hys tyme not spent in vanitye and tryfles What shuld I speake of that ornamente Syr Thomas Wyat which beside most excellente gyftes bothe of fortune and bodye so flouryshed in the eloquence of hys natiue tongue that as he passed therin those wyth whome he lyued so was he lykelye to haue bene equal wyth anye other before hym had not enuious death to hastely beriued vs of thys iewel teachyng al men verely no filicitie in thys worlde to be so suer and stable but that quick lye it may be ouerthrowen and broughte to the grounde Manye other there be yet lyuynge whose excellente wrytynges do testifye wyth vs to be wordes apte and mete elogantly to declare oure myndes in al kindes of Sciences and that what sentence soeuer we conceiue the same to haue Englyshe oracion natural and ▪ holpē by art wher by it may most eloquētly be vttered Of the whych thynge as I fortuned to talke wyth you Master Brooke among other matters this present argument of Schemes and Tropes came in place and offered it selfe demed to be bothe profitable and pleasaunte if they were gathered together and handsomelye set in a playne ordre and wyth theire descriptions hansomely put into our Englishe tongue And bicause longe ago I was well acquaynted wyth them when I red them to other in y e Latin and that they holpe me verye muche in the exposicion of good authoures I was so muche the more ready to make them speak English partli to renew the pleasure of mine old studies and partelye to satysfy your request Beside this I was moued also wyth the authorytye of that famous clarke Rodulphus Agricola whyche in a certeine Epistle wrytten vnto a frynde of hys exhorteth mē what soeuer they reade in straunge to●gues ▪ diligently to translate the same into their owne language because that in it we sonar perceiue if there be any faute in our speaking and howe euerye thynge eyther rightly hangeth together or is darkelye ruggishly and superfluously wryttē No lerned nacion hath there bene but y ● learned in it haue written of schemes fygures which thei wold not haue don except thei had perceyued the valewe Wherfore after theyr example obtaynyng a lytle lesure I red ouer sundrye treatises as wel of those which wrot long ago as of others now in our daies fyndynge amonge them some to haue wrytten ouer brieflye some confuselye and falselye some Mosellane hathe in hys tables shewed a fewe fygures of grammer and so hathe confoūded them together that his second order called of Loquucion pertayneth rather to the rhetoricians then to hys purpose Quintilian briefly hathe wrytten bothe of the Gramatical and rhetorical Shemes but so that you may soone perceyue he did it by the waye as muche as serued hys purpose Cicero in hys boke of an oratour wyth hys incomperable eloquence hathe so hid the preceptes that scarselye they may be tryed oute by theyr names or by theyr exāples Erasmus in hys double copye of words and thynges hath made as y e tytle declareth but a comentarye of them bothe and as it wer a litle bil of remembraūce Wherfore to make these thinges more playne to y e students that lyst to reade them in oure tongue I haue taken a lytle payne more thorowelye to try the definicions to apply the examples more aptly to make things defused more plaine as in dede it shal ryght wel apere to the dylygente I haue not translated them orderly out of anye one author but runninge as I sayde thorowe many and vsyng myne owne iudgement haue broughte them into this body as you se and set them in so playne an order that redelye maye be founde the figure and the vse wherevnto it serueth Thoughe vnto greate wittes occupyed wyth weightye matters they do not greatelye pertayne yet to such as perchaūce shal not haue perfecte instructoures they may be commodious to helpe them selues for y e better vnderstandynge