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 subiecte. 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 ease? 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 will commend to memorie, and posteritie such actes and monumentes, 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 _enthousiasme_ 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_ and _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,[74] 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 auoide mistiming, as the wise writer _Horace_ pointeth the poet therfore first to frame the tender mouth of the yong learner.