If the imperfections which come more of haste then of ignoraunce from the Elementary schoole would take vp their _Inne_ there, and raunge no further, the moane were not so much, bycause there were some meane to redresse: but now as one billow driueth on an other: so hast beginning there makes the other successions in learning trowle on too too headlong. Be young children set to soone to their _Grammer_ onely? be none sent to the _Vniuersitie_, which when they come thence from yeares after, might well with good gaine returne to the _Grammer_ schoole againe? I will not saye that they were not ready when they went, but peraduenture they were not ready, and forgat that they were so. Do not some good honest wittes in the middest of their studie finde the festering of haste, and wishe though in vaine that they had bene more aduised in their passage? and if they recouer that which they misse and wish for, do they not finde the learned conclusion trew: that such thinges be extreme painful to setled memories, which were very pleasaunt passages to the youngest boyes? He that beginnes his _Grammer_ in any language, when he is a _Graduate_, may perhaps wish for some way without _Grammer_, and couet a _Compendium_. The _Vniuersities_ can best iudge of the infirmities in our _Grammer_ schooles, when they finde the want in those yonglinges, whom they haue from vs, but not sent by vs: we our selues see them, but we cannot salue them. Priuate affection ouerrules all reason: straungenesse betwene the parent and maister cuttes of conference in the remouing: and in some places multitude of schooles marres the whole market: where store is the sore, and oportunitie to alter an allurement to the worse. So that by degrees the _Elementarie_ feebleth the _Grammarian_: and the _Grammarian_ transporteth his weaknesse from his schoolemaister to his _Vniuersitie tutour_. Such a matter it is to stay hast at the first, which distempereth till the last. I would not haue the _Vniuersities_, but to thinke freindly of me, bycause though I finde fault, I seeke it not: neither blase I it with discredit to them, but wish it healed with the profit of my countrey, as I well know the most, and best of them there do.
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Positions — Part 192
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