a lesse point of Grammer than these be, noted of me in _Salust_, as, whether he should write, _ad Piræea, in Piræea_, or _in Piræeum_, or _Piræeum sine præpositione:_ And in those heuie tymes, he was so carefull to know this small point of Grammer, that he addeth these wordes _Si hoc mihi zetema persolueris, magna me molestia liberaris_. If _Tullie_, at that age, in that authoritie, in that care for his contrey, in that ieoperdie for him selfe, and extreme necessitie of hys dearest frendes, beyng also the Prince of Eloquence hym selfe, was not ashamed to descend to these low pointes of Grammer, in his owne naturall tong, what should scholers do, yea what should any man do, if he do thinke well doyng, better than ill doyng: And had rather be, perfite than meane, sure than doutefull, to be what he should be, in deed, not seeme what he is not, in opinion. He that maketh perfitnes in the _Latin_ tong his marke, must cume to it by choice & certaine knowledge, not stumble vpon it by chance and doubtfull ignorance: And the right steppes to reach vnto it, be these, linked thus orderlie together, aptnes of nature, loue of learnyng, diligence in right order, constancie with pleasant moderation, and alwayes to learne of them that be best, and so shall you iudge as they that be wisest. And these be those reules, which worthie Master _Cheke_ dyd impart vnto me con- cernyng _Salust_, and the right iudgement of the _Latin_ tong.
_Cæsar_ for that litle of him, that is left vnto vs, is like the halfe face of a _Venus_, the other part of the head beyng hidden, the bodie and the rest of the members vnbegon, yet so excellentlie done by _Apelles_, as all men may stand still to mase and muse vpon it, and no man step forth with any hope to performe the like. His seuen bookes _de bello Gallico_, and three _de bello Ciuili_, be written, so wiselie for the matter, so eloquentlie for the tong, that neither his greatest enemies could euer finde the least note of parcialitie in him (a meruelous wisdome of a man, namely writyng of his owne doynges) nor yet the best iudegers of the _Latin_ tong, nor the most enuious lookers vpon other mens writynges, can say any other, but all things be most perfitelie done by him.