THAT BOTH YOUNG BOYES, AND YOUNG MAIDENS ARE TO BE PUT TO LEARNE. WHETHER ALL BOYES BE TO BE SET TO SCHOOLE. THAT TO MANY LEARNED BE TO BURDENOUS: TO FEW TO BARE: WITTES WELL SORTED CIUILL, MISSORTED SEDITIOUS. THAT ALL MAY LEARNE TO WRITE AND READ WITHOUT DAUNGER. THE GOOD OF CHOICE, AND ILL OF CONFUSION. THE CHILDREN WHICH ARE SET TO LEARNE, HAUING EITHER RICHE OR POORE FREINDES: WHAT ORDER AND CHOICE IS TO BE VSED IN ADMITTING EITHER OF THEM TO LEARNE. OF THE TIME TO CHUSE.
Now that the thinges be appointed, wherwith the minde must be first furnished, to make it learned, and the bodie best exercised, to keepe it healthfull, we are next to consider of those persons, which are to be instructed in this furniture, and to be preserued by this exercise: which I take to be children of both sortes, _male_ and _female_, young _boyes_ and young _maidens_, which though I admit here generally, without difference of sex, yet I restraine particularly vpon difference in cause, as herafter shall appeare. But young _maidens_ must giue me leaue to speake of _boyes_ first: bycause naturally the _male_ is more worthy, and politikely he is more employed, and therfore that side claimeth this learned education, as first framed for their vse, and most properly belonging to their kinde: though of curtsie and kindnesse they be content to lend their _female_ in youth, the vse of their traine in part, vpon whom in age they bestow both themselues, and all the frute of their whole traine.