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The book was originally (1550) printed together with Richard Sherry’sA Treatise of Schemes and Tropes. Since the two texts haveno connection except that Sherry is assumed to be the translator, theyhave been made into separate e-texts.
¶ A treatise of Schemes & Tropes very profytable for the better vnderstanding of good authors, gathered out of the best Grammarians & Oratours by Rychard Sherry Lon doner.
¶ Whervnto is added a declamacion, That chyldren euen strayt frõ their infancie should be well and gent- ly broughte vp in learnynge. Written fyrst in Latin by the most excel- lent and famous Clearke, Erasmus of Rotero- dame.
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f thou wilt harken vnto me, or rather toChrisippus, the sharpeste witted of Philosophers, yu shalteprouide yt thyne infante and yonge babe be forthewythinstructed in good learnyng, whylest hys wyt is yet voyde from tares andvices, whilest his age is tender and tractable, and his mind flexibleand ready to folowe euery thyng, and also wyl kepe fast good lessons andpreceptes. For we remẽber nothynge so well when we be olde, as thosethynges yt we learne in yonge yeres.Diuision of yt confutaciõCare not thou for those fooles wordes which chatter that thys age,partly is not hable inough to receiue discipline, & partlye vnmeteto abyde the labours of||studies. For fyrst, the beginninges of learning, stãd specially bymemorie, which as I sayd, in yõg ones is very holdfast. Secondly becausenature hath made vs to knowledge the study of yt thynge cannot be to hasty, wherof ye author of al thyng her self hathgraffed in vs ye seedes. Beside this somethinges be necessary to be knowẽ whẽ we be sũwhat elder, which by acertẽ peculier readines of nature, ye tender age perceiuethboth much more quickly, & also more esily thẽ doth ye...
f thou wilt harken vnto me, or rather toChrisippus, the sharpeste witted of Philosophers, yu shalteprouide yt thyne infante and yonge babe be forthewythinstructed in good learnyng, whylest hys wyt is yet voyde from tares andvices, whilest his age is tender and tractable, and his mind flexibleand ready to folowe euery thyng, and also wyl kepe fast good lessons andpreceptes. For we remẽber nothynge so well when we be olde, as thosethynges yt we learne in yonge yeres.Diuision of yt confutaciõCare not thou for those fooles wordes which chatter that thys age,partly is not hable inough to receiue discipline, & partlye vnmeteto abyde the labours of||studies. For fyrst, the beginninges of learning, stãd specially bymemorie, which as I sayd, in yõg ones is very holdfast. Secondly becausenature hath made vs to knowledge the study of yt thynge cannot be to hasty, wherof ye author of al thyng her self hathgraffed in vs ye seedes. Beside this somethinges be necessary to be knowẽ whẽ we be sũwhat elder, which by acertẽ peculier readines of nature, ye tender age perceiuethboth much more quickly, & also more esily thẽ doth ye...