Children; and therefore in the end they find more Pleasure in their horfe, than Comfort in their children.

But concerning the true Notes of the beft wits for Learning in a child, I will report not mine own Opinion, but the very Judgement of him that was counted the beft Teacher, and wifeft man that Learning maketh mention of; and that is SoPlato in crates in Plato, (*) who expreffeth orderly 7. de Rep. thefe feven plain Notes, to chufe a good Wit in a child for Learning.

(*) It may not be amifs, to prefent the Reader with the whole Paffage out of Plato, the fomewhat long; fiuce not only the Notes, and Characters themfelves, but the Explanation of 'em, are in Some meafure thence taken by our Auther.

Δριμύτητα, ὦ μακάριε, (έφην) δεῖ αὐτοῖς πρὸς τα μαθήματα ύ πάρχειν, καὶ μὴ χαλεπῶς μανθάνειν. πολυ γάρ τοι μᾶλλον ἀποδει λιῶσι ψυχαι ἐν ἰχυροῖς μαθήμασιν, ἢ ἐν γυμνασίοις. οικειότερος γαρ αὐταῖς ὁ πόνΘ, ἴδιΘ, αλλ' ἐ κοινὸς ὢν μετὰ τὰ σώματος. Αλη θῆ, ἔφη. Και μνήμονα δε, καὶ ἄκραζον, καὶ πάντα φιλόπονον ζητητέον. ἢ τίνι τρόπῳ ὄνει τάτε τα σώματος ἐθελήσειν τινὰ διαπονεῖν, καὶ τοσάυ. των μάθησίν τε καὶ μελέτην ἐπιτελεῖν ; Ουδένα, ᾗ δ ̓ ὃς, ἐὰν μὴ παν άπασιν εὐφυής.

Τὸ γῆν νῦν ἁμάρτημα (ἦν δ' ἐγὼ) κι ἡ ἀτιμία Φιλοσοφίᾳ δια ταυτα προσπέπτωκεν (ὁ καὶ πρότερον εἴπομεν) ὅτι ἐ κατ' αξίαν αυτῆς ἁπλονζαι. Ου γαρ νόθες ἔδει ἅπλεθαι, ἀλλὰ γνησίες. Πῶς; ἔφη. Πρῶτον μὲν, ἔπιν, φιλοπονίᾳ κ χωλὸν δὲν εἶναι τὸν ἁψόμενον. τὰ μὲν ἡμίσεα φιλόπονον ὄντα, τὰ δὲ ἡμίσεα, απονον. Ἔτι δὲ τάτο, ὅταν τις φιλογυμναςὴς μὲν, καὶ φιλόθηρε, καὶ πάντα τα διὰ τὸ σώματος φιλοπον. φιλομαθὴς δὲ μὴ, μηδὲ φιλήκοΘ, μηδὲ ζητητι κός. ἀλλ ̓ ἐν πᾶσι τέτοις μισοπονῇ. χωλὸς δὲ, καὶ ὁ τἀνανία τέτε μεταβεβληκὼς τὴν φιλοπονίαν.

The Reader will obferve, the last Note φιλέπαιν© is not here exprefs'd; and I question very much, whether there be any fuch Word in the Greek Language. In this Senfe φιλότιμο is generally used ; as in Xenoph. Speaking of Cyrus, φιλομαθέςαλος και φιλοτιμότατος ; and in another place, ὁρᾶς ὡς φιλότιμός εσι, καὶ ἐλευθέει : Or elle a Periphrafis, ως επαινο ερασῆς, ὀρεγόμενα, εφιέμενος, or Some fucke

like.

And because I write English, and to Englishmen, I will plainly declare in English both what these words of Plato mean, and how aptly they be linked, and how orderly they follow one another.

1. ΕΥ ΦΥΗΣ,

True Notes of a good Wit.

Is he, that is apt by Goodness of wit, wi and appliable by Readinefs of will to Will. Learning, having all other Qualities of the mind and Parts of the body, that muft another day ferve Learning; not troubled, mangled and halfed, but found, whole; full, and able to do their Office; as a The Tongue not ftammering, or over hardly Tongue. drawing forth words, but plain, and ready to deliver the meaning of the mind; a Voice not foft, weak, piping, woma- The Voice. nish, but audible, ftrong, and manlike; a Countenance not weerish and crabbed, Face. but fair and comely; a Perfonage not wretched and deformed, but tall and good- Stature. ly; for furely (*) a comely Countenance

with

(*) Thus Xenophon in his Inftitution of Cyrus,designing rather, Tully fuppofes, a Model of a just and compleat Government; than a true Relation of things perform'd, has defcrib'd his Prince with all thefe happy Endowments both of Mind and Body.

Φῦναι δὲ ὁ Κῦρα λέγεται καὶ ᾄδεται ἔτι καὶ νῦν ὑπὸ τῶν βαρβά φων, εἶδος μὲν κάλλις, ψυχὴν δὲ φιλανθρωπό]ατΘ, καὶ φιλομα θέσατος και φιλοτιμότατα, ώςε πάντα μὲν πόνον ανατλῆναι, πάντα

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a comely

Learning with a goodly Stature, giveth Credit to joined with Learning, and Authority to the Perfon; Perfonage, otherwife, commonly, either open Contempt, or privy Disfavour, doth hurt, or hinder, both Perfon and Learning: And even as (†) a fair Stone requireth to be fet in the fineft Gold, with the best workmanfhip, or else it lofeth much of the Grace and Price; even fo Excellency in Learning, and namely Divinity, joined with a comely Perfonage, is a marvellous Jewel in the world. And how can a comely Body be better employed, than to serve the fairest Exercife of God's greatest gift? and that is Learning. But commonly, the fairest Bodies are bestowed on the fouleft Purposes. I would it were not fo; and with Examples herein I will not meddle; yet I wifh, that thofe fhould both mind it and meddle with it, which have moft Occafion to look to it, as good and wife Fathers fhould do, and greatest Authority to amend it, as good and wife Magiftrates ought to do. And yet I will not let openly to lament the unfortunate Cafe of Learning herein.

Deformed For if a Father have four Sons, three Creatures fair and well formed both mind and body, commonly the fourth wretched, lame, and deformLearning. ed; his Choice fhall be to put the worst

fent to

δὲ κίνδυνον ὑπομεῖναι τὸ ἐπαινεῖται ἕνεκα. And again in the fame Book : ἔτι δὲ καὶ διὰ τὸ φιλομαθῆς εἶναι, πολλὰ μὲν αὐτὸς ἀεὶ τὰς παρόντας ενα ώτα, πῶς ἔχοντα τυγχάνοι, καὶ ὅσα αυτὸς ὑπ ̓ ἄλλων ἐρωτῷτο, διὰ τὸ αΓχίνες είναι, ταχὺ ἀπεκρίνετο.

(1) Virgil. lib. I. v. 596.

Quale manus addunt ebori decus, aut ubi flavo
Argentum, Pariufve lapus circumdatur auro.

to

to Learning, as one good enough to become a Scholar. I have fpent the most part of my Life in the Univerfity, and therefore I can bear good witness, that many Fathers commonly do thus: Whereof I have heard many wife, learned, and as good men as ever I knew, make great and oft Complaint. A good Horseman will chufe no fuch Colt, neither for his own, nor yet for his Mafter's Saddle. And thus much of the firft Note.

2. MN H' MQ N,

Good of Memory: A fpecial part of Memory. the first Note 'Euguns, and a meer Benefit of Nature; yet it is fo neceffary for Learning, as Plato maketh it a feparate and perfect Note of it felf, and that fo principal a Note, as without it all other Gifts of nature do fmall Service to Learning. Afranius, (*) that old Latin Poet, maketh Memory the Mother of Learning, and Aul. Gel. Wisdom, faying thus:

Ufus me genuit, mater peperit Memoria.

And though it be the meer Gift of Nature, yet is Memory well preferved by Ufe, and much increafed by Order, as our Scholar muft learn another day in the Three Sure University. But in a Child a good Me- Signs of a mory is well known by three Properties; mory.

good Me

(*) Aul. Gell. lib. 13. cap. 8. Verfus Afranij funt in togata, cui Sellæ nomen eft:

Ufus me genuit, mater peperit Memoria :
Sophiam vocant me Graji, vos Sapientiam.

that is, if it be quick in receiving, fure in keeping, and ready in delivering forth again..

3. ΦΙΛΟΜΑΘΗΣ,

Given to love Learning: For though a Child have all the Gifts of nature at wish, and Perfection of Memory at will, yet if he have not a fpecial Love to Learning, he fhall never attain to much Learning. And therefore Ifocrates, (*) one of the nobleft Schoolmafters that is in memory of Learning, who taught Kings and Princes, as Halicarnaffaus writeth; and out of whofe School, as Tully faith, came forth (†) more noble Captains, more wife Counsellors, than did out of Epeus Horfe at Troy: This Ifocrates, I fay,did caufe to be written at the Entry of his School in golden Letters this golden Sentence, (I) 'Eary's prouan's con TOλυμαθής: which excellently faid in Greek, is thus rudely in English,,, If thou love ,, Learning, thou shalt attain to much Learning.

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(*) Dionyfius in his Treatife of the antient Greek Oraters, gives us this great Charafer of Ifocrates. Επιφανέςατος δὲ γενόμενα τῶν κατὰ τὸν αυτὸν ἀκμασάνων χρόνον, καὶ τὰς κρατίςες τῶν ̓Αθή νησί τε καὶ ἐν τῇ ἄλλῃ Ἑλλάδι νέων παιδέυσας Και τῆς ̓Α. θηναίων πόλεως εἰκόνα ποιήσας τὴν ἑαυτὸ Σχολὴν, κατὰ τὰς ἀποι κίας τῶν λόγων.

And fo eminent for Learning and Wisdom were his Scholars, that, as Dionyfius informs us, Hermippus thought fit to write their Hifory: ὁ τὸς Ἰσοκράτες μαθητές αναγράψας ΈρμιππΘ.

(t) Ecce tibi exortus eft Ifocrates, magifter iftorum omnium, cujus è ludo, tanquam ex equo Trojano, innumeri principes exierunt; fed eorum partim in pompa, partim in acie illuftres effe voluerunt. Cic. de Orat. lib. 2.

This Sentence is likewife in his Parænefis to Demonicus.