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expedient thai yf they wyll hauc the pcrcepcyoo of ii. that they gue_a gacxLcarc. Hut a '.vn^c the ncwnet or profyte of
the Miattn it in.ikMlir nai all . ir to gyue a good earc
(whiche thin^e is callyd attention) but alfo it* uiakyth him well wyllyngg tn" l>g prclCfflC whichc
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[ Ii vi I) | Don I tie whereby we make the mater playne and
to be percyued / is nat gr< kinde of oracyon /
for it is belonginge properly to derke and obfcure caufes / in whiche
we muftr promyle that we wyll nat vfc great ambages / or to go
M-M taye) rounde about the Imllh / but to be fhort and plainc.
( >f nan.K inn whit he is the let onde partc of an oracion.
The Narracion or tale wherin perlbnes are prayfed / is the declarynge of theyr lyfe and doynges after the falVhyon of an h\ itorvc. The places out of the whichc it is fought are : The perfunes l.yrtht-. 1 1 1- < hyldhode. His adolefcencie. His uia^rnes itau \\\^ =lde age. His dcthe and what foloweth after.
In his 1. vi the is confydered of what ftockc he came / what chaunfed at the tyme of his natiuite or nighc vpoif/as'in the natiuite of Cluviu- 1 hopeherdes harde angelh
In his (hyldhode are marked his bryngynge vp & tokens of wyfdome < owinyn^a' : As Horace in his furthe 4 Satire Cheweth / howe in his (hyldhode his father taught hym by examples of fuche as were than lyuynge to flee from vice and to gyue hyinfclfe to vcrtue.
[B vii a] In adolefcence i> rnniydered where to he than gyueth hytn felfe. As in the fyrft comedie of Terence one Simo telleth his feruaunt Sofia / that thoughe all yongc men for the more parte gyue them felfe to Ibme peculiarc thynge / wherin they ictte theyr cheife delyght / as fome to hauc goodly horfcs / fome to cherylThc houndes for huntyng / & Ibme arc gyucn oncly to thcyr bokes/ his fowne Panphilus lotted none of thcfe more one tha* an other /and yet in all thefe he exercifed hym lelfe mefurably.
In mannes l\atc and olde age is noted what office or rule he bare among his citifens / or in his contrcy / what actes he dyd /
1 B. it omitted, As imtrtfJ frtm B.
B. for to. 4 B. fourtbe.
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