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And as every one of them excelled in worthiness and authority, so laboured they that both themselves & their children should excel and pass the baser sort in learning, jinn knowledge, in virtue & honest behaviour in so much that if any were unlearned, and wanted the godly qualities of the mind, albeit he were of an honourable parentage, he was counted of no reputation, & called a stone, a block, a beast, a golden slave, a sheep with a golden Fleece, an horse trapped with silver, an ass covered with purple with such other despiteful names, so little regarded (even among the Heathen) was noble blood, worldly substance, sumptuous apparel, gorgeous building, delicate fare, and what soever besides the folly she world wondereth at, and most highly extolleth, if learning and virtue were absent. By this means, came it to pass that Philip king of the Macedonians, and his son Alexander, Julius Cesar, Darius, Antonius Philosophus the ⟨image 7⟩Emperor, Hieron, Attalus, Magones, I•, Dion Siracusanus, Thebanus Epaminondas, Pompeius, Augustus, Traianus, Antonius Pius, Claudius▪ Tiberius, Titus Uespasianus, Domicianus, Aelius, Adrianus: Galerius, Maximus▪ the sons of Tiberius Gracchus, with other innumerable, became both learned, and the unfeigned favourers of learning, yea and the diligent promoters of learned men. Many of them which were right excellent Emperors and noble kings thought themselves more noble and more worthy of renown for their learning and virtue then for their imperial dignity and princelike authority. When king Alphonsus heard a certain man say, that learning was not seemly for a prince, or for a noble man, he cried out and said, vox bovis non hominis. Thys is the voice of an ox and not of a man: When a certain man demanded of Isocrates whether he thought the king of the Persians happy and blessed or not, he answered, I know not how much learning and virtue he hath, meaning that the true felicity, happiness, and wealth consisteth not in the flitting and uncertain goods of fortune, but in the constant & immortal treasures of the mind. The bringing up of youth in learning and honest qualities, was so much regarded among the Lacedaemonians, that they made a law, who soever did not study for the honest & virtuous training up of their children in good letters and other necessary arts profitable for a common wealth:

And as euery one of them excelled in worthines and auctority, so laboured they that both themselues & their children should excell and passe the baser sort in lear ninge, iin knowledge, in vertue & honest behauiour in so much that if any wer vnlearned, and wanted the godlye qualities of the minde, albeit he wer of an honourable parentage, he was counted of no re putation, & called a stone, a blocke, a beast, a golden slaue, a sheepe with a golden Flcese, an horse trapped with siluer, an asse couered with purple with suche other despytefull names, so little regarded (euen amonge the Heathen) was noble bloude, worldly substaunce, sumptuous apparell, gorgious buildyng, delicate fare, and what soeuer besydes the foly she worlde wondereth at, and moste highlye extolleth, if learning and vertue were absent. By this meanes, came it to passe that Philip king of the Macedonians, and his sonne Alexander, Iulius Cesar, Darius, Antonius Philosophus the