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if he haue not a speciall loue to learning, he shall neuer attaine
to moch learning. And therfore Isocrates, one of the noblest
196 The first booke teachyng
scholemasters, that is in memorie of learning, who taught
Kinges and Princes, as Halicarnassæus writeth, and out of
whose schole, as Tullie saith, came forth, mo noble Capitanes,
mo wise Councelors, than did out of Epeius horse at Troie.
This Isocrates, I say, did cause to be written, at the entrie of his
schole, in golden letters, this golden sentence, ean es philomathes,
ese polymathes which excellentlie said in Greeke, is thus rudelie
in Englishe, if thou louest learning, thou shalt attayne to moch
learning.
4. Philoponos.
Is he, that hath a lust to labor, and a will to take paines.
For, if a childe haue all the benefites of nature, with perfection
of memorie, loue, like, & praise learning neuer so moch, yet
if he be not of him selfe painfull, he shall neuer attayne vnto it.
And yet where loue is present, labor is seldom absent, and
namelie in studie of learning, and matters of the mynde: and
therfore did Isocrates rightlie iudge, that if his scholer were
philomathes he cared for no more. Aristotle, variing from
Isocrates in priuate affaires of life, but agreing with Isocrates in
common iudgement of learning, for loue and labor in learning,
is of the same opinion, vttered in these wordes, in his Rhetorike
2 Rhet. ad // ad Theodecten. Libertie kindleth loue: Loue
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