labour on.
But this conference, and that not in teachers alone must be builded vpon the honest care of the publike good, without respect of priuate gaine: without sting of emulation: without gaule of disdaine: which be and haue bene great enemies to conference: great hinderers to good schooling: nay extreame ruiners in cases aboue schooling, and yet for the footing of that, which must after proue fairest, good schooling is no small onset. I neede not to rip vp the position to them, that be lear∣ned, which know what a mischeife the misse of conference is, where it ought to be of force, and is shouldered out by distem∣pered fansie.
He that can iudge, knoweth the force of this ar∣gument, which followeth
where many illes seeke to choke one good, which themselues were displaced, if that good tooke place: that good must needes be a great one, and worthy the wishing, that it may procure passage.
Of
conference I must needes say this, that it is the cognisance of humanitie, and that of the best humanitie, being vsed for the best causes that con∣cerne humanitie, & all humaine societie. I dare enter no deeper in this so great good: but certainely in matters of learning there would be more
conference, euen of verie conscience. And if that honest desire might bring downe great hart, the hono∣rable effect would bring vp great good, in all trades beyond crie, in our traine beyond credit. In matters of engrosing, and
monopoleis, in matters of forestauling and intercepting there is dealing by
conference among the dealers, which we all crie out of, bycause it makes vs crie, in our purses. And yet we are slow to trie that in the good, which proues so strong in the ill, and was first pointed for good. I vse no authorities to proue in these cases, where reason her selfe is in place, & standeth not in neede of alleaging of names, bycause she may well spare her owne retinew, where her hoste himselfe doth tender his owne seruice.
The next point after conference is the chiefe and best of∣spring of all wise conferences, certainetie in direction, which in al thinges commendes it selfe, but in bringing vp of children it doth surpasse commendation both for their manners and their learning. This same so much praised certainetie concerneth the