NOt without a cause, the Philosophers searchyng the nature and qualitee of euery beaste, dooe moche com∣••mende the Ante, for prouidence and diligence, in that not oneie by nature thei excell in fore wisedome to thēselues, but also thei be a example, and mirrour to all menne, in that thei iustlie followe the instincte of Nature: and moche more, where as men indued with reason, and all singulare vertues and excellent qualitees of the minde and body. Yet thei doe so moche leaue reason, vertue, & integritee of minde, as that thei had been framed without reason, indued with no vertue, nor adorned with any excellent qualitée. All creatures as nature hath wrought in them, doe applie themselues to followe na∣ture their guide: the Ante is alwaies diligent in his busines, and prouident, and also fore séeth in Sommer, the sharpe sea∣son of Winter: thei keepe order, and haue a kyng and a com∣mon wealthe as it were, as nature hath taught them. And so haue all other creatures, as nature hath wrought in thē their giftes, man onelie leaueth reason, and neclecteth the chief or∣namentes of the minde: and beyng as a God aboue all crea∣tures, dooeth leese the excellent giftes. A beaste will not take excesse in feedyng, but man often tymes is without reason, and hauyng a pure mynde and soule giuen of God, and a face to beholde the heauens, yet he doeth abase hymself to yearth∣lie thynges, as concernyng the Greshopper: as the Philoso∣phers doe saie, is made altogether of dewe, and sone perisheth
A booke called the Foundacion of rhetorike because all other partes of rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde: made by Richard Rainolde Maister of Arte, of the Uniuersitie of Cambridge. 1563.
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- A booke called the Foundacion of rhetorike because all other partes of rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde: made by Richard Rainolde Maister of Arte, of the Uniuersitie of Cambridge. 1563.
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- Rainolde, Richard, d. 1606.
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- Aphthonius, 4th cent. -- Progymnasmata.
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"A booke called the Foundacion of rhetorike because all other partes of rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde: made by Richard Rainolde Maister of Arte, of the Uniuersitie of Cambridge. 1563." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10647.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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The Greshopper maie well resemble, slothfull and sluggishe persones, who seke onely after a present pleasure, hauyng no fore witte and wisedom, to foresee tymes and ceasons: for it is the poinct of wisedō, to iudge thinges present, by thinges past and to take a cōiecture of thinges to come, by thinges present.
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The Ante.
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Manne.
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Greshopper.
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A poincte of wisedome.