to vertue, and in the tender wittes be spar∣kes of voluptuositie: whiche norisshed by any occasion or obiecte, encrease often ty∣mes in to so terrible a fyre, that therwith all vertue and reason is consumed. wher∣fore to eschewe that danger, the most sure counsaylle is, to withdrawe hym from all company of womē, and to assigne vnto him a tutor, whiche shulde be an aunciente and worshypfull man, in whom is approued to be moche gentilnes, myxte with grauitie, & as nyghe as can be suche one, as the child, by imitation folowynge, may growe to be excellente. And if he be also lerned, he is the more commendable,
¶ Pelcus the father of Achilles, commit∣ted the gouernaunce of his sonne to Phe∣nix, whiche was a straunger borne: who as well in speakynge elegantely, as in doinge valyauntely, was mayster to Achilles, as Homere sayth.
¶ Howe moche profited it to kynge Phi∣lip, father to the great Alexander, that he was deliuered in hostage to the Thebanes where he was kepte and brought vp vnder the gouernaunce of Epaminondas, a no∣ble and valyaunte capytayne, of whom he receyued suche lernynge, as well in actes martiall, as in other lyberall sciences, that he excelled al other kynges, that were be∣fore