The ordre of lernynge, that a noble man shulde be trayned in, before he come to thaige of seuen yeres. Cap. v.
SOme olde auctours hold o∣pinion, that before the age of seuen yeres, a chylde shulde not be instructed in letters, but those wryters were ey∣ther grekes or latines: amōg whom all doctryne and scyences were in theyr maternall tonges, by reason wherof they saued all that longe tyme, whiche at this dayes is spente in vnderstandyng per∣fectely the greke or latyn. Wherfore it re∣quireth nowe a longer tyme to the vnder∣standynge of bothe. Therfore that infely∣citie, of our tyme and countrey compelleth vs to encroche somwhat vpon the yeres of