[The instruction of a Christian man, in vertue and honestie.].
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Title
[The instruction of a Christian man, in vertue and honestie.].
Author
Hoper, R.
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[London :: H. Bynneman,
1580?]
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"[The instruction of a Christian man, in vertue and honestie.]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B14089.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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Of those whiche haue dishonoured their Maisters and Teachers.
ANd (as saith Philelphus) all such as haue dishonoured their Schoolemai∣sters and Teachers, haue alwayes re∣mayned both ignoraunt and most beast∣ly. Amongst whom, Nero that gracelesse Prince, is imputed as chiefe and princi∣pall: whom all writers do accuse for his haynous and horrible Vices. This Nero was he that slewe his Mayster Seneca. Beroaldus in his Prouerbiall Oration doeth saye: He that by the backbiting of hys Schoolemayster doeth séeke to get a name, moste worthily (by it) findeth
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shame and is hissed at, and as a wicked manne is remoued out of the companye of all honest and good menne: for, hée is to be feared as a Viper: and no other∣wise to bée made a common hatred, than he whiche curseth or raileth on his Pa∣rentes. For, the Maister is the Parent, yea, the fashioner & the framer of mens mindes. Whome, vnlesse we (wyth all our good spéeches and wordes) doe extoll and commende: and, vnlesse (in euerye place, and amongst all menne) wée doe sette him foorthe with honourable praise and reporte, wée shall moste iustely de∣serue to be called both vngodly, wicked, and verye gracelesse. These bée the wordes of Beroaldus.