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  • To ioyne learnyng with cumlie exercises, Conto Baldesær

    The Scholemaster 1870

  • And how can a cumlie bodie be better employed, than to serue the fairest exercise of Goddes greatest gifte, and that is learning.

    The Scholemaster 1870

  • Therefore, to ride cumlie: to run faire at the tilte or ring: to plaie at all weapones: to shote faire in bow, or surelie in gon: to vaut lustely: to runne: to leape: to wrestle:

    The Scholemaster 1870

  • Wher-bie was nothing else ment, but that learninge shold be alwaise mingled, with honest mirthe, and cumlie exercises: and that warre also shold be gouerned by learning, and moderated by wisdom, as did well appeare in those Capitaines of Athenes named by me before, and also in Scipio & Cæsar, the two

    The Scholemaster 1870

  • Wher - bie was nothing else ment, but that learninge shold be alwaise mingled, with honest mirthe, and cumlie exercises: and that warre also shold be gouerned by learning, and moderated by wisdom, as did well appeare in those Capitaines of Athenes named by me before, and also in Scipio & Cæsar, the two

    The Scholemaster 1570

  • To ioyne learnyng with cumlie exercises, Conto Baldesær

    The Scholemaster 1570

  • Marke the wisedome of Sophocles, in leauyng out the last sentence, because it was not cumlie for the sonne to vse it to his father.

    The Scholemaster 1570

  • God, I say, that sixten hundred yeare after you were dead and gone, it may trewly be sayd, that for siluer, there is more cumlie plate, in one Citie of England, than is in foure of the proudest Cities in all Italie, and take Rome for one of them.

    The Scholemaster 1570

  • And how can a cumlie bodie be better employed, than to serue the fairest exercise of Goddes greatest gifte, and that is learning.

    The Scholemaster 1570

  • Picture: This face had bene more cumlie, if that hie redde in the cheeke, were somwhat more pure sanguin than it is: and yet the stander by, can not amend it himselfe by any way.

    The Scholemaster 1570

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