LIFE OF ELYOT. cl


_ assayde howe, in expressyng my conceyte, I mought profyte
to them whiche without disdayne or enuye wolde often
tymes reade it. If any man wyll thinke the boke to be
very longe let hym consyder that knowlege of wysedome
can not be shortly declared. All be hit, of them whiche be
well wyllinge it is soone lerned, in good faythe sooner thanne
Primero or Gleeke.* Suche is the straunge propretie of that
excellent counnynge that it is sooner lerned than taught,
and better by a mannes rayson than by an instructour.
