and openly kissed him, saying pleasantly, "Wee
must honor with our kisse the mouth from
which so many sweet and golden verses have
proceeded."

For later poets, have we Sir Thomas Chaloner,
himself bred at the Vniversitie, sometime
embassador in Spain, where, at his leisure, he
compiled ten elegant Bookes in Latin verse,
supervised after his death by Malim, dedicated to my
Lord Burghley, and since happily mislaid.

That kings may not only patronise but even
create poets, is evidenced by the circumstance,
so honourable to the literary taste of the time,
that Gower, "beeing very gracious with King
Henry the Fourth, carried the name of the onely
poet, 'albeit his verses were poore and plaine."
In the time of the sixth Edward lived Sternhold,
"made groome of the Bedchamber for
turning of certain of David's Psalms into verse."
And after him flourished Doctor Phaer, who
purposed to translate Virgil's Æneid, but didn't.
"Thus much of Poetrie."

Musicke craveth our acquaintance next, and,
as our instructor truly remarks, never wise man
questioned the lawful use thereof, since it is for
the praise and honour of the Creator, and the
solace of sorrowful and careful man. Moreover,
music, like her sister Muses, is medicinal to the
body, a great lengthener of life. "Besides, the
exercise of singing openeth the breast and pipes,
is an enemy to melancholy, which St. Chrysostom
truly calls the 'Devel's Bath,' yea, a curer
of some diseases, for, at Apuglia, in Italy, it is
most certain that those who are stung with the
Tarantula, are cured only by Musicke. And I
myself have known many children who have
been holpen in their stammering by it.

"Let it be remembered, however, by the Most
Hopefull, that persons of Quality and of high
station, must not give themselves too warmly to
the study of this or any art, but take warning
by Eropus, king of Macadonia, who tooke
pleasure only in making of Candles." (The
illustrious Garibaldi did a little in that line, before
lighting the torch of freedom.) "Ptolomy was
an excellent Basket-maker. Domitian, his
recreation was to catch and kill flies, and could
not be spoken with in so serious employment;
and Rodolph, the late emperor, delighted
himself in making Watches."

Of limning and painting, since Aristotle
numbers it among the generous practices of
youth in a well-governed commonwealth, Mr.
Peacham "gives it in charge" to all of us, as a
quality most commendable, and many wayes
vsefull to a Gentleman. In the palmy days of
Greece, this noble art was allowed to be taught
only to the noble. Let us be grateful to the
liberal spirit of later ages, that has conceded
the colour-box and palette to every common
individual in whom taste and genius reside.

Mr. Peacham, who was himself "addicted to
the practice hereof," relates a touching anecdote
of his childhood, which cannot be omitted: "I
remember one master I had (yet living not farre
from St. Alban's) took me one time drawing with
my pen a peare-tree and boyes throwing at it, at
the end of my Latin Grammar, which he
perceiving in a rage, strooke mee with the greate
end of the rodde, and rent my paper, swearing
it was the onely way to teache mee to robbe
orchards."

Of one Hans Holbein, and another obscure
person called Michael Angelo, something has,
perhaps, already reached us; but probably the
story of Quintin Matsys has not often been told
more concisely than by Mr. Peacham, but it is
too well known to be repeated here.

Pass we quickly to a yet more serious and
salutary consideration—the due exercise of a
complete Gentleman's Body. And here, on the
very threshold of the subject, we once more
encounter the inevitable Cæsar. "lulius Cæsar
vsed the exercise of riding, and hereby became
so active and skilful, that he would lay his
hands behind him, put his horse to ful career,
make him on the suddaine take hedge or ditch,
and stop him." That lulius was good across
country may be readily believed. The "stopping"
his nag with his hands behind him is a
different matter.

There are certain difficulties connected with
this branch of completeness. It is clear that
not a few forms of exercise are accompanied
with an amount of danger, as well as vulgarity,
entirely unsuited to the thews and muscles of
Nobility. "For throwing and wrestling, I hold
them exercises not well beseeming nobility, but
rather souldiers in a campe, or a prince's guard,
neither have I heard of any prince or Generall
commended for wrestling, save Epamínondos
Achmat," whose solitary example is insufficient
to nobilise the sport. Running and agility of
body may be held commendable, forasmuch as
even Nobles may find themselves in positions to
render the nimble use of legs desirable. Roman
soldiers were selected for their running, and the
omnipresent Caesar pops in to inform us that
strokes are surer laid on by motion in the striker
— a fact utterly undeniable. Running is also
excellent for the lungs.

"Sertorius, a brave commander, to cure the
smalness of his voice, would vsuallv run vp a
hill."

Leaping, although its practice in chambers at
the Vniversitie might be unacceptable to the
Most Hopefull's immediate neighbours, is healthful
for the Body, in the Morning. "Vpon a full
stomach—on to Bedward—it is dangerous, and
in no wise to be exercised." Let diners at Blackwall
or the Mansion House take note of this.
Swimming is very requisite, inasmuch as
Horatius Cocles, "by the benefit of swimminge,
saved his country"—a fact of which we were
not before aware. And Scævolo, who came
with our excellent friend Cæsar to Britain,
"having made good, a whole day, a mighty
Rocke against the Brittaines, cast himself into
the deepe, and swam safe to Cæsar and the
fleete." And, albeit such chances may not fall
to the lot of Mr. William Howard, there is no
harm in being prepared for them.

The very first virtue—the "Mother of
vertues"—that a gentleman has to cultivate, is,