. Peacham's Compleat gentleman, 1634 . TO THE TRVLY NOBLE and molt hopefliU Knight of the Ho-nourable Order of the Bathe, William Howard, fecond fonne to the Right Ho-nourable Thomas Earle of Arujidelland Surrey^ Earle Marjhall ofEngland, &c. Hat Motive (Noble Sir) may-induce others in their Dedi-cations, I know not: fureI am none other hath incitedmee, then the regard of yourowne worth, and that nativeingenuitie and goodnefle ofSpirit I haue ever perceived in you, lince itwas my good hap to enjoy your acquaintance,and to Ipend fome houres with you at yourBooke in Norwich ; where you had youre
. Peacham's Compleat gentleman, 1634 . TO THE TRVLY NOBLE and molt hopefliU Knight of the Ho-nourable Order of the Bathe, William Howard, fecond fonne to the Right Ho-nourable Thomas Earle of Arujidelland Surrey^ Earle Marjhall ofEngland, &c. Hat Motive (Noble Sir) may-induce others in their Dedi-cations, I know not: fureI am none other hath incitedmee, then the regard of yourowne worth, and that nativeingenuitie and goodnefle ofSpirit I haue ever perceived in you, lince itwas my good hap to enjoy your acquaintance,and to Ipend fome houres with you at yourBooke in Norwich ; where you had youreducation under the Reverend, Religious,and my Honourable good Lord, the thenLord Biiliop of Norwich. And indeed, towhom of right Ihould rather appertaine thefemy InJlruHions^ (in regard of their fubjed:,which is the fafhioning of Nobilitie afterthe beft prefidents) then to your felfe, everyc 3 way. Pindar, inNenuit, Ode 5. Joannes tionach,in vitauSltxandri. ^egum T. cap. 3,ver. 9. Ipiatius cap. 3. The Epiflle Dedicatory. way fo Nobly defcended. Befide, it isaffirmed, that there are certaine fparkes andfecret feeds of vertue innate in Princes, andthe Children of Noble perfonages; which(if cherifhed, and carefully attended in thebloflbme) will yeeld the fruit of Induftryand glorious Adtion; and that not onelyabove the ftrength of the vulgar, but evenin the Cion, and before the time whichNature hath appointed. So AchiUes., whilehe was yet very young, undertooke to fhootethe fierceft Lions and Boares; and was fonimble on foote, that he was able to takea wilde Beaft without either Toyle or alfo, when an ^Egyptian Prieftfaluted him, being very young, by the namesof Sonne and Childe, replyed j But you fhallfinde me a Man before the walles of to omit Heathenifti examples, Salomon^wee reade, when he was but even a child,begged wifedome of God, and gr
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