XXV Praecepta Educationis — The Precepts of Education
Budaeus, Grympherantes
There are three parts to this dialogue: Exordium, Narratio, and Epilogus.
I Introductory (Exordium)
Bud. What is this so great and so sudden a change in you? It might be included in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Grym. Is it a change for the better or the worse?
Bud. For the better, in my opinion, at least, if one may argue and estimate as to the goodness of a mind from outward countenance, bearing, words, and actions.
Grym. Can you then, my most delightful friend, congratulate me?
Bud. I do indeed congratulate you and exhort you to go on, and I pray God and all the saints, that you may have just increase day by day of such fruitfulness. But please don’t grudge so dear a friend as I am, to impart the art so distinguished and glorious, which could in so short a time infuse so much virtue in a man’s heart.