And I, sweete child, am Learning, which thou hast long beene acquainted withall, and well knowne unto thee, though thou never cam’st to attain the full end and perfection of mee: what thou shalt get by the art of carving, shee hath told thee alreadie her selfe: but take this from mee, thou shalt never be any better then a peasant, and a bodily labourer, and therein must thou repose the whol hope of thy life, which can be but obscure, thy gettings small and simple, thy mind dejected, thy commings in poore, and thou neither able to patronage a friend, nor crie quittance with a foe, nor worthy to be emulated by other citizens, only a meer drudge, one of the common rascalitie, ready to give way to thy better, and waite upon him that can speake in thy behalfe, living the life of a hare: and great luck if ever thou light upon a better: for, say thou come to be as cunning as Phidias, or Polycletus, and worke many wonderous pieces, thy Art will certainly bee commended by all men, but not one that lookes on them, if hee love himselfe, will wish to be such an other as thou: for bee what thou canst be, thou shalt be but a mechanicall fellow, one of a manuall Trade, that hath no meanes to live, but by his handy-labour. But if thou wilt be ruled by me, I will acquaint thee with all the famous Acts, and memorable exploits of men of former time: I will make thee know all that hath beene spoken or delivered by them, so that thou shalt have a perfect insight into all things: thy minde, which is the lordly part within thee, I will beautifie and garnish with many excellent ornaments, as temperance, justice, pietie, clemencie, wisdome, patience, the love of good things, and desire to attaine to matters of worth: for these indeede are the ornature of the minde that shall never decay: nothing whatsoever it be ancient or moderne shall escape thy knowledge: and by my assistance, thou shalt also foresee what is yet to come: and to conclude, I will in a short space make thee learned in all things divine and humane: so thou that art now so poore and simple, the son of a meane person, that lately was like to bee put to a base and ignoble Art, within a while shalt bee emulated and envied by all men, reverenced, commended and celebrated for thy good parts, and respected by those that are of an high ranked both for nobilitie and riches: then shalt thou be clad in such a garment as this is (shewing mee the mantle shee wore her selfe, which was very gorgeous to the eye) and thought worthy of all honour and preheminence: if it shall be thy fortune to travell into any forraine place, thou shalt never arrive there as a person unknowne and obscure, for I will set such markes and tokens upon thee, that every one that seeth thee shall jogge the next stander by on the elbow, and point out his finger toward thee saying, This is the man: If any occasion of urgencie betide thy friends, or the whole Citie, they all shall cast their eyes upon thee: when thou art to make a speech in any place, the whole multitude shall stand gaping to heare thee, admiring and wondring at thee, blessing the powerfulnesse of thy deliverance, and thy fathers happinesse to beget such a sonne: And as it is said of some men, that they shall continue immortall, the same will I effect in thee: for when thou shalt depart this life, thou shalt perpetually converse with learned men, and keepe company with the best: hast thou not heard of Demosthenes, what a poore mans sonne he was, and what a fellow I brought him to be? remembrest thou not Aeschines, the sonne of a Taberer? yet how did King Philip observe him for my sake? yes Socrates himselfe, though he were bred up in this art of carving, yet as soone as he made a better choice, and gave that trade the bagge, to be intertain’d as a fugitive by me, you know how much he was magnified by all men: and wilt thou forsake men of such excellent worth, such glorious exploits, such powerfull speeches, such decent attire, honour, glory, praise, precedencie, power, authority, commendation for good words, admiration for wisedome, and in leiw of all this, cover thy skinne with a base garment, cast a thread-bare cloak upon thy backe, have thy hands full of carving tooles, fit for thy trade, thy face ever more bent downewards towards thy worke, so continuing a sordide, slavish, and abject life, never able to lift up thy head, or to entertaine any manly or free thoughts, but all thy care must bee to have thy worke handsome and proportionable, respecting not a rush thine owne good, but making thy selfe of lesse value then a stone?