Of his lernynge vnyuersally

BUt bycause we wyll holde the reder no lenger in hande: we wyll speke of his lernynge but a worde or twayne generally / some man hathe shyned in eloquence but ignorance of naturall thynges hathe dishonested hym / some men hath floured in the knowledge of dyuers straūge languages but he hath wanted all the cognicion of philosophye. Some man hath redde the inuencyons of the olde philosophres but he hath not ben excercised in the new scoles. Some man hath sough connynge aswell philosophie as dyuinite for prayse and vayne glorye and not for ony profyte or encreace of chrystes chyrche. But Pycꝰ all these thynges with equall study hath so receyued y• they myght seme by hepis as a plentyouse streme to haue flowen in to hym. For he was not of ye cōdycion of some folke (which to be excellēt in one thynge set al other asyde) but he in all sciences ꝓfyted so excellently: that which of theym so euer he had consydered in him ye wolde haue thought y• he had taken that one for his onely studye. And all these thynges were in hym so moche the more meruelouse in y• he came therto by hym selfe with ye strength of his owne wytte for the loue of god and profyte his chyrche without maysters so that we may saye of hym that Epycure the philosophre sayd of hym that he was his owne mayster.