ages, yea many mightie kinges and great gouernoures which
cared not greately howe they myght atchieue their pourpose, so
that they dyd preuayle: nor did not take any greatter care for
gouernance, then to kepe the people in onely feare of them,
Whose common sentence was alwaies this: _Oderint dum metuant_.
And what good successe suche menne had, all histories doe
report. Yet haue they not wanted excuses: yea Iulius Caesar
(whiche in dede was of the second sorte) maketh a kynde of
excuse by his common sentence, for them of that fyrste sorte,
for he was euer woonte to saie: #eiper gar adikeim chre:,
turannidos peri kallistom adikeim, t' alla d' eusebeim chreo:m.#
Whiche sentence I wysshe had neuer been learned out of Grecia.
But now to speake of the second sort, of whiche there hathe been
verye many also, yet for this present time amongest them all,
I wyll take the exaumples of kynge Phylippe of Macedonie, and of
Alexander his sonne, that valiaunt conquerour. First of kinge
Phylip it appeareth by his letter sente vnto Aristotle that
famous philosopher, that he more delited in the birthe of his
sonne, for the hope of learning and good education, that might
happen to him by the said Aristotle, then he didde reioyse in
the continuaunce of his succession, for these were his wordes
and his whole epistle, worthye to bee remembred and registred
euery where.

#Philippos Aristotelei chaireim.#

#esthe moi gegonota huom. polle:m oum tois theois charim echo:,
ouch houto:s epi te: genne:sei tou paidos, ho:s epi to: kata te:m se:m
he:likiam autom gegonenai elpizo: gar autom hupo sou graphenta kai
paideuthenta axiom esesthai kai heimo:m kai te:s to:m pragmato:m
diadoche:s.#

That is thus in sense,

Philip vnto Aristotle sendeth gretyng.

You shall vnderstande, that I haue a sonne borne, for whiche
cause I yelde vnto God moste hartie thankes, not so muche for
the byrthe of the childe, as that it was his chaunce to be borne
in your tyme. For my trust is, that he shall be so brought vp
and instructed by you, that he shall become worthie not only to
be named our sonne, but also to be the successour of our
affayres.

And his good desire was not all vayne, for it appered that
Alexander was neuer so busied with warres (yet was he neuer out
of moste terrible battaile) but that in the middes thereof he
had in remembraunce his studies, and caused in all countreies as
he went, all strange beastes, fowles and fisshes, to be taken
and