De civilitate morum puerilium libellus

Decorative drop cap 'S'It did not irk the great Paul to become all things to all people, so that he might be of benefit to all: how much less ought I to be troubled by the love of helping youth, often becoming a child again myself? Therefore, just as I previously accommodated myself to the early adolescence of your brother MAXIMILIAN, while I was shaping the tongue of youths: so now I adapt myself to your boyhood, intending to teach about the manners of boys. This is not because you have great need of these prescriptions, being educated among courtiers from your very cradle and having soon obtained John Crucius, such a distinguished artist for shaping a rough age; or because all things that we shall prescribe pertain to you, who are born of princes and for a principality; but so that all boys might more willingly learn these things, because they are dedicated to a boy of the most ample fortune and highest hope.

From the example of one's superior.

Occasion.

Small occupations.