Note 337 — Chapter III
Reading edition
The author of the Institution of a Gentleman, 1555 and 1560, mentions the "knowledge of tongues as necessary to gentlemen," but he does not seem to have meant modern languages. William Kemp, in his Education of Children in Learning, 1588, names the ancient tongues, especially Latin, and other writers do the same. For a list of similar works, cp. Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica, under "Education."