The style must be always plain and open, yet sometime higher and lower, as matters do rise and fall: for if proper and natural words, in well-joined sentences, do lively express the matter, be it troublesome, quiet, angry, or pleasant, a man shall think not to be reading, but present in doing of the same. And herein Livy, of all other in any tongue, by mine opinion, carrieth away the praise.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The style must be always plain and open, yet sometime higher and lower, as matters do rise and fall: for if proper and natural words, in well-joined sentences, do lively express the matter, be it troublesome, quiet, angry, or pleasant, a man shall think not to be reading, but present in doing of the same. And herein Livy, of all other in any tongue, by mine opinion, carrieth away the praise." in the context of "Roger Ascham to John Astley, quoted in The Whole Works of Roger Ascham, now first Collected and Revised, with a Life of the Author, Vol. III (1864), p. 6" to mean that wisdom is timeless.