¶
The
Education
or
bringinge
vp
of
children
/
translated
oute
of
Plutarche
by
syr
Thomas
Eliot
knyght
.
THE
PRAISE
¶
The
table
of
this
boke
.
¶
The
preface
of
the
translatour
.
¶
The
procreation
of
children
.
-
the
fyrste
chap.
¶
Of
nature
,
reason
,
and
custome
.
-
ij
.
chap.
¶
Of
nources
and
tutours
.
-
iii.
chap.
¶
To
chose
schole
maysters
.
-
the
.iii.
chap.
¶
The
defau●e
of
lernynge
.
-
the
.v.
chap.
¶
The
difficultie
to
please
communes
.
-
vi
.
chap.
¶
The
iuste
temperance
in
spekynge
.
-
vii
.
cha.
¶
The
commodite
of
vertuous
exercise
.
-
ca.
viii
.
¶
A
moderate
direction
to
prouoke
childerne
to
lerne
.
-
ca.
ix
.
¶
Of
the
exercises
of
memorye
,
and
of
thre
excellente
continences
.
-
cap.
x.
¶
Howe
premeditation
ought
to
be
vsed
with
a
pleasant
narration
of
Vlixes
.
-
ca.
xi
.
¶
what
inconueniences
do
happen
through
negligence
of
fathers
.
-
ca.
xij
.
¶
what
company
is
pernicious
and
hurtefulle
to
children
.
-
ca.
xiii
.
¶
The
meanes
to
diswade
yonge
men
from
vice
,
and
an
example
to
be
gyuen
to
parentes
.
-
ca.
xiiii
.
¶
Thus
endeth
the
Table
.
¶
Thomas
Eliot
to
his
only
entierly
beloued
syster
Margery
Puttenbam
.
AS
in
this
temporall
lyfe
no
thing
is
to
naturall
man
so
desyrous
as
to
haue
by
lefull
encrease
procreacion
and
frute
of
his
body
/
semblably
to
a
man
of
honestye
or
gentyl
corage
,
there
is
no
disease
or
grefe
so
intollerable
as
chyldren
of
theyr
disposicion
abiecte
or
vicious
:
whiche
declynynge
from
all
vertue
,
in
voluptuous
and
inordinate
lyuinge
not
onely
consume
the
goodes
of
theyr
parentes
and
frendes
,
but
also
deface
the
good
opinion
and
fame
,
which
perchance
their
auncetours
,
by
some
vertuous
acte
or
studye
haue
acquired
:
whiche
moste
communly
hapneth
by
the
remysse
educacion
or
bringinge
vp
of
them
.
wherfore
good
syster
,
for
as
moche
as
I
do
consyder
,
with
what
fertilite
almighty
god
hath
endued
you
,
to
my
great
comforte
,
if
your
chyldren
do
prospere
in
vertue
and
lernynge
,
I
therfore
in
tymes
vacant
from
busynes
&
other
more
serious
study
,
as
it
were
so
:
my
solace
&
recreation
,
haue
translated
for
you
this
lytell
treatise
entitled
the
Education
of
chyldren
,
and
made
by
Plutarch
the
excellent
philosopher
and
mayster
to
Tra●ane
,
moost
vertuous
&
noble
of
all
Emperours
:
wherby
ye
shall
be
maruaylously
instructed
,
or
at
leste
waye●
b●t
shall
admi●iculate
your
wysedome
(
whiche
I
dare
affirme
is
ryght
laudable
)
in
ordrynge
and
instructy●ge
your
children
,
circumspectely
and
discretly
.
For
as
god
shall
iuge
me
,
the
lacke
of
children
shuld
nat
be
to
me
so
payneful
,
as
feare
of
hauinge
succession
of
heires
,
in
whom
shulde
be
lacke
of
ve●tue
&
lerning
.
wherfore
good
sister
endeuour
your selfe
to
adapte
&
forme
in
my
lyttel
neuewes
incl●naciō
to
vertue
&
doctrine
,
acording
to
min
expectation
:
which
ye
shall
with
more
facilite
performe
if
ye
beare
the
contentes
of
this
litell
boke
in
your
remembrance
:
Aduertysynge
you
,
that
I
haue
not
onely
vsed
therin
the
office
of
a
translatour
,
but
also
haue
declared
at
lengthe
dyuers
histories
,
onely
touched
by
Plutarch
:
to
th
entent
that
difficultie
of
vnderstandinge
shall
not
cause
the
matter
to
be
to
you
fastidious
,
as
it
often
tymes
hath
hapened
to
other
.
Also
of
pourpose
I
haue
omitted
to
translate
some
parte
of
this
matter
,
conteyned
as
well
in
the
Greke
as
in
the
Latin●
partly
for
that
it
is
strange
frome
the
experience
or
vsage
of
this
present
tyme
,
partly
that
some
vices
be
in
those
tonges
reproued
,
whiche
ought
rather
to
be
vnknowen
,
than
in
a
vulgare
tonge
to
be
expressed
.
Nor
I
wolde
not
that
any
man
sh●ulde
exacte
of
me
the
exquisite
diligence
of
an
interpretour
,
syns
I
wryte
not
to
clerkes
,
ne
desire
not
to
haue
my
boke
conferred
with
the
del●ctable
styles
of
Grekes
or
Latines
:
but
as
I
haue
●ayde
,
I
haue
this
done
for
my
pastyme
without
moch
studie
or
trauaile
.
And
it
shall
only
suffic●
me
,
if
by
this
littel
labour
I
may
cause
you
myn
entierly
beloued
syster
,
to
folowe
the
intent
of
Plutarche
in
brynginge
&
inducynge
my
litell
neuewes
into
the
trayne
and
rule
of
vertue
,
where
by
they
shall
fynally
attayne
to
honour
(
god
so
disposinge
)
to
the
inestimable
comforte
of
theyr
naturall
parentes
,
and
other
theyr
louynge
frendes●
and
moste
specially
to
the
high
pleasure
of
god
,
commoditye
and
profite
of
theyr
countray
.
Thus
hartily
fare
ye
well
,
and
kepe
with
you
this
token
of
my
tender
loue
to
you
,
which
with
the
vertue
and
toward●es
of
your
children
shall
be
contynually
augmented
.
From
London
the
.xxvii.
day
of
Nouembre
.
¶
Of
the
good
and
laufull
procreacion
of
children
,
&
howe
they
be
enclyned
to
the
good
or
yll
disposition
of
their
parentes
.
Fyrst
chap.
LEt
vs
consider
what
may
be
spoken
touchynge
the
education
or
bryngynge
vp
of
the
chyldren
of
honest
parsonages
,
or
by
what
exercyse
they
may
sone
attaine
to
vertuous
maners
.
And
perchance
it
shall
be
moste
exediente
to
take
the
begynnynge
at
theyr
procreation
,
before
we
tray●t●
of
any
other
thinge
.
Therfore
who
so
coueyteth
to
be
fader
of
honorable
or
worshypfull
chyldren
,
I
suppose
this
thynge
ought
be
to
purpose
pryncypally
,
neuer
to
be
ioyned
to
womenne
lewde
and
●biecte
,
as
commune
harlott●s
and
concubynes
.
For
in
who
so
euer
is
ingendred
any
blemyshe
or
yll
spotte
of
theyr
moder●
parte
,
durynge
theyr
liues
reproch
of
ignobilite
alway
●ccompanyeth
them
,
which
is
apte
and
redy
for
those
that
of
malyce
wyll
embraide
or
atwite
them
.
For
it
was
a
wyse
man
that
sayde
:
Vnhappy
is
the
generation
/
wherin
there
fa●●eth
a
good
fundation
.
It
is
more
ouer
a
fayre
treasure
and
great
parte
of
lybertie
,
to
be
engendred
of
good
parentis
,
whiche
ought
to
be
highly
estemed
of
them
that
desyre
good
frute
.
For
chyldren
adulter
at
and
lyke
to
counterfai●t
money
,
be
communely
blynded
with
arrogans
,
or
be
naturally
of
rude
and
vyle
dysposycyon
.
wherfore
that
poete
sayde
truelye
,
that
spake
in
this
wyse
:
The
mynde
whiche
i●
with
any
spotte
●●taysed
Of
fewde
parentis
,
holdeth
in
captiuite
The
va●yant
knyght
,
whole
strength
●rst
neu●●●ay●ed
Suche
power
hath
nature
,
bredde
in
iniquitie
For
chyldren
brought
vp
in
moche
fe●icitie
Of
no●●e
paren●e●
,
ha●e
for
the
more
part
A
●o●●ynge
tonge
,
a
proude
and
sturdye
●art
.
According
there
vnto
it
is
writen
of
one
named
Cleophantus
,
son
of
the
noble
duke
Themystocles
,
whiche
for
his
prowes
was
soueraynly
estemed
and
beloued
of
the
people
of
Athenes
,
the
sayd
Cleophantus
auanted
hym selfe
,
where
he
was
in
company
,
that
what
so
euer
he
wold
,
his
moder
wold
the
same
,
and
what
she
desired
,
his
fader
Themistocles
graunted
,
and
what
pleased
Themistocles
,
the
people
was
therwith
contented
.
The
noble
hartes
of
Lacedemones
(
whiche
are
a
people
in
Grece
)
be
worthy
to
be
highly
extolled
,
who
compelled
their
kynge
named
Archidamus
/
to
pay
to
them
a
great
somme
of
money
,
for
that
be
maried
a
woman
of
small
stature
and
personage
embraidinge
hym
,
that
he
purposed
not
to
get
them
kynges
,
but
only
a
linage
of
kynges
(
as
it
were
that
in
a
kynge
ought
to
be
good
features
and
maiestie
.
)
Consequently
one
thyng
is
to
be
remembred
,
whiche
hath
not
ben
forgoten
of
our
elders
:
what
suppose
you
that
is
?
Certainly
,
that
they
which
do
accompany
with
women
,
to
●hentent
to
gette
children
in
the
acte
veneriall
,
be
sober
,
or
at
the
leste
wayes
that
they
drynke
a
litle
wine
only
for
that
it
is
nourishing
to
nature
/
very
temperatly
.
For
truely
it
hapneth
,
that
the
sede
beinge
sowen
by
dronken
parentes
/
the
children
therof
comyng
,
for
the
more
parte
hen
drunkardes
and
tauerne
haunters
.
Therfore
Di●genes
(
the
Philosopher
)
whan
he
espyed
a
yonge
man
,
which
beinge
drunke
had
his
wyttes
troubled
,
and
spake
vnaduysedly
,
said
to
him
:
yonge
man
thy
father
did
sowe
the
,
whan
he
was
drunke
.
Thus
hitherto
haue
I
spoken
of
procreation
of
chyldren
:
here
after
I
shall
treate
of
the
gouernance
of
them
concerning
the
ordre
of
their
liuinge
.
¶
Of
nature
/
reson
&
custome
/
which
shulde
concurre
in
the
educacion
of
children
.
Cap.
ii
.
GEnerally
accordynge
as
we
haue
ben
vsed
to
trayte
of
concernynge
artis
and
sciences
,
the
same
shall
we
now
eftsones
reherce
in
the
declaracion
of
vertue
.
Thre
thinges
ther
be
that
must
concurre
&
agre
in
the
accomplishing
&
perfecting
of
the
warke
,
which
I
now
purpose
,
that
is
to
say
Nature
,
Reason
,
and
Custome
.
Reason
I
take
for
doctrine
,
Custome
for
exercise
.
The
begynninge
and
entre
is
to
be
taken
of
doctrine
,
Experience
is
won
by
meditacion
&
exercise
.
Of
all
those
togyder
is
made
a
perfection
:
And
where
any
of
them
do
lacke
or
fayle
,
nedes
must
vertue
halte
.
For
Nature
without
doctrine
is
blynde
,
&
doctrine
without
Nature
is
a
thinge
mutilate
.
Nedes
muste
than
exercise
(
which
lacketh
them
both
)
be
imperfecte
.
For
lyke
as
in
tyllage
fyrste
it
behoueth
that
the
moulde
(
whiche
is
to
be
sowen
)
be
good
.
Secondarily
that
the
husbande
or
ploughman
be
experte
in
sowinge
.
Thirdely
that
the
sede
be
clene
and
withoute
fau●e
.
So
(
in
bringinge
vp
of
youre
children
)
ye
shall
applie
&
resemble
to
the
moulde
your
childrens
nature
,
to
the
ploughman
,
their
instructour
or
maister
to
the
sede
,
Instruction
of
lernynge
&
preceptes
.
All
whiche
thynges
vndoutedly
were
assembled
in
those
noble
philosophers
/
whom
all
men
do
commende
:
I
meane
Pythagoras
,
Socrates
,
and
Plato
,
and
euery
other
,
whiche
hathe
attayned
to
immortall
fame
and
honour
.
Doutles
he
is
in
great
felicite
and
in
the
fauour
of
god
,
who
that
is
indewed
with
all
these
qualities
.
But
who
so
euer
after
that
he
hath
attayned
to
doctrine
and
the
right
experience
to
vertue
,
do
suppose
the
wyt
of
man
not
to
be
profitable
,
he
doth
nat
qualifie
the
defaultes
of
Nature
,
but
vtterlye
erreth
and
is
deceyued
.
For
slouth
destroyeth
the
power
of
nature
,
and
she
her selfe
by
doctrine
is
distroyed
.
And
light
thinges
fleeth
from
men
that
be
negligent
:
and
nothing
is
so
●ifficile
,
but
by
cure
it
is
optained
.
Also
you
shal
lightly
perceiue
in
many
thynges
(
if
ye
take
good
hede
)
what
spedynes
&
efficacie
is
in
labour
and
diligence
.
For
the
small
droppes
of
water
(
with
often
fallyng
)
perce
the
stones
.
Iron
and
brasse
is
worne
out
with
moche
occupation
.
And
the
wheles
of
chariottes
bowed
by
moche
violence
,
can
neuer
recouer
their
pristinat
streightnes
.
yet
labour
(
excedyng
the
cours
of
nature
)
hath
surmounted
her
power
.
But
suppose
you
these
thinges
only
declareth
the
power
of
diligence
●
nay
truly
,
but
also
other
thinges
innumerable
.
If
a
grounde
fertile
of
nature
be
yll
housbandried
/
for
lacke
of
good
tillage
it
appereth
foule
and
yl
fauored
:
and
the
more
excellent
the
nature
of
euerye
thynge
is
,
the
more
is
loste
/
if
bit
perysshe
by
slouthe
or
negligence
.
Is
your
grounde
barayne
and
out
of
measure
rough
and
vntylthy
?
Tyll
it
well
:
and
good
spente
,
cometh
agayne
of
it
.
Howe
many
trees
be
ther
,
that
beynge
lytell
set
by
/
abydeth
barayne
:
And
whan
they
be
duely
attended
and
cherysshed
,
they
become
fertile
?
what
strengthe
of
body
is
nat
dulled
and
consumed
by
sluggardye
,
wantonnesse
,
and
yll
rule
?
Or
what
bodyes
be
so
feble
of
Nature
,
that
by
exercyse
and
doyng
of
maistries
be
not
auaunced
to
more
strength
and
prowes
?
Semblablye
,
what
horse
welle
broken
in
youthe
is
not
after
to
the
ryder
gentyll
and
easye
?
And
they
that
be
roughe
and
yll
broken
,
be
not
they
verye
harde
heeded
and
fyers
of
stomake
?
But
what
nede
we
to
meruayle
at
suche
other
thynges
,
whan
we
se
often
tymes
beastis
most
sauage
and
cruell
/
to
be
broken
and
made
tame
with
labours
?
One
of
Thessalie
(
whiche
is
a
countrey
naturally
inclined
to
warre
)
answered
well
whan
it
was
demaunded
of
hym
,
who
were
moost
abiecte
of
all
the
people
of
Thessaly
,
he
sayde
,
they
whiche
in
feates
of
warre
be
not
exercised
.
what
shall
nede
many
wordes
?
Custome
is
a
thynge
auncient
and
of
longe
continuance
.
And
he
that
customably
haunteth
his
owne
propre
and
familiar
vertues
,
shal
nat
erre
in
any
wise
.
Touching
whiche
matter
,
after
one
exaumple
rehersed
,
I
shal
cesse
to
speake
any
more
of
these
thinges
.
Lycurgus
(
whiche
made
and
gaue
lawes
to
the
people
called
Spartanes
of
Lacedemones
)
for
to
proue
the
efficacie
of
custome
,
caused
.ii.
whelpes
to
be
taken
and
brought
vp
in
sondrye
maners
/
th
one
to
be
made
a
rauenour
and
re●beles
,
thother
chaste
,
suer
in
lyam
,
and
to
hunte
truely
.
That
done
,
on
a
tyme
whan
the
people
were
in
one
place
assembled
,
Lycurgus
sayde
vnto
them
:
O
ye
Lacedemones
,
for
to
gete
and
attayne
vnto
vertue
,
custome
,
discipline
,
doctryne
,
and
good
bryngynge
vp
,
be
of
great
effecte
and
substaunce
:
Of
the
whiche
I
shall
vnto
you
anone
,
make
experience
.
And
forthewith
,
bryngynge
before
them
the
whelpes
,
whiche
he
kepte
:
whan
he
hadde
sette
betwene
them
a
potte
with
meate
and
a
quicke
hare
,
th
one
whelpe
egerly
flewe
to
the
hare
,
thother
with
as
moche
haste
or
more
,
thraste
his
heed
in
to
the
potte
.
And
whan
the
people
in
no
wyse
coude
coniecte
what
this
thinge
purported
,
or
wherfore
the
whelpes
were
brought
forthe
:
Frendes
sayde
Lycurgus
,
bothe
these
whelpes
,
hauynge
one
syre
and
one
damme
,
by
custome
be
trayned
in
to
sondrye
disposicions
:
for
the
one
is
become
a
rauenour
,
the
other
a
good
hunter
.
Nowe
haue
we
sufficiently
spoken
of
the
lyfe
and
custome
of
men
,
here
after
we
shall
treate
of
the
Educacion
and
bryngynge
vp
of
chyldren
.
¶
The
good
or
yll
that
hapneth
by
norises
and
tutours
.
Cap.
iii.
AS
me
semeth
it
behoueth
that
the
moders
shulde
brynge
vp
their
owne
chyldren
,
and
do
gyue
vnto
them
souke
at
theyr
owne
brestes
.
For
with
more
naturall
affection
and
bu●y
diligence
they
noriss●h
them
,
than
doth
other
norses
,
as
they
,
which
most
inwardly
,
&
(
as
it
is
communly
sayde
)
from
the
fyngers
endes
loue
theyr
chyldren
.
Nourses
hired
haue
but
a
feyned
beneuolence
,
louynge
the
chyldren
for
theyr
rewarde
onely
.
●ore
ouer
that
the
moders
them selfe
ought
to
norishe
them
,
which
they
brynge
furth
,
nature
d●clareth
sufficiently
.
For
to
that
entent
she
hath
gyuen
to
euery
creature
,
that
is
of
female
kynde
,
norishement
of
mylke
.
Also
there
was
in
hym
a
high
and
wyse
prouidence
,
whiche
gaue
vnto
women
two
pappes
:
that
if
hit
happened
any
to
brynge
forthe
twynnes
,
she
shulde
haue
double
fountaynes
to
noryshe
them
:
whiche
was
done
for
great
consideration
,
that
therby
loue
and
beneuolence
may
be
noris●hed
&
encreased
betwene
them
and
theyr
children
.
For
familiar
company
in
liuynge
and
fedynge
is
an
encreace
of
loue
and
amitye
.
Therfore
it
is
to
be
obserued
principally
that
moders
(
as
I
haue
before
rehersed
)
do
bring
vp
their
owne
children
&
giue
them
souke
of
their
propre
brestes
,
or
if
they
can
not
for
some
disease
or
manyfest
impediment
that
they
may
happen
to
haue
:
Or
if
they
lyste
not
,
for
that
they
wolde
haue
plenty
of
children
,
than
wolde
I
that
they
shulde
take
honeste
and
conuenient
nources
,
and
not
brothels
and
vagaboundes
,
but
suche
as
he
instruct
in
the
maners
of
theyr
propre
realme
or
countrey
.
For
in
lyke
wise
as
the
membres
of
infantes
newly
borne
,
muste
be
formed
and
ordred
that
they
become
not
croked
:
so
the
maners
of
them
at
theyr
begynnynge
/
muste
be
aptly
and
properly
framed
.
For
that
very
yonge
age
is
teeēder
and
facile
to
be
wrought
:
&
lernynge
is
beste
instylled
and
brought
in
wittes
,
whiles
they
be
softe
and
delycate
.
Also
thynges
beynge
longe
harde
,
vnneth
be
mollified
:
therfore
lernynge
in
childrens
wittes
is
soonest
impressed
.
wherfore
Plato
,
whiche
is
called
the
deuine
philosopher
,
discretely
exhorteth
nources
,
that
they
committe
not
to
children
tryfelynge
and
dishonest
fables
,
lest
at
the
begynnynge
they
infecte
theyr
wyttes
with
foly
,
and
vnthrifty
maners
.
Therfore
the
poet
Phoci●ides
in
this
wyse
counsayleth
:
Infourme
thy
childe
in
yonge
and
tender
age
.
To
gentyll
maners
the
very
tyght
passage
.
Also
hit
ought
not
to
be
forgotten
,
that
you
prouide
suche
parsones
to
accompany
or
attende
vpon
your
children
,
as
be
all
redy
instructe
in
vertuous
maners
,
and
can
perfectly
and
truely
speke
and
pronounce
your
countrey
language
/
lest
if
they
be
intached
with
barbarous
speche
and
depryued
maners
,
your
children
shulde
enbrace
of
them
some
vicious
disposicion
.
For
not
without
reason
this
prouerbe
is
vsed
:
He
that
dwelleth
by
a
crepyll
,
shall
lerne
to
halte
.
But
after
your
chyldren
be
comen
to
yeres
,
whan
they
shuld
be
commytted
to
Tutours
,
than
for
the
remenaunt
of
theyr
educacion
you
muste
be
circumspecte
,
that
you
do
not
commytte
the
gouernaunce
of
them
to
slaues
or
villaynes
,
or
to
men
vnstable
,
false
,
or
deceitfull
.
For
they
may
well
be
laught
to
scorne
that
at
this
day
,
hauynge
good
and
discrete
seruauntes
,
appoynteth
some
to
be
theyr
hyndes
,
some
shypmen
,
some
to
be
factours
,
other
to
be
stewardes
of
house
holde
,
baylyffes
of
husbandrye
/
surueyours
of
landes
,
or
receyuours
:
And
if
they
haue
a
ribaulde
or
a
riottous
seruaunte
/
vnprofitable
to
euerye
purpose
,
communly
to
his
gouernaunce
they
do
commytte
theyr
chyldren
.
A
good
and
necessarye
tutoure
ought
to
be
suche
as
was
Phenyx
(
tutoure
of
Achilles
the
moste
valiaunt
of
all
the
Grekes
,
whiche
were
at
the
siege
of
Troye
)
whom
Peleus
fader
of
Achilles
(
as
Homere
the
noble
poete
wryteth
)
ordeyned
to
haue
the
rule
of
his
sonne
,
to
the
entent
that
(
for
his
wysedome
and
eloquence
)
he
shulde
be
as
well
in
speakynge
as
doynge
his
instructour
and
mayster
.
¶
what
schole
maysters
ar
to
be
chosen
and
of
the
discom●oditees
,
whiche
happen
daylye
by
neglygent
educacyon
.
Cap.
iiii
.
NOwe
come
I
to
the
thynge
most
chieffe
and
pryncipall
to
be
remembred
.
ye
muste
dilygently
prouyde
for
youre
chylderne
,
schole
maysters
/
whose
lyues
be
not
disposed
to
vice
,
ne
of
reprocheable
maners
or
conditions
,
and
whiche
haue
good
experyence
and
fourme
of
teachynge
.
For
certaynly
the
fountayne
and
roote
of
worshyppe
and
honestye
,
is
good
doctrine
.
For
lykewyse
as
good
husbandes
do
pyche
busshes
and
bedges
aboute
yonge
settes
(
as
well
to
th
entente
they
shulde
growe
streyght
/
as
to
kepe
them
from
bytynge
and
barkynge
of
catall
)
so
good
and
perfecte
maysters
plant
in
children
conuenable
and
good
aduertisementes
and
preceptes
,
wherby
the
yonge
spryng
of
vertuous
maners
shall
growe
streyghte
,
and
be
out
of
daungerous
and
beastly
vice
.
And
trulye
many
fathers
there
be
,
whiche
are
greatelye
to
be
blamed
,
that
commytte
theyr
childerne
to
vnthrifty
,
ignoraunte
,
and
folysshe
maysters
,
not
hauynge
of
them
before
any
tryall
or
experience
/
whiche
al
be
it
they
so
do
in
defaulte
of
lernyng
,
yet
is
it
in
them
great
foly
and
symplenesse
:
For
some
there
be
,
that
notwithstandynge
by
the
reporte
of
men
experte
,
they
knowe
the
ignorance
and
lewdnes
of
some
schole
maysters
,
and
do
perceyue
hit
manifestely
:
yet
vnto
them
speciallye
they
commende
their
sonnes
:
and
some
do
bit
,
beynge
vanquysshed
with
fayre
promyses
,
other
at
the
instant
desyre
and
in
fauour
of
theyr
frendes
and
acqueyntance
:
where
in
they
do
moche
lyke
,
us
if
a
man
beynge
sycke
or
diseased
,
dothe
refuse
an
experte
phisition
/
whiche
may
recouer
hym
,
&
for
to
haue
the
more
fauour
of
his
frende
or
acquayntaunce
,
taketh
a
manne
vnlerned
,
by
whom
perchance
he
shall
be
brought
in
danger
of
his
lyfe
:
or
beinge
on
the
see
,
forsaketh
a
good
pilate
or
lodisman
,
and
at
the
desire
of
his
frende
or
acquayntaunce
,
approueth
a
persone
folysshe
and
ignoraunt
.
O
lorde
god
,
is
he
to
be
called
a
fader
,
that
more
estemeth
the
desire
of
his
neighbour
,
than
the
erudition
and
lerning
of
his
chyldren
?
Accordyng
thervnto
the
olde
philosopher
Crates
was
wonte
to
saye
,
that
whan
he
shulde
happen
to
be
in
the
hyghest
parte
of
the
citie
,
he
wolde
crie
in
this
fourme
(
if
he
myght
be
herde
)
whither
wyll
ye
mad
men
,
whiche
do
set
al
your
study
in
gettyng
of
riches
/
and
to
your
children
,
to
whome
ye
wyll
leaue
that
ryches
,
ye
haue
no
consideration
or
respect
?
And
to
that
in
myn
opinion
may
be
added
,
that
suche
fathers
do
in
lyke
wise
,
as
they
which
be
very
busy
and
nice
in
trimmyng
their
showes
,
whan
they
take
lytel
regard
what
hapneth
to
their
feete
.
There
be
also
many
parentes
,
in
whom
in
ordinate
loue
of
money
hath
ingendred
hate
of
their
naturall
children
:
for
to
th
entent
that
they
wyll
nat
gyue
great
rewarde
or
salarye
,
they
do
prouyde
maysters
for
their
children
,
ignoraunt
persones
,
whiche
for
a
lyttell
stypende
professeth
lernynge
of
small
estimation
.
And
therfore
the
philosopher
Aristippus
sauerly
and
with
a
propre
taunte
checked
one
beinge
a
fader
,
whiche
lacked
witte
.
For
one
demaunded
of
Aristippus
,
what
bewolde
aske
for
a
rewarde
to
teache
his
sonne
:
who
demaunded
.
xx.li
.
O
sayd
he
,
that
is
a
sore
demaunde
,
for
I
maye
bye
a
seruant
at
that
pryce
(
seruauntes
at
that
tyme
were
bonde
men
,
and
beinge
taken
in
warres
were
solde
,
as
slaues
he
nowe
in
diuers
places
)
ye
sayde
Aristippus
,
thou
shalte
haue
for
thy
money
two
seruauntes
,
that
is
to
saye
thy
sonne
,
and
hym
whome
thou
doste
bye
.
As
who
saythe
,
the
money
whiche
shulde
purchase
his
son
lerninge
,
beinge
enployed
on
a
slaue
,
maketh
his
son
for
lacke
of
lerninge
,
to
be
of
lyke
estate
or
condicion
.
Finally
is
it
not
a
great
foly
&
madnes
/
that
where
we
do
accustome
our
chyldren
to
take
meate
with
the
ryght
hande
,
&
if
they
do
put
forthe
the
lefte
hande
,
anone
we
correct
them
:
and
for
to
make
them
to
here
good
&
commodious
lernynges
,
we
make
no
prouision
nor
be
circumspecte
therin
?
¶
The
inconueniences
/
whiche
happen
for
defaulte
of
lernynge
,
and
the
comparison
of
lerninge
to
other
qualitees
.
Cap.
v.
BUt
nowe
wyll
I
assay
to
shewe
what
happeneth
often
to
these
monstruous
fathers
,
that
whan
they
haue
lewdely
and
vnhappylye
noryshed
and
brought
vp
their
chyldren
,
whan
they
be
at
mans
stute
,
they
despisinge
all
holsome
doctrine
&
vertuous
ordre
of
liuing
,
do
fall
heedlynge
into
inordinate
pleasures
,
and
into
seruile
and
abhomynable
voluptuosities
&
vices
.
Than
the
fathers
sore
repente
them
,
that
they
haue
in
suche
wyse
brought
them
vp
.
And
whan
they
do
perceyue
in
them
no
commoditie
:
than
for
their
mischiefe
and
vnhappynes
,
the
par●ntis
be
continually
in
theyr
myndes
tourmented
.
Semblablye
some
take
to
them
flatterers
,
scoffers
/
and
raylers
,
vyle
and
vngratious
parsons
,
peryllous
subuertours
of
youthe
:
Other
mainteyne
proude
and
sumptuous
queynes
and
harlottes
:
some
passe
all
the
holle
dayes
in
delicate
feastes
and
bankettes
/
other
,
as
it
w●re
in
a
w●ccke
,
be
drowned
at
dyse
,
and
in
riottous
companye
.
There
be
also
,
whiche
gyuynge
them selfes
to
the
foly
of
youth
,
do
embrace
lecherye
,
aduoutrye
,
and
other
lyke
abhomynations
,
and
onely
make
deth
the
ende
of
pleasure
.
whiche
if
they
had
alway
ben
in
the
company
of
any
wyse
man
,
doutles
they
shulde
neuer
haue
sette
their
myndes
to
suche
foly
,
but
rather
haue
lerned
the
precept
o●
Diogenes
the
philosopher
/
who
in
his
say●nge
,
wysely
and
by
an
experience
truely
exhorted
in
this
wise
:
Be
bolde
to
entre
into
an
harlottes
house
/
that
thou
mayste
lerne
there
,
howe
litell
or
no
commodite
is
in
the
estimation
of
thinges
vyle
or
vicious
.
Nowe
to
speake
in
fewe
wordes
/
wherein
I
shall
seme
rather
to
dyuyne
than
to
admoneste
and
exhorte
,
The
fyrste
,
myddell
,
and
laste
poynte
of
this
matter
is
,
that
the
sure
and
honest
rule
of
liuynge
is
lernynge
.
And
that
is
the
thyng
,
whiche
soonest
helpeth
a
man
to
vertue
:
All
other
thynges
temporall
be
but
tryfils
,
and
not
of
suche
value
,
that
there
in
we
oughte
to
spende
any
studye
.
Doubtles
nobilite
or
gentylnes
of
bloud
is
a
goodlye
thynge
:
and
ryches
is
a
thynge
precious
and
delectable
:
but
the
gyftes
of
Fortune
be
suche
,
that
as
we
may
se
by
experience
,
she
gyueth
them
,
where
they
be
not
loked
fore
:
and
those
whiche
alredy
haue
them
,
she
dispoyleth
.
More
ouer
great
substance
is
a
token
or
pray
to
allure
seruauntes
and
other
parsones
ylle
disposed
/
to
wayte
a
man
with
displeasure
,
and
to
enserche
his
cofers
and
baggis
.
And
finally
they
be
redy
for
euery
lewde
person
,
that
may
happe
to
take
them
.
Honoure
is
pleasaunt
,
but
it
is
vnstable
and
nothynge
constaunt
.
Beautie
is
a
thynge
excellente
,
and
for
the
attaynynge
therof
,
moche
debate
hath
ensurged
:
but
yet
it
is
transitorie
,
and
dureth
but
a
season
.
Bodilye
helthe
is
a
treasure
,
but
that
is
also
mutable
.
Strengthe
is
moche
desyred
,
and
is
taken
for
a
parte
of
felicitie
:
yet
notwithstandynge
hit
soone
fadeth
,
with
age
or
sykenesse
.
And
he
that
auaunteth
hym selfe
in
myght
of
body
and
lymmes
,
is
in
a
false
opinion
.
For
howe
small
a
porcion
of
strength
is
in
man
,
in
comparison
of
beastis
:
I
meane
elephauntes
,
bulles
,
and
lyons
?
Therfore
truely
the
thynge
that
in
vs
is
diuyne
and
immortall
is
lernynge
.
Generally
two
speciall
thynges
be
in
the
nature
of
manne
/
whiche
be
good
,
that
is
to
saye
,
knowlege
and
reasone
.
Knowlege
commaundeth
,
reasone
dothe
obeye
.
As
for
knowlege
no
violence
of
Fortune
maye
take
awaye
/
no
vexation
maye
withdrawe
,
nor
sickenes
may
corrupt
/
nor
age
by
any
meane
may
endomage
.
Onely
knowlege
perisshed
with
age
eftsones
reuiueth
.
And
where
all
other
thynges
by
longe
contynuance
decaye
,
onely
counnynge
with
the
yeres
encreseth
and
multiplieth
.
warre
lyke
a
raginge
floode
,
draweth
and
carieth
away
all
thynges
with
hym
,
onely
lernynge
,
for
that
he
may
not
stere
it
,
he
leaueth
vntouched
.
wherfore
Stilpo
the
philosopher
,
as
me
semeth
,
made
answere
necessarye
to
be
remembred
.
For
whan
kynge
Demetrius
had
taken
the
citie
of
Megarie
,
where
Stilpo
dwelled
,
and
abated
hit
in
to
the
erthe
:
he
demaunded
of
Stilpo
,
if
he
hadde
loste
any
of
his
goodes
by
the
assault
?
No
sayd
Stilpo
,
warres
maye
neuer
take
any
spoyle
of
vertue
.
Accordynge
hit
semeth
that
Socrates
answered
.
For
whan
Gorgias
the
Rhetorician
(
as
I
remembre
me
)
demaunded
of
hym
,
if
he
thoughte
the
kynge
of
Perse
to
be
happye
:
I
knowe
nat
sayd
he
,
howe
moche
he
hath
of
vertue
and
lernynge
.
As
who
saythe
,
in
those
thynges
standeth
happynesse
,
and
not
in
the
treasure
and
gyftes
of
Fortune
.
That
the
pleasynge
of
communes
is
diffificile
and
also
dangerous
,
and
what
peryll
is
in
hastye
and
vnaduised
speche
.
Cap.
vi
.
IN
lyke
wyse
as
there
is
nothynge
more
propise
and
conueniente
for
a
man
,
than
the
vertuous
bryngynge
vp
of
his
children
,
so
it
is
expediente
,
that
he
sette
them
in
a
holsome
and
vncorrupted
countreye
,
farre
from
the
fantasyes
and
vayne
glosynges
of
people
.
For
he
that
endeuourethe
hym
to
please
the
multitude
,
must
nedes
discontent
the
wyse
men
,
as
wytnesseth
Euripides
the
wryter
of
tragedies
,
Thus
am
I
called
fole
and
ignoraunt
Amonge
rude
people
,
my
verses
to
auaunt
But
to
meane
men
,
egall
to
my
degre
I
〈◊〉
thought
wyse
,
eche
as
they
fauour
me
.
For
of
whom
wyse
men
set
lytell
price
Contenteth
the
people
Best
with
their
deuyse
.
Verily
I
perceyue
that
they
,
whiche
put
they●
holle
prac●ise
,
to
obteyne
the
grace
and
fauoure
of
the
troublous
communes
,
be
for
the
more
parte
prodigall
,
and
desirous
of
inordinate
pleasure
/
and
by
reason
bit
●uste
be
so
.
For
they
that
neglecte
honestie
to
content
other
mens
appetites
,
can
not
always
pref●rre
good
dilectations
,
or
folowe
those
that
be
moderate
for
them
that
be
voluptuous
.
More
ouer
take
good
hede
that
your
children
do
not
speake
sodaynely
/
and
without
premedytacion
.
For
that
,
whiche
is
spoken
or
done
vnaduysedly
and
hastily
/
in
no
wyse
maye
be
commendable
.
For
it
is
said
in
a
prouerbe
:
Good
thinges
are
difficile
.
And
wordes
not
forestudied
be
infarced
with
lyghtnesse
and
negligence
,
and
vnneth
suche
perceyue
wher
at
to
begynne
,
or
where
they
shal
make
their
conclusion
.
Amonge
other
faultes
they
that
speake
hastily
,
falle
in
to
bablynge
immoderate
,
but
aduysed
meditation
suffreth
not
langage
to
wandre
out
of
due
measure
.
we
rede
of
Pericles
(
one
of
the
noble
counsaylours
of
Athenes
)
often
tymes
whan
he
was
required
of
the
people
to
shew
his
opinion
,
wold
none
other
thynge
saye
,
but
that
he
was
not
prouyded
.
Semblably
his
successour
in
the
commune
weale
Demosthenes
(
the
most
excellent
oratour
)
whan
the
people
called
for
him
to
gyue
them
counsayle
,
he
came
not
,
sayenge
,
I
am
not
yet
fournysshed
sufficiently
.
Perchaunce
some
wyll
saye
,
this
tale
is
nat
trewe
,
and
that
I
speake
it
without
auctorite
.
Al
be
it
in
his
oration
agaynst
Midea
,
he
declareth
the
commodite
of
premeditation
in
this
fourme
:
Frendes
I
deny
not
,
but
I
haue
consydered
,
what
I
shall
saye
,
and
that
I
shall
speake
is
with
great
labour
prouyded
.
ye
might
well
pytie
me
,
If
I
shulde
come
before
you
prepared
,
that
I
shuld
omytte
and
passe
ouer
that
thing
,
which
I
entende
to
declare
.
Nor
I
speake
not
thus
now
to
depraue
spedy
expedicion
in
gyuynge
aduyse
or
counsayle
,
but
that
they
whiche
haue
anye
suche
grace
,
maye
frankelye
practyse
hit
.
All
be
hit
,
I
thynke
it
necessarye
,
that
●onge
men
do
seldome
vse
hit
,
vntyll
they
come
to
the
age
of
perfection
,
leste
they
speake
al
thinges
that
happeneth
,
and
not
all
that
is
necessarye
.
And
whan
the
vertue
of
eloquence
hath
taken
rote
,
than
whan
tyme
requireth
,
hit
shall
be
commendable
to
departe
bounteously
with
plentye
of
matter
.
For
as
they
,
whiche
haue
bene
longe
in
gyues
or
stockes
,
by
custome
of
longe
imprisonemente
,
whan
they
be
loused
,
they
do
halte
for
the
tyme
,
and
may
not
well
go
:
in
lyke
wyse
they
,
which
haue
longe
refrayned
to
speke
,
whan
they
be
constrayned
to
speake
sodaynely
,
yet
wylle
they
folowe
the
s●ile
of
an
interpretour
(
whiche
is
with
longe
taryenge
and
moche
studye
.
)
But
yet
●e
that
suffreth
children
to
speake
hastily
withoute
deliberation
,
gyueth
them
occasyon
to
falle
in
to
extreme
claterynge
and
i●nglynge
.
On
a
tyme
whan
a
symple
peynter
had
shewed
vnto
Appelles
the
moste
counnyng
peinter
that
euer
was
,
an
image
that
he
had
made
,
he
also
sayde
to
Appelles
:
Euen
nowe
I
made
this
image
.
Nowe
in
good
faythe
sayde
Appelles
,
if
thou
wylte
holde
thy
tounge
and
saye
neuer
a
worde
,
I
do
perceiue
thou
dyddest
sodaynlye
peynte
hit
.
But
I
do
meruayle
moche
more●
that
in
that
space
thou
haste
not
peynted
no
m●
ymages
.
¶
Of
the
iuste
temperance
and
moderacion
of
speakynge
,
and
of
the
beste
kinde
of
doctryne
.
Ca.
vii
.
NOwe
to
returne
to
mi
first
matter
.
My
counsayle
is
that
chyldren
do
eschewe
to
moche
arrogaunt
and
pompous
speche
:
and
in
like
wise
to
auoyde
homely
and
rude
communicacion
.
Inflate
and
proude
speche
lacketh
gentyllnesse
:
base
and
vile
wordes
nothynge
perswadethe
or
moueth
.
For
like
as
the
body
ought
not
only
to
be
hoole
from
sickenes
,
but
also
to
be
of
good
habilite
or
facion
:
so
shulde
the
oracion
or
sentence
not
be
onely
not
sicke
,
but
also
firme
and
substanciall
.
For
that
thynge
whiche
is
sure
,
is
onely
commendable
:
&
that
whiche
is
exployted
with
daunger
we
commun●ly
wonder
at
.
And
like
opinion
haue
I
in
disposynge
the
mynde
:
For
hit
becomethe
not
a
childe
eyther
to
be
shrewde
and
folehardy
,
or
to
be
cowarde
and
temerous
.
The
one
shall
cause
hym
to
be
shameles
:
the
other
to
be
of
vile
courage
and
dastarde
.
The
meane
waye
to
holde
in
euery
thynge
,
it
is
a
high
and
perfecte
crafte
.
Al
be
it
I
eftsones
do
remembre
lernynge
,
yet
what
I
deme
therin
,
I
wyll
at
this
tyme
differre
.
But
to
retourne
to
speakynge
/
To
be
contented
with
one
onely
membre
or
fourme
of
speakynge
,
and
not
to
poli●he
it
with
sondrie
clauses
or
sentenses
hit
is
a
great
token
of
ignoraunce
.
For
to
speake
alway
one
thynge
hit
is
nowe
and
thanne
tedious
and
intollerable
.
For
one
note
of
synginge
,
and
one
acte
in
an
Interlude
withoute
variacion
,
is
to
the
syngers
&
playours
laborious
,
and
to
the
herers
fulsome
&
tedyous
.
Therfore
pleasaunt
varietie
is
in
euery
thynge
delectable
:
mooste
specially
in
voyces
,
and
thynges
made
to
beholde
.
Therfore
in
yonge
men
of
good
stocke
,
nothynge
shulde
lacke
,
worthye
to
be
harde
or
sene
.
And
to
say
the
trouthe
,
there
shulde
be
in
them
that
,
whiche
menne
calle
the
Cercle
of
lernynge
.
But
yet
that
is
onely
as
it
were
to
be
tasted
(
takynge
of
euery
doctrine
some
parte
)
perusynge
them
through
at
the
fyrste
syghte
.
For
it
is
almost
impossible
to
be
perfecte
in
all
thynges
.
All
be
it
philosophy
of
al
studies
ought
to
be
soueraygne
and
had
in
moost
reuerence
:
wherin
I
wyll
declare
myn
opinion
,
by
a
similitude
.
For
lyke
as
it
is
a
pleasant
and
goodly
thynge
in
passynge
the
sees
to
come
to
dyuers
worldes
and
countreyes
,
so
to
inhabyte
and
dwelle
in
the
beste
of
them
/
hit
is
a
thynge
excellently
commodious
and
moste
hyghest
to
be
estemed
.
Veryly
hit
was
a
propre
sayenge
of
Byas
the
philosopher
,
that
as
the
wowars
of
Penelope
(
wyfe
of
Vlysses
,
whiche
in
the
ten
yeres
absence
of
her
husbande
,
honorably
susteyned
her selfe
chaste
ageynste
the
importune
sute
of
many
valyaunte
princes
)
coude
not
haue
with
her
vnlefull
companye
,
they
medled
with
the
wenches
and
drudges
of
her
house
.
In
lyke
wyse
some
parsones
,
whiche
can
not
atteygne
to
philosophye
,
as
hi●
were
men
vnapte
and
desperate
,
do
languysshe
and
spende
their
tyme
in
other
lernynges
of
no
pryce
or
estimation
.
wherfore
doubtles
philosophie
is
to
be
preferred
as
princesse
of
al
other
doctrines
.
The
wytte
and
studye
of
man
hath
dyuysed
a
double
science
or
knowlege
for
the
good
gouernaunce
of
the
body
,
that
is
to
saye
phisike
and
exercise
:
Of
the
whiche
,
the
one
bryngeth
helth
,
thother
good
habite
or
personage
:
onely
they
gryues
and
diseases
of
the
soule
and
mynde
,
phylosophye
cureth
and
maketh
hoole
.
By
her
may
be
knowen
what
is
honest
,
what
is
dishonest
,
what
ryght
,
what
wronge
:
and
generally
what
is
to
be
enlued
,
what
to
be
eschewed
:
how
your
parentes
/
your
frendes
,
your
soueraynes
,
your
wyues
and
seruauntes
,
men
in
auctoritie
and
straungers
ought
to
be
vsed
and
enterteygned
.
More
ouer
,
howe
we
shulde
honoure
god
,
worshyppe
our
parentes
,
reuerence
our
betters
,
obey
the
lawes
,
suffre
and
gyue
place
to
men
hauyng
auctorities
.
Also
howe
we
ought
to
fauour
our
frendes
,
to
loue
womenne
with
measure
,
to
holde
dere
our
children
,
not
to
be
of
seruile
condicion
:
&
aboue
all
other
,
not
to
reioice
to
moche
of
prosperite
,
nor
to
be
oppressed
with
sorowe
in
aduersitie
/
n●
to
be
enclyned
to
voluptuosite
,
neither
by
to
moche
wrath
make
our
mindes
beastly
.
whiche
thynges
be
the
chieffe
and
principall
commodities
or
treasure
of
philosophie
.
Hit
is
the
office
or
duetie
of
a
gentyll
man
/
to
vse
well
good
fortune
,
of
a
man
well
brought
vppe
to
eschewe
enuie
,
of
a
man
wyse
and
assured
,
to
vanquyshe
his
appitites
and
desyres
,
with
reason
:
And
to
refrayne
or
ouercome
anger
,
hit
is
the
parte
of
a
man
not
abiecte
nor
of
small
discrecion
or
vertue
.
But
to
my
purpose
,
They
ben
assured
and
perfecte
men
,
whiche
can
myxe
polytike
wysedome
with
philosophie
.
And
I
dare
affirme
,
they
do
therby
obteyne
double
commoditie
.
That
is
to
wete
,
they
do
leade
theyr
life
to
the
commune
weale
of
theyr
countrey
:
And
also
they
do
passe
theyr
tyme
in
studies
of
wysedome
and
vertue
,
with
quietnesse
of
mynde
,
neuer
ouer
flowen
with
the
wawes
of
fortune
.
For
wher
there
be
thre
maner
of
lyues
,
one
called
Actife
,
the
other
contemplatife
,
the
thyrde
voluptuous
or
sensuall
,
the
laste
beinge
vicious
and
seruaunt
to
pleasure
,
apperteyneth
to
beastis
,
and
men
of
no
reputation
or
goodnesse
.
The
actife
lyfe
,
lackynge
philosophie
,
is
of
littell
purpose
,
and
is
in
sondry
errours
enuolued
.
The
contemplatife
life
(
concernynge
man
)
if
hit
be
natioyned
with
the
actiue
,
hit
is
of
none
effecte
or
profite
.
Therfore
let
vs
endeuour
our selfes
,
that
the
commune
weale
may
be
applied
,
and
also
philosophie
obteyned
,
as
accordynge
to
the
tyme
hit
shall
seme
moste
expedient
.
In
this
wyse
Pericles
(
the
noble
counsailour
of
Athenes
)
dyd
his
duetie
to
the
commune
weale
o●
his
countre
.
So
dyd
Architas
in
Tarcut
,
Dyon
in
Sicile
,
and
Epaminondas
in
Thebes
:
of
whom
two
the
last
were
scholers
to
Plato
,
the
prince
of
philosophers
.
what
shal
I
nede
to
tarye
longer
aboute
doctryne
/
excepte
that
besydes
that
we
haue
all
redy
spoken
,
one
thynge
is
conuenient
and
also
necessary
to
be
remembred
,
that
is
,
that
yonge
men
endeuoure
them
to
gette
the
bokes
of
olde
wryters
,
and
in
gatheryng
of
them
,
to
folowe
and
be
lyke
to
the
ploughman
.
For
as
the
feate
of
tyllage
is
kepte
by
occupyenge
of
the
grounde
,
and
nat
onely
by
hauynge
of
plowes
and
other
store
of
housbandrie
:
in
lyke
wyse
the
instrument
of
lernynge
is
not
only
possession
of
bokes
,
but
also
exercise
and
practise
of
the
same
.
Of
the
commodite
of
vertuous
exercise
.
Cap.
viii
.
EXercyse
is
not
a
lyttell
to
be
estemed
/
and
for
that
purpose
children
muste
also
be
commytted
to
maysters
,
whiche
maye
exercise
them
sufficientlye
,
to
the
intente
that
thereby
,
good
shappe
of
lymmes
and
membres
&
strengthe
of
bodye
maye
be
acquired
.
For
the
good
habitie
and
disposition
in
the
bodyes
of
chylderne
,
is
for
age
a
sure
fundation
.
And
as
in
somer
and
fayre
wether
men
prouide
agaynste
wynter
:
so
the
best
prouision
for
age
,
is
good
maners
and
temperance
goten
in
youth
.
Also
labour
is
to
be
kepte
in
,
as
it
were
in
a
closet
or
selle
,
and
so
moderatly
vsed
,
that
children
beynge
tendre
and
flexible
,
be
not
in
study
ouermoche
fatigated
.
For
as
Plato
sayth
,
laboure
and
slepe
be
ennemyes
to
lernynge
.
But
what
nede
I
to
tarye
here
vpon
,
seynge
that
I
pourpose
to
declare
that
whiche
is
more
necessarye
to
speake
of
.
It
shall
be
most
expedient
to
exercise
children
in
feates
of
armes
,
as
in
rydynge
and
chasyng
,
castynge
of
iauelyns
and
dartes
,
shotynge
in
the
longe
bowe
,
and
suche
other
marcial
actes
,
wher
in
the
vanquiss
hours
appoynt
for
their
rewarde
to
haue
the
goodes
of
them
that
be
vāquysshed
.
All
be
hit
warre
lyttell
estemeth
the
parsonage
brought
vp
in
the
shadowe
.
The
pure
and
leane
souldiour
,
alwayes
hauntynge
the
affayres
of
warre
,
often
times
ouerthroweth
the
great
wrastler
in
bataile
,
and
enforceth
the
front
all
redy
imbatayled
to
recule
.
what
is
that
to
the
purpose
,
sayth
some
man
to
me
?
For
where
thou
dyddest
promyse
to
gyue
aduertisementes
,
concernynge
the
bryngynge
vp
of
honest
mens
children
,
not
withstandynge
thou
passest
ouer
poure
men
and
the
commune
people
,
that
thou
goest
aboute
to
instructe
onely
ryche
menne
and
nobles
.
whervnto
it
is
no
great
difficultie
to
replie
.
Certeynly
myn
entent
is
,
that
my
exhortation
shulde
be
commune
and
also
profitable
to
euery
man
.
But
if
any
be
of
suche
pouertie
,
that
he
is
not
able
to
vse
this
my
counsayle
,
he
shal
blame
fortune
and
not
me
,
that
do
the
best
I
can
to
aduise
hym
.
It
is
to
be
assayed
with
all
that
may
be
,
that
the
beste
ways
of
bryngynge
vp
of
chyldren
may
be
knowen
also
to
poure
men
:
and
at
the
leste
to
do
that
that
is
possible
.
And
these
be
the
moste
sorest
obiections
that
be
in
this
matter
.
Nowe
from
hensforth
I
purpose
to
adde
therto
the
sure
and
streyghte
way
howe
yonge
men
shulde
be
instructed
.
¶
A
moderate
direction
to
prouoke
children
to
lerne
.
And
of
the
folye
of
indiscrete
fathers
.
Cap.
ix
.
I
Do
affirme
surely
in
myne
opinion
,
chyldren
oughte
not
to
be
brought
to
honest
exercise
,
by
beatynge
and
strokes
,
but
by
exhortacion
and
reasonyng
.
For
punisshement
is
meter
for
villaynes
and
slaues
/
than
for
them
that
be
franke
or
of
gentill
bloud
:
whiche
with
trauaile
be
hardned
,
and
some
tyme
beinge
aferde
of
the
whippe
/
applieth
them
to
labour
.
But
children
of
gentyll
nature
take
more
profite
by
praise
or
lyghte
rebuke
,
than
by
stripes
.
For
praises
stere
them
to
worshyp
,
and
rebuke
doth
withdrawe
them
from
folye
.
wherfore
it
requireth
at
sondry
tymes
to
myngle
sharpe
wordes
with
praises
.
After
ye
haue
strongely
rebuked
,
than
to
prouoke
them
to
shamefastnes
,
and
eftesones
to
reuoke
their
corages
with
prayses
:
and
therin
nources
are
to
be
folowed
,
whiche
whan
they
haue
made
theyr
children
to
wepe
,
furthewith
with
they
do
gyue
vnto
them
theyr
pappes
,
therby
for
to
styll
them
.
But
beware
gyue
them
not
to
many
prayses
,
le●te
they
take
therby
to
moche
courage
and
presumption
:
and
with
to
moche
cockenayenge
be
spylled
and
lost
.
I
haue
knowen
many
faders
,
whom
to
moche
loue
hath
caused
,
that
they
loued
not
their
children
.
But
what
may
I
say
,
to
tell
it
more
playnlyer
?
For
where
they
make
haste
,
that
their
chyldren
may
the
soner
excel
other
,
they
do
put
vnto
them
infynite
labours
,
wherof
beynge
werye
and
oppressed
with
intollerable
paynes
,
fynallye
they
fynde
lyttell
pleasure
or
swetenes
in
lernynge
.
A
lyttell
water
maketh
herbes
to
growe
,
and
with
to
moche
they
be
soone
glutted
.
In
lykewyse
the
mynde
with
moderate
labour
is
quickened
,
and
with
inordinate
labours
is
oppressed
and
drowned
.
wherfore
in
studyes
and
labours
some
recreacion
is
to
be
gyuen
to
children
.
For
we
must
remembre
/
that
al
our
lyfer
deuided
in
to
study
and
reste
.
And
therfore
not
onely
watche
is
necessarie
,
but
also
slepe
:
not
batayle
only
,
but
also
peace
:
not
wynter
and
stormes
,
but
also
fayre
wether
and
somer
:
not
onely
warke
dayes
,
but
also
hygh
feastes
and
holy
dayes
:
and
generally
ydelnes
and
reste
is
sauce
vnto
labour
:
and
that
may
you
perceyue
not
onely
in
thynges
hauynge
lyfe
,
but
also
in
those
thynges
that
lacke
life
.
For
we
do
vnbende
our
bowes
,
and
vnwra●te
our
lu●es
and
harpes
,
to
the
entent
efte●ones
to
bende
them
and
wraste
them
.
And
fynally
the
body
to
preserued
with
lacke
and
sustinance
,
the
mynde
/
with
remyssyon
and
laboure
.
Many
faders
be
to
be
blamed
,
and
that
with
good
cause
,
whiche
so
commytte
theyr
children
to
Tutours
and
maysters
,
that
they
them selfe
did
neuer
se
nor
here
howe
their
children
haue
in
lernynge
profited
/
wherin
they
offende
more
than
nede
:
for
in
a
lyttell
space
they
may
haue
experience
,
for
theyr
chyldrens
furtherance
by
examynynge
theyr
chyldren
:
and
not
putte
theyr
hoole
truste
in
the
disposicion
of
a
man
hired
.
For
maisters
and
tutours
vse
more
diligence
aboute
the
children
,
whan
they
knowe
that
they
shal
make
answere
and
rekenynge
for
them
:
Accordynge
to
the
propre
sayenge
of
the
wyse
horseman
,
that
sayde
,
that
nothynge
made
a
horse
so
sone
fatte
as
the
eie
of
his
mayster
.
¶
Of
the
exercises
of
memorye
/
and
of
the
thre
excellent
continences
of
the
tounge
,
wrathe
,
and
the
handes
.
Cap.
x.
ABoue
all
thynges
the
memorie
of
chylderne
is
to
be
exercised
and
kepte
in
vsage
:
for
that
is
as
hit
were
the
store
house
of
lernynge
.
wherfore
in
aunciente
fables
,
Memorie
is
named
the
mother
of
Muses
(
whiche
as
poetes
write
,
were
fynders
of
all
sciences
liberalle
)
therby
declarynge
,
that
nothynge
nexte
to
nature
may
bringe
fourth
so
moche
as
memorie
.
Therfore
that
is
to
be
exercised
in
euery
part
wether
the
childe
be
retentife
of
memorie
or
obliuious
.
And
if
it
shall
happe
that
some
be
more
excellent
than
other
,
we
ought
to
corroborate
the
habundaunce
of
nature
:
And
where
they
be
oppressed
with
dulnes
,
to
amende
and
supply
the
defaulte
or
lacke
.
And
therfore
the
poete
Hesiodus
marueilously
well
sayth
:
If
to
a
lytell
thou
addest
a
lyttell
more
In
space
of
tyme
thou
shalle
haue
mykell
store
.
Let
not
this
be
forgoten
of
parentes
,
that
the
parte
of
doctrine
concernynge
memorie
,
is
not
onely
a
great
porcion
of
lernynge
,
but
also
of
other
necessaries
to
mans
lyfe
apperteignynge
.
And
verily
remembraunce
of
a●●aires
done
in
tyme
passed
,
is
an
example
and
myrrour
the
better
to
consider
thynges
to
come
.
Children
more
ouer
ought
to
be
refrayned
from
dyshonest
&
rebaulde
communicacion
.
For
as
Democritus
saith
:
Speche
is
the
shadowe
of
dedes
.
Also
it
muste
be
forseen
,
that
children
be
made
in
answeringe
curteise
,
and
swete
in
salutinge
.
For
as
stourdie
and
soure
facion
in
spekinge
/
maketh
a
man
odious
&
disdayned
:
so
children
gete
the
loue
of
theyr
companions
,
if
whan
they
be
demanded
,
they
be
not
in
theyr
answeres
strange
and
vncurteise
.
It
is
not
commendable
to
vanquishe
&
subdue
other
,
but
also
to
knowe
howe
to
be
vanquished
,
specially
in
these
thynges
,
wherin
victory
is
cause
of
detriment
or
losse
.
Suche
was
the
victory
of
Cadmus
(
whiche
was
in
this
wise
as
some
men
suppose
.
Cadmus
the
sonne
of
Agenor
kynge
of
Egypte
was
the
fyrst
founder
of
the
citie
of
Theb●s
,
of
whom
by
succession
came
Edipus
,
whiche
maried
Iocasta
his
owne
moder
,
and
had
by
her
two
sonnes
Etheocles
and
Polynices
,
betwene
whome
was
mortall
warre
for
the
kyngedome
of
Thebes
:
Polynyces
the
yonger
brother
,
hauynge
in
his
ayde
the
Arg●u●s
.
But
fynally
the
Thebanes
,
of
the
part
of
Eth●ocles
had
the
victorie
,
whiche
was
with
small
profite
or
honour
.
For
Polinices
hath
wounded
Eth●ocles
his
brother
to
dethe
:
But
moued
with
compassion
,
as
he
stoped
downe
to
releue
his
sayd
brother
who
offered
to
kysse
hym
,
Eth●ocles
incontinent
slewe
his
said
brother
.
And
so
was
the
ende
of
the
batayle
myserable
and
despiteous
.
And
by
reason
that
Cadmus
was
h●ed
&
chiefe
of
their
lynage
,
it
was
called
Cadmus
victorie
,
&
vsed
for
a
prouerbe
,
where
domage
groweth
by
victorye
.
Of
that
I
haue
spoken
is
wytnesse
the
wyse
Euripides
,
whiche
sayth
in
this
maner
:
where
〈◊〉
do
●raule
,
and
the
one
is
in
fury
He
that
refrayneth
,
the
wy●er
is
truely
.
Other
exercises
there
be
,
which
are
no
lesse
to
be
estemed
of
yonge
men
,
than
they
,
whiche
be
rebersed
:
that
is
to
lay
,
no●
to
lyue
to
delicately
/
to
refrayne
the
tonge
,
subdue
wrathe
,
conteyne
the
handes
,
&
what
apperteyneth
to
euery
of
these
,
It
is
to
be
sene
and
occlared
/
not
withstandynge
they
shall
●e●te
appere
by
example
,
&
to
begynne
at
the
last
.
Dyuers
that
haue
put
theyr
handes
to
vnlaufull
gaynes
,
haue
,
loste
all
er
they
dyed
.
Bilippus
a
noble
Lacedemon
,
onely
for
bycause
he
dyd
vnknyt
certeine
bagges
of
money
,
he
was
banisshed
●or
euer
out
of
his
countre
.
It
is
the
propertie
of
a
wyse
man
,
not
to
be
vanquisshed
with
anger
.
On
a
tyme
a
wanton
and
presumptuous
yonge
man
,
with
his
hele
strake
Socrates
(
whiche
was
in
his
tyme
the
wysest
man
of
Grece
)
&
whan
Socrates
perceyued
,
that
they
whiche
were
in
his
company
toke
it
d●●plesantly
,
&
were
therwith
soore
chaufed
,
in
so
moche
that
they
wolde
haue
reuenged
hym
,
he
sayd
vnto
them
:
what
if
an
asse
had
bytte
me
with
her
bele
/
thynke
you
it
were
mete
I
shulde
kyke
ageyne
at
her
:
wherfore
he
wold
not
suffre
them
to
folowe
the
person
that
strake
hym
.
In
conclusion
the
yonge
man
,
whan
men
had
longe
tyme
rebuked
hym
,
and
euery
where
called
him
a
kiker
,
for
pure
shame
at
the
laste
●ynge
hym selfe
.
whan
Aristophanes
in
his
enterlude
,
whiche
he
called
the
Cloudes
,
had
spoken
many
rebukes
o●
Socrates
,
&
one
beinge
present
redynge
it
,
sayd
:
Socrates
,
art
not
thou
herewith
angry
.
No
on
my
faith
said
Socrates
,
it
greueth
me
no
more
to
be
scoffed
at
in
the
hall
,
where
playes
be
accustomed
to
be
,
than
if
it
were
at
a
feast
or
banket
.
Semblably
did
Architas
&
Plato
the
philosophers
.
Architas
returnyng
from
batayle
(
for
he
was
moche
part
in
warres
,
sounde
his
lande
out
of
tilth
&
disfigured
,
he
called
forth
his
baylife
of
husbandrie
&
sayd
vnto
hym
:
If
I
were
sure
that
I
shuld
not
be
angry
,
thou
shuldest
repent
the.
Plato
being
moued
with
his
seruant
,
that
was
a
riot●ous
person
,
called
Speusippus
his
neuewe
,
&
sayd
to
hym
:
Go
beate
this
●●low
,
for
I
am
to
moch
chaufed
&
angry
.
Perchance
some
wyl
say
,
that
these
be
great
&
difficult
matters
to
folowe
:
&
I
knowe
well
so
they
be
,
but
yet
we
muste
with
all
our
myght
enforce
vs
,
that
vsing
these
&
other
lyke
ensamples
,
at
the
laste
we
may
withdrawe
a
great
parte
of
inordinate
and
vengeable
angre
.
For
where
in
other
thynges
we
may
not
compare
with
these
wyse
men
,
in
doctrine
nor
vertue
/
yet
neuer
the
lasse
let
vs
with
al
our
power
endeuour
our
●elfes
(
which
be
the
seruantes
of
god
,
&
expounders
of
his
wyl
berynge
lyght
in
our
handes
/
folowe
or
at
the
lest
scrape
of
some
frute
of
theyr
examples
.
Nowe
remayneth
to
declare
the
refraynyng
of
the
tonge
,
accordynge
as
I
purposed
.
¶
Howe
premeditation
ought
to
be
vsed
with
a
pleasant
narration
of
Vlysses
and
Polyphemus
.
Ca.
xi
.
VUho
so
speaketh
contemtuously
or
vnaduisedly
,
tho
it
be
but
lyttell
,
he
very
moche
do●herre
.
For
oportunite
in
silence
is
a
great
part
of
wysedome
&
moche
better
than
spekynge
.
Therfore
our
elders
haue
shewed
vnto
vs
mistical
&
darke
ceremonies
&
prouerbes
:
wherby
we
beyng
one●
accustomed
to
silence
,
may
conuert
the
●ere
and
reuerence
that
be
in
diuine
secretes
/
to
●ayth
or
credence
to
be
had
in
the
mysteries
and
wyse
sentenses
of
men
:
wherof
diuerse
hereafter
ensue
.
Of
silence
neuer
man
repented
.
But
of
spekyng
many
.
More
ouer
,
that
sylence
kepeth
,
may
sone
be
vttred
,
but
it
that
ones
is
vttred
,
may
neuer
be
reuoked
.
I
remembre
dyuers
,
that
by
their
intemperate
langage
haue
susteyned
moche
domage
.
And
in
leauyng
al
other
,
it
shal
suffise
to
remembre
one
or
two
,
in
settynge
out
of
this
matter
.
Kynge
Alexander
the
great
conquerour
,
commanded
the
Grekes
to
ordeyn
garmentes
of
purple
,
that
whan
he
returned
from
his
conqueste
,
they
myght
in
that
apparaile
honour
his
victory
that
he
had
agaynst
them
of
the
orient
,
with
solemne
sacrifice
:
The
people
for
that
entent
paying
heed
siluer
:
One
Theocrite
a
philsopher
sayd
to
Alexander
:
I
haue
ben
a
great
whyle
in
doute
,
but
nowe
I
perceiue
clerely
by
the
sayeng
of
Homer
,
that
this
shal
be
thy
purple
deth
.
By
which
wordes
he
brought
him selfe
in
to
the
high
indignation
of
Alexander
.
The
same
Theocrite
embraydinge
king
Antigonus
who
had
but
one
eie
/
with
blindnes
:
prouoked
hym
to
displesure
.
For
on
a
tyme
kynge
Antigonus
had
commanded
to
come
vnto
him
one
Eutropion
his
mayster
coke
,
which
was
also
a
capitayne
in
his
armye
/
to
reken
with
hym
concernynge
his
office
,
which
the
sayd
Theocrite
often
tymes
came
and
shewed
to
Eutropion
,
and
seynge
hym
make
no
haste
,
sayd
vnto
hym
:
I
se
well
thou
wylte
serue
me
in
rawe
to
Cyclops
.
In
which
wordes
be
enbraided
the
king
with
blindnes
,
and
the
capitayne
Etropyon
with
cokerye
.
Therfore
sayde
Eutropion
/
thou
shalte
lose
thy
heed
/
and
suffre
penaunce
for
thy
bablynge
and
rayshenes
,
and
furthwith
shewed
the
wordes
to
the
kyng
,
who
in
his
fury
immediatly
sent
one
to
slee
Theocrite
.
But
er
I
procede
any
further
,
I
wyl
shewe
the
historie
of
Cyclops
,
which
is
here
remembred
,
that
the
taunt
or
rebuke
gyuen
by
Theocrite
may
the
better
be
vnderstande
.
After
that
the
citie
of
Troye
was
destroyed
,
the
Grekes
laded
with
inestimable
riches
prepared
their
returne
into
their
countreys
,
amonge
whom
the
wyse
and
eloquent
Vlisses
,
by
whose
policie
the
Grekes
had
exployted
their
affaires
,
trauayled
longe
on
the
sees
:
to
whom
did
happen
maruailous
and
strange
aduentures
.
Of
the
whiche
one
the
most
wonderfull
was
,
that
by
tempest
he
and
his
company
were
dryuen
through
two
daungerous
passages
:
wherof
one
was
a
great
and
horrible
rocke
named
Scilla
:
the
other
a
gulfe
or
swalow
called
Charibdis
:
and
finally
arryued
in
Sicile
,
whiche
at
that
tyme
was
named
Trinacria
,
and
was
onely
inhabyted
with
monsterous
people
,
whiche
were
of
great
&
huge
stature
like
geauntes
,
and
had
but
one
eie
,
whiche
was
great
and
rounde
,
in
the
middes
of
their
forheed
,
and
were
called
Cyclopes
.
The
chiefe
or
capitayne
of
them
was
named
Polyphemus
,
who
excelled
al
the
other
in
enormitie
of
stature
.
As
Vlisses
&
diuers
of
his
company
were
entred
into
the
Isle
to
reste
&
solace
them
after
their
trauaile
,
they
were
incontynent
deprehended
by
the
said
Ciclopes
,
&
caried
into
the
horrible
caues
or
dennes
made
in
the
rockes
:
where
the
giantes
did
eate
the
said
Grekes
rawe
,
and
like
to
raueninge
wolfes
/
crushed
the
heedis
&
bones
of
men
betwene
their
tethe
,
that
the
braynes
&
marowe
dropped
downe
by
theyr
mouthes
.
Suche
was
the
terrible
power
and
rauyne
of
the
Ciclopes
.
But
whan
Vlisses
perceyued
the
imminent
perill
that
he
was
in
,
he
with
most
swete
&
delectable
wordes
appesed
the
rage
of
Polyphemus
the
giante
/
that
toke
him
,
who
heringe
the
wonderfull
eloquence
of
Vlisses
,
demanded
of
him
his
name
,
and
he
answered
,
that
he
was
called
Noman
.
The
giant
delited
&
had
moche
pleasure
at
the
beautie
and
eloquence
of
Vlisses
,
whiche
he
perceiuinge
,
gaue
vnto
the
giant
a
delectable
potion
,
wherof
he
toke
suche
abundance
,
that
he
became
therwith
dronke
,
and
fell
into
a
d●ed
&
heuy
slepe
:
that
perceiuing
Vlisses
,
he
withdrew
him
priuely
,
and
conueyed
him
vnder
the
deade
bodyes
,
vntyll
the
tyme
that
he
was
assured
,
that
the
giant
slepte
faste
,
than
he
toke
his
sworde
,
&
for
the
greatnes
of
the
giantis
body
,
beinge
longe
in
a
doubt
where
to
stryke
him
,
so
that
he
might
be
most
sure
of
him
,
at
the
last
with
al
his
might
he
perced
the
eie
of
the
giant
,
&
put
it
clene
out
:
but
he
was
so
drowned
in
slepe
,
that
he
therwith
coude
not
awake
.
As
Vlisses
perceiued
that
he
had
made
blynd
the
giant
,
be
with
all
haste
returned
to
his
shippes
&
set
vp
all
the
sayles
,
&
passed
with
all
hast
possible
into
the
mayne
see
.
After
that
Polyphemus
was
waked
,
and
than
felte
great
peyne
of
his
wounde
,
&
that
he
had
vtterly
lost
his
eie
,
perceyuynge
that
he
was
betrayed
by
Vlisses
,
he
supposynge
Vlisses
had
ben
yet
in
his
denne
or
caue
stode
vp
spredyng
his
armes
before
the
hole
of
the
caue
,
thinkynge
to
kepe
therin
Vlisses
:
but
whan
he
had
longe
tyme
so
taried
,
&
at
the
laste
perceiued
that
he
was
fledde
,
he
wandred
in
to
the
Ile
rorynge
with
a
terrible
voyce
:
wherwith
there
repaired
vnto
hym
the
other
Ciclopes
or
giauntes
/
and
seynge
hym
sore
hurt
and
bledyng
demanded
him
who
had
so
hurted
&
wounded
him
:
And
he
said●
Noman
:
supposynge
that
had
ben
the
name
of
Vlysses
.
But
whan
they
coulde
haue
none
other
answere
of
knowlege
of
him
,
thinkynge●
that
he
had
ben
madde
,
departed
their
ways
:
And
Polyphemus
desired
to
be
auenged
on
Vlisses
,
as
destracte
and
madde
,
pursued
hym
vnto
the
see
,
where
he
entred
so
far
,
that
notwithstanding
his
strength
and
greatnes
,
he
fynally
was
drowned
.
And
Vlisses
by
his
eloquence
and
excellent
witte
escaped
from
being
eate
by
the
giantes
.
By
this
fable
it
appereth
,
that
Theocrite
by
namynge
of
Ciclops
,
noted
and
inbrayded
kynge
Antigonus
with
crueltie
and
also
with
his
blemysshe
of
one
eie
.
And
by
the
sayenge
of
Theocrite
,
that
Eutropion
wolde
serue
by
●
in
rawe
,
he
noted
hym
with
his
crafte
of
cokery
and
that
he
was
out
of
his
kechyn
/
where
he
shulde
roste
or
sethe
hym
.
But
to
returne
to
our
purpose
.
Children
must
be
accustomed
to
speake
nothinge
but
tre●the
.
For
lyinge
is
a
detestable
vice
,
and
to
be
hated
of
all
men
,
ne
to
be
suffred
amonge
seruantis
ne
other
persones
/
howe
poure
estate
so
euer
they
be
of
.
¶
what
inconueniences
do
happen
by
the
negligence
of
faders
.
And
of
the
reuerent
preceptes
of
Pythagoras
.
Ca.
xii
.
NOwe
sens
I
haue
treated
of
the
fyrste
bryngynge
vp
of
chyldren
,
and
training
them
in
good
maners
,
I
wil
bere
after
in
fewe
wordes
passe
furth
vnto
the
more
ripenes
of
youth
.
Often
tymes
I
haue
thought
moche
occasion
of
yll
and
corrupted
maners
to
be
in
suche
,
whiche
hauynge
chyldren
of
theyr
owne
,
durynge
their
infancy
and
tender
youthe
commytte
them
to
good
maysters
and
tutours
,
and
as
soone
as
they
do
entre
into
mannes
age
,
they
abandon
them
,
and
suffre
them
to
lyue
at
theyr
pleasure
.
wherin
contrarye
wyse
in
that
entre
and
ieoper●ous
tyme
more
hede
oughte
to
be
taken
of
them
,
than
whan
they
were
chyldren
.
For
men
knowe
well
,
that
the
defautes
of
chyldren
be
of
lyght
importance
,
and
lyghtly
redressed
:
as
perchance
it
may
happe
/
by
neglygence
of
tutours
and
lacke
of
obedience
.
But
the
offences
of
them
whiche
be
commen
to
yfect
yeres
,
be
more
greuous
often
tymes
&
full
of
danger
,
as
riottous
lyuynge
consumynge
substance
&
inheritance
,
inordinate
&
chargeable
gaminge
,
ingurgitacions
and
surfettes
,
defloracion
of
maydens
,
corruptynge
good
women
,
and
auoutryes
.
These
inconueniences
ought
in
tyme
&
spedily
to
be
repressed
.
For
the
delicate
flower
of
youthe
vneth
maye
be
preserued
from
the
violence
of
bodily
luste
,
onles
he
be
brideled
.
wherfore
they
,
whiche
withstande
not
youthe
in
their
children
:
litell
force
what
libertie
of
ymaginacion
they
gyue
vnto
them
to
commytte
vyce
.
wherfore
wyse
fathers
,
hauynge
chyldren
,
at
that
estate
and
yeres
wyll
haue
to
them
a
vigilante
eye
,
that
they
may
the
rather
induce
them
in
to
temperance
,
some
tyme
exhortynge
,
another
tyme
menasynge
,
other
whyles
desyrynge
,
in
lyke
wyse
counsaylynge
,
eftsones
promysynge
,
or
other
wyse
alluringe
:
some
tyme
declarynge
to
them
,
what
daungers
&
troubles
them selfe
in
youthe
haue
susteyned
:
or
howe
by
vertue
and
sufferance
they
haue
atteyned
bothe
laude
and
honour
.
For
the
two
principall
occasions
of
vertue
,
be
feare
of
peyne
,
and
hope
of
rewarde
:
the
one
dysposeth
a
man
to
actes
of
honestie
,
the
other
maketh
hym
slowe
to
do
yll
.
Fynally
we
must
amoue
chyldren
from
the
company
of
ryottous
and
●lagicious
persones
.
For
by
them
they
shall
be
with
vice
and
vnthriftines
corrupted
.
To
this
purpose
were
lefte
by
Pythagoras
the
noble
philosopher
;
wonderfull
and
good
preceptes
in
darke
sentences
,
whiche
I
purpose
nowe
to
expounde
.
For
they
be
ryght
necessary
for
the
opteynynge
of
vertue
.
The
preceptes
be
in
this
wyse
.
Taste
nothynge
that
hath
a
Blacke
tayte
,
That
is
to
saye
,
company
with
no
persone
,
whose
maners
be
spotted
with
vice
.
Leape
not
ouer
the
Balaunce
,
Esteme
Iustice
,
and
skyppe
not
ouer
hit
.
Sytte
not
in
idelnes
,
eschewe
idelnes
and
prouide
diligently
for
thy
lyuynge
.
Gyue
not
to
euery
man
thy
ryght
hade
,
reconcile
the
not
to
sone
to
thin
ennemye
without
good
auisement
.
Weare
not
to
strayte
a
vynge
,
beare
the
so
,
that
thou
kepe
the
out
of
bondes
.
Cutte
not
the
fyre
with
weapon
,
do
not
irritate
a
man
in
his
furye
,
but
rather
whan
he
rageth
,
gyue
place
to
his
anger
.
Eate
no
harte
,
what
doth
it
els
signifie
,
but
accombre
not
thy
mynde
with
thoughtes
,
ne
do
not
fatigate
the
with
cares
?
A●steyne
from
●eanes
,
Busy
not
thy selfe
with
ouer
mani
matters
.
In
the
olde
tyme
iuges
were
electe
by
lottis
made
of
beanes
.
Put
not
thy
meate
in
a
traye
,
put
not
good
sentenses
and
vertuous
lernynges
,
into
a
foule
&
corrupte
mynde
.
For
lernynge
and
vertuous
communicacion
is
to
the
mynde
norishement
,
but
with
dishonestie
and
vice
the
mynde
is
defyled
.
At
the
ende
of
thy
iourney
couet
not
to
go
backe
,
whan
deth
cometh
,
take
it
in
good
part
&
sorowe
not
.
¶
What
company
is
pernicious
to
chyldren
.
Ca.
xiii
.
BUt
nowe
to
returne
to
the
purpose
that
I
fyrste
spake
of
.
Let
vs
withdrawe
our
chyldren
from
men
of
yll
disposition
,
and
specially
flatterers
&
dyssemblers
.
And
I
doubte
not
to
aduertyse
you
faders
,
there
is
nat
lyuynge
a
thynge
more
mischeuous
than
flatterers
,
nor
any
thynge
that
soner
causeth
yonge
men
to
decay
,
than
they
,
who
confounde
bothe
the
fathers
and
chyldren
,
turmentynge
the
fathers
age
with
pensiuenes
,
and
subuertynge
the
yonge
men
with
pernicious
counsayle
,
surmisyng
pleasure
,
where
in
is
bydde
a
bayte
of
vice
and
vnthryftynes
.
The
fathers
exhorte
theyr
chyldren
,
whiche
haue
abundance
to
sobrenes
:
the
flatterers
stere
them
to
riotte
and
wantonnesse
.
The
fathers
aduise
them
to
vse
mesurable
sparynge
:
the
flatterers
sumptuous
expenses
and
reuelynge
.
The
one
preyseth
labour
and
exercise
:
the
other
slouthe
and
desolute
idelnes
/
supposynge
that
man
liueth
but
a
moment
:
wherfore
he
shulde
lyue
frankely
and
lyberally
,
and
not
skantly
.
Nowe
a
dayes
what
carethe
the
chylde
for
the
fathers
menace
thinkynge
that
in
age
his
father
doteth
.
And
yet
often
tyme
suche
chyldren
we
preyse
and
make
moche
of
:
All
be
it
diuers
of
them
haunte
brothels
,
and
some
tyme
marie
dishonestly
,
●o●ten
tymes
●●●●nge
and
spe●dynge
awaye
theyr
fathers
substance
,
wherwith
they
shulde
honestely
lyue
in
theyr
age
.
Dissemblers
of
frendshyppe
is
an
vnhappy
kynde
of
people
,
absteynynge
from
all
lybertie
of
speche
,
onely
flatterynge
the
great
men●
and
sk●minge
the
poure
men
/
also
prepared
to
disceyue
yonge
men
.
For
whan
they
do
se
them
skorne
their
parentes
or
tutours
,
they
also
laugh
with
them
,
as
men
on
all
partes
impfect
and
alienate
from
their
nature
.
For
where
god
made
them
fre
,
with
flattery
they
do
bryng
them selfe
in
bondage
,
also
thinkynge
them selfe
not
regarded
,
whan
they
syt
at
other
mens
tables
,
if
they
be
not
iested
at
&
rebuked
.
wherfore
he
that
is
a
father
,
&
desireth
the
good
bringinge
yp
of
his
children
,
let
hym
in
any
wyse
put
away
&
abiect
those
lothely
beastis
and
vnthryfty
companyons
.
For
by
them
a
gentyll
nature
may
sone
be
abused
and
corrupted
.
¶
Of
meanes
to
dissuade
yonge
men
from
vyce
,
and
of
example
to
be
gyuen
by
their
parentes
.
Ca.
xiiii
.
THe●e
thynges
also
be
honest
and
commendable
,
that
I
wyll
nowe
speake
of
.
I
wyll
not
that
the
parentes
shuld
be
to
sharpe
or
harde
to
theyr
children
,
but
some
tyme
to
remytte
and
forgyue
their
offences
passed
,
&
to
remember
theyr
owne
fragilitie
and
youthe
,
lyke
as
physicions
do
myxte
bytter
medicynes
with
delectable
lycours
,
fyndynge
the
meane
,
to
ioyne
pleasure
with
profyte
in
company
:
so
ought
the
fathers
to
tempre
rygour
with
mercye
,
and
the
chyldren
some
tyme
shulde
haue
their
brydell
slaked
,
to
haue
somewhat
theyr
pleasures
.
Specially
fautes
that
be
lyght
shulde
be
casely
taken
:
Or
if
the
parentis
be
angrye
,
it
shulde
be
withoute
great
chaufynge
or
trouble
of
mynde
:
it
is
better
that
the
father
be
sone
angry
than
soore
.
For
he
that
is
so
harde
harted
,
that
his
son
can
not
opteyne
his
fauour
,
but
with
greate
difficultie
,
it
may
be
apparent
,
that
therby
he
causeth
his
sonne
to
hate
hym
.
And
somtime
it
is
necessary
to
dissemble
a
lyght
and
small
faute
,
applienge
the
defnes
and
dulle
sencis
of
age
to
the
actis
of
their
children
,
that
many
thynges
they
se
not
lokynge
,
nor
here
not
hiringe
.
Syns
we
suffre
the
defautes
of
our
frendes
and
seruauntes
,
what
wonder
is
it
,
though
some
tyme
we
do
suffre
our
children
.
By
suche
meanes
the
wildnes
of
youthe
,
lyke
to
a
colte
,
wisely
wayed
and
broken
,
is
made
gentyll
and
sobre
.
Aboue
all
thynges
take
hede
,
that
they
,
whiche
be
vtterly
enclyned
to
lechery
/
and
be
incorrigible
,
may
haue
wiues
and
be
maried
.
For
that
is
the
moste
sure
bridell
of
youth
.
And
prouyde
for
them
wyues
,
that
neyther
be
to
ryche
,
neither
of
to
hygh
bloud
or
stocke
.
For
it
is
a
prouerbe
replenyshed
with
wysedome
:
Seke
the
a
wyfe
p●re●●e
vnto
the.
For
they
that
take
wyues
moche
better
than
them selfes
,
they
forgete
that
they
haue
made
them selfe
not
husbandes
,
but
bonde
men
.
Nowe
addynge
here
to
a
fewe
thinges
,
I
shall
make
an
ende
of
this
matter
.
Aboue
al
thinges
it
is
moste
expedient●
that
the
fathers
be
a
true
example
to
theyr
children
/
not
only
in
doynge
none
yuel
,
but
doinge
many
good
actis
and
faites
,
that
beholdynge
theyr
fathers
lyues
,
as
it
were
a
myrrour
,
the
children
may
eschewe
al
foule
or
vnsemely
act
or
word
.
For
who
so
rebuketh
his
chylde
of
vice
,
and
he
hym selfe
falleth
into
the
same
,
it
semeth
he
knoweth
nor
,
that
vnder
the
name
of
his
chylde
,
he
accuseth
hym selfe
.
And
to
conclude
shortely
,
they
which
spende
their
lyues
vnthriftly
,
they
exclude
them selfes
from
libertie
to
rebuke
theyr
owne
sonnes
or
seruantes
,
&
in
theyr
yuell
doinge
they
gyue
as
it
were
counsyll
and
helpe
to
other
,
to
committe
like
offence
.
More
ouer
where
age
is
shameles
there
nedes
must
youth
be
without
shamefastnes
.
To
gete
youre
childe
temperance
and
honestie
,
take
hede
,
that
euery
thynge
be
done
with
good
conuenience
and
ordre
.
And
therin
lette
vs
folowe
Euridice
a
noble
woman
,
who
all
be
hit
that
she
was
barbarous
and
fer
from
lernynge
,
yet
in
her
age
she
atteined
to
high
study
and
doctrine
,
to
the
entente
to
bringe
vp
her
children
,
as
it
is
declared
in
her
epigram
,
whiche
she
dyd
dedicate
to
the
Muses
:
Euridice
the
Hiropolitan
after
she
had
obteined
her
desire
of
lerninge
,
she
hath
dedicate
this
remembrance
to
the
〈◊〉
For
after
that
her
children
●ame
to
age
of
discrecion
,
she
beinge
a
mother
and
aged
,
with
great
peyne
and
studye
,
lerned
letters
,
whiche
be
the
moniment
of
vertue
.
To
do
all
that
hath
ben
●ehersed
/
pauenture
I
may
soner
wyss
be
it
than
persuade
it
:
but
to
folowe
it
as
nere
as
we
can●
it
requireth
the
goodnes
of
nature
,
and
also
diligence
,
I
am
sure
/
that
by
mannes
witte
it
may
be
performed
and
brought
to
passe
.
¶
Thus
endeth
this
very
golden
boke
,
called
the
Education
of
children
.
¶
Imprinted
at
London
in
Fletestrete
,
in
the
house
o●
Thomas
Berthelet
,
nere
to
the
Cundite
,
at
the
sygne
of
Lucrece
.
CVM
PRIVILEGIO
A
REGE
IN
DVLTO
.