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Plato politic.
In Phad/o,
The sirst and
main error of
Matters;
In Eihic*
Os the Duty os Ma filers,
chard: so youth, the April of mans life, is themott
natural aod convenient season to scattcr the Seeds os
knowledge upon the ground of the mind, iv$vc
i»n« opt)tidia saith Plato, It behooveth in youth out os hand,
to defire and bend our minds to learning:neither as good
Husbands, while time serveth, let slip one hour: sor,
saith he,elsewhere,0#r ground is hard,and our horses are
stnld: withal, if we mean to reap a plentiful harvest,
take we thecounsel of Adrassus in Euripides, To loo\
that the seed be good. For, in the soundation os youth, well
ordered and t aught,consisis ( saith Plato again) the flour -
ishingos the Common-wealth. This tender age is like
water spilt upon a table, which with a finger we may
draw and direst as we list; or like the young Hop,
which,if wanting a pole,takes hold of the nexc hedge:
so that now is the time (as Wax^to work it pliant to
any form.
How many excellent wits have we in this Land,thae
smellof the Cask,by negle&ing their young time when
they shouldhave learned Horace hisJ^/j setnel; once
fit for the beft Wine,lince too bad for the best Vineger;
who grown to years of diseretion, and solid uader-
slanding,deeply bewail their mis-spent,or mis- guided
youth, with too late wishing ('as l have heard many )
that they had lost a joynt,or half their estatC), sothat
they had been held to their Books when they were
young. The most (and not without cause) lay the fault
upon bad Matters; to say truth, it is a general plague
and complaint of the whole Land j for,for one discrecc
and able Teacher,you shail find twenty ignorant and
carelessc ; who ( among so many fertile and delicate
wits as England affords) where they make one Schol-
ler,marre ten.
The fir st and main Error of Matters, is want of dis-
eretion, when in such variety of Natures as different as
their countenances, the Master never labours to try the
strength of every capacity by it self,v which (as that
Lesbian stone Arisiotle spcaketh of) mu st have the rale
sitted
Plato politic.
In Phad/o,
The sirst and
main error of
Matters;
In Eihic*
Os the Duty os Ma filers,
chard: so youth, the April of mans life, is themott
natural aod convenient season to scattcr the Seeds os
knowledge upon the ground of the mind, iv$vc
i»n« opt)tidia saith Plato, It behooveth in youth out os hand,
to defire and bend our minds to learning:neither as good
Husbands, while time serveth, let slip one hour: sor,
saith he,elsewhere,0#r ground is hard,and our horses are
stnld: withal, if we mean to reap a plentiful harvest,
take we thecounsel of Adrassus in Euripides, To loo\
that the seed be good. For, in the soundation os youth, well
ordered and t aught,consisis ( saith Plato again) the flour -
ishingos the Common-wealth. This tender age is like
water spilt upon a table, which with a finger we may
draw and direst as we list; or like the young Hop,
which,if wanting a pole,takes hold of the nexc hedge:
so that now is the time (as Wax^to work it pliant to
any form.
How many excellent wits have we in this Land,thae
smellof the Cask,by negle&ing their young time when
they shouldhave learned Horace hisJ^/j setnel; once
fit for the beft Wine,lince too bad for the best Vineger;
who grown to years of diseretion, and solid uader-
slanding,deeply bewail their mis-spent,or mis- guided
youth, with too late wishing ('as l have heard many )
that they had lost a joynt,or half their estatC), sothat
they had been held to their Books when they were
young. The most (and not without cause) lay the fault
upon bad Matters; to say truth, it is a general plague
and complaint of the whole Land j for,for one discrecc
and able Teacher,you shail find twenty ignorant and
carelessc ; who ( among so many fertile and delicate
wits as England affords) where they make one Schol-
ler,marre ten.
The fir st and main Error of Matters, is want of dis-
eretion, when in such variety of Natures as different as
their countenances, the Master never labours to try the
strength of every capacity by it self,v which (as that
Lesbian stone Arisiotle spcaketh of) mu st have the rale
sitted