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Os the duty os Masters.
25
PliiuepiJiJib.Q,
ikdtiindo ajfetiuMiby putting on a Father’s afFestion to-
ward him : and, as Pliny saith, Amore, non artisice do~
cente^ qni opimus Magister eft , to win his heart and
affe&ion by love,which is thebett matter: the Scholler
again, on the contrary. So may adiscreet Matter, with
as much or more ease, both to himself and his Schol-
ler, teach him to play at Tennise, or shootat Rovers
in the sield, and prosit him more in one month befide
his encouragement, than in a half a year with his strist
and severe usage. But, in ftead hereof, many os out
Matters sor the ntost part so behave themselves, that
their very name is hatefull to the Scholler, who trem-
bles at their coming in, rejoyces at their absence, and
looks his Matter ( returned ) in the face, as his deadly
enemy.
Some affest, and severer Schools enforce, a precise
and tedious stristness, in long keeping the Schollers
by the walls 5 as from before six in the morning, till
twelve, or past ; so likewisein the afternoon : which
beside the dulling of the wit, and deje&ing the Spirit,
('for, Qtii non minus qubm negotii ratio extare debet ) .
breeds in hint afterward, a kind of hate and careles- fisf ft*
nessof ttudy when he conies to be suijurU, at his own
liberty, ( as experience proves by many, who are Cent
from severe Schools unto the Uhiversities): withall,
overloading his memory, and taking off the edgeof
his invention, with over-heavy taskes, in Themes,
V-rses, 8ec. To be* continually poring on the Book
( saith Socrates ) hurts and weakens the memory very
much; asfirming,Learning to be sooner attained by the C°nversc with
eare in discourse and hearing, than by the eye in con- knerrfua*
titmall reading. I verily believe the same, if We had {ii- Riding.
stru&ors and Matters at hand, as ready as books. For
we see by experience, those who have been blind srom
their birth, to retain more by hearing, than others by
their eyes, let them read neter somuch : wherefore
Tub ins would have, Istud ediscendi tadiuni potisius k
peris devorari> this same toyle or tddioustless of lear-
E ning
25
PliiuepiJiJib.Q,
ikdtiindo ajfetiuMiby putting on a Father’s afFestion to-
ward him : and, as Pliny saith, Amore, non artisice do~
cente^ qni opimus Magister eft , to win his heart and
affe&ion by love,which is thebett matter: the Scholler
again, on the contrary. So may adiscreet Matter, with
as much or more ease, both to himself and his Schol-
ler, teach him to play at Tennise, or shootat Rovers
in the sield, and prosit him more in one month befide
his encouragement, than in a half a year with his strist
and severe usage. But, in ftead hereof, many os out
Matters sor the ntost part so behave themselves, that
their very name is hatefull to the Scholler, who trem-
bles at their coming in, rejoyces at their absence, and
looks his Matter ( returned ) in the face, as his deadly
enemy.
Some affest, and severer Schools enforce, a precise
and tedious stristness, in long keeping the Schollers
by the walls 5 as from before six in the morning, till
twelve, or past ; so likewisein the afternoon : which
beside the dulling of the wit, and deje&ing the Spirit,
('for, Qtii non minus qubm negotii ratio extare debet ) .
breeds in hint afterward, a kind of hate and careles- fisf ft*
nessof ttudy when he conies to be suijurU, at his own
liberty, ( as experience proves by many, who are Cent
from severe Schools unto the Uhiversities): withall,
overloading his memory, and taking off the edgeof
his invention, with over-heavy taskes, in Themes,
V-rses, 8ec. To be* continually poring on the Book
( saith Socrates ) hurts and weakens the memory very
much; asfirming,Learning to be sooner attained by the C°nversc with
eare in discourse and hearing, than by the eye in con- knerrfua*
titmall reading. I verily believe the same, if We had {ii- Riding.
stru&ors and Matters at hand, as ready as books. For
we see by experience, those who have been blind srom
their birth, to retain more by hearing, than others by
their eyes, let them read neter somuch : wherefore
Tub ins would have, Istud ediscendi tadiuni potisius k
peris devorari> this same toyle or tddioustless of lear-
E ning