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For he that holds more wine than others can,
I rather count a hogfhead than a man.

Randolph.

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EDUCATIO N.

HE ploughman firft his land doth dress and turn,
And makes it apter ere the feed he fow,

Whereby he is full like to reap good corn,

Where otherwise no feed but weed would grow
By which enfample men may eas❜ly know
When youth have wealth before they well can use it,
It is no wonder though they do abuse it.
How can he rule well in a common-wealth,
Which knoweth not himself in rule to frame?
How should he rule himself in ghostly health,
Which never learn'd one leffon for the fame ?
If fuch catch harm their parents are to blame :
For needs must they be blind and blindly led,
Where no good leffon can be taught or read.
Some think their youth discreet and wifely taught,
That brag and boast, and wear their feather brave,
Can roift and rout, both low'r and look aloft,

Can fwear and ftare and call their fellows knave ;
Can pill and poll, and catch before they crave,
Can card and dice, both cog and dice at fair,
Play on unthrifty, till their purse be bare.

Some teach their youth to pipe, to fing and dance,

To hawk, to hunt, to choose, and kill their game, To wind their horn, and with their horfe to prance, To play at tennis, fet the lute in frame,

Run at the ring, and ufe fuch other game: Which feats, although they be not all unfit, Yet cannot they the mark of vertue hit.

For

For, noble youth, there is no thing fo meet
As learning is, to know the good from ill :..
To know the tongues and perfectly endite,
And of the laws to have a perfect skill,
Things to reform as right and juftice will:
For honour is ordained for no cause,
But to fee right maintained by the laws.
If fpites my heart to hear when noble men

Cannot disclose their fecrets to their friend,
In fafeguard fure, with paper, ink, and pen;
But first they muft a fecretary find,

To whom they fhew the bottom of their mind:
And be he falfe or true, a blab, or close ;
To him they muft their counfel needs disclose.

Cavil in the Mirror for Magiftrates.
Indeed our parents take great care to make
Us ask bleffing, and fay grace, when we are
Little ones; and growing to years of judgment,
They deprive us of the greatest bleffing,
And the moft gracious thing to our minds, the
Liberty of our minds: They give us pap
With a spoon before we can speak; and when
We speak for that we love, pap with a hatchet:
Because their fancies being grown multy

With hoary age, therefore nothing can relish
In their thoughts that favours of fweet youth; they
Study twenty years together to make us grow
As ftraight as a wand, and in the end, by
Bowing us, as crooked as a cammock.

Lilly's Mother Bombie. O England! full of fin, but most of floth!

Spit out thy phlegm, and fill thy breaft with glory : Thy gentry bleats, as if thy native cloth

Transfus'd a fheepifhnefs into thy ftory: Not that they all are fo; but that the most Are gone to grafs, and in the pafture loft.

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This lofs fprings chiefly from our education

Some till their ground, but let weeds choke; their fon;
Some mark a partridge, never their child's fashion:
Some ship them over, and the thing is done.
Study this art, make it thy great defign;
And if God's image move thee not, let thine.

Some great estates provide, but do not breed
A maft'ring mind; fo both are loft thereby :
Or else they breed them tender, make them need
All that they leave; this is flat poverty:
For he that needs five hundred pounds to live,
Is full as poor as he that needs but five.

The more politick fort

Herbert

Of parents will to handicrafts refort:
If they obferve their children do produce
Some flashings of a mounting genius,
Then must they, with all diligence invade
Some rifing calling, or fome gainful trade;
But if by chance, they have one leaden foul,
Born for to number eggs, he muft to school;
'Specially if fome patron will engage
Th'advowfon of a neighb'ring vicarage;
Strangé hedly-medly! who would make his fwine
-hounds, or hunt foxes with his kine.

Turn grey-h

Man's like a barren and ingrateful foil,

That feldom pays the labour of manuring.

Hall

Sir Robert Howard's Blind Lady.

E LO QUE NC E.

Pow'r above pow'rs! O heav'nly eloquence!"
That with the ftrong rein of commanding words,
Doft manage, guide, and mafter th' eminence
Of mens affections, more than all their fwords!

Shall we not offer to thy excellence,

The richest treasure that our wit affords ?

Thou

Thou that canft do much more with one poor pen,
Than all the pow'rs of princes can effect;
And draw, divert, difpofe, and fashion men,
Better than force or rigor can direct !
Should we this ornament of glory then,
As th' unmaterial fruits of fhades neglect ?

Men are more eloquent than women made;
But women are more pow'rful to perfuade.

Daniel

Randolph's Amyntas What is judicious eloquence to those Whose speech not up to others reafon grows, But climbs aloft to their own paffions height And as our feamen make no ufe of fight By any thing obferv'd in wide strange feas,. But only of the length of voyages;

Or elfe, as men in races make no stay

To draw large profpects of their breadth of way;
So they, in heedlefs races of the tongue,

Care not how broad their theme is, but how long:
Whilft fome of their low level take wife notes,
As Germans do of tales in paffage-boats:
Which to no use, nor aim of pleasure tend,
But that their length may with the journey end.
And yet they think their eloquence like that
By which you fuddenly end long debate ;
As if in ambush reafon watching lay,
To charge with a referve and get the day.
Yours can all turns and counter-turnings find
To catch opinion, as a fhip the wind;
Which blowing crofs, the pilot backward fteers,
And shifting fails, makes way when he laveers:
As this is eloquence, fo is it yours;

Which in the tongue's fierce war, fled truth fecures;
And when the few would to the many yield,

Lifts reafon's enfigns higher in the field.

Sir W. Davenant.

And

Bishop King

And wherefoe'er the fubject's beft, the fenfe
Is better'd by the fpeaker's eloquence.

ENEMY.

All men affright their foes in what they may,
Nature commands it, and men must obey.

Johnfon's Poetafter
Though all things do to harm him what they can,
No greater en'my to himself than man.

E. of Sterline's Julius Cæfar

An enemy, if it be well advis'd,
Though feeming weak, fhould never be defpis'd.
E. of Sterline's Darius

I love Dinant, mine enemy, nay, admire him;
His valour claims it from me, and with juftice:
He that could fight thus, in a caufe not honeft,
His fword edg'd with defence of right and honour,
Would pierce as deep as lightning, with that fpeed too,
And kill as deadly.

Beaumont and Fletcher's Little French Lawyer.

'Tis methinks a ftrange dearth of enemies,

When we feek foes among ourfelves.

Beaumont and Fletcher's Ifland Princefs

Think you he fears to violate an oath ?
"Tis ill to truft a reconciled foe;
Be still in readiness, you do not know
How foon he may affault us.

Webfler and Rowley's Thracian Wonder

Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree :
Love is a prefent for a mighty king;
Much lefs make any one thine enemy:
As guns deftroy, fo may a little fling.

The cunning workman never doth refufe
The meanest tool, that he may chance to use.

Herbert.

Let not thy foe ftill pafs without controlling,
Like fame and fnow-balls he'll get ftrength by rolling.
Aleyn's Crefcey.

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