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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09789	A president for parentes, teaching the vertuous training vp of children and holesome information of yongmen. / Written in greke by the prudent and wise phylosopher Chœroneus [sic] Plutarchus, translated and partly augmented by Ed. Grant: very profitable to be read of all those that desire to be parents of vertuous children. Anno. 1571. Seene and allowed according to the Quenes iniunctions.; De educatione puerorum. English	Plutarch.; Grant, Edward, 1540?-1601.	1571 (1571)	STC 20057.5; ESTC S110518	57,885	148

iniurious to them And to speak of the chefest things most pōdrous neither in prosperitie when fortune smileth on vs with louing looks to triūph with to much iolitie to be insolent with to much mirth neither in aduersity when fortune frouneth with cloudish coūtenance to dispaire to contristate or to be to heuy sorowful neither in pleasurs to be dissolute neither in anger to be passionated brutishly to be rigorous which I amongs al the other things which issue out of the sugry riuers of philosophie esteme and déeme the most antike chéef worthiest thing To be of a gentle corage fraught with generositie in time of florishing fortunate things is that propertie of a man in dede to be fortunate without the grudge of enuy is the signe of a most quiet peaceable placable man to resist struggle agaynst pleasures is the token of a wiseman to cohibite bridle anger is not in euery mans power But I iudge them perfite men which are able to interlarde and to concorporate the ciuill adimnistration of the publique weale with the study of wisedome And I suppose the same to be the eminent enlargers of two of the greatest goods For while to administer and gouerne the common weale they doo the things that appertayne to common vtilitie and while they be labrous and vigilante in the studies of good artes and intentiue in philosophie they ben in great tranquilitie and quietnesse There be thrée kinds of life the one is occupied in action or doing the seconde in knowledge the third in oblectation in the fruition of plesurs of which the last kind of life delicious voluptuous or gyuen to pleasures is beastlike brutyshe abiecte vyle vnworthie the excellencie of man And the life which in knowledge consisteth if it be disseuered or wander from the actiue lyfe it is vnprofitable vnfrutful and the actiue or ciuil life without philosophie and learning is rude rustickelyke vnhandsome and full of errours Men muste therefore laboure and wyth all theyr myghte they can proue assayle and bende their endeuours bothe ryghtely to rule the common weal and do the things which belong to publique commoditie as it is decent when time and oportunitie serueth to take vnto them the worthie workes learned volumes of Philosophie After this sort gouerned Pericles the common weale after this sorte Archytas Tarentinus Dion Syracusanus and Epaminondas the Thebane which were Platoes schollers And now concerning institution of Children I thinke I néede speake no more Besides these notwithstanding I iudge it a most profitable and necessary thing to be diligent in the acquiring of antique Bookes and monuments imitating the manner of husbādmen for euen as not the possession of many fieldes but diligent tillage and good husbādry doth enrich them so not by the possession of many bookes but by the diligent reading and pure iudgement therof as from a fountaine doe we drawe and acquire the knowledge of things science and good litterature And the olde students of wisdome in reading Bookes obserued this that thereout they myght gather excellent sentences wherewith they might direct and order their life And as Plutarche wytnesseth in an other Booke at that time when the vij wise men of Grece flourished all Philosophie was contained in bréefe few sentences which partly by experience partly by reding they acquired for the vse of cōmon life set forth as theyr profitable sentences which yet are extant doe manyfestly shew And what commoditie may come by the reading of them Lucretius full well knew saying Floriferis vt apes in saltibus omnia libant Sic nos authorum decerpimus aurea dicta Aurea perpetua semper dignissima vita As laborous bees in forrests greene doo sucke and floures taste So vve collecte the golden savves of authours in tymes past The golden savves that they haue left behynde in memorie And bookes of fame vvorthy in deede to liue perpetually Socrates also other faithfull teachers of youth if they toke children to teache enforme learne they cōpelled thē to lerne by heart the sentences of Poets orators and Philosophers that in time to come they might be a great profite to them to leade their life wel honestly blissedly Moreouer if any buy read that volumes of Philosophers cheefely Plato shall sée the sacred sentēces of Poetes which as goodly trim pictures they scattred sowed here there in their bookes Alexander Macedo that inuictorius king amōg so many turmoiles tumults sweats in war sustained almost surpassing the power of mā neuer neglected the reading of Homers workes which describeth to kings theyr dueties He would euer haue it layd togither with his dagger vnder his pillowe And that the diligent reding of good authors doth bring a wōderfull profit Demetrius Phalereus sufficiētly enough proued who exhorted king Ptolomeus to prepare him such bookes as intreted of a kingdom and warlike dominion to reuolue thē ouer bicause those things in bookes are writtē of which frēds dare not presume to admonish kings princes why speake I not of Alphōlus the worthy persenage famous king of Aragon who being vexed with sicknesse at the Citie Cap●a his Phisitions ministring many medicines in his greuous disease began to read the Histories of Quintus Curtius describing the noble gestes of Alexander the great with reading wherof he being delighted when he had ouercome all the violence of the sicknesse and restored to health Adew sayd he Auycen adew Hippocrates adewe Galene and other Phisitions liue for euer Quintus Curtius the restorer of my helth And the same king when he hard trumpeters and minstrels iangling taking in his handes the famous lucubrations of Tullie Be packing be packing ye Musitians say de he for Cicero the fresh fountaine of Romaine elequence is with me whiche speaketh more swete pleasante thinges And the same worthy prince at an other time whē he heard a king of Spayne say it was not decente for gentlemen and noble men to be learned lettered and to gaze vpon bookes is reported to haue exclamed haec non est regis sed bou●s vox This is not the voice of a king but of an Oxe No lesse louer of bookes and Monumentes of learning was Carolus Caesar the fourth Emperoure of Rome for entring into the schole of the Prageneians when he heard the masters of liberall sciences disputing the space of foure houres his Guard was offended and sayde supper tyme is at hande It is not ready saide he for me for this is my supper This renoumed personage and mightie Emperour preferred the philosophical disputations before most delicate banquets Carolus the fifth August Ferdinandus Caesar which fell into such turbulent times wherin the great cōfusion of the monarchie inuaded al orders as wel ciuil as spiritual except they had bin instructed from their youthe in good letters they could