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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	stand_v	young_a	youth_n	23	3	7.4692	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03082	The gouernement of all estates, wherein is contayned the perfect way to an honest life gathered out of many learned authors, a boke right profitable for all estates, but especiallie for the trayning [and] bringing vp of the yonger sort: written in Latin by that excellent learned man Andreus Hesse, translated into Englishe.	Schottennius, Hermannus.; Baarland, Adriaan van, 1486-1538. aut; Bourman, Nicholas.; Hermann IV, Landgrave of Hesse and Archbishop of Cologne, d. 1508, attributed name. aut	1566 (1566)	STC 13207; ESTC S116007	59,116	260

labor by al meanes by right or by wrōg to tast their sweete lickorouse and dilicate mouth then doe they fall into such idlenesse play pastimes and thefts and consequently into all kinde of wickednesse In this age the children of Rome were wont to hang their golden ornaments vp with a roope vpō the Tēple which they ware aboute their neckes from their infancie as thoughe they did renounce all childishenesse And then did they put on a fyne white gown garded with Purple in token to leaue all childish conditiōs and in exāple of a better more pure and honest lyfe that whē they shoulde see the whitenesse of their gownes they shoulde flye vice which maketh a man loke blacke and hated of other and beholding the brightnesse of the purple colour they shuld endeuour them selues that their godly vertuous lyuing shuld so shine whereby it might conciliat prayse of all men ¶ These were the dueties of children FIrste to worshippe almighty God with hūble prayers and a lowly syncere an obedient heart to honour and obey their Parents to loue and feare their Masters to giue diligent eare to these thre to flye what they forbid to execute and do what they cōmaund that thei learne the commaundements of God heare them taught seeke them out where as they be faythfully to followe them And it may easely be perceyued how that a yong man muste obey these three for of these thre cōsisteth our whole lyfe Of God we receyue our soules of oure parents our humaine subtāce and of our masters the instruction of our soule by which our lyfe differs from brute beastes Therefore expedient it is that we obey them least we seeme vngratefull and thanklesse De Adolescentia ADolescentia is the fourth age whiche beginneth from the fourtenth yeare of our lyfe and it is called Adolescentia of this worde Adolesco which signifieth to encrease to growe vpwarde for then man doeth encrease in bodye in strength in reason in vice and in Vertue yet are they more prone and flexible to vice than to Vertue And then is euery mans nature and disposition first knowen vnto what he is most inclined for before that age it can not be knowen through the childishenesse and foolishnesse of age But be they once sprōg vp this age they giue their minde to some kinde of exercise Terentiꝰ in Andria as Terence in his Comedie called Andria saith either to ryde horses or to kepe dogs for hunting or else to worship and learne of some notable lerned man As Horace wryteth also in his boke intituled de arte Poetica Imberbis Iuuenis tandem custode remoto Gaudet equis Canibꝰ aprici gramine cāpi Caercus in vitium flecti monitoribus asper Vtilium tardus prouisor prodigus aeris Sublimis cupidusque amata relīquere pnix When as the beardlesse man is past his Masters charge To brydle horse is his delight to sée Dogs runne at large To hunt the Fox or Hare to make a merry sporte In lusty youth is care to liue in such a sorte This age is double the first beginning from .xiiij. to .xviij. and it is called youth beardelesse bycause at those yeares yong men be without beards As Phoebus Phoebus otherwyse called Apollo stoode in auncient time in the Temples of the Gentiles without a beard As Vale. Max. wryteth in his firste booke de Neglecta religione Valerius Maximus lib. 1. de neg relig cōcerning the story of Dionisius Tyrannus Syracusanus Then from .xviij. yeares their Bearde doth begynne to grow and then they be called yong men with beards growing to mannes estate And this age doeth precipitate thrust downe hedlong a yong man into al kind of vice in idlenesse pastimes disobediēce glotony luxuriousnesse whore hūting pride prodigalitie and vnto al kinde of sensualitie consuming wasting their patrimonie friuolouslye nothing weighing their hore haires to come as al Comedies do plainly declare which intreate nothing of yōg men but howe they slashe out thier goodes on voluptuous pleasures and delicate bākets ¶ How Parents and Masters ought to traine vp yong men to vertue and honestie SEing therfore this age is more ready to vyce than all other ages be and doeth dayly more more giue it selfe hedlong to youthfull lustes and concupiscences euen as a yong Colte whome youth tickeleth therfore ought yong men of this age to be rained eyther of their parents or else of their Masters euen as the wilde starting horse is tamed and brydeled of the horse courser with pricking spurres In which thing parēts or masters must vse foure things if so be that they will bring them to any good passe that is to say with instruction with monition with large promesse laste of al with prayse threatnings ¶ Instruction consisteth of sixe Precepts WHereof the first is as I sayde before that they be taught chiefely and before all things to worshippe and pray vnto God who hath giuen essence and being to all hath fed and preserued al leauing no haynous crime vnpunished no vertuous dede vnrewarded giuing an euerlasting reward to the good and a perpetual punishment to the euil and that without his lawfull fauour and grace our mortalitie is able to comprehende nothing without his especiall grace we are not able to lyue a moment And therefore to be carefull least with our wicked lyfe we offende Secondly not to truste in worldly goodes and specially in the beauty of the body for the pulcritude thereof is a very frayle and mutale good Virgilius Eglog 2. as Virgil sayth in his second Eglog O formose puer nimiùm ne crede colori Alba ligustra cadūt vaccinia nigra legūtur O fayre sweéete boy Do thou not ioy of thy swéet pleasant face Trust not to much That thou art such beware in any case For Pepper is blacke And hath a good smacke and euery man will it bye Snowe is white And lyeth in the dyke and most men let it lye Neyther let it grieue them if nature haue not compoūded their limmes as well as shee hath done others but let them labour the they be farre bewtiful and splendent in minde Francisc Petrar li. de aduers fortuna For as Franciscus Petrar sayth in hys booke de aduersa fortuna Pulchrius est pulchrū fieri The fairest bewtie is a man to make him selfe bewtifull that is knoweledge and Vertue which is a farre fairer thing than to be borne faire and comely of personage And this cōmaundement was Socrates wont to teach his scholers that they should often cōtemplate and behold them selues in a glasse and seing thēselues faire of body and face they should also endeuour too make thēselues faire of mind For the body cōtayning within it a defiled minde is a gaye and a goodly Sepulchre concluding within it a rotten and a putrified body Wherfore our Sauiour Iesus Christ in hys holy Gospell called the Pharisies painted Sepulchres for that they outwardly appeared religious