behoofe write greater thinges then this ⧠The Speakers Philopas Chrisippus CHrisippus in these careles dayes wherin the blinde are bolde To force with wordes the truth of thinges wherin each man doth hold His owne deuise for reasons rule his will for perfect lawe Wherein eache one accountes his words for depthe of learned sawe What thinkst thou in this case of mine shoulde Infantes tender yéeres Bee trained vp and taught in booke eare wanton Childhood weares Or staye til time of greater strength that they then better maye Bee able to sustaine the toyle that learning lookth for aye And whereby theyr so tender sence more capable maye growe To bring foorth fruite of better thinges which carefull skill shall sowe Of truth it séemthe t were best that I my litle sonne at home Should keepe a while in childishe race and suffer him to rome To playe the wanton yet a while vntill such time as hée Through helpe of yéeres may labor beare and more capations bée Chrisippus ¶ Philopas I perceaue in you as in eache father nowe You wishe for fruite of tender soyle and yet forbeare the plowe At first at first Philopas when the minde is voyde of cares When heape of vice for want of place the witte of wanton spares While tender age is tractable while minde is apte to take Eache good precept and it retaine then then your entraunce make For olde men nought remember but suche thinges they learnde in youth If good therefore bée graft in time good fruite thereof ensuthe Estéeme for naught the wordes of suche as holde that infantes age Hath neyther strength to wade with pain ne witte for learning sage For first of all th entraunce vnto learning doeth consist In memorye aboue the rest and all men well it wiste That Children haue the aptest wittes both to retaine and holde To supple waxe the seale doth sticke not so to waxe that 's olde And for so muche as nature hath to learning vs begotte Why should wée thinke the learnde to sone that nature thinketh not Why should we déeme the study rashe of that same thing to bée Whereof by Nature séedes are sowne in eache yong Babe we sée Dame Nature in our mindes hath sowne the knowledge of eache thing Why shoulde wée then make nice those bloomes to better state to bring Besides al this some thinges there bée though néedeful to bée knowne Of elder sort yet those in Babes more easilye are sowne And soner setled than in such as are of riper time As Christ crosse rowe the skill of tongues fine tales and Catoes rime For briefe why is that age estéemde for learning so vnfitte Whiche all men sée so apte and prone good nourture for to gette Naye what wyl children sooner doe which once haue power to chatte When as they sée no remedye than styll to thincke on that Howe much more profitable ist that that same age shoulde bée Stirde vp with learning than with toyes so meane haue his degree For if the Childe haue sense to learne lewde thinges and trisles vaine Then thinck the same hath sense likewise to learning so againe For as vpon newe white lymde walles Men painte what likes them best Bé et good or ill so sure it standes with Infantes tender brest At first I saye eare cares come on eare vice beginne to growe Let children learne Such séedes encrease as men in time shall sowe Unto the sheepes newe shorne fléese whereon no dye hath fall You maye such perfect collour cast as likes you best withall Philopas Alas Chrisippus small it is God wotes that Children can By helpe of tender sence obtaine and praye what bootes it than Therfore the same into theyr heades which they can not retaine Nowe in good soothe it seemth to mée but trauaile spent in vaine Chrisippus ¶ Swéete licour may preserued bée as well in brittle glasse As in the pot framde out of stone or vessell made of Brasse And why should sclender gaine bée lost to little geue you more And so shall litle gaine in time increase aboundant store At least this profite shall ensue to them through studies toyle Theyr mindes shal haue no place for vice which tender skill doeth foyle For nothing better occupieth the busye minde of man Then earnest studye wrought with toyle though happing now and than And sure this gaine ought not to bée contempnde in any wise For what though weake the body bée the witte to strength shall ryse And then the losse is counteruailde who would not rather craue Some losse of strength than losse of witte if wishing hée might haue Nayth'lesse it is not ment to make tough Champions of the same But only for the common weale good gouernours to frame Whereto their childish strength wil serue and well suffâ—saunt be Far weaker state then Milos strength will therevnto agrée And yet if daunger ought appeare through pressing of the minde Why should not such as haue the charge some present easement finde Let nothing stoppe the care of skill and learning to be hadde It forceth not for lacke of game let little childe be sadde But parents fondely fray their sonnes from toyle that study craues Though vilely they neglect such things as bring them to their graues As filthy surfets in their meate wherethrough to them doe grow Not only in the body hurt but in the minde also They bring their infantes vnto feastes of straunge and diuers foode In banquets that tyll midnight last their presence doth them good With salt and fresh they fill their gorge with hote and colde aleeke Untill the stomacke ouerchargde through vomite ease doth séeke They pinche and crooke their bodies in the little corps they straine With garments far vnméete such age and to be thought as vaine They cocke them vp with coates of pryde they vse them for their squires They make them Cockneies in their kind and Apes in their attires Not any wayes more tenderly they doe mistrust their strength Then when they should be set to schoole and brought to booke at length Moreouer parents there be some which when in tender age They heare their children likde for ought they streight their state presage This child saith one wil proue wel learnd then sayth the father sure I will for him some Prebende or some Prouostship procure Or else I trust to sée him rise to tipe of high degrée To be some Iudge some man of lawe or man of dignitie This childe sayth one will make a man sée how his limmes be pight The father straight way saith this childe shall be a courtly knight Thus thus to wish in swathing bands before the childe can speake They thinke it not to soone at all yet if a man man should breake With them to haue that child brought vp and traind in learning so As he with skill might vse such thinges as vnto him might gro They aunswere that he is to young though wordes be vtter plaine Of truth of truth Philopas I adiudge these men but
is it high time euen nowe O Englande is it most néedefull when God as thou seeist doeth plague for sinne euen all thy neyghbours about thée and stayeth his angre towardes thée deferreth his scorge and withholdeth his indignation If the excéeding and superabundant mercyes of thy God will not reclame thée if his wonderfull benefites will not moue thée If his great loue and more then fatherly kindnes wyl not perswade thée nor the extreame iudgement withdrawe thée yet as one of thy sinfull members I beséeche thée and as thou regardest thy good and quiet state as thou desirest to auoyde thine owne desolation thy vtter fall and ruine I exhort thée that thou consider howe gréeuously thy brethren about thée euen borderers on thy countrey neyghbors to thy Nation are deuoured of monsters are murthered by Tirants are persecuted burnte bayted boyled scourged racked paunched pined torne in peeces and violently drawen vnto straunge horrible and feareful kindes of death by their false brethren Iudaical Traytours execrable Papistes cursed shauelinges and damnable sect of deuillishe Dunses O beholde the tragical and most gréeuous state of thy afflicted brethren in Fraunce thy friends in Flaunders and thy neyghbors in Scotland Sée see O England how theyr sinnes haue heaped vp so mightelye the indignation of God against them that the greatest reliefe whiche they finde is spéedy death and quicke dispatche of theyr irckesom miserable liues Sée I say and behold howe for contempt of Gods most holy Gospel they are miserably afflicted plagued how for theyr negligence in building they are tormented and punished And O thou Realme of England what hast thou to pleade for thy selfe in this case what lawful excuse canst thou make for thy selfe Hast thou not Iesus Christ the chiefe corner stone Hast thou not his blessed worde fro whence necessarie matter maye bée ministred for the quickening of thy barren drie and vnconstaunt faith Hast thou not the same Fayth moystened by his long and excéeding great benefites What wouldest thou more His verye elect his Apostles most familiar friendes haue not enioyed so great oportunitye by the thousand part as thou hast at this day They had no rest in theyr blessed bodyes nor quietnes in theyr Sacred mindes They wanted bothe place of assemblye where they might heare and teache and also place of reliefe where they might bée shrowded from theyr manifold exceding great number of enemies whiche euen cōtinually laye in waite to spil theyr most innocent blood and onely for the professiō of Christ and his sacred Gospel Thou contrarye wise hast not onely the Gospell reuealed but also hast libertye to Preache and to heare the same Thou art not onelye defended from the enemie but also hast the same vnto thy selfe in subiection To conclude thy wealth thy goodes and elles what so euer thou hast is not onelye protected from ruine and spoyle but also thy Ritches thy substance and prosperitye is mightelye blessed and most amplye enlarged All whiche being so alas what remaineth for thée to pleade in defence O thincke therefore of thy God or at the least wise tremble at thy state Feare feare I saye and repent Pleasure wil not preserue thée Ritches will not saue thée Honour wil not shielde thée Aucthoritye maye not helpe thée Renowme can not acquite thée Awaye therefore with thy pleasure abandon thy Ritches contempne thine estate Seeke not to beare rule come downe to the lowest It is good for thée to humble thy selfe and most needefull it is to laye holde on the time Though time bée infected yet let it not passe thée The time shall come and is euen now come wherin neyther time nor trade at al shal be And euen in this extremitye of time thou shalt desire the mountaines to couer thée and the Hilles to fal vpon thée and shalt not escape Binde not therfore one sinne too another for one of them shal not bée vnpunished Euerye man in his vocation shake of this Lethargye and awake out of sléepe You Pastors you Preachers and spirituall builders of this heauenlye Tabernacle set to your handes away with ambicion away with security and aboue al thinges let not couetousnes bee raygning amongst you As you haue regard to the sauing of soules which is chéefest so forget not therewith al to minister reliefe to the bodies oppressed and in néede bée glad to distribute doe good vnto al men and especially to such as are of the housholde of Faith and in any wise preache not for temporal prefermēt or gaine Call to minde how Gehasi Helias seruaunt was striken with Leprosie for receyuing of money in reward of his Maisters dutye Whereby you maye see howe detestable a thing it is in the sight of god to haue ministers of couetous minds On the other side you Magistrates and temporal Rulers down with al falsehood let Lawe haue his force let Iustice take place let vertue bée ayded let vice bee suppressed Haue alwayes before your eyes the Touche stone of truth which is the booke of Gods worde and let not Bribes ouercome you nor fauour entise you nor feare dismay you nor affection withdraw you And aboue all things defende with all force the Gospell of Christ and the power of the Scriptures regarding therewithall the defence of his Preachers the safegarde of his Ministers and the maintenaunce of their estate Plucke not from them catch not from them defraude them not If they shake but the dust of their héeles against you you shall neuer be able to aunswere it Tyre and Sydon shal be in better case then such of you shal be at the dreadfull and extreame iudgement of soules and bodies Consider howe Ioseph being put in aucthoritye did make it for a lawe ouer the land of Egypt that Pharao should haue the first part except the lande of the Priestes which was not Pharaos To conclude euen al you that cal vpon the name of Iehouah that worship Christ in the deity that haue spiritual feeling that take vpō you the name of Christians Away with negligēce away with prating awaye with hipocrisye and put from you contempt of the Scriptures by the which and according to the knowledge whereof you shal be Iudged and that very shortly Auoyde wicked companye eschewe fained Brethren and flye farre from the sinfull If any that is called a brother bée a fornicator or couetous or an Idolator or rayler or a drunckard or an extorcioner with such kéepe not company nor vntil he repēt haue any felowship at al with him Feare not to doe wel but bée afraid to doe euill Maugre the head of the Deuill doe wel do well cease not doe wel I say because it is gods wil that you should do wel the men séeing your wel doing may glorifie your father which is in heauen Of sinne commeth death Of wel doing cōmeth life the firme rewarde although not for good deedes yet of wel doing Bée not caryed away with pleasure nor discoraged in sorrow
Forget not in prosperity ne faint ye in aduersitye The one cometh of too much cōfidence the other of dispayre If thou haue welth vse the same to the profite of thy brethren to the reliefe of the néedye in due distribution If thou haue scarsitye or other affliction what soeuer repine not ther at neyther by sinistre meanes séeke to amēd thine estate grudgingly refuse it not nor frowardlye wishe thou of thy selfe to auoide it Remember how the Children of Israel séeking without paines to come to the Lande of promise receyued not onely a more tedious wayte of trauayle and paines but also euen all of them except Iosua and Caleb were quite and cleane excluded from that place so desired Finally you that be Parents haue a special regard to the bringing vp of your children Let theyr education be godly theyr yong yéeres not carelesse remēbring euermore that childers Children are the crowne of the elders and the glorye of theyr Fathers Let your Sonnes haue correction and your Daughters be bridled Teache them the commandementes of God and haue regard to their waies that your sōns may florishe your Daughters bée fruitfull by the one to haue Iustice by the other increase of housholdes people Let them learne obedience walke in humilitye Let theyr vertues aduance them and truth stil defend them Let them marry for vertue and not for promotion That that whiche hath béene and is at this daye cryed out vppon in all places maye nowe at the laste bée reformed that no more it bee sayde you sell your Daughters for money as men sel their horses and shéepe That Matrimony no more bée accounted to Halte nor Whoredome a pleasure That earth maye bée peopled and heauen styl enlarged That wee maye staye euen nowe at the last the riottous race of our damnable liuing And that to vs it bee not spoken as it was sometimes sayd to the children of Israel The people turneth not vnto them that smite them neyther doe they seeke the Lord of hoastes Therfore vvill the Lorde cutte from them in one daye euen head and Taile Braunche and Tvvig the auncient and the honourable Man is the head the Prophete that Preacheth lyes is the taile for the leaders of the people do cause them to erre and they that are led by them are deuoured Therefore vvill the Lord haue no pleasure in theyr yong men nor pitie theyr Fatherlesse and vvidovves For euerye one is an hipocrite and vvicked and euery mouth speaketh lyes ¶ A Compendious fourme of education to be diligently obserued of all Parentes and Scholemaisters in the trayning vp of their Children and Schollers in learning ¶ Gathered into Englishe meeter by Edward Hake To maister Iohn Harlowe his approoued friende AFter that the right honourable the Lord chiefe Iustice of the common plees had permitted vnto me the othe of an Attourney thereby admitting me into the number of Attourneys in the common place it vvas persvvaded vnto me by certain good friends of mine for that the name of an Attourney in the common place is novv a dayes grovven into contempt vvhether in respect of the multitude of thē whiche is great besides an huge rable of Pettipractizers or rather Petifoggers dispersed into euerye corner of this Realme or vvhether in respect of their loose and levvde dealinges vvhich are manifolde Or vvhether in both those respectes I knovve not I say it vvas for this cause persvvaded vnto me to dedicate a litle time wholy and altogether to my professed studies of the common Lavves that I might therby the better enable my selfe to do good in that calling VVherevpon resoluing my selfe determinately to follovve that purpose I thought it conuenient to seclude from me all those forreine exercises vvhich might any vvayes seeme to repugne or to be as it were a proposito aliena But as in those my studies prefixed being tied vnto solytarinesse in the Countrey vvhich for my lot hath hapned vnto me by mariage after a vvhile I perceiued that vvanting as I there did the benefite of mine accustomed conference it vvas impossible for me vvithout some exercise of the minde to cōtinue or vvith profite to go forvvarde in the same In vvhich respect I contented my selfe betvvixt vvhiles and for recreation sake to resort vnto mine accustomed exercise but so as if it might be some profite might redound therof vnto others And happening by good lucke vpon a certaine Latine booke intituled De pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis I gathered compendiously out of the same as not being able to allovve my selfe time enough from my said studies to accomplish the part of a Translatour such certaine summary documents as might seeme sufficient to frame an orderly and good forme of education vvhich also I haue turned into English meter and that for these tvvo causes especially First for that prose requireth a more exact labour then meeter doth and could not haue been enterprised vvithout going through the vvhole booke vvhervnto my small allovvaunce of time as is aforesayde coulde not be aunsvverable Secondly because meeter vnto the vnlearned vvhom I heartily vvish to be follovvers of this booke doth seeme a great deale more pleasaunt then prose and doth mitigate as it vvere the harshnes of the matter VVhich litle booke I do offer vnto you my approued friend as a token of my good vvyll in vvhom as in my selfe I do perceiue a special loue not onely vnto this but also vnto euery other good forme of education as being trained vp together vvith me your poore scholefellow vvith the instructions of that learned and exquisite teacher Maister Iohn Hopkins that vvorthy Schoolemaister nay rather that most vvorthy parent vnto all children committed to his charge of education Of vvhose memory if J should in such an oportunity as this is be forgetful J might iustly be accompted the most vnthankefull person in the vvorld considering that I haue franckly tasted of his goodnes in this behalfe that if it be not vnseemely so to vvishe vvould to God J had liued at his feete euen dayes and yeres longer then J did But to returne in respect onely of good vvyll and loue I send vnto you these fevv quaiers praying you to accept the same in equal part resorting indifferentlye vnto the consideration of those common affections of loue vvhich are vvont rather patiently to beare reproche that any vvayes to lye hyd and vnknovven vnto the party so beloued VVherein I rest ¶ Your owne assuredlye Edvvarde Hake ⧠To the Reader WHat age in Infantes is requirde or ere they should bée taught What sort of Teachers best agrées what Schooles bée good what naught Dewe meanes also t' instruct them well all these good Readers here Within this booke though smal to vewe in largest wise appeare With other matters incident which to my simple skill For thy delite I haue discourste and written with good will. My meaning doe accept for good but pardon thinges amisse So shall my penne for thy
vaine As for the wordes that mothers vse my childe hath how to liue He shall I trust a liuing get although he neuer giue Himselfe vnto such néedelesse toyle and trauell at his booke I force them not they are but fonde good grounde they neuer tooke But let me sée to aunswere here for so I thinke it best These foolish wordes whereon their fond opinion is increast Shée sayth hir childe hath how to liue what how to lyue right well Naye there a strawe I toulde you I the mother cannot tell What néedeth lawe or logicque ought sayth shée er else such like My sonne hath landes whereon to liue hée néedth no learning séeke And hath he so in déede good wife what shall he haue such staye So much the more he learning néedth to shield him from decaye The larger that the ship is framde and frayghted vp with wares So much the more vndoubtedly should be the shipmans cares Yea and so much the more it néedth a Stéers man hauing skill Thorow want of whom the frayghted ship falth into daunger still Farre far therefore more bountifull is he that learning giues Then he that yeldeth heapes of coyne whereon the body liues Which Alexander great declares if I were not quoth hée King Alexander then I wish Diogenes to bée Wherefore to fine this long discourse lette infancy be taught And euen such for whome great wealth hath great preferment wrought Philopas ¶ Of truth Chrisippus worthyly you haue dilated this Now tell me whether priuate schoole or publicke better is Chrisippus ¶ Philopas to discourse this poynt â–ª what scooles were best to bée Fewe wordes shal néede the case is cléere all men may plainely sée That many sooner are reformed by the feare of one Then one instructed perfitly by onely one alone Wherefore I thinke there eyther ought to be no schoole at all Or else that that same scoole should be a scoole ingenerall Saue first to tell you by the way that common scooles require Such onely as haue gaind their grounds and greater things desire For why where sundry sortes of wits are linckt in scooles degree There generall teaching must be vsdè wherewith all though we sée Some speciall wittes to profit well and gather skill thereby Yet common sorte cannot therewith the sondry poyntes espie But as the mayster holdeth on as néedes he must his course So doth the scholler still sticke fast and growe from ill to worse Philopas ¶ Declare this one thing more I pray if greater profit growe Through many teachers to a childe or greater else through fewe Chrisippus ¶ As parents ought most carefully herein to make their choyse And as they ought most earnestly to heare the common voyce And knowe report of him whome they doe choose t' instruct their childe Euen so no lesse their héede shoulde be least hope be soone beguilde That many teachers they refuse for as the prouerbe is The country Caria was destroyd in such a case as this So many men so many wittes younge infantes are dismayde When that the thing they learne to daye to morrow are vnsayde To séeke for reasons in this case no reason vrgeth so Suffiseth me to haue that proofe that practizde parents know Yet one thing needely must I ope the onely meane to teache How neyther rough nor weery way should tender mindes appeache For why at first this infants age with flattery shoulde be traynd Bycause it hath not skill to knowe what proffite may be gaynd What honor fruite what dignity what pleasure in the ende May happe to such as haue delyght to learnings lore to bende Which both the maysters gentlenesse and eake the schollers witte For both their partes may bring to passe and driue the paine from it For nothing is more profitlesse nought looseth labour more Than whan the maysters cruell trade doth feare the childe before And make him hate or ere he know wherefore it should be looude So loue to booke which should be first through feare is first remooude The first degree to lerning is the scoole mayster to loue Whereby it comes to passe in time as skilfull teachers proue That liâ—tle childe which loued first his booke for maysters sake In time through loue to learning doth like loue to mayster take For as those giftes are loued most which come from those we loue So babes that know not why to loue for maysters cause doe loue Isocrates hath rightly sayd that he doth learne most That hath the most desire to learne and thinkes no labour lost And as to learne we learne best of those we best doe loue So loue to mayster is the cause that loue to booke doth moue For parents euen themselues cannot preuaile if they shall vse To breake them all by feare and force and gentle meanes refuse Much lesse the maister may through feare through foule and froward meane Once worke a will vnto the booke but soone vndoe it cleane The chiefe regarde is to be looud then feately doth succéede No feare but frindely reuerence which to define indeede Hath greater charge then cause of feare hath care to shielde fro shame Hath doubt to drag and drawe behind not feare to suffer blame How yll therefore doe they foresée the safetie of their childe â–ª The bewtifying of his braines with skill and maners milde That tourne him in his tender age to gastly mazing scoole Where thronizd sits a mayster straunge blunt rude and halfe a foole Oftetimes infected with disease inueterate and olde Which makes the waywarde testie foole with little lambes to skolde And surely we doe sée there can be none so abiect fooles So base and voyde of sence but now men vse them for their schooles And thinke them meete to bring vp youth â–ª to traine them at their bookes Where expert men at first doe iudge them Asses by their lookes And they supposing to haue got a kingdome in their kinde Aduaunce themselues with feareful lookes and set aloft their minde Bycause they beare a rule but not in beastes as Terence sayth But in that age which soone god knowth a little terrour frayth A man woulde saye it were no schoole but slaughter house in déede Whence sauing stripes and roaring out no learning doth procéede What else is this than soone to fraye the silly babes from booke who wanting pleasaunt flattering words none other pleasure tooke And some a man shall sooner kill then mende with cruell blowes Where he by fayre and quiet meanes might bring to learning those But this lewde kinde of men for truth ought not to beare the name Of maysters but of manquellors so brutish are the same And none more fell and frowarde are than those which nothing haue Wherewith tinstruct and teache a childe whose doggishe déedes depraue The due successe of forwarde wittes whose roughnesse doth deface The golden sparkes of natures giftes which in the childe hath place A gentle Horse is sooner rulde with sticke or litle wande Then with a whippe or digging