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A63788	The country-man's companion, or, A new method of ordering horses & sheep so as to preserve them both from diseases and causalties [sic], or, to recover them if fallen ill and also to render them much more serviceable and useful to their owners, than has yet been discovered, known or practised : and particularly to preserve sheep from that monsterous, mortifying distemper, the rot / by Philotheos Physiologus, the author of The way to health, long life and happiness, &c.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1684 (1684)	Wing T3176; ESTC R23567	76,055	190

the Lord and believed in him and when as it s said the Word of the Lord came unto him That is when he became enlightned by the divine Principle of Gods eternal Love and waxed Obedient unto the holy Voice of Wisdom Then the Lord said thy Name shall no more be called A-bram but A-bra-ham which is as much as to say The Father of the Faithful whereas A-bram his first Name signified a great Lord or Father in Nature but A-bra-ham denoted not only a Father in the outward Nature but a faithful Father in whom the Love and Light of God did govern The same is to be understood of Iacob when he wrestled with God and overcame then and not till then the Angel said unto him As a Prince hast thou Power with God and with Man and hast prevailed therefore thy Name shall no more be called Jacob but Israel Which latter Name does comprehend and truly signifie both the Divine and Humane Nature in which all Mysteries lie hidden This Mystical Language some of the Holy and Wise in all Ages understood even to the time of the Manifestation of the Son of God in the Flesh who himself said to Simon his disciple Thy Name shall be called Cephas which does signifie a Stone or Rock after he had made that sound Confession Thou art Christ the Son of the living God On the Belief of which as on a Rock the Doctrine of Christianity is founded and the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against it So Panl was first called Saul a Name of the sierce Wrath and lordly Spirit as appears by King Saul who disobeyed the Voice of the Lord and persecuted David without cause and so also did this Saul the Servants of God with all Violence and a mad zeal Imagining that therein he had done God good Service But when once the Lord h●…d met with him and struck him blind in order to giving him true sight and had altered his Nature and Spirit then the Lord tells hi●… ●…e shall no more be called Saul but Paul a Name of Humility and sounding forth the Principle of divine Love So ●…congruous and Absurd was it thought to continue those Names which were not suitable to the Natures of those that bear them Yet nothing is more frequent amongst us nay many in these latter days do chuse Names for their Children not only unsit and unsuitable but even such as does signifie the holy Vertues even of very Divinity it self as Faith Hope Charity Grace Emmanuel c. Which Names do truly signifie the Goodness and holy Vertues of God which rarely have any simile with the predominant Qualities in the People so named Therefore every time such People are named those that call them are not only guilty of a Lye and Breach of that Command Thou shalt not call Evil Good nor Good Evil but also do take the Name of the Lord in vain by expressing the holy Virtues without due regard and blasphemously attributing them to such as live in the contrary Principle viz. of ●…ierceness Uncleanness and Wrath. What a Mistake not what an Impiety is it to call a Vile Wicked Man Emmanuel which is the true Name of the blessed and adorable Saviour of the World viz. our Lord Iesus Christ. But the Reason of the difference between the Practice of this Age and that of the wise Antients is this When the holy men of old named their Children or gave Names to any other thing they applyed themselves to the Oracle of God to that divine and natural Wisdom that taught both Adam and others apt and proper Names whereby to express the Nature and Virtue of each thing But this Mysterious Knowledge hath now scarce any being or at least is not regarded by the Sons of Men Ignorance and Conceitedness having gotten the Dominion and captivated the divine Understanding and Gift of God in mans Soul which ought to be the Directer in all things a man undertakes to do for all true natural and divine Knowledge of Nature and Himself do hence proceed even that Essential Word that made all things and is the true Life and Power that preserves them all To which most Noble yet most Benigne Courtcous and Familiar Master I commend all my Fellow-Shepherds earnestly advising them to apply themselves unto him who is always most ready and willing to teach and instruct every one that cometh unto him being weary of false Opinion Tradition and the Ways of the Multitude This Divine Master is near unto every one he is no Respecter of Persons plain Russet is as acceptable in his sight as Cloth of Gold and Tissue and the Shepherd as welcome as the Prince for he maketh no difference between any that are humble and not too wise in their own Conceit nor will he puzzle the Heads or torture the Brains of his Scholars with the reading of Multitudes of Books Three Volums compleat his Library two of his Works viz. the Internal and the external or the Microcosm and the Megacosm the little World or a mans own self and the great World or that vast expanded Folio of created Beeings Vegetable Annimal and Mineral Coelestial and Terrestrial and the the third is the holy Book of divine Scriptures Here are all the Authors taught in this School and yet containing infinitely more Wisdom than Ptolomy's vast Library at Alexandria or all the Book-Trash of the Vatican Nor shall you here be encumbred with that Lip-Learning of various Tongues and Languages which spends most part of a mans Life whilst he vainly endeavours to get a Blessing from the Confusion of a Curse and when he has done is as ignorant of himself and of Nature and of●… every thing worthy to be known as in the beginning and many times more too Presumption and Op●…nion of Science being now added to his natural Ignorance But this most excellent Tutor opening the Eyes of the Mind and fixing them inward lays open to him all the Treasures and Mysteries contained in himself where lie finds the true Vertue Power and Nature of all Elements and thereby is fit to look abroad and thence-forth capable to judge of the Nature the Vertues or Vices hidden Properties and Manifestations of all things he meets with in the great World and joyns in this mystical Language of Nature with every Creature whose Voice or Tone proceeds from Equality ●…hereby making a joynt Consort of Praises to the glorious Creator and Fountain of Intellectual Harmony Of the Excellency of a Shepherds Life and that it is no less Innocent and Honourable than Antient. OF all sorts of Husband-men Shepherds have the Advantage of Imployment 1st For that they have one of the most Innocent kinds of Annimals to converse with 2dly Because the same is easie and most part of the year pleasant 3dly Since they have the most spare Time for Contemplation which if well imployed will furnish them with many Excellencies both in Divine and Humane Gifts Time is a precious thing and there are none but

own Health and Lives upon no more Important occasions then for the Rabble to cry Well run Tom for getting half a Peice from him that laid the Wager to be Drunk with Horses are dignified with a strong Martial Nature viz. hot and dry but as all other Animals they differ much as to their Identical Qualities and particular Constitutions some more Cholerick and Fierce others more Phlegmatick Sanguine or Melancholy Therefore some are more lively brisk and swifter of motion but others of dull heavy Dispositions slow in motion great Bellies and Heads with dull heavy Eyes But in General as to their four Humours Heat in Horses does predominate and they do exceed most other Creatures therein whence do proceed those Brisk Lively Bold Free Proud Dispositions whereby they are more easily apt to be forced by their Riders and Drivers beyond their strength and power of Nature which for want of mercy Compassion and Understanding is often done And thence so many Diseases in this Creature more than any other do proceed for they are not thus infirm from their Temperature or Radixes but the same arises from and is occasioned by the Disorders Intemperances their Mannagers do enforce them unto being by ●…ir natural Constitutions not only one of the strongest and hottest but also the Healthiest sort of Animals for in what Creature soever the Natural Heat is strong the Spirits are great brisk and powerful and for this cause Horses exceed most other Creatures in Courage and Martial Exercises This innate Heat and Strength in Horses is further manifested by this viz. Let the Season of the Year be never so Wet or Cold and Unkind yet the Grass will bring upon them little or no Inconveniency though they lie out Day and Night and though the same Grass and Pasturage will rot Sheep and cause Cows to become unhealthy as also that in September and October when the Air and Elements are humid and thick whence do arise great Dews which makes the Grass white like a Frost that so turns the Stomachs of Cows and Sheep that they will not feed but stand still or lie down till the Sun hath dryed or exhal'd the Moistures except they are very hungry and then it proves of evil consequence to them yet even then Horses though they lie at their ●…ill of Grass will feed as freely as at other times and without prejudice Nay do not many Farri●…rs and others turn diseased Horses out all Winter in hard Pastures and give them neither Hay nor Corn which often proves of good effect as to their Cure It is also from their great Heat that Horses will eat a far greater Quantity of Food than Cows though the latter have near as large Bodies to nourish besides the great Quantities of Milk they afford to their Keepers twice a day Now this sharpness of Appetite and quick Digestion proceeds from the strength of the Central Heat which they are so strongly dignified withal And this all Riders and Keepers of Horses ought in the first place to understand so as to know their Natural Temperature and accordingly to observe Order and Temperance in their Mannagement or else they will quickly make way for Diseases as most do through Passion Violence and Ignorance in the Government of them The best way to prevent Surfeits and other Diseases in Horses ALL Riders and Drivers of Horses ought by all means to ride or drive them moderately in the Morning if they intend they shall perform their Journey or Day 's Work without prejudice to their Healths for they generally eat most part of their Food in the Night and towards Morning and also drink freely which does in some measure indispose them for full Stomachs do naturally hinder from performance of Labour since Nature cannot equally endure two Burdens at one time Exercise is always dangerous if it be violent on repleated Stomachs whether in Man or Beast for let a man observe if he eats or drinks plentifully in a Morning and then presently labour strongly or go a Journey after it unless he be very moderate therein he shall find himself much indisposed the first part of the day his Limbs aking hot and faintish the very same is to be understood in other Creatures only they cannot make their Griefs and Inconveniences known nor have understanding to observe the Rules of Temperance either in Quality or Quantity or the apt Times and Seasons therefore their Keepers ought to be merciful wise and considerate and govern them aright which they cannot do without considering That the Stomach and Natural Heat cannot attend two Works at once for when the Stomach is full of fresh Food all the Powers of Nature are busie to lend their Assistance to help forwards Concoction during which time all the external parts and whole Body seem to be in a degree indisposed but after three four or five hours in which time the natural Heat has digested and made Separation then the Passages begin to be open with the Pores and the Blood and pure Spirits have their free Circulation which gives advantage to the thin pleasant moist vapours of the Air to penetrate all parts and to be suck't from without as by Spunges which renders all Creatures brisk strong lively and able to go through with their work Time Quantity and Quality are three material Points to be regarded by every Rider and Driver of Horses and he ought to consider the Strength the Method and Possibility of Nature or else he may quickly lay heavier Burthens than they can bear but the prime Lesson every one ought to learn is The Knowledge of Himself and to distinguish the Properties and particular Operations of his own Nature what Quality carries the upper Dominion in the respective Complexions and according to the degree every one understands of himself the same he is capable to know of all other Creatures and so shall be able on all occasions to vary the Rules of Order and Temperance according to each Creatures peculiar Nature for in Man is contain'd the true Nature of all things how else could he be truly called The Microcosm or little World and if he would know any thing essentially then first the same thing must be manifested in himself and then this Knowledge is true solid and certain but all other Learning or Knowledge which depends on Custom Chance and Tradition is not a mans own and therefore is but a bare Opinion which most are apt to vary and change and to have but little faith in because such knowledge does not arise from the Root of their own Lives but is forreign spurious adventitious borrowed from abroad and taken up upon the uncertain Credit of the People who rarely know any thing as they ought to know Nor does any thing make mans depraved state appear more than for him to entertain vain Opinions and follow Custom instead of Reason and the Nature of things this being the only path that does keep so many in blindness and

Field be subject to the Rot or the contrary for Wet is a far greater Enemy to Sheep than Drought as daily Experience does testifie though all Extreams are bad Therefore the Shepherd in all such Seasons ought to let his Sheep continue in the Fold till seven or eight a Clock in the Morning or longer if the Morning be very moist in which time the comforting Beams of the Sun with the help of the Air will in part or wholly have exhal'd and dry'd up those moist slimy Vapours the night distill'd down on the Grass which being gone the Grass is much more wholsom Besides their lying long in the Fold doth beget a sharp piercing Appetite for Fasting does naturally digest and clean the Stomach and Vessels thereof from all superfluous flegmie matter which is contra●…ed by that too much moisture which Grass in wet seasons does plentifully contain for the action of the Stomach and Natural Heat is never idle if the Creature be in health so that when it is not supply'd with its usual food then it powerfully attracts or draws unto its self all such gross matter and supersluities and casts it forth both upwards and downwards thereby preventing matter for the generation of Diseases and when the Stomach is thus purged and prepared by due fasting then a little inconveniency in food will not hurt whether it be in quality or quantity for a vigorous well prepared Stomach does not seldom make good Nouri●…hment of very ordinary food Further the Sbepherd is to observe to fold his Sheep before the Dews fall whereby he may avoid many Inconveniences nor need he fear that the long Nights lodging will hinder them from proving for all Cattel that have clean sharp Appetites will eat as much in two hours as others will in four whose Appetites are imperfect and Stomachs foul and obstructed through flegmatick Juices and supersluous Humours Besides Sheep do not naturally care for feeding in the Morning whilst the Dew is much on the ground except in times of scarcity which seldom happens in wet seasons the Passages of Sheep are then furr'd with a moist slimy matter which ought always to be cleansed either by Fasting or by some drying food as Hay Corn or the like If Shepherds observe these Rules they may prevent most of the Diseases Sheep are subject to since for the greatest part they are occasioned for want of good Order and skill as Heats Colds Over-wet weather being folded on New-plow'd moist grounds or for want of a little Hay in the latter end of summer viz. in Iuly August and September when the Weather proves wet and cold And though your Field or Pasturage will not Rot your Sheep yet it may and does oft-times cause a great number of Diseases many of which prove satal to them as the Diseases of the Gall and Iaundies Choller and sickness coming of tough Flegon Blinding Stoppages Water in the Belly Red-Water Coughs turning Evil Pains in the Ioynts Lameness in the Feet and the like Evils and Distempers Shepherds should likewise observe that after an hard Summer and great scarcity when they put their Sheep into fresh Fields and Pasturages where there is plenty of Grass if then he intends to preserve them free from Disorders he ought not to let them eat as much as they will but only bait them as they call it and when they have eaten pretty well to take them out and let them have a sufficient time to digest it and then turn them in again and continue this order for a Week or two or three as ●…ou shall see occasion and though your Sheep do not look so full and p●…ove so fast as others that lie at Rack and Manger as the Proverb is yet in conclusion they shall gradually attain to the same or better Proof and Well-liking with others and be abundantly sroer from Disorders and Diseases This the Shepherd may remember That from Midsummer to Michaelmass is the most dangerous season in the whole year and therefore then he ought to be most careful and circumspect And of this I shall now proceed to give the true Grounds and Reasons in Nature The most hazardous time for occasioning the Rot in Sheep is from Iuly to the last of September especially if there be Floods or constant Rains or moist foggy Airs There are many Opinions what the matter is that does breed the Rot in Sheep some s●…y the cause is their licking up of small white Snales which much Wet does generate others think that it is occasion'd by great Dews and others have other Fancies which I forbear to mention being all besides the business For most certain it is that the true cause of this pernicious and fatal Disease in Sheep is too much Moisture at the season before-mention'd for they very rarely Rot at any other season of the year though there be the same occasion as to the Weather which all Shepherds and Sheep-masters ought well to consider As for Example Suppose Wet weather comes in after Michaelmass viz. in Decemb●…r or Ianuary and hold so most part of the Winter yet this shall not Rot Sheep except some few in low Marshie Moorish Grounds where they have store of Grass and lie nights and days and have no Hay given them Or if Rains and floods come in Ianuary February March or April and hold dripping till the latter end of May or beginning of Iune and then cease and a dry Summer follow this also will not cause Sheep to Rot except as is said before in some certain low Grounds a few may be infected Hence it appears that from the latter end of Iuly to the last of September or October is the time for generating this Disease and wherein it reigns amongst Sheep if that season happen to prove wet Now the Reasons why Sheep are not so subject to this Disease at other times of the year are 1st If Rains or wet Weather come in after Michaelmass in December Ianuary or the like the season then is cold which does check and consume the raw indigested flegmy substance or matter which all grass is filled with in the latter end of Summer viz. in August September and October as appears by the Latter-Math or Hay made in those Moneths what poor feeble stuff is it in comparison of that Hay the first Spring produceth And how little heart it affords to those Cattel that feed thereon 2dly In this Winter-season most Sheep are in part kept with Hay which dries up ●…d consumes all that superfluous Moisture which is so injurious to Sheep 3dly The Coldness of this Winter-season causeth the natural Heat in all Crea●…res to become more Central which gives ●…rength and power to the Stomach and ●…igestive Faculty to digest and throw off ●…ll raw cold superfluous matter which at the other before-mentioned season gives ●…ccasion for the generation of this Disease for all cold weather strengthens the natural Heat sharpens the Appetite and make the Spirits strong and powerful

Thus both Men and Beasts have sharper Appetites and stronger Digestions and can without prejudice eat more Food in cold seasons than in hot and less Drink does serve them for the stronger and more lively the natural Heat and Spirit are the greater and sharper is the Stomach but a less quantity of Drink will suffice Nature because all external Heat if it exceed the Medium draws forth and evaporates the pure subtle Spirits which impedes and weakens the Natural Heat and Action of the Stomach and then the hot sierce original Fires of Saturn and Mars are stirred up and become manifest in all the external parts of the Body which indisposeth the whole and makes the Members glow with an unnatural Heat and therefore then all Creatures desire and require more Drink and less Food but then they are not so strong and lively as in cold but faintish and more apt to contract Diseases from every Inconveniency o●… Disorder 4thly If Wet or Rainy Weather come●… in in March or April and goes out in the latter end of May or Iune then there i●… no danger of this Disease because th●… are kept with Hay most part of the Spring which as is mentioned before destroys all the putrifying Matter Besides the Spring is powerful and lively giving Life and Vertue to all Creatures the warm and enlivening Beams of the returning Sun embrace the reviving Nature fills all things with Spirit so as that the Grass and Herbs then are freed from or nothing so subject to that gross flegmy Substance most sorts of Herbage consists of in the latter Spring by which all Creatures are healthier and better able to withstand Disorders or Inconveniences that happen from the Elements Besides Sheep as is hinted before have been at Hay a considerable time which is a sound healthy hearty Food suitable to their Natures and drying up all Superfluities nay the very Season it self is an Antidote and Preservative for how pleasant lusty and vigorous is every thing brought forth at the approach of the Sun and how joyful all the Creation is every thing seeming to sport it self in various Delights But when once Phoebus drives down his fainting Steeds and with shorter Marches descends with his Charriot from the back of Cancer then quickly does all Natures Wardrobe begin to be fullied every Vegetable and Annimal droops decays and languishes and the Earth mourning the Retreat of her Coelestial Lover with his golden Locks brings forth none but Sickly and Rickety Productions And therefore no wonder if so tender a Creature as Sheep be at that time much more lyable to contract this Disease for the Reasons aforesaid than in the Spring 5thly But to come to some more particular Reasons all Astrologers say that Sheep are under the dominion of the Coelestial Sign Aries into which the Eye of the World enters the 9th or 10th day of March at which time the Sun is strong and powerful as being exalted therein and therefore then this glorious Coelestial Body by its benevolent Influences chears and comforts all things But on the other side about the 11th of September Sol enters Libra where he is in some degree impedited or debilitated as being in opposition to his Exaltation These Coelestial Influences do often take place but more especially when other Causes concur as when Rains come in about Iuly and continue till September or October and the like 6thly You must consider that at this latter Season of the Year Sheep have passed through the Heats of Summer which have awakned their natural Heat stirring up from the Center the hidden or sleeping Poysons whence the Spirits on all occasions are apt to be evaporated and Diseases generated which then meeting with Food full of gross Humors and earthy flegmatick Matter arising from declining Vegetations do then manifest themselves to the great prejudice of Health for which Reasons those Moneths of Iuly August September and October are most dangerous both to Man and Beasts Are not Men more sickly in this Season than in any other and also Diseases then contracted more fierce and mortal as Plagues Rots Murrains c Not that it is to be doubted but Sheep may Rot on have watry Diseases in the Winter as well as in Autumn but then it must be such as lie Night and Day in marshie wet low Grounds living chiefly on Grass which in all wet Seasons without giving them some Hay at times with it is very pernicious to them whence it comes to pass that most Years such Grounds do more or less distemper Sheep As for Example in Northamptonshire and Leicestershire where their Land is rich and low their Grass plentiful and Sheep large but the Country-Farmers are cunning enough to save themselves prety well for knowing that their Sheep are subject to this fatal Disease they are careful to time it and bring them up to London Market before they are too far gone and then our Citizens and dainty Dames do make good Cheer with this stately and no doubt very tender Mutton and are as Blith and Merry at the Burial of their Carcasses in their own Paunches as Young Men and Maids are at their Whitson-Ale or liquerish Matrons at a Gossipping Some do say that there is a Spring Rot sometimes but this is very rare and when it happens the chief Cause has been either the disorders of a wet Winter where care has not been to give them a sufficient quantity of Hay or that they have fed in low wet Grounds where they have eaten too great a quantity of Grass or else they have been Touched the Michaelmass before with the Rot and though they do hold well all the Winter yet when the Spring comes the hidden Distemper manifests it self for at that time Nature has a fresh and lively Motion and what is Infirm will then appear Having thus discoursed and laid open the Cause of the Rot in Sheep from the Closet of Nature and pointed out the time when and by what means that Mischief is to be feared so that I hope all Shepherds and Sheep masters will hence-forth take particular notice when Rains and much wet weather happens about Iuly August or September or when it is generally a wet Summer and continues so till towards Michaelmess and that they will remember then is the Time to be feared of a general Rot. I shall now proceed to befriend them with some Directions how to prevent the danger in that case threatned 1st You ought to keep your Sheep in the Fold till eight or nine a Clock in the fore-noon or longer according as the Morning is either wet or dry the Air humid or clear or if there be great Dews as often there are in August and September and also in October and when the Sun and Elements have pretty well dry'd up the moist Vapours and Humidity off from the Earth then you may let them out and keep them on the highest Ground and where it is dryest and if the day prove dry then

be good Examples to the lower sort who in such things always take their measures from those above them Besides such Clothings are easier procured and Custom has stronger Chains to hold the Multitude than the most severest Laws And why should Christians so much desire those Martial and Saturnine Colours whereas White is truly natural the emblem of Innocence and Temperance which God and Nature gives us without labour or trouble it being convenient for us who have in some degree seperated our selves from the Vanities of this World to chuse all such things as have the nearest Affinity to Simplicity as well in Cloathing as in Meats Drinks and Exercises by which we shall not only free our selves from unnecessary Bonds needless Changes vain Fashions burthensome Inconveniences we have many Years laboured under but also teach our Posterity this important Truth That the sewer things we need the Happier we are and the more quiet we shall lead our Lives Superfuity and Extravagant Desires being the Mother of all Need Labour Pain Trouble and Diseases IV. We ought by all means to discountenance all Babylonical Letter-learn'd Physitians both for the Soul or Body and on the contrary to direct ●…nd teach every one to hearken unto their own Genius and the Voice of Wisdom in themselves which being minded will teach every one the right Cure far better than their Mercinary Prescriptions It will be also very convenient that our Superiors should accustom themselves to an higher degree of Temperance and Self-Deneal which will have greater Influence on the meaner sort and let them be diligent in Labour and Industry By which wholsom Laws and Customs it will become a shame either to be idle or addicted to Superfluities Therefore let their Meats Drinks Exercises and Clothing be according to their Age and the necessities of Nature and no more whereby the young and simple Ones will be kept from despising the Children of the Poor and the Poor from admiring and envying the Rich which will put a perpetual stop to the Carrier of Pride and Covetousness since then all will enjoy the Goods of the Creatures as it were in equal Portions Wherefore then should any strive and sweat and bustlo so furiously to arrive at great Riches seeing that as they cannot be procured without such great Care Labour Violence Oppression not only to a mans own Body and Soul but also to the whole Creation so the Enjoyment of them contributes nothing to our real Happiness but rather leads us into more Snares and Dangers than the Hazards and Turmoils of getting them did The chief end men seem now to propose to themselves in the Acquisition of vast Riches is That they may eat of the best Lambs Fowls Fishes c. and drink Wine and strong Drink to Superfluity and to live in Idleness and be clothed with soft and costly Rayment That they may be admired by the Multitude and dwell in sumptuous Houses cramb'd with Rich and glittering Furniture and such like Vanities All which puff up the Rich with a swelling Conceit of their own Worth and causeth them in most Nations to despise and count the Poor but as Dogs in comparison of themselves And on the other side makes the Poor secretly Hate and Curse the Rich And hence usually proceed Tmuults Insurrections and most of the publick Miseries and Desolations which happen amongst the Sons of Men And what can be more fit and prudential more necessary for the publick Repose as well as the Happiness and Content of all Individuals than that we should not only by our Laws but also in our Examples and Customs cut off these Roots of so many Evils by grubbing up all Temptations to such Superfluity and Intemperance and by so well cultivating our Plantation as to remove all the Matter whence these Mischiefs are generated And then we and our Children shall be free from those Disquietudes which chiefly render mans Life uncomfortable free from wasting Laborious Days and Restless Nights in a greedy pursuit after Noxious Vanities and half killing our selves with cruel Carking Cares Excessive Drudgeries free from Sh●…king Policies Unmanly Frauds and Lewd Endeavours to supplant or circumvent our Neighbours all which proceed for the most part from an insatiate Desire either to gratific a Luxurious Paunch or please a vain glorious I●…h which will never be contented but makes it enjoyment of the greatest Abundance only a Step to Mount it self towards the grasping 〈◊〉 some ●…et higher Extravagancies and if it could become Master of all the Novelties the four Worlds afford would yet with childish Alexander be ready to sit down and cry for more Bawbl●…s and New Play-Things V. Let it be a Law and Custom amongst us not only to abandon the use of all Weapons of War but also to avoid all Attempts and Beginnings of Violence as not to suffer any to use Cruelty unto or to Hurrey and Oppress any of the Inferiour Creatures This may seem a small and light thing but really the Consequences of it are very great for this will disarm the Rage of our Young People and give their greener Years a settled Tincture or Habit of Love Compassion and Concord Have you not often seen in our own Country littl●… Children almost as soon as they are able to take up a Stone or any other Weapon into their Hands fling it at some Bird or other innocent Creature and to take delight in hanging drowning or to●… menting young Cats or Dogs or any thing else that they can master which evil Inclinations to Violence proceed partly from their Birth as being begot from Wrathful Essences and the like bad Qualities predominating in their Parents and partly from Imitation for the daily Practice and Examples they behold of Cruelty and Violence offered to all Creatures by their Fathers stirs them up to do the like as far as their Power will reach to do Mischief For this cause most Boys whilst they are in tender years do delight in Drums Swords and all Weapons of Violence because they see their Fathers and the Elder sort of their Sex do the same But on the contrary Female Children delight themselves in sewing of Linnen Needle-work playing with Babies making of Banquets imitating Christenings as they call them and the like in Imitation of their Mothers whom they see much concerned in such Affairs Since therefore whatsoever you do your Youth will certainly endeavour to imitate and for that there is as well a Possibility of awakening strengthening and encouraging Innocence Compassion Patience Concord good Will and harmless Inclin ●…ions in all Youth by the Practise and Custom of Well-doing as there is of breeding and encouraging Wrath and Violence by evil Practices and Conversations Therefore it will be good to season your Children's first Years with Customs tending to Virtue and Innocence in order to which nothing will be more Prevalent than good Examples VI. Let it not be lawful for any amongst us to use Scoffing Iesting or Idle Discourses but