by reason of their age and weaknesse of theyr strength are subiect to sundry imperfections and molested with many diseases Pacunius Gray hayres oft-times are intangled vvith loue but stailesse youth intrapped with lust Age is more to be honored for his wisdom then youth commended for his beauty The mind of an old man is not mutable his fancies are fixed his affections not fleeting he chooseth without intention to change neuer forsaketh his choyce till death make challenge of his life The olde Cedar tree is lesse shaken with the winde then the young bâ—amble and age farre more stayed in his affaires then youth Old men are more meet to giue counsaile then fit to follow warres Bias. Though young men excell in strength yet old men exceede in stedfastnes Though all men are subiect to the suddaine stroke of death yet old men in nature seeme neerest to their graue Age is a crowne of glory when it is adorned with righteousnes but the dregs of dishonor when it is mingled with mischiefe Honorable age consisteth not in the terme of yeeres neyther is it measured by the date of mans dayes but by godly wisedome and an vndefiled life Age is forgetfull and gray hayres are declining steps from strength Age is giuen to melanâ—hollie and manie yeeres acquainted with many dumps Age speaketh by experience and liketh by tryall but youth leaneth vnto vvit vvhich is voyde of wisedome He that will not be aduised by age shall be deceiued by youth Old age is the fore-runner of death Age and time are two thinges which men may fore-thinke of but neuer preuent Men of age â—eare and fore-see that vvhich youth neuer regardeth Olde folkes oft-times are more greedie of coyne then carefull to keepe a good conscience Bias. Age may bee allotted to gaze at beauties blossoms but youth must clime the tree and enioy the fruit Nature lendeth age authority 〈…〉 nes of hart is the glory of all yeeres VVhilst the haires be hidden craftily age bewrayes it selfe Children are compared to the spring-time striplings to sommer-season young-men to autumn and old men to winter An olde man ought to remember his age past and to bethinke himselfe hovv hee hath spent his time if he finde himselfe faulty in neglecting such good deedes as hee might haue done he ought forth-with to be carefull to spend the remainder of his life in liberality towards the poore Old men are commonly couetous because their getting dayes are past It is a great shame for an olde man to be ignorant in the principles of religion An old man ought to be reuerenced for his grauity sooner then for his gray haires If young men had knowledge and old men strength the vvorld vvould become a nevv paradice A man aged and wise is worthy double reuerence Infancie is but a foolish simplicity full of lamentations and harmes as it were laid open to a maine Sea without a sterne Youth is an indiscreete heate outragious blind heady violent and vaine Mans estate is trouble vexation of mind full of repentance and plunged in care Non est senectus vt tu opinaris pater Onus grauissimum sed impatientius Qui fert sibi ipse est author illius mali Patienter at qui sibi quietem comparat Dum dextere eius moribus se accomodat Nec ille solum detrahit molestiam Accersit aliquam sed voluptatem sibi Si nauig andum sit quatuor per dies De comeatu cura nobis maxima At se in senectam quid licet comparcere Non instruemus nos eo viatico Of Death Defi. Death is taken three maner of wayes the first is the seperation of the soule from the bodie with the dissolution of the body vntil the resurrection the second is the death of sinne sith he is sayd to be dead which lyeth sleeping in sin the third is eternall death vnto which the wicked shall bee condemned in the day of generall iudgement DEath is the law of nature the trybute of the flesh the remedy of euills and the path eyther to heauenly felicitie or eternall misery Heâ—â—clit Destenie may be deferred but can neuer be preuented An honourable death is to be preferred before an infamous life That man is very simple that dreadeth death because he feareth thereby to be cutte off from the pleasures of this life Death hath his roote from sinne August Death is the end of feare and beginning of felicitie There is nothing more certaine theÌ„ death nor any thing more vncertain then the houre of death No man dyeth more willingly then he that hath liued most honestly It is better to die well then to liue wantonlie Socrat. Death it selfe is not so painfull as the feare of death is vnpleasant Death is the end of all miseries but infamy is the beginning of all sorrowes Plut. VVhile men seeke to prolong theyr lyfe they are preuented by some suddaine death VVhile wee thinke to flie death wee most earnestly follow death VVhat is he that being lustie and young in the morning can promise himselfe life vntill the euening Many men desire death in their misery that cannot abide his presence in the time of their prosperitie An euill death putteth great doubt of a good life and a good death partly excuseth an euill life The death of euill men is the safety of good men liuing Cicero Hee that euery hower feareth death can neuer be possessed of a quiet conscience Nothing is more like to death then sleepe who is deaths elder brother Cicero There is nothing more common then suddaine death which beeing considered by the great Phylosopher Demonax hee therefore warned the Emperour Adrian and such other as lyued at theyr pleasure and ease in no wise to forget how in euery short moment they should be no more Nature hath giuen no better thing then death Plinie To men in misery death is most welcome Death deadly woundeth without eyther dread or daliance Sith death is a thing that cannot be auoided it ought of all men the lesse to be feared By the same vvay that life goeth death coÌ„meth Aurelius The most profitable thing for the worlde is the death of couetous and euill people Death is lyfe to the godly minded man whose meditation is on diuine matters and whose hope is heauen Death is common to all persons though to some one way and to some another If we liue to die then we die to liue All things haue an end by death saue onely death whose end is vnknowne Death is metaphorically called the end of all flesh Aristot. The last curer of diseases is death Death despiseth all riches and glory and ruleth ouer all estates alike Boetius None neede to feare death saue those that haue committed so much iniquitie as after death deserueth damnation Socrat. VVisedome maketh men to despise death it ought therefore of all men to be imbraced as the best remedy against the feare of death Hermes So liue and hope as if thou shouldest dye immediatly Plinie Non
stepdame into the house Quintilian VVe ought to giue good examples to children because if they see no vncomlines they shall be inforced to follow goodnes and vertue Xenophon The Lacedemonians aunswered Antipater that they vvould rather dye then giue him their children which he demaunded for hostages so great account made they of theyr education Amongst the Lideans such children as were not vertuous were disinherited Some haue written that at Rome in auntient time it was ordayned that children for the first fault should be told of it for the second punished for the third hanged and the Father banished Such as leaue great riches to their children without seeing them brought vp honestly are like vnto them that giue much prouender to young horses but neuer breake them at all for so they wax fatte but vnprofitable Socrates Hee which maketh his sonne worthy to be had in estimation hath done much for him although he leaue him but little wealth The Romaines had a good custome to put theyr chyldren to those whom they woulde haue them to imitate Chyldren ought to learne that which they should doe when they are men Agesil Cornelia coūted her children to be the chiefest treasure and riches which she had No punishment can bee thought greatenough for that child which should offer violence to his Parents vvhom if there were occasion offered he should bee ready to defend with losse of his owne life Striue not in wordes with thy Parents although thou tell the truth Solon being asked why he made no lawe for Paracides aunswered that he thought none would be so wicked Caereus in vitium puer est monitoribus asper Magnam vim magnam necessitudinem magnam possidet religionem paternus maternusque sanguis ex co si qua mucula concepta est non modo elui non potest verum eó vsque permanat ad animum vt summus furor atque amentia consequatur eum Of Youth Defi. Youth is the fourth age of man then doe men grow in body in strength and reason in vice and vertue and at that age the nature of a man is knowne and wherevnto hee bendeth his minde which before could not be discerned by reason of the ignorance of his age YOuth that heeretofore delighted to try theyr vertues in hard Armors take nowe theyr whole delight and content in delicate and effeminate amors VVantonnesse libertie youth and riches are alwayes enemies to honestie The deeds that men commit in their youth were neuer yet found so vpright and honest but it was thought more praise-worthy to amend them then declare them Youth going to warres ought to feare nothing but good and euill renowne Eurip. In the old time there were certaine persons chosen out of diuers good Townes which they called Sophronists who had a continuall charge and care to controle moderate and rule the manners of youth It is very requisite that youth bee brought vp in that part of learning which is called humilitie A man followeth all his life long his first addressing in his youth as if a tree blossom not in the spring it will hardly beare fruite in autumne As the Cipres tree the more it is vvatered the more it withereth the oftener it is lopped the sooner it dyeth so vnbridled youth the more it is by graue aduise counsayled or due corrections controled the sooner it falleth to confusion VVhere vice is imbraced in youth there commonly vertue is neglected in age Youth for the most part followeth wanton vvit too vvilfully neuer preuenting perrils while they are past nor dreadeth dangers vntill they be halfe drowned Youth fiereth his fancie vvith the flame of lust and old age fixeth his affections with the heate of loue Young yeeres make their account onely of the glistering shew of beauty but gray haires respect onely the perfect substance of vertue The minde of a young man is momentarie his fancie fading his affections fickle his loue vncertaine his liking as light as the winde his fancie fiered with euery new face and his minde moued with a thousand sundry motions lothing that which of late hee did loue and liking that for which his longing minde doth lust frying at the first and freezing at the last The follies that men cōmit in their youth are causes of repentance in old age Cupid alloweth none in his court but young men that can serue fresh beautifull to delight wise that can talke secrete to keepe silence faithfull to gratifie and valiant to reuenge his mistresse iniuries It is not loue but sorrow not mirth but displeasure not tast but torment not delight but despight not ioy but annoy not recreation but confusion when in a louer there is not both youth and libertie The prime of youth is as the flowers of the Pine tree which are glorious in sight vnsauorie in the smell Youth if it blush not at beautie and carrie antidots of wisedome against flatterie follie will be the next hauen he shall harbor in He that in youth guideth his life by reason shall in age finde the ready foote-path from ruine Theopom There is nothing sweeter then youth nor swifter decreasing while it is increasing Young VVillowes bende easily and greene vvitts are intangled suddainly So tutor youth that the sinnes of age bee not imputed to thee Pythag. Impardonable are theyr offences that for heaping vp of riches forget to bring vp their youth in honest manners Youth well instructed maketh age well disposed Hee is most perfit which adometh youth with vertues Hermes Noble wits corrupted in theyr youth vvith vice are more vngracious then pesants that are borne barbarous The better that a child is by byrth the better ought he in his youth to be instructed The impression of good doctrine stampt in youth no age nor fortune can out-weare Examples are the best lessons for youth VVhen young men will sport and recreate themselues let them beware of ryot and remember modestie The humor of youth is neuer to think that good whose goodnes he seeth not S. P. S. The death of youth is a shypwrack Youth ought to vse pleasure and recreation but as naturall ease and rest The instructions which are giuen to youth ought not to be teadious for beeing pithie and short they will the sooner heare them the better keepe them Young men are no lesse bound to their Tutors for the vertues they teach them then to theyr parents for the lyfe they gaue them It is most requisite that Princes prouide vertuous Tutors to instruct theyr chyldren in theyr youth that they may be after them the better able to gouerne their kingdoms Semper magno ingenio adolescentes refraenandi potius á gloria quam inuitandi sunt amputanda sunt plura illi aetati siquidem efflorescit ingerij laudibus Vicina est lapsibus iuuentus quia variarū aestus cupiditatum feruore calentis aetatis inflammatur Of Musicke Defi. Musicke is an insearchable and excellent Art in which by the true concordance of soundes a
moneth into dayes and called them Festos profestos and Intercisos the first dedicated to the gods the next to men for dispatching of theyr busines the last as common for theyr Gods as men A day natural hath twenty foure houres a day artificiall hath twelue houres The day beginneth vvith the Egyptians at sunne-setting and vvith the Persians at the sunne-rising The Athenians count all the time from the setting of the sunne till the setting of the sun againe but one day The Babylonians count their day from the sunne rising in the morning till the sun rising the next day The Vmbrians an auncient people in Italy count theyr day from noonetide till no one-tide next following The vvicked and euill-liuing man loueth darknes and hateth the light One day taketh from vs the credite that another hath giuen vs and the last must make reckoning of all the rest past By daily experience we wax wiser wiser Hee that refuseth to amend his life to day may happen to be dead ere to morrow Aure. Let no day be spent without some remembrance how thou hast bestowed thy time Vespasian thought that day lost vvherein he â—ad not gotten a friend One day the hardy broode Of Fabius sent to fight Thus sent one day Did see them nobly dead ere night The Romans called Iupiter Diespiter which signifieth the father of the day or light Light is some-times taken for day and darknes for night No day commeth to man wherein he hath not some cause of sorrow Quintil. The entrance of adolescencie is the end of infancie mans estate the death of youth and the morrow dayes birth the ouer-throw of this dayes pride Light is the Queene of the eyes Aug. GOD in the beginning made tvvo great lights one for the day another for the night Day is the image of life night of death Aug. The pleasure of the day is the sunne called of the Philosophers the golden eye and hart of heauen The light of learning is the day of the minde Aug. Euery day that passeth is not to be thought as the last but that it may be the last Seneca The sunne melteth wax and hardneth clay Abbreuiare dies poteris producere nunquam Abbreuiare tuum est sed prolong are tonantis Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus eui Prima fugit subeunt morbi tistisque senectus Et labor et durae rapit inclementia mortis Night or Darknes Defi. Night is the houres of rest and peace after labours beeing commonly that part of the day naturall in which the sunne is hidden from vs cheering the Antipodes THe longer the night is in comming the more it is desired of the oppressed yet no sooner seene then wisht to be departing Night is the benefit of nature and made for mans rest Liuius Suspition and feare are nights companions This our life is as it were night Aug. Darknes is not euill but in comparison of the light Aug. Euery light hath his shadow and euery shadow of night a succeeding morning The darknes of our vertues and not of our eyes is to be feared Aug. It is not darknes but absence of the light that maketh night Darknes cannot be seene Aug. The breath wee breathe in the morning is often stopt and vanished before night Night followeth day as a shadow followeth a body Arist. Night is more comfortable to the miserable then the day Night is the cloake to couer sinne and the armour of the vniust man Theophr Night which is the nurse of ease is the mother of vnquiet thoughts Night which is all silence heares all the coÌ„plaints of the afflicted The deeded of the night are lothsome to the day neyther hath light to doe with darknes Night is warres enemy yet is it the onely finder out of martiall stratagems A darke night and a deadly resolution begets cause of the dayes lamentation Night vvhich is most foule begets day vvhich is most faire a contrary of a contrarie Night begets rest and rest is the refreshing of tired spirits VVhat euer is ouer-wearied by the dayes exercise is as it vvere nevve borne by the nights rest and quiet Tully Night and sinne hold affinitie and ioyntly ayde each other It is impossible to weare out the day in trauaile if some part of the night be not spent in rest Vt ingulent homines surgunt de nocte latrones vt teipsum serues non expergisceris Horatius Interiores tenebrae caecitas mentis exteriores infernus Of Wickednes Defi. VVickednes is any sinne vice or euil committed or imagined in the whole course of our liues and the meane by which we loose Gods fauour and expose our selues to the danger of hell fire THe prosperity of euill men is the calamitie of the good VVhen wicked men reioyce it is a signe of some tempest approching It is the corruption of the good to keepe company with the euill Reioyce as often as thou art despised of euill men and perswade thy selfe that their euill opinion of thee is most perfit praise Ill men are more hasty then good men be forward in prosecuting their purpose Hee that worketh wickednes by another is guilty of the fact committed himselfe Bias. It is better to destroy the wickednes it selfe then the wicked man Vnexperienced euils doe hurt most The remembrance of euill thinges is to be obserued by the contemplation of good matters Phillip K. of Macedon assembled together the most wicked persons and furthest from correction of all his subiects and put them into a Towne which hee builded of purpose calling it Poneropolis the Citty of vvicked persons Continuance of euill doth in it selfe increase euill S. P S. A wicked life is the death of the soule Chris. VVho can be more vnfortunate then hee which of necessity will needs be euill VVho soeuer hee be that spareth to punish the wicked doth thereby much harme to the good Anachar It is a praise to the godly to be dispraised of the wicked and it is likewise a dispraise to be praised of them Sinne blindeth the eyes of the wicked but punishments open them Greg. The wicked man is daily drawne to punishment and is ignorant therof The minde of an ill disposed person is more vnstable then the superficies of the water VVhen wicked men be in the midst of all theyr iollitie then some misfortune comes knocking at the doore VVhen the euill man vvould seeme to be good then is he worst of all He is euill that doth willingly associate him selfe with wicked men VVicked men are the deuils shadowes Vertue is health but vice is sicknes Plato The wicked man attempteth thinges impossible Arist. The wicked man is euer in feare Plato Hee vvrongeth the good that spareth the wicked A good sentence proceeding from a wicked mans mouth looseth his grace The progeny of the wicked although it be not wholy infected yet it vvill sauour something of the fathers filthines As vertue is a garment of honour so vvickednes is a robe of shame Cursed is