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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02480	A touchestone for this time present expresly declaring such ruines, enormities, and abuses as trouble the Churche of God and our Christian common wealth at this daye. VVherevnto is annexed a perfect rule to be obserued of all parents and scholemaisters, in the trayning vp of their schollers and children in learning. Newly set foorth by E.H.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. De pueris ad virtutem instituendis.	1574 (1574)	STC 12609; ESTC S105953	36,378	106

And euermore we must auoyd t' enioyne them thinges to harde Or things not needefull to be taught or things that may be sparde For Lorde how are their mindes perplext how troubled will they be When thinges they cannot vnderstande through much obscurity But though that something of it selfe some hardenesse doth containe Yet may the maysters policie make easie that againe For like as good phisitions that doe bitter potions make With somthing swéete doe sméere the pot that infauntes so may take The Potion that they would haue drunke whereby they are alurde The same to drinke which else to doe they coulde not be procurde Euen so the skilfull mayster ought to deale in eche respect Thinges difficult with ease to teach and leysure to direct And yet we may not too too much mistrust our childrens strength For what they cannot learne at first that learne they at length Though strength they haue not as an Oxe yet as an Ant they haue And oft vnto the Elephant the little Flye doth scath Conceypt doth chiefly hurt a childe where if you make but play Of things that you shall teach him then Conceipt doth neuer fraye That one and onely scruple nowe remaines to be discust Which many one full fondely doe against all reason thrust They say the profite is so small that children doe obtaine Before the same be fiue yeres olde that labour is in vayne And cost ill spent that is bestowde to bring them vp to booke But these men which will this obiect these rather séeme to looke More straightly to the parents purse and more to spare the paine Of maisters then to well respect their little childrens gaine But graunt the profite be but small admit it small in déede Take rather small than nothing yet for that 's the wisemans réede And slender howsoeare it be that that same age shall gaine Yet this aduauntage be you sure shall thereunto remaine That greater thinges they shall atchiue that yere wherein if they The smaller things had erst not learnd they on the same shoulde stay I néede not here repeate againe that certaine thinges we sée In infantes age farre better learnde than when they greater bée And graunt we that they trifling are and things of slender skill Yet they such tryfles first atchéeue that greater thinges fulfill The painfull Crafts man makes account euen of the smallest coyne For why in time to that same small he greater store doth ioyne The Goldesmithes rise ere breake of day before they well can sée To winne some time before hand still though nere so small it be The Plowman sometimes doth not stick on dayes that holye séeme To binde his sheaues to shocke and oft to set a worke his Teeme And shall we way for nothing then the losse of fiue yeres time Shall we so hange on harder age that we neglect the prime When as ther 's nothing halfe so riche as time nor halfe so good As learning is oh nothing may so high be vnderstood Here here Philopas here should men most néerely pinch and spare Euen here I saye for losse of time shoulde be their chiefest care The husbandeman hath good regarde that no part of his grounde Doe lye vntilde for looke what péece vnfit for grayne is founde That he with Osiers sets and plants Or else to pasture layes And one way or another still he fruite thereof doth rayse Shall we permit the best part then of all our time to flytte Without all learnings profite had without increase of witte New fallowd grounde must néedes be sowne with some one kinde of séede Or else euen of it owne accorde it brings forth noisome wéede Like so the tender Infants minde except the same be taught With good precepts it will bring foorth the thing that 's meerely nought The minde doth eyther good things yéelde if good therein be sowne Or if thou nothing sow therein with vice t is ouergrowne And surely he not smally gaynes that vice can well eschewe And he that shuts foorth vice doth not to vertue least accrewe What wilt thou know how much it helps tinstruct a childe betime Why then behold thou Ouid well marcke Lucan in his prime Vrsinus but eleuen yeres olde so wonderfull was founde That straunge it is to make report how farre he did abounde Great Alexander in his youth euen all the partes attainde Of wisedome and Philosophie and with the same had gaynde Such perfite forme of eloquence that had not kingdomes pryde Withdrawne his mind from studies care no man could haue denyde But that amongst Philosophers the chiefest of them then Not seconde but the very chiefe accounted he had bene But here to fine this long discourse your selfe Philopas I Will haue to witnesse all such thinges as earst haue passed by Epilogus ¶ Consider well what portion and what déere possession eeke A sonne is and how flittingly mans minde doth knowledge séeke How wayghtie education is what hablenesse is founde In tender childes capacity what quicknesse doth abounde How easily the same doth learne how Nature giues consent And how they profite most when they to learned men are sent And vnto such as gentle are which teach them all by play Thinges easie first and harder things when harder thinges they may To these things adde how déere and of what waight our time should be How much it helps to teache betimes what fruite thereof we see Hesiodus doth flytting call the wandring age of man Whose youth is busy and whose age is quite from learning gon These thinges if thou shalt well obserue sixe yeres shall not be séene Nor yet thrée yeres before thy sonne which heretofore hath béene Neglected as to this intent shall eyther learning gaine Or else be well preparde at least good learning to obtayne FINIS Luke 13. Luke 13. Ephe. 2. Peter 5. Timo. 3. Timo. 3. 2. Regū 5. Corinth 5. Exod. 3. Prou. 13. Memory chiefly regarded to the obta●ning of learning Abuse of fonde Parentes Multitudo Imperatorū●ariam ●●●didit Quot homines tot ●●●●entiae Tradendi ratio Eccless 30.