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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68296	The education of children in learning declared by the dignitie, vtilitie, and method thereof. Meete to be knowne, and practised aswell of parents as schoolmaisters.	Kempe, William.	1588 (1588)	STC 14926; ESTC S109252	41,214	62

THE Education of children in learning Declared by the Dignitie Vtilitie and Method thereof Meete to be knowne and practi sed aswell of Parents as Schoolemaisters Teach a childe in the trade of his way and when he is old he shall not depart from it Prou. 22 6. Fathers prouoke not your children to wrath but bring them vp in learning and information of the Lord. Ephes 6. 4. The rod and correction giue wisedome but a child set at libertie maketh his mother ashamed Prou 29. 15. Foolishnes is tied in the heart of a child but the rod of discipline shall driue it away Prou. 22. 15. Imprinted at London by Thomas Orwin for Iohn Porter and Thomas Gubbin 1588. To the right Worshipfull Maister VVilliam Hawkins Esquier Maior of the Towne of Plimmouth and to the worship full companie his Brethren the Maisters of the Towne W. K. wisheth prosperitie in this life and euerlasting ioy in the life to come ALthough it bee a matter of it selfe most euident that the discipline and vertuous bringing vp of children in good learning is the very foundation and groundworke of all good in euery estate aswell priuate as publike yet such is the corruption and iniquitie of our time that most men are found very carelesse and slacke to do their duetie therein yea there want not those that in flat termes affirme it to bee superfluous insomuch that they can do well enough in their owne iudgement without it For what parents in these daies haue not more care to prouide wealth for their children than wisedome More care to leaue thē lands and liuings in this world than to bequeath them that knowledge whereby they may enioy the right vse and fruites of these temporall blessings be directed the right way to that glorious inheritance layd vp for Gods children in heauen The common practise of many parents proueth this complaynt to bee true and the priuate talke of some defendeth this practise to be good VVherefore hauing regard of my duetie in this behalfe and being assured of your VVorships courtesie in accepting my good will to withdraw my neighbours and countrie men from this prophane opinion and pernicious custome and to allure them vnto a better and more godly consideration I haue thought good in your VVorships name to set before them first as it were in a Preface the excellent dignitie of this Discipline then the vtilitie and afterwards in the rest of the booke a Treatise of the easiest and playnest way to be vsed therein Your Worships euer to commaund in the Lord W.K. ¶ To the Gentle Reader I Haue sent you deere friend a little pamphlet of the education of Children in learning which is no phantasticall nor idle toy but a verie profitable matter and most necessarie to be vrged in this secure and licentious generation Wherein I confesse that many learned men haue alreadie bestowed verie exquisit and commendable labours yet for that we haue endeuoured not only to fill vp the emptie roome with such members as wanted and to sepatate that which seemed superfluous but also to new cast the whole in another mould and to bring it to another forme breefe and easie I suppose that it will seeme altogether a strange and a new Booke Furthermore where as the charge of teaching apperteineth but onely to a fewe of the learneder sort namely to Scholemaysters we to make the argument more popular haue prefixed a necessarie exhortation for all other sort of people setting foorth the dignitie and vtilitie of the matter with such holie and ancient Histories with such plaine and sensible reasons as may teach the vnlearned with some delight and not be tedious to those that are learned Agayne to satisfye in some part the expectation of the learned we haue handled the method more methodically and adorned the whole worke with some wittie Greeke and Latin sentences englishing the same neuertheles in the Margent for the behoofe of the vnlearned And as generally both sorts may peraduenture thinke that the reading of it will be worth the labour so almost euery one of each sort in particular may finde somewhat for his purpose For who is it of what state or degree soeuer vpon whom God hath not cast the care and charge either of teaching or of learning or else of causing others to be taught and learned Farewell VV. K. ¶ Io. Sw. In Authorem ●ogdoastichon STurmius Ramus Freigius Manutius Ascham Quicquid ad hoc spectans explicuere genus Kempus id omne tenet bene collocat edocet Anglos Sedulitate simul cum pietate pari Lectio sedulitas labor hac placuere peritis Nec dabit inuidia tam pia cura locum Sin tamen immerito Theonino dente petare Perfer ab hijs melius te meruisse memor Abrahami Wislaki de libri argumento Epigramma QVantus honos Parnasse tuus reuerentia quanta Quos Helicon fructus praemia quanta feras Fronte canit prima modulato pectine musa Doctisoni reserans limina trina fori Tùm quid amor patrius peragat doctusque magister Depingit Satyros procul esse iubet Quo mandat puer ore cibos quae mansa remandat Quas tenero primas deligat vngue rosas Et quî firmato procurrat poplite tandem Perfacili rectum tramite pandit iter Vel tibi Thersites mordax quod carpere possis Hîc nihilest nihilest hic tibi liuor iners Semper enim Charites sequitur licet obstrepat vsque Stentorio Momus gutture verus honos VLtimus victor telum contorsit Acestes Vltimaque victrix vestra Thalia canit Namque exsors tibi restat honos rex magno Olympi Sic vult inuidit nec bonus Eurytion Hen. Whit. in operis Authoris laudem QVe spinosa diu rigidis fuit horrida saxis Plana fit ad musas te duce Kempe Via AA ❧ The Dignitie of Schooling IT is common with heathen men when they will commend their Nobilitie to deriue their pedegree from their Gods giuing vs to vnderstand thereby that if there were any excellencie in them it came not of themselues but God was the author thereof Therefore O most noble discipline from whence doest thou fetch thy pedegree What parentage hast thou Who is the author of thine excellencie Who should it be els but the father of lights euen the author of euery good and perfect gift He at the beginning created man in perfect righteousnesse and holinesse beautified him with all singular knowledge He also after the fall of man gaue his only Sonne to restore him agayne and ordayned meanes and wayes by the which not onely his seruants might be made partakers of this restauration but generally all men might leade an honest and ciuill life here in this present world the doore and enterance wherevnto is this discipline and schooling which I speake of But what are the men vpon whom this gift was first bestowed Who entertayned it Who hath been a practiser and furtherer thereof Surely