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Advice to a daughter in opposition to the Advice to a sonne, or, Directions for your better conduct through the various and most important encounters of this life ... / by Eugenius Theodidactus.
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Heydon, John, b. 1629.
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Wing H1664; ESTC R9980
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five general Heads I will cut off and you will think him the Triple-headed Porter of Hell Ladies Fear him not I am your Champion Little David will fight Goliah I scorne to kill him I 'le only box him kick and cudgel him for his boldness and let him know He is the better man who hath besiedged and taken a Town not plotted to rob an Orchard and for all his subtleties was VVhipt But I must read first and write afterwards Here comes the Pedee of a Romancer with his Advice to a Son 'T is the Indorsement to the Packet like a fine knot to a fine bundle Come Let 's open in the name of good sence Oh! How it smells like a diseased peece of an Apocripha taken out of Guzman's rags or burnt bones VVhat saies this Father to his Son 1. Though I can never pay enough to your Grandfathers Memory for his tender Care in my Education yet I must observe in it this mistake that by keeping me at Home where I was one of my young Masters I lost the advantage of my most docile time For not undergoing the same Discipline I must needs come short of their Experience that are bred up in Free Schools who by plotting to rob an Orchard c. 1. Here he complains of the losse of those times which I could wish I had not known Daughter I would have you as good as I could fancy one and three things I would have you know First Your own misery secondly Gods Love thirdly Your thankfull Obedience your misery How just Gods Love How free How undeserved Your thankfullnesse How due How necessary Consideration of one successively begets the apprehension of all Your condition shews you his Love His Love calls for your acknowledgement Want makes a Bounty weightier 2. As your Education hath been befriended by a foundation so you may endeavour a requital if God makes you able However let not the contrary afflict you since it is observed by some that his Name who burnt the Temple of Diana out-lasted theirs that built it c. 2. Answer Of Education I say thus much It is seen every where If you travel but from White Hall to Exeter or from a Village to an Accademy or see but a Horse well manag'd and another resty in his own fierceness Dyet no question alters much even the giddy Airyness of the French I shall rather impute to their Dyet of VVine and wild Foul then to the difference of their Clime it being so neer an adjoyner to ours And in England I beleeve our much use of Strong beer and gross Flesh is a great occasion of dregging our Spirits and corrupting them till they shorten life Age is also a changer Man hath a Zenith as well in VVit as in ability of Body He grows from sence to Reason and then again declines to Dotage and to imbecillity Youth is too young in brain and Age again does drain away the Spirits Passion blunts the edge of Conceit and where there is much sorrow the mind is dull and unperceiving the Soul is oppressed and lies languishing in an unsociable loneliness till it proves stupid and inhumane Nor do these more alter the Mind then the Body VVeigh every Mans Education as his means have been A man may look in vain for Courtship in a Plow man or Learning in a Mechanick VVho would expect a lame man should run swiftly Or that a sick man should deliver an Oration with a Grace and cheerfullness If you find any man failing in his Manners you must consider his Means before you censure the Man and one that is short of what he might be by his sloath and negligence you must think as justly blameable as he that out of his Industry hath adorned his behaviour above his Means is commendable 3. Let not an over-passionate prosecution of Learning saith he draw you from making an honest improvement of your Estate as such do who are better read in the bignesse of the whole Earth then in that little spot left them by their friends for their support 3. I Answer You clumsie Epithite Nothing wraps a Man in such a mist of Errors as his own Curiositie in twisting himself into things above him How happily do they live that know nothing but what is necessary Your knowledge doth but shew your Ignorance Your most studious scrutenies is but a discovery of what the Spirit knew before it was imbodied You find the effect but not the Cause Besides If I must describe a meer Scholer He is an intellegible Asse or silly fellow in Black that speaks Sentences more familiarly then Sence and Latine better then his Mother Tongue But is a stranger to no Countrie but his own He is Ambitious and tells great stories of himself to no purpose for they are commonly ridiculous be they true or false doubtless he is a Graduate but if ever he get a Fellowship he hath then no Fellow in spight of all Logick he dares swear and maintain it that a Cuckold and a Towns-man are Termini Convertibiles though his Mothers Husband and the Father of the Advice to a Son's Father be Aldermen in the singular Number He cannot but wrangle with harmless VVomen His Tongue goes alwaies before his VVit like the Gentleman Usher but abundance faster He is long-winded and able to speak more with ease than any man can endure to hear with Patience University Jests are his universal Discourse and his News the Demeanour of the Proctors His phrase the Apparel of his Mind is made of divers shreds like a Cushion and when it goeth plainest it hath a rash out-side and Fustian Linings the current of his Speech is clos'd with an Ergo and what ever be the Question the Truth is on his side 't is a wrong to his Reputation to be ignorant in any thing and yet he knows not that he knows nothing He gives Directions for Husbandry from Virgils Georgicks for Cattle from his Bucolicks He would be thought as great a Duellist as Heydon and as stout a Fighter He speaks of Warlike Stratagems from his Eucides or Ceasars Commentaries He orders all things and thrives by none He is led more by his Ears then his Understanding taking the empty sound of words for their true sence and does therefore confidently say that Aera Pater was the Father of Hereticks Rodolphus Agricola a substantial Farmer and will aver that Systimo's Logick doth excell Kickermans His ill luck is not so much in being a Fool as in being put to such pains to express it to the World for what in others is Natural in him with much adoe is Artificial His Poverty is his Happiness for it makes men beleeve he is an honest man That Learning that he hath was put in backward like a Clister and is now like ware mis-laid in a Pedlars pack he has it but knows not where it is And this is the Index of a Man and the Title page of his Father a new Religion in Morality much in