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water_n	child_n	young_a	youth_n	19	3	7.5600	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09789	A president for parentes, teaching the vertuous training vp of children and holesome information of yongmen. / Written in greke by the prudent and wise phylosopher Chœroneus [sic] Plutarchus, translated and partly augmented by Ed. Grant: very profitable to be read of all those that desire to be parents of vertuous children. Anno. 1571. Seene and allowed according to the Quenes iniunctions.; De educatione puerorum. English	Plutarch.; Grant, Edward, 1540?-1601.	1571 (1571)	STC 20057.5; ESTC S110518	57,885	148

smarting gréefes of the stripes and partly for contumelies reproches and nipping tauntes But praise and dispraise amongs ingenious children are farre more better and commodious thā any other chastisemēt For commendations and prayses stirre and inuite them to honest things and discommendations doth call them away restraine and terrifie them from filthie dishonest and vicious things And somtime againe diuers wayes they must be dispraised and chidden and sometime commended that after they shall nothing set by chidings and chaffings shame may restraine them and againe be made glad and reduced from the same with prayses and commendations imitating nourses and mothers which after their babes sucklings haue cried giue and offer them the pappe to still and aslake their cryes And heere it behoueth Parents and good fathers to be circumspect and diligently take héede that aboue measure they doe not auaunce and extol with praises their children least they become too insolent proud arrogant and headie For dismeasured and too much praise doth infatuate and make them more fierce and leuder I haue known certain fathers which with too much loue haue lost and marred their sonnes While parents make posthast to haue their children excell and surmount very festinely in all things they lay such burdens vppon their shoulders as they cannot beare nor sustaine wherwith being too muche burdened and forefrushed they fal down vnder them when as being hindered and stopped with other passions molestations and gréeues they are not able rightly to cōceyue discipline and learnings lore * They would haue them learned the first day and perfite men the first houre such too hastie Parents there be who thinking to haue out of hande surpassing children make them fooles dullardes through their hot festination ✚ Euen as yong plants are norished with the sprinkling of moderate water but suffocated and choked with dismeasured liquors poured vpon them Likewise a childes tender yong wit with moderate labors is augmented but with superfluous paines and immoderate toiles extinguished ouerwhelmed and drowned Wherefore some recreation breathing and refreshing from their continuall labors muste be permytted Children * which banisheth and dryueth away irksomnesse gotten by serious toyle and doth restaurate and repaire againe their bodyes and mindes to laboure For euen as too muche bending breaketh the bow so to bée perpetually addicted to seryous things and neuer to refreshe and solace the mynde wyth honeste oblectations causeth that mannes mynd can not long endure in earnest studyes For this cause in olde tyme were solempnities and Festiuall dayes ordayned that menne béeyng called from laboures myght take delyghte in seruyng GOD whych delight without all controuersie is the moste honest of all other So studentes least they fall into the detestable vice of drunkennesse and contamynate them selues wyth filthie pleasures had their delightes musike and other bodily exercises wherewith theyr mynde being tired with study myght be moste pleasantly recreated ✚ Then Parentes ought to remember those I meane which so burden their Childrens tender mindes with suche too heauie burdens that our life consisteth of remission recreation studie labour and paine And therefore not onely wakings but sléeping is founde out not only warre but also tyme of peace not sommer and ser●nitie but wynter blustryng blastes chillie colde and impetuous Tempestes peries and stormes To laborous operations and paynefull busie woorkes as I sayd before are Holly dayes inuented a remedy And finally rest and cessation is the medicine and sauce of laboure and wearynesse and that not in lyuing creatures alone but in things deuoyde of life we by experience proue for we vnbend our bowes and let downe and slacke the Harpe and lutestrings that we may bend them agayne And generally the body is preserued wyth emptying and filling agayne and the mynde wyth remission recreation and studie And there be some Parentes worthy great blame and deserue seuere reprehension which after they haue once committed their childrē to the tutele and custodie of the master and gouernor neuer looke nor trie howe their children han● profited and gone for warde in good litterature vnfatherly neglecting their dueties for it behoueth them a fewe dayes after to be inquisitiue and to make triall vpon the studies and increasings of theyr childrens learning and not to affie their hole hope and trust in him that teacheth for reward and gaine In so doing theyr children may euilly without any profiting waste and contriue their precious time and dissipate their parents money For vndoubtedly those masters would be more diligent and painefull in instructing their schollers if they knewe they should render accompt of their institution and progression in good lerning And certainly that that of horses is spoken meriteth no small grace bicause nothing do so sone fattē and bring into good liking a horse as his owners eie * Some parents I know in England very careful in thys behalfe and such in dede be parentes and loue their children interly which daily enquire and trie their children thoughe they be wholy persuaded in the painefull diligence of the Master Such must néedes haue toward lerned and obedient children and worthy of great cōmendation they be for the care and trauell they take in the vertuous instruction of their children But some other I haue heard of that are altogither vncarefull and nothing regarde the good successe of their sonnes not once in a whol yere demaunding how his child hath profited Such parents be not worthy the name of parents since they so temerously neglect their childrens good education whom nature hath bounde them and God commaundeth them to season with vertue and to trayne them vp in feare godlynesse Nay the more is the pitie there be some which altogither neglect at all to put thē to schole but permit them dissolutely ydelly and vaynely to contriue and spende their time thinking learning and vertue to be of no value supposing good institution to be a thing of nought so that they resemble their fathers euill wayes if they learne to sweare and to rent God in a thousande morsels then haue they learnyng enoughe and then they be their white sonnes What be these● the wicked parents of vicious children vnprofitable members worthy to be extirped out of a christian common weale and as one sayd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An infertile masse of molde But I leaue such to their owne follies and turne to my purpose wishing that there were none such remayning ✚ Before all things a childs memorie must be exercised for memory is as it were the buttry or pantry of all good learning and therfore haue poets in their poemes fayned and imagined memory to be the mother of the muses and nine sisters of learning thereby priuily interpreting obscurely reueling that nothing is better thā fertile pregnant redy memory which all children must exercise both they which naturally be endued with the beautiful benefite of the same also those which be obliuious enioy a very hard and

hearing not in vayne thinges in studies whereof alwayes doe procéede the increase of learning and augmentation of vertue as to heare learned men to read their lucubrations not in riot in wantonnesse in trifles and toyes Plato oftentimes disputed and when he sent away the company of the reasoners he alwayes vled to admonish them thus Videte ô adolescentes vt etium in re quapram honesta collocetis Take héede O ye yongmen and beware that ye contrine and spende your leasured houres in some honest thing What can be more honest than to heare if leysure permit men resplendent in arts and to peruse the worthy works and modest monuments of surpassing authors in al good sciences what more dishonest than to wallow in ydlenes to spend the time in dicing carding riot drunkennesse and other naughtie and pernicious exercises I woulde olde Scipio his words were written with golden letters in the tables of yongmens hearts who when he from mortall affayres gayned any leysure or vacant time and was intentiue to lerning was wont to say Se nunquā minus ot●osum esse qua cū ot●osus nec minus solum quā cum solus esset So shal thei with out any vexation or gret toyle vnderstād those things be perfited in those sacred stiēces which those lerned authors with vnspekable labour toyle encombrous payn haue found out But those yongmē which be dissolute refuse this institution shall neuer be beautified with sciences nor replenished with knowledge of good arts What a benefite is it to enioy the lucubracions of famous learned men out of which issues profites to vs labours redounded to them These thinges therfore are honest profitable and if yongmen parents be vigilant and laborous but to vew the same wil bring infinite cōmodities both to themselues and other ✚ And those things that now I wil speake vpon are fraught with humanitie replete with curteous lenity Neither do I counsel parents to be altother wayward frowarde peuish harde and by nature to sharp sell and seuere but to winke at certayne faults of your yongmen and to remitte and pardon their transgressions remembring that they themselues were once yong and faultie likewise Euen as Phisitians do temper bitter drugs and medicines with sweete and dulcete sapours that béeing concorporate and mixed with swetenes and receiued of their pacients may remedy and recure them so it becōmeth fathers and good parents to mixe the bitter rigour of their rebuks and blustring blasts of their reprehension with méeknesse and lenitie and to graunt sometime vnto the lustes of their children and to pardon their offences But yf it pleaseth not them so to doo fathers may be angry but soone they ought to quell and quenche it for it is a great deale better for a time to be wrathfull than long to be angry For the continuall abyding in anger and the harde reconcilement of fauour is a great signe and manifest token of a minde alienated from children and hatefull towards them And also it is decent for parents that they fayne themselues to conceale some of their childrens faults For the incommodities of sighte and hearing that is blindnesse and deafnesse which follow olde age as it were not to sée certayn things which they see their children do nor to heare certaine things which they heare Séeing we wincke at and suffer our frendes faultes what maruell is it yf we tolerate the same in our children oftentimes we haue not rebuked and reproued our seruants rioting and surfetting Yf thou sometime wouldest haue him liue sparingly and hardly other sometime minister vnto him costes liberally yf thou hast bene angry with him at any time pardon him agayne yf at any time he had deceyued thée through thy seruants refrayne thy anger if he shall take out of thy field a yoke of oxen remit him yf he at any time come exhaling the surfet and drunkennesse the night before receaued agnize it not do as thou knewest it not yf he smell of his odoriferous waters and siuet powders make no wordes of it knowe it not and by this way may lasciuious youth and wanton be tamed ordered and restrayned And parents must endeuour to prepare them wiues which can not resiste vayne pleasures nor abide bitter rebukes when they heare of their faults For matrimony is the most firme bond and sure bridle of lasciuious and wanton youth And such wiues muste be matched and coupled with them which neither in stocke nor substaunce surpasse them it is a wise part to choose a wife that is his equall like in all respects for they whiche espouse wiues which be better than them selues they are not the husbands of their wiues they rule not their wiues but are made their seruants for their higher bloud and richer dowrie sake But to draw to an end and to leaue off this giuing of precepts before all other things it is requisite and moste necessarye that parents liue an inculpable life in nothing offending and do those things only whiche be honest iust and lawfull And to shew them selues a lyuely and manyfest example to their children that beholding their honest and modest lyues as in a glasse may shunne the woorks and woords which be dishonest fylthie and vnlawfull For parents whiche when they reproue their childrens faultes and vyces are filed with the same vyces themselues whiles they accuse their children they séeme to insimulate and accuse themselues And they which leading a scelerous life haue no libertie to rebuke their bondeslaues much lesse their children Moreouer they be the mouers and counsaylers to their children of vicious vices and foule faultes for when old men and parents passe the pathes of pudicitie leape ouer the limits of shamefastnesse there must it of necessitie be that the yonger sorte and their children be moste impudent * I would to God there were no sucke parents in this land then should there be more vertuous impes than there be I feare me the number is very great and the more to be pitied But godly parents must carefully practise and exercise all things whatsoeuer apertaine to temperance may draw their children to honesty and sobrietie imitating Euridices which although she was an 〈◊〉 born and most barbarous notwithstanding for hir childrens discipline and institution in the last time of hir age addicted hir selfe wholly to learnyng and laborously trayned in paynefull studies Whiche Euridices howe intierely she loued hir children this Epigramm● whiche she dedicated to the muses doth manyfestly declare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euridices Euridices the learned dame and holy citizen for loue Oflearnings lore this taske did frame vnto the Muses nynes behoue For vvhen hir children grevv to men and passed from their childs estate She laboured to learne as then a mother and a spoused mate Good artes euen for their only cause and monuments of fyled speach