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Marcus Ausonius his foure bookes of morall precepts, intituled Cato concerning the precepts of common life / translated out of Latin hexamiters into English meter by Walter Gosnold gentleman ...; Catonis disticha.
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Gosnold, Walter.
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STC 4863.5; ESTC S280
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vertuous forgetting that it is better to leave unto their children good doctrine whereby they may live than evill riches whereby they may perish whose offence as a wise Philosopher saith is impardonable that for heaping up of riches forget to bring up their children in honest manners If this be not true that I speake let experience speake for me who of her owne knowledge can produce many lamentable examples of Gentlemens sonnes and great heires abroad in the world who have had more wealth left them than wit to use it through want of this one principle of learning put into them to season and relish those other parts and ornaments of nature they have beene endowed withall Wherefore it standeth parents in hand that have any true inward love toward the good of their children to see them as well vertuously educated in learning as to provide for them great portions Salomon saith How much better is it to get wisedome then gold and to get understanding rather to be chosen then silver Let fathers and mothers then take it into their considerations to use all the best meanes they can to put wisedome and understanding into their childrens heads as well as money into their purses by training them up to learning when they are young A wise childe saith Salomon maketh a glad father but a foolish childe is a heavinesse to his heart It is not possible to keepe meate well savoured unlesse it be first salted It is impossible that fish should live without water it is not unlikely but the Rose which is overgrowne with the Thorne should wither so it is impossible that fathers should have any comfort in their children unlesse they bring them up to learning and vertuous education in their youth Nothing maketh a more deepe impression in the mind of man than those rules he learned when he was a child for whatsoever good instructions children learne in their youth the same they retaine in their age which made Cato himselfe be a Schoole-master to his owne sonnes because he would not have their youth infected Goe on then Noble Sir in the race you have begun who have hitherto had God be praised vertuous education and godly bringing up having not onely a Wise and a religious Father to advise you a vertuous and godly Mother to counsell you but also a prudent and discreet Master to instruct you let it then be your care having such worthy Patternes of imitation laid before you for a square and a rule to direct you in your youth as few have the like to adde thereunto wisdome and learning your selfe as farre as in you lie by diligence in your study which will be the most absolute and perfect way to make you a complete Gentleman that as you patriseat your father every way in person so you may strive to imitate him as neere as you can in vertue whose instructions goe not alone onely as daily Moniters to disswade and dehort you from that which is ill but his examples are as so many lectures read unto you to exhort and encourage you to that which is good As you would not then have others goe before you in riches which of Philosophers and Poets are called the gods of Fortune so let not others goe before you in learning which is the Mother of Vertue and Perfection and without which a man though never so rich is but as a sheepe as Demosthenes termes him with a golden fleece or an â—mage curiously trimmed and richly painâ—ed over with fine gold and beautifull colours Study and labour then to get knowledge learning wisedome and understanding now whilest you are young being lesse painfull as one saith to learne in youth than to be ignorant in age A mans whole life time indeed ought to be a continuall study for no man can be too old to learne yet a mans infancy and childhood is the chiefest time when the foundation and groundworke of this building is to be laid Hee that goes about to build a house begins it not in the Winter but in the Spring that he may have the Summer before him to finish his worke yet better to begin it in the Winter then not at all so hee that would be a good scholler must not beginne to fall to his booke and study when he is a man or in his declining age but in his childhood and youth yet better to learne in his old age then not at all as one to that effect writeth thus It is fitter for young men to learne then to teach and for old men to teach then to learne and yet fitter for old men to learne then to be ignorant but there is no man that can learne so much that he shall need to learne no more and I hope I shall not live so long that â— shall be too old to learne How excellenâ— a thing then is learning that is so requisitâ— in all both old and young but especially in young that as Iob speakes of Wisdome so may I say of learning it is so excellent that man knoweth not the value thereof it cannot be gotten for gold neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof it cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir with the pretious Onix or the Saphire the gold and the crystall cannot equall it and the exchange of it shall not be for jewells of fine gold No mention shall be made of Corall or of Pearles for the price of learning is above Rubies which made grave Plato in contemplation thereof cry out and say Oh Science how would men love and esteeme thee if they knew thee right and well might he doe it for it is the lightest burthen and richest merchandise that a man can possibly traffique in or carry about him a fountaine whereunto â—l may goe and yet can never be drawne â—ry from whence flowes such delicious â—eet springs that the more a man drinks â—ereof the more hee desireth it In a â—ord it is the very lampe of life chiefe â—uide to Arts and all perfection Thus â—ave you heard what an excellent thing earning is you have heard I say for as salomon speaketh A wise man will heare and â—ill increase in learning Let me then intreat â—ou nay rather advise you although your â—ervant whatsoever you get digge or â—elve for as I may say whilest you live â—ere in this earthly tabernacle made with â—ands to be sure to get that inestimable em of learning which will sticke by you â—hen all other treasures will vanish and â—and you in no stead and to be so farre in â—ve therewith as with the Philosopher o thinke that day lost wherein you have â—ot learned somewhat Oh Sir I would to â—od I speake it from my heart for the â—ve I beare unto you I were as well able â— willing to advise you and my best inâ—evours without any ceremony or comâ—lement should lie prostrate at your worships feet to doe you service I confesse Multis simulationum involuris tegitur quaâ—