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If thy care to keep thy wife, children, friends, and family, in perpetuall fulnesse of health and externall hap∣pines, thou shewest thy self a foole, for thou indeauorest to sway those thinges that stand without the compasse of thy power, and to turn ex∣ternal goods into reall ones. Now if thy will be that thy sonne should not runne in∣to enormities, thou art a
foole in that. For thy desire is, that error should not bee error, but of some other nature. But if thy desire bee not to bee frustrate in thy wishes, this may be allowed thee.