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The folly of Youth, discovered and reproved. [ 741]
THe Antients painted a Young man,* 1.1 stark naked, his eyes vailed, his right hand bound behind him, and his left hand left at liberty, and Time following him close at the heeles, and ever and anon pulling a thread out of the vail. He was so drawn, in a naked posture, to shew, with what little secrecy he had used his de∣lights and pleasures; with his right hand bound behind him, to expresse, that he did not do any thing right;* 1.2 his left hand free and at liberty, signifying, that he doth all things awkardly and untowardly: he was pourtrayed blind, because he doth not see his own follies; but Time behind him, opening his eyes by little and little, so bring∣ing him to the knowledge of his errours, and that if he go on in such a course of life, he is no other then as a broken ship, which leaks and drawes in water at a thousand places, and will not be long ere it sink; as a house, whereinto the rain doth fall, and drop in so fast, and at so many places, that it must speedily fall without recovery.