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THe part of a Father, is to bring his child into the schole, (the time of in∣fancie beeing past, & growen to the full perfection of seauen yeares) to procede and go for∣warde in learning, if he couet to haue him good, being flesh of his owne bodie, and not a wanton, as the common pa∣rents do nowe a dayes nossell their children vp. Therefore in tyme teach him modestie, pam∣per him not vppe with trifling
toyes, but keepe hym vnder with the rod of correction, that he may frame his lyfe accor∣ding to the prescribed rule of the syncere veritie or worde of God. Let him be punished if he offend: let him be praysed, if he behaue him selfe well and ho∣nestly: with threatning & stry∣pes, let him be feared from vy∣ces: by exhortations, let him be progged to vertue: yea, and let the patrone haue a greater regarde, to the maners of edu∣cation of his childe than the re∣spect of his own bodily health: Let him cōmit him to teachers, graue, sage & wittie, learned, quiet and vertuous, where he might tast of the pleasant fruit of learning, & sweete lyquours of the Latine speach: Let him bestowe his tyme on those stu∣deis,
which instruct the minde with precepts and documēts. Among the which is Philoso∣phie. This Nursse alone ma∣keth a better nature of a good, a chast nature of a wicked, and easier to be intreated. Let a Christian accustome him selfe, and learne that God must first be honoured as the wel spring from whome all good things haue their issue: let him learne to obey reason, and follow hir in all the conuersation of hys lyfe, as his chiefe capitaine and gouernour in worde and dede. Let him couet or doe nothing, but that which is honest and right. Let him also brydle his cogitations, the secretes whereof god the iudge of all heartes wyll peruse.