TO THE GODLY PARENTS, Masters and ouerseers for Edu∣cation of youth.
NAture is best adorned with Religion and nurture: for as religion informeth the minde; so narture reformeth the man∣ners. And as the fertillest soyle without manuring will soon ouergrow with weeds, so the aptest wits without education, will soone corrupt in manners. An vnmanaged Colt will be wilde, and a childe left at li∣berty will grow wilfull. And as the occa∣sions in children and youth, vnto vice and euill are many; so the care and indeuour in elders to restraine and amend them should abound: Parents by nature should, Ma∣sters by charge ought, Magistrates by law, neighbours of loue and curtesie, and all men of common humanity, for maintai∣ning Christian loue and piety, ciuill society,