The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

It is a good precept of the Stoic, to abstain from moving of laughter by Jests among familiars,¹ for it will have that influence [[Greek or Hebrew]] to lessen their reverence towards thee. There is a great deal of reverence to be manifested by Superiors towards Youth; if they would cherish and preserve that due reverence which ought to be in the hearts of young ones toward? themselves. And yet notwithstanding, you must not carry your selves with any proud, supercilious, or fastuous deportment, your countenance though grave, yet must not be stern. As you need not indent your cheeks with continual smiles; so neither to plough your foreheads with rough and sour wrinkles. A sober, affability, an unaffected and amiable gravity will sufficiently chastise contempt, and nourish a reverent love. Rigid austerity in words and actions will produce a slavish dis-spirited temper in children and servants; that when they come to years they, prove either more difficult to please than their Fathers before them, or else so pusillanimous, that they are rendered unfit to manage the work of their Generation among whom they converse.² It is a maxim of Plato [[Greek or Hebrew]] that over-much rustic slavery, renders them dejected, illiberal, and haters of mankind. Carry your selves therefore in that manner, that they may neither fear or hate your morosity, nor grow wanton upon the commonness and supinity of your carriage. If Inferiors repute their Rulers not wise enough ⟨p. 195⟩to govern them; all their instructions will fall to the ground [Regimen esse non potest, nisi fuerit jugiter in rector judicium] Judgement and Prudence in a Ruler,³ is the foundation of the consistency of Government.

It is a good precept of the Stoick, to abstain from moving of laughter by Jests among familiars,¹ for it will have that influence [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] to lessen their reverence towards thee. There is a great deal of reverence to be manifested by Superiors towards Youth; if they would cherish and preserve that due reverence which ought to be in the hearts of young ones toward? themselves. And yet notwithstanding, you must not carry your selves with any proud, supercilious, or fastuous deportment, your countenance though grave, yet must not bee stern. As you need not indent your cheeks with continual smiles; so neither to plow your foreheads with rough and sowre wrinkles. A sober, affability, an unaffected and amiable gravity will suffiently chastize contempt, and nourish a reverent love. Rigid austerity in words and actions will produce a slavish dis-spirited temper in children and servants; that when they come to years they, prove either more difficult to please than their Fathers before them, or else so pusill animous, that they are rendred unfit to manage the work of their Generation among whom they converse.