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4. Be not unwilling, to bear the Yoke in the days of your Youth, For he that can carry a calf when he is Young, will carry an Ox when he is old: Affliction gives you understanding, it is the School of Experience.¹ The Oxen that are for use, are kept tied up, when those that are fatted for the Shambles are let loose into the Pastures to feed at their pleasure.

4. Be not unwilling, to bear the Yoak in the daies of your Youth, For he that can carry a calfe when he is Young, wil carry an Ox when he is old: Affliction gives you understanding, it is the School of Experience.¹ The Oxen that are for use, are kept tied up, when those that are fatted for the Shambles are let loose into the Pastures to feed at their pleasure.

1. 1Vituli triturantes quotidir ligantur vituli mactandi quotidie in pascuis libere relinqountur. August.

5. Be not too confident of what you can do or will do; Young Men are apt to be too confident, as Old Men are apt to be too fearful; but the best Swimmers are the soonest drowned, because of ⟨image 6⟩their confidence: wherefore in all thy ways acknowledge the Lord, and lean not to thine own understanding. Pro. 3.

5. Be not too confident of what you can do or wil do; Young Men are apt to be too confident, as Old Men are apt to be too fearful; but the best Swimmers are the soonest drowned, because of ⟨image 6⟩