Use 1 And here first Children are to be admonished to use their time and means well, that Gods goodness, and the care and bounty of Friends and Parents affordeth them, &n to apply themselves to their learning, while their senses are lively, their wit quick, their memory fresh and strong; take that in now that may stick by them hereafter;o lay that up now that they have comfort of, and benefit by hereafter: Do as wise travellers, that have a long days journey to make, that get them up betimes, and take the day before them, and notp like foolish, improvident, and unadvised persons, that with frivolous ⟨p. 14⟩delays trifle out the time, and burn daylight. You know what is said commonly, thatq Time and Tide tarrieth for no man. Neither is it possible to recall any one day or hour, when it is once over, nay nor the least minute or moment of our life, when it is once past and gone. It will be too late for you to say hereafter,r Oh were I as young again as once I was; or, Were I to begin again as sometime I was, and had that time and those means that then I had, or might have had, I would then do thus and thus. Prevent it now therefore, while you may, by following good counsel, and taking your learning, that now seeketh you, and offereth it self unto you,s lest you mourn hereafter in your latter days; when you have spent your time and your strength in folly and vanity; and say, How have I hated instruction, and in mine heart scorned correction; and have not obeyed the voice of them that taught me, nor inclined mine ear unto them that instructed me: yea* when your bones, it may be, as he speaketh in Job, are so filled with the sins of your youth, with the fruits of those loose courses that then you took, that they leave you not, till they lye down with you in the dust.
Vse 1 And here first Children are to be admonished to use their time and meanes well, that Gods goodnesse, and the care and bounty of Friends and Parents affordeth them, &n to apply themselves to their learning, while their senses are lively, their wit quick, their memory fresh and strong; take that in now that may stick by them hereafter;o lay that up now that they have comfort of, and benefit by hereafter: Doe as wise travellers, that have a long dayes journey to make, that get them up betimes, and take the day before them, and notp like foolish, improvident, and unadvised persons, that with frivolous ⟨p. 14⟩delayes triflle out the time, and burne daylight. You know what is said commonly, thatq Time and Tide tarieth for no man. Neither is it possible to recall any one day or houre, when it is once over, nay nor the least minute or moment of our life, when it is once past and gone. It will be too late for you to say hereafter,r Oh were I as young againe as once I was; or, Were I to begin againe as sometime I was, and had that time and those meanes that then I had, or might have had, I would then doe thus and thus. Prevent it now therefore, while you may, by following good counsell, and taking your learning, that now seeketh you, and offreth it selfe unto you,s lest you mourne hereafter in your latter dayes; when you have spent your time and your strength in folly and vanitie; and say, How have I hated instruction, and in mine heart scorned correction; and have not obeyed the voyce of them that taught mee, nor inclined mine eare unto them that instructed mee: yea* when your bones, it may be, as he speaketh in Iob, are so filled with the sinnes of your youth, with the fruits of those loose courses that then you tooke, that they leave you not, till they lye downe with you in the dust.
- n—Nunc adhibe puro Pectore verba, puer: nunc te melioribus offer. Horat. epist. 2. Utendum est aetate: cito pede praeterit aetas; Nec bona tam sequitur, quam bona prima fuit. Ovid. art. l. 3. Ud•m ac moll lutum es, nunc, nunc properandus & acri Fingendus sine fine rota. — Pers. Sat. 3.—Nunc adhibe puro Pectore verba, puer: nunc te melioribus offer. Horat. epist. 2. Vtendum est aetate: cito pede praeterit aetas; Nec bona tam sequitur, quam bona prima fuit. Ovid. art. l. 3. Vd•m ac molle lutum es, nunc, nunc properandus & acri Fingendus sine fine rota. — Pers. Sat. 3.
- oInveni parandum, seni utendum est. Senec. epist. 36. Quaere adolescens; utter fenex. Sense. lib. 1. contr. 7.Inveni parandum, seni utendum est. Senec. epist. 36. Quaere adolescens; utere fenex. Sence. lib. 1. contr. 7.
- p[Greek or Hebrew]. Hesiod. — mora non t•ta est. — Ov d. art. l. 1. — mora damnosa est. Idem met. l. 10. — semper noc•it differre. Idem remed. lib. 1. — mora saepe malorum dat causas. Manil. astrom. l. 6.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Hesiod. — mora non t•ta est. — Ov d. art. l. 1. — mora damnosa est. Idem met. l. 10. — semper noc•it differre. Idem remed. lib. 1. — mora saepe malorum dat causas. Manil. astrom. l. 6.
- qSed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus. Virgil. Georg. lib. 3. — breve & irreparabile tempus Omnibus est vitae. Idem Aen. l. 10. Agit nos, agiturque velox dies: inscii rapimur; nisi properamus, relinquimur. Et nos inter praecipitia lenti sumus? Non dicuntur dies ire, sed fugere: quod currendi genus concitatissimum est. Quid ergò cessamus nosipsos concitare, ut velocitatem rapidissimae rei possimus aequare. quod fugit occupandum est. Sen. epist. 108. Irrevocabilis est-praeterita aetas. Lucret. l. 1.-ut, Stygis irremeabilis unda. Virg. Aen. 6. Quasi fluvio quodam decurrit genus humanum. Aug. de Trinit. lib 4. c. 16. Et hîc ver um Heracliti illud, [Greek or Hebrew]. Plato Cratylo. In idem flumen bis no• descendimus. Sen. epist. 58 — assiduo labuntur tempora motu, Non secus ac flumen, neque enim consistere flumen, Nec levis hora potest. sed ut unda impellitur unda, Urgeturque eadem veniens urgetque priorem: Tempora fic fugiunt pariter, pariterque sequuntur, Et nova sunt semper. Ovid. met. l. 15. — eunt any more fluentis aquae, Nec quae praeteriit cursu revocabitur unda: Nec quae praeteriit hora redire potest. Idem art. l. 3.
