Certain sermons, first preached, and after published at several times, by M. Thomas Gataker…Certaine sermons, first preached, and after published at severall times, by M. Thomas Gataker…

Reason 3 3. We have much to go through with, and but little time to learn;^e a long task, and a short time.^f Though we set upon it while we are young, we can hardly attain to any perfection in ought ere we be old: and therefore can never begin too soon, nor soon enough neither.

Reason 3 3. Wee have much to goe through with, and but little time to learne;^e a long taske, and a short time.^f Though wee set upon it while we are young, we can hardly attaine to any perfection in ought ere wee be old: and therefore can never begin too soone, nor soone enough neither.

1. e[Greek or Hebrew]. A•s longa, vita brevis. Hippocr. aphor. 1.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. A•s longa, vita brevis. Hippocr. aphor. 1.
2. fPerge & propera, ne tibi accidat, ut senex discas: imò ideò magis propera, quoniam id juvenis aggressus es, quod perdiscere vix senex possis. Senec. epist. 77.

Reason 4 4.^g It is a shame for an old man to be then learning his first elements, that, that every Child may and should know. Not that they should not then learn, that have not before learned.