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ſhow his minde, hauing no voice but that alone to bewray his griefe: and hauing through many woes waded to ſeauen yeares of age, he is yet afflicted with greater griefes, being ſubiect to the tyranny of the Schoolemaiſter and Tutor. And as his yeares encreaſed, ſo is the number of his guides and gouernours encreaſed, being afterwards in the handes of Cenſors, Philoſophers and Capitaines. Soone after being waxen a ſtripling he is hemmed in with greater feare, namely of Lyceum, of the Academie, of the Schoole of games, of Rulers, of Roddes: and to ſhut vp all in one worde, of infinite miſeries. And all the time of his youth is ſpent vnder ouer-ſeers which are ſet ouer him by the Areopagits from which labours young men beeing once freed, are yet ouer-layde with greater cares and more weightie thoughts, touching the ordering of his ſtate and trade of life: which alſo if they be compared with thoſe that followe, all theſe former troubles may ſeeme but childish and indeed babiſh trifles. For herevpon dooth a troope of curs accrew, as be the exploites of warfare, the bitterneſſe of wounds, the continuall labour, skirmiſhes: and then cloſely creepeth on olde Age, in which are heaped all the harmes that pertaine to mankinde, whether of weakeneſſe as naturall, or of paine as being externall. And but if one betimes reſtore his life as a dew debt to death:
Nature
