53 6 Ofthe manifaddmifriel incident untoall alter, toinfancie fucceedeth childhood, which as it bath more fport and pleafure, fo alfomore feare and danger; for no fooner can they goe, but prefuming aboue their. ftrength, they get many fats and btuifes; and hauing legs tocarrie them,andli:tle wit toguide them, they are expofed tomany cafualties, and except they haue thebetter tendances arca- ucrtaken withmany dangers. And when a fewmore yceres are ouerpall, after they begin a little to rellifhpleafures, and to take delight in fports and paflimes, prefently they are checked in them by their fuperiours,and fubie&ed to the gouernrnent of fonre mailer, who refiraineth thetmoftheir likedliberty, and forceth them to follow theirloathed ftu- dies. And now being kept in awe, they beginto diftaft the bitterneffe of limited liberty; ant: either playwith feare, or learne with tedious wearineflè, hauing their eye on their booke, and their hearts on their pailimes, and being forced withfeare todifpleafethemfclues,whilefi vnwillingly they plcale theirouerfeers, fo that now againe theyrecall in their williesthe impotent ie and ignorance of infancie, that they taught allo recoucr their fecure liberty :or finding thatim- poflible, they fet.fpurtes to running time, and with the end and death of this fcruile age; that being fet atliberty, theymaybeat their ovine difpofe without control'. Vnto whichwhen they haueattained; and pulling their neckeout ofthe yokeoffubielion,hauetogther with theage thepii- uiledgcsand liberty ofyouth, they are as farne fromhappi- neffe,and full of miferie as they were before :for now it fa. tech with them as with the bird which hath beenbrought vp in the cage,who fearcheth euery hole and corner to find apafiàge for her efcape, and at length finding thedooreo- pen flieth out, and rcioyceth in her new got liberty; but with little.caufecfor wanting wit and experience to fhift and prouidefor her felfe, Theis prefently endangered to killing byreafonofhertamenes;or offaruing,becaufetheknoweth not how to gether lining. Or like a new backed colt, who hauing cafi his rider, doth fora while with frollickewan- tonncffecourfe about the field, but being fpent and tired, he wifheth hinifelfe inthe fiable, fubied againe to his matters rule,
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