Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

53 6 Of the manifadd mifriel incident unto all 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 to carrie them,andli:tle wit to guide them, they are expofed to many cafualties, and except they haue the better tendances arca- ucrtaken with many dangers. And when a few more 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 liked liberty, 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 with feare todifpleafethemfclues,whilefi vnwillingly they plcale their ouerfeers, fo that now againe theyrecall in their willies the 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 at liberty, they may beat their ovine difpofe without control'. Vnto which when they haue attained; and pulling their necke out of the yoke offubielion,hauetogther with the age the pii- uiledgcs and liberty of youth, they are as farne from happi- neffe,and full of miferie as they were before :for now it fa. tech with them as with the bird which hath been brought 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 prouide for her felfe, Theis prefently endangered to killing byreafon of hertamenes;or offaruing,becaufethe knoweth not how to get her lining. Or like a new backed colt, who hauing cafi his rider, doth for a while with frollickewan- tonncffe courfe about the field, but being fpent and tired, he wifheth hinifelfe inthe fiable, fubied againe to his matters rule,