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 how his minde, hauing no voice but that alone to bewray his griefe: and hauing through many woes waded to eauen yeares of age, he is yet afflicted with greater griefes, being ubiect to the tyranny of the Schoolemaiter and Tutor. And as his yeares encreaed, o is the number of his guides and gouernours encreaed, being afterwards in the handes of Cenors, Philoophers and Capitaines. Soone after being waxen a tripling he is hemmed in with greater feare, namely of Lyceum, of the Academie, of the Schoole of games, of Rulers, of Roddes: and to hut vp all in one worde, of infinite mieries. And all the time of his youth is pent vnder ouer-eers which are et 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 tate and trade of life: which alo if they be compared with thoe that followe, all thee former troubles may eeme but childish and indeed babih trifles. For herevpon dooth a troope of curs accrew, as be the exploites of warfare, the bitternee of wounds, the continuall labour, skirmihes: and then cloely creepeth on olde Age, in which are heaped all the harmes that pertaine to mankinde, whether of weakenee as naturall, or of paine as being externall. And but if one betimes retore his life as a dew debt to death: Nature