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 the greatest benefits that ever GOD gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a school- master: For, when I am in presence either of my father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go; eat, brink, be merry, or sad. be sewing. playing, dancing, or doing any thing else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as GOD made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes, with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name, for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in Hell, till the tints come, that I mull go to Mr. Aylmer. who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing, whilst I am with him; And when l am called from him, I fall to weeping, because whatsoever I do else, but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole-misthinking unto me : And thus my. book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more,