The Closet of Counsells conteining The aduice of diuers wyse Philosophers, touchinge sundry morall matters, in Poesies, Preceptes, Prouerbes, and Parrables, translated, and collected out of diuers aucthors, into Englishe Verse: by Edmond Eluiden. Wherunto is anexed a pithy and pleasant discription of the abuses: and vanities of the vvorlde |
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How te instruct youth.
Like as the men which bring vp coltesand wanton horses tame:
Unto the bit and bridle firste
do chiefly trayne the same.
So they that youth instruct must first
if they would haue them broken:
Teach them to moderate their tongue
and leaue their eares wyde open.
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