minary. And this will give them fuch a real tincture of naturall knowledge, as they shall never forget, but dayly augment with delight. Then alfo thofe poets which are now counted most hard, will be both facil and pleasant, Orpheus, Hefiod, Theocritus, Aratus, Nicander, Oppian, Dionyfius, and in Latin Lucrctius, Manilius, and the rural part of Virgil.

By this time, yeers and good general precepts will have furnifht them more diftin&tly with that act of reafon which in Ethics is called Proairefis; that they may with fome judgement contemplat upon morall good and evill. Then will be requir'd a fpecial reinforcement of conftant and found endoctrinating to fet them

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them right and firm, inftructing thena more amply in the knowledge of vertue and the hatred of vice: while their young and pliant affections are led through all the morall works of Plato, Xenophon, Cicero, Plutarch, Laertius, and those Locrian remnants; but ftill to be reduc't in their nightward studies wherewith they close the dayes work, under the determinat fentence of David or Solomon, or the evangels and Apoftalic Scriptures. Being perfit in the knowledge of perfonall duty, they may then begin the study of Economies. And either now, or before this, they may have eafily learnt at any odde hour the

Italian tongue.

And foon after, but

with warineffe, and good antidote, it

would

would be wholfome anough to let them taft fome choise comedies Greek, Latin, or Italian: thofe tragedies also that treate of houshold matters, as TrachiThe next

nia, Alceftis and the like. remove must be to the ftudy of Politics: to know the beginning, end, and reafons of politicall focieties; that they may not in a dangerous fit of the common-wealth be fuch poor, fhaken, uncertain reeds, of fuch a tottering conscience, as many of our great counfellers have lately fhewn themfelves, but ftedfaft pillars of the State. After this they are to dive into the grounds of law, and legal juftice; deliver'd firft, and with beft warrant by Mofes; and as farre as humane prudence can be trusted,

in

in thofe extoll'd remains of Grecian Lawgivers, Lycurgus, Solon, Zaleucus, Charondas, and thence to all the Romane Edicts and tables with their Iuftinian; and fo down to the Saxon and common laws of England, and the Statutes. Sundayes alfo and every evening may be now understandingly spent in the higheft matters of Theology, and Church Hiftory ancient and modern: and ere this time the Hebrew tongue at a fet hour might have been gain'd, that the Scriptures may be now read in their own originall; whereto it would be no impoffibility to adde the Chaldey, and the Syrian dialect. When all thefe employments are well conquer'd, then will the choife hiftories, keroic poems, and Attic

tragedies

tragedies of ftatlieft, and most regal argument, with all the famous Politicall orations offer themfelves; which if they were not only read; but fome of them got by memory, and folemnly pronounc't with right accent, and grace, as might be taught, would endue them even with the fpirit and vigor of Demofthenes or Cicero, Euripides, or Sophocles.

And

now laftly will be the time to read with them thofe organic arts which inable men to discourse and write perfpicuoufly, elegantly, and according to the fitted. ftile of lofty, mean, or lowly. Logic therefore fo much as is usefull, is to be referr'd to this due place withall her well coucht heads and Topics, until it be time to open her contracted palm into a

grace