The Education of Children

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The book was originally (1550) printed together with Richard Sherry’s A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes . Since the two texts have no connection except that Sherry is assumed to be the translator, they have been made into separate e-texts.
¶ A treatise of Schemes & Tropes very profytable for the better vnderstanding of good authors, gathered out of the best Grammarians & Oratours by Rychard Sherry Lon doner.
¶ Whervnto is added a declamacion, That chyldren euen strayt frõ their infancie should be well and gent- ly broughte vp in learnynge. Written fyrst in Latin by the most excel- lent and famous Clearke, Erasmus of Rotero- dame.

f thou wilt harken vnto me, or rather to Chrisippus, the sharpeste witted of Philosophers, y u shalte prouide y t thyne infante and yonge babe be forthewyth instructed in good learnyng, whylest hys wyt is yet voyde from tares and vices, whilest his age is tender and tractable, and his mind flexible and ready to folowe euery thyng, and also wyl kepe fast good lessons and preceptes. For we remẽber nothynge so well when we be olde, as those thynges y t we learne in yonge yeres. Diuision of y t confutaciõ Care not thou for those fooles wordes which chatter that thys age, partly is not hable inough to receiue discipline, & partlye vnmete to abyde the labours of