[Mans age deuided into twelue seauens. 1614.]

¶ Mans age deuided here ye haue,
By [prentiships], from birth to his graue.

Chap. 49.

7. The first seuen yeers bring vp as a childe,[E378]
14. The next to learning, for waxing too wilde.
21. The next keepe vnder sir [hobbard de hoy],
28. The next a man no longer a boy.
35. The next, let [lustie] laie wisely to wiue,
42. The next, laie now or else neuer to thriue.
49. The next, make sure for terme of thy life,
56. The next, saue somewhat for children and wife.
63. The next, be [staied], giue ouer thy lust,
70. The next, thinke hourely whither thou must.
77. The next, get chaire and [crotches] to stay,
84. The next, to heauen God send vs the way.

Who looseth their youth, shall rue it in age:
Who hateth the truth, in sorowe shall rage.

[61.]

Another diuision of the nature of mans age.

Chap. 50.

The Ape, the Lion, the Foxe, the Asse,
Thus sets foorth man, as in a glasse.