Christs Tears Over Jerusalem Whereunto is Annexed a Comparative Admonition to
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Those that here place their children to learn wit, and see the world, are like those that in Afric present their children, when they are first born, before serpents, which, if the children they so present, with their very sight scare away the serpents, then are they legitimate, otherwise they are bastards. A number of poor children and sucklings, in comparison, are, in the Court and Inns of Court, presented to these serpents, and stinging extortioners of London, who never fly from them, but wit...h their tail wind them in, and suck out their souls without scarring their skin. Whether they be legitimate or no, that are so exposed to these serpents, I dare not determine, for fear of envy ; but sure, legitimately (or as they should) they are not brought up, that are manumitted from their parents' awe, as soon as they can go and speak. Zeuxes having artificially painted a boy carrying grapes in a hand-basket, and seeing the birds (as they had been true grapes) come in flocks and peck at them, was wonderfully angry with him- self and his art, saying : " Had I painted the boy (which was the chief part of my picture) as well as I have done the grapes, (which were but by accident belonging to it), the birds durst never have been so bold :" so, if fathers would have but as much care to paint and form the manners of their children, when they come to man's estate, as they have well to proportion out trifles, to instruct and educate them in their trivial infant years, sure these ravenous birds, such as brokers and usurers, would never fly to them, and peck at them as they do.
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