Some teach theyr youth to pype, to sing, and daunce, To hauke, to hunt, to choose and kill theyr game, To winde theyr horne, and with theyr horse to praunce, To play at tenis, set the lute in frame, Run at the ring, and vse such other game: Which feats although they be not all vnfit, Yet cannot they the marke of vertue hit. 23. For noble youth, there is nothing so meete As learning is, to knowe the good from yll: To knowe the toungs and perfectly endyte, And of the lawes to haue a perfect skill, Things to reforme as right and iustice will: For honour is ordeyned for no cause, But to see right mayntayned by the lawes. 24. It spites my heart to heare when noble men Cannot disclose their secrets to t’ire frend In sauegarde sure, with paper, inke, and pen, But first they must a secretary fynde, To whome they shewe the bottome of theire mynde: And bee hee false or true, a blab or close, To him they must theyr counsayle needs disclose. 25. And where they rule that haue of lawe no skill, There is no boote, they needes must seeke for ayde: Then rulde are they, and rule as others will, As hee that on a stage his part hath playde: But hee was taught, nought hath hee done or sayde: Such youth therfore seeke science of the sage, As thinke to rule when that ye come to age. 26. Where youth is brought vp in feare and obedience, Kept from yll company, brydled of theyr lust, Do serue God duly and know theire allegiaunce, Learne godly wisdome[1800] which tyme nor age can rust: Theire prince, people, and peers needes prosper must: For happy are the people, and blessed is that land, Where truth and vertue haue got the ouer hand. 27. I speake this, _Baldwine_, of this rufull lord, Whome I, perforce, do here present to thee, He faynts so sore hee may not speake a word: I pleade his cause without rewarde or fee, And am enforc’d[1801] to speake for him and mee: If in his youth hee had bene wisely tought, Hee should not now his wit so deare haue bought. 28. For what is hee that hath but halfe a wit, But may well know that rebelles cannot speede: Marke well my tale, and take good heede to it, Recount it well, and take it for good reede, If it proue vntrue[1802] I will not trust my creede: Was neuer rebell before the world, nor since,[1803] That could or shall preuayle agaynst his prince. 29.