¶ To suche tutors do honest citizens committe their chyldren whome they moste loue, and suche do complayne that they be not wel rewarded for their paynes. And this tormentour wolde not once knoweledge he had done amisse, but had rather playe the starke mad man, then confesse his faute: and yet agaynst such is not taken an accion of euyll handlyng, neither hath the rigoure of the lawe anye power agaynste suche huge crueltie. There is no anger worse to be pleased thẽ theirs that be lyke to haue the fallynge sycknes. Howe many things be crepte in, into the lyfe of christen men, not meete neither for the Phrigians nor y^e Scithians, of y^e which I wyl shew one much like this matter. The yong gentlemã is send in to y^e vniuersitie to lerne the liberall sciences. But w^t how vngentle despightes is he begun in them? Fyrst they rub his chyn, as though they wolde shaue his bearde: hereunto thei vse pisse, or if ther be any fouler thyng. This liquour is dashed into his mouth, & he may not spit it out. Wyth paynfull bobbes they make as though thei drewe hornes from him: sõtime he is cõpelled to drinke a great deale of vinegre or salte, or whatsoeuer it listeth y^e wyld cõpany of yong mẽ to geue him: for whẽ they begin the play, thei make him swere y^t he shal obey al that they cõmaund him. At last they hoyse him vp, & dashe his backe against a post as oftẽ as they list. After these so rustical despightes sũtime foloweth an ague or a paine of y^e backe y^t neuer cã be remedied. Certes this foolishe play endeth in a drõken bãket: w^t such beginninges enter they into y^e studies of liberal sciences. But it were mete that after this sorte ther shuld begin a boucher, a tormẽtour a baud or a bõde slaue or a botemã, not a child appointed to y^e holy studies of lerning. It is a meruel that yong mẽ geuen to liberal studies be mad after this fashiõ, but it is more meruel y^t these things be alowed of suche as haue the rule of youth. To so foule & cruel folyshenes is pretẽsed the name of custume, as though the custume of an euil thing wer any thing else thẽ an old errour, whiche ought so much the more diligẽtly to be pulled vp bicause it is crept among many. So cõtinueth amõg the diuines y^e maner of a vesper, for they note an euyl thynge w^t a like name, more mete for scoffers thẽ diuines. But thei y^t professe liberal sciẽces, shuld haue also liberal sports. But I come againe to chyldren, to whome nothyng is more vnprofitable, then to be vsed to stripes, whiche enormittie causeth that the gẽtle nature is intractable, and the viler driuen to desperacion: and cõtinuaunce of thẽ maketh that both the bodye is hardened to stripes, & the mynd to wordes. Nay we may not oftentymes chyde thẽ to sharplye. A medicine naughtelye vsed, maketh the sickenes worse, helpeth it not, and if it be layde to continuallye, by litle and litle, it ceaseth to be a medicine, and dothe nothinge else then dothe stinkynge and vnwholesome meate. But