at the reading of the Psalms, and at the first and second Lessons, and Epistle and Gospel, the Hymns and Creeds; so you shall avoid offence, and give the same honour to every part of the Holy Scriptures: but stand not up at reading of any apocryphal book, if any happen to be read.

5. Sit at the sermon, and be very attentive at your prayers, aud in your hearing: I commend your writing the sermon, especially till you are one or two and twenty years old, because young minds are apt to wander, and writing the sermon fixeth and maketh them more attentive.

6. When the minister readeth any of the Psalms or Lessons, turn to them in your Bible, and go along with him, it will fasten your attention, and prevent wandering thoughts.

7. Be very attentive and serious at church; use no laughing, nor gazing about, not whisper. ing, unless it be to ask those by you something of the sermon, that you slipped in writing.

8. Sing the singing Psalms with the rest of the congregation.

9. After sermon eat moderately at dinner, rather sparingly than plentifully upon this day, that you may be fit for the afternoon's exercise, without drowsiness or dulness.

10. Walk half an hour after dinner, in the garden, to digest your meat, then go to your chamber and peruse your notes, or recollect what you remember of the sermon, until it be church time.

11. If you are well, be sure you go to church morning and afternoon, and be there before the minister begin, and stay till he hath ended; and all the while you are at church carry yourself gravely, soberly, and reverently.

12. After evening sermon, go up to your chamber, and read a chapter in the Bible; then examine what you have written, or recollect what you have heard; and if the sermon be not repeated in your father's house, but be repeated in the minister's house, go to the minister's house to the repetition of the sermon.

13. In all your speeches or actions of this day, let there be no lightness nor vanity; use no running, or leaping, or playing, or wrestling; use no jesting, or telling of tales or foolish stories, nor talk about worldly business; but let your actions and speech be such as the day is, serious and sacred, tending to learn or instruct in the great business of your knowledge of God and his will and your own duty.

14. After supper, and prayers ended in my family, every one of you going to bed, kneel down upon your knees, and desire of God his pardon for what you have done amiss this day, and his blessing upon what you have heard, and his acceptance of what you have endeavoured in his service.

15. Perform all this cheerfully and uprightly, and honestly, and count it not a burden to you; for assure yourselves you shall find a blessing

from God in so doing. And remember that it is your father that tells you so, and that loves you, and (which is more than that) remember that the eternal God hath promised, Isaiah lviii. 13, 14, If thou turn thy foot from the sabbath, from

doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call "the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, "honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing "thy own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then shalt thou

delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause "thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, "and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob, thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath "spoken it."

SIR MATTHEW HALE.

STRATAGEM.

THE island of Sark, joining to Gurnsey, and of that government, was in Queen Mary's time surprised by the French, and could never have been recovered again by strong hand, having cattle and corn enough upon the place to feed so many men as will serve to defend it, and being every way so inaccessible that it might be held against the great Turk; yet by the industry of a gentleman of the Netherlands, it was in this sort regained.

He anchored in the roads with one ship of small burden, and pretending the death of his merchant, besought the French, being some thirty in number, that they might bury their merchant in hallowed ground, and in the chapel of that isle, offering a present to the French of such commodities as they had aboard: whereto (with condition that they should not come ashore with any weapon, no not so much as with a knife) the Frenchmen yielded. Then did the Flemings put a coffin into their boat, not filled with a dead carcase, but with swords, targets, and harquebusses. The French received them at their landing, and searching every of them so narrowly as they could not hide a penknife, gave them leave to draw their coffin up the rocks with great difficulty. Some part of the French took the Flemish boat, and rowed aboard their ship, to fetch the commodities promised, and what else they pleased, but being entered, they were taken and bound. The Flemings on the land, when they had carried their coffin into the chapel, shut the door to them, and taking their weapons out of the coffin, set upon the French; they run to the cliff, and cry to their company aboard the Fleming, to come to their succour; but finding the boat charged with Flemings, yielded themselves and the place. Thus a fox's tail doth sometimes help well to piece out the lion's skin, that else would be too short.

SIR WALTER Ralegh.

STUDIES.

Many books,

Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not

A spirit and judgment equal or superior,

(And what he brings, what need he elsewhere seek?)

Uncertain and unsettled still remains,

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself,
Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys

And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge;
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore.

MILTON.

OUR best seed-time, which be scholars, as it is very timely, and when we be young, so it endureth not over long, and therefore it may not be let slip one hour. Our ground is very hard and full of weeds; our horse, wherewith we be drawn, very wild, as Plato saith; and infinite other more lets, which will make a thrifty scholar take heed how he spendeth his time in sport and play.

ROGER ASCHAM.

LEARNING teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty, and learning teacheth safely, when experience maketh more miserable than wise. He hazardeth sore, that waxeth wise by experience; an unhappy master he is that is made cunning by many shipwrecks, a miserable merchant that is neither rich nor wise but after some bankrupts.

IBID.

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