Lau. Running is a more noble Exercise; for AEneas in Virgil proposed this Exercise.

Vi. Very true, and he also propos’d the righting with Whirly-bats too, and I don’t like that Sport.

Lau. Mark the Course, let this be the Starting-place, and yonder Oak the Goal.

Vi. I wish AEneas was here, that he might propose what should be the Conqueror’s Prize.

Lau. Glory is a Reward sufficient for Victory.

Vi. You should rather give a Reward to him that is beat, to comfort him.

Lau. Then let the Victor’s Reward be to go into the Town crowned with a Bur.

Vi. Well, ’tis done, provided you’ll go before playing upon a Pipe.

Lau. It is very hot.

Vi. That is not strange when it is Midsummer.

Lau. Swimming is better.

Vi. I don’t love to live like a Frog, I am a Land Animal, not an amphibious one.

Lau. But in old Time this was look’d upon to be one of the most noble Exercises.

Vi. Nay, and a very useful one too.

Lau. For What?

Vi. If Men are forc’d to fly in Battel, they are in the best Condition that can run and swim best.

Lau. The Art you speak of is not to be set light by; it is as Praise-worthy sometimes to run away nimbly as it is to fight stoutly.

Vi. I can’t swim at all, and it is dangerous to converse with an unaccustomed Element.

Lau. You ought to learn then, for no Body was born an Artist.

Vi. But I have heard of a great many of these Artists that have swum in, but never swam out again.

Lau. First try with Corks.

Vi. I can’t trust more to a Cork than to my Feet; if you have a Mind to swim, I had rather be a Spectator than an Actor.

The CHILD’S PIETY.

The ARGUMENT.

This Discourse furnishes a childish Mind with pious Instructions of Religion, in what it consists.  What is to be done in the Morning in Bed, at getting up, at Home, at School, before Meat, after Meat, before going to Sleep.  Of beginning the Day, of praying, of behaving themselves studiously at School, Thriftiness of Time:  Age flies.  What is to be done after Supper.  How we ought to sleep.  Of Behaviour at holy Worship.  All Things to be applied to ourselves.  The Meditation of a pious Soul at Church.  What Preachers are chiefly to be heard.  Fasting is prejudicial to Children.  Confession is to be made to Christ.  The Society of wicked Persons is to be avoided.  Of the prudent chusing a Way of Living.  Holy Orders and Matrimony are not to be entred into before the Age of Twenty-two.  What Poets are fit to be read, and how.

ERASMUS, GASPAR.

ERASMUS. Whence came you from?  Out of some Alehouse?