Axiochus

show his mind, having no voice but that alone to bewray his grief: and having through many woes waded to seven years of age, he is yet afflicted with greater griefs, being subject to the tyranny of the Schoolmaster and Tutor. And as his years increased, so is the number of his guides and governors increased, being afterwards in the hands of Censors, Philosophers and Captains. Soone after being waxen a stripling he is hemmed in with greater fear, namely of Lyceum, of the Academie, of the School of games, of Rulers, of Rods: and to shut up all in one word, of infinite miseries. And all the time of his youth is spent under overseers which are set over him by the Areopagits members of the Athenian judicial council from which labours young men being once freed, are yet over-layed with greater cares and more weightie thoughts, touching the ordering of his state and trade of life: which also if they be compared with those that follow, all these former troubles may seem but childish and indeed babyish trifles. For hereupon dooth a troop of evils accrue, as be the exploits of warfare, the bitterness of wounds, the continual labour, skirmishes: and then closely creepeth on old Age, in which are heaped all the harms that pertain to mankind, whether of weakness as natural, or of pain as being external. And but if one betimes restore his life as a due debt to death: