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Of late-learning LATE, or unseasonable learning, is a desire of getting better furnitures and abilities in the going down of our strength, and the declining of our age. Of those men this is their manner. When such men are three-score years of age, they learn verses out of Poets by heart: and these they begin to sing in their cups and collations. No sooner they have begun, but they forget the rest. Such an one learns of his son, how in service they turn to the right hand and the left. When he goes into the Country, riding upon a borrowed horse, practising how to salute those he meeteth, without a lighting, falling all-to-bemoils him self. Hee dooth practise at the Quintin. He will learn of one, and teach him again, as if his Master were unskilfull. He likewise wrestling and bathing, doth manage his blind cheeks very wildly. |