450 ADVICE TO SIR GEORGE VILLIERS. 



in his virtuous education ; and if you, keeping 

 that distance which is fit, do humbly interpose 

 yourself, in such a case he will one day give you 

 thanks for it. 



12. Yet dice and cards may sometimes be used 

 for recreation, when field-sports cannot be had ; but 

 not to use it as a mean to spend the time, much less 

 to mis-spend the thrift of the gamesters. 



SIR, I shall trouble you no longer ; I have run 

 over these things as I first propounded them ; please 

 you to make use of them, or any of them, as you shall 

 see occasion ; or to lay them by, as you shall think 

 best, and to add to them, as you daily may, out of 

 your experience. 



I must be bold, again, to put you in mind of your 

 present condition ; you are in the quality of a senti 

 nel ; if you sleep, or neglect your charge, you are an 

 undone man, and you may fall much faster than you 

 have risen. 



I have but one thing more to mind you of, which 

 nearly concerns yourself ; you serve a great and gra 

 cious master, and there is a most hopeful young 

 prince, whom you must not desert ; it behoves you 

 to carry yourself wisely and evenly between them 

 both : adore not so the rising son, that you forget 

 the father, who raised you to this height ; nor be 

 you so obsequious to the father, that you give just 

 cause to the son to suspect that you neglect him : 

 but carry yourself with that judgment, as, if it 

 be possible, may please and content them both; 

 which, truly, I believe, will be no hard matter 



