49.' The J^aturattand MoraU 



dclightes. Befidcs the ordinary number of thele chil 

 dren , there were in the fame collcdges, other children 

 of Lordes and Noblemen r the which wereinftru&ed 

 more privately. They benight them their ineate and 

 ordinary from their houfes, and were recommended 

 to antients and old men to have care over them , who 

 continually did advifc them to be vertuous and to live 

 chaftetyj to be foberin their diet, to faft, and to march 

 gravely ,and with meafure. They were accuftomed to 

 cxcrcifc them to travcll,and in laborious cxercifes.-and 

 when they fee them inftruded in all thefe things, they 

 did carefully looke into their inclination: if they found 

 any one addided to the war, being of fufficient yeares, 

 they fought all occafions to make triall of them , fen 

 ding them to the warre, vnder colour to carry vidualls 

 and munition to the fouldiers , to the end they might 

 there fee what pafled,and the labour they fuffered. And 

 that they mightabandon all feare,they were laden with 

 heavy burthens 5 that ihevving their courage therein, 

 they might more cafily be admitted into the compa 

 ny of fouldiers. By this fneancs it happened, that 

 many went laden to the Armie, and returned Cap- 

 tames with rnarkes of honour. Some of them were 

 fo defiroiis to bee noted , as they were eyther ta 

 ken, orllaine: and they held it lefife honourable to rc- 

 maine a prifbner. And therefore they fought rather to 

 be cut in peeccs , .then to fall captives into their ene 

 mies hands. S ee ho wNoblemens children that were 

 ^/ . j. inclined tothcwarres wereimployed.lTheothers that 

 had their inclination to matters of the i'emple ; and to 

 fpeakc after our maner,to be Ecclcfiaftical men, having 

 attained to (iifficient yeares, they were draw ne out of 

 the colledge , and placed in the temple, in the lodging 



appointed 



