138 Mans age. 
60. 
| Mans age deurded into twelue seauens. 1614]. 
“| Mans age deuided here ye haue, 
By prentiships, from birth to his graue. 
Chap. 49. 
7 The first seuen_yeers bring vp as a childe, 
14 The next to learning, for waxing too wilde. 
21 The next keepe vnder sir hobbard de hoy, 
28 The next a man no longer a boy. 
leguls3'5 The next, let lustie laie wisely to wiue, 
42 The next, late now or else neuer to thriue. 
49 \ The next, make sure for terme of thy life, 
56 The next, saue somewhat for children and wife. 
63 The next, be stated, giue ouer thy lust, 
[10] 70 The next, thinke hourely whither thou must. 
77 The next, get chaire and crotches to stay, 
84 | The next, to heauen God send vs the way. 
Who looseth their youth, shall rue it in age: 
Who hateth the truth, in sorowe shall rage. 
61. 
* Another diursion of the nature 
of mans age. 
Chap. 50. 
The Ape, the Lion, the Foxe, the Asse, 
Thus sets foorth man, as in a glasse. 
[1] Ape ( Like Apes we be toteng, tll twentie and one, 
Lyon Then hastie as Lions till fortie be gone: 
Foxe Then wilte as Foxes, till threescore and three, 
Asse Then after for Asses accounted’ we bee. 
1 accompted. 1577. 
