5._ _ex metu in morbos graves incidunt
et noctu dormientes clamant_, for fear they fall into many diseases, and
cry out in their sleep, and are much the worse for it all their lives:
these things ought not at all, or to be sparingly done, and upon just
occasion. Tyrannical, impatient, hair-brain schoolmasters, _aridi
magistri_, so [2123]Fabius terms them, _Ajaces flagelliferi_, are in this
kind as bad as hangmen and executioners, they make many children endure a
martyrdom all the while they are at school, with bad diet, if they board in
their houses, too much severity and ill-usage, they quite pervert their
temperature of body and mind: still chiding, railing, frowning, lashing,
tasking, keeping, that they are _fracti animis_, moped many times, weary of
their lives, [2124]_nimia severitate deficiunt et desperant_, and think no
slavery in the world (as once I did myself) like to that of a grammar
scholar. _Praeceptorum ineptiis discruciantur ingenia puerorum_, [2125]
saith Erasmus, they tremble at his voice, looks, coming in. St. Austin, in
the first book of his _confess. et 4 ca._ calls this schooling _meliculosam
necessitatem_, and elsewhere a martyrdom, and confesseth of himself, how
cruelly he was tortured in mind for learning Greek, _nulla verba noveram,
et saevis terroribus et poenis, ut nossem, instabatur mihi vehementer_, I
know nothing, and with cruel terrors and punishment I was daily compelled.
[2126]Beza complains in like case of a rigorous schoolmaster in Paris, that
made him by his continual thunder and threats once in a mind to drown
himself, had he not met by the way with an uncle of his that vindicated him
from that misery for the time, by taking him to his house. Trincavellius,
_lib. 1. consil. 16._ had a patient nineteen years of age, extremely
melancholy, _ob nimium studium, Tarvitii et praeceptoris minas_, by reason
of overmuch study, and his [2127]tutor's threats. Many masters are
hard-hearted, and bitter to their servants, and by that means do so deject,
with terrible speeches and hard usage so crucify them, that they become
desperate, and can never be recalled.

Others again, in that opposite extreme, do as great harm by their too much
remissness, they give them no bringing up, no calling to busy themselves
about, or to live in, teach them no trade, or set them in any good course;
by means of which their servants, children, scholars, are carried away with
that stream of drunkenness, idleness, gamin