a man that be young in year may be old in hour if he have lose no time but  that happen rare general youth be like the first cogitation not so wise as the  second for there be a youth in think as well as in age and yet the invention  of young man be more lively than that of old and imagination stream into their  mind better and as it be more divine nature that have much heat and great and  violent desire and perturbation be not ripe for action till they have pass the  meridian of their year as it be with Julius Caesar and Septimius Severus of  the latter of who it be say youth to put in motion wandering no indeed   madness full and yet he be the able emperor almost of all the listen but  repose nature may do well in youth as it be see in Augustus Caesar  a celebrated maker of duke of Florence Gaston de Foix and other on the other  side heat and vivacity in age be a excellent composition for business young  man be fit to invent than to judge fit for execution than for counsel and fit  for new project than for settle business for the experience of age in thing  that fall within the compass of it direct they but in new thing abuse they the  error of young man be the ruin of business but the error of age man amount but  to this that more may have be do or soon young man in the conduct and manage  of action embrace more than they can hold stir more than they can quiet fly to  the end without consideration of the mean and degree pursue some few principle  which they have chance upon absurd care not to innovate which draw unknown  inconvenience use extreme remedy at first and that which double all error will  not acknowledge or retract they like a unready horse that will neither stop  nor turn man of age object too much consult too long adventure too little  repent too soon and seldom drive business home to the full period but content  themselves with a mediocrity of success certain it be good to compound  employment of both for that will be good for the present because the virtue of  either age may correct the defect of both and good for succession that young  man may be learner while man in age be actor and last good for extern accident  because authority follow old man and favour and popularity youth but for the  moral part perhaps youth will have the preeminence as age have for the politic  a certain rabbin upon the text your young man shall see vision and your old  man shall dream dream infer that young man be admit near to God than old  because vision be a clear revelation than a dream and certain the more a man  drink of the world the more it intoxicate and age do profit rather in the  power of understanding than in the virtue of the will and affection there be  some have a over early ripeness in their year which fade betimes these be  first such as have brittle wit the edge whereof be soon turn such as be  hermogenes the rhetorician who book be exceed subtle who afterward wax stupid  a second sort be of those that have some natural disposition which have better  grace in youth than in age such as be a fluent and luxuriant speech which  become youth well but not age so Tully say of Hortensius idem to stay nor idem  it was becoming the three be of such as take too high a strain at the first  and be magnanimous more than tract of year can uphold as be Scipio African of  who Livy say in effect ultima chiefs  to go from