Doth not want of sufficient time (I meane not for taking degrees, bycause that time may be complete from the proceeders first ariuall into the _Vniuersitie_) but for want of age and yeares: and therwithall for the want of that, which yeares do bring, oftimes send abroad youthes, whose degrees deserue place, but their depth deserues none? That prentice is to hastely out of his yeares, which being at one and twentie free from his maister, is eare foure and twentie free from his thrift both reft of goodnesse, and left goodlesse. If men abroad had not a sensible iudgement in yeares, that young ware cannot be but greene, how sprooting faire so euer it doth shew: youth might deceiue them with titles, as it deceiues it selfe with opinions. _Yeares_ without _stuffe_ maye beguile before _triall_: _yeares_ with _stuffe_ will abide the _stampe_: _Stuffe_ without _yeares_ is wounderous for a while, but it is subiecte to quicke withering, and to fade of wonder. Neither _stuffe_ nor _yeares_, is extreme pitifull, and the very ground of my complaint, bycause neither few yeares can prouide great _stuffe_, yea to the best witte: nor many yeares to any witte, without great studie, which is a death there, where the defecte is great. How fortuneth it then, that either freindes be so foolish, or studentes so vnstayed, to haste so with so much waste? The causes be: _impacience_, which can abide no tarying, where a restlesse conceit is full frawght: _libertie_, to liue as he listeth, bycause he listeth not to liue as he should: _brauerie_, to seeme to be some body, and to cary a countenaunce: _hope_ of preferment, to desire dignities before abilitie to discharge. In the meane while: the _common weale_ becomes priuate: the _generall_ weapeth, while the _particular_ winneth: and yet the winning is no soundnesse, but shew. What notable men haue dealt with, and against the forestaulling of sound time in professions? Among many if onely _Viues_ the learned _Spaniard_, were called to be witnesse, he would craue pardon for his owne person, as not able to come for the goute, but he would substitute for his deputie his whole twentie bookes of disciplines, wherin he entreateth, how they come to spoile, and how they may be recouered. Lacke of time not onely in his opinion, but also in whose not? bringes lacke of learning, which is a sore lacke, where it ought not to be lacking. The cankar that consumeth all, and causeth all this euill is haste, an _vnaduised, rashe, hedlong counsellour_, and then most pernicious when it hath either some apparence in reason that the child is ripe: or the hartning of some maister, which either is disposed to follow where he seeth replying past cure: or that cannot discern colours, bycause he is that in his degree, which the childe is in his: both vnripe: the one to teach, the other to remoue.