CIX.

Moral Philosophy. Ethica.

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This _Life_ is a _way_, or a _place divided into two ways_, like _Pythagoras’s Letter_ Y. _Vita_ hæc est _via_, sive _Bivium_, simile Litteræ _Pithagoricæ_ Y. broad, 1. on the left hand track; narrow, 2. on the right; latum, 1. sinistro tramite angustum, 2. dextro; that belongs to _Vice_, 3. this to _Vertue_, 4. ille _Vitii_, 3. est his _Virtutis_, 4.

Mind, Young Man, 5. imitate _Hercules_: leave the left hand way, turn from Vice; Adverte juvenis, 5. imitare _Herculem_; linque sinistram, aversare Vitium; the _Entrance_, 6. is fair, but the _End_, 7. is ugly and steep down. _Aditus_ speciosus, 6. sed _Exitus_, 7. turpis & præceps.

Go on the right hand, though it be thorny, 8. no way is unpassible to vertue; follow whither vertue leadeth Dextera ingredere, utut spinosa, 8. nulla via invia virtuti; sequere quâ viâ ducit virtus through _narrow places_ to _stately palaces_, to the _Tower of honour_, 9. per _angusta_, ad _augusta_, ad _Arcem honoris_, 9.

Keep the middle and streight _path_, and thou shalt go very safe. Tene medium & rectum _tramitem_; ibis tutissimus.

Take heed thou do not go too much on the right hand, 10. Cave excedas ad dextram, 10.

Bridle in, 12. the wild Horse, 11. of Affection, lest thou fall down headlong. Compesce freno, 12. equum ferocem, 11. Affectûs ne præceps fias.

See thou dost not go amiss on the left hand, 13. in an ass-like sluggishness, 14. Cave deficias ad sinistram, 13. segnitie asininâ, 14. but go onwards constantly, persevere to the end, and thou shalt be crown’d, 15. sed progredere constanter pertende ad finem, & coronaberis, 15.