Friday, November 09, 2007

How true that is!
























'He that sitteth sleeping signifieth slothfulness amongst teachers, whose desire being satisfied, careth not for the charge: the children idleness, whose minds without a careful tutor, are bent to nothing but ease and vanities'

A splendid emblematic picture from:

A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the coloured abuses vsed in this our present tyme. Collected by Stephen Bateman Minister (1569)

1 comment:

Rachel Roberts said...

It looks like somebody has dropped a hamburger on the floor, bottom right corner of the image. Idleness indeed.