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Excerpt from Christian Biography
Great care was taken of his education, and his guardian intended to breed him to be a di vine; and, being inclined to the way of those then called Puritans, put him to some schools that were taught by those of that party, and in the seventeenth year of his age sent him to Magdalen Hall, in Oxford, where Obadiah Sedg wick was his tutor. He was an extraordinary proficient at school, and for some time at Ox ford; but the stage players coming thither, he was so much corrupted by seeing many plays, that he almost wholly forsook his studies. By this he not only lost much time, but found that his head came to be thereby filled with such vain images of things, that they were at best unprofitable, if not hurtful to him; and being afterward sensible of the mischief of this, he resolved, upon his coming to London, (where he knew the opportunities of such sights would be more frequent and inviting,) never to see a play again; to which he constantly adhered.
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