Exactly was I was looking for in English. Here the second and the third paragraph of Euphues. There are several free editions on line. To my mind it is typical baroque prose:
"The freshest colours soonest fade, the teenest '{a) razor soonest
turneth his edge, the finest cloth is soonest eaten with moths,
and the cambric sooner stained than the coarse canvas. Which
appeareth well in this Euphues, whose wit being like wax apt to
receive any impres^on, and having thenBridleTiTEis own hands
either to use the rein or the spur, disdaining counsel, leaving his
country, loathing his old acquaintance, thought either by wit to
obtain some conquest or by shame to abide some conflict and,
leaving the rule of reason, rashly ran into destruction ; who,
pr oferring fancy before friends and his .present hum our b efore
honnnj- to come, laid_rgMon_jn_water, being too salt for his
taste, and followed unbridled afEection most pleasant for his
tooth.
When parents have more care how to leave their children wealthy
than wise and are more desirous to have them maintain the
name than the nature of a gentleman, when they put gold into
the hands of youth where they should put a rod under their
girdle,' when instead of awe they make them past grace and leave
them rich executors of goods and poor executors of godliness,
then it is no marvel that the son, being left rich by his father's \
will, become reckless by his own will."
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