fx* < I ion m r mm. jam ■*■■;, ' IPs Ifrsliffl £ii I K ■ 1 IK I '■ -/ PRINCETON, N. J. ^ • Collection of Puritan Literature. Divi sim ^r~>_ ^■""~ Section _J. / *W 'J Number QVATERNIO AFOVREFOLD WAY TO A HAPPIE Life . fet forth in a Dialogue be- ^ . tvveene a Countryman and a Citizen, a Divine and a Lawyer.- _ y* * Ter T h o\* Nash Tbilopolitem* Innocuos permitce Tales, cur ludere nobis Non liceat J Mart . fi£. j. Z^g. p 8» Non juvat affiduc Iibros tra&are fcveros Bartholefiq. tuos 3 five ( Galene ) tuos : Scd libet ad dukes ctiam defcenderc lufus Atq 5 animum do the Logitian in his fjllogiJlicali r De- monflrations, the z5\4ufitian m the Ja- net ie of bis note s , the (jeometritian in hi&Triangles and Quadrangles ,the >4r- 'tlSSSii* oW'flS in his Labjnntbes, the ( b ) i^- * u £tT&i plliemh tbecary in his r Dr«g£*/ 1 the ^natomisl in his r Di(]ecations,thefooliJb Oneiropo- lus in his Sxpofition ofDreames, the c i^gSoIT 1 " Cw% in his prhacie, the ( c ) Epicure in his r^/??, the Stoickf in his du/nej/e, <%%£*££$'' thelluntfmanm hisdog,the, ^ jr. / ifffl • D E D I C A T O R I E, Qum ipfiquidem nepilum babent, nee in- genij nee judicij. Thefe things, I fay, after that I had dul y weighed, & wi th- ai! confidered, how difficult a thing it is for the mod curious Coo^e and Ca- ter, to pleafe the feverall palates of fo ( f ) disagreeing a multitude. I began to ^J^S^S withdraw my pen from my paper,and ^^p" in the midft of my journey "Talinodi- u ""' ' ' *' Efifi ' am canere-, but when J called to minde 1T1 / n ~\ s / fa) SimnliftamundiCon^ what! learnt in my minoritieC*;/?^ ditor P of U itD«.,, n J- /n \ r ' 1 n Odium acq; regnum. regium ejt auaire mate, eumjactas bene ; $««.,» tm.. and how iSQeptuneSOulcan, and M.i- nen>a, together with the moft noble Princes, Peeres, and Potentates, haue not beene free from the cenfure b^f^^^S* ( h )Momus^nd the iniUrious calum- 7^?tZT^ZZ nies of ignominious perfons, I went w^Z^rLTrJlZ i 1 " * o 1 1 hominem 3 Minevya domum on with a greater alacritie,oc thought cmnsi&t; ^«»«*>re P re* dp ^ j hendebat, quod cornua in iiparagement to bearemy part cap.*, & nan ^ ocuio$ . - p * iJ> - r ^ r \ vclin hamerisponiirj K«/- WlthlllCh gOOO Company 111 lUCha cwmAmznontcnttetvam z ot doIi eflen V B areastheprayfes o£Mecan-at: { )oJn- 5^^,^5 The EpistLE . mftbenes did never more fufped him- felfe, than when he had an ignomini- ous man applaud him, then,then did he vfe to enquire what evill he had committed. Simtlegaudetjuojimili : e- very thing delighteth it felfe in that, with which it hath a fympathie in quahtie and condition. Suesmargari- tam non curant-galluf Aefopi efcam ma- gu quam hyacintbum invemre defiderat 5 fperriu bos mufcas: it is the nature of fwine to wallow in the mire, of Cocks to preferre a graine of Corne before the richeft Diademe, of Oxen and (k) Sm,.n. in CliguU. ^ {£><, ^ ^^ fa Mufef. ( k ) CdlguU bated Virgil and ZrWs&c*. . J ne«ii« e m.iunt<3uam cru- /i) beai,iis cquorum .« m. remember him, but with deteftation num. Ncc polt mortem ma- ' tXtL p /onr noB,f ' quim and hatred. (™) de Lyfandro in S«- \ ft ffocltm. Vid. ibid. lOlt Dedicatorie. loft nothing by it, their noble ads and achievements haue bin Well fet forth, « with defer ved Encomiums to all fuc- ceeding ages. Let the dogs barke then, I know it is the nature of them fo to doe, and they cannot live but they muft doe it 5 let the Afles kicke, it is hereditary to them. Inside at Sat anas, etZo'ilus ilia rumpat* Let the envious man fplit himfelfe with Calumnies 5 it is as naturall to him as for the Salamander to hue in the fire, or the Camelion by the ayre. I ( n j en-vie bim not, but pittie him, and SJJSSSgS wifh him not to hurt himfelfe, but to 1^\£i<^MZL b, 1 r 1 1 rT\ II 1 ' ludifplicere.laudarieft.non er what befell to rh&bus his pote^nm. authority ha. ^^ « I * « C H /f berefcntentia,vbiquidam- v^row . let me haue theloueor Adec£- nmAiieftdanmat : s,»»a fi^onely, which 1 lhall eiteeme like com«nm a ft«ko whilefttheShepheard is at hand, the fheepe are in fafetie • whileft the Chic- kens are vner the wing, the Vulture will not proffer to makea ftoope - 7 but when tentioribus dcrideri. Dedicatorie. when the Shepheard is carelefle, and the Henae leases her Chickens, then doe the Wolues and Vultures ty- rannize, and fport themfelues in the mines of thofe harmelefle Crear tures. Thefe fruits of mine would wander in the world, as fheepe without a Shepheard, fubjed to the (*) I? lofting $l™^™™f or every carping Z,otlus and Momus-, ni&^im&miti^^. did notfome vigilant eye watch and defend them. Wherefore I haue Commended them to your Lord/hips' fafe protection, and tuition. I muft ingenuoufly confefle, when I had fully finifhed this Difcourfe $ and weighed it in the ballance of judge- ment, and found it a little too light, I felt fome reludation in my felfe, whether I fhould prefent fo worthy aPeerewith fo vnworthy a prefent y but when I confidered; In minutifii* mu gemmu nonnunquam ejje maximum ) ( gretium,. Th e Epistle fretium, that with noble mindes fraall things are highly valued and eftee- med • and how I had often found, In maximk ftrfonis mehitam quandam mcrum Jua^uatem, fumma cum digni- tate copulatam elucere ■ I refolved to runne the adventure of it. Receiueit then ( Right Honorable ) with the , . .. fame hand with the which it is'deli- Epi8ria o» a J u " c ' vereo, and accept or it as a im ail d S ;w?ct h 5v?:X\r f :; pledge of his fervice, who may per- t£&8£k£? haps fometimes prefent your Lorh <^uicotSotin e r,.fra. wi th fome ( r ) Jbarpe and joure things, tiaconfequitur,potiusqiuni i '11* guibundiruriingua. but never with malicious venemous Nihil pcaaf^ifiquddnihij thines . So fhall }ou more and more peccat (dixit Pfam&e quo- LI 1 * 1 C CC 1 " damOratorefuitoi,)de. oblige him that preiumes to otter this bet cnim orator crigtptiolii, \ i • r* imerdu ctuoi ckm«m toy and trine vnto you, that if any effern, ac fasp? accedere id y J ' J pwcep, jv*L^#.t<. morefenous thing happen in future *Mtf,*tofarf* tlmes tQ come mt \ mi \ lls thoughts, X^yU^tefi, tQ make f L()ft partaker Q f , tj S& SuYoew- like than doefi 1 11 ' IP ^bum*i*th**ie, and at all tunes to uelire vnto your t hci f , ana at all tunes to uelire vnto your >ut Unnunocan yxyle : Qfujfcrmt ammgSlfe nuvy Hfcere nought but Uwicin^cdn T ^ ,h,»:mday* y i<: / jloy : health and prolpentie, accu m-tu mulatedwithyeares and honors, the To tread ai tgU the traces oj - _ J ^'p-** P r °P er Dedicatori e. proper fruits and efFe&s of fo noble, juft, and generally approved and ap- plauded proceedings. Va!e,&> ^Deus Optimus Maximus annor tibi longifiime producat, emeritus omnesfecundet,&* am- plioribus donis indies impleat. Interpone mis interdum gaudia curis, Vf poffis facile quern vis tolerarelaborem. Your Honors in all dutie and fervice. T h o; N A S HV «{ To the Reader* Hepum 'foment ofonrfrfl Father is heredi- tary to bis pefferitie, he drew trouble and travctt, cares and fear es vpon hiwfelfe, and wee gr one vnder the burthen of them. No man now is admitted into the world* hut vpon this Condition , that in thc^ ( a ) fweat of his bi owes he jhall purcbafe his liuelihood. Man is borne to ( b ) labour, as the (parkes flic vpwards. Wee mufl not thinke togpe to the Indies, and enjoy the fruits thereof, hut we mnfl paffe through the troublefome Seas. Fertue is feated aloft, and the way vnto it is by labour and induftric-j. ( c ) Virtutcm pofuere dij fudorc parandam. It is a<5Hon which giveth a well-being to every living Crea- ture : the little Common-wealth fo lo ng flour ifoeth, as every member in that little bodyftrives to bring hony to the hiue : hut when the drones begin to fwarme and abound, then it goes to mine and decay. The Athenian Common-wealth folong proffered as the people were in action and imploymene, but when ihey brought the delights of the Court 0/'Darius J and the gold of{ d ) Perfia home vnto them, then they began togiuethemfel&es over towantonnejfe, eafc, anddelicacie, and to decline their former proffer Hie. So long as the AfTy- \\zX\Common-wealth fet forth herfelfefo long foe flourijbed, ) ( 3 ' *'** (a } Inf'iJorevultusvi&um acqiucs. Gen.$. Nere/bdh thou, fend into thy braunchie yeynes, A hit bni bought xvitb price of thou j And fumes. Bartas. (b) lot 5. (c) Hcfiodns. (d) Aurutn Perficum animos ^ithenienjlum iabefaftarit, & dirapeftein&cit. Alen/tnd'. Kedp. lih. 3. Na{ica,extinftis CArtlidgmie' fibtts ,rempab:Romanam ma- jorc in difcrimine adverfu* Cdtotem fore contends. To the Reader. fat »'/><•# Sardanapalus, whom Bocchas wilt hauetob^j the firfi that induced idlenes into the world, began to invert the courfe of nature, to tame the day es into nights, and the nights into days j and t o giue him felfe over wholly to deli- cacte , then the Common wealth began to decay . It is indu- fti ic thxt hath raided the rmft famous floxrijhing Common- wealths out of the dnfli and idlenes which hath levelled them with the duft. Of this our forefathers were fen fib te^whenthey firfi infiitntedmechanicallTrades & Occupations >and found out the knowledge of the liber all Arts and Sciences ; which had their infiitution to this end, to fetvs in the way which our Creator had appointed vs to walke in, that is, by the way of hbour and travaile to get our livings, toiheendtherc- forethatwemay live according to our firfi infiitution, and banifh idlenes from our habitations, which like the fiupify- («) Otiam rivi hominis ing ( e ; O ppiumbu ryes vs alive inthc firing andflourijh- fcpultura. ^ ing tide of our age. I have invited you here to the Coun- sel t&. «»•. XYyf0 the Cit ic ^ u X3ivinitie 5 andthe Law. And haue firfi frefented vntoyou a Country man, jhewing vnto yon the . plea fur es and profit oft he Country , and the motives that in- duced him to take vpon him that courfe of life. Then a Ci- tizen, flawing you the Commodities and delights of the Ci- tie, and the motives that induced him to take vpon him that courfe of life. Then a Divine* [be wing you the vanitie of the world, andthe motives that induced him to the profeponof Divinhie. Then a Lawyer, jhewing you the excellencieof the Law , andthe motives which induced him thereunto. Briefly, lhatH (hewed you a fou refold way to a happie (i) fedentdria y\u igtiobi- life ifc*j fit no longer (till then, gazing and looking about, 3is,nam torpore fcgniticmqj y ut r ' t r e nj p an £ wa fa e try and tread thofe pathes throughout, corporibu$»aeque ac aniwis ..' i . . r ' r . ' . ' * . r r^i conciliat. andletnottheplea\uresoftheCounlne, nor the profit of- the Citie> nor the vanitie of the world^ nor\any thing hinder thee 'Vntill thou commefito thy journeys end, then pawfe a while, andconfider of the wayes which thou haftpafi.andthat which thou mo ft affect eft jn after times apply thy fclfe vnto j in any Cafe fit not fiill.. (s) Cernis To the Reader. ( s ) Cernis vt ignavum corrumpant otia corpus ^ (s) Ovid. lib. iJePoftt. Vtcapiant vitium,ni moveantur^aqua?. The (landing water ftinkes with putrefa&ion. And vcrtue hath no venue but in action. Farewell, Tetflay a while, remember leafl thou channct to gee out of the way, that when thou commejl to that roc kie, thornie, cr aggie n>*:y which thott mnflpa(]e y not to turns to thy right hand or to thy left, but to gee ftraight forward to a pillar which then fl) alt fee before thee 5 whereon thou flialt finde i bis infeription. Dulcia non meruit, qui non guftavit amara. Ii is a pillar which Hercules fet vp to dirccl pajfengers the way to vcrtuc^ andisknowne by his name ; and it is the way which C#far, Pompcy, and all the noble Romanes wast. It is the way which Littleton., Inftinian, and all the famous Iufticiaries went « and it is the way which willleade thee to -the end of thy \ourncy y a happie life. Farewell once againe, emmendme to our friends and familiars^ the Difciples and followers of ( h ) Littleton and luQilnhn^bnt more efpecial* (h) Cuju*»* . fol i o j for ( n^for j r. Curfitors,ibtdSoxRuB,x. Inrifp. thehft line but oce.fol.i* 1 J. ijoxlyisgx.be^g *g,and for /?* r. £fg. fol. 220 for jtitelfldcex.jideljUneA. i^.iol.i^oAoxHen. the +tbx Edw.tbe $tb. •MOOTl Ml— a^~ ■— — — — 1 II I «»' ' .11 I III ■ mu I I 11 ' — 1 . E R R AT sA in the Marginc. In the Epiftie for yetiefnum */?, c uiq\ r, yellefuum cuiq- } eft, for Wr . huri. fol. 9 for nuft* r.ww*^/*,andfor trmupteT.nuftA.iol.7Q. fcxQlympia r. Qlympiaca. fol. $2 for Hibernm r. f*ra Htbernutfol. %% . fovmutdtut r wutantur^ioX. tg.ioxprdter r. propter, pag 88,for &- tumr. ltnam } p \q6vx~qt ofltndere r dfcendere^fbl. i^Aoxde Temps x de ter^pore^iol.i^z. fornefcit r« wo/ctf, fol 1*2. foxfenem rey'tdixfintm fauum reyidt, and for adhcafjet x^abdi- £affet t io\,i6g ioxfnperkux fuperbtdmjol. 2 44. for argentum r./w«iwfltf,p.274«for^#- &Vf r#f r .probiberet, p ♦ 1 7 8 , for 3**3 jr« 9#*//» Thefe faults haue I efpied^fer advent urefgme others haue efcaped *z^ 5 (Bernar- dus enim non vidit otnne) »&c£ ^hofceverfialJfi^de,tfhe will in * friend- ly manner make them knorene vnto me, I will thar.ke him, and if ever it be my fortune to meeu htm at f^Prcfle, IVyill endevonr to requite hmi->. s DIS.COVRSE BETWEENE A r o v ^rmj-^M and attire,but when I vnderftood,after fomeconference had with y ou,what courfe of life you tooke vpon you, and that your habite did fuite with your Conntrey and condition,being much different from our CV/y-fafhions, I then wifht to my fclfe to haue had fome opportunity, having knownc you from your Cradle vntill the time that wee fhooke hands at the Schoole-dore^and obfer- ved that docile and fvveete difpofition in you more fit for the Court and Citie, to know the motiues that in- duced you to apply your felfe wholly to the affayres of the Countrey,which at this time hating 1 fhall defirc you to impartit freely vnto me. Ruflic. I fhall in this your requcft,giue you what fa- it . ( tisfaftion I can. The motiues that induced me to take vpon me this Courfe of life, were many, but chiefly ' my health,which I prcferre before all earthly treafure-, . - for I found that after I left the Grammar- Schoole, that thtzfmtky fumes ^Andrtey fome vapors $f "the Citie did much offend me, fometimes driving m: into a fhaking Ague, fometimes into a Burning Beaver, and continually di- ftempering me, fo that during the u hole time I made my abode therein, there was fcant a weekc together at any time that I pcrfeSly enjoyed my felfe. Whereupon by the advife of themoft learned Fhyfttians, I tooke my flight into the Country, being by them perf waded thai: or afoure-fold ypay to Hue well. $ that the frveete andfrbtile tyre would bed accord and fuitewith my Conftitution : and this was one of the principall Caufes that induced me to take vpon me this Courfe of life : other motiues there were, amongft the reft this was not the leaft, that I had often heard, and experience hath fince verified vnto me that the*Country- ■B««wiiic l quiprocui ncgo- mans life is the moft innocent,harmleffe,and mod plea- ^m^SSSST^ fing to God of any profeffio or ftatc of life in the world. Ms. rn " rura For that he doth not raife himfelfe by the ruines of any : n™. feeoppreffethnofatherlefte, nor wrongs nowidowes: cZIm^T culttt his Commerce is for the moft part with the earth, and Ovid. although he grow rich,fheegrowes not poorc, or if /he ^»^ft ™"f *^2^ r ^ niii ? l< ?"' doe,conccales and buries it in her felfe.He never heares juH^mwc^r q^K of her cryes at his dores, complaints in the ftrcets, or P arie ^ corpora non cner. Petitions in the Courts againft him 5 all his aftions are ^d a ?SS « J& expofed to the eye of the world,he doth nothing in ob- c « la frbeimdaroborans. J fcuritie or fecrecie, the places of his Commerce are ei- oSIt!^" ^ ther the fields or the Markets 5 the Sunne is his light, a iiquidacqui[to,Sh3agri! and the Standard his meafure, falfe lights and meafures ^ ra ^ e 'iu j,authbcro hoi are odious and hatef ull vnto'him :He keepes his courfe ^jjjj* as conftanrly as the Moone : if riches fall in his way, he o fortmutos nimiam/ua a ftoopesandgathers them v P :ifnot 5 he vfethno fleights ^^^ or tricks^r by-paths to come to them. Game he coun- flfcordibus armisf tcth goods when it is well gotten,otherwife wrong and Fu ^£«mofaciicm waum i robbery. Ambitious indeede he is, but it is to doe his %f *g^ King and Countrey fervicc * and Covetous he is, recci- Vi ™ m 'bonum cum ma/ore* vine more than ten for a hundred.yea a hundred for ten. SL^™,? n, bant * H f iat V dato yet keepes himfclreout of the reach and danger of the nn ^ coUmm-, ampiifemd Law, fo Iegall is his vfury, fo harmeleffe his ambition, i^b ^- mabatur quiita Thefe were motiues likewife that induced me to take i^derSL^initio. this Courfe of life vpon mc. Others there were many, Cum niercatorum qnafiu and this was not the leaft, for that it was the moft vfe- XSSmSS!^ full and moft neceftary courfe and condition of life of et ^decororus,cumo P ifi C um any life in the world, without which no man can con- #^llf l £ €r ^ i9h * a tinue and fubfift : for who is he that feeds vs, or who is aibilm^uXoncR^m^ he that cloths vs?is it not the Countryman?doth Corne -confequicur,mmirr%dob- B2 grow fu,i ** * /tdfift. Feme mUcyesih- tcndring their good and welfare, aul by a Statute made *'k*. in the fourth ycareofhisRaigne, -which paficthby the "iSSiStST^" naracofthcgoodStatutc, fpecialIyprovide } tl«t every Bofweii. pcrfon of what degree or eftatc foever that had any *stisbe Statute*/ Weft. **. \ )0U [ C at nny t j mc f or t hrcc yea res then laft paft r or that 4 to .H./^7. c*j>. ic. then was or mat afterwards inoulq be letcexi to farme with twentie Acres or more., lying in tillage- or hufban- drie fhould maintaine the faid houfe vpon the fame, for maintenance of tillage and husbandry. King or afoure-fold way to line well. f King //^theeightlikewife^ twofeverati statutes, 7.H. %>C a t- I# the one made in the feventh y care of his Raigne, the o- ther madcin the twenty- feventh yeare,reciting the Sta- 2;.H,8. C a t* 2U rule of King Henry the feventh, by the name of the^W Statute, dotfr confirme what had beene graunted in his Fathers time, and further graunts as in the faid Statute it may appeare. King Edward the fixth by an A6.G*/>.5. Parliament made in thefift yeareof his Raigne doth doe the like. Queenc Elizabeth like wife in feverall Ads of Parliament, made during the time of her Raigne, was notforgetfullofthem. And Pope*/**** the fifth well *Vide statutaWniis artk weighing and confidering how ncceflary a member the ^kulmrastHtK^a. husbandman is in the Common- wealth in the Preamble* to the Charter of Priviiedges which he graunts vnto them, thus fpeaketh of them, confidering how by the diligent care and paines of our deare Children, our Ci- tic which in times paft was environed with the Sea> and wanted provifion of Corne torelieueherfelfe, Nofim fdicibmtemygribm in thefe halcyone dayes of ours is not oncly free from wants, but is able to relieue her neighbours, and which is not the leaft benefif,we haue the ay re about our Gitie which in times paft was foggie and vnhealthfull by reafon of the waterifh and marfhie grounds which did environ it, is by the drayning and plowing of it^become pure and healthfull: and confide- ring againe that they which doe apply themfelues to follow tillage and husbandry, ought not tobedrawne from their bufinelfe to attend the Courts of Iuftice, leaft thereby tillage fhould grow into decay, wee of our fteciall grace do conjirmevvito them all priviiedges which haue been graunted vnto them by any of our predecef- fors, bv any former Lawes or Statutes ; and further * Vt facili * s commodi% graunt ,\hzt whofoever fhall come vnto our Citie with 2 ft&SS'ES any Corne or graine, that he fhall be free from xhe*pay- vehcre,advrbcmaccedcmcs- ment of all manner of Toll whatfoever, and that all they &™f™™<\™&<\>¥*e which inhabite within fome miles of our Ciue,and vfe f e perpetud deciaramus,* " B 3 the V A T £ * N I O. the laudable art of Tillag( jandhusbandrjft (hall not be difturbedandmoleftcdeicner in feede or harveft time, but fhall haue free libertic as well to gather in their Corneas to Tow it ; and that their Oxen belonging to neceffaria, non fupradidis Uctinftruwentis, fhall be free from any diftrefle for any ^^iS^SSSi Civillduticorobligarion,notonclyatthctimcsaforc. gatiencaufem prohibemus" &d, but alfo at all other times. And whatfoever privi- ledges haue beenc graunted in the beft and mod flouri- shing times, wee doe raoft willingly graunt and con- firms So carefull and vigilant haue the Civill and Ec- clefiafticall Mugiftrates both Prince and Prelate beenc tovpholdandmaintaine the husbandmans profeffion, as the chiefe pillar of a State, and welfare of a King- dome. For they wifely forefaw that if there were not a fpeciall eye and regard had vnto it, that thofe houfes which were vfed to be receptacles of many honeft Far- mersand good livers, would in a fhorttimc come to ruineand deftru&ion; that thofe arable Lands belong- ing vnto them, which formerly had maintained whole families, would be turned into part tire. Thofe Villages which confifted of many families, and that did fend «e* «M « virifortiffimi *?«& vpon all occafions the moft *ableft men of a King- etmiiitcsftrenuiffimigignu- dome to doe their King and Country fervice,would be ftabihffimuf 9 - ^1^?™ de P°P u,ated - Vtt thofe Churches, Steeples, Bels,and TOinimc^inudbL^minl- all confecratcd to divine fervice, would be raced and V mcqjmaic cogitantcs funt, demolished and turned into a Sheep-coate, and all to fie* C °c JS rc°ruft£ maintaine one familic a Shcpheard and his dog. So that initio. ' by this meanes, idlencs the dcftru&ion of many flouri- Pifcatores,aucupes,dtiiciari. fl,j n g Kingdomes and Common- weales would haue a os,lJnteones,omn€fq; qui a- r ° rr - t^-i ii_r i_ liouid traaaffe vidlbumur free paflagemto a Kmgdome, and thole many men that adfgyn*ceapertinens,ion g a were vfed formerly to haue a liuelihood out of thofe iS/SSSSi lands, would be fent into the high wayes to feeke their petarioi.maccihriosetCcr- fortuncs^for what els can be expe&ed when the Coun- vorumaprorumqjvenatores try is cnclofcd and no admittance to be had there, but •rtg«. that they muft roue at randome and worke out a for- tune or a four e-f old way to iiueypeliZ J} : tune though with the adventure of their liucs, where thcycanfindeit. The Citie will not entertaine them, and if they would, they are not fit to doe them fervice, having ever beene bred in the Country. So that I may Mely "condude,that the original! and fit ft moving cau- fes of many of thofe % felonies, robberies, burglaries arid •u^tmionwnimts&ttnjw* furthers which are nowadayes committed, proceede ^$^tS(S&^ from the Arch-enemy to our Plowe the Enclofing de* ^k^ffm$c^jfmmHy populator, yet you in the Citie are not altogether to be ^^jS^S^k^n^S^ excufed, you are Acceffaries after the fad to thefe mif- thult! 4*11.7. **""** demeanors, you harbour and refette thofe men thato- therwayes muft of ncceffitie liucin the Gountrey, they come vnto you vpon pretence to faue fomc Charges, which they fuppofe are waft fully fpent vpon knaues in theCountrcy, but their accounts being caft vp at the yeares end, they fayle in their Conclufions. I my felfe haue knowne fome of thofe faving frugall men, and hatie heard of many more, but never heard of any that thrived by it, it may be fomething may befaved in hof- pitalitie by leflening of a familie, and by changing of a (lately Country-houfe for a few roomes in a poore Shop-keepers Cell. ..A fufficient colour fure to blind fome dafled eyes, when there is fiue times as much fpent another way, in Clothes and Coaches, in fights and fhewes, which might haue beene faved if they had li- ved in the Countrey.For there are fo many bewitching attradiuesin the Citie, and Ladies fo much given to longing, that no fooncr doe they open their Cafements in the morning, but they fee fomething in another, though perhaps * z anticke which they doe want,which •« G v g«w«i clothes «£> if they cannot forfooth haue, they are either ficke or s ^Z^%Uu melancholy, and norhing will cure them but a receipt ore the fame • of that fight which they then faw, which muft forth- G TitXit J ""^ with be had, though with the expence of treble the va- mihgroge/\nA^s 3 tUfi ws lue of it: fo that I haue often heard of fome of thofe fa- »»*"»»f*<; ying wife men, that haue come to your Cities for fuch ^£$2?" ™ iU ' Phyjcke ? , Churchyard** 8 QjV A T E R N I O, Phyfickc, hauc beene brought fo low by fuch receipts, that at length they would haue go^e home, if they z* The Genu is feidme mil mighr 5 bur the * * Coach jCcdckJwfes and all were gone, Vtif&'he ndc to London Your iclucs had taken pofiefTion of the Enclofures,and aliinpo(i>, the Gentleman was eafed of the knaucs that fo much Und P ^/°T thc D:ce troubled him and his familie. wbm 17 1 Mk *h*t the Vrban. Sir,why doc you make vs AcccfTarics to thefe fireenJotbwnr, mifdemeanors?vvc feldome invite you or fend vnto you H, borrowed pence at length tQ CQmc vmo ^ We ^ men f my ft C ricS and llUC by to brine ban home. t . . n J - 7 our trades and occupations 5 our lhops arc open to all Commers,and our houfes to our friends and Cufto- rners, and it were inhumanitie and difcurcefic in vs, when your Ladies fend vnto vs to lodge and lye with vs, to deny them fuch a Curtefie, when as wee get our livings by them and fuch as they are. Or why doe you lay any blame vpon your Ladies, as though they were 'Vbi qusfo nifi in vtbibue any caufe of your mine and overthrow. They poore voiuptites fedx habitant ? Ladies, defire but Clothes,-and thofc in fifhion (being SbSSUUS$S aU ^e riches that they can juftly challenge as their adultefia , et .nexftus atq; ownc) and a little meat and dnnke in lieu of thole great oamis gener.s corruptee ? port ions which they brought vnto you, and when they ybiluxus et sula lnexplebi- \ . , . J ,° rn i \ J lis? vbimonsmperbiamm? haue them they keepe them as carefully as they doe vaUisform dinum ? palm K- their eves,and how can they be the caufes of your mine b-dinum^tmaremireiiaru? i deftrucftion ■" vbi P atetes»n.miiit*etoc- and aeitlUaion . enlex naudum tend cub; ? Rnjltc. I would I could lay io too, and juftly excufe vbidemuRYirtutumfug3,& t hein, but alas I cannot, for it is too true they are our impcrium reccat'omrusnn- . r n r w ' o ^ r J fidr notarij , vonciffimum wiucs that fir ft follicitc & peri wade vs to come to your fa5num,etquicq,;dmaiiho. Cities, and fo the firft moving Caufes of our mine of- te« h 7tehS£S! wmimes : and when we are there wee cannot want in- ccme.-c expetit vei audire, ftruments that will put to a helping hand, thz f Steives, nonlonoaeft via,proxim^m fa ordinaries^ the PldyJj$xfts, the Tavernes, and rather vrbcm petat, qujccunqj ilia t n ., A . , ' ■ f *u i i ^ fif,qiiarnvisangiiftap!cnam than we inall fay le the Brokers will hclpe vs to aCora- taiummven-etHorunin^. moditie of browne Paper to heipe vs forward ; So that ^nTu^te^ho: I wondredat the firft how a Gentleman of oiuCoun- mmsfaaacrar, adejufdem trey confining himfelfe within the precin&s of fourcor PKddium veifaeit. fiuc roomes for the mod part of his time, could con- fnme or afoure-fold pay to Hue pell. fume aneftate of a thoufand pound by the yearc within a dozen ycares or teflq but when I heard what Courfes hetookc, what Company he frequented, I wondred then how he could continue fo long. Our old Chro- nicles tell vs, and fo doc our Bookes of the Lawes and « Statutes of the Kingdomc of England, that Our Elders did not fo delight in trafb, jind tempting toyes, that brings a man in lafb ; They lotidfUine robes, but hated 'pttrfes bare : Made much ofmenrgaue Neighbours beefe & bread, Tet left their heires rich when they were dead. They raifdno Rents to make the Tenant whyne, Nor cUpt no yoke on friendly Neighbours necke $ Nor made poorefolke find fault with Cut-throtefinc. But had the hearts of people at a becke, Kyis we haue now onrfervants vnder checke. O how plaine men would follow Landlord than, Likefwarmes of Bees when any warres began • Ycaglad was he that might with CMaiflergoe, Though charge and wife he left at home behinde % In this fine world the manner is not fo : Hard handling makes menjhew another minde, Then loy all loue made mens ajfetlions blinde: Now can they fee and will doe what thej lift, Ca(l of like Haw fas, come when they pie afe tofjl. It was anciently the honour of the Englijh Nation to keepe good h Hojpitalitie, and to be well attended $ and men were fo much addided thereunto 3 that dtverfe 20. R. 2, Cap. 4. Cap m 2. *» Hts Table dormant in his Hall alwdj, Stood ready covered ail that hue-long day ; Without bakemeate was never his houfe 5 Offifc& BcOiavd that fo plenteous : As Chaucer ohfernes rftbt Frankline the noble Houje- fyeper of England t Nobilitatis./tftfg&c* decus e- lim fuit rure vivere Jwjpitalitdttm colcreicx. his fuper c*teras gentes famam meruerimus, fed nunc viri gene* rofi, qutbvs 1a vrbe nihil rei eft, fseminarum ambitione cd trahtintur,inariti vc vxonbus,parcntes vt 6lia- bus gratificenttuynec cnim nifi Lwdwi novam et tranimarinam vefhum formamiRyenireeft latLotiMuid nur ra? Cunt, nuptiarum fpem cvertunt, fi innupta^famam et maritalem cenfum. MosTM/orfc/nobtinuicvtvirigenerofialija; pcrmulti reli&is sgris;n vrbes rnigrent. Obfecrc (iwquic Sercnf/smuf nuptrTte* inoratione 5) peregrinahaec ed rclegernus vnde or ta funt. et antiquum Angji* m<*» rem poitliminiorevocemVjs, Lavves 10 Qjf ATERNIO, Lawes and Statutes were made to prohibitethem from drawing fuch long tayles after them jbut they were not then fo forward, but now they are as backward : that which our fore-fathers beftowed vpon the neceffary feeding of many bellies in the Counrry,we beftow vp- on our backs in the Citie • and that which they beftow- ed on many blew Coats with Cognifances, we beftow on a Coach and avant-Courrier \ yet they kept their e- ftates,we fpend them, they lived and dyed rich, we mi- ferable. Thefe were motiues likewife that made me leaue your Cities, and betake my felfe to a poore Cot- tage in the Country. Yet thefe were not all. Other * in&naivt \ r • rca ^ ons Acre were that did much prevaile with me 5 ^frui^i^^ m ° ntl q5 and this was one. For that it pleafed the great** Ichovah Confcendit^Dofrwwfscfcra God Almightie in the Conntrey todiftribute his facrcd fcnfonom.^ ^ Lawes and Ordinances to his fervant CVefes, as being the moft convenient and proper place for it ; for that is '•Qua?remibus,qu* caufa Gt, one of the chiefeft rcafons that I finde to haue beene gi- ^in^aftafol.wdi^lres VC ° whercfore God WCnC OUt int ° thc l ******* P lac ** condiderit^ ref^ondendum* to deliver thofe facred my fteries ; becaufe he found in cenko,(iiuiuitvbiio)cpod yourCities you were given to pride, to ftlfe-loue, to JSL^fe 1 ^ detradion^taenvie, and inclinable to arrogate the in- oratio;impietateerg3deum J vention of thofe facrcd Lawes vnto your lelues : and dltbl" g tJ"l d c ; thercfore to § iue y° u no occafion to s ,ar y in thofe 10. Prttept. things wherein you had no hand, he went out from 4 *Non ilium imddias, non y ou ^ he left your Cities and bctooke himfelfe into the s^^niniikVo^aut Countrey. In the Mount did God deliver thofe holy criminaverfar. Lawes and Statutes. Thus not onrly the Kings and S loi£ et V au b c"ps PecliCaS Eraperours, but even the King of Kings hath honored Dccipit, aut Caws varas, the Countrey with many extraordinary graces and fa- euernfigit. voursabouethc Cities. Thefe were motiues, Ifay.that Ko fdllcyv feare doth day, or , .... ^ r . \ J night affright him. did much pre vaile with me. Yet others there were, as vntonofrAuddoihnightorday when I called to minde the happineffe generally which or'ffttujclnguih, Hah** the Country-man enjoyes > how he is not much trou- to get bled with cares of building, nor terrified mxh** fetres ^f^rmf^^ 1 ^ ofloofing what he bath buildcd. He bath little Com- Bams, mcrce or afoure-fold yoay to Hue well. it tnerce with Commodities fubje >»*» fpiui,«viw?icioiatoaUii Mllt*x**>t*>*f *$t.kecpmgftate. If hedeiire cogoeina y^^^lh^ 000 ^ 1 ^ plainc habite, no man will condemne him, for that it trahamr? C onore uode " was the old fafliion of EngUnd. Againe, when I confi- dered that the Country-man hath not fo many caufes ratedtf &humiIiloca V- of '■ difcomtnt and difquietnes, as yw in the Citie haue 5 fcqiTwit i?Si' pa^ for if hc at an y timc chance to walke abroad, he meetes xes quorum mifcreatur, fibi with few or none but poorc Cottagers, poore Carters, SWHSKS diggers and delver Sj andinconver&s with themis put opulcmo* contempiatur, vt W minde of his own happinelic,how much he is bound £efc« Vidiam madc com *" w ** ° p l* t0 to P ra y k ^°d> w ' 10 ^ at ^ P^ acc d him in de- •MoribuiidusP/^ 3 natnra? gree fo farrc abouc thofe poore men, who might haue gratiai egit,qu6dhomo^ion made him a bruit beaft, or a Barbarian, or as meane as SCSSferfi: themcaneft. In one place he beholds a poorc Cottage, fcarus. ' that hath no other windowes than feruc to let out the ^iaU hU u m Bn M i n °^u U ^ m0 ^ c 3 no ot ^ ex hangings, than what the Spider af- qanfe; juttenTLteiiciG- fords, no other bedfteds,or Tablc-bords, than the bare roosjcomparatione aiiorum earth, no other bedding than plaineftrawe, or fuch as SRjSrJKS thebarneaffoords s noothcrCowches,orChaires, or i»aUcfletterribiiis: Simla, ftoolcs,or fourmes, or benches, or Carpets, or Cufhi- aon tama eft turpitude tua ns, than what Nature hath wrought with her owne ouanta mea } qui mm fine iii_ i it* i_ i_ 11 cauda, Taipa^qoidquerimi. hands,the groundworke being the earth 5 and the greenc ni?cumfciatismecaptumo- grafle, the Cowfelap, the Primrofe,the Honifuckle,the SSf 23fSSSS vvorkemanfhi P ,fweete and lightly enough, but quite fciffe. and cleane out of fafhion, and not in that requeft as the curious workes of Art are.In another place he beholds one digging and delving in dirt and mire, either in ma- king of ditches or fcowring of trenches. In another place, one (landing vp to the knees in (linking excre- ments, lading his Tumbrelko manure his Land. Here he or afoure-fold way to Hue well. \\ he beholds one comraing from the Market with his Candles in one hand>his Canne in the other,his Wallet on his backc, and his Tarbox at his girdle : there ano- ther comming from the Wood with fuell on his backc to warme him when he comes home. In a third place, a poore Shcphcard fitting on the fide of a hill, or on a playne in a colde Winters day, fliivering and fhaking f as if an Ague had taken him,and dropping at the heeles, as if he had beene taken out of a River. All of them be- ing clad in • Sheepskins, like vnto our forefathers, having p Patres noftrioberraverunr no more clothes than they haue backs, no more provi- ££ ** m " C4 * rink ^ fion laid vp in (lore than wil feme them for a few daics, 1 1. Hrf>. $ 7 . and no other revenue than their daily labour •, in con- °« r f Ather l *»*iMftN! n . , , T r , , . J . , r l . to kttpe them warme. verfing with whom,! fay,he s put in minde of his owne ^Kendaii-^™* wsum. happineffe. Whereas you in the Citic feldome walke **&*£**. abroad, but you meete with objeds which offend and churchyard, difcontentyou. Sometime you meete with an Alder- man, and repine (though you be rich ) that you are not 6 * H(m> tbt Knights •four fo rich as he j fometimes you meete with a Baron, and time^egenertttfromtkeorier repine, though you haue an Aldermans eftate,thatyou «A^ W >'' »#*m*r haue not an eftate of a Baron,and are never pleafed 3 vn- Gerrard Leigh writing rf lcfleyou meete with a <* Knight, and then you glory J^S^aS'S that they walke the ftreets like Citizens, and you like S^iJS^Sb iaphew/^ Knights.. Againe, when Iconfidered how in theCoun- 3E»* »bubT\ih*\made u- try every rmnisvaluedaccordingtoh^ rit, and not according to his riches and eftate. If he be tuesMonpngtoxnishtMi a good man, every one there will loue him,and honou r N *V£? H9ft**Mtm**y «/ him;ifhebeadifhoneftman,every man will hate and °f^%!dmltiu dc!^^ deipife him. They will not fuffer goodneife to be tram- cntljmamfefi. pledvpon,norknaverietobeap P Iauded. Whereas a- &£%?.»gf mongft you in the Citie, no man is honoured eb idqmd God, a. to honour father and valet, fedob idquodbahet. If he be rich, there he (hall be ■^•*'£*"HMte"* i_ i • i • • a 11 riiAi to wrong the poore. 5. not to had inauthoritieand renowne, be he never lobad. And tumethj b*c\eto.thmee*cmy % if he be poore, there he (hall be had in contempt, be he * *• te pbafianos in bis owne fields or Woods not farre from Se!n£ bnguorum difcuffa ^V if he ^f WOOll CO .doth him, he hath the WOoli tuiere per auras. or his o wne iheepe advejtiendam : it he want Bacon,he *T-T a 4jre ^ yf%nU itt ^ at h P°rkes of his owne adfalliendum : if he wants hor- V ToXSj^ Bis tender fcs > he hath Colts of his owne breeding ad opera foa e x e~ nofluUmeetts: quendnm.So that he wants nothing which doth conduce ^u 3SS^ mfM to the vfe of man. Againe,' when I confidered how that stiUktepeihim/wnJ^ndjiiK in the Country there are no? *foggi$ fennes or [linking mwfiomdtktgiuu. vaponrs, no young Phy fitians, no old difeafes, no man s*Morbu* GaTlictis is caiud there knowes what Venerea lues, or % * Morbus GaUtcus is, h tbtVtaKhmaitkeeyiiicf Pardjfts & Podagra are never heard of there,they were 2ftfifi&&* longagoebanifttby^/^, and never returned began tndxpUninthofeptrts, to this day. Mtiba, Bolus, Syrnpus, and Apozcma are feeGWiccm^ntbeUturcnd ftranee words araonsftrhem. Plaine Kitchin phyficke tie of italic. is their phyficke, and they know no otner-.no man there n» thefitUsboth Grcckcs & knows quid lapides font .nor is at any rime troubled with £Ss££2$ ^ fuch tbin §' vnldrc at fuch times as ^ h3ue °??- ntugei cfthe pUnxxeu, *nd fion to carry them in mApaliommerigenderHmgratiajox nt nt bM / m,* i n,h, F e. building and reedifying of their Cottages. Whereas in third or afoure-fold way to line Welt'. I f third part is fpcnt in pharmacopeias, et medicos, vpon A- pothecaries and Phyfitians, ' whom Cambyfes would Mcdke non viveodonsu haue Cyrus by all meanes to avoyde. Thus haue I fhew~ * 0"*»apadXeno P hoiit«n j i /, ^ t. y -r i - Ow/Wi?jdocer,vtfueiat me- ed you briefly according to my promifc, the motiues dico^ quiveiud amiauum which induced mc to betake my fclfe vnto the Coun- fr^orurerarcinatores,cum try, and judge you whether that I had not juft caufe fo jKTE$3j!5S; t0 doe. rnmvfutnnegligitdamnatqj Vrban. Sir, I am fully fatisfiedby yourrelation,that [^ a at " a ^ m ^" tio, I ^ the Country-life is both a neceiTary, and aharraclefle m^^^nTzomxyx^ courfe of life, and that there is no life to be compared "onem firmandam aut fu- vnto it, ifwerefpedthe health of our bodies onely- ft^am,vtilie P utat,fuf- but what fay you to the health of the foule, that may T^er^meJmrmmcs^tqi languid and pine a way whileft you are carina for your « OS( l ui P oft trigefimum a>- t ? • r in / i-i i° ^ t tatis annum ad mternofecn- body,wanting thole meanes which we partake ofin the dacorporis fm vtiha vcino- Cities. xia,alieniconfilijindigcrcnr, • Rufiic. Certainly, in both refpefls I dare be bold to W£ K , folcbat ' fey, that the Country is the place (if to any place pre- heminencc may be given ) wherein God is moft deligh- ted, and which is moft pleafing vnto him, of any place in the world. Let vs examine the matter a litde,to what ~ place was it, I pray you, that our blelTed Saviour in his greateft extremities alwayes betooke himfelfe to feeke for comfort and reliefc, to the Cities r No;//* montepernodiavit owns ,inmontetrM$gnratus>in montem moriturus afcendit, on the mountaine he prayed, on the mountaine tranffigured, on the mountaine he dyed. Where was it that the holy *Patriarks and Prophets of % 7uYbiittyrbibusdm&nit; old time lived * in the Cities * No 5 they left the Cities ^S^SS^ e&m and betooke themfelues vnto folitary places- it was in ma^^LaJampopbSS the Country neere vnto the River lor dan where they built their houfes. Where was it that Abraham did fo familiarly talke with God «r was it among the fumptu- ous buildings of the Cities ? No $ in tabernacnlis et Con- vaUibus collocutor em Deum meruit, nonmpalatijs inter fy delict* vrbwas) it was among the poore Cottages in the Country; not among the high towring buildings of \6 Q V A T E R N I O, of the Cities : where was it that he entertained the An- * Sub quere*s vmbn gha- gels > it was vnder a * foadie Oake fa the Country where difer^convr/iumcelebramm tho j c j^ • fcftj va i s vverc cc I c brated 3 not in any ftatc- crat,nonfubaurati$Uquea. . -it t 1/ r • • ribtistcaomm. Iy Towne or Otic. Where was EliLzus when the fpirit pctrtrcb. f Eliot vvas doubled vpon him, and when he wrought ^ thofeftrange miracles which he did i He was either in * Vbi cntHelitfus quando the Defert of* Idxtnea, or neare vnto the River lordan. geminum rapti duds con- ofwhat place did Ifaae make choyfc to meditate on v / fecutus eft fpiritum, fl uando heaycn an j h cavcn l y thin p S ? £ WT W e fl adrntdiUndum ferrum contra natui a et con- . r 1 • & i_ •i •« fuctudineruamnatans flemi /# dgr* : nc went forth into the Country to meditate, reftitunamico; quandotri- where was Jacob when he faw the Angels afcending i ^^^^Ka^defcen4ipg?WashcIyingon a fofifeatherbc-dia plcto fine vilisimbribus tor. theCitic? No ; he was lying ona 9 * ftoxy bed in the ircme/u^venit^ Country. To leaue the Prophets and Apoftlesrin what *plmpofitafaxo ucob cer- place did the reverend Fathers of the Church mod de- vice quiefcens, fire to fpend their dayes in ? in the Cities ? No • difficile Ahgeros fcalas vidit .inire a • . / St r --t_ju / £ „ Choroi . y* in tur b* tnvtmrt Jbejum ;. it is a hard thing ( as S.Ah- G fedmeditando & erande ,necfe vllos magiftres babuiffe prrter quercus drfa* gos : He was vfed to fay, that all the learning that ever he had, he got it in the woods and fields by praying and meditating, and that he never had any other tutor than the Oaks and Beeches. Where did that golden Father Saint Chryfoftome liuc^did he not in his youth abandon jVitwittBrimn fcrarocon- they Cities, and the intricate fludies there read & taught, fpeausefUnpopuio. and betake himfelteto the Country, to the companie of old Cyrus? Nay, to what places did many Princes, Potentates^ & wife-men of old time rcty re themfelues? ; tumth* Did not x Charles the great refigne all his intereft in Ah- flria, the portion of his inheritance to his younger bro- ther or a four e-f old way to Hue veil. if ther Pepin , and betakes himfelfe ad latihulum in montc^j Svcratis, to a little Caue in the mountainc of Socrates. Of what place did Numa make choyfe to deliver his Lawes vnto his people,of the Citie of Borne < no, but of a Mountaine nearc vnto Aritia, neare ten myksdi- ftant from the ^Metropolis. Where was it that Serf is A- fricanutbetooke himfelfe after that he overcame Hanni- baff, fubdued Africa, and warred a longtime in Spaine and Afia, vnto Romefno, he went from thence and bc- tooke himfelfe to a little Village in Campania, lying be- tsyeene Puteolus and capua,wherc he fpeat eleven yeares, and neither came either to Romt or Capua. Where was • Diode fan when the Romaint Ambaffadours came vn- • GueverrA* to him with Letters from the Senate to entreate him to take vpon him the Empire againc? he was inter lactucos in his Country-garden, planting & watering of herbes 5 there was he when he returned this Anfwer vnto them : Expert at egofum quid in aula fit imp er are, quid item in a- gro labor are, finite me qudfo in pace vivere,ego namqynultis omnino modis bice mamummcarum I above vitam degere, quam magna cum follicitudineimperaremaloX know what belongs to both fortunes, I know what it is to rule,and what it is to labour. I pray you fuffer me to Hue in peace/or I had rather line quietly by the fwcateof ray browesa than rule and governe with cares and feares. Where was Lucullns, who alone of all the Romane Cap- tains is faiQ to haue enjoyed in peace that which he had * got in time of warre^hen he feafted and entertained aJI men of qualitie that came a-neare him: was he at Rome? No j after the wanes bctweene the Romaines and the Part%ians,vjhkh continued fixteene yeares wercended, comming vnto Rome and findingitinacombuftion,by reafon of the two fa&ions ofscylla and Marius^ he left it and betooke himfelfe to a CoiMitrey-houfe,which he built neare vnto Neapotis j there it was where he peacea- bly enjoyed full twentie yeares that which with a great D deak 1$ Qj/ ATERNIO, deale of peril! and danger he had gotten and obtained* To what place did CatoCenforiw \whovtasin his ft tech eloquent, in bis converfation fiber ,in bis cbaffifements fc- vcre, in bis rewards liber all, in bis dyet [paring, in bis pro- tnifes conftant^ in execution of ]uf ice inexorable ) betake himfelfe in the fiue and fiftith y eare of his age t he for- fboke Rome, and betooke himfelfe to a little village not farre from Pyfa, Ef ibi reliquum vita tempus, librisprofo- cijsvtendotranqaiHeconfumebat. There, there this in- fcriptio was found written vpon his dore- porch \ off- lix Cato* y tttfolusfcis vivere, tufolus bene beateq^ vivendi rationtm clegifti \ Where was it that Pericles mot this infeription vpon the porch of his dore; Inveniportum, fpes&fortttnavalete% Ihauefound that which Ilookt for, my hopes arc at an end $ was it in Athens i No 5 af- ter he had governed there full forty yeares in the fixtith yeareof his Age he left it, and betooke himfelfe to a Cbuntry life,and vpon his dore-porch in his Country- hbufc there it was found. What reward did Alexandria nusCraffus his Maiftcrdefirc of him, for all his labour and paines in inftru&ing him full two & twenty yeares toigcthere'eertainely no other then this, that he would ******** fuum^rope feiue him leaue to betake himfelfe to a poore Country }bUm 9 $cnec2 librosfuo* de life. Where was it that Seneca wrote moft of his books, SE^tetS? washinthcCourtof^^No,itwasathis Country wi b Farme which lay neare vnto Nola a Townc in the /^rfci6.yAugaft,An. middle of Campania. Where lived Plato, divine Plato 9 ^5*fcX&fh£ vvhenhcwrotethcgreatcftpartofhisWorkes^n^- fyru,in Philip«/Vaiois- tkens i No 5 he went from thence to a little village two j^TreMb H^w/i» K- cicfl ts in honour of him called his Academic Nay, lohn. what places did the Poets moft affeft, the Cities ? No $ . ZLtiffoH^X. Whatfhould they doe there, there was no place for mwbhh wreflMiHe *oooo. them to rcpofe thcmfclues, to write the Battailes of Mahumctiftf^ir^^^ c Creffey. PQytticrs,Avwconrt, Lepdnto, or any other me- ^oww^Ei^bcth, morable atchicuemenr J?or befides the hideous du- quieting or afoure-fold way to Hue well. 1 9 quieting cryes of kirching-ftuffc^maribones^Idftiooes ¥ — -x«Mnc mc pocmats and bootes,old dublcrs,tray es,boules 5 di(hes,bellowes, sSbSpofle, inter tot ok glafles, kettles to mend, and the tumbling & rumbling ra$,totq; labores. of Capres and Coaches, Pride *luxurie, and Ccvetonfnes d HwMiM FUe . for themfelues, and the black-gard their followers and fiw'rrg ™, Ro^p"^ attendants, had engroffed and taken vp every corner paii«prawJicat a fed vacuum thcrc,whercforethepoorepoets werefaineto betake T ^™^£*<«*"+ themfelues to *7*W or Tarentttm, to the (hady groves, Rurafacros rates, geiid*q; orfilentRivers.ordifpeopledCities. JSJE&** hcrba juvant. Syhaplacet Mufu, vrbs eft immicapeetis, The ^^ g^ues ife Poa* ScripUrnm chorus omnis tmat ncmsts, &f*g*t vrt>es. rh^STJ)rkni u « fm they Cities deemed. So that the Countrv hath ever beene efteemed the moft 12SS fohmcn pr * fcOB -, t * . i/» t w r» • t_ Clum l a borum.pra;tentoruai neceflary and convenient place for the Mules toinna- merce«,vemnrite P ori$rpef. bite, and for the health as well of the foule as of the bo- 9t SfT dy The end of warre is peace, and the end of ail our fi^SgS^ labour and travai!eis e rf/?c>"^^»^//>/> 3 whichcan no fcumnonfamere in tempore, where fo conveniently be found as in the Countrey. 2S!K?^T^ ~ f ./ , -ii r ▼'»m^uictam,Iiberam,b' But to come home a httle neare vnto youryou will lay, .ndhm,* fngaliateracon- that in your City you haue more coduits ten for one to venientem prcbet. covey comfort to the fou!e,than we haue in the Coun- io*Q^?Lg&mba&iZ trey : I giant it,but take this with you,that as one good ficat, cnr*reomnimod6 dd horfe is to be preferred before ten reftie jades,one ^ood !*'' ? e J* « r^Jicand© - . r * , ,. . , ' * , b . macula, ne q:od m dicendo hawke before ten banghng buzzards, one true hunting vmum.ne q U * in magiftmo dog,beforetenftraglin^ c^rres j fo one learned paine- ^p^fcamrsfedfi fieri P o- fullPaftorbeforerenignorantcarelcs ones. It is true, SSKSESSK in our great Parifh wee haue but one, but fuch a one, as vmj5juguie r ,et fuapmhpec- I dare compare to ten of yours,being learned,fober,and c n ^ ? ™n"™dTkd £ honeft, and which doth addc a luftre to them all,as hof- vtt«xempLdi(apd£ramfa pitable as his meanes will giue him Ieaue,yet hating tip- k«»,°b!ationeni fuam ac- ling,as the bane of religion : he preacheth duely once a Xa ore^ weeke, every Sabbaoth in the morning, Catechifeth in ™> five %t 3 five vbicunq; theafter-noone. Yea,indeedc he preacheth every day Z^«££2l£ in the weeke,yea every houre in the day, every ™*Acti- afpeau, inceffu, habitu,et a - w of his being a precept vnto vs,every word an Oracle, ^ t ^ l ^ 1 L pr ?5?^ iQr vi ~ ®* What. OcuH, etdent no man enjoying himfelfe, becaufe they cannot enjoy him, and at his returnc happie is the man that can hauc the honour firfttoentcrtaine him. Andindeede I dare fay 5 there is no loue loft, and that our longing is notfo much after him, as his is after vs : fo happie are wee in him for our foules health. So that wee ifinde it verified in him,that it is not the multitude of Shephcards which make the flicepe thriue, but the diligence of the Shcp- heards to whom the flocke are committed,and the more fenfible are wee of this ourhappines in thisourPaftor $ ii*Si, . the duft, no vfe of the f thjfuUn. Wherefore wee kill ^^^S^^ the Cocatricewhileft it is but aneggc, and quench the Qua mca debucm currew r/?rfwefwhilcftitisbutafpaikeiwefuflrernothcrdores S^—j • r- 1 4 ... . t ¥ ' ., ... , lEftaliquidpriaiainfantil- at all hourc s in the day to lye open, neitlier will we ad- i am e «inguerc, fed cum mit her to be a throw- fare for every man to pafle.-it was Alrms in flammam credit, not inftituted for the Peripateticke to meafure his pafes .^wiuccmpr^nuA- in, nor for the Broker to make it his Rtndnvtius^ if they datales, come there at the time of divine fervice.and tread vpon Ac fcjnni, ac operum juftas ,, 1f , ti-r diftcrminat horas ; it as vpon holy ground, there they are admitted, if not, corapeiicntrefdem fpeaa- there is no place for them. So carefull are wee of our ™h ad mdyta gown, little Parifh-Church. tS^ Frban: But how doe you weare out the long Sum- r^creft^dCock/^^^/i mers day, and the tedious Winters njeht, having little .??*¥*'* , . ,. JJ in r r r • • i U&ttt his reft am mans htm or no company,or at leaft not m tor your iociety in the firrt betimt $ parts you Hue in. ^ **u$ tfo Moumaii.ei «« Auran£r« high to wring *» mounuines to take a furvey of my little nam,flumina,fontc. fleeced ^^ . ^^ j fpend ^^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ *Numerosmeditantur«>«, admiring to fee nature fowittie and prevalent in thofe ^etcantibus auras profitable filly creatures, as that they fhould be able iSS^^ amongft a thoufand of the fame age,colour, and feature The chwrcfuil birds, thtrftng to know and fingle out their ownc darling, which the ™f»fv oJm ™™ s > moft skilfulleft fwayne will not vndertake to doe. With nttures mufickt doe be- . / *uiko»rfem»ts. That being done, for that is ever my firft worke, I take TbipmticUrkcciymingthi m y progrefle further to the top of the hill 3 wherc I fuck tUmtl^ttbMchemy btn m « fwecte and wholeforae ayre, behold Phoebus fur- (eertipedrewydtare, mounting himfelfe vpon his Chariot, difplaying his *l*$&W& l *ib !> cames throughout the whole Horizon I heare the ~ j>ig4/g 9 l prettieLarkc,frveetly fmgtng abone mefhe little Wrenfo d$ mhgcniUhmtsmhHrting the like beneath me ^Der us & Dametas mehdioujly ftnging retiahs\sun*ttbe cttcftft their roundelaies round about me ,czch of them contending fr*if*> in their kinde to giue content vnto me : at laft when I wa^fimbimfmecditbi haue fully glutted my felfe with thofe dclighriull ob- $• \f my *>4* #»fi prajfes jefts, I take my flight thorow the flowrie mcades and trb dtt benrmf}jth4the the P a ^ urcs homeagaine rand as Ipafle, I take a furvey of tylue? • 4t ^ et t my Cattcllofall forts both for l faile and f love h andifl *Sce the atcaI lib. i. finde them well,alliswell,ifnot,Icakca ftri6t account -'SSjff^iS" of him t0 whofe carc the y arccommittcd,and if I finde Horar. * him carclefly faultie, having beene twice or thrice fcri- * c ^™g™ olks > Zt * refi ' oufly premonifliedjleafemyfelfeof him. Thus doe I B^*V"*** adfunt ' atc i5 wearc out c ^ time vntill about the houres of eleven or infita poma tweluc of the Clocke. At which time vfually I returne C S?ffiKT\ homeagaine, being the houres appointed for eating Miikcchecfcand fams/nto with vs. Where I finde fuch provifion as the Countrey f/wIiZ/S^T^^ affords ever readie, being for the moft part, folide,fub<- tuSL wr. re ' ftantiall foode, Bcefe and Mutton, m Butter and Chcefe, Barta*. q£ or afoure-fold way to hut Weill 23 or the like 5 as for Quaile and Partridge, Cocke or Pheafantjlcouchnotjnortafteof, butlcaue thofc for fuch as are weake and ficke, Children and old folkes to fcede vpon : Wine I vfe none,other than fuch as I beaic about me,having a ftomacke that needs no fuell to adde heatc vnto it : and fawce I vfe none other than hunger, and fuch as naturally I gather in travailing to and fro % neither indeed need I any ; for ordinarily our ftomacks are paffing good, yet we make no great vfe of them, we feldome eare to pleafc the palate, or fatisfie thcap- ' Pri ™&w'opetam do «**. petitejonely eate to hue, giue n nature her due, not over- dem verd.vt per h&rcmin! burthen her; for we hate to be accounted any olEpicu- g cfta «>nfumam. r^Schollers. And this is the courfe of life wee leade 5 snrMtfdh^CoiAn uofc and thus doe wefpendthe morning all theyeare, if the dam vivcre vt comedcrcnt* weather will permit it. And having thus refreshed my ^^ :leamem comc ^ felfe,fometimes I betake my felfe to the fay res and mar- tu/Jelet, e7 excarftm vi« kcts, where Art and Nature were vfed to vent their fag|iisfuftentam. choyceft Wares and Commodities, IraeanetheOr- "^^SJaST£' chards and Gardens of the ° ffejperides, thofe liuely re- had an OrebanlofgoUen^ femblanccs of the Ely flan fields, where I finde every ^ rc ^' \ 9dD **SP»b& hedge befpanglcd with rofes of all kinds ^ here the Pro- p Tmu raStas et novita* vince,there the white and red rofc:here a bed befet with mdiquao^vt videatur in ex- violets andftraw-berrics^hereanotherwithlyllicsandSfi^ jelli- flowers: here a p knot drawne out more curioufly umhabecnofterct alter or? than D^4/^ his labyrinth, there another with asgreat J"* ~, . , skill and cunning : here the bower where Venus and A- rsjplc* every corner being bedewed with the* jutce and water of r ofq> n** j^m »/*&&+ th& ***** H QjV A T E R N I O, f Otmwcdr* ytlmigrdtnm % & omnis gloria hominis ve'uti flos graminJs,cxaruitgrame, &flosdccidit. Efay+o. 6. i $ Full gay xcdS all the {round andf'itlXt, .Andpfrdred 44 men hdd it paint} Wuh many dfrcfh dndfundry jlowr, Thdt cdfien yp full good J*- your. Chawccr. 1 Homovt/fy/Ww evanefcit, hreyU hunc pruinaperufferit, leyk hunc a*ra decufferit , iubito, vel mimica; manus vnguc decerpitur, vel praete- t euntu cake deprimitutw Petrdrch. •14 Ittfimd ealcdntur, fumntd repem} ruunt. PrecatioMori. Dent Superi, vt fim flee nimium f*ltx 3 nee ir.ife- r cmdu* ego. # t ? As fades the Rofejofpeedes onr youth dway, It grows Jt tdoxvej, it fire 4ds , 4t(heds her bevttu in d ddj. the gods,and every ftep that I tread putting me in minj' how man is aptly compared to a [flower ef the field* For if I caft mine eyes into one corner of it, I beholde the flowers budding, if into another I fee them bloflfo- ming^ifintoathirdjin^/^/Zw^w;//^ if into a fourth, declining, if into a fifth, quite withered and falneaway. If I beholde them againe in their colours ; I fee one of one colour, another of another, a third of another, a fourth ofanotherrif I chance to fmel! vnto thcm,I findc one to fmell fweetly, and to delight the fence, another asgay, but of an ill fmelling favour. If I caft mine eyes abouc me, I fee one vpon the Mount fuddenly parcbt with the Sunne, or t nipt with the winde : if,bencath me, another fubjeft to be trodden &trampled vndcr-foote by every childe and babe. Whereby I am put in minde of the true eftate of humane f railtie, that there is a time for all things, a time to bud in the wombe, a time to blofTome afterwards, a time to come to fullmaturitie, a time to decline, and a time to fade and fall away. How one man is of one complexion, another of ano- ther, a third of another, a fourth of another, onefan- guine, another flegmaticke,another cholericke,another melancholickc,how onemanbyavertuousand honeft life fmells fweetly in the noftrils of all men, how ano- ther by his difhoneft courfes favours ftrongly : how he that is l4 on high is fubje<9; to the ftormes of envie & ma- lice : how he that is below is fubjeft to be grieved and oppreffed, and how generally there is no ftabilitic or permanencie in humane f railtie \ but as the'* 5 flowers of the field, we bud, we blofTome, we grow, we decline, and then fade and vani/h away. Thus doe I fpend an hourelbrnetimcsinmufingand meditating: fometimes againe I take a walkc into the meades and paftures, ta- king along with rac one, two, or more Companions ; fometimes Vegetius Fronting, and JEUanm, of whom I Icarne how a Souldier fhould be qualified,and what ex. creifes or a four e-f old top ay to Hue well. z$ ercifes he fhould vfc when he is not in the vvarres :how he fhould be of a good ( u )Ccurage,vcndk wit,&(* )fottnd (OQuemmetufit ftill* ,non judgement, to be able to know when togiue an enemy ^^gS& bis battell : how to take advantage of the winde and wea- peccare, ther,of the Sunne 5 but efpecially of the( w )£r*Wwher- (w) Bomi* ducemconvenic on he is to due his enemy battell; how if he thinketo ^m.gnampaitemviao- overcome a troupe or horfe with a band of roote, then candum c ft 5 poffidcre : qui to make choyce of f ome vneven, hilly, waterifti, rockie tamo niiior judicatur,quan- and woodie place • if with his horfe to overcome the t0 u?sn peget.hb. *. foote,then of fome plaine,cven and open ground where his horfe may haue accede andruih freely vpon thee- ncmie.How againe with ( x ) Cafar to giue an enemy pa£ ( x ) ^/^Gcrmanos feosex fage having him in aftraite andpitfolde, that he may *SStSSSP& takethc more advantage of him in purfuit, how to faue greffusefi; nam«deipcra- himfclfc withityTwwby flight when he hath no other ^ %&*?"?*" f* • - / d J s D . r f r* 1 a^. • i ipu nihil tit tftimttarmAfor- meanes to doe it : how to iurprife a befieged Citie by a »/ when other meanes cannot i r Nee fine duriua bellicapa. 1 - tits : thefe things and many other I learneof them, nudaiur. Sometimes I take along with me Plutmhus Charon*™, £ Lamfru Z6 QjT ATERNIO, C)R ( f?'»£ ofufltrie yery Lampriditit. and Thilippus Commin&tissst whom I learne profitable yuto Princes. See , » \ ~ " . n r r r j ,i T /- ,- i Phi Com.lib.i.ca P . *w. what DmctriM Vbdertns was vied to tell King Pf^- seemoreinS^M^Epiflieto mie, and what Sevcrm and Alphonfm had often in their £^£&2S mouthes,tbatthcrearenofuchbookesfor Princes to erat in h^j legendis et looke over as are ( b ) mfloricall beokes, and the bookes fcribendis, tanriqj elcgamia which arc written de regno et re militari^o fuch Coun- nemo poLomm adimpu! fcllors for them to confult witball 3 as they who haue no andasejushifton'asaufusefi tonguesto flatter and difTemble : no fort of men more SSSSSStSSS tobeeftecmedby them then («) mfcandSfircetemn, libcllo ad filium Leonem fie who[c words andworkes can found their praifes and nobles commendsthiftoriam:hifto- atchievementsto aH (ucceedinrares. Sometimes I take a- msveterespercurrerenepi- i ., ~ • „ • ^ r i 11 • n geat,ibicmmreperksfineia- lo ^g with me C*iHt Suetonius, of whom I learne in hue Sore, qua; alij cum labore of the Cafars, to wit 5 in Julius, AuguftusiClaudiusyFefp a- SK&SSES M and rim how good Princes are deified for their ones,malommpa?nas etbo- venues, and fmell fweetly m the noftrils of all pofteri- B^ri^m^^aiT^ tie * Andintheotherfeaven(towit) mTiberius,Nero ? ugte$, a?c^mp^ens. Caligula, Galba, Otho, (?)Vitellius, and Domitian ; How <0 Alexander bAdmtbeenejo cvill Princes are branded for their vices, and favour fStSSSSHS. ftronglyinthenoftrilsofallfucceedingages. And »ben beMbfJThebes, And when I am difpoied to fpend an houre merrily J take a- fut *U to the fmrd bef*y ed j onc , w j t h me either Guzman the Spaniard, or Bocchas Pindarus and his hndred } Jor , ~ i- t j , /r ^/ ft- *• tut h»Me h & findmgof Homvs the Italian, or old ZgfWy Chancer the EngUJh-ma*, m Iliads rfwe^H thefpoyles of whofe Company I take much delight, being full of wic SSS-*S! and merry Conceits, without offence And one while nkb Homer will iwfa Ho- I draw out of him his Summers- tale* by which I learne mztitAfi$cmfAnm}orAn j 10w an honeft Farmer rewarded a coufening Fryar e 5^/rnjf/4fum,quaemor- with a Legacie, and how he was { l6 ) perplexed about the sales quadamfarcue immor- divifienofit. Sometimes his Plow mans tale, wherein ^SSrSSS; I fee the pride, covctonmeffe, hvpocrifie, and diffimu- fcripta Virgilij,et Lucani,quam onrines divitias de direrfis provincijs acquiGtsejideoqjprincipibus et his qui res arduasmundogcruntj nihil ad laudjsacquifitionempoffircornnnodiusinvenjn, quameos familiares et amicoshaberejquifcribefldGfcirent,etpoflentres geftas adpofteros deriv-are B/./: £^#.77. Praeciperc qualis debeat efle Princeps, p !ane fupei bum eft ( vt nquit linius) hudarc vero principem 3 ac jper hocpofteris,velutefpeculo lumen, quod fequantur oftendere, idem ytilitatis habet, arrogantix nihil. . F tin Jib. i> Eptfi. 18. (*) DfcAula Vitd]^ difium eft ; qu6dvnumadpotentiam iter prodigis epulis, etfumptu,faginaq; fatiarein- ^iplcbiles Vitellij libidincj. Tacitus Ub. \. U e^ Lueaw* Itb 8. —exeAtaxU, Quiyolct ejjefmt* (16) I trtmtbe Viytttfutinhiiminde, lit Ailjirjemuvicke his returne from Paru. A Country-mart having one JSESftSfi* onely fonne, fent him to Paris, Vt imbibitis illic litter is, fini»,eft>»>^?»«odeccp!ffc, ghriamfibi & omnifamilw afferret. That he might bet- ter his knowledgc>and be a comfort to him & his whole family ,who after he had fpent fome yeares there,at laft returned home. His father being defirous to haue him put forth himfelfe,& to giue the world fomc teftimony of his learningihis anfwer ever was, that what wis read and taught at Paris, was extracapnmvulgi, out of the teach of vulgar Capacities. But it fo happen^ that fit- £ z ting a8 Qj A T E R N I ting at the Tabic one day with his Father, feeing but three egges in a difb, and fiue perfons at the Table, which he thought to be a kinde of Sola?cifme, he tookc that occafion to iliew his Father fome of his art, and demaunded of him, An in totahac vicinia fit aliquis, qtd apertis argument is decere queat, in tribus ovis quinqs eonti- wr/V Whether there were any one in all that neighbour- hood,that would vedertake to proue that in three egges there could be fiue containedcTo whom his Father an- fwercd, it was a thing impoflible. Marry, quoth the Sonne, I my felfe will vndertake to doe it, and thus I will make it to appeare-, Cuitriafunt ova, eidemfuntcr du$>et qui habet trU et duo, h abet qninq^ergo qui habet tria $va habet qui»q- y What doe you fay Fatherc'Marry fon, I fay he lyes that fayes there are fiue egges in the difh. O but Father, you muftanfwere Sy//ogiflice, and deny fome proposition: and fo I will fonne; Tuduobusevis vefeere quergo cornuahabes. The Gentleman moved fomewhat with the argument of the yong man, in fomecholcrrofe from the Table, and ported home to his wife, and told her in plaine termes that one M r . Seneca reports that he had homes on his head,which he could not haue but lliee muft graft them there : Where- upon the good- woman repaires to the young man, to enquire after M r . Seneca, and meeting with his Father, told him how fhee had beene abufed by his fonne,who calling him vnto him, asked him what he meant by homes - y no harme, quoth he to the Gentlewoman, but onely vfed it as an Argument to try the Gcntlemans patience. Well, well fonne, I did not fend you to Paris to learne to equivocate, or to be inftru&ed in the falla- cies, to abufc my neighbours, and to make divifion be- tweenemeandthem, but I am well enough ferved,! finde now 7 by experience, how great a fault it is to fend our Children abroad,as foone as they are out of their ( h ) Cwadlin? Clems, and fo the Gentlewoman went OP/^inftituitqudd*^ home well fatisfied. Such merry feUowes as thefe are JW^-j; fraught with fuch merry tales, I take along with me erim, incamim aliorumne fometimes,and for want of thefe I finde every creature f^J™™ *£& . proba "" that I meetewithall to afford me matter or difcourie. pUtobbxtdeitybiu. If I cart mine eyes aboue me, I behold the Sunne, EtL ^ w ^ non ™A° ci - Moone,andStsrres,readingvntome excellent leilbns On^a^w^m^o ofmoralitie. If beneath me, the birds, the beafts, the rcfidemesabegit^illos^cdi^ trees, the plants, ail creatures generally both fenfitiue J^SS&S and vegetatiue to doe the like. All of them performing fownt.. thofe iolemne rites to God and nature that was firft en- joyned them,no way fvyarving from their firft inftituti- E 3 on, 5° Qj" ATERNIO, 8XS222S on.ThcHttlc(';^and(-')£«^, toreadevnfome rum contmpunone, nonmi- excellent leiions of good husbandrie, putting me in nus voiuptatis, et fcicnti*, m j n de in Summer to provide for Winter ; in youth to quamexabdiriflimoriim,ar- _„_. • j_ r , V r /- i i t duorumqjperfcruutioncac. provide tor age ; the feafons of the yeare to doe the qoiroat. like for divinitie: the Winter deraonftrating death and Soloirono Proverb 6. vndc the day of ludgemenr. So that lean truely fay, I am £ octa ' j -a never leflc alone, than when I am alone. Thefeandthc Cuitorpcntadcuctamanus, |:l~-„^ 1 • r c i. 1 i Ognave) magiftram llke contemplations, for want of other bookes, are ray Coniuicformicamjmonito- recreations. Sometimes I betake myfelfetothe(k)0- i^^^^L^ h*F&>Pjto*,Nem*n,mte as tcrgorc fruauj, ( ) /*w, Minerva, and r and * c s lor y ofthe da y- harnetbypart ; Sometimes,leaping is our exercile,at which he that can Gothic the Emmoti, and mo ft handfomely rife, and convey himfclfe furtheft, the V renins art t •_. 1T J % \t t« 1 iwSumer^w,wAutumnc bc *t at the lumpe, the Almon, or the Beare-Ieape,car- ib^theruhfs ryes away the glorie of the day. Sometimes, running /^£S? " isonrpaflime, at which he that can come fii ft vnto the ■EAtbinhtiUdztngiaytngyt goale, be it by flight and cunning, z%{ n )Hipp0menes < S hor n' u „,- . avA Mt-run Atalanta, or by fwift and nimble footing, as A- ^rawft cold mater, which . ' d -, r n 1 V ' , ^nought afford, - talma out-run her affe<5honate followers, obtames the feanas. glory ofthe day. Sometimes, wraftling is ourexercife, ^^^^S^° at which that CO Pancratiaftes, that can moft handfome- Mon ad dclicia$,ncc ad otia ly caft his Antagonize on his backc,be it with the Cornijh ftultacrcavit huqge, or Norfolke twitch, andtrippet, obtaynes the Mos pater ommpotens, fed 5& ? j * rr - ^ • /Weriarqjlabori vidione andglory of the day. Sometimes, Fencing is Pcrpetuo adJixit, duro & our delight, and exercife,at which he that can moft wa- J o^cerlaminafucre rily defend himfelfe, and moft skilfully offend his ene- difcu,,cMiw,curfH*,raittti & my,bc it at the fingle fword,or fwordand dagger,fingle pdUfira 5 &. hicrunt folcnni- ter obfcrvataquolibet quinto anno> in honorem HerculU. ( l ) Vide Ovid, in Epift. qua? infetibitur ; ■OenotttVaridt. ( m ) lt * sported o/Milo, */?** he (ltw> a Bull at the Olympicke Games, with h*> bar ehan&t, earned h a furlong 5 4»rf tale it every bit< ( " ) Hippomencs oyercame Atalanta hj tbromngent af^ies ojgoU which (laid her. .(•) Fmrttiajien Gr*ci -sffe vohint, qui eft ct Iu^wr, et pugil, rapier^ or afoure-fold way to Hue welfj, 31 rapier, or rapier and dagger, long ftaffe, or two handed fword, obtaines the glory of the day. Sometimes a- gainc, in the merrie moneth of CMaj, I betake my felfc to our Common- greene, where I behold Tib and Tom, Ing and John, Dicke and Doll, Will and Moll, dauncinga meafure about the Pole. Sometimes, riding is our cx^ ercife, in which in my youthfull dayes, I tooke much delight, and ftill commend it as a manly and ( l9 ) war- (r 9 ) ten} «pUm> eteq«£. like exercife^ to fee a young Gentleman at the age of fif- rufn ftu f io detineri, eft qui- teene 5 to be able with his skill & cunningly his voyce, gn C n ' ctHobiIitatis ^ rod j and fpurre, better to manage, and commaund the Petrarch*. great Bucephalus, than the ftrongeft LMilo with all his ftrength : one while to fee him make him (*°) tread, tm 7 (*o)o*»hikht tmm the aHdralloptheRinr-anonz after to fee him make him ga- .^"ss f „ , , , . i * £ ji i_ i • I. i n i*t D Amtber nhile bee d$tb him ther vp roundly, to beare his head fteadily, to runne a ui^ardhingt fullCarrerefwiftly, and to flop on a fudden lightly 5 rhenefaiifmre bemakesbm anone after, to fee him make him advance, to yorke, to J&!Z^ Um ^ goe backe, and fide-long, to turne on either hand, to a^btijnund: gallop the gallop-galliard, to doc the Capriole, the r 'jtys o Jty**C4*9*id Chambetta, anddauncetheCurvetty. Ihauethought rodZm^iu^u^Uyi an houre to paflfe in a moment, when I was young, wee wjlmm. thought it akinde of folascifme, and to favour of eflfe- ~"^ minacie,for a young Gentleman in the flourifhing time ofhisagetocreepeintoaCoach, and to fhrowdhim- felfe there from winde and weather. Our delight was toout-braue the bluftring Boreas vpon a great Horfe/ to armeand prepare our felues to goe with tMars and Bellonaimo the field, was our fport and paftime $ Coa- ches andCaroches we left vnto them for whom they were fir ft invented, for Ladies and Gentlewomen, and decrepit, aged, and impotent people. The Sticklers at the Olympicke games never looke after thcm.When firft I came vnto your Cities, after I had long discontinued them, and beheld a farre off the ftreets barrocaded vp with Coaches, it much troubled me to thinke they fhould abound with fom^ny aged and impotent peo- pie;; 1% Qj? ATERNIO, (?) Vtfy&wfetdnimpoftti- plejforin thofe Tartarian-honks Iexpe&ed none other* ° n su^onl^'vefparnn. but when * came nearer > and lookt into them, and faw (lyaatusiii.i.cdp. ?♦ youth to fit where age & impotency were vfed to doe, (to) Hibcmus advenkan- anc j ftop-keepers and Artizans of all kindes to haue v- nantnr "uta^roswne inob. - furpt the roomes of Ladies and Gentlewomen, it trou- fhntesdetruditpiagas ruftu bled me a great deale more ^ So that oftentimes I wi(ht autpavidum kpor«n,ct ad- withaH as (P; Fefpapan dealt with vrine, to the end to re- venam gruemiaqueo captat; c j ucc t j iem to t h c j r r i^ht courfe againejand that the ow- Uifdkt rt/tcat, itftlidorej nersof them, injtmoufly vfurping the roomesof La- inferit. Bnxzs Sylr. dies, might be deprived of Cxfars friendfhip, which i^tii^oa™. < ^'^ «* r * betake my felfe to the brooks and rivers, ^Smhegenerair^ftory snd there beguile the poore harmeles fifties, prefenting ofFrtnce in ch*ries 6. V nto them food and nutriment, when indeede it is lined 'lucififtrMm y®ort*di g - wit h ru ineand deftrtitfion. Sometimes to the(">)Woods zheBowdHdtbe&UctjtiBwere and G 'roves to entrap the filly birds^ burying them ahuein Hercules weyvui ™** hen the place where they fought for fuccour and reliefe. Hercules »e*po»' 3 tb% fought Sometimes to planting, grafting, and enoculating, tor the wiRorioijiy (Mtneoijhues) benefit of pofteritie,that future ages might reade in the dc qmMxmt 9 9dh fuch a one had beenc there. Sometimes I take my bow Quimy\\fjnceramfiri£it4. an darrowes, and in memoriall of the famous battaile ViTaMscma qucm noveris of ( r ) Agincourt^ and other noble atchieuements,I (hoot eflenocentem } from this bufh to that, from this marke to that. Some- ^^^S!^^ 1 times I take my bowks, and goe vnto our Common- Cum^W^abamkofuo greene,and there one while Ifoylea Competitor vpon Parmenione fuaviuW re- p!aj n eand even ground with an vpright bowlejanorher prehenderctur,quod in bello r , ., T , , ° r i i -ii j • i. 'i_*- «immmc6fidcnseirctj(r\ir. while I take advantage of the hilly ground withabias- jncnio^nquitjamicemi; co- bowle : yet ever out of thefe recreations I learne fome- nimeo3,quiajihi«profL{ib foes, the greatefl enemies t$ a Commonwealth 5 by the inimicifunt fadie cavebo mar k e we fhoote at, tobe putin minde of the precepts dtotigom*,Li*lim 9 i*u*U of the Moralifts •, to begin at the end, to haue vertue e- ^h.icinieficfuerunccaud, vcr [ n our intention, as a marke, with all our might and etconfulti 3 vtcumfii.Jiperab nnwer hoftc viftori *m rcporuYifflnfy inter amicorum fuorum manus, vium cum morte comsiwvent. povvwi or a four e-f old v»ay to Hue r»eli. ^ power to (hoot at it, and as our arrovves in our quivers, CO Diu deUknmdmw, quod to vnite our atfetfions to the friends & favourers of it, p£f^TJttfi^ and to difbandon them againft the enemies and haters deferens, infig niter uium of it: by the ground which is (hewed vs atthe bow- ^ u j*>*kd,qudd \*dc*nfuU ling exercife ; to learne to doe nothing ( c ) rajhly andvn- £***/« promptwSflct. £t gdvifedly, but to know that he that bowles loofeth his Suetonius de Augufto c«- l a bour,ifh C bowleoutofthew a y ; ashe thatfailes, if ^SSS^RSg^ he faile not by the Compaflc,is fubject to fall intoScylU »(?'*** cwJUmm t/y refrwts him for it, as if it hadbeenea l a J^ ho > ,nLycwg ]jy^*" finne againft the holy Ghoft;for I muft confeffe, I haue tt^^^Lt^^^^. been glad to heare a Huntfman difcourfe by what wiles Soiennc quoqj hm optmis thcharmksHarethatneverhadany^^^^^ Nature, efcaped her bloudy perlecutors •, how at the tcfteLamprid vndePoeta. firft, vpon the firft vncowpling of the dogs, and the ^m^ZSTaJ™ *** hearing of the home, fhee forfooke hcrfourme, being ■sX^magno/ft dignu* many furlongs off, and betoake her feffe vnto a River 3 amorec<««*f. and tooke vp her feate on the further fide thereof, how $£*$£«&% talibusmifcere,nedu Epifcopu ; qucm nee eriam juventusatalibus exaifaret.tegimus,qu6d NiCoUut Papa F:xcommunicationisfcmeneiaminLaufrdu^pifcopuTerricenfu%qu^ ordiomu»dipeixurritef;n&oru^atiumfeneir$veimcadP^ ?nvcnicii$,venationifludiuimpendifle Pifcatortmf3ntfumltei(cficitHie[(miiiHi5)venatoienonIegi NJw- rrerat:Et£/4#dumofficiu\cn^ nefrauJatuSiSicurrJtuxadinventionGartisvenatica'jabipiiinvcntKHiedamnabiiis. Hu jus enim arttfiey, vel potius malefic^ legitur fuifle^f » f Thebamfada parncidpdttefUnda incfifiibus. infi§rtisfraudijiot*per)u» Ms. Sanealiudvenationisgenusnobisex officio incumbitjinqualub^etiorueitfaUis. Dick enimDomimis per prophetam Icrcm.i6.~Eccc ego mmo-vevatoretttyenaburHHrm^mni wonte Vrxhti Erdciis venaturin omni monte a dumaniraasaberrantesad Ecclefiam ChriftJrapiunr 3 illeminentiam(cientia;,erdocl^ins , . Vtinam huk venationivclitisopcram dare, longiqjtemporis jacluram, quod in vanitate$evaniiit,nucluvitxmelio- ri J, et eruditione populi, compenfetis. P*tr Blef.Canwarintf: Camtlt in efifi.^ 6. ad Roffenf, Epfcop, fr om J4* Qjf ATERNIO, from thence being driven, fhee betooke her felfe to a Jong (tone- wall, what worke {hec there made,how fhee paft along the one fide, and downc againe the other, and at laft recovered the top of it,and tooke vp her featc in it a full yard from the ground * from thence being driven,how then fhec betooke her felf e vnto the fh-epe j fometimesfheltringherfelfcin oneflocke, fometimes in another; how from thence fhee betooke her felfeto a hard ftony way ; how dice there doubled and redou- bled, jumpt in and out,here and there,againe & againe, and how the young whelpcs went gazing on, and ovcr- fhut her 3 whileft the old (tickers, Rwgwood & Rockwood found out her fleights ^ how in the whole courfe of this her progreffe, fhee ever tooke advantage of thewinde and weather ; in dry weather never comming neare the water, but keeping her felfe vpon the hilles, and in the woods, and in fowle weather never comming neare the. woods and bufhie places, but keeping her felfe in the moorifh ground ; and how at laft, finding no fafetic or prote&ion in any of thofe places,fhee betooke her felfe vnto the Conies in a Coni-greene, and there with them (w)Harfri*fmffcioy*c*- as ne of them, tooke vp her lodging all night. Thefe ^c« SmOT«^hrb1 tcMu- things I can be content to heare and fee fometimes, but resvrforum, corpora vuhu- carenot much tobe a Maifter of the Game^ for I never CO H^^l^na?p^ hcld the P lcafurc abroad could countervail the annoy. trdtchd. Sa? P c x legere pofiul ancc that thofe ravenous ( w ) Harpeyes put the owners to p^^haofoT ntein,& at home# And as * or Haw5cin g 5 1 commend it in fome, TMmOnntm^M&l condemnc it in others; in men ofqualitie,whofeeftates Cpwo; noniegimus. will well fupport it, I commend it as a generous & no- tton bcne^onvelntcil,ci, bk *"*** bUt if ? raCfl | ° f "^ *' anke a " d «"&*"' um,etaccipiter 5 affliaio car- *»cv*, I condemnc it with Blefenps, as an idle and foolifh Riser cxeraratio voluntatis, V anitie ; for I haue ever thought it a kinde of raadneffe ( *) Hujus aucupfj genus, f° r ^ uc ^ men > tobeftow ten pounds in feathers, whi-ch functus quocxiaiciuorum at one blaft might be blownc away, and to buy amo- foccefluurnc6moditatencn mcn tary monethly plcafure (if to fee one bird torture tu/ \*i. another may be fo called ) with the ( * ) Uboitrs andex- fena or afoure-fold way to Hue ypefl v 55; fence of a whole y ear e. Yet I muft acknowledge, I haue in my youthfull dayes with (j)MAckab#us bcene guiltie of (WickwtMachthAw dom* from Schoolc, to lee a little Martin in the dead cime or nind abjeda 5 fc beiiis expo.' the yeare, when theWinter had put on her whiteft coat, ^'"iu*™ ml lcgQ Q Ctig ? m andthefrofts had fealcd vp the Brookes and Rivers, rem7c^*eScm! am " to make her way through the midft of a multitude of *% fowle-mouth'd ravenous Crows and Kites,whicb pur- fued her with more hydcous cryes and clamors, than did (* ) Coll the dog, and CMalkin the Maide, the Fox in ( *) Chawcer k hk mm* the Apologue. *wft*teholder at a long flight : And to heare him tell a third time, how he went forth early in a Winters raornieg, to the wooddy fields and Vz pa- y£ Qj/ ATERNIO, paftures to flie the Cocke, where having by the little white feather in his tay le difcovered him in a brake, he caft of a taftegentle,and how he never ceafed in his cir- cular motio, vntill he had recovered his placc 3 how fud- denlyvpon the flufhing of the Cocke he came downe, & miffing of it in the downecome, what working there was on both fides, how the Cocke mounted, as if he would haue pierced the skies ; how the Hawke flew a contrary way, vntill he had made the winde his friend* how then by degrees he got vp> yet never offered to come in, vntill he had got the advantage of the higher ground, how then he made in, what fpced the Cocke made to faue himfelfe,& what hafty purfuit the Hawke made, and how after two long miles flight killed ir, yet in killing of it killed himfelfe. Thefe difcourfes I loue to heare, and can well be content to be an cyc-witneflc of the fport, when my occafions will pcrmit,but to fee one of thefe feminine birds, who like fome wiues of (*) Atcipitres, quadam de- our rimc t d ( ^ thc ma f cu i, nc i m eane a fwift generis natura? corruptela, . , -, S , V t • , „ • T %• l r hochabent, ytfmiorfitinifi winged Gofhawke, or high flying Iurkin,whofe proper /exm mHixkrH,tolet flip a brafe or leafe of long tayled ravenous Curres at a poore, little, harmeles Hare, and to kill her fuddenly, without giving her law, or any advantage of ground, contrary to the lawes of the Forreft, and the Decretalls of Aft aw, made and agreed vpon atKnavcjlockehyz fvvearing Companie of mad-mcn,in the habit of wood- men, fio, but by a fober affembiy of true wood, men in- deede, the thirtith of February in the firft yearc of Pope lone: or when the earth hnthput on herfaircftrobe$, ^r^mu^llim?u nndclothcdhcr ft lfe in a habite as white as wool!, to (no»lyp*n %ndu hcrfuddenly , I mutt confeffe 5 it hath often gone againft my or a four e- fold way to Hue well. 'yj sr,y ftomacke, and I could haue beencas well content (b)Cum UdneUu* ncpos wirh K h ) ^Augnltm^ to haue feene one flic kill another : " v £ u ' 5 capiendis,qu*fiviub yet I mufr likewife confeffej haue beene forretimes for co Virgil, vtmm mallet ave fociaicsfakc,afpcaatorof fuchaTraaedie, but I be- armari ? avi rif«SS ... • i r i * i. i i AV^ 5 r aut mulcam in exKrminari- hcld it with as much delight, as the Citizens oiRom^j oitm mufcarum • relataad did to fee {*) Nero clap his hands, and in his Fidlers ha- Avuncuium s^^p 1- ^ bit to fing the dcftru&ion of Troy, when their Citie was \u^tr^^T^yn\^lT on fire ; or as the poore opprclTed people vnder^) CalL vut p«r, Bkf /»^i#. 6i. g»U did, to fee their names written in his two Bookes, fj^tt^ which he called his fword and dagger 5 or as once I did *««^; ^r"w*#^, to heare the night- bird fing, whofe fong ever progno- ™ d 7Td£ ° yiHm '*" fticates fomc difmall ft xangctydifafter and event. To fee ( l) m sultT.inKerone. a little Maftiue to. make the ftrongeft Bull that walkes (d) GUdiusetpugio:wfe>*. vpon^Tw ortheftouteftBore m&^4rc*diaxo %S7Zl^t^f ftoope : to hunt the Eox,the Wolfe,the Ty gre that Hue Sencc in Calig. vpo the fpoy le, with the bloud of our Ewes & Lambs, ^^^^'^^ Our Cocks and HenneS, I take much (") delight^ but tO TrTftiaventur* ddcetinfmr- hearc the dolefull ditty of the death of the fportfull tunia peftis. Hare, by .he ravenous long-tayl'd Curres, I could ne- ^SlSSSSSfl ver yet endure.Neither can I endure to heare of the ex- (g) Arcadia** countrey*/ penfiue delight of keeping oi(*)runm»g borfesji founds f^^J^^^^ more harfli in my earcs than the croaking of a Toad, or try ^S^vam LeTna', where Jupters thundring muficke, or the howling of one of HeraUesjUwtherifierHydr*. urfAMif ffhclpcs, ortfaecrycsofcfarwinalongpe- txM F 3 COurfe Gaudec^*, Horat. II 38 Qjf A T E R N I O, courfcofhusbandrytothriucby. In which difcourfe the Baily of our husbandry beares a great part,for he is vfualJy fummoned every night before we fleepe to giue an account how he hath beftowed himfelfe that day. Yet fometimes we breake out, and if we happen to en- tertaine a ftranger that crofTed the Seas of late : wee are fobold as to enquire of him, what occurrences haue happened in thofc parts from whence he came, how our Ships doe at Sea 5 and how the Havens are fortified, and if he can but tell vs that the Ships ire well rigd and mand, the Havens well fortified, and the people ac '{*}) Qtibd e(l. 59 cline^vhcn I caft mine eyes vpon the(v)liuesofma*y fa. ^}^ t ^ f ^ mteyt y^T mem menjbat badraifedtbemfelues out of the dnft by their (^rimi^S valour and worth, to great honour and prcfermcnt.Btit tof% vires, orbistcm>r,& when I reflected mine eyes vpon my felfe, and found in S«£S?^S myfelfea Conftitution notable to endure ftormes and peror&nethononimgradus* tempefts, I beeanne to weanc my felfe, and to decline **«"»«» beiiic* virtmis ( though with griefe ) that refolution. Then I thought rn am i rape rium afcenditjin- to goe & fearch out fome vn-inhabited Country of the ^nipr^fcrtimappiaudemi- world, where I might hauc elbow- roome enough, and JSSJSSntt walke freely out of the reach of envie, and the troubles cuthim appeihrerur : qu* and turmoiles of the world, but from this I was like- ^^^^ mmxim wife di(Twaded,whcn I cohfidered,that man fequeftred " pZiJilyM.z.Jehtiiic* into a wildernes,would in a fhort time differ little fro^j yirme yiYor * Murium. a beaft, and therefore refolved rather to vndergoe any labour in a Country ,where I might hauethe benefit of focietie, than to enjoy the whole world with Timona- lone a then it came into my thoughts to fhrowd my felfe vndcrthe wings of fome man of qualitie. In which courfe likewife I was difmaide, feeing that I haue often heard>chat many y r carcs( h ) faint full 'labours andattendance (*>; y t ocu \ us parv | fe a uc * were oftentimes requited with frownes^ vpon a conceit of a turbatur : ita Magnatu gra- thing ittdone, when indeede there was no fucb matter. Then 'hf^T^l^ "S* I fell vpon the liberal! Sciences, and did conhder, that crimineperditur. although I had not fpent my time fo well as I might c ^ tQ ^ i ^ x s m ^^T i hauc done, when I was a Grammarian, which time if I magnifica^ffifo, %ll might haue redeemed, I would haue gone as a pilgrime ***"&* manuimeremit, to the holy Land vpon my bare fect 5 yet I might attaine Si p ?^^SI ^ levior to fo much knowledge in fome laudable Science, that Si quid peccacum eft, iplunu when I grew in yeares, I might make my felfe capable beas iras J Cfit - , to procure fomcthing to maintaine me withall • but my felfe accufing my felfe, that negleding knowledge, the meanes to preferment, when I was young, I was not fit for it when I was olde, and that the ("j opinion ofigno- (^Conceptafcmd opinio ranee being once fet led tn the multitude, would hardly be re- vix deponitur. moved. So that I did decline that refolution. Then it Ciecr$ ° came into my thoughts, to raife my feffe by inveigling of 4.O QjV A T E R N I O, of fome tender Orphanc, whofe portion would afford me fome good meanes of liuelihood,or to beguile fome young widdow, by fuffcring of fuch who had moft in- tereftinhcrtofharcwithmeinthepurchafe$ which I had often heard was the ordinary meanes to effe& and bring to paflcfuch adefigne. But when I confidered how fuch marriages are dire&ly repugnant to the law eU. ij bufing their places, and how difficult a thing it is for a petifa&or to rayfe himfelfc, without a great deale of jugling and falfc- dealing, I began to be difcouraged from that courfe of life. Then I ray fed my thoughts fo high as to thinke vpon the ( k J Pbilofophcrs ftont y and fo GO Htwc lapidcm, quichm toafpirefpeedily vnto greatnetfe, but after that I had p^^"^^^ confultcd with fome learned, aged Fathers, who told ^^\Tl^m\\^ me that they had lived fortie y eares twice told, and that °° 1 n . mod< * cor P us Jw»«wu« during all that time they never knew any to attaine vn- f^Teictfam Ka7£ to it, though many learned men had attempted it, I pcrfe&adepurando,adfimm thought it would be deemed a vaine thing in me, being ™? J 3" cni natura *j in - jgnorant,after fo many learned men to bufie my ielfe in inducit. fo endlefle a worke % fothat I quite and cleane baniflit ^^mTTx? 1 * that conceit out of my minde. Then I fell vpon divers pi c 0f projeds, thinking thereby toraifemy felfe, one while the Tipler and Ale-feller came into my thoughts, and how I might fliare with him in his winnings, was my firft projefl: 5 anone after the Vintner came into my thoughts, and how I might fliare with him was ray ft- cond projed. A while after the Coachmakercame into my thoughts, and how I might (hare with him, who had enhaunfed the prices of bootes and fhooes in wa- fting of much Leather infuperfluous moveables, was my third projc& Then I fell vpon the Tobacco-feller, and how 1 might fhare with him in his gainesfwho had oftentimes caufed the ftaple Commodities of our Na- tion to be exported, and in ftead of them Drugges and Indian, weedes to be brought home againe) was my laft project 5 with thefe and the like fond conceits and ima- ginations, did 1 flatter my felfe for a time, and made no doubt to effc& what I went about, for that I conceived moftof thofecourfes of life to be ex dUmetro, repug- nant to all honeft trades and occupations. But when! called to minde what befell to divers perfons, whofe memory favours ftrongas yet in our noftrilles; how fome hauc beene baniiht, and remaine as a fcandall vp- G on 4* QVATERNIO, (t 7 ) jfierf»<>* *j hii n record vnto all poiteritie ; how others haue beenc ftififiBEw degraded from the order ofO^W™ for attempting ubfnjroth kiw,4ndbroke».& to doe the like:and how f uch kind of people are^jodious tyeryriecttfbuMKOHrhca- i nt h e fcht of dUood mdmft di(p*ftdptrfons\ I thought mauncient time, the forme of the worie of my ielfe a whole yearc after for having degradation */ 4 Knh ht »ds oncea thought in my minde to be a projector, and fo ™/w"^^ q ui ^e and cleanc did abandon all ehofe foolilfc conceits chnrch,furthatpHrpo/f^ime and imaginations. Then it came into my thoughts to lo.Fnepj^Mbp/Mmet i aunch ixo t h e depth to fee what hfh the Ocean **y*ereyjed4tfuneraUcs y as gJ : , r r r r 2* though de Kntj 1] > to ™ e and drL -- kc wirh fcch r^/ftf/^vterciurjcythara rotiHSpopuli confenfu corobuftajprofcriptus e(r.(i8 Phil.Comines tided efbvtb fortunejjn tffftrrtiejHgdut this Motte^Qui fugitmolam fugit faiMWi'Jndd 1 nfiite this; \r\ profunda navi- gavi,cimai-e meabforbuk (m) StctquicunqjYoletpotens^^/xculminclubrkojMc duicis Tataret quies. Settee* in Thjefle, * ~ whom or afoure-fold way to Hue well* ty whom I conceived to be honeft, and for life and con- vention without exception : but to make fuch my ( n ) Companions onely whom I found to be honeji, able, and C n ) Cumquiaaminforofa- */*r«»,fuchas in cafes of difficult were able todi- S^^S red and inftru)(inrvbich hadthe Eomane State c ^p«« cum paribus facile frftinvefiedhim^thadbeenehappie) which experience NSfcirurexfocij^quinon hath verified vnto me. cognofdtur ex fe, -r^ mi***** .S M *,£- «j^; Eltamicitnrum,acfaimli- n rftXVMI *«** yqct Tfk^t. aricatumfcreomniumcaufa, i^An Artisan in any kinde, nexufq; fimditudo quaidam In every Land will living fade. "JJ* inajtlicitiar5ini - Againe when I tookc into my confideration the incon- ri i s w«bjb eft cautiojnam veniences of the Country-life , which you fo much ^S^SwwSwS iragnifie : how many my les you travell to doe his Ma- « eodem dijudicet; aded vc jeftieferviceatthe grand AffizesandSeffions^ndvpon ^^«;^«;^ all other occafions, as often as his fervice thall require contra, qui cum bm*ttf*p. VOU,toyour great charge and expence: whereas in the ™^*€rf**r>vto* ecipfe i>-< b r l i c i r quoqj habctur. One, we goc no further than from our houies to our T v cajiHMi>.z. common Hall,confined within theprecimStsofour Ci- coW^Civesfaos afiusi- ties. Againe, when I called to minde, what cures you ^ITSS^ vndergoe in plowing and (owing, in reaping and mow- aioncmqjpnv* c6r u «udi- ins, in breeding and rearing, in buying and felling, be- ?'5? aft i nLt $ 8 r ™qs &* fore you can reape the fruits of your labours. W Iicrcas licntbm coercuit. wee goe no further than the Markets within our walles, Bfid.su. andinaninftantreapethe fruits of thofc labours, for &?i£ ^S^STT j i r» i • ciiicttcRouacaacntem, which you haue taken io great care and paines : againe vettf^&Noo .'. non tanff whenlconfidered that the Citie is the place where all J^f 1 ^^ 1 !^ the Nobilitie and Gentrie of the Land receiue their e- nccfunaeuatum W ducation, where the Vniverfities are feared, where the Mttaao infignem^ Lawesof theKingdome are read and taught, and in- deede the proper place in moft parts of the Chriftian G z world, 44. Qj/ A T E R. N I O, v^ World, where the Nobilitieand Gcntrie make their re- sidence & abode. For although in thefe our parts your Country is honoured with the perfonall refidence of many of the Peercs and Nobilitie of the Kingdome • in other parts of the Chriftian world it is not fo, they leauc that as a forlornc WildernefTe to Boorcs and Pea- fants,whileft they in the Cities eatc the fruits of their labours: it may be fome few weekes they ftart out for their healths fake, or for plcafurc, or in Vintage rime to fee their fruits fcafonably gathered, & that being done, they fcldomegoe forth all theyeareafter.Againe when Iconfidered how in times ofdanger,weare more fecure than you in the Country :if either a forrainc enemy hap- pen to invade vs, or any Civill difcord an'fe betweene vs, having walks and bulwarkes to defend vs : whereas you lycexpofcdand open to danger. Againe when I confidered how we out-ftrip you concerning the health ofthebeftpartofvs: whereas you are enforced vpon the Sabbath day to goe a myle or two to heare divine fervice, and two or three my les to heare a Le&ure ; wee haue divine fervice at ourdores.and three or foure Lec- tures within a quarter of a myle. Againe when I con- fidered how we haue divers other Ledures, Anatomic, Aftronomy,Geometry,whereby wereapemuch good, which you haue not. Sometimes wee heare a learned Phyfitianreade vpon all the parts both Homogenean and Heterogenean of the dead Corps of a malefc&or, ( $e) ta#*» non folum onc vvhile of the head 3 fhewing how from the {*°)brAtnc TteTkd* fa^ST^ the nerves bane their e fence and being, and that from morix, et cogi»«onum eft thence a power to the eye is given to fee ; a power to raft dQimcOmm. t0 t he tongue ; to heare to the care ; to fmell to the no- ftrill j and feehimfingleout with his filverinftrument the organes thcmfelnes, by which this power is fo con- vey ed,and relating that when thefe organes 3re ftopt or any way diftempered, that the fence vnto which they feaue relation is out ot order. Anone (hewing how ad- mirably or afoure-fold way to Hue well. mirablytbisfpeciallpeeceofrhcbodie of man is hed- ged in and environed : how next vnto it there is ( ? l ) the (* l ) Pia m«««ft ««**'«• Pia mater, a little thwne skinne which compajjeth it about , Jmme diatu cerebri velamen; hew further off there is the Dura mater, a cover ingmore dura muter eft mtmh *nafx- firmer* fiejbie, borvyet more remote, there is the Cram«m, gS&!& < 5SS tbcfcullitfelfe. Another while wc heare himdifcourfe &vndiq;.munien$. of the (5 *) Liver, powtine out in what part of the bodieit is ( **}. E > ar eli ? M * or ^ n ' cd r j r r • it • • /■ t r rr- • ; wp m y entr* t connzi\s cams Jeatea, of what materials it is compofed,ivhAt office it beares nibra, /a»gumi nuper io*gu- intheCMierocolme, and from whence the veynes h'aue ^/«W//mrf,indextrohypo- their eflence & being, how it is feared in the lower pare j£f° f ^«^™ of - of the ftomacke,vr ider thcHypochoxdria&n the right fide of the bodic, that it is nothing els but bloud coagula- ted, of the forme and figure of a femicircle, the one fide (landing out like a bunch,the other fide hollow:that the proper office of it isto affimilate the Chyle, & waterifh matter wrought by the firft Concoftion into his owne nature, and fimihtude; and what part thereof is nutri- mentiue^to fend it away by her fecret conveyances to allthereftofthevitall parts, but what is excrementi- tious and hurtfull, to fend it another way to be caft out at the Common-finke •, another while we heare him re- late where the heart is feated, of what forme it is, how it is fevered from the naturall parts of the body, and from whence the arteries haue their originall & being •, that the proper place of the heart is neare vnto the mid- dle part of the breft-plate,enclining to the left fide^that it is in forme like vnto a (?3) Nut-kerneU, that it is feve- ( ??) Cor eft pars principal red from the naturall parts by the Diaphragma, which ^S^ifeS^ crofTcth the breaftjand that from the lower part' there- gurxPyramidMh ttmutyme* of the great arterie, by which the vitall fpirits are tSSS^SX tranlferred to all the parts of the body , hath its originall viget omn^quo langu-.me, and being : at other times we heare him difcourfe of the langi^cum ftomacke, of the fpleene,of the longs,of the reynesand kidneyes,of the guts, and ofalithe reft of the p-jrrs of the bodie from the head to the foote. Tfrfe .hings and many more are we uught on c of thefe Le£urcs.So;i«e- G 5 times ten 1(6 Qv A T E R N I O, times againe,wc betake our fclues to the Aftronomie Le&u re, where we learne how the Spheres are placed in degree oncaboue another jand how one ftarre differs from another in greatneffeand glory.Sometimcs againe to the Geometry Le&ure, where wc are taught the vfe- full art of Surveying? how to mcafure out the circle of the Earth, to know what CompafTc it bearcth about, and what diftance is betweene the Center and the Cir- cumference. Sometimes to the Arithmecickc-Le&ure, where we learne to better our knowledge in the carting vp 9f our reckonings and accounts, by being taught the rules of Addition, of Subftra&ion, of Multiplication, Divifion,Redu<5Hon,andthegolden-Rulc.Sometimcs to the Phy ficke & naturall Philofophy-Le&urc, where we learne the naturall caufes of the foure feafons of the yeare, of Summer and Winter, Spring and Autumne, of the winds and earth - quakes,of the Comets and Me- teors,of thunder and lightning^ayle and fhow,& how it commeth to pafTe that the (°) Lightning [hould 'kill 'the cbilde inthemmbe,yet never hurt the mother : how the olinnitidum fugiens affia- Springs do mount to the tops of hils,and are more cold wdiffipat enfcm ^ g j n Summer than Winter : how the ( 5+ ) Seas never ex- ;V Y g a^buThau U ^iI 1,VlaUmq, cecdc their bounds, though dl the Chanels of the earth doe Imegris. , emptie themfeluesinto them : how the Clouds compofed ^^Z&To™"" of heavic materials, doe hang in the middle Region of StrLtniat. theayre;and why the earth is by many degrees more Bur* re^ttfmf* f*&» co ld than the water.The naturall caufes of thefe effc&s Oft^a^rabic'e&as of there we learne. Sometimes to the Muficke Le&ure, lightning, fee B«rt. in his V vhere I nevcrcomebut admire>that out of the greatcft tf^rZZA »etl difcords,fliould arifethe fweeteft harmony & concord, fit firth ty Parwsrki: that a Bafe and Treble, Tenor and Counter-tenor,h.'gh j — : Tfo sunnt And wndes and j ^ fc QU \£ cau f e a DiapafinAn thefe, I fay, which sZyngthe firfice rf the doe better our beft part, our knowledge and vnderftan- hmu M» ding, doe wee out-ftrip and goe beyond you likewife ; F ^omhinf ftlll ° fhCr fitter doe wee come fhortofyouintheexcrcifes in jntttpmi *yrl,*ndwAtcrifb which you glory fo quichjthe exercifes of the bodie,in .tdfthpomesin, which jfo) Inclufum loculis inta« dfsebibitaurum, Aurumabit, at plags vefti- or afoure-fold way to Hue ypetf. 4.7 which we take much delight, and at vacant times recre- ate our felues.. Sometimes ringing is our fport and pa- ftime, torundivifionvponthebels, and to make them eccho out as many feverall Changes as the prettic jM***p»trkix t into it without theaffiftanceoradvatageof the ground ^Z^^}Z or ftirrop, and though crooked age,which tops the tal- ***** left Cedars, haue bereaved me of that ftrengch and abi- CaftJ.Ub. 2 . litie of bodie, which luftie youth did affoord vnto me j foth.it I cannot doc the Pvnadves with thatagiliticas formerly I could, yet ftill I finde a difference betweenc my felfe & others that never .. vfrd that d^Hght, A Cam- pm Martiui, Artillerie,&nd military yards likewifc wee haue, whither (oir^nmes T doe seibrt, °no one while behold xfitPikewa trayling and fliofcldering of their Pikes ; another while the Muskenitrs Hoping of their Muskets, and by often obferving of them 5 haue bor- rowed fo much of their skill and cunning, that wrr: a very little pra&ik ? I dare vndertake to k*d on an A xtny as 4^ Q_ v AIBUIO, as well as he that had becne trained from his childhood vndcr Mars in the &d&.Cockpits,Beareg4rdens,Tiltyards, and Theaters likewife we haue neare vnto vs : and one while we goe vnto the Cockpit, where we behold two ofche birds, budu/t be will Comkatc, as never did JEntas and Diomedes, nor Hetlor rMhtr retell d*unjtr by fight and A] ax ( whom Homer fo highly commends for noble ^/JfefetS DueUifts) play theirparts, nor performed* fame with b$s ctmicforAnbeimetMhti greater naturall vigor and ftrengthranother while to the %t&£? ff LtZ Beare-garden to fee a uuihffks one : while to adventure *f«tf 9 hshdthhttte^t *r- vpon a Lyon oiNemta, another while vpon a Bore of mdwitbfimrrti. Arcadia, another while vpon zHydra ofLer»a,yca fome- tiraes vpon death it felfe, as couragioufly as vpon fafe- (0 c*far received twemie- ticand fecuritie, : the which as often as I behold efpe- ^r7dtiLfe*i m th yTd c ^ * c skirmi ^ ics °f ^ e watchfull creatures, I can. m^lrAub^be/cYZm not but admire the innated ftrength which is in them, Qiifiem* Bratw to be one to fee them when they haue received as many (*)wo»nds t^JSiSS!^-^ MCAfardidin the Se*ate-kon(e, then even then, when Sueton:;»c*fire. they lycgafping for breath, by fignes and tokens, by (0DeB«^^diciiur,qu6d pecking and nodding, to (hew fignes of vnvanquifhed nemine rnquam prater do- r - - j *n -l j l u minum vehere dignatus eft : fpints,and will rather dye than cry,or yecld to a crow- & quod e duriffimis certa- ing and infulting enemy. Sometimes wee betake our 'tSSiSSSjSL Mues vnto C*/ir, Court, where we beholde the luftie ^rvrbem condidit,etin no. lads of the olympicke games, ftickling for the palme, at minis ejus memonam : g«;f. jjj r Tourney, and loco di Can»L and pra&ifine to hit Soim»»»coUeBdnei, re- an enemy in the eye by running at the Ring vpon fteeds rum memorak richly Cooparifed > & as ferviceable as were the proud fsscstsz warlike ftceds °^ Al r nd(r > ^ c * fa r ( * } N r m i es > M uam rtcepit. ib^. and the King of (*) Scythia, the which likewife as often w lnt ^^ Nk9 r^^ as I beholde, efpecially the warlike Tilting cxercife, I puiit S CJUS VKam mC ^ " " cannot but thinke of the deplorable death of the French SoU»*. King, King 'Henry the fecond, who at that time when he £i$2SS2££l thought himfelfe moft happie, and gaue himfelfe a new erwptumidverfjnusejusfi- title which he never had before, Letrejbettreux roy, by aorfpoliire veiier, a b equo rca fg Q f ^e marriage of the Lady Elizabeth his daueh- w eft. aid. fcr to Phthf JCing oispawc^m honour whereof thofe io- lemnities or afoure-fold ypay to Hue yt>e1i. >r« lemnirics were vfed, after all fports and delights were in a fort ended, the Tilters difmounted, and the fpc &a- totsdrpaned, was by the fplinterof aLaunce which Oi f omtgomery broke vpon his CuirafTe, being then the Cap- aine of the Guard, and who runnc againft him by his owne Commaund, brought vnto his death. As for the T!ieaters,I feldorae come there 3 vnle(Te I heare well of tht Plot and Poet, that he hath lived at ( y ) Pertuffw, C y ) Pemaflus u 4 hit! m convcr(jd\viththcu^ufesaz^)ffelfc0^ and isablein ^^dZ^^ ^^^ a fmooth, cleare, and well computed ftyle to magnific OHdwcn Ud hill of hseoth, veitue,and inasharfliand rieidea ftylctofupprefleher bj hehc '* dedtutcd to a. ., n. riiAi polio and the Mu/es. enemies, that can cxtratt teares out of the Adamant, in (X)Tutime$iiium,& iiiete,' prcfenting locafta y poore diftrefled mother to the view Ego vtmmq; k& rrovtro^ of the beholder, (») dtftraaedtofeethevnnsturall con- \^^^f^ ttntion betrvcene her tw$ Twinnes Eteocles AndPolynices:o£ senec* m Thibet filch paifaees when I vnderftand,they haue my compa- * n me arma «^ * cr?it< L : . . r i° 1 1 1 -nil c- r ic i m meomms ruac vnu j ve- ny-,but when I hearethem in ftead thereof to fend forth t iw,cKis,ctho%fimi ? ijhuiic nothing els but idle,irreligiousexecrations/curriIities, i**ev tn his Canting language taU fimilcs militibu illis 3 aui «. kin? B f R 0me # of tome for lorne, depopulated, potior all Ar* puenata? ti bis inter alia eu- j? J ,„,* 'J ' ^ r l J i r i ■ am pharmacopolium diripi- cadta, or ( c ; Damctas Courting of Zelmane in fo homely a emei, prctiofa et dchcata firaine y that it would make a man (icke to hears him, or T^ZT^^li')^^^^ *(*)*«^ or Night-bird in «uibu$iiieais,venenatande prayfeof old age. With thefe things you may folacc produlciarijsincautedevo- your felue$ 5 if youtakepleafurc in them, or what can rantefjpenerunt.Namboni - , ? J f . . 5 libriicaores (uos ireiiores you reade there t publicke Libraries you haue none, dimittum,tmli verdpejores. nor bookes or othcr(*,) delights, than whatyeufindein the (b)Vrbemiuamdicunt^- mods, high-wayes, and hedge-rowes, vnlefle you are be- m4*»(Mehb*e) pmavi holding to vs tor them,or with whom can you confer? S & e SiSp?SmM" ccrtainl y wilh few or none that can ddl^tn you,vnlcflc Paflore/ oyium tcneros de- y ou be well verfed in the Art of Hawking and Hunting, pellerc fa-tm. & ca n endure to heare a huntfman difcourfe of ( € )ff ares ( DfmeUL^£dia. Mling ofLjons,oi( £ ) Goates flying in the ay re, of Fijhes ( 6 ) 5«»'» /&• 2. W/ *//& having great woods in their bcllics 3 of Wormes drawing ^/^^. #/Bafliusii Caftles afcerthem, of &m//« that went morefwiftthan ^ Acdpitw gemit non ca- the winde, and threw do wne trees with their homes as "»*• they paft 5 of (37)4 man that devoured fine hundred jheepc^j ^KSnK^* ^^/> 5 of walls in (8) Wales made vp of Kaus.bobbiis Nee 6r<7,nec iuntAt»?fntht~ Cannon.preofe, and of the like incredible occurrences, //rliu^uidiin common in the difcourfes of Huntfmen • with thefe {e)Exjguum/^wwvidiju« /1 nr r i guiafle w«$ things perhaps you may folace your iclfe, it you take v Vidi bttbyr** volitarepcr pleafure in them : but if you dtfire to converfe with the Inmcdia^idinube volar* iMnfa you muft repaire to the Citie 5 for that is the b»™. place certainly where they doe inhabite. Wherefore, * V St totT J CUiU$ * e » eca in P Iaine rermcs rcls them.they <*) lye that fay the Sylva ingens^ bufmeffes of the Cities are hinder ances and impediments to Vidi qui traheret tnrres & marnta vermem ; Occurrit tifinJo mihi yelccior Euris PerverteJW vtWr cernihus /eriju / j7 ) Vidiapud iEthiopes hotmntm qui gutture hrgus, Qttivgeniat mo deflte voravit »>*r. ( g ) Vidi compatHsm^nia ufc*fo . (h) Mentiuntur ( inqait SenecM ) cjui fibi obftare ad ftudia liberalia wbam ncgonorum viderivoluntjvaco (mil.w^vaco^&vbici^lum, measlum* Senna ad Ln fuch as beiiua 5 Wfais inquiJS bearc l ^ c ftape of reafonable men in the ( n ) citie f whe- tnBdtor, ex cicuribus * whatfoevcr he faith, rhey admire,afuj with Cui tam divino licuit fobo- c le var ion of eyes and hands cry ,(? ) Vox dei non hominis^ Ideas parru. ^ hatfoever he doth they applaud with an ot>i* vim qr Wtuomn illud \ r o r+ M U /l J- ■ *n\ ■ J Ais,no : ne^ s> nco 0i Ad- barefo jterfc&a Cieatuie;alkrkirfHidi' mo>(*<)fy$n4e vcrfumquos mento & tbemfelnes into hisbo r ome, to findeout his difpofitiofl, cWcsacuuncetgbdios d ' { h . v ^{^ hisaffeslons- if he be 'given to rorcs. women^hey wiilmai;:;^rc uisanfcpiikmKalldiKate, the or afoure-fold way to Hue well. f% the Common- roade, the general! cafe of all the world, a tricke of youth, a naturall infirmitie • vnto which the moft (Pj noble fiirits haue beene (ubjeci h if he begiven to Cp ) An fcelus eflc putas? (<) Wine, they mdgnifie the grape done all the fruits which £* eft ° pus Hcrcule d ' S * grow vpon the ground, commend him for a Ioviall boy, (q) '^mperio yimm fucee a merry grig, a Companion for a Prince * and one who i ucuna *^ omni, is never angry but when any one drawes his purfe in his Company : if he be given to brawling and quarrelling, they will commend him for a man of fpirir,a tryd man, one who hath often Encountred his enemy in the field, and hath put him to the worfe : whereas in truth he ne- ver drew his fword in anger but once, and that was at 2 dog, when as the owner came forth with a Cudgel!, . and bcare him hand fomcly, and made him put itvpa- gaine : if he be Mu ficall, and can beare a part in a Con- form though never fomeancly, they will preferrehitn before Tomkms the Organift,and D$wland the Lutenift, , and will not flicker ro fay, that ( r ) Pan and Arion will not (r) P*n fil«; « cytnaram touch their toeles in his presence ; \t he haue but the lcaft l ^% xiUi ^^ r Ji n * sk II in limming& payntin^, yet ihey will preferre him before Apelles, and will mamraine, that had he lived at that rime when Apettes pay nted ov.t one part of Venu& fo - tothe life,that no man afte r him durft adventure to pcr- fir his worke, that he would haue goneas farre beyond Sjiptilsvsi payntingof what he left vnperfitted, as A- ptllts d,d bi yord all ihe paynters of his time. So doe thefemen {* of whom I wt (hall men to beware) lullthefe ^ .^ • , , - young novices afleepe^and lead them hud-winkttoeie- i,;,,,,^,,,.,/, *i**ore*^ (lni and the y tradc in no othcr mcrcha ndifc, than C) r*pUy at iri(h doth mt lt } P'ainc bare quAtcr-treys, cuts and fullomes. In thefc **fit the female /tx t u# thereby little bones doe they finde the fwceteft marrow, and irt ti'ZT^Zu." - ^fcharmdes fports doc they mod dehght. Others Gwiiiam. there a*cof the fame kinde, who run a greater adven- ed* jtHacutfi gentjiim turc than the former, who like their ereat Lord & Mai- di ia(cnriam,(cilicct, vfuan- ltcr > c * n traniformc themfelues into any ihapc,to bring Utrumdicitur iiwauflei cui to pafle their mifchivous defignesand purpofes.Some- SSiaii^SS ™«inthefimilitudeofinnocencie, being clad all b 9m/7s»mJS/ dottw*4*tone- white, in the habit of a Porter,will adventure vpon any &n* mmendac AT ,et FortrelTe,play faft and loofe vpon any Locke, breake f>er;uriorum mater eft alta. S J . « i. r ti/^ i_ ■ *» h iti*mesSiil»6.M.i~dt open any dore with as much boldneiTe as the lawful! nu & CMtult °wncr & pofleflbr can doe,take what ferues their turne, o^uSrilK make all faft againe, and at noone day when the Sum* terdiaa 4 Cobiion Laced*- is at the higheft, out-brave the multitude with their ad- ^nTumlc^m^flus 3 dS ventures v P 0n thcir backes. Others in the fimilitude of duces c^fem^sCodmhio. afuric, all blacke,being clad in the habit ofrulcA# : m\l arum mteniffet in ^ludcn- performe the like feats of adivitie with fuch dexteritie, c^otTstS: ^at had they lived in the day es of the Sfmfi Ptcaroe, ^loriam hac infamamacu- he would haue beene a meere novice vnto them :many lare vtdicerenturcnrn^^ ofthefe tame beafts, which beare the fhape of reafona- m t ble men, we haueamongft vs. And women we haue of •com: Agiftx all forts both good and bad 3 whom we doe valueaccor- ding to their worth and merit; thofc which are good we doe in a fort adore, for their puritie, and chaftitie . and ftudy how to doc them fervice^thofe which arc not, we fpurne, and fpit 5 and hide at as th for if they be honcft, they aie J«ES« > ci3fffiNf - clad in the habit of modeftie and civilitie, and wearc gaudetefkanteambuioney, their Cloths to cove, their nakedncne 5 if they be other- «£*££ SSKS wife/ hey arc clad in a flrange, difguifed 3 anticke habit, t*g j vnto whom our wifer fort doc afcribe the inven- (t) Vide i««x prcces in a* tion of all new-fangled &fafl»enswhkharevfed i*o»r J^SLmmmm^ Cities, and fay it is Imeditary 5 and entaykd vpon them vtconreniemem fibiveftem from the Steves, who were vfed to change theirfafhions 6 ^ e, "^^ efp ^ d . cba . t4 as often as Proteus did his fhape, and to no other end & Sd^^2SSmS purpofe, than raalefa&ors do their names,becaufe they bemdimtd.ariimodoincir- would not bedifcovered to be what in truth they are, 2*^* *"* T Mountebanks, Hermaphrodites,anticks,bawds,ftrum- (u) Vndc hie habhuum in- pets, or any thine that is repugnant to modeftic and ci- dics mira fim « l *f ridenda •i- s\ j- • i-i -r D T r r«u~~,« vanetas, nunc pedes come- vihtie. Ordinaries likcwife we haue, but wee leldome gens, nunc pudenda nudans come there ; for we account it a difparagement for any vefts, nunc terram tergen- man that hathan habitation to be feene in them ^whenl 2^Z£££fc was young I lookt into thcm,and if I liked the Compa- comcrens,nuncfub inguine nie, I adventured fomefmall fumme of money with ta^wfi^;**- ,i . ti • l- i_ «*jquornodeenim fieri do« tbem,but never at any time could gameany thing there, tcft y t vivendi cenor idm yet never could know who gained by me, for every nwneathis, qumonfe vir»- m anco.nplainedoflofre 5a tlengthvpondiligentfcarch > SgSXSSSl we found out the theefe,there was a Uelno flood by vs, Demy qua? patr/os mo«* that faid nothing:, yet by little and little robd vs all: iic4bijcium,vcn,imfipere^ .... »r j » V i i l grinmnvenerantur,cttotic* which when I round, I relolved never to come there a- Jiotltur, quonesaiiquidoc* - gainejandfofincelhauebeeneas good as my word, current quod mirenmr, Thefe things haue I (hewed you in anfwer*> y our que- **?"* ftion, that you may be aflured that there * s noperfe& bodie, but hath fome ill humors in fa Ruftic* Sir, you haue given v* good fatisfa&ion to my firft queftion ; I pray lef me aske you a queftion or two more, andfo I will take my ieaue for this time* Bow Q^V ATERNIO, tieth it to pafTe, th.it the rourfe oflifi? van How commeth it to pafTe, that the rourfe of life you leade, being attend d with fo many Commodities, is had in fuch contempt by the Neapolitan- Gentry ,& was (o much negle&ed by the old Rem am s. Vrban : 1 cannotgiueyouamorelari-faftory^ifwer than by asking you the like qn. f Hcr ,H . commeth it topaffe, that the Neapolitan-Gcmrv an fo poore and tieedic,and the V netuin-Gcntry are fo rich & wealthy? The reafon is eafily given ; rhe Venetians follow and af- fed our courfe of life, and are induitnous and painfull, and the 2\fa4/w//>4*f contemner, and are hautieand idle. Imuftconfefle, it hath beenc a continued cuftomea- mongft the Neapolitans, that they will rather marry their daughters to the fonnes of Gentlemen,be they ne- ver fo pooreand needy, than to the fole heires of Mar- chants,be they never fo rich and wealthy ..for they haue a f oolifh conceit,and an opinion amongft them, contra- <4t)ifSiiAttnftriftsi»i*e ryto the opinion of all (* x ) wife-men, that if a Gentle- *o hub*, tf a Gentleman of 4 man f their Country doe marry with the daughter of XZZZ\ZZZ*J* * Marchant,ora Plebeian, the iffue begotten betvveenc bathiffuebjber.thdttbtiffui them, are but Gentlemen of the halfe bloud ; but the ** «h dhhinte GemUmtn^nd y enet j am are f a cleane contrary opinion, & fo are the fndy . iue h*s Fathers coate: iitt« -ti« i C n je* tbty hold, if a Gentler*,. G enow ayes, who hold it an addirament and encreale of mUy bwth nidrrywtbamam honour, to deale in the way oFRarchandife* to Hue in fb*c hmb no codte-armour. & . f j iT •» J i L fi< tMtbijjueMfrmejytbeairt*. Venice, and not to doe as the Venetians doe, they nold it fieot armes the/onnemdj bean as difhonou rable, as it was for the Lacedemonians to de- %^'^^JZ riue thcrafr lues from the loynes of Hercules, znd not en- foyle. ' devour to be like vnto Hercules : Valentinian, ^Agtfhe- cles,Teleph antes, and Hyperbolic , they haue in perpetu- al! retrv> m brancc; who being Petifa<5tors themfclues, orthefonr^sof them, became to be Emperours and Kings, and to ^overne the people. (*) Vertuc they ac- count the chiefc Ci\ T obilitie ; and fuppofe it never calls abetter lufti c, than wv n it flicwes j t felfeinmenpro- icffing the n ade of March^dj z i n g:to defcend from the loynes oi noble progenitors with Catiline, and to be a villaine $ or afonre-fold ^Ay to Hut ypeU. ^y Villainy or with Htrmodius to pull an ancient houfevp- on his head, and to be rhe iaft of it 5 or with Salufi to re- lye wholy vpon dead mens bones, they accounted the zrezteR ( w ) dijhonour : but by good husbandry, and W Nontam infamis eflk thrift* courfe of (*•) Tr^tng to rsifc tbtmfehesfrm SSSSSSt -1 - meant cflates, and from Gentlemen of low degree, to be p*tr*rcb. potent and mighcie,Y as Cm did in another courfe of UOApud meres tamara?. *. n r ** • ^ /• • \ 1 1 iti itimationis fuit ohm mtrcd- life from a poore Cottage in Tnfcame ,) that they held tm*, vt ad hanc cxerccndam the chiefeft glory. So that in the flourifhing ftate of p!f- comuicruc fe P hiioiophi J nec ri«, there is not a Gentleman of note or qualitie, but ^^HtSL hath a ftocke going in the trade of Marchandizing. runtceiebemmi:cmiffimu It is true, Imuftconfe(fe,therewasaLawamongft the «*»*M*"— aian,.** , , * 1 . 1 j* 1 1 «i • o 1 ot) fingularem prudentiam old Romanes, which did prohibit Senators and men in inter 7. Capites nummb*- authoritic,todealeby way ofTradcjbutthereafon of tur,hanc«ercuiffe. that was not becaufe it wasadifparagement for a great man to Trade, but becaufe Senators were fet apart for another end and purpofej that is,to looke to the affaires of theCommon-wealth; Md therefore they werenot {%)MercdtHY ^tenu^or^ to bune themfelues about private matters. Itis true da P «tanda eft, 6 magna, & likewife, it is a received opinion amongft the learned copiofa,muitavndiq}necef- i^rmcnjts and Herdlas, Mevcatura non compettt viroge- e ft vkuperahda. nerofo, that it is a bafe & diflionorable part for any man otmM. 1 . ofi«M tuufn ^fqualirietodealebywayofMaichandizingbutyou jgajSSSCfi muft vnderltand it to be meant of Merchandizing in ( y ) Cyprus abounds »ith poore and meane Commodities,as in monopolizing of ^t**^ ***(**> *»*»9tb l K n . ^ 1 /„/ /r ~ i ~ f • TWtdnd Pitch t*mxkt fades. ( * ) Pinms^Caras, andGlafJcs, or jucfo poore Commodities, Ottellius. not befceming a Gentleman, or in exporting the bulli- 00 Perfia ahoutuii »> th ir °» onof theKingdome, the iron £ nd lead, thehydes and JgSS, skins, theCorneandgrainc, and in ftead of them to >Mi^'/^'^NunK brine home leaues, Indian- weeds, feathers, druqs,and fcredc D'os,ww™,p a , r • ° ^ »r 1 1 - • n nam* and tt,took t et\*>fiComp4 m lpices, Oranges and Lemmons,and the juice of grapes, Hi „ fM«k< i*t» witbgM - and things of the like nature, rather hurtfull thanprofi- «K/Bw«i»ifcriAr.ifjS. tableto theCommon-wcalth: but to adventure for the ^t^^^' gold ofo^r,and the vfefull and necefTary Commodi- Cmdifaintbeye*re ijg 7% tiesof ment not vnworthy the adventure of(«j ZVrffo, of j™- r*™^.^, *,,/^w,^ /" 1 bufherj **& mnfawMk, 5$ iQjP ATBRNIO, ftj/fer, of C4ndt[h> and the noble fpirits of former rimes. So that without doubt Pegins was in the right, when he affirmed, that it may well ftand with the degree of Knighthood,to dcale in the way of trade and Marchan- dizing. Rufiic. Sir, let me craue your anfwer to one queftion more, and fo I will take my leave of you. I haue often heard 5 that if a Gentleman by difcent take vpon him the profeffion of a Mechanicke, his Gentiiitie is quite and cleaneextinguiflied. Vrban: You haue heard in your time like wife of Goates flying intheayre, of fnailes going fader than the winde, and throwing downe Steeples with their homes as they paft * but did you ever heare any, that were verfed in the Law of Armes, ferioufly affirmeit. The beft Gentlemen in Venice, I am furc, and amongft the Gemvayes, are the beft Marchants, and in moft of the flourishing Kingdomes where I haue had to doe. f 44) Perthtax jtugnjlu* non The ( *t ) Nobihtie bane thought it no difyaragement to vfi alto quam privatus.merca- ^ Trade of March Andiz>inm, Admit with Titus Manlins we overcome an enemy to »"» caUed Torquatus. The King and State in aDuell, and take his Chaine from &^f s "XC- him i and thereby purchafe to our felues the title oiTor- way weare ynder the degree ef quAtuswd (•) Equitesaurati: Admitwith (#)Frobnjher, *£$*&'*' Stat - ofl *' or with that valourous, adventrous Gentleman Cap- (46) Frobufher made three taine lames, we (hould launch into the ycie Seas and ap- /iyeraUy v%"^ the ^/ {0m proach the ^Arttcke pole, todifcover a Northweft paf- ]^ e i \hUnTiLnhefiffttl /age to lap an - y or with Columbus difcover fomc terra in- the yean 1 ? 7 6. thefaoU m cogniu, full fraught .with mines ofgoid and filver : Ad- tr^±^^ Hilt We (hould build ColledgeS,Holpltals,AImei-hOU- Henry the 7. difavered the fes, erea or amend the decayed walles of a Citie : re- Weft indies/»r^spaniar(f f i., iL'j c \ r c r baym? before tendrea hit fer- payre high- wayes, or make bridges for the eafe of paf. yice f & Kmg o/Engll ' ndj fengers, or for the good fervice we haue done to our »£>o(vnbaft t tj)di*not enter- Countries^ fare honored with the degree of Knights, ^^^ or Barons, or Vilcounts,doe you thmkc polteritie (hall gram nobihtatem acqui/ut, not reape the benefit of thefe things, though wee haue [HfK matricuia nobiiium OUr Originall from the Cltie ? _ aguntnobflmm aftus, nor. Ruftic. Without doubt they fhall,but if you doe no- gaudebuntnobihum piiviie- thing els,but heape v.p ft ones together,build faire hou- £2S fes, and compafle them about with a little earth, and fo ente dc nobihbus : *>*$ the lcauc then^and thinke thereby to reape honour to your J 4 ^ °f % rmund *& **- polteritie 5 you are much ( b J mtjtakeni perhaps you Feme* may be honorable in fo doing, ratione fendi, and to vfe t4t)M&«f i&W^cuai e% the language of Pepus you may paftefor Knights made J^E^ZST vp of paper and wax,but you (hall never be vere(w)mi- Honoru augmentum non Utes, nor partake of the priviledges of fuch as be hono- ambitione > fea laboread v . oblc. lz T~ Vrbav -^-^^-^-- •• &Q Qj/ A T E R N I 0> Vrhan: Well I am glad you doe agree fo farre vritfr vs.that we may be Gentlemen and rruely noble 5 though we take vpon vs the profeflion of Marchants, or any o- thcr mechanicall trade or occupation. I pray you now being that we are fallen intoadifcourfeof thetitlesof honour, to tell me ( t hough it favour a little of cxtrava* g^ncy ) whether the Ladies of your Countrey ( if they marry with Citizens ) doe not loofe their titles & their places. It comes into my minde, for that being the laft (0 Quando ratio eft idtm night at our chiefe cheers houfe, where there were met XentuV im/r^S: m ™Y **&& and GcntIewomcn,there arofe a great co- tos .• vt interrogate ( urpo{?i- troverfie bctwee: $ them-about it:thc Ladies confident- *ffi f d^l^* f9 t id ? 1 lyflffirminr, :uat they did not loofe it : theGcntlcwo- ^r/M/:hl^bw Prlmit men as confidently that they did: the Ladies giving this Nonamote (sMi) nee rcafon, they did not («•) hcaufe they did not : and the BSSS^nU Gentlewomen giving this reafon, thzi theydtdkeaufr nonamote. ' they did : and whofe reafons were the better reafons; ( 48 ) Mjierva pyemed the you being a man of judsement,and can judge betweene i-ybians, or othcrwife had their titles conferred vpon them 'nmlitLddtighurofKfng b y f P* c * a11 grace from Soveraignc power and authors Henry /Ar i.kwgfirftmflrrt- tic,though they were asdefervingasthofe nine worthy tth^TVTJ^rU** Lad™, whom fome haue parallelled for their noble Jpjw^ndJohAdtbe title of Em- a '• ' , . . F V t_-ri fnffu d»4*ftemirdh Gef- aas and.atchievemcnts, with the nine worthies or the i>yPlanngenct 5 E^o/An. world- that is to fay, ( 4 * ) CWinerva, Sewyramis^ni ^rr^/An/ou,' werdt Tmyr is- amongst the Heathens >Jahcl, Deborah^nd Iudiih fffedfnm the field, yvtiujhee amongft the I ewes ; and the mo!( renowned Ladv and SSSSSgSt Emprdfc $*«■** dauber of King Henry thtfrfi of ™ * England) er afoure-fold ww to Hue weft. England, (*) Elizabeth Queene otSftine, wife to King Ferdinand of tarragon • and Johanna Queene of Naples amongft the Chriftians ; yet they (hall haue no other place butaccording.to thc(*)degrecs of their husbands, & the rcafon thereof is as I haue heard him fay ,for that it (hould be a moftrous thing in nature,that they whom the Lawes of God haue conjoyned, and madean vndi- vided bodie, the Lawes of man fhould fever and place in degree, the footc aboue the head, the inferior aboue the fuperior, the wife aboue the husband. Vrban: But what iffhe marry with a Gentleman or Efquicr? Ruftic. It is all one, Abijt madam, her Ladifhip is gone. Vrban: I am glad to hcare your Father was of that opinion, he was a learned man, and one that was well fecne in Armes and Heraldry. The reafon wherefore I defire to be fatisfied therein is, becaufe there is a Lady, or a reputed Lady in our Citie, that was the daughter of a meane man, and afterwards married with a Knight, and buried him, and fince hath married with a man of meane degree ; and becaufe (he was lometimes a Lady, there is not a Gentlewoman, be (he the wife of the beft Gentleman in the Citie, but (he willftcp before her, and take place of her, and why forfooth,marry becaufe the CuftomeoftheCountrey doth giue it her, asfhee faith. But when I (hall tell our Citie Dames, that the Cuftome of the Countrey is contrary to the Lawes of Armes,and the Lawes of the Kingdome-,1 am fure they will nor accuftome her to doe as (he hath done. Ruftic. Sir, I thanke you ; you haue given me good i fatisfafiion to all my queftions : and now I cannot but acknowledge, that 1 am much taken by your relation, with many of the delights of your City :efpe daily with ■ your Anaromie Lecture, and Vaulting exercife,and if I may bebiholding^toyou, to tell me what dayes your 1 3 Schooits *i /*) OfthemagunimitieofV.- liiabeth, Queene of Spaine, 1 fee Gwicciardine in his fixth Booke of hi* Hiftorie of Italie. lohanna Quecxe ©/Naples* defended her Count fie both *• gd'mfi them>afioHS of the Sara- cens, dnd the w*yres of Arra- gon. (^Quando facmina nobili* nupierit ignobiM'iiUutsfc feiiobilis. Vem* tit QV ATERKIO, Schooles arc open, I will make a journey to Towne, of purpofe to fee fome feats of a&ivitie vpon the horfe, and toheare your Anatomic Le&ure. VrbA*: Sir, our Schooles are open every day in the weeke (one day excepted which is fet apart for another purpofe ) and admittance you may hauc at all houres in the day, but we feldomc come there, vnleffe it be in the ^^odwttiwwiquod {^)m0rning y for that utbetimethat the Mufes teoke tere- tJZ%!"fiMe!m^4 createthem f' ! »t 5 > and then ftay no longer at our bodily xmifisimeromne«horasdi- excrcifes, but vntill wee haue rowfed vp the natu rail .££?3K££ heatewhichwasafleepe itfvs, and prepared our fclues «nr.Exorien$namq;(oi,vi- to vndergoe better A&ions, for that is the end where- gorcm, et alacritatem affcrt fore wee vfc thofe bodily recreations, in which we co- SSS3S3t vet not to ( .) excfiB, ( that wc leaue to the profeflbrs cas, qua? mentis domicilium thereof) onelydefireto attainc to fo much skill, that tSSSS^gmm when we meetewiththcOlympicke Lads, and beput .aoadcect, to fhewour femes, we become not ridiculous to the fpe&ators. BMfiis. But doe you never come thither after dinner ? Vrbtn: Never vpon a full ftomacke : I muft confeffe, when I was young, Iwasfokeene vpon fome violent exercifes, that no fooncr was I out of my bed in a mor- ning, but prefently I was in the Schooles 5 and no foo- ncr was themeatcin my belly, but I was there againe; fuch a defire I had vnto them • but I paid dearely for it. Thofe violent motions begat fuch crudities, and fuch oppilations, that to this day I could never be free from head-ach, of which I never tafted vntill that time. Rttjtic. Ic fhould (eemethen, that your excrcifes are more hurtfull than profitable to the body of man. Vrbm: It is very true \ if they be vfed at vnfeafona, a ) Nil prodett quod non ble tifnes : the beft things may be ( l ) dufed; you know tS&i fi quista- ditxz is nothing more commodious for the life of man menyrcre tcda than fire and water, yet if we vfe the one to the burning C °^c a man aud Tw^ ftrUit °^ honks, anc * thc ot ^ er t0 ^ drowning of our neigh- .j^nc manw. bours, there is nothing more incommodious : there is nothing or afoure-fold way to Hue t»etl. g$ nothing more neceflary for the maintenance of life than meate and drinke, yet if we vfe to catc our mcate vnfea- fonubly, before wc come out of our beds in a morning, aching too common amongft Ladies, or drinke our drinke vnfeafonably, then when we are going to bed in the evening, a thing too common amongft Lords,there is nothing that will breed more crudities, or bring vs fooner to vntimely death. There is nothing more ne- ceflary for our foules health, than the ftudie of divini- tie : nor for the well ordering of our liucs, than the ftu- die of morall Philofophy % nor a better ornament to a man, than to be well verfed in Poetry :yet we know the greateft ( « ) Divines haue beene thegreatefl heretic ks, and ,m C cnfat ftfflofos nesk: the great eft Moralists and(* ) Poets , haue had the greateft gwhxreticos magnosfuifle, - blemjhes & imperfections. There is nothing more necef- ^S3£ fig fary,nor conduceth more to the prefervation of health, fed hxc non artium,fed a«i- than the exercifeof the body . yet if wee vfe to ride our pl^f^ miu X cu] ^ e{l * horfes with Caligula fo foone as the meate is in our bel- Sum H^-oS^w lies, it cannot but breed in vs as it did in him the( b )Car- v*ttku<> fed hocPoetis,non item, that will quickly bring vs to our ends. Where- Poetic ^7 dumeft - fore we feldom vfe any violent exercife but in the mor- Poeticarum qu*ftionum ex-; ning. or in the evening when our ftomacks are emptie* crc . itati ° nc * emditorum ho j OJ rii «i it r -r J minum fecundas menfas no» and our meate fully conco<9ed, and therefore if you minam aii^,ide<% rt con- come at thofe times, you fhall before to haue admit- dimentis,nonvtabisvtide- tance, and findevs there. And thus ended the difcourfe (h™vid:Annotanc<^to bet weene Ruftico and Vrbano. m smm Nofeener had Vrbano thus ended his difcourfe • hut Ru- Hicogoes vnto Theologo,W^ he and Vrbano had que ftioned each other, fo he demaunds 0/Theologo, the motines that might induce him to take thatfacred profefion ^Divinitie vfonhim j beginning as fol- loweth. Zuftic. Sir, when you were young ( as I remember ) you were more inclinable to th^Ufc of a Souldier, than to> ** X Peregr'nuttk ad prudenti- am multu valet, et pene* ma- gisquam vllapr*cepta.Ho-. rocrus Vlyfie* prudentix caufam decantaturus, hacc potiffimum allcgat. Multorum mores hommwn ton^exitetyrhs. Et VlutAnhtti prudemiam tjciirgi oftenfuwj, allcgat scxpeditioncfuam in Oreuvty ct convcrfationem inThdktc. PfutArcb. in Lycurgo. Sic GtrmAtiitum Ctfdrtm 1c- gimus incredibih cupiditatc veteres locos et eclebres vi. ItndifirAciamyThrAeiam, o- Tam ^/?/, ipfas demum^r- awwrperagrafle. Belltu, lib. 2, Sic Cicero Syrdcuftsinyf&i- gatam & invennm a Ce/pb*- ram Mchimdft gloriatur. VATERNI O, to take that facred profeffion ofDivinitie vpon you 5 what might bethe motiues then I pray you that indu- ced you vn to it? Theolog. I ihall therein giue you fatisfa&ion, 1 muft acknowledge, I was in my youch of an a&iue fpirit,and more inclinable to any profeffion than to the life of a Schollcr, whofe profeffion k to be Cioyftrcdvpina Colledge, and as it were buried aliue in a ftudie, but it fell out in thofe my youthfull times, there was a gene- tall peace throughout all Chriftendome, and fo no ina- ployment for fuch fpirits as I was of. Whereupon I re- folved to fpend fome yeares abroad in ( ■'" ) travatle, that 4t my return* I might doe my King and Conntrey the better fervice • yet before I would croflc the Seas, I refol ved to take a Survey of mine own Country at home, which that I might the better doe, I tooke fome paines in Mai- ftcr Cambdens Britannia j acquainting my felfe thereby with moft of the famous Cities, Townes, and Villages of the Kingdome, together with the Shires, the nature ofthefoyle,andrhedifpofitionofthepeople, and not willing to content my felfe with a bare fpeculatiue knowledge, a great part of the Summer for three or foure yeares together, I tooke my journey into one part of the Kingdome or other, to the intent that I might be the better affured, and that mine eyes might teftific thofe things which I had onely heard and read of before : fo that after I had fully farisfied my felfe, by an exquifite Survey taken of all the Shires, Cities, Townes, Villages, and Hamiets of note, together with the difpofitions of the people, and the feverall kindc of fpeeches, much differing, though but one language, I tooke my flight at laft over the Seas into Fraune<^, where I muft confeffe, I was a little daunted and difani- mated at my firft arrivall , when I faw others make themfelues merry with difcourfc, and I flood by like the tfi&me of ErJfmu* in Roterodame, or ofGrejhamm the or afoure-fcrtd way to Hue yt>eli. $$ the Exchange », (taring vpon them, not able to anfvvcrea word 5 and one while I did en vie the ( * ) ages of our fore- ^^\™*"m££™ fathers, to fee them fo mttie, as to be able in CMoris-dmn. ^ u «? a u«oribui qui d"kis ces with their feete and fingers, to exprejfe whole Hiflories, toqutbaotur 5 ct integr« fo* and I not able with all my art, without a great deale of A^^gi ^«tam- difficulties to make my felfe to be vnderftood 5 another while in tome bitternes I fell vpon ( l ) Nimrod, for (it (0 o quotics itk &&*&* came into my thoughts) had he not beene,! (hould not «^« Architcaus,tanwco- haucneeded being grownemyearcstobecomeachilde r^percgrnaubusdaeftan. againe, to hauc gone to Schoole to learne to fpeake; £ us! *'«&»• the language of Fraunce would haue beene as familiar ^S8?***** vnto me, as the language of mine owne Country, there The Spaniard indy, anjturs would haue bin no i!//y?^w^noconfufion of tongues: ^^Tl uhmdn* m the ( m ) Trench and the Engl/jh, the Grecian andHebritian, "tbTbAnChlt h™S " theRomane and Italian, the Spanyard and the Sclavonian, 0ur r °™ ts ^m^urmiua fhould haue vfedfat one and the fame /4*£*^.Sometimes rorlyfZZtbHtbX** agaiue I condemned my felfe, that had lived fo long at fi#i»*tg«t* home, and had caft away fo many houres in hawking A '^^ Hhuttrfmtmh and hunting, in dicing and carding, in bowling & fpor- or if wee Uk* hut with w ting, and negle&ed to learne the language of my neigh- tteere c ™fa"> bour-Country ■, fothat 1 was much perplexed in my ^SvSSfe ""** thoughts, whether I (hould goe forward or backward, (m) Vna pnus lingua fuk, to rcturne fofuddenly I thought it would be deemed ■ ? ^™ k * A - (^ ) inconfiancj in we, which is a fure and cert ainejigne of a i 4 9 ) ^affatio eft certwm gtddte head and inccrtaine minde , andtogoc forward, %1 ™ incert * menris - being that I knew not how to fpeak, I thought it would much ( n ) trouble me,but at laft when I had duelyconfi- (n ) Qua? major mtlejlU dercd,rhct it was nor my cafealone,but the cafeofmoft v ukm non «»»%, cumin- youngfrefii-watertravellersjicfolvedasfooneasever Sb%S™S 1 had run over Ortetiins, and his Mappes, as I had done pedomannatetigerir? before Maifter Cambdens Britannia , and thereby ac- P'tr*^- quainted my felfe by a fpeculatiue knowledge, with all the parts of that Country, to take my flight into thofe parts which were mod vfefull for the obteyning of the Mother-tongue thereof; which refolutionl purfued, and tooke my voyageaccordingly. Where I refided fo K long, &£ Qj/ ATERNIO, long, vntill I became fo good a proficient in the know, ledge of the language of that Country ,as to vnderftand and to make my fclfe to be vnderftood in any manner of difcourfe, that was offered vnto me in the language thereof. So that after I had taken afull Survey of that Country, and the people thereof, and borrowed fbmc of their language to conduft me (being indeede an ex- cellent guide ) at length I part into Italy, taking OrtttHu* flill with me for a companion, and demeaning my fclfe in thofe parts as I had done before in Fraunct: and after I had fpent fome time there, I pad further into other; Chriftian Kingdomes, and out of them as farrc as Can- fi*ntinople 7 and after I had glutted my fclfe with a full view and fight of thofe parts, and acquainted my felfe with the Occurrences that fell out during the time that Imadc my abode rherein,and obtained the feveral! lan- guages of the Countryes, I returned at length home a- gainc, being by this time neare thirtie yeares of age : and now being at home in my mothers lap, mine owne natiue Country, I was much perplext in what Courfe of life I fhould weare out the reft of my dayes,and after that I had long tumbled and toft my thoughts over and over, at length I refolved to betake my felfe to the Vni- verfitie, to become a childe againe ; and there fir ft to in- ftruft my felfe in the grounds & principles of Logicke 3 Philofophic^and Pbyficke, but vpon Phy ficke to fettle my affediions, as vpon her from whom I did expeft (o)Humana condhio appri. f omc linelihood and preferment. Whereunto partly. rtS£§^S^ l was indincd b y reafon ofmine owne weake conftitu - Ajcc *&&*&* mE^.4.rcge tion of bodic^and partly out of a covetous defire I had Angi*a:,inrcgcH«^4^a tora if c fomeTrophiesfor the benefit ofpofteririe, but ^^f^ihOm-Ub./.'c^*! wbenIconfidcredthc(*) incertaintie dnA-mnubiltticef* . — v*kt hfAyt* no rMt all thofe go$ds, by the Philofdfbers ftiled the goods of- far- RTfiSSSSEtS turn and the Me. How the grcateft Empires, K : ng- L»rdiwtii: domes, Cities, haue had their periods, their rifing and new *f»u, Afomfar * . flieir fcrting . How the f amQUS Mpnarehie;of the A(pj. Batt«s„ rians or a f our e- fold way to Hue well. #7 rians devolved to the CMedes and Perfians, how that a- gakie to the Grecians, and how that againe to the Ro- manes. And how at this day ConJlantinople,xhc auncient feate of the Chriftian Empcrours, and all thofc Greckc Churches of which mention is made fo often in the fa- cred Scriptures, of ( p ) Peloponnefus, Epirw, ^Armenia, (p)M*nflfmm cymograph Macedonia, and (*) Alexandria, that was fo famous CSSS throughout the world for the fcitnation of it, that wee mum* M^ceUm* lib. %%•. niavfayofitfmhcfcituation^^^ of ( England for the government of it: ) arc become the hanc Civitatem foiem fere- Tcrritories of theTurke. Hovy (*) Rhodes the key of f^™^**' \ ^ . Chrtftendome, which for a long time by the valiant pro- j£ ^ J^^SJS^Li ivefle & magnanimitic of the Knights ftoutly withftood * the ommu vbtrttht com* him & hindrcd the pafTage of his treafurc out olMgm Z^^ST* into Confiantinople, together with Chios and Famagofia, phd-. com: hb.* . c.i «. achiefchold in Cyprus, arc vnder his dominion : how CO B ^ w ££f£ * * thefe foureteene auncient Chriftian Kingdomes, of cv*- jJJ™ //^Famag^aAiiAr y?/7^, Zy**, Arragon, Catalonia, Navarre, A (Iruria, Grana- je*re 1571* *&, Valentia.Toledo, Galatia, Myrcia, VortugaU, and <^/- g4r^,areallfwallowedvp in the Spanish Monarchic How in Italie, Millaine and Naples haue loft their ftati- ons, and are likewife fwallowed vp in that infatiable (ONiMtamSrm»meftcui culfc:how in Fraunce the Crowne hath becne devolved E*j£! MO T n ^7'^. f rom the Merovtngians to the Charlovtngtans, from the dow^/w4m« rf >^«ipabu!u Charlovmgians to the C apovingians , and in them from fit > e: fcn a "*% confunw. the houfe of r*/tf/ho the houfe of Bourbon, and all by vidicmcaroicatrere incite the meanes of a ( c ) w^#* Jacobin Fryar. To come home di duces ; ttm^nMt^tnp toour fellies, how this our Nation hath beene altered ^™t!^I^ e . and changed : how at thefirft it was the portion of Sa- (50; s&Gtuwceriuhis/i, wothes, one of the fonnes of Japha And from him recei- <;™ dbs *\ e ^reji^uf , , r „ A / V r 1 • '■'**> where be Uwemtth that ved the name or Samothea : how afterwards it cam? cainsc/^m 3 y£^ w /, m , from the line of Cham, and fo devolved from the pofte- iaphets r^/W. ride of 14*10 the ( so )fe( ieriri e vfCham , ho W after- J5££SjE££ wards #rarfe invaded ir, and named it after hisownc imhcwtrubetvttnethermt name Britaine, and in rime became a Pentarchie : How ^^coStfn^h^ ^afterwards the Rmanes invaded it and made it a triluta- ^i^ & 'r« h K a rie ■ tf8 Qjy A T E R N I O, ^^^S^ ric Kb g dome > bein g beforc abfo ^tc 5 how afterwards <%&«■ tf w btirt •/ MiTa thc54*^/ invaded icand in procefle of time divided the E °fKtL&?d?f m ^fi E4rle *P°y' e anc * mac * e * c an Heptarchie 5 how afterwards the England, a!frfy£wf^. Bams invadcd % a nd moft barbaroufly demoliftcd & lohn^btch honour witbm*. fpoyled it j how after wards the Normans invaded it, V^h^^tdTs which was thc Iaft invafion that P^vailed, and the laft, »/jr.Edw : the *. l-d!b£fw I hope 3 that ever (hall doe.To defcend to families with- Sff °f h umfrey in our ^ Ues ^ow the name and familie of the (5 *) #0- iAp«™ /«ThVma$D*w ^ w t ' wt Aourifhed from the time of King/*£# to the Glouceftcr,w jc Henry a* dayesof King Edward the third, being Earlesof ^rr- Kft^^S fi"l™d*fix> Lords of W*^, and Conrtabksof Elianor^^Mary. England, fix or feaven one after another^ how the noble E»VoTwaw 'I//T *^ name anc * f amiIic °f the < 51 ) Beattchamps,Earles of War - with ^bers j^ tdwlhefirfi wic ^ e > ^d Barom ofElmelic in Worcejlerfhire, that flour i- gr*Mtedtbe tutelage o/Edw: fhedfrom the dayes of King Edward the fir ft vntillthe dayes tttt^acryt »fKing Henry the fixt, and were highly honoured by n Guy Earleo/ Warw: Kwg their Soveraignes for the good fervice they did both at l^^mafd/r^^ 4 " me anc * abroa ^5 are quite and ekaneextinguifhed: ri Dukcs of Suffolke that flouri- Sr Edw:T^ jTwalfin^hl ^ e d from the dayes of King Edrvard the third,vntill thc reports,™ fc&ndendo tcrr^m time of King Henry she eighth. To omit thcauncient fa- Sffi^ttt raiIieof tesuffmb, now much ecdipfed,noblc even Armigerocr fex Architcn*. from the Conqueft, Earks from the time of K.Edward tibus contra ccntu homines the third vntiil the time of King Henry the fixth, fix to- deaxmisaudacltrmanume- , ~ , 1 tv i r i rexit, ct ho«iii haftiiudio gctner one after 2norher,and Dukes from that time vn- obviumquerquapioiiravir. till the raigneof King Henry the eighch. How the very vSStlS^&A wwohhzPUnfgtHtts, thatflourifhedthirtcenefeve. King Henry the 6. fo much ho- noured) that l.emade bvn Duke of W*rwjcke*w>#A/Wf adai!Jcnoffo*tur s th4t inall neetittgshtjboitldfirttext she Duke of Norfolke, abcue the Duke of Buckingham • he dye* about thi dge oftrccntie-txeoyetres at Henly wtfarfromV^orcci}cr i vpherele\»asl'Q>'ne i ^d\x>4jburk'd^.Tt:v:\huYie. (u) Edmond the third Earleof March, married Anna he daughter and betre of l lonei Duke o Clarence, one ofibejonmi of Km^ Edward the thirds and Edmond the rifth Ifcxlzofihatndme married Anne /to daughter of Edmond Ea/ie of Stafford, dad Anne his mfe&ho rva$ daughter to Thomas of Woodftockc Duke of GloUcefter, 4jutbc-r ofthefinnes of King £dwartU£e third, . rail . or afourc-fold nay to Hue well. 69 rail dcfcents,t fpccially in the daycs of King ( w ) Edward C * ) ^f'fV"^^' the third W King Henry the fifth, who for their ineompa- K W'fleftpiliice Lll?™ rable victories- obtained in ajiran^e Country, were honored magnanjm^c prompt ette- Bjmrverjtnmies, arenowcteaneextinguifod To |^^E££ lcauc Kingdomcs and Principalities, and private fami- dc : homes ne frpvA*gf'fr- lies,and to come to wondcrs.how the ftatcly Pyrawides »*/M,mesiVxpericnccmon. • .i / • 1 t i. l v r ;r . 1 • u /1 draper torn oujlncredoit a in Memphis, built by the Kings oiJEgypt ; which colt \ e plancoifc »*<» «ww^ »' three thoufand and fixtie men rwentie yeares workc. m valour. Howthc Tower of (-)M™, built by »•/#>«*, the g^t*5&£ xr^&/ of Bahy/onby Semirawis ; the Temple of Diana at hominum evemmtur, vd Jflfc/5» by the Nobilitie of A fid : the C*/*tfiar in Rhodes ? y a ^° " dur3ndodt ^ u / " t - by Lwditts • the Torr.be otMaufolus by his Queenc ^r- j/^/^Wvbi w* c*r- temifta, and thecoftly Image of Iupiterby Phidias, be- tb^msi vh\turr»&M*m* ingthe foven wondmof the world. How J^and JSSSSSSft C$rinth, the coftly bathes oiAnthonie and Dieclefianjxnd ilia^™**^*** aurea,qua: the golden houfe of 2Wr* are all of them at this day o- tamum defatigavcr.tArchi. D , , 1 • t i n a i» tr- 1 t tedos * vbi lunt Iherm* verwhelmedintheduft. And how as Kingdomes and D;^yw&^w*>^»r#- Principalities:fo the fincwes & ftrength of Kingdomcs, w^^? vbi tot operatanti* the(«, Coyne of them hath bane altered and changed: "aSSSSSS* bow in the Coynes of moft auncient times, there is no operunueiinquuWvefligia, fimilitudeof man to be found 5 how in the Coynes of _ Pttr4r f b : « r , . . , „ , , 1 r 1 Ferpetuum nihil eft ex feb- more latter times, the Emperours haue beene pleafed hmaiibus, at quod tocaufetheirownepi&urestobeftamped 5 howafter- lnpraioetthodie 3 cra$re. wards both in the Coy nes of the Eaftetne & Wefterae ^.SSBW.* Churches, thepidture of the Crone was to dc ieene, v% rad.ica, yet differenced thus s in the Coynes of the Eafterne Hu ^^^T^ ■ Church, there was alwayes on the top of the Croflc a $^^^Sa«nmAmt. Crowne with a palme, to fignifie triumph and vifturie locum Or e* eflcdirerfoii. over the world.How after the Councell of Mce y whm S^tckSS^ the Arrian-herefic wascondemned,there wasgenerrlly nrjjum nuncfuigaris iftar in all Coynes the myfterie of the facrcdTrinitie, God ^f^ * ia td jjjjjj* the Father fpcrking out of a Cloud thus, Hicejt filim EcL.h^I pti»*ft po&enu£ mem dileSus, Godrhe fonne portraitured in the u^pe fcMt.it* of a Lambe, God the holy Ghoft in y ihape of a Dcue. i% Mf^J^ ^ And how at this day they are as they were nt< j re vnto the beginning, With the fimilitudeof the Prince ftam- KS; ped 7° Qj A T £ R N I O, SSEStihSSSK P^Ponthem. Toleaue thethings below and to *f- dcudfayortrifibortri^ccpiic- ccnd higher, how the ( a ) Sunneand Moont haue loft much quamftabilcautfirmuarbi- ^rA«r wonted power, and doe daily faint and fall away. teriUcrerumenWohiitpra> n r t- • o i i * y7 • Hi v teripfum.Exciamattragicu* How the Evening Starre by the Auncients called Fef vatct.Omniaiftaqua; mira- perngo and H efper us , hath changed his coIour,formcand SoCvS^S; courfe » how the Elements leaue their ftations, and arc -MoratSctabckiti/yJerdU- all at oddes and warreone with another j how the ay re al^^Sd^m^? creepes into the holes of the Earth, and makes her vaft magnirdS^ra «7urffi. bodie to rcele and totter 5 and fometimes throws downe C) Vnus fob rtbtrk tcrrx- Townes by the ( * ) dozens j how the E^rth and Water ~tt,S«<£ inrevengcclimbevpvntothcskiesand there occafion /<*»** oppida: alius rub -cwf. lightning and thunder, ftormes and tempcfts,haylc and ^Tfr- lib i d C nft ^ now ' ^ ow t ' lc ^ %l ^ w ** er ex4ee ^ s her wonted chanels, (i*)i\ilr«djOcemt>re+. and makes a navigable Sea where firme land flood be fere : fyi his wntedhumk, how the ( * ) Earth againe in revenue gathers her forces ^JSnS^ ™ dlh together y and mounts vp herfelfe abouethe waters, and takes — rhegreedttcdrtbagdme vp her lodging in the midft of her dwelling. Thefc things ^wX^^V^^ when I confidered, as alfo what the Earth was, that it <>j%rmasToVtnln btry*fi vvas the Center of the Vniverfe, not equallizing the mmBe wr*?*. Sunnc in magnitude to the hundred degree ;and that he (b^vL^feflniffresfra- that had the moft and greateft dure therein, hadinre- gilis nin bull* vel im* ? fped of it bu t little, and for a f)jhorttimt ; and yet fub- .Punaum eft quod vivimus j C( f t t o change and alteration. Againe, whcnlconfidc- ecadbucpundo minus. '. • i ? • i % n t «7 c r semc^ red, with what materials thefe bodies ot ours are fra- ■Quiseft qua.nyis addtfuns^ m ed, and how they are ftill patcht and pieced out, and JSSA& 3d H ' intowharcorruptiblcmaterialsthey muft bcdiffolved: ckere. how the curious Venetian Dames, who whilcft they (c)Pnvti F ium vr^ dolor eft, jj ue w jU not endure to haue Boreas to blow vpon them, dolor «//*» ingens, «/ / n • » .'«'• r i /- Sic »«&«" dolor ett 3 vive- nor Phxbtts to lhine vpon them, withm a tew dayes ar- requidlibe.t? rcr t hcy haue ihooke hands withthc world, become fo fica^'^SLsSof^SiV" c^^^P^ble, that even the meaneft reafomble fervile W. Creature, whovvhileft they lived, would in a manner Cum fcmcl eft infant gravi- hauc adorcd fa g JJ nQ cn(J a nearc hcffl da rtfolurus au alvo. . txrjji / Onus prima fm munera Againe, when I coniidered, how we come ( c ) wbjning fum ztmhus j nt0 t h e tvor lJ j An A wfj en ne are there ^ how we are made the Smb £^ U ° tqUOt [port of time .banded to and fro like a ball, fometimes vp and cr afoure-fold Way to Hue Welti J\ and foractimes downe ; how ( d ) Bajacet in the morning (<0 ***** /«>;#*, lib ». de . r r r U «t- 1 „ • bellies virtu: eviroruilluftri- was the great magnificent Empcrour of the Turkes, in lun Ul vit3 rWj ctBitaceu the evening a footftoole to Tamerlane ♦, how («) Betliza- (e) ufrnum* juffutxcactiu, tins that in his time was the moft v idorious Comman- l^Xt^t derof the world, before he dyed was brought to that %iuuvit.?tranfi g e ic,vi r t i i %r Seunus, vt folus hie imperiii ther a great King oiPerfia, was brought to that mrfery, admiaiftrabat. that he was glad to drinke puddle- water begd from an &**<* sjWiu*. enemie, and which was worfe than all, was betrayed, fe^tS fcorned and derided of his ownc flefh and bloud whom kt&arim, neg*t fc mquam he had rayfed. Againc,when I beheld thcfcveralf con- bib, ^^ dl ^'^ w , r ^ ditions of men, and faw in one place a man that labou- G\onL^nm&iwi™£Lz '. red in wifedome, knowledge, and honeft- dealing, to fit,&breri$,hiceft leave an inheritace to him that had neither * wifedomc, C ^;^^' cras ' knowledge,norhoneftie: in another place, a man that MiierabJicfpeftacuiuapra?. bad neither fonne,childe,orbrother,labouring and toy- Jf » «co g natis, Bcflo,& f . u jri t_ -A i 7 , Nabarianocapitur Darius. Img to heape vp gold and filver together,as if there had Jufitniiib.iu beene no other way to purchafe heaven^but by getting Q" os kkcatyitku vidie, of it : in another place, a man to whom God had given ^SS^SSt abundance of all things, and denyed him nothing that pemum, his heart could wifhand defire^yetgauehim note*)/*- Huncd,cs vidit&giens ja.' wertt \eate thereof, but [ufferedftrangers twnjeytt. Thcfe Mormmomarcronvertitur 5 .-. things when I confidcredj as alfo when I beheld the codem die vbi Mbum na- great bodie of thv fn.blunaric world, and faw how one yigl *' io % c e Z"a' ( * ) generation faffed and another came, how the Smne ri- (*) saiwm foofe,; , feth andfetteth a? aim, andntumth to the place where it a . (* Div ! t,a * b*fto* ha * r f / «•• r i ~ ' i r bes, amaiam fed cgeni 5, rofe^howtbe Rivers come fromthe Seas andreturnetothe jj**** 6 dive*, icd*»&iolu*- ; place from whence they came -how the wind gocth toward e 3 em - ■ Hie vt apes, Siidat inalveolb, mcla ab) comediiBf, ( ¥ ) Ob(crv.i ( inquic ^w^)orbem re* rum ;n fc remeantium ; vides tn hoc mundo ogbil extingut,fcd vicibus defcciidtre ac reiurgtre : alias abiti, , fed alter annm »lbm addueir ; hyenr s cecid't, referent iliam i'ui menf«s 5 lo\ a rr> nox cbruit, [tdipianvftatim • dies abigit; ftellirum difcurfus guictjiud prsterijt, rcptttt. ^f««/f Bfifi. i$. "'• rhc [H 74 Q_V ATERN10, the South, and rcturncth to the North,arx! whirlcth a- bout towards his Circuits ; how nun rifeth andgoeth to bed, (huts vp the windowes of his bodie,falles into a dead fleepe, and To paifeth a way -how the feafons of the yeare come and goe ; and how that which now is, hath beene in times paft, and how that which hathbeene al- rcadie,fhall be againe in time to come * and how there is no new thing vnder the Snnne ; and how all the glory of (h) intravit vtcxirct vinu this vaine world is like vnro the comming in of ( *») cato (i)%rrhM/e,m&4m4H vpontbeftw, or the Soveraigntie of the Q) drunkard, dtAd-dru*i{m theflreets, be. whom Pyrrhut t$oke vp in the greets, ox. the Confulfhip of !Kfc&£S& l*)*<»Mm**r*imm fhorc and momentary : how Pdt!*ce,4tutthiww,quiConru!aturuo idquodvult, omnino vero centra id quod debet, prxp&flere non adrr.ifir forwnutn : ct in fe;^ cver y man d ot h that which he (hould not, & neg- cSda^g^ffitlV^tui l e # s that which he fhould doc. How in it he that is rafh cft,qu6dcoC6iuicnec^«- j s taken for valiant, he thatistroublefomeand imoor- ma > nec f"> nec T6r > nec tunate for diligent,he that is fad for peaceable,hc that is ( *) Vidi rwquhsJrmoK) prodigall for a brave fellow, he that is covetous for a fervo: inequo>, ctprinc.pcs g 00c } husband; he that can prate much for eloquent, he ambulances hKer terra quail c . . c * rr , , , *. j >/r fcrvo?e ' that is ignorant for a man of few words;nc that is dillo- tErcief 10. ] n re and carelcs *>n? amafio a man in loue, he that is mo- iSSStSSA, deftforafimpk and filly animall, he chat is greed* of rim divirus , nec Aftifiegm revenge for a Courtier;& how generally injuria pro fare, g.ati*m,Jcd temp* rfZmej; et ■ pr0 j n]Hrid appeSattir :how in it we fpend our child- in omnibus. 1 1 • t i- • 1 1 1 .Ecdif.o. hood in oblivion,, we know not now, our tender age in fearevndcr Governors and Tutors, oui youthfullage in or afoure-foid way to Hue ypelt. y^ in vice, our manly age in troubles, and turmoiles, our ( > Sunt n4re nihi!j old age in forrowe s & complawts:ho w one man wants fum qui ml dure iuvemur; his ( s * ) eyes, and cannot fee, another his eares and cannot Suntetiam quorum /««/** heave, another his nofe and cannot fmell. How one hath his uce "»^. forhcad furrowed, another hath the gowt in his legges, (56)Nonfervat methodum anotherhath the ftone in his rcines,another theffemicra- o3fc «2S« «/~, 0/V1, the Megrim in his head, another the winde in his avumqj*/™. belly * how fomeare difeafed with the leprofiej fome '^J^^ ^^ - with the Frm^-fcurffe, fome with the Sciatica, fome T^ofean™ with feavers 3 fome with cramps and palfies,and all men **do*thefujddir,€fdAlyioib generally with one difeafe or other; how he that is now o^ffl^jiitm *vTh*. tall and ftraight.anone bowes like a bow ; he that hath m womt*. now a graceful! countenance, fparkling eyes, found ( \lf^ d theLyoadndthe teeth, and a firme bodie 3 anone after corragatnr, edenta- Bore*°Bearc, and Wolfe, t# tur> infrmatur, becomes ill favoured, toothleffe, and **tbpur/uevs hdrdt. weake, notable togoe. How fome are taken away in ^^X£ /#> their ( ^ 6 ) youth, fome in their age • fome die for want of tier ImU wr*th agd'mjl her foode, fome by furfets and drunkenneffe, fome taken ° rmdd ™J^' fuddenly in their bcds,fome walking in the ftreets^how (*; Quae tam'fefta dks vt before our faces the earth opens andfwallowes vs ^BP ccHct F rodere/«roii ihe{") Water JrwMvs, the Rxc burnes vs, the ayre ^tfr^tt^ 9 ^ infe&s vs ^ how in the Winter the cold annoyesvs, in Quorum, &ghdiopravos the Summer the heate parcheth vs, the dogs bite vs,the & ^f**^' 05 ' Spider poyfons vs, the Gnats fting vs, and the ( * )flyes (ji ) Diem* vniverfum a- trouble vs; how the Beare is at oddes with the Lyon, g«Mteom»."ywk?ukd the Rhinoceros with the Elephant, the Eagle with the A^^I^ZLl^ Vulture, theKawkc with the Kite, the Bull with the titam, eosver© ceteris ftui- Beare, Oman with man, and all creatures with death. ? 6r " e ? e v^ ui P rudem i?' Thefe things when I confidered, as alio how the Aim- omnibus vidamir. cicntshaue aptly compared the world to a prifon or , N B f Uttf - , i . * -!•■' - j •»• • i it ( 19 J Et fenaptr -.was* ttcim* den, wherein are divers roomes and particions, and all aisr^rneywuj**, full fraught with ( * 8 ) fooles a?idideots, fome fearching Vis (crc values qu^ veni* after things which are impoffiblc to be obtained, fome s ^Jt L *!» ja* feeking afrer things, which being gotten, become hurt- deniqiurwg, fome playing, fome finging,fomechiding,vntill death with- out refped of age, of fexe, or eftate, feize vpon all 3 and cafts vs out,either to the wormes to be devoured vnder ground, or to Crowes or dogs aboue ground,and how every Captiue in this prifon ftands attainted and con- demned of high treason, and is ly able to be dragd every houre to execution. And how all the armes, titles, and honoursof our forefathers and progenitors, are of no bctteraccount,than are the armes of a thcefe hanged vp in Newgdte 9 ahet that he hath beene executed at Tybnrnt for fome notorious ofFence.Thefeconfiderations blun- ted the edge of my aflfedions, and difheartned me to make the ftudieof "(*) Phyfickemyfrofepon, and made tiiSSSSSSZ. mc to fe %wqupq 5 yt rem fri- vs. We haue wiues^It is true,and haue the facred Scrip- vpbtn ditcftanw.&ftmaif turetovvarrantvsjtheyhaucnone, butercd Stevves, jggggjg£?*<*. and haue the Scripture to condemne them ; sfaulrir is mttem*. I muft acknowledge in them that haue the gift of Con- ff A^iM 3 ?™ canibu * fic . ' . r°i r % • « i ^ n 1 innarun cir 3 vt non pro kri- tinencie, to eninare themielues wirh the Cares of wed- tare , icdpro cpnf*itnit&\3 f - locke^in hope of profit or prefermct.But a greater fault *#&*• it is for fuch as haue it not to refolve to fpend all their Smc4 * dayes in filrhineffe and vncleannefTe. No life without not to liue within the confines of a King- dome, that will not fubmit himfelfe to the ( '* ) Lives ^£^2^22** ofthatKingaome y nor to defer net he name of a Snb]ecf y that Vnicalex, vnum fedus, Sc mllnot fubmit himfelfe totheLatves of his Soveraigne^s. v»*fides. And as the Canonijis haue ever held him forafchifmati- g^t?^ call perfon, that will not conforme himfclfe to the Ec- urf clefiafticall orders agreed vpon in folemne aflemblies -^SSTfiS^ by the Reverend Fathers and Do&ors of the Church, kgi juraq$ fcryat, but out of a felfe-conceir^ will feeme to be more wife than the generall Councells and Affcmblies. So haue I ever thought him to deferue the name of an Out- law, and to be exempt from the benefit of the Law, that will not fubmit himfelfe vnto the Lawes. Now becaufe it is a hard thing, yea indeede impofliblealmoft for a man to obferue thofe Lawes which he knoweth not 5 there- fore did I defire to know the ( f ) Lawes of the Kingdome (f) Non invtile confilium wherein 1 lived, and thereby as a rule to frame and fafhi- £ reniffimi nu P cr ? e 8« a <* it o- i aii n .ii. Henncwmnuperprincrpcm* on all my actions by. And becaufe every good thing Operam da t*tks /g&w, the more common it is, agreatermeafureofvertueit " 2m w o ™ od ° j«*« M*s « A-W ^:" i r t.* n • dices (encentiam 3 htibifue- containes in it .therefore was this one principal] motme rint i gnot3E , # wherefore I made the ftudie thereof my profeffion; Propnun eitfapientia?nofl~e vnto which I was the rather induced,becaufe that I had ^«^«mquasvivimus. L 3 often 78 <3j A T £ R N I O often heard,and vpon inquiry I hauc found it to be true, chat all Lawes policicall are meerc derivatives out of the primitive Law of God and Nature. Rufic. Sir, if you could but make that appeare vnto me, I fhould commend your choice, and preferrc your profeffion before all other profeflions, the facrcd pro- feffion of divinitie onely excepted. lurid. Togiueyoiftfatisfa&ion inthispoynt, I will firft fhew vfito you what the Law of Nature is * then what the Law of God is : and laftly, how all Lawes are derived out ofboththofe Lawes, and fo conclude my Difcourfe.The Law of Nature, or rather the vnwritten Law of God, is a divine knowledge, to wit, reafon and vnderftandiag planted in the foule of man, whereby he .^4)^p«ftaapiopriuiii hath ( *) dominion over the beds of the field, thefoivles of bominis bonum eft : camera , jm ri r- t_ i i r „ j » t illi cum snimalibus fatifqs the ajre, and f pes of the Sea Sox had thok Hydra /,Lyons communia fum Valet ?etlc- andBulles, in fpilling of whofe bloud Hercules got fo ^toTi't^cZ much honour, beene endowed and made partaker of pn$hib«?&arbores.Habct this Law, Herades couldnot haue gloried and trium- impenimccmotumvoiuma. p hcd in thofc his Vifloricsand Conquefts over them. num ?& vermes, & beitia? : £_ T r . ^ , , . . habet vocem ?quanro duici- The Law of nature to procreate and engender,thcy had orem, mobilioremq; iufci- in as ample manner dwelling and abiding in them, but Sotted cftft.76. becaufe they wanted this fupcrcminenrftcultie of the foule, they were as Sampfon without his haire, and had no power to refift him. It is by the vndcrftanding alone, that wehauedominio not onely over thefe Buls,Beares andTygers, that are without vs, but over our dome- fticke enemies, thofe Tygers, Wolues, and ( s ) cacodt- nwnes^ our vnrnly Infs and affections that are within vs. It is this that allayes the hot, fierie,cholericke humour, mao m jjnP4»*w»,& vehe- diftilline into it moil foveraignecoole receipts of pari- mentiiiirrum omnium per- ^ c 1 • • 1 • 1 1 -i j -11 encc and forbearance; it is this that exhilarates our dull and drowfie (pints, infufing into them her quickning precious Cordials and reftorarives ; that in the mid ft of rnifcries giucs vs caufe of joy and flierriment,and in the midftof joy puts vs in mindeof our miferics, foas in the ( t) Ji$e3u* noCu i font qui- dam Cacod.zrhenesy & sppcl- lantur amemes Ccnfiiiaiij. pU'o in coav:vio tnwem, turbationum nuncupivir. or afoure-fold mj to Hue roeti. jf the former we be not fo much grieved as to negleft our felues, & fo grow into defpaire^or in the latter Co much joyed as to forget our felues, and io grow proud ^ it is this th3t moderates thofegrecdy defires of rapacity and tenacitie, teaching vs with what we fraue to be conten- ted, not to loofe the benefit of what wee ( . ) **»,»*. gSS2{SRi%E voting that with zs£fops dog we bane not • not to envie that fkatur eos ede mconfultos, which another hath, becaufc he hath too much, but to 9"j fpe majorat qu*inccp- r% -it i i r t ta flint, quasi n mamb us hi- contcnt our felues with what we haue,becauie we haue bent, amutunr. enough, if we haue meate, ( b ) drinke, and charting, to (h) ntt™ & yefiim funt learnc to be therewith contented, and to know that he divitlx chriftianorum. that hath fo much hath cnough,and he that hath more, hath more than enough,not to envie our neighbour be- caufe he feedes more daintily vpon more varietic of di- flies,but rather to pittie him to fee him expof; himfelfc to fo great («) daun^er for fo little Profit y to hazard his COVidefabulamdew^ 5 health, his life, and all for a little pleafure, which vani- £&^S^to freth even in the throat : not to repine at his coftly gar- effc. ments, but rather to fmile at them, to fee him as much as in him lyes, to invert the feafons of the yeare, to wearefuchthinne, cut and carved fuits in themidft of Winter, more fit for the heate of Summer, and to let thee know, that though thine be not forich, yet they arc as warme, and lined it may be with farre more con- tentment^ and that thofe which he weares artificially, the beads wore before naturally 5 not to murmur at his large Territories, but to confider that as he hath more Corne and fru it, fo he hath more ( k ) thomes and briars. ( k) Semper habet **ftm Not to grudge at his honours and preferments, for he ^^%^s%Z^ hath paid dearely for them, and ftill groanes vnder the Sw. pefpetuis ' burthen of them ; for many are the cares that accompa- Dc potentum vita Mow. ny&ezmcfc-.xhaAtlcetlarisfHbjeZteftorrnesaHdUm. SSSSJSSft pefts on the mountaines, when the poore fhrub lyes fe- ?*»»*-> &celf*graviorecafu curely in the vallyes • it is this alone that inftrudteth vs D "i d "" t "££ **■* to carry our felues vpnghtly and honefMy towards all men, togiuevnto Superiors honour and reverence, to Vid€ A P olo gum ** Mute 3 • - * ■ *• - t x- • & Duma 9* Interiors 80 Q^V ATERNIO, Inferiors due refpe*- a* we would be dealt witball, to take no advm'age of fim- rum^aum', fed ilia mdior, plj c itie, nor to fufFer our (clues to be mifled y fubtil- oyiruMfdpientemietilhop- *. . «r - r timz^virumUnum. tie no be- as wiicas lerpents, yet as innocent as Bones. Si qukquid *amm chanam It is this that reft raines the appetite from wandnngaf- 6SSE33R& ter thofe ^ di rg P ! ^«> wh * h ™ I« in tt *e cafe- tiofa,^o»Mf. ments or thebodie, theeyes 3 the cares, and the reft of (m; Hocid&Etfoucojiex- the fenccs.-fo lone as the eye liftens vnto her commands dndro Seyero Imperdtort pla- . • r r i/n i ♦ i cu.fle dicitur,vtinpalaujs it is tree from thole allurements and temptations by prasfcribi jubem, qu6 om- which it is fo often deceived : (he can pidure our what tSZS&SSSZ bcautic f> thatitis * O fcr Worm- per prxconcmedici iubebat^ eaten rofe, an ( ° ) inch anting Syren, a ( f ) venemom (cor~ ^odM fieri mnytialttri p/^ a bewitching Cw* 5 a fading vanitie fubjeft vnto C)Lfimei interna condu- a g e and (ickne(Te 3 and not worthie the looking after, an den$ parte yenenurr^ ornament onely when ('i) verttte is feated in the rnidft of C "nKlntZZ? ° rtanf «b an <* no worth in it, but to adde a luftrc vnto it * (lice (o) Eft syrewcapknsver- can tell it likewifethatthofe heapes of ftones fometho- , h Jl { nl 2 fj bu f J""? 5 dically piled together, the fumptuous buildings of the (p) Eft fall ax bland am pra> - i r i°- i • r i r i i ,?> /> tendens.9«*fwcaudani. world, after which it (o much gazctb, are but ( r ) tranfi- Pormorus ilk Donttunus*- torses^ now y our s, anone his^ prefently after another s, good %£%£*!£%£ onely for recreation, evill for habitation, good tore- deccrcnecievius, neq; tan- create our fclues withall,while we wander as Pilgrimes tumgaudij yrnmv^p^ V pon the face of the earth, evill to fettle our aflfl dions (q) i tranor eft v.rcs veni- vpon^nftrttments of gooa( { ) to tboje that aregood,b\tt tn- tnsecorp'jrepukhro. ftruwents of evill tothofc that are cvi ., producing in the ^SSS^SSSL one the t fads of liberalise, hoipitaliric, and bountie, Aftegonuliius (um nifi>r- in the other of ambition, oppreflion, and all manner of '" a § cr licenioufnciTe, therefore not to be neelefted as if there Moms. ^ (f) Gold guilds ^?vertuou$, and hlevds them\»:*gs, To rt'ift their thoughts vnto the rareft things. But verth the fane thewu ked never mell, But to dseferyicQ to the hags of hell. BtrtdS. Crdtes ohm diritias multorum afli.nihvit ijs ficubus qua? in altis montibus nafcuntar, e qutbus homo .fru- &um non accepit^ed coryi Cr rrnlyi. ( i ) fcorta; ores & adulatorcs. Ufj\ Ub< 4 ■?*&*• were or afoure-foid way to Hue Tfcelt. g £ were no worth in th£, yet nor to be regarded as though there were no worth without thcmbut to efteemethctn as good ft rvunts when they meete with good Maiftcrs. So long as the care lifters vnro her Commaunds,yet is free from thofe in* icing ( 6 * ) Sycophants that doe fo often (^)Quifrome^o!m applaud when there is ju/l Umfe o r /w^prodaimepcace -*-/ / *^ w >*M /"**>">* and iafetie when the enemy is arlnnd, friendly foes the %«*£*" greateft enemies to a Common wealth. So long as the **W«*i*rper,#ecieJirttit ( * ) taftehftens i r&f DM* »f Bur- • • , , n , » i -r> i i i » gundies Court. Phil. Com. K is the belt ichoolcinaiftcr to teach thee to know thy iTiin:iib.?.cap.4.r/;w o»h felfe 3 and thebeft pcrfpe&ivetodifcover vn o thee the %&¥&£$£ way to etern.il bluTe and happinefTe, which theinter- Di-fyofYorkc*a---u.o/tBtTowero/Lonm kindc of exile and banishment, and art compelled for xH • . n # • B i / thy Confcience fake to forfake thy Country, thy wife w«r vitan* fecuram, & (me and children, and the poiiemons which thou andthjr vliisfortufwcincutfionibuj forefathers for many yeares enjoyed, this can tell thee £fun£qS that(«) Themipcles bmjhment and degradation was a itxandrum putarunt.fifortu- preferment and exaltation vnto bim,znd that he had beene £^vK5£S vndone,if he had not beene vndonc:if thou haft not that aisCarrh;ginenf,bu<,reni- abundant meafure of knowledge which others haue, pubiicamRomanarnrnajore thiscan tell thee that wifcdomeconfiftcth not in Con- in dilcrimine fore adverfus t • t • o- • vr i ctf««rmcontendebat. templation but in action, not in deputation but in con- Ad hocfacramenrum ada- verfation, not in much knowledge, but in an honeft and HXSS^iZ vcrtuousHfc. Ifthouhauc not that outward comely quafvitarcnoftraepotcftatis feature in thy lims and lineaments of thy body, which noncftrin i regno natiiumus, ot hers haue, this can tell thee,that God gives not to every (x>f!ifeUx & magnus ca- we ( w ) every thing, though the Pcacocke bc the fiireft, jar&ytte /fugrfw&dMi' and moft beautifull of birds, yet the little Nightin- £^£m££ g^ f«re furpafTcth her ifrfcer tunes and notes 5 thougrr t*d:oquoiidianaincdiamo- the Affe, the Elephant, and theGammell, are the ftron- riveik:,recpoikt. gefUfbcafts for burthen, yettlr L:tleFoxfurpaireth (n)Perjfemmnifit**tftmm t than in wjlinefle ana iubtiltie; though the('7 x r>wp tun diclu'r* Thcm:3oc(is 3 cum mnncraexuli rrgcniagrificacofequutus eft (w) r roDodona?oo .ir;:l' hibcndnrr. eft q/l\&& jirifot dixit \ vbi t*ensplurima 8LfattP t tBi/0fnttiami»ma ;& yltiphmrrafv. tuna, l>: mt tspcrtitigitd, Anft. lib. x • Mcnph. Non ditui vr rebus pcrceJ it in ~mnjbt s ; int. V.dr ij[ ulam dep* *one. .Aa^Us w^tHna > frdsUiro, imtgehemu. Non omres Catutt^ ai.t $t$pi99ff t ant Z.ay to Hue Ttt>et! 9 8 j and Parrat prate nwfl, yet the Gco[e and Gander write moH 5 fo that where there is crookedhdft in the bodie, there may be vprightneiTe in t he h- ;>.rt 3 where there is weak. neffeinthebody, there maybe ftrength inthebraine, and where there is a defed in the tongue to fpeake^there may be a dexterity in the hand ro writeif thou be come of meanc parentage,this can tell thee how that the mod (*) Noble Princes bane fprnnz from meane berinntnrs. f*) *»*»?* cuidam g io- \. ^ r r if i 11 i tj> c nantidefua online fie ah. How Tamerlatnrfrom a hoghcard became to be King or Majorum F n mus quftyia the Scythians : how Tbeodofitts from an Inholder, Bono- foft ilte tuomm, fm from the Tonne of a Schooleraaiftcr, and Valentinian ^^gdlSff ^^ from the fonne of a Rope-maker to be Emperours. Maio pater nbi fit Therfites, How Telepbantes from a Chariot-maker to rule over J^^fo 6 *^ an : ' the Lydians. How ^Agathocles from the (hop of a Pot- a £, a capers, V " "" ^' ter to governe over the Sicilians. How Hiberbolus from Qi^ m te r6*#i fimilem the fonne of a Chaundler to governe the ^Athenians. *^%£?** How Virgillhom the plow,//*?™*:* from a Cryer in the Citie> and Cato from a poore Cottage in Jufcaine, to purchafc their Princes favour: and that they who now ftand fo much vpon their pedigrees, and vpon termes of honour, were fometimes as ( i ) meane as thou art, and (y) origo tunZmm »u eft, may in the next aae wd whtrctbey be fan. If the plague ^Fenshum fgC nens, and pcltilence hath made thy Countrey ddolate, this viciffimmodcwrbjdus,mo- will tell rhcethat thou oughteft not to murmur and re- ^ nitidus,advnnniqu6mqj pine, but to tbanke God that he hath dealt more mild- ™, herTchiw^^ ly with thee, than he did with the Ifraelites in the dayes ™s fiarjetquihcripermedias of King zW, or with the Gr.m«ns\* the dayes of SSnKS^SCS CMichaelDHca, when the hvmg were fcantablerobu- h«he>er(qaaicterocarop«, ry the d. ad, orwithfhe*^w^fj in the dayes of Iuflim- ff°* bo *e ^uroihpugo* an, or with the Italians in the dayes oi Petrarch, when ( as he affirrneth being that Country-man ) amoneft a ( *} &*+*** Cuc " e - , thouiand there lived nor ten. It- an enemy hath made JKins , mdedss centena & aninvafionand inrode into thy Country, this will tell nohagintaduomaiiafcomi- thee,th 3tl hououghteftnottocomplaine ofthe mife. ^TJSS^ ries o[ the time, butto thankc God that he havh not per tum***- That can in an lnitant chmbe vp into Pray >ws doth fa. heaven and Ix hold Orion and the Pleiades^ i^fquih and Boreas, Phofphorm, and Fcfrer, much diftant one from another. Thatcanonafuddainedefcend into the Cen- ter of the earth, and in an inftant walkc the Circumfe- rence, pafTe through the foure parts of the world, dip- cover the qualitic and the condition of the people to- gether, with their feverall Lawes, Cuftomes,and man- ner of Government -, tellvs by what meanes the great and flourishing Nations of the world haue attained vn- to fo much growth and ftature, and by what meanes a* gainc they haue come to ruinc and deftrufiion 5 how rhis man atchkved vnto fo much honour, how that to fo much deteftation and hatred. How Pome became fo rich, How C*rtb*ge fo poore : how C&far fo great ; how Pornpey f o mcane : by the example of the one to follow and purfue, by the example of the other to flie anda- voyde. Rttflic* How commcth it to paflflyhat nature having. fo excellent a fcrvant, that fbec cannot haue her rights and Ceremonies more.duely performed vnto her 5 that the. or a four e-f old ypay to Hue rtell. 8? thchodk inflcad of four doe^ in every p^rtJPAouldpro^ duce nothing Os but A poplexics,Gowt<,Dron(ics, tac- king difeafes of theftone, snd infinite other irfr-mines : -ndthat themindein ftead of ffrmeand fctlrd refnlun- ons, fliould yeeld nothing els but wavering and wan- dring conceits and imaginations. lurid: Sir, your queft ion cannot be better anfwered" than by the (ollicitation of the two women, the one chaft, the other a ftrumper, that fet vpon Hercules. Hercules in the prime of his youth intending fome no- ble atchievemcnts,and thereby to raifean { % )immortaff (2) Statfuacuiq;die$,bre^ fame vntc himfelfe, was fet vpon by a harlot, who folli- * c & k «rep« f bile i empuj < ', ,, . . * ' c .. .» r»« 1 1 • Omnibus eft vita?: fedfaww cued him in manner following. Sir, it doth not become txunieref&u a man of your qualitie to vndergoeadventures-to be e- Hoc y»*** °P M \ v,r g- d- 1 n • • x/r 1 Exiguum nobis vita? curri- imingthefteepie craggie Moumames, and never CB i u R mnatura circurnrcripfi t , come to the top of them,to be by Boreas toft to and fro »m« «/*»£&>«,«: nam fi me. both by Sea and Land in continual daunger of death, ™^ g ^Lh£ advetures fit for fuch as haue nothing elsbut their lives vita, qui* cflet tam amen Sj to loofe,but as for you that hauea paradife bequeathed <# maximislaboribusetpe-. m ^ i_ 1 11 • „ r 1 n 1 ricwlis ad fum~am i'udem vnto you vpon earth, to be rolling Stfyphus-tloncfo be gionamqjcpntenderet? climing vp the fteepie mountains,when you may walkc Cicero. in the gfcejie paftures, to expofe your felfe to the heate *fj^%ff* & ^^ " of Summer, & cold of Winter, when you may be wal- king in your fbady groves, or in your warme houfe, to bean dtropes to your felfe, to pull ruineand deftructi- on vpon your ownehead,when you may flecpe fecure- C*5>) Nu l ,aW « v ^k** l/vr • j • l i_ i c r • j " ej?,mterq$ planetas ly, lhot-f rce, environed with the loue of yourfnends^ p nitur, haudimer fydera it is a wilfull vanitie in my opinion '.which the chart wo- fixa ™ m - man hearing, thus replyes , ( *> ) Bevare of her, and of her SS^SS&fc Counfels, I haue knowne he r long & many of her friends r*,MuM**muri' s quos n and favourites, but never knew any but ruineand de- H««»«ft*viw,:tapr*. nri . ] iri. ^ J 11 femtbus onuih maiis gra- itruction was the end ofthem 5 they were not like other ya mur. people, but monfters in nature, ( a ) old when they fiould . . xwpfo haue htene yevng, and young when they fhouldhaue been old ; %2m! ™* *"* '*" tortured with oldweake and crape todies in the midjl df their Librdinofa & imtmperans jMth, andtroubledwith idle, vaine, andchtldtjhimagtna- ffSS^^?*" M 3 , Uons ct«r: 86 Q^V A T E R N I o, (b) v*i>uU yc itih ] u -»t. tiens in the declining time ef Age. And as for you and E SSS:i y T irOT^Tv 1 ha , ue kn r » y°" and J t t m ,o °§ dit anus. alio, rhey were fober, learned, and wife, and the world (c ) Null* fee difficukati. hat h taken fpcciall notice of them for all thefe, and for bus e!ona J nulla non -vtrtm L i riri/111 r i t*€™lfihkuai,huLttHm- 9 hbQTFa6tosi labor but not parallell them, would be an infamie vnto you. %u?J^zbor 4MiU ^Pom ^* r ' y° u k novv > l ' iat Nereis nothing to be had vpon fti^lhblrH^lTm^i ea rth, but by labour and ( c ) indnftrie^ thefe are the keyes boriuitwn u/drem qucqj H- that q fen the gate to fame and renowne, and the only coync Jd; Eft co™" over- that P afe h arrant there. If C*/ir / „ -> 7 ii- i tiasacquirereanircustibintj delervc fomectang ol our Country } gold is not tryed iumentomn. uoi curaadhi- b ut by fire, nor valour difcovered butbv dauneer ; it is bcdaeft:h rebus in bcllo^e- «• ' 7 L- i , , i a r^i r ftiscbiushabcricupi«,ami- aSion whicn produceth vertue., the (landing water la- cotquidem aftrvitute libc- vours ftrongly,when the running water fmelsfwectly • rand^n^osvrr6inf^ t h c earth tilled brines forth Come, when as lying bar- vi rutem reddendo am Rnum ... r , & , • * « j t i i intendercopouctj G velies r<.n, it brings forth nothing btitnettks and brambles. corporis vakreroMi-c, cor. i t ; s not foffirient/of you to c.w, dfir.ke, and flect^ pus afluthwi*4»porm f k c ani- * mi coUiuo j.are3t, nc^ iaboribus & fudoribus CTerceanir. Xempklib.z^tfAVis & kd.i* Socraeis. McrcutetUberes Doi Steal lib , ^.ttvuxa anH^naru». Koniuvrtt ex ft t'i it^a. cirnta atgo. Pattljfe*:(empQV prarfte-i.mod6 rempore vincc«, C^pra vides fero Pergfw, capta tameru Gul-ern.nor in i-cfrpeftarcdignorcnur T n aci^ mjle? probarur. E-net iiWtnfs ruacttia. cc*ta prultf, J-.ticqui'Mrciaras virtu, aniTiofa "oran.ts. frjilkinc'.rt-nhifacies j fine fan-umc p rn, : -' ori {^crilcm pr3. <;rit viftoriaiaudcm. In deepeji yerdl: ftj.Mtb « ' . . r ' uvf* kfj to enmit* m 1 ini y f.- . s IfkmtdyeiangerdnnotxpAusyfinbtt* 4iart3W. or a/oure-fold my to Hue feeU. 2 J and To pafle away. Such Le&ures Epcnrus read m.my yearesaeoctohis Baccb^ahan-bcWy-gods^not fit for Hercules the Tonne of lufiter to lcarne. You were borne . to greater matters, there is a Lyon in Ncm&a, a Hydra in the fennes of- Lema y a Bore in Arcadia, Centaures, Harts to be vanquiflir, Stynfhalides to be killed, Aug** hath an Oxeftall, Crcta hath a Bull, Thracialmh a Bio- medes, Spaive a Ceryon, The fens z\\& Pirtthous are ro be rescued from Ctrb:rn* 3 and golden Apples arc to be fetcht out of the garden of the Hefperides, and the Dra- gon to be furprticd. Thefe are labours fit for you to adventure vpon^befides thefe, you haue Children, to whom God and nature enjoyneth you to giue good en- famplebya vertuous life and converfation^ You haue friends,kindred, & acquaintance, whofe eyes are much vpon you, and exped: from you in fome degree labours to furmount theordinarie pitch of common people: Jaflly, you hauea foulecompofed of a divine,pureand immortaIlfubftancc,and now is the time to furnifhit, to behave your felfe like the fonne of fo great a Father •, thai when see .nndficknefle, and death approach, and CODuicequMemeflnan* r . . 1 1 . 1 11 • r «i 1 r nunquam *m*r4 recorcari. friends and kindred and acquaintance failc, the liveete Nam demulcent aniioum (0 ttm erjsi ranee efthofc many treble victories \ which yen n*anfa;fft pencala. inyeuryonth haiie 'achieved vm, may thenjoiace andre- SJtSKSS viveyeu, and waite vpon you to the ( f ; Elyfian fields , Argolieas, medics fugam there to receive your reward with the CsprauK j s,Soul- teniae per hoftct. djers^and noble Heroickc fpirits of the world. With (f)r/^^Voeridq U idam thefe md ti.elikc prevalent perfwafions, thechnft wo- foavirate CdmptKmEiyjmU man . t Ufl p, ewiled. So that aptly may I compare the SSSSSSfc* vncrcrftanding vnto the Chaft woman : vnto whofe paffimq; vagtntes Goqraiaunds fo long as the fences are obfequious, fo Duicefonant tenmgutmre , V j r_ i_ • • 1 • carmen aves. long God and nature h?ue their rites and ceremonies Fertc«/kwnoncultifcges, dudy perfo 1 med, but when they are directed and gui- totofyperagros dd by 1 he will and ap petite,then they are excluded and n™^** ' m h " dv b.-ried ot the things which belong vnto them;w here- Ac tenure feries teneris fore nuy the will and appetite fitly be compared to a i^^TmU xto 88 Q^V AIERNIO, (je) Laenamnon pomit, (V')bawdeerftrumpct,ivhebjfeemingpU*fures md tick. oS^STin.. H"S lights, which appeare and van.fh in an inftanr, ccrc,vicit herd. withdraw the affe&ions of the beft afFeded husbands QwmtHercult. f rom t hcir beloved bofomc bed fellowes. Rujlic: Buthowcommeth it topaffe, that the will aod appetite fliould fo much covet and thrift after thofe things which ten J to ruincanddcftru&ion. lurid: Sir, your qutftion hath beenc much Con- troverted amongfttheauncient Acadcmicks of natures Schoole, and the Do&ors haue beene much diftra&ed about it jfomc haue beene foprefumptuous as to lay the fault vpon/flf/Vtrhimfelfe, and to fay that he hath two Tubs, the one a Cabinet for vermes, the other a cage for vncleanncs, and that when it feemes good vn- to him, he doth diftnbute vnto one,juftice, wifcdome, temperance, and fortitude, and to another folly, pufil- lanimitieand intemperance $ but the moft wife and dif- crecte among them, haue accufed and condemned this as a fault of high preemption, and haue affirmed, that as well might they maintain that the Lyons might pro- duce Elephants,Elephants Beares & Wolves;the earth that which is proper to the heavens, and the heavens that which is proper to the earth, as that the f ountaine and fourcc of goodneffe fhould produce any thing, but that which is good. Others haue imputed it to the Conftcllatios & Planets vnder which they were borne, but.this hath beenc rejeded likewife as a paradoxc : for as well might they maintainethac order might produce confufion 5 astheSunne, Moone,and Scarres,tbat keepe their conftant cou rfes any fuch cffed.others to their na- turall temper and inclination, but this the whole body ofnatnre hath codemned as erroneous, forasit i*int' e great fublunary world, confifl'ng of reafonab'e, fcnii- tine, and vegetative Crea:ures 5 the inferior readily fub- mit themfetues to the fup^rior,che vegetative to the fqt- litive,th:fcnfitivcto the rational, andailtomaintaine arrJ or a foure-foU way to Hue well. 89 and vphold that great bodie , So it is in the Epitome or ( ^^ ' hm§ (*)//«/* nwWcomprehended in man, the ( h ) month rea. ^ 7fJL0 . quiacft ^raG*** dily performes her office, becomes the gate to let in food bis Epitome, fai abbreviata and iuftenance,the palate the inftrument to try & touch mundl J. abetta 8 nin ™ corui - . J, i 11/- • 1 r • 1 7 net in fe quatnor deraenta it,theftomacketochihheit, the meiuraickc veinesto et dames iLndtwrtutef, ; waft it tothe Liver, the Liver to die it into fanguine, (h>Duofuntor« P rcc : p«cv- and through the great and mainc Ocean, the Fern cava ^SSSttSL to convey the vertue thereof to the reft of the pares of ventrkuHi ad vitamiuften- thc bodic: fo readie is every part and member of this ^ f 5 tr ?i |d S r|tohl, 5f ... t , , . . . * r . ~ . . . nncm duobus dentium ordt- httle world to doe their rites and ierviccs to each other, mbus, qtufi duabusmoiis So that in the naturall inclination it cannot be, for that mun 1 ^ wr > ^ uU)U$ cibu$ tcra - (V) natnre doth ever incline to that which tends to the pre- ^%^^££ [ervationofit^A t he will to deftru#ion,pthers to nur- ritur, itaeftinhomine jnifi ture and education, but this like wife hath beene reje- ^t>^m^^ £ed . for although thefe great Dolors did attribute trariummho^inc. *** much to education, and knew well that with whatli- (**) Sc *h er report* of* quor the(0 veffe/iisfirftfeafoned, it will ever rellifh there- Jg f^Z^t'Z'tfl efi that the earth brings forth fruit accordtngto the nature *»** come mm*, xmtpuB oft he (?») fade ; that we gather not rrapes ofthornes or firs t'Zt^^ntTil r I /?/ ' i r t B *i t n * •/» J i- ** &*****&* « vtll put them oftbijtles; yet becauie there was not the bmArtpotelt- forth *™»*$ *** therefore* an y ?Utonift> or beft proficient in natures Schoole, that ^ ^fs£l^ could per forme and pay vnto her what of right did be- t^iflm^^rthbu^d long vnto her, therefore it could not be for want of tvt^tUm^heyfhrmketoge* nurture and cducation.Thus did the Philofophers long teft^SSS weary thcmfelues in fearching after this myfterie, vn- o/ti^tndtKrai^rajtedaeOre rill at laft they found it out, they found that (" ) nature f " u thm & *$"**"« ***** was corrupted, that t he light of knowledge which fliined (7f Quo femel eft imbu-i in them more clcarethen Hefptrus was eclipfed, igno- rec«is Jcrvabitodorcm ranee and crrour was induced, and by acuftome made ^fi)^mj U rcnds[\^m another nature : which made fomeof them both to ad- equis,pam«nj mire and pittic the nature and condition of man, when Vircus,neq 5 imt*iie feroc? s they faw how the * eyes who fe proper objects are the heaves bLm?"" **" * (7? ) Adam by his fall loft both forme and fa/bion: Hii rofte cheeses Are ibattgedto earthen htvve, His dy\ttg bodie drops an Icie dewe : hot teare -dtovttd 'eyes^d ni^ht of cloud* bedyms, About bts eares a. buf^tnp horror faints : H» fdjnting tytei mthjeebteKejje a> e hunble, Hiifaultrittgfteu doejlidt away and finable. (*) Oj bondni fublimc dedit. Oyld. Banas* N lye r< pO QjT ATERMIO, lye grovding vpon the earth : how the eares liften after nothing more than enchaunting charmes of Syrens t ( * ) Bonus odor lucri « re how the ( * ) nojlrils favour nothing more than fur pie lu- **** hct * ere: how the touch and tafte nothing more than what is prohibitcd;how the tongue whofe vfuall tune and tone was to warble out pray fes and prayers, fpues andvo- ncits out nothing but oaths, execrations, and blaf- phemies, how the hands the inftrumentsof charitie, are become the inftruments of extortion & opprclfion, how the very vitall parts are corrupted, how the heart the receptacle of honcftic and intcgritie, is become a cage of vncleannes : how the Liver that was vfed to fend forth nothing but pure , cleare, & fanguine bloud, diftills nothing but waterifl^cholerickc^and melancho- licke bloud:how the fpirits fometimes agile,nimble and quicke, arc become dead, and dully and voyde of life : how every part of man is altered and changed from that which fometimes it was:how after the example of their great Lord and Maifter, the inanimate Creatures haue revolted, how the ay re forfakes her proper ft3tion, and vnnaturally defcends into the Cranies of the earth, and caufcrh a generall ague in the whole body of the fublu- nane world j how the fire breakes out in rebellion, wafts & confumes the very dwelling of her great Lord (?4).rtefuBenenyio*e4rtB anc ] Maifter-, how the ( i*) earth infiead of fruit brings ^A^S/JSS ^^^/irt^^nP^^rt^^ and a thoufand filthy foggie jt tt>t>ufd»d fcpt fumes, fumes and vapours ; how the fourc Rivers Ganges, Ty- »ht>. which remained in them, did poynt in a manner at the fall of man. So much fatisfa&ion doc they that had no other Academie than natures Schookgiue vntoyou, but he that is thcraeancftDifciple in the Schoole of Chrift, or afourefold ypay to Hue well* * 9 1 Chrift, that had notonely nature for his guide which they had, but grace which they wanted, can fully re. folvc you : that in the beginning it pleafed the Creator ofheaven and earth to ftampe in man his owneimngc and pi£ure, to giuevnto him which wasdenyed to all other Creatures, a divine, pure, and immortall effence, >- a foule endowed with many rare and admirable facul- ties } heaven and earth to hold at will, together with a free vfe of all the Creatures,both of the fowles of the ayre,andfifliesof the fea,and of all the Creatures that walkc vpon the face of the earth, both fenfitivc and ve- getative, onely amongft the vegetative referving vnto himfelfe a little Tree, enjoy ning him vpon a ftrid: pe- naltie, that he fhould not dare to adventure vpon it, be- ing a fruit provided for his o wne palate^but he not con- tented withthofethings,which were fo freely granted £^2^!?££ him, coveted after thofe things which were excepted ; ferfeha&h*u 9 cotpu$ ha! wherefore God in juftice for his difobedience entred bens « no J\ quaieno* ^^ vpon the whole,yet dealt not with him as he had defer- "^ccS^itSilnSiL, ved,but out of his abundant goodnes and favour vnto s u * non <*«minfe DeiGmi- him regramsthefame, but vpon other termes and con- |!!!^!^^ f !!f poftci j • & l l r r l r r r i_ L fL verdcurapeccavit,anma ra- ditions than be rorejtor whereas before the earth or her nonaiit cu P idit«e cormpta felfeyeeldf d her encreafc without any plowing or fow- eftiCorpMshabensquaienunc ing 3 whereas before he had an ( * ) vnderflmding more aDcmus - Au ^ clear e than the morning fiarn^ whereby he was able to ouom hype h*J tfat fall difcernc in himfelfe the fummc and (cope of all thofe °f ihmt \< Jf . r > a r . _, - t«ij 1 n • r 1 N° ( cancelled [0 the Cbaratttr iacred Bookcs which haue bcenc fince written of the .,•„,. knowledge of Arts and Sciences, of the heaven and of '%ta«. the earth,of naturall and morall Philofophie by the ho- huini^hri!^ • ly Prophets, Apoftlcs,and Evangelifts,by the reverend The/rirttspm 9 4>uii*n\home Fathers and Doftorsofthe Church, and by the learned &"**"&* . . , . _ . • ,. n c . 111 7 «- .111 But nm our ktto*leJ»e hath Sages and Moraliftsot the world 5 whereas his will be- ftrteAwtrw, fore wasguided by his vndcrftanding, and theappetite ^^JjjW **&&& and the reft of the affections never exceeded the rujes of A $tw!m % * fad, tfuUcn reafon, the cafe is now altered, the earth will no more /*/&»«, y eeld her encreafe of her fclfe * he muft not now eat be- A J^Jgj* *"'"" felfc N % fore F"* 1 £*)*. 9* C^V ATERN10, T ^»^^Z7 U ***** f° rc he hath fweat for it, labour and paincs muft now rrue^tu^ Jei tunti y mi ke M 1 rcnt * or c ' s he cannot enjoy the enheritance ; the bdndkdexctUent. vnderftanding which was fometimes like Argus, Eagle- *{^^l°!Zi% u Us e y >d andcleare fightcd, is now become like Polyphemus, mrf bytkoufly. darke and obfeure $ the will and the (75) ajfeflions, L 7 -1.°"! "Sfw '" *P>- which fometimes were as obedient aa a fervant, are now bc- 'J toured to the (word»bi(b i ri ' i n w % - r Heaor£4ufA]2*,r*>h«b/o come as dij obedient as a retell .• all things are now out of ^ m ^dS^JH mm or< ^ cr : aHcl al * ^ rea ^ on °* l ^e fall and tranfgreflion of imUmLCmnlSSkk ourfirft Parents. So you may fee the reafon plaincly u the htm ufbdrmtietfecred. wherefore the will and appetite doe fo much defirc that S5h? tU ™ d ' n '° b * which tends to r nine and deftrufiion. (l) Quisfcribitincordibus Ruftic: Sir, it (hould fceme then that man by his fall nSTd«M?D amral I m fi g ? ra * s * n W01 ^ e ca ^ e tIlan r ^e bruit Creatures,the birdsof the akjcttmenrt^mT^Lfcu ayrc, and the beafts of the field •, for they naturally de- gm mnbAt>m y n*turAltter t fire nothing which tends to their ruinc and deftrudi- y*A Ugfs funt,f*o*nt 5 hi le- Qn gem non habentes fibi funt ", . i T • »r ^ ^ n • i i ifx,quioftcnduntrpus legit Ittrid: It is true. If God out ofh is abundant grace ^i^cZk^^lt^ and favour toward s him had not had compaflio of him, * imcr feinrkdn txcutame he had beenc in worfe cafe indeede,for that he had fub- vciaccufameindiequoju. jeded himfelfeby his fall to aneternall death andpu- ££* d ' U l%$l h ° mi ' niflimenr, from which the bruit Creatu res are exempt 5 Stid'cm jiugnjt: rranu for- but it plcafed the Almightie to fend his onely begotten matoris m cordibus noflrii Sonne to hclpc him vp aeaine, and to Epitomife the firft yemasfcripfit..C>W //£/>*-. T * i_ rD • V- *i^J%l ^1 j- ri non y», titer* m jeter». vnwnttcn Lawcs that were in his ( ■ ) Creattonplanted in Hoc & antequakx daretur, bisfoule, which he by his fall had f!ubberedanddefaced y and USSHssSS: t0 deliver thcm vmo him b y his fcrvant ***'> t0 the am et qwbus lexnon eft da- intent that he might lay hold of them, and reprint them fa, fed i ne fibi homines ah- j n his foule againe, and fo be raifed and remitted to his quid defame qucreremur, r • * " fcriptum efteiiarain tabu- former inheritance. to- Ruftic: What were thofe Lawes which were delive- (m) Nihil alud in CentiUo rp J _, nrr . , »,-&. p P. W ^iX*™*credjbi)eeft I™ VJltO C&f*/*" ■ . . jntotcongerendisiecuccn- Inrtd: You may partly know what they arc, by tel- tombu« 5 quam vt piutimoj y ir) a you w har they are not ; they are not thofe Canoni- tcstrneret, quo vherior fru- call Bookes ofLaw which wcrcfentfrom'*) Rome, hkethofe 6u« ei ex dupenfationibui sfDionypus Syracufa as gyns to entrap the world, nor the ^"np^mioadrefor- Ccrcmoniall LeviticallLawcs,for thofe are abrogated^ ^atioiiclegu Ecclcfiafticarur- bu^ ■ or afoure-Jold ypay to Hue well. ft but the divine morall Lawes which God was pleafed to ( ■) *»«/*£« JriicmAuo deliver vpon the Mount vnto Mtfts, mort,perfpicuous, Z£" ™ (^%?$ and pithie, Ten words^cojnprchcnding Ten Comman- potemia, turn attcmkis. dements. CA ;> fi . Hk liber 4 ***■« r ^ loia /teyx/r.- Were the Lawcs that were hilt inf u led into voiumina chris the fouleofmanfo much defaced, that he fhouldneede OBaam »mprefli notii a remembrancer to put him in mindeofhis Creator? jJSna«u«^^ii rcrum or was any man ever fo fottifh and ftupidcas not to be- eftj&primicharafter leeveand acknowledge the true and e ver- living G o d ^^l^*** 1 to be bis God and Creator. The world's 2 'Mr* mfrlm lurid: The wifeft of the Heathens did by thc( n )crea- ^ me f d f\ ut w „ in turesinthefnblunarie world, vj\\\ch^4ntomus Eremita 'knerstJttSi called his Beokcs, readily know and acknowledge that it E*&cu«*re * Afdge,4HA could not be, but there mud be fome predominant po- ^ ™Xr**cr, *#* of wer that did guide and governe them. All the Sifylts A udefeH. Baita*. did acknowledge one abfolute God j the Turkes doe the Non ef * mw«*eftquocunq 5 o<> a worme, and after tooke vpon her, her owne fhapc a- cuiof,animtimq 5 converts, ',- . ./ r in,, , mo«alia 3 immortabajrubh- gaine^and flew into Arabta, why lhould man make any mia,terrena,aBimatae^a. doubt 01' fcmplcofhis? Yet nOtWithftanding, I findc nimata clamant clare'Mo- there were fome that worshipped and adored the Crea- Xquodfi™ X"m ture in (lead of the Creator & cre<5ting according to their multo, tam magna cream, imaginations and phantafies, Gods as they pleafed. I JjJ** " c ^j a comcr - finde the ^Ammonites and UMoabites running after Jl/*- (o) SimwrAtion* expert* loch • the Shekemites after BaalBenth ; the Chaldeans 2f- tdsnMo a PP arquidna. ter the God of NAor . others after BaalPeor, Baal Tse- tu yidcBm!JtimaA^o^ fhn^ Baalzehh, and all but one Baal; others after Iupi- tea* conihwtiones. N 3 Althtnans, Fartimabj£4*»,W.6. 9+ f Qj/ ATERNIO, (f ) Ionnh f. % t (4-J i<5/i7. ^3< (tyH*tdC*meiJil. I .*#.?« i*Altitonans ;, and all but one Idoll. Every man crying as the Mariners in ( p ) Ionahs Ship did in the tempejl, e- very man to his G*d. I findc the Arabians dedicating their Altars to a God which they knew nor, ingraving an in- fcriprion like to the ( q ) tnfeription which St. Paul found vponthe Altar at Lsithem, totbevnknovneCod, thereby declaring that there was a God which they knew nor, that had a predominant power over thofe Gods which they knewdome againe I finde framing vnto themfelu es divers other Gods, attributing vnto iome power over the ( t ) greater Naions, to fome power over the lefe 3 to fome over this CJtie, to fome over that. I finde the Tyrians tying rhefr God Hercules with a Chainc, to the intent that he might not leave them nor forfake them. I finde the Romanes concealing thetrue name of Rome, left by the knowledge rbereof,che God of it might be knowne, and fo prevailed w 4 ch to come forth of it, and the Citie ( f) vlutmhut in Brut9. comc co rutne# j fJndc ( f ) Brutus relating theflorieofhis Genius. I findc others ere&ing vnto them felues divers other Gods, fome ( * ) c&lefttatl, as theSunne, Moone, And Starres • fome terreflriall^ and they of the Momtainesjval- lies, andnoods ; fome aquatic all, and thefeofthe Seas, Ri- ver?, and Fountaines . fome running after the Oxe, the Iddixere deos; coffee freta, Dog,and the Cat,fome after the Hawke,fome after the Sheepe,and fome fo foolifh, that they dot^dvpon the very hearbes in their Gardens ; whom the Poets in alter times fell vpon, and vpbraided thus ; (t) KdtAlis Cmts. lib* I. (u) De dijj gentium. Quicquid humis-.* pclagus caelum rrurabiie gignit, flumina, fontcj. Invenal: Oris nefcit qualia demens. Mgypt us portent a colitiCrocodilum adorat, Forruw, & cepe nefas violart y drfrangere morftt ; O {ancias gentes.qmbus Lecnafeuntur in hortis, INumin* . Yeafo fuperftitioufly foolifh Ifindethem in offering vp their facrifices to thefe their phancafticall Idols, that nofacrificemuft be offered, efpccfally tothefupernall Gods, or afoure-fold way to Hue well. 4ft Gods, but where there were varietic of Lampes, no (M M «» *"'« amiquorom p!aceadmirtcd,but^(76 y Akm b Hiltv t on Moun- ££^£*£ Uines 3 no time permitted^ but the morning \ no Priejls but fi du are* ? ocata crat apud fnah as were \?7) Chafl 5 no garment ^but or fuch a colour, ^ atin N n' ^ jirrl j (77) Per novcm dies no- no wood but of fuch a nature ; no irun to dare to ap- **% opwtcbat abomnili- proach vnto them with( 78 ; vnwathen handsnhefe phan- hldine facerdotej abflinere, tafticall imaginations, and fuperftitious adorations, J^^tfelS when the Lord faw 5 he was pleafed to cxprefle himfelfe Perqjnovem noacs, vene- in the two firft Commandemcnts. rem,taadfyvirorum In vetitis rocmorant. (" 78 ) Non decet illotii ma« r. / am the Lord thy God : thou (halt banc no other Gods " ibu » libare fuperno / , ^ J * J Vina Iovi. Nam cum VUimc^. dcus puruj fo & abomni 2 . Thou fbalt not make to thyfelfe any graven image } or the prorfus fordeimo nnis.non earth beneath, or in the water vnder the earth. deret, manus aut aliqoa c<«- Thoufhaltnot bow downe thy felfe to them, norwor(hip P ™ P artcm habere inooi* f^/w : For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, vifi- & ™™ negJSrpurgitiS^ //>£ theftnnes of the fathers vpon the children, vnto ad facrificia acceffiflcr.illiuj thetbtrdundfcurtbgeneratUn^tbemthathMcme: J^SS&SS^ ' i^dndfhcw mercy vnto thoufands of them that lone wo andkeefe my Commandements. When the Lord faw man vpon all occafions, as his vn- rulypaflionsand affe&ions led him, to take his holy Name in vaine : fometimes bathing his polluted hands in his moft precious bloud $ fometimes rubbing of his exnlcerate wounds, and more often calling vpon him to damne him than to faue him,was pleafed to cxprefle himfelfe thus. ^.Thoufhalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine^ for the Lord will not hold himguiltiefje that taketh his » Name in vainer. When he faw him prophaning of his Sabbath, making no difference of dayes, when cither pleafure or profit, or $& Qy A T E R N I or preferment was before him, was pleafcd to put him in minde 5 faying, 4. Remember the Sabbath day to keepe it holy. Sixe dayes Jhalt thou labour and doe aS thy worker* Butthefeventhdayis the Sabbath of the Lord thy Cod: iniuhoufbalt doe no wanner of work*, thou nor thy fonne, nor thy daughter, thy man-fervant, nor thy maide,thycatteH nor t he ftr anger that is within thy gates. For infix dayes the Lord made heaven and earth, the fed, and aU that therein is, and re fed the feventh day, wherefore the Lordble/fed the Sabbath day, and hal- lowed it. When he faw him carelefly neglc&ing them that brought him into the world, that had vndergone many pangs, and fighes, and grones for him, that had nurtu- red and educated him, that had laboured and toyled all the dayes of their life, vndergone the heate of the day, and coole of the night, rifen early and gone to bed late, and all to gaine an inheritance for hira,hc was pleafed to put him in minde j faying, 5. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy dayes may be long in the land, which the Lord thy Godgiveth thee. When he faw him likewife valuing thebloud of man>no more than of a beaft provided for the (laughter, vpon all occafions, without any Commiffion from him ta- king the fword into his owne hands, and revenging a word fallen in heate, and oftentimes drawne out of the fpeaker with death, yea fuddaine dcath> was pleafed to put him in minde ; faying, 6. Thou Jhalt doc no murthcr. When or afoure-foid way to line w>eU. yy When he faw him likevvifc wandring after beautie 3 fa- crificing to his lufts as to his God, voluntarily divor- cing himfelfc from his legitimate fpoufe, and bed-fel- low,and all to pleafc his fenfuall appetite, was plcafed to put him in minde-, faying, 7. Thou (halt not cemmit adnlteric. When he faw him fometimes with a ftrong hand open- ly invading the polfeflions of his neighbour,foractimcs by fraud fecretly vndermining them, and fometimes furreptitioufly and felonioufly cntring into them, was pleafed to put him in minde 5 faying, 8 . Thou Jhalt not fieal^j. When he faw him like wife fo prefiiptuoufly prophane, as to dare to call him to witneflc that which his confer- ence before told him, wasmoft falfe and vnjuft, was pleafed to put him in minde j faying, p. Thou (halt not beare falfe tvitneffidgain/i thy neighbour. When he faw him likewife Ioging after his neighbours houfe, neighing after his neighbours wife, and taking more plcafure to compafTc that which was his, than he did to enjoy that which was his owne; was pleafed to put him in minde 5 faying, 1 o. Thou Jhalt not covet thy neighbours houfcjhoufialt not covet thy neighbours wife, nor his man-fervant ,n$r his maid- ferv ant, norbisoxe, mrhisaffe, nor any thing that is thy neighbours. Ruftic: Arethefe the Lawes out of which all hu- mane Lawes arc derived t O lurid: ?8 (vv) Herbach. Primum prrceptum fumam earumlcgum qua? ad Momtr- ^wwfpedar, continec; lfta? commonftrant vnum mundi authorem efle. pnncipem ac regem vnum, qui ialutarite'r gubernat omnia, quiqj o/i- gdrckium 8c Democrat/am c caelopenitusexegit. Secundum : fumnia eft omni- um qua? de hmuUchru mam* fadis (ancira? fum, qua? neqj fimulachra, n£q; figna, aut llamas fa bri can, neqj fabu- jfarum commenta. neq jdeo- runuptiasortufvepermittut. Tcrtio fubijciuntur turn ca qua? Tub mfmrdridum cadere non debcnt, turn de quibus jurandumeft, et quo tempo- re^ et quo loco. Quartum 3 eft furrma fcfto- rum et eavum rerum qua? ad fingulorum dxerum expiatio- nem pertinent. Quinturr, eftfummaearum legum qua? de fenibm & iu- yembus de frmcipibiu,ztfub. uBts , de /<#**! et Domini* fcripta? iunt. Sexrum , eft fumma earum qua? homines qui vttam laf- ciyu et UxuriA difjjutntem degunt 5 corrigunt. Septin)urr 9 difurrmaeamtn qua? de vi ct cotumelid, dcpU- git ct -phlneribusy de tntihbrus muttUm lara? (unt. Cdavum 3 c[Uumma cnrum qua? de fraudjtK'Jit Cfidmri- but Jefocieiaie mrroba.cje rapinis,ttbrfviterdeomn! a- varjna? gcnercdecrua? (unr. Nonum, iumma til earum quae lad 2? funt verfus lllos qui ji*em tanquam rwWw- Lrumterfidi* faciunt. Dccinumi , tutr.ma cai u qus fa ia: funevci iv$ cupidir.iiertj) qu.i'; fontcm malorum. l*hilo Int. dc i o, Prxcejnis. Qj/ ATERNIO, lurid- Yes certainely. Rnjlic: How doth it appcare ? Iurtd: By the tdiimony of themoft ablefl men in their generations. Rufiic What doe they fay of them i lurid- Positively, that they are the foumaine of all humane Lawes, and (hew ( " ) Precifelj how, they fay, that out of the Lawes of the firit Table are derived all thofeLawes which doe concernc our duties towards God ) and out of the Lawes of the fecond Table are de- rived thofe which concerne our neighbour. Againe, more punctually they fay, that out of the firft precept of the fecond Table,bcing the fifth in order of the deca- logue, all thofe Lawes which doe concerne that part of Iuftice, which the Iufticiaries haue named Distributive Iuftice ; and out of the fourth precept of the fecond Ta- ble,being the eight ki ordert)f the £>eca!ogue,all thofe Lawes which doe concerne that part of Iuftice, which the Iufticiaries haue named Commutative Iuftice, are derived :and out of the fifth Law of the fecond Table the Lawes of Actios. Yet more pun) Lycwrgus made a Law, that if a man difeblcd by na. (b) vhtmk in tymrg 94 turc to procreate, being an impotent man, fhould for covetoufnefTe Hike marry with an inheritrix, fhe might make choice of any of her husbands kindred to beget Children of her : which Law of his is dire&iy repug- nant to the Law of God. Againe, Plato made a Law, that young men and women fhould at certaine times of the yeare, in certaine places appointed for that purpofe, which he calleth Gymnafia, for the exercife of their bo- dies, encreafe of their ftrength, and to make women more hardy to bring forth their children, dance, runne and ride naked in the prefence both of young andolde people. Againc,(<) Lycurgus wade a Law, tbatit fhould ( c >Eadcmlcxa P ud^ ;/ , be lawf ull for boyes to fteale and prole pettie things,fo ms. that they did it handfomely, vpon pretence to enable Furtaa P udv«crc$^^ , J . -_ JL 9 r . r , i omnia fame licita, & impu- them to be more fit for pillage when they came to be niuii apud LaeetUmmuhu* Souldiers, and make them morequickeof fpirit,ando- d*areta.cdU&ii.«.t*.-- thei s more caref ull to keepe that which they haue^how . can thefe Lawes by any meanes be faid to be derived out q! the Lawes ofGod,fecing that they doe dire&ly impugne them. Inridi Certainly, thefe were not the Lawes but the errors and extravagant opinions of thefe men $ Nam lex eft,fanctio]HbenshonejlA,&prohibens contraria^ Lawes doe conmaund things that are honcft to be done, and (^_^, ncmo £ ne na jv prohibit the contrary. Lycurgm, Plato and <^4rifotlcs aroi were men, and had their { d )errours > though they were ^™/ Hc ° ui mkunir Oj the " Horrt. r loi Qj A T E R N I O the oracles of their timcs-,and the wonders of the world, and it is no wonder j for the reverend Fathers of the Church had theirs j Saint Auguflw writ two bookes of Retra&ations ., and of Saint Origen it is faid, Vbibene nemo melius t vbi male nemo pe)us, where he did well no man did better ,but where he did ill no man did worfe. Ruftic: What are the Lawes then that arc derived out of thofe facred Lawes < lurid: Generally fuchashaucacorrefpondency with the Law of God,that doe as they doe command things honeft to be done, and prohibit the contrary \ fuch in- deed as were the Lawes of King Allured, who made the (e)V,(}epr«fation5 a d/^ Law of God his («) Mailer ^Peece in making of bis Lawes kgibus. togoverne his people, and fct it in the frontifpice of them. Rujlic: I pray you acquaint me more particularly, what are the Canonicall and other Lawes now in force that are derived out of thofe facred Lawes ? lurid: Sir, if I fhould giue you a particular account of all the Lawes that are derived thence, a raightie vo- lume would not containe them. Wherefore I will one- ly (hew vnto you the titles and heads of thofe Lawes which are derived out of every Law. And firft I will (hew you what Lawes arc derived out of the Lawes of the firft Tableland fo of theVeft as they fall in my way. The Lawes which are derived out of the Lawes of the firft Table are thofe, viz. Defumma Triftitate, de fideca- tholica^ defacrofanffisecclefijs, de h&reticisje Af eft atis.de hUfthewijs >de juramentis etfimili : a ,which punifh as well thofe that attribute the honour due to the true God to falfe and imaginary Idols ; as they which live without Cod in the world. Ruftic - What kinde of perfons, I pray you, are they thar doe fo '. lurid: In the firft place is the At hdft that monfter of nature, whom the heathen Orator long agoe condem- ned. or afoure-fold way to Hue well. Itrj ned, affirming, that no ( i* ) Nation was everfo barbarous <79)pmnibuj mnat* eft s & or inhumane, but acknowledged one God or other. In the fe- ^culVhi ^jlttt^w. cond place, the Arrian, denying the diviniticofour xutUgen eft, neq;tanw*»- blefTed Lord and Saviour, whom the («*} 2W™* Cam- ft^SS.^^T cell long agoe condemned. In the third place is the felfe- (So)Temptre c»t$p«wtHiim» conceited, and opinionated hcrctickeand fchifmaticke, *£*** £*wtotf?m m who out of his fingularitie, will draw other Conclufi- t o, i^^^^mctmk ons out of the facred Scriptures, which the fpirit of orbem tam l°nge remotam Godandthe holy Church never meant and intended. ^"Sg"^ In the fourth place, are all thofe IdoIaters,lying vnder- tunc nihil ded\ ) therefore this or that thing mult not be done on iiuiuus exiftimare homme. this day. Againe, thofe Necromancers, Witches, and ^ ebat : D, ^ i4W - in % Enchanters, who arc in a kinde of league andconfede- m^^^^^ racie with vncleane fpirits. Such as was the Witch of potuitab mentis s dumm Endor, pofleffed with the fpirit of PwAwi, with whom fjlTJ^^T^^ ._ ,-T. , . r „ r -, , y , § re nunayisproIap/us inter- ifcttif/ counted to raife vp Samuel when he went to wan e ™$ fed in melius o™ crane co* againft thePM/?/»w.A£aine,thofe Iuglers, Charmers, " lucat v cnco ce £ ,fl s u,t >4' Ci J c 1 • • 1 1 • 1 / nw » ea - nc 'J obtin-jit. ompounders of medicines, and corapkxion-roakers, s^imm c*ur. who dafle and beguile the fences, prefenting objects in Et^^c^.-cupriinoter- othcr fliapes and formes than in truth they are. Such a c 7nKnL' qi!u ^ ue ? aiV , r x J ■ . cenderacincitav.tadcurfum xvcrQxnezs£gypt?an(z) Sorcerers, Iannes and lambres, ab equo lapius, & proftrarus who refifted CMcfes, whom Saint Paul compareth to ijj ur ^ m > te "<«nqujtjme3 faife teachers, who vnder {hew and colour of godlines, \z?™Timoi™\% t ' leade captive filly women. Againe 3 thofc cunning Wi- ( n >) Su gg e ^onc^mdemJu> zards now adayes called wife ( " ) women, but indeed, are S£ZSS5S metre impeftors, who in ancient time were faid to attaine lutcas fammt imagines vt to their knowledge, fubtiltie, and craft, by eatinq the i ,c boftes * ve{ a J a,aii °* «*- • • it D t 1 r n in- i • i S Je a n t«inccnciaiu nxtail- prmcipall part and members of fomebeaft, in which lud^j/, they conceived to rcfide fome fpeciall and fingular ver- L ' mu * nhfcduteCckAtkfe tuc,and fo by a kinde of Hv4fc««* or tranfmigration, ^SifiJi : fi c no-. - W hat ttro -Dafbms amore. 104. £t<3ua?dam mttlieres habcnt oculos fafrinJtes juxta lliud . Nefcio quit teneros oculus mihi faicinat agnoi. Non inutile eft confilium 5 SitfententiaChriftiana nihil de futuris inquirere, fed illi- us difpoStioni obedire. Qui difponit omnia fuaviter. (ij tA&S 4. 12. Memoriae divorum., quorum Tpiritus apud dcum vivunt, r eye renter haLenda propter imitationc, non autcm aJo- vdndd propter religionerru jluguflin. j>.) Levit, 20. 6. Deut.\%. XO. (1) Vide Concilium C4r>bd* Itnenfe J" 40 . VATBRNIO, what vertuewasinthem, rouft b? convcyd over, and (6 they become as wife as thofe beafts. Agaifie, iuca as Prognofticate things by the Calculating of nativities, or by Chyromancie, orJUcteoropofcopie, or by any Witchcraft whatfoever.Thcic and many more ofthore various iliaped monfters, are within the ok aning of the Lawes borrowed from the Lawcs of thefiifl Table. Nay, not thofe alone, but-evt n they alio who fee ke for helpe and fuccour in any othcr,thougb of (*) t He Saints, thanin our hie (fed Lor d and Saviour , a reverend opinion as examples and putt ernes of imitation the reverend Fathers haut ever had of them, and no Chnftianlo barbarous as toconceive otherwifc of them,but a divine wot (hip and adoration,the Fathers haue denyed them,and no Chri- stian ( vnleiTc he will come within the penalye of thofe Lawes ) muft giue vnto them. Rttftic: What is the penaltie of thofe Lawcs I pray your lurid: It is in fome degree equivalent to the narurc of the offence ; the offences being Crimina lafit majejla- /i/,the punifhments which the Lawes of God and of all Nations haue ordeinedareCapitall. The ( k ) ftule that turneth after fuch as haue familiar fpirits, and afUr Wi- zards, to goe a whoring after them J xvillfet my face agdinfl , faith the Lord, and will cue him off from the people. Andagaine, that man or woman that hath a familiar fpirit, or is a Wizard, fhill furely be put to death, and their blond /hall be vpon them-fuch punifhments haue the Lawcs of God provided for fuch malcfaftors. A- greeable with thofe Lawes were thofe (i) Canonicall Lawes which were made about the y tare of our Lord 398. at agency all C unc ell held vnder ^Arcadtm andHonorim .- by which Lawes all the drugs and reliques of Idolatry were vtrerly aboliiht & extinguiflu. Which faid Lawes were mide vpon this occafion ; The Heathens had long before given forth, that, in theyeare of our Lord 3„by which the Lawes that punifh delinquents in this kinde are formed ; the forme whereof we may lee in FttzJn nau brcv.fag. 269* Eh flic. I pray you goe on as you haue begun, and as you haue fhewed me what lawes are derived out of the -firft and fctond Law of the firft Table:fo no vv. ihevv me rwhac Lawes arc derived out of the third Law of the t fame Table. lurid: I will fatisfie you therein 3 and fhew you fomc thing more ; 1 will firft fhew vnto you,whac it is to take the name of God in vaine ; fecondly, I- will fhew you whit are the Lawes which piinilh»fuch offences :, and laftly,l will (hew you wh3t punifhmentsfomehaue vn- dergone that haue incurred the danger of thofe Lawes, that by their examples, ypu may be warned and admo- nished. >l i Ruftia You fbail vnderftand that the name of God is then taken in vaine, cither ivfteq with the little inftru- P ment io6 ■ (»)Sic vrvunt homines., tan* quam mors nulla fequatur, Aut velut infernus fabula vanaforet- Non rcdit >n tsememjhis o- lim monbus Casio cecidiflc Luaftrum, quibus nos ca?lum hodie fperamu* oftcndcrc Pttrtrcb. QjV ATERNIO, merit of the body the tongue, whofe proper office is truely toexprcfTe to the world the fecret cogitations and imaginations of the heart, and to glorifie God, we belye the heart, and make the world by her report beleeue onething, when the heart intends another ^ as uhen wediflTcmbleandlye, fwearcand forfvveare, ta- king thc j holy Name of God in our mouthes to con- firme what is faid : or othervvifc, when we doe in our £<9>vnsfilent!y propbanrthenameofGod, when be- ing Difcipics of Chrift, and taking denomination of Chriftians from him, wee doe commit thofe offences, which the Heathen Moralifts, when they werevpon the face of the earth would hauc becne afhamed to haue done, which many of the Turkes, and Ottahumetans doc abhoi re to doe, and which are not heard of among the moft barbarous Indians : as when ( » ) we (p end our dayes andytares,andtimes in all manner of licentioufnefje, in riot* ting and drunkennejfe, in chambering and want onneffe, in ftrife and envying, in opprejsion and extortion, and the like. What doe we els in doing of thefe things but prophanc the Name of God, and bring the name of Chrift into contempt ? How can he be faid to be a Scholler of Py- thagoras, that never followed him in any ofhisfoot- fteps, nor obferved and kept any of his rules and pre- cepts? How can he properly be faid to ferve vnder fuch a Generall, chat was never with him in the field, or fol- lowed him a foote to any skirmifh ? How can he be faid to he a Chriftian, that runsa contrary courfc to the life of Chrift in all his actions? Cerraine!y,hebeareththe name of Chrift in vaine, and the n;imc of Arritts or ^4- theijl would better become him. Chrift whileft he was vpon the face of rhe earth,was juft and vpright in all his aftions, free from opprcfllon and doing of wrong to a- ny -, he was meeke and lowly, free from pride and am- bitious thoughts, he was loving & pcaceable 5 free from flrife and contention; he faftcd and prayed often, free frpcQ or a foure-fold ypay to liueTfrefl* from riocting and drunkenneifr, or a licentious courfc of life. If therefore W^ will be the Difciples of Chrift, and heires of the inheritance which he hath purchalcd for vs,we muft tread in the parties which he hath beaten out vntovs; and imitate him in the whole courfe of our liues and convocations; it is to doe well, which giucs lifeandbeingtoaChriftian^forinvaine doe weterme our felues Chriftians, when as we doe the works of the Gentiles j it is but diffembled fan&ttie, double iniqui- tie^God \\i\\viOK.bc (° mocked, nor cannot be beguiled^ he is able to di [cover our hypocrifies and difimuUtions ^ when as we make his Name but acloaketofrec vsfrom the danger of the Lawcs of temporal! Princes,and pro- fefTe our felues to be Chriftians, becaufe wc dare not acknowledge our felues to be Heathens, though in the whole courfe of our Hues wc follow and imitate them, (p) Plato takes notice of three forts of \Atheifts. Of one who with his tongue acknowledged there is a God, but denyeth him in his a<3ions,and lives as if there were none, whom he thinketh worthy not of one, but of more deaths. A fecond,thatliues as if there were a God, yet with his tongue profefTcch there is none, to whom heenjoyneth Hue ycares imprifonment, and if that du- ring that time he doth not decline his opinion, then to dye the death. A third, that acknowledged there is a God> yet denyeth bis providence on earth,to whom he enjoyneth perpetuall imprifonment, and no free-man ever to haue acceffe vnto him : and when he dyeth his bones to be carried out of the Country, and to be left vnburied. So with Plato the man that ( 82 ) lints like an x^itheifl is the weft deteflable Atheift, the (4 Oft of a man prevailes and fer (wades wore than a great de ale of (moot b Rhetor /eke : Siclocjnerevt videam,\^y% a wife fpeech of a Heathen. It is faid of (*) Fefpafian in Tacitus, that his ex- ample prevailed wore with the multitude, than a multitude cfLarves could haue done in the redrafting of diver fe abufes. P 2 If 107 Co) Vidcf»buUm*/cy did, yet let vs ( l )witb Solon doe what occupaffet, & Solon videbat }ye can conatu omntm fruftriefle, prolibcrtatc fcutum & arma ante fores Curias ponens, 6 patria ( inquit) cibi & ttiBif Eft ^liquid prodtre tenus, ft non d*t*r vltra. Horar. Even good endevaurs are acceptable vnto God. Letvs ferioufiy take into our confederations the fhortncfTe of this life, and the durable eftateofthe life to come. Let {*)?ku,»nthu effe&hduei vs affure out felues what a ( * ) Queene of England once ^KTwttSn W t.m,fb t r.mHm.fb»»r,um$t» U , /uhferibeJjWttb ibis per/wdfitte That if in vertue wee take any paines : Thepaim depart 'eth y but verttte remaines m But if we take pleaf tire to doe that is iff ; The plea fur e depart eth, but the ill tarriethftill. mtrcdtii 3 Good Madam for my &k« remember this. It is ;• be feene in a Mdnufcrift [ell. 109 proacb, it is too late to offer vp thofe fickc facrificcs, for then wc cannot properly be faid to giuc but to leauc thofe things behindevs which wc could not carry with vs. Godwill not be fo ferved> it is vaine and idle to thinkc, that when we haue lived in all manner of licen- tioufms, robd the fatherlcffe and widowcs,thatby glu- ing of thofe ficke facrifices, to pray for our foules,we fbould faue our foulcs>no,thofe good deeds which doc open heaven-gate when we die, rauft be fuch as doe at- tend aa innocent, harmelcflc, and well led life. Letvs therefore, I fay, doe good while wc may ; fheedea few ( tt ) penitenti all te ares here, that wc may enjoy eternaUbliffe ( u) Quamajucunditas,pro and bappineffe hereafter. Let thefc contemplations take P^cislachrymisintcrmina- ** r » . J . . ... r .. f bilem rilum, pro temporal!- vp our fenous thoughts and meditations-, and let the busjejunijsanernacovivia, pra&ife hereof be our profeffions, fofhallwedeferue provolwariapaupertatein- thenamcofChriftians, and avoyde thepenaltieofthe folamVlvarum^uVawta- Lawes derived out of this third Law of the firftTa- tij*therex$profumofotu- uig gurio itellantia Chrifti pa- ' n . -. , r rr • 1/1 1 1 • • la «3jproagreftifilctiocaii- Rujtic: You haue 1 umciently lhewed me what it is ms Angclkoj, ct cadeftis to take the Name of God in vaine. In the next place, I 0 pieruwpulchrum Fericle. feeing afaireboy com- °P™™««^Cwu»qoie . i r . . a j • i j~ j- » Caihlio)nefeverisinrcbu* mmgby him. And certainely. Comedians doe never ridiculis icatear, ne gfavia more tranfgreiTe the Rules of Poetry ,nor commit grea- tokens mHceatjneclaudem ter fotecifmes, than they doe atthofe times when in fe^S^l^ta^ .- their fports and paftimes they carelefly invocate the di- Ri * " n q«a Scyiiam et Chaj . vinepowcr. Comedies haue ever beene allowed in all "^^^cStfJLiib ages, ard neccfTary it is they fliould be for the trayning vp of youth to excrcife their wits, and inventions, and ta< tlZ Q_V A IEK.NI O, to embolden them, to make them fit for imployment when they come to riper yeares. Jtisthcabufe which makes the French -man in the Courtier terme them (c) Cdfiifo litv i. (c j B U ff ones . anc j jftfiiMdn toranke them with them, Quinotdnturwfdmia, as when they doe enterlace pro- phane things with divine,Scripture with vaine and idle inventions. What can be more abfurd, then when Cdto is giving a Charge in the Senate-houfc, to induce a ful- ler or jugler? What can be more grofiTc,, than when /*- cajla with her two twins Eteocles and Poly nices lye wal- lowing in their bloud, comming to their ends by vn- timely deaths, & all the fpe&ators mourning in fables, and lamenting thofe vnfortunatc accidents, to induce a Mimicke to fhew fome tricks vnto them ? What can be more incongruous on the other fide, than for a'Coma?- ^d^ProUtitasex h non dian in his fports and paftimes prophanely to vfe the fa- ex iiteris judkitur.Hmerum cred and reverend Name of God? The Orators in for- aut rtrgiium cum verfuum mer ages did fometimes brcake forth out of ferious dif- SESZgZStZ conrfcs int0 wi «y Apophthcgmes.but what was y end gos dixit Vd6c Mania!. of it 5- it was to revive and exhilarate the fpints of their Nonruntlongaquidem a ni. Auditors, whom they had wearied with a ( d ) Ion? dif- Scd tu(co/^»y)diftica longa courfe before 5 but never vfed any direrull oaths and ex- fac i». ecrations. Learne you Comedians, and beware by the ^D^\b"; USa§:ta " examples of Theodacies, rheopompus and Vherecides. xrirwimmcn&s nomine fe. God is the fame God, his hand is not iliortened,nor his citaqju. powcrabaccd : the Story oU e )Iairn*moralifednititelL fiu$ jlle volabar. yottfhdt it is not jafe to f port andpUy with things which are oyid. dbweyou And the facred Scripture will tell vou,thatit Tnon^uw^r isnotfafetodallywkh*ho!ythings,theNameofGod vUto. is a facred thing, and we are commanded not to take it VideApologamde^/?r»/». inro our moiuhes, but with feare and reverence. Tho* Admor.ct hsec Ne*iju t ne jhdlt not take my Name in vaine. qui^nimisaitarequirat, Ruftic. You haue flhevved fuffickmly what Lawcs ^Stit™ P ° ffe ha * are derivccf out ofthe three firft Lawcs of rhe firft Ta ' Quifijuttmcdiudefugititer bk\ I pray you goe on as you haue begunne vnto the Scabilintquatramitecurret. j.prt. Scnec*inHerc.0etM9, ' . . or afoure-foid way to line T»eB. %\ j ■lurid: In the next place I will fhew you what is meant by the word Sabbath. Secondly, how many Sab- baths the Ierves obferved. Thirdly ,how they came to fce altered and changed. Fourthly ,what Lawes haue beene / derived out of this Law,for the obfervation of the Sab- bath ofdayes, and what care and provifion hath beene taken for the due execution of them . You (hall vnder- ftand, that the wovdSabbath, properly fignifieth a Cef- fationand reft from our labours : fo that the lewes na- med all their feftivall dayes by the name of Sabbath, be- caufe that vpon that day they did no manner of labour: yet they ever preferred three Sabbaths before the reft: the firft whereof was the Sabbath of dayes,which is the feaventh day : the fecond was the Sabbath of ycares, which was every ( £ ) feaventh j care, in which there was ( f) i €v ^ ^ * no flaming nor grafting, no lopping nor topping*, all mouotainesandvallies, and all the trees of theForreft from the Cedar to the flirub,being in fome fort feque- flred from the vfe of the owner for that yeare-,for as the Lord appointed the feaventh day for man to reft, fo he appointed the feaventh yeare for the Land to reft. The third was the Sabbath of ( % ) feaven times feaven yeares, ( g j Leviu 2*, which was their great Sabbath, and therefore called the Sabbath of Sabbaths ; in *vhicli as there was nothing put in execution, that was prohibited on the Sabbath of yeares 3 all Lands being freed from agriculture as they then were : fo there were divers other priviledges and prerogatiucs incident to this yeare, which were not to the former. If any man had morgaged or fold his land, it was this yeare to rcturne home againe, vnlefle they * had beene houf es within fome walled To wnes, & they likewife, if they had beene the houfes of God, of the Church, and of the Levites. If any had beene bound this yeare, he with his familie were to be free,and to re- turneto his ownepoflcffions;whcrefore this yeare was called the yeare ot'Iubile, or the yeare of mirth and jol- O litie. ■If <*y ATE R N I O, litie. By which they accounted all their yearcs, as the Grecians didby their Oljmfiades. Which cuftomecon- tinued in vfe long amongft them, even vntill the com- ming of our bleffed Lord and Saviour. Rttfiic: How came they to be altered and changed * Inrifp: \ will briefly fhew vnto you,and firft how the Sabbath of dayes was altered. The lewes were growne to that height of impietie, that if the Romanes had not (*>) loftpb. de bttto Ih- vanquifhtthem when they did, ( h )lofephus thought the dako. lib. 6. very earth would haue opened & fwallowed them vp • and Ammionw Marcellinus reports of thcm,that where- foever they came they were czMzd fatentes I*dai 9 (link- ing lewes. The Chriftians therefore that they might be diftinguilhed from them, vttcrly abolifht their day and their Ceremonies. Muftic. How came it to pafle, that the lewes fhould be fo odious,feeing that among allNatios of the world none were more drift than they in the due obfervation of the Sabbath, they would not admit of a bit ofmeate to be baked or boy led, nor a fparke of fire to be kinled on that day, becaufe they fuppofed the doing thereof to be a workc repugnant to their Lawes?Nay,thcy would not in defence of their lives wage any battell on that day, vntill ^Matthias one of their Captaines made a Proclamation that in defence of their lives and liberties it was lawfull for them to fight on the Sabbath day. y.ydntiochmznd Pompey could not fo eafily haue prevai- led againft them, had they not knowne their refolutios to haue becne to die rather than to fight vpon that day. How I pray you became the lewes fo odious, feeing they were fo ohfervant of the Sabbatb day ? Iari(p: It is true -, the lewes did forbcare all manner of bodily labour on the Sabbath day • but this forbear- ance was not to a good end, that is, to glorifie God 3 as they fhould haue done. If they had becne fenfitive Creatures onely, fuclus had a mccre fenfitiue being in the or afoure-fold way to Hue y»eX n? the world, as Oxen or Horfes, they had done well i and facisficd the Law pun&ually, but they were reafonable Creatures, God had (lamped his owne image in them, and made them little inferior to the Angels in degree > wherefore there was more required at their hands,they were not to fit (till and fleepe, but to glorifie him with hytnnes, fongs, muficke,and melodie. Deeds of Cha- ritie and neceflnie are allowed by God to be done on that day. God that allowed man to Icade his Oxe and Afle to water on that day, alloweth him to kindle a fire to drefie his meate on that day. Indeede to kindle a fire to adde furtherance to the building of the Tabernacle was not permitted. God that created all Creatures for the vfe of man^llowe* h him in cafe his (her pc or cattdl doc fall into a ditch,to pull him forth on that day. God who is abundant in mercie, alloweth vs to relieue our brethren in miferie and n^ceflitie on that day. Bommeft <-M*th. 12. 12, benefacere in S*bb*the, Chrifl: that healed the ficke on the Sabbath day, alloweth the Phyfitian on that day. Almefdceds, deeds of Charitie, and holy recreations, which enable vsjegoeon more chearefully in thedu- ties of our Callings, are at all times acceptable both before God and man. Wherefore as it is prophane to thinke that there is no time to be allotted for divine (¥) Initiomundidic5natu . and holy medjutations,lo it is Iewifh to conceiue there is rales diftindi fiierum in fe- no time to be allowed for holy and neceflfary recreati- .ft°s&p«>feftos^profeftie- ons. The Wife-man telsvs, that there is a time for all T ^^ ^tSlm^t^ things, as there is a time to fow in, fo there is a time to n « operaremur,idq$ fao «- tcape in,as there is a time of mournins,fo there isa rime ^ l ^K f ^ a$ I r V? t t mM r r . . 1 * ^ ,. diesinieptimana in qm vo- orrejoycing- as there are hxdayesro worke in,fo there lebachomines fenarUrebu* is one dav fequeftred to glorifie God in :h fwectly v«^***utodamto* 1-1 1 ai • 1 • >r r 1 r 1 a r r r no. Apud Romanos fuerunt hub the Almightiediipofed of the times &fcafons for tnadierumgenera,^,/*- thc v(c of man. Plutdrcb hath a prertie tde in the life of fit** &™t™fi> qui dei, & TtemifiKUs, of the falling our off Working.dayes & feX^^S Holy-dayes^VponatimethcWorking-dayes brawled mi d»vino, altera ncgotijt with the Holv-dayes, and repined that what they care- hufl " nil , ir ?f " ac , b f ur - 0,2 flHly imuM. vmmAtym I E£ Qjr A T E R N i o r fully gor> they waftfully fpent • vnto whom the Holy- dayes anfwered, Where hadyoubeene, if I had not beene before you, and if I were not, alas, what would you be. Indeedethe one without the other could not- well be jfor as the Working-daycsgiue a being to the Holy-dayes, fo the Holy-dayes reciprocally yec Id a well-being comfort and folace vnto them. We ought not therefore fo to fpend our dayes, as if there were no nights, nor yet the nights as if there were no dayes, not fo to labour, as if there were no time to reft, nor yet fo to reft, as if there were no time to labour ; but as the night fucceeds the day,and as the feaventh day doth the fix dayes ofthe weeke,fo to mingle focietie with reti- (i)^8»6ttontmfLtiodir- redncfTe, (») Contemplation with action, that onenisht junei nolunt i ncutra enim • r i t_ jii i • iinc altera perficiturj fit ergo § lue comfort vnto the other,and both to vs^to this one- Tnufqui% vt^W/Mfilie^/- ly end, toglorifie God our bleffedLotfd and Saviour. te^*n fecan V i a " The which becaufethetowj-did not, but went no fur- gendum & comemplandum « , ,, . rir u rj 1 paratuf . Sic Aiexdnder non ther than the bare letter ofthe Law,the out-fide oncly, wbi"i inr€ littenri * 3 . qu4m they reftcd, but not to glorifie God,therefore did God -mAi^^m^fim abhorre their Sabbaths : and the Chriftians that they ^librosnunquamdemani. might be diftinguifhed from them, fetvp a new day, bHsponere^iebat 5 cfimTe- th d following * yet madevfe of the morall ro in African trajedurus, . / . , & *J . . . quadragima quin^j tamiim part rhereof, as a handmaide in the juihfication of the dies ad fabricandam et ia» Lords day S^^ScSlS mp* Was this foolifh fuperftition ofthe Iewes tiones in gymnafio hbeiiis theonely caufc wherefore the Chriftians did alter the stiam operam dabat. j ? Imff: It was one, but not the onely caufe, for a- mong many other reafor.s, in a gcnerall Councell held at Paris vnder the Emperours Lewis & Letharitu, thefe areallcdged- that vpon ihe day next following the Sab- W> ofthe iV*w our bldfed Saviour arofc from death to life,and CManna was fent from Heaven; fee the gene- rail Councell for your further fatisfa&ion. So you fee how the Sabbath of "dayes in vfe among the I ewes came to bultcred and changed. Rnftict or afoure-fold up® to Hue well. nj Rttftic: But how came the great Sabbath the Iubilt^ to be altered? Iurifp: How came Rome to be changcd,fte was fomc- times the Miftris of the world, a virgin pure and imma- culate, vnto whom all Chriftian Princes did yeeld ot beyfince, and adore her for her innocency and puritie j . but afterwards fliee became a (trumpet, a mercenary V ftrumper, expofed her felfe for a little profit to all forts of fuitors : which when the Princes faw, they fcorned and neglcded her. The labile was fomeumes a yearc of mirth and jollitie,of libertie and fi cedome -,and for that purpofe was it inftitutcd in the Common, wealth of the levees, & ordeined to be folcmnizcd every fiftith yeare. For that purpofe likewife was it that Pope ( k ) Boniface (k)PUt.in vita tmf.B; the eighth infHtuted the fame at Rome, and commanded 0m ! ht in B#w /- it to be fol enifcd every hundred yeare, in the yeare 1300, For that purpofe likewife was it that Pope ( l ) Clement fl) PUt.m*h.ckm.6 a the fixt ordeined it to be celebrated every fiftith yearcs, 0m l h% m clm ' according to the manner and cuftome of the lerves, in the yeare 1350. But for another purpofe was ir, that is to fay, for profit and Commoditie that Pope\?)Boniface (m) put. in vit.B<*»fe the ninth, did caufe it to be celebrated and folemni zed 0mt f hi ***& in the yeare of our Lord 1400. for he made it zmeere market and f dire for pardons and indulgences. For profit and Commoditie likewife was it that P ope < v n ; Xiflus che (nypUt. in vit, xifti^y fourth reduced the folemnization thereof in the yeare Q*fkmXifi+ of our Lord 1475^0 every fine andtmntith yeare^ for he knew well that if it were contrafted into fewer yeares, greater profit would arife 3 and therefore changed' he time of the folemnization thereof from the fiftith to the fiueandtwentith. For profit and commoditie likewife was it that Pope ( * ) Alexander the fixt gaue licence and c )P^. nS^ ■ authoritie in the yeare 1 j oo.that the fame mighrbe fo- omtb. in^*w, lemnized and celebrated in certaine Provinces, wherein his end was,as one hath wcHobferved^ that fewer people and more money might come to Rome. So that I may well Q^? con-. r 118 Qj A T E R N I O tndtftbe Inner Temfle^u it n C9*cented $ dftenedrds be was ptpUjcd** Em&dJJdikur. Sec his life. conclude vpon thefe premifles,that as the oJde Come- dians were vfed to end all their Comedi.cs in muficke, marriages,mirth and jollitierfo the end and fcope in fo- Icmnifing of this, in thefe latter times, hath beene pro- fit and cornmoditie. Old Geffrj chawcer feeing thefe a- bufes, being a Contemporanean with Pope Bonifaces the ninth, and being well acquainted with thcoccur- CJOmcetwdsmhupeutb rentes of thetime as we!l*abroad as at home,who died ofMmoncoUe/ge inOxoaf. in the fame yeare that Pope Boniface the ninth folemni- zed his Inbile, being in the yeare of our Lord 1400. to fome indignation falls vpon him in manner follow- ing- / Theyfayne that Peter bad the Key, Of heaven and bell to hate and to hold : I trow Peter tooke no money, For no finnes that he folder. Suchfucce/fors beene to boldt^j. In winning all their wit their wraU. Her conscience is waxed cold. AndaUfuchfaitors fowle hem fall. Peter was never fuch a fooler To leauebu key witbfucb aloreR. And fo goes on bitterly. And William of Malmesbnrie y a Monke,who lived in the dayes of King Henry the firft, and dyed about the beginning ofthc raigne ofK Henry the fecond, in a mournefull kinde of Elegie with teares beway ling the miferable eftete of Rome as it then ftood, and I fearc in no better cafe at this day ; amongrt many other Verfes of Hildebertus an Archbifhop, hath thefe following. (p) Romani olim return do* minimise dicuntur homines ineruflimi,auro trurinantes juftitiam,pretio venditantes Canonutnregulas. mffum MdlmefM 4 . in WiBiamx: - Venal ia Roma; Templa,faccrdote$, aharia facra,coronar, Ignis ,thura,preccs,ca;lum eft Tenale,Oeufcj;. ( P ) Vrbs cecid't, de qua ft qnicqnam die ere dignum, tJHoliar, hoc f otero dicer e, Roma fait. Matbew Paris, aMonkc of Saint Alb an, is full of fuch com- or afoure-fold way to Hue veil. 1 1 9 complaints in every corner of him. Gmcciardincin his HMloric of Italic tels vs, that Pope Leo granted (q ) JnduU ( <0 gwiccmdJib. iy gences without refpeft of time or place,and that his Mi- -*»■•< 15*0* niftersdid/etto fale vpon a game at Tables power to redecme foules out of Purgatorie. John Roffe in the Ghoft oichadrvaUader thus complaineth. HjeccinereUigio efl Romans occidcre reges f Officiumpopuli fedueere ? pro derc gent es ? Vocibus. tquivocis verum deludere f quantum Roma receftfti a tcmct ? %u norma fui(li y Exemplar q^afy quondam regionibus , almx In (lit it, fidei, p feat is, relligienis. Nunc fcelerumfoiftinajaces, & c&dibusorbtm Potfuis, bde e qui Jem veftrtfunt ambit ionic Semina, qua nimium exeat a Cupidine vans Illicit i quajlus, n'eq\ jusneq,fas, nechoneftum RefpiciSy at nulli conftftens finibus &qui In fatrU vertis communem c unci a ruinam. Siccinelhefniupcrfuadent i Sicq s pnpWos Moribus infiituunt i His Romanifla diebt* Vix diet meruit >patri& nifi pr editor audet Ejfefua, fdcifcaemfcelm occupat,dr qnod Perfttafum efialijs quondam^ nunc cogitur, acfi Rclligioqua corda ligat, qua pe flora format, Jam nifi larva dolijvelfcrva Tyrannidiseflht. Quifq\fuas partes velit amplificare libenter 5 Ejlo z fcdidprccib$ts,nonvinecfangninefiat» a quam degenercm to probes Roma I Scnatm ** Temporibttsprifcisprofugum qui eadere Pyrrhtm ObtuleratyPjrrho licet hofii cxvrbcrcmiUunt Compedibus vwftum,poJlq*am pharfalicapugna Niliacas vitfum Pompeiumcxtrufit ad or as. „ Hunc ibi querent cm auxilium tranfj c edit Achillas, Et caput occifi (namXUfarss indcfdiwrem impim ambivit Jprafcntat.Cdfari, *t Hits Dcdignans Uo Qv A T E R N I O- (+) Pett4rtbMb.9.tetum fe- nilium pathetice cxprobrac fordidiflimos morn Ecclefi*- fiUwum fui tempor is, Tota fere hominum rirtos vmbra eft j verba, Ceremo- ni z % modus reftium, pedum mo ius s gcftuj corporis,o cg- lorum flexus/rons,coma/u- percilium, fingula h*c leni- untur, interna anxmi forma aegligicur. Dedignans tarn vile nefas, vtcunqiprobare, Protinus 1 medio totti mandavit iSichillam m Mitto Apopbroditum, quifuftulit enfe Neronem tiumani generis monftrum licet, atq-^ Tjr annum Et condemn at um funis de more vetufto, idfy licet precibus facer et,\uffufy Neronis, Turn tamen idfeciffepalamfejacJitat, ilium Quumprim»m idfciret, mnlttavit morte Semtus, Mac antiquafuit virtus & gloria^om*. Quam v^s difsimiles + hoc ft fecere propbani Quidvos cbriJlicoU ?fiq ; ipfis hoftibus illi Quid v os Principibus veftris debetisUtolim Aureapr&cefiit^ nunc (*xfuea deficit at as ; Idm nihil in Templo niftwimoniavagatur ; Nil nifi frige fc ens nimium> nimium% calefcens Schifma,ftdemfatis eft pr&tendere, vita Qualifcun^tibi fuerit, (ipergisadAulam Regnatibi ambit io, gula, Hvor,fac7io, lux us. Gratia adulandi, quin Hnndicatio & iUic In fret io eft, nempe is cut mendicare moleftum eft, i^iulicus effe nequit, velnonfibi commodus, ipfa Nob i lit as quxftum nimiuw venatur, honor em Negligit \at,neqneunt vnq confiftere vilis Qu&ftusjhonorq j loco \ num quid fine crimine credk } Iudici ale forum reliquisfore fanclitu tahnon \ luftititfedes facia eft venal is ; an ergo luftitiam incolumem qui fqaam fore fperetfin ovo Quodputeat,magis inpuUoputrefcit,ab ipfo Fontefluunt rixixik& vmbrofum rurfus defcendit Ad Or cum. |Which in Engltfb is as folloyyeth. What, what is Rome ~ become a Sanftuary for muf thcrers; a fchoole to teach how to kill Kings and Princes ; to ( 8 * ) feduce the people ( 8 s ) ^/«<>/tenem£ mcntall refervations?0 R&me,Rome 7 ho\v much art thou Sa^Scn^^S^i" * departed from thy firft ftation < thou waft fometirnes a communis™ pr[ndp°, rub- guide & light vnto other Nations, of jufticc, pietie and *" " on tenc ™"r juramtneo Religion j but now thou art become a finke of vnclean- 2SS?SSBSSyS2: r.effe,and with thy filthrneflTedoeft annoy and infe<3 the nisaaumexercerqtenente- whole world. Thy ambition, thy ambition is thecaufe o5u?^9 u0 . dc " n ^ fi - of all, being blinded and bewitched with a greediede- fitijs 5 nuiiomod6debentre- fire of filthy lucre : thou ^efpedefl: neither Law nor ho- veiare.Nam(naitBWW*o n« y . , r i V* -r\ i r r u cur Rwicw Gametic >jr nefhe, nor the good of thy Country. Doe the lefuttes dearinaomnisg«i«is,etw. thus perfwadc thee, doe they thus inftru<3 thee? I feare c * fanairate incoparabiiis, they doe, for that now adayes he fcarce defertfes the ttffSSS^!!^ name of a Rom Am, that dare not vndertake to betray his quod falva confdcnwa rerc! Country-alas,alas '! all things arc out of order;wicked- l ™ n ™£™™ i i "jf* cti - nefle fits where honeftie was vfed to doe, and what thy re g na"&aafeiX&^oXrr^ forefathers wrought by intreaties and gentle perfwa- tan quam fummus ynnc^s fions, now adayes is wrought with fire and fagot. Reli- rp lrJtu " Ils - R gion r las Qjf A T E R N I O, i gion which bindeth the Confidence, isHnade a meerc lcarecrow and inftrument of delufion, & the handmaid of Tyrannic Let him in the name of God that defires togainefheepevntohisflockc,.vfe his beft meanes to doe it : but let him doe it as he fhould dpe it, with per- fwafions and intreaties, not with forer and violence. O Rome, Rome, how art thou fallen,! fiiy,from thy firft ftation .'thy Senatorsin former times caufed that Run- nagate that offered himfelfc to kill their enemy Pyrrhnc, to be bound hand and foote, and to be turned out of the Citie. When Cafar overcame Pompefm the Pbarfa- lun fields, and Pompey betooke himfdfefor refuge vnto the Coafts oiNilus, where ^.Achillas in ftead of prote- cting him, flew him, and preferred his h&d vntoC*- far, thinking thereby to winnc Ctfars loue and favour. But Cafir difdaining fo bafe and ignoble an ad, would not endure to looke vpon him,or his prcfent. When A- fophroditus had killed Nero, though, he were the naonfter of men,a tyrant,and ftood condemned according to the Lawes and Cuftomcsof the Romanes, and though he flew him at the earned requeft and follicitation of New himfelfe, yet as foone as ever the Senate heard he made his vaunts in publicke of what he had done,thcy caufed him to be put to death. Such, fuch was the goodneflTe, vertue, and prowefle of the Romanes in times paft. But how vnlike are you vnto them : if your forefathers that were Heathens, were fo tender of the lives of their ene- mies i how much more tender ought you to be that fight vndcr the banner of Chrift, of the liues of your Kings and Princes ; it was a merry and golden world in thofedayes ;. but alas the times are now altered 5 now Simonie beares the bell in the Church : now either fro- zen ignorance, or ignorant fiery zealefets the Church at variance in it fdfe. It is fufficicnt now if a man haue a forme of godlinefle, and make a good (hew of Religi- on, let him Hue never fo vitioufly, it is no matter $ now in or a f our e- fold rt>ay to Hue Voetl. 1 1 £ in Court ambition, luxurie, en vie, fa&ion, flattery fly- ing are the onely things in requeft, and he that cannot lye or diflemble muft forfake that courfe of life, or not thrive by it. The Nobilitie themfelues hunt after pro- fit, and neglcd their honour • for thefe t wo,filthy lucre and true honour, are incompatible, and cannot inhabit in one and the felfe fame place together ; yea the very Courts of Iuftice, which fhould be kept more pure and cleane than other places, are not without fpots and ble- miflics, and the places of judicature bought and fold, and how then can a man exped juftice to be duely ad- miniftred-, if the egge be rotten, the chicken will ftinkc and putrifie a great deale more without doubt. Hence it is that fuits, debates, and contentions continually a- rife. Hence it is that the rich mangoes to Law with grecdines, whilcft the poore man faints vnder the bur- den 5 the caufcofthe one being ended with all expedi- tion, and the caufe of the other hanging in fufpence: fo that the rich man ever prcvailes with his money, and the poore man ever goes to the ground. If a man cafl: his eyes vpon the Citizens & Cities,there he (hall finde nothing but fraud, perjurie, vfury,whoredome, trea- chcrie^runkenncfTe, luxurie, wantonnefTe. Amongft whom todeceiue is accounted the chiefefl wifedome, and to be wife the greateft folly. An ill conditioned people, that rellifh nothing well but filthy lucre. To conclude, the whole world is nothing els but a meere mafTc of wickednes: here enemies fpoyIe,therethccves kill : here the Atheift makes a mcere mockery of the fa- cred Word : here the Father fets fnares to entrap the fonne, there the fonnc to entrap the Father. So that here we may fee the world grows to an end, and every thing worfc and worfe. Wherefore things (landing as they doe, what fhould I ftay here any longer % more content I find in my Stygian houfes,wherefore I take my lcaue, and bid you farewell, and fo the Ghoft departed. So R 2 much I2f Q^V ATERNI O r ^sJb&^S^jS mlKh hath R °f e ° f the abufcS ° f tllC C ° Urt ° f Rmt at Jaytfbu Decameron andfi- ^ is day. $o»d v 9 ycU. Ruftic: You hauc faid enough of Rome to make a man loath and dctcft her, if it be true which you hauc faid. Iuriff: Of the truth thereof I make no doubt, for though I faw it nor with mine eyes, yet I fpeake from the mouths of fuch as were eye- witneffes, & were men of credit and reputation. Ruflic: I pray you yet fatisfie me this one donbr, whether in the time bf Crtgm e the great, Indulgences, or as Peter de r4/c7tf/4termesthem, godly deceits, were bought and fold as they haue beene fince? Inri(p: No certainely, in his time there was no fuch thing vfed, nor for many yearcs after, vntill the time of (0 PU in Bonif.^ (t)Bonifdce the ninth, which was eight hundred & odde y eares after 5 but then It a paflim vendebAntttr vt JAm vi- le fcere clavium & Utter Arum s^dpoftolicArum Authority 9 they flew out fo faft, and at fuch rates, that theautho- j-itic of letters Apoftolicall, began to grow into Con- - tempt. Rujlic: How came it to pafle, that he did not graunt them as freely in his labile as his predecefTars had done? Iuri/p f Thepontpe And retinue of the Ropes WASgrownefo CO Tantaefthodieambkio (i)greAt,andtbey fo fwolne with pride And a^iring thoughts, JffiieSS»££ thatthe ordinary revenue couldnotfupport it, where- pcu per vrbem Cdfdr tenet fore needful it was that they ihould thinke of fome new nJ^mm^S^u'lk P r °i cftsancl inventions. It wasnotinthedayesofSo- imd^ccVo^q^ #'/^ay to Uue vt>efl. ft$* As Chancer obferves,was the pride and ambition of the Popes. For maintenance whereof, all things became vendibIe,Parfonages,Prebendaries, and Cardinahhips 5 and whatnot. They maken Par fens far thepennie, K^indCanncns.andherCardinaUs. Plutarch fpeaking of ( * ) Marctu Cato faith, that mtonely (t)plnt. in u aftum cft de Mm i«« rived, are comprehended vnder thefe heads; de jrtre pu ' ***"*%> perfonaritw dejlatu bomimm, de offtcijs magiftratiium, de effich prtftdis (^procon^ulis, de liber is agnofcendis, de a- doftiombus.dctnteU e^r.and the perfons which are com- prehendedwirhinthem, areas well fuperior as inferior perfons, as well Maifters as fervants. Tutors as Pupils, Fathers as Children 5 for the word Father is taken in a 4- diverfc fence -.there is as well a politick* as a naturall fa- ther; Kings and Princes, fubordinate Magiftratcs and "Governours 5 Maiftcrs of families, Tutors & guardians, and generally all other as haue any power over inferior and fubordinate perfons,are faid to be Fathers as well as thofe our naturall parents that beget, breed, and cloth vsrand that all Lawes which doe binde Subje&s in loy- all obedience to their Soveraigncs, fervants to their S Maiftcrf. ' I JO (() See the Jutie ef PrinceJ, fcr*Ant qiiani cxe- cjuinialeDant. Taut Aib. z.eap 10 Wil. Serro vnliut eft pa; ere diclo cua.nafterrc conkLum. ' -> Curttw* ( k ) Nc pnncipe.n fociecitc ( 1 ) Plurti th iu P/;c Kf <", Qj/ A T E R N I O, Maiftcrs, Pupils to their Tutors, arc hence propagated and derived, as well as thofe Lawes which doe bindc Children ro their Parents. And as concerning the du- ties which are hereenjoynedbythefe Lawes, they are thefe fpecially ; Firft, they doe enjoyne ( i ) inferiors to gine aUhononr and reverence vnto fttpcriors, efpecially vn- to thofe that fit in the CapitoII 3 & vndergoc the*ftorms and tempefts in the Ocean, whilcft they fit and flecpe fecurcly in theharbounthey enjoyne fuperiorshkewife to haue a vigilant care and refpeft of thofe over whom they haue authoritie j not to place age where youth fliould fit,nor yet youth where age (hould fit-,<^ ) Mars where Mercuric fhould fit, nor yet CMercurie where Mars (hould fit, for that were to put the Gyants habit vpon the little Pigmee, and the Pigmtes habit vpon the great Garagantua : they enjoyne Maifters to haue a due refpeft of them over whom they haue power andcomraaund, not to carry themfelues fo high, as to bring themfelues into contempt, nor yet fo ( « ) low as to bring themfelues into neglecl 5 not ever to be frowning,as if there were no time to reward, nor yet ever to be flering, as if there wcrenotimetopunifh: but to know that wages is as ductothefervant,asawhiptatheAfle: they enjoyne fervants to giueall due refpe# vnto their Maifters, yec not to be foT( k ) obfeqaiovs as to obey them in all their com- m&unds, but when they commaund thofe things which arehoneft, and tend to their credit and reputation, to fhew their obedience by a readied) fomardneffe, and for- wardrvillingncffe. When they commaund thofe things which are neither fi: to be commaunded nor obeyed,to expreiTe themfelues by a filent backwardness nottobe a ( k ) pander to tkegreatcft for/avour or commoditie • yet not to befaim-hearted with the (* ) Coward in Plutarch, when their Maifters honour is iniurioufly defamed, or fcelrrum cum ligtUm cbftringere debemus. Tdcit, hb. 14. w/. 1 J.w*wm/. cheii or a four e- fold way to Hue well. \\\ their MiftrcfTe chaftitie called in quclHon, but with the ( * )peorefervant in Tacitus, to ftand out in their defence ('* ) T*cit, ul i 4 c*? vs t even againft TigeHinm ,who did not forbeare to tell him, Anmd - queftioning Offaviaes her MiftrefreChaftitie,that Octa- viaes fecrct parts were chaftcr than his mouth : at no time to makevfe of their favours to( m )imneor oppreffe C m ) Gloriorhocvnoqudi * '. ' J . _ . f • i 6 rr u nunnuam vidimus v lid m, anj 5 yet at no time to negleS it to doc right vnto any 5 Necpomifc mag^necno. ever to behaue themfelues like good and faithfull fer- cuincmmus, vants, bearing in minde al wayes, that he never deferved ^ZfC^&aTZ the name of a ( * ) Captaine, that was never trayned vpts a it it a rare commodate y»huk Sottldier ;and that he can never commaund wcll,that ne- £* T *! omas f™l z aye * B - - 11 1 . 1 1 1 iinc Shore, that Jh>.e never ver knew how to obey well : they enjoy ne husbands to made v/c «/ t h e Ktvgsfxvoun giue all due refpeft vnto their wiucs, as to the members '? wr9 »g a »y vm > bat t0 *,obfo bodie : they enjoyne wiues likewife to giue all honour JS^cSS, a^££ and reverence to their husbands,as vnto their fuperiors, benafti a via 9^-44 ^ag*. to frame and falhion their wils &aflfcdion$ vnto theirs m ^^ km in all honeft and neceflary things ; not then to be frow- ning when they are difpofed in a friendly and hofpira! 1 ie manner to be free and merry ; nor then to be laughing and dallying, wfcen vpon juft ground they arc full of heavinefleandforrow, but fo to behaue themfelues, that there may bebut one mind in two bodies : to hauc ever in their hearts the true affedion of the good wines ofLaceaxmonia .who to ranfome their hushands,bec a me hoftages themfelues, zn&tofettbemat libertle becamc^j (*) bound themfelues : and to endevour by all mcanes (o)r&'j* M*yi**M + poflible, to withdraw their affedions from that which **' t all women naiurallie affetl (? ) SoT)eraigntie^and to know (p) to/fow^/Bskacstefc that the French Proverbe is mod true : m diAmer < Le maifon csi malhettrenfe & me (chanter On lepoul pluis haute que le coq Chanty . S 2 The *p Qj/ A T E R N I Q> f q) Herod mv/M j&ij /* /o»n«Alexander WArifto- bulus, N bcflrangltd. lofeph. lib.. i.dcbelloludaico. ( r ) Plutarch in Themifrele. (f) Non arguendi mores patrum, fedrerendi funt,& depatre vel gloriofdoqucn- dum j vel tacendum $ nullum in terris juftius imperium quam patris,nulla honeftior fenritas quam filij, nihil cam fimm cuiqj eft quam films patris, nihil cuiqj indignius cripiatur. titrdrch. ft) Suftuiic hie nun-em : fuftulit llle patrem ; vr de jisxdJf & N*rwtf Pocta. (86jSaoguinishumani bibi* toiX^ro 9 cuius &ortus, Solis & occafus nefcit Ho- I micidia. Quis nefcit tenera? fe diffe- cmSc parentis rifcera ? (u) Stff/M: \to_Aug*fio* The houfeis never in worfe plight than when Pertlet there, fings a higher note than Cbattnteclere : they cn- joyne Fathers to hauc a fatherly care of their children, not to be fo vnnaturaU as{*)Herodwas vnto bis, of whom K^Augufltis was vfed to fay, that it was better to be a fow in Hcrods Country, than a fonne in Herods Court : nor yet to be fo fond of them as the ( r ) wife ofTbemiflecles was of hers, of whom jhemipdes was vfed to fay, that his fonne was able to doe more than any man in all Greece ^fox that the^r^/wweommaunded the Grxci- ans, he commanded the Athenians •, his wife commanded' him, and his fonne commanded her •, but fo to ballance both his meanes and aflfedions, that the one may bz knowne to be a father, the other to be a fonne : they en* joyne ( f ) children t$ honour age, as they would bane youth, when age {hall hauc feized vpon them, and haue dyed their fable haires into a filvcr tin&ure, to honour them. To tread in the footfteps of ( ■ ) *s£nxat, who for that he <*efcucd the good old man Anchifes his aged father from- the fire, hath purchafedto himfclfe for ever the name of a good Sonne jto loath and deteft the brutifhnetfe of Nere y who for that he flew his ( 86 ) Mother to fee the place where ence he lay, is defervedly rcgiftred for an impe of Sathan, anvnnaturall fonne and a bloudie tyrant. To beare in minde the flrength of nature in the fonneof Craft*, who being dumbe from his birth, when he faw onereadieto lay violent hands vpon his Father, cryed out withafowddiftind voyce, Hold thy hand, it is the King my Father-, and fo the ftrength of naturallaffc&ion- vntyed the firings of his tongue, and made him fpeake that never fpake before. To abandon the wanton vn- chaft thoughts of (°) Julia the daughter of \ydngujlus^ who by her lewd and difhoneft courfe of life, To per- plexed her aged Father, that as often as fliee came into his minde, he vfed tofetchadeepefighandgrone, and so breake out into thefc fpecches. WquH or afoure-fold ypty to liu&ypefl. I^j Would God I never had wedded Brides : Or elfe tvithont any childe haddyde^. To take imo their Confederations the nature of the birds'^ ctlledr ) Ciconu, whofe condition being old is to be- ( £2£££*f : ~ take themfclues to their nefts, and as they fed their NoninvuleConfiliumciu youn? ones, when they were not able to fecdethem- 9 ***■»*■* Idues, io doe they agamc rclieue and fuccourtnem. venerare parents, To beared w for when they fay le in performance of thefe dutics,and r orfake their fathers God forfakes them, and leaves them over to their vn- ruly lufts and afFe<2ions, which leade themvnto ruine and dcftru&ion. So that though thefe offences be not immediately punifht with death, yet vntimely deaths generally waite vpon them. Rujlic: I doc not wonder then the duties being fo needfull,and thepunifhments fo grear,that many of the Heathens were fo carefull in intruding of their Chil- dren in the knowledge of thefe duties. lurifp: Nor I. In my opinion they might haue paf- fed for good Chriftians as concerning the obfervation (y) fjjwrgwprscjpicfcat rt f thofe duties, had not their du de*q. difcovered them ne Iiberoj fuos rlli in vlla itt i *tm ■ • t ij difdplina formandos com. to be Heathens. What people in the world was ever mittercnt, amequam annos more caref nil than the ( 7 ) Lacedemonians in training vp S^tt™ t&mdofe* '/>** ' a'tiongft whom there was a Cuftome that judicium fieri 5 « quo ipfidc when their Children came tocertaine yeares, they fi»rpomemagi$inciinarcnt were to b e brought forth to a ccrtainc ptace, where in- $°)7twn l oftto mtbu ftruments of oil trades and occupations, and Bookcs of wittxTredttfi y imituUdEi2- a ]| Arts and Sciences werctobe fet before them,to this T&I&IZEEL ™*> t0 finde « ut ** naturalldifpofitions andincli- Cancrisinducerecurfum. nations, and if they found them to be adairfed to their. Vi iV^ X T^^Xr { %1 ) if0oke ^ they made Schollers of them, ifromecha- U »nbJtiikt! d * n:c ih ™ * is A b'rdthingto make a by the wail, go(/d{ * ) Hawkeofa Buzzard ; and that a Cat will doe ^A^VoTf 7^ eAnd her kind": and therefore according to the naturall in- ch^vcer * .clioatioi of their Children, did they finde out fit my- fl erics or afoure-fold rt>ay to Hue TteU. \yj fterics for them. Againe,what people in the world were more wittie to finde out inventions to reclaime their Children addi&ccf to any notorious crime and vice • f 88 ) Rogatus jtndchdrf* amongft whom this was a Cuftome, that if their Chil- £&£&$££ dren were addi&cd to drunkennclTe. to caufe one of their foru mores ante omlot po- n % )(lauesbeinfdr»nketobervhhtnakedin their pre fence , ~ at * ^S^^&'^ff V 'J . r • u c i sr r i_ rr 'it G enerofus animus faolius chat they feeing the fowlenefic of the offence, and the dudtur quasi trahicur, punifhment due vnto ir, might be deterred from it-, *l**»m kMmre ufy ifthey wereaddi<2edtoidlenefle, then they caufed the TtVoi/e™Zftheijo» 9 thd, Lawes ofBocchoris to be read vnto them, who amongft kewtllnot couch for *»> ch*- his Lawes made fpeciall provifion.that all fuch as lived fi r t/em Tr ' y *T **? T"£ i r iouj Crr t- Lym before btmhefrejentiy vpon the ipoyle, ochadnomeanesorproteiiiontolive humhUth to^dfe. by, fhouldgiue^n account how they lived, and write (* *•**» sicuimiib.u downe their names in a fcrowle, to the end, their (*)pa- Si^tol^^SS^ rents might be knowne, andfo be debarred to vndergoe Charondas. Siquisnovcr- any pubiicke office in the Common-weak: for they ^feS.^Co": held him vnworthy to governe abroad, that could not cdiofenatuq 5 patri*penitus governe at home,and that he would never hauc care of r j bmovcnd ^ : mmquam ftrangers, that was focarelelte of his children. If they fiiu^^BbS^Si fawthemto neqlcd knowledge, then they caufed the poffe, qui Uteris oi/m pro- Hkot rhUipofmtvedo*, or of^4w^«» to-be read f %TsLa^^h: vnto them, the one glorying that it was his fonnes hap- vide frbuhm dc can&m &\ pine/re to be borne in Ariftotles time, the other wifhing j*^** & ™ at <™ > qua o- for the Trojans fake, that he had buttennemoreinhis ^timhaJd^^Lndc- KingdomejW/? as ( %9 ) Nejfar was, not doubting then dos,quineorum parents qui buteafiiytofubduethem If they wereadd^d tocf- &fe£U«*,«. feminate rtbaldne, or vniecmely dalliance, then they vaVcteranorumanus,quam caufed the life of Cjtto the Cenfor to be read vnto them, i^ot^muhiwdo.np,. i i • r i_ i_ i j i_ r s -. * # • 0/« Souldurs dre the be dime where they might behold how he removed Uffan/ms ofdStdte. foriilTing his wife in the prefence of his daughter; or old DoHorsik deep mamrs the ftorie~of Huron , how he punifbed Epicharmvs for j^rYgt^ men ruk> the reading fome (*)light verfes before fomc yon^ people : o«wrv/ftf w^w, * if they faw them toneekdi their Tutors, and Cover- A f **?? *?/*<& the J a 3 fortune u but fad. Js dU things doe to ifoU dnd knowledge yeeld ; So old men bedte the honour rj the field. Old wood inflamed dctb yield the fcdyeflfire, when younger doth tn fmokf bit yertuefftni. « (♦) Ariftodc forbidMesh not oneij wanton tdtkj, but Uftiyiow ViBures. Ariftot. lib, 7. polit. T nors, I}8 ( b ) nhsthut Xantippus hk dog L*re mU him, fee Plu- tarch in Themiftocle. (c)^4fWAlexand:Bu- ccph: fa re to htm. ride antea . fol.4*. Fjcauenter Chriftus & A. poftolus mictantnos ad bru- ta animal t a, vt difcamus ex ijs quid agendum, & quid fu- giendum:& ideo apud j*. bum dicitur,interrogaqua?fo pecus & doccbit tc, ct ayera cxli &annunciabirtibi. 4- V (f )$€*.$. verf if. QjT ATERMIO, nors, then they fent them to Schooleto( b )A^*tf/)>^ his dog,ov Alexanders ( c ) Bucephalus, that were moft ten- der and refpefti ve of their Maifters. So that I lay, had not their dijde^ difcovered them to be Heathens,they might well hauc parted for good Chriftians, as concer- ning die trayning vp of their Children in the duties cn- joyned by thefe Lawes. Ruftier Sir, hitherto you hauegivenme good fotif- fc#ion,Ipray you let me craue an anfvvere vnto one queftion,andfoI will forbeareto trouble you any fur- ther at this time touching thefe Lawes offoveraigntic and fubjc&ion^vbether the Lawes derived out of thofc facred Lawes, which doe enjoyne the duties before mentioned, had their original! from auncienc or from moderne times,or no 1 lurify: Ccrtainely, they had their originall from the beginning of times, long before the Lawes of CMofes were written,even from the Law of nature ; for no foo- ner had God reared vp the great fabricke of the world, but in the chiefeft place thereof he placed the Sunne, and gauc it a dominion over the reft of the Planets » no fooner had he created the fublunary world,but he gaue dominion to the Lyon over the beafts of the fie!d,to the Eagle over the fowles of the ayre^ to the Whale over the fifties of the Sea, to the Cedar over the Trees of the Forreft: yea, no fooner did x^idam begin to encreafe and multiplie vponthe face of the earth, but he gaue to every father of a familie power 3nd authoririe over his familie s yea no fooner did the waters in the dayes of Noah betake themfelues to their wonted Chancls, and the Children of Noah to fpread themfelues vpon the faceoftheearth, but he gaue power and authoritieto thefonncsof/4/^: I will therein fatisfieyou -but firft I will (hew whence this word rnnrther is derived, and what it is 5 then how the Civill and Common Law doe differ in fetting forth the divers kindesof Homicide ; then the Lawes that punifh thofe o£fenccs,and laftly, the punifh- raents that thofe Lawes haue provided. You (hall vn- dcrftand, that fome will haue the word Mttrthcr, to be derived from the Latinesof Mors dira, dira being anE- pithet which they did comonly vfe when they would fet forth any thing to haue happened in any extreamc manner,being borrowed from Dirx the furies or impla- cable fpirit s of hell, as dirt defracationes, detejiatio dira, naufragia dira, mors dira, aconita dira, lues ox fames dira - y others will haue it to proceedc from the Saxon word tjMordren, which is a wilf ull killing of a man vpon ma- lice afore thought tothers from the Vrench word Meur- tre, which is Homicide or killing. Homicide being then committed cum homo occiditur : others way ving the E- timologies, as Brafton, who lived in the dayes of King BraUen lib, 3. Henry the third, and Britton, who lived in the dayes of Britten Cap. 6, King Edward the firft, will haue murther to be that kinde of Homicide, Onodnullo fcicnte .nullo prxfente } nnlio viden- te } nnfto audiente, clamfcrfetratur: that was done ib fe- cretly that no man was prefent at the doing of it, no man knew of it, no man faw it, no man heard of it •> fo that it fhould fecmeby theirdefcriptions,that no Homi- ^/ewasfaidtobeamurthcrer, vnleflehe had done ic clofely and fecretly, eythcr by poy foning or fome ma- gicall Enchantments in in vocating of fome damned fpi- rits, or by fome other fecret meanes, of which no pub- T 2 like *fo Qjf A T E R N I O like teftlmonie could be given. But in after times it was manifeftly cxprcfled,that not onely they whom Br act on and Britton make mention of, but all other Homicides, who vpon malice fore-thought, doe bereauc any ofthc Kings Subje&s, whether natives or aliens, vnder the Kings protcflion, of their lives, are faid to be murther- crs. Murther being a wilfull killing of a man in cold bloud, vpon malice forethought. In the fetting forth of the divers kindes of Homicides, the Civilians doe dif- fer from the profcfTors of the Common Law 5 for the Civilians doe reduce all manner of Homicides to one of {f ) Tnlbecks Parall: thefc three, either to Homicide done (*) ex cafu, ex ne- cejfario,ox ex deftinato : Inthefirftthey doe include al! fuch Homicides as are committed accidentally, as if it happen by the throwing of a ftone, by the (hooting of an Arrow., or by the running of anHorfe, or by fuch likecafuallmeanes, that one man againft his will takes away the life of another.-In the fecond,they doe include all fuch Homicides as happen to be comittcd in the de- fence of a mans owne perfon, or his pofTeffions s as if a Thcife happen to affault him vpon the Kings high way> or to breakc into his houfc to rob it $ or if vpon any o- ther occafion, a man is iniurioufly affaulted, and in de- fence of his perfon, or pofTeffions, death enfuc : In the third, they doe include all fuch Homicides as are com- mitted out of rancor or an inveterate malice, when one man out of a deadly hatred fets vpon another, and pur- fues him to death. So doe the Civilians diftinguifh the divers kindes of Homicides - y the profeffoirs of the Muni- cipal! Lawes of this Nation doe othcrvvife diftinguiOr them, that is, by murther man-flaughter without ma- lice,/*/* deft, or killing of ones felfe, man-flaughter in his owne defence, and man-flaughter ex cafu & acciden- ti : So that whereas the Civilians doe place felo de ft in anequall degree wkh murther, the Common Lawes doe diftinguilh them, becaufe as it is not an offence of fo or afoure-fold tv® to Hue tpell. 1^1 ' fo high a nature as murther is, vnlcfle it be committed by a Maid a<3or vpon himfelfe, to prevent his tryall by the Law, feeing that it extends no further then to the perfonof himfclfe, and is committed oftentimes exin- fortunio, either by reafonofthecxrremitieof fome dif- eafc and ficknefle, o r by reafon of fome agonie and per- plexitie of minde»,yct on the other fide,it is not fo much favoured in the Eaw as an zCt done ex cafu & accidenti 5 and therefore aptly and vpon good ground hauc the Common Lawes diftinguiflit this kinde of man- {laugh- ter from the other three, ex deflinato^ ex cafu, & necefla- rio. Now although the Lawes doe varie as concerning the divers kindes of Homicide, yet doe they agree in fer- ting forth the nature of thofc Homicides, fox bothLawes doe agree that to be murther which is committed out of an inveterate malice for fome fuppofed offence to be given before jfuch as was in the beginning of the world, the murther of Cain vpon the beloved of God his bro- ther ^AbeL Homicide ex neeeffario they doe likewif c a- greetobethencommitted,whenasthe offender having vfed all meancs he can to prevent an vntimely death, is ofneceffitie at laft compelled to requite (*)H*manrvith (g) Hefierj.v.io^ the reward which be provided for Mordocbaus. Homicide likewife ex cafujhey doe likewife agree to be then com- mitted, when as a man having no evill in his thoughts, doth yet notwithftanding againft his will takeaway the life of another, as it often happeneth in the cafes before mentioned, in the (hooting of Arrowes, the running of Horfes, and the like, fo farrc doc both Lawes agree: the difagreemer then confifteth in this,the Civill Lawes doe include al! Homicides within thefe, ex caftt, ex necef- fario, & ex deftinato, the Common Lawes doe not, Rnftic: Sir, you haue fufltciently {hewed wherein the Lawes doe agree, and difagree, concerning Homicides : I pray you in the next place, what aretbe Lawes that punifh thefe Homicides ? T 3 Inviff: 1 QVATERNIO, (*) Plat, in Gorg. lurijp: 1 he Lavvcs which puni(h thcfe Homicides, are comprehended vnder thefe titles^ Homicidijsje Parri- cidijs, deSicarijs, deTalione, and the like, which haue beene aptly termed by the Auncients cyther Lawcsof (*) Commonitionot Lawcsof Animadverfion. Ruftic: What are theLzwes of Commomtion, as you call them, 1 pray you £ Iurifp: They are fuch as arc vfed to prevent and ex- tirpate the growing evils, and to take away the caufes' and occasions of thofe many quarrels, Combats, man- flaughters, and murthers, which are fo often commit- ted in the Comraon-wealthrwhich haue their originall moft commonly from offenfive provoking words, af- terwards brcake forth into blowes, vntillatlaft they ay to Hue Kt>eU, i 4. $ becau fe that he hath loft a fubjeft ; or by appeale at the fuitc of the partie, becaufethat heh^hlollaFather^a . brother, or a kinfman. Ruftic: I pray you giue me lcaucroexpoftulatca lit- tle with you concerning the Lawes of Commomtion. Wil! you hauea man to appeale to (he Law for every i- dle word that falleth ? turifp Old Ceffcry Chawcer will tell you ( l ) no^ nor (\)anHiyengeMmyiam^ yet to quarrell vpon every idle occafion, when as lie M ? e ,°/' e hdd wycr Vp ** may ;r/**j>Mmtr, that he hath beene thefirft that hath uTuedoutof abe- iKSS^gSSSfif fieged Citie, & given the onfet to the enemic,and made ththigh^mtuu iforwhofoe- him recoyle . and the Jaft that hath returned, or when ^^J^l£^^ that he hath beene the firft that hath fcalcd the walls of mLm uui % tostoeufZ a Citie,, and fet vp his Enfigne in honour of ir, and ano- I"* 9 ** hts f? edre *™»k Qj? A T E R N I O, he could hardly containe himfelfe : the little Wormt will turnc if he be trod vpon ; the ( * ) Buls wiUkicke if they he wearied; the dogs will bite or barke at leafl • the Cocks will Ipnrre if they befet upon j but it is becaufc they want vn- dcrftanding : bat for a man thdt Hues ina( u ) fetled go- vernment vnder a happie Prince, where the Courts of Iu- ftice are open,whereunto every one may refort & haue redreffe for all wrongs and iniurics done and commit* ted : to kicke & bite and barke,hecan^/irf £4/; no(°)fame or renowneby /Vjwhofoever will be accounted truely va- liant, muft arme himfelfe with wifedome and difcreti- on, to know when, and where, and againft whom to draw his fword • for to fight vpon all occafions giveo, is a foolifh hardinefle or rafh forwardneffe $ not to fight when juftoccafion is given, isbafecowardlineffe. But then to fight when $)Religion and thy Countrey is at (lake, is true valour & magnanimitie;to fight with thy friend, thy Countryman, or thy fuppofed enemy for & word fallen in heate, or by reafonof fomc offence taken, ari- fing from fomc falfe rumor, which was never given, or indeed vpon any occafion, be the quarrell never fo juft, to make thy owne Country a Cock-pit, and to fheath thy fword in the bowels of thy Countryman, thou canftpurchafe no honour, thegreateft glory that thou /halt gaine fhall be this,', hat thou baft (pirit & life in thee, ( <* ) a Cocke or dog will deferve as much. If thou wilt pur- chafe fame and rcnowne in the performances of noble achievements, goe as thy fore- fathers did vnto Malt*, vnro Rhodes, and vnto ijfrgyers, there (halt thou finde fie fkabbards to fheath thy fword in,encmies fit for thee to encounter withall ; where thou maift winne glory by the Conqueft, and triumph in the Viftorie. Or if thou wilt needes fighr,lcarne of ( r ) '^ingnflus when to draw thy fword,ad venture not thy life to no; hin?,vea to that which is worfe than nothing, to fhamc and ignominie, he willtell thee, tha: thou oughteft not to fight but when or afouYefoid y#ay tb UueKPeli. 145 when there is more hope ofgainc, than feare of loffe ; for that a Viftorie cannot adde fo much vnto thee, as a difaftrous fortune ruay derogate from thee 5 who will adventure a golden hooke for a fmall ftfh, the loffe whereof the greateft Whale in the Ocean cannot coun- terv3ile rand who but a fievy 3 forward foole will adven- ture his life to nothing. Leameagainevf{ { ) Romulus and (0 #*>. in Ronndo. ^crenX^)H*rold,*nd#Wamthc Conqmrmr, if- ^2SS%if fc Charles the fifth, andFrauncis thefirfl : (*° ) let thy Com- ( to ) Veil? eft aliquanda batinebeterefenepoore innocent (qhUs {rm death andde- reipubtvtpu^t duo inter, fe a J*- ~r i i rr\ i • •• • 1 ~ ex pafto, iJeoq; monoma- ftmttion. Charles the htth being at variance with Fram- c hia inter duos reges in ree- cis the firft, in which quarrell many ChriftianPrinces no^iY^aMartinop^- were interefled, and many harmelcs foules like to Puffer c .-str^ir^kdc Gn&0 1 by it. Charles being moved as he made fhew with a ricertamine. ChrMancompaffionandPrincelyca^ refpedt, a care of fuch his enemies as were drawen into /w***,, & Be*rk< comium the quarrell as friends and allyes, by Secondary meanes, E Jf ex P er *"»*« fecundum made this propofition to the Kings Embafladourythat ZfmR^m^Zilvh^ the Controverfie bet weene them might be ended by a demH^r.deaimincixf* fineleOmbate, which com mine to the vnderftanding ma J eft « ls - . . of the French King, he willingly embrace it,and glad he itemconccflafuitmonoma- vvastohaueany occafion to requite him for the enter- <*« inter fannc. Hereford rainment which he gaue him at the fiege otPavia ? fo- c^Tk*/: te^rejSi.*. that in a publicke affemblic for that purpofe called ro- pro fimiiicaufa. getherintheprefence of all or mod of the Princes of^^^^J^l thcbloud, in theprefenceof all forraineEmbaffadours roigeruregnameeod/ em F c- at that rime refiding in Fraancenhe Emperors Embaifa- ^j^^'^. h* dor being then prefent in his publicke Hall in his Court i^&fc«2SjJtfi at Paris he can fed one of his Secretaries of 'State with a icaubjiequhort-fincn vuhtas Jowd voyce to reade a Carttll figged with his owne- !^*£^ fi £™ ru ^ j i-rroutT- ri- rent,am;ci8c affincs perfe- hand, tO thiS etTcft; that the bmperOUraCCUlmg him tO querentur injurias eorum haue falfified his faith, had fpoken vntruely,and that as *] fy a £™rtem, & ira vm- often as he had orfhouldfay fo, hcgaucbiinthelye* -^ w ^^^ °" and to the end he fliould not defcrre the deciding of the Controverfie by theCombatc, he wifhedhim to ap- point the place, and that he would be readie with lis V Armes r H$ (t) CUmXeneph, filium fu- um ma/orcm in pra 1 o ceci- difle audivir s coronam depo- nere contemns eft, fed ajai. fortjflSnjepugnantem corrO- iffe audir t, coronam capiti repofuit, fcteftatu* fcmajo- rcm ex filij virtute vohipta- tem, quam ex morte an ari- tudincm fentjre. (91 ) Id gerercbcllum cu* pitit in quo eft optimu vinci: Vt I$tajfa dc Eti*clt & Pdy- mtu Seneca Thcbaide. (*■)*-#»£/ J* *>. 37. QjP ATERNIO, A rmcs either on the Sea or on the Land, on horfebacke oronfoote, and that jf he fhould not pcrfevere in that his resolution, he would proclainae his Cowardifeto all the Chriftian world rthefeare wayes hi fir Centralis topnnbafc (^honour ty,fit for Princes to treate of onely, to endearc their fubje&s vnto them, not fit for fubje<3s to fuffer their Princes, in thefafetic ofwhofe perforv their welfare doth confift, to put them in execution- but to fight at home in a Taverne, or at an Ordinarie, at a play ,or in the f h cets, in out-braving of Iuftice with a poore Serjeant, where to overcome will be a greater ( 9 \ )difadvatage vnto thee then tche overcome . Wh en thou ihalt be dragged along, not like a vi&orious Captaine > but a fervile Captive, to enhabite with theeues,rogues > and vagabonds, vntill thou haft vndergonc the fharpe and fevere fentence of the Law $ when thy Lands and goods fhall be confifcate, and it may be conferred vpon thy perfecutors ; when thou thy felfe (halt hang totte- ring betweene heaven and earth as vnworthy of either • when thy vcynes fhall become like OMarc mortttum, and thy bloud which was vfed like Chryftall ftreames to flow from thy liver as from a cleare fountaine, fhall putrifie and be corrupted • when thy harmelefle pofteri- tie, the childe vnborne in his Mothers wombe, that ne- ver knew evill, fhall fmart for thy offence, and thy le- profie fticke as clofe vnto him, as did the leprojie $f (*) NaamanvntoGehazij and his poiteritie • whereas thofe auncient poffeffions of thine, which thy fo^e-fa- thcrs enjoyed for many defecnts together, and /Which fhould haue defcended vnto thy Children, hadft not thou broken the bridge which fhould haue conveyed it vnto them v fhall be turned another way ; when the very name of thee, fo long as any of thy pofteritic fhall re- mainevpon the face of the earth, fhall be odious and contemptible : this can be no honour vnto thee ; there- fore if thou wilt haue honour on earth, or glory in hea- ven., or afoure-fold way to Hue well* 1 47 ven, thou muftobferueandkeepethc Lawes derived out of this facred Law ; Thou fait doe m mnrtber. Rujlic: Sir, what are the Lawes, I pray you, that are fo ftrid, in Cafe a man doe happen vnfortunately to commit wilfull murther i lurift: Even the Lawes of thine owne Countrey, which hauc for their warrant the Lawes of God : the r Lawes of all Nations doe the like,yea,the Lawes of the mod barbarous Heathens. Rufiic: Doe the Lawes of God commaundfuchpu- ni/hments to be infli&ed vponfuch malefa&ors > lurift: Yesindecde j by the Lawes of God, «?^/i^ verjhedeth mam ( w ) blottd, by man fall bis blend bejhed , ( w) Gen. 9. v. 5. againe. It was a Law pronounced in the beginning, and J ratified by the Court of heaven, and to this day never ! abrogated. Cain fuffered vnder this Law, yet Cain liued long before this Law was written. Iczabel, ^Abfalom, and many others likewife of whom the facred Scrip- ' (*) cen, 4. ture makes mention, fuffered vnder it. Reade but the fy) 1 Reg. %u ft orie of ( * ) Cain and Abel, of ( r ) Iezabel and Nabotb, ( x ) 1 Sam. t ; . & 1 8. of (•) Abfalom and Ammon, how God doth punifh fuch <>> ^ ?'*»« *» %* ,/ , > , «.- , r w x . n r r t ~ °f*» toys, fee Bed* wkuHt- offenders j be fides the jeer et ( » ) pmijbments eft be Con- y? w > o/Enghnd, //£. j.r^. fcience. which is the raoft indefatigable Sollicitor, and "4- ^ * u fevcreftcnemicandperfccutor, that will evertorment 5SSSKUSS2 and trouble them,prefenting vnto them in the moft v£- pM: emmm Ub. 7 cap. 1 1, lie and deformed fhapesallthofe punifliments which p^^^ n ,^ r J /'% are provided for fuch malefa&ors, that will not fuffer W^^^fflS^ * their beds to giue them reft,nor their food nourifhmer; Qw sccAdam g£p<$> their beds yeclding nothing but wearinefle, and their N^fgSs food loathfomneflfe vnto them, that makes all places tc- peAoreteftan. ° dious^and all companies troublefome: when they are in /k N~ i /w «^f. theCmcto long after the Country, when they are in npsw* inter &efa&£ the Country, to defire as much to rcturne againe • like Paftor 3 S er >" *\\ -. vntothe( b )bttrtVeere, fometimes to defire the fliadic ZZsiwl^iM- groues,fometimes the Sunnie-bankes, fometimes the Pifrw '■■- a p r coole Rivers,fometimes the dry and thirftie land,fome- Se . J f™&™m* H^cdateri ' _t 3 . ljet«li$ arundo, V 2 times r>r ? , I+8 C c ) Toy Towiy, «* to» Tf o- 7?cv,^/ e/egtwtcr Gr Batfama nonprofunt a?gris, nee aromata ; morbus Eft graviorquamqui pendet abartisoje. • Externa omnia levitcr nee inlongimnoi tangunr, in- terna funt Qua? angunt $ rt m?gis in morbo judicamur, quitabe,autmarcore]aborSt, qu$m qui febre,& tame haf c magis apparent :fic in majo- re papna funt improbi, qui lento paiTu dueuntur ad in* teritum. hf[\ (t) Pf//My<£degarru]it:ne. ( f/ It is reported by the it*- rvdne- miters, thdt jeure of tbo/e tbdt imbrued thei> hdnds in the bloudef Ca?far,Brutus, *ndC3iGiut y d»dthtvn Ca(- cae$j tdme to yntimely dedtbs wtb the fdmeddgger thdt flew him 5 Mndttot one of the reft be- ing mdny, dyed d ndturall death, or furyhed him aboue tkreejedres. Sec the Annotat. vpon Suetom'xn the latter end of tfie life of Ctfdr* Qj/ ATERNIO, times to heard themfelucs, thinking by cornpanie to cure their maladies $ fometimes againc to betake them- felucsinto theDefert,butalI in vainc ^theplacetheymay change, but the (*)maladie they cannot : So that neither Bacchus, nor Venm, neither Citie nor Country, nor any thing indcede czn afford them comfort, every place be- ing a dungcon,and evciy fight as terrible as the Bafiliske vnto them,all muficke being hut difcoid, and all recre- ations being but trouble vnro them, fo will their Con. feiences torture & torment them,vntill it hath brought them to the Tribunall of their Creator, where then it becomes as (harpe and fevcre a Iudge in denouncing of judgement, as it was before in follicitation and profe- cution, laying to their Charge things done after many yearespajl; as if it had heene done hut the( d ) day before ^ I f ay 5 befides thofe fecret punifhmentsofthe Confcience, God hath yet provided more open and notorious pu- niflimcntsj rather than Cain fhall efcape vnpunifhed, one of his owne flefh and bloud fhall be made an inftru- ment to revenge the death of Abel; rather than Icz,abel fhall efcape vnpunifhed, the dumbe creatures fhall be made inftruments to tske revenge, the dogs fhall eate Jezabel-j rather than Abfalom fhall efcape vnpunifhed, the vegetatiue Creatures fhall become revengers of the death of Amnion, the Trees fhall harg^Abfalom by the haires qi his head ; rather than the death of Ibicus fhall efcape vnpunifhed, thcfotvleseftheayre, the(*)Cranes fhall di fewer the murtherers ; rather than the death of C\e- far fhall efcape vnpuniflied, the very f { ; dagger that flew himjhaUbe made the infkmmem to takenvenge efhis Mur- therers* Raro antecedentem fceleftam, Horat. D efermt pede p&na claudo. Car. lib.$. Od t 2 . God never fuffcrs any crying finn to efcape vnpunifhed, but or afoure-fold way to Hue well. \ffi but(*) frfi or laft he meets with the delinquent • C align lam ( g ) Sera Uclt % **»<« cft inprimoTyranntdis (u&cnrfr fuftulit, Neronem grafari stv^C^m^».i. fattlo dint, usfivit, diutijsime Ttbcrinm $ he nipt Caligula cap. 4 . jol. co. in the budMcro in the h\o[\*omcSTiberius at lull growth. Qfff «™« g c ^t inpeftoi ' , ^ , ■ \ c n. j r j re, idem Nemefin in terg(* ytoritf and Tbyejtes perad venture in the hilt and iccond ge ftare (bier. Sc#neof the Tragedie, may be lifted vp on high, rule Lyfite* deconft.r^.ij. andgovcrnc, fcpvp and pull downcat their wi!s and &&£*$£& pleafures, fed fade ruunt in extreme * in the laft part of it o/Mortaigne and ioffelina, they arc brought low enough. Tiberivt (ox a time may tfAifemeroW Beatrice io- fway the Scepter, but before his death wee in ill heare ,/ s yP ont«s and viaonna, him gall and cry vpon the i h ) Gods and Goddefjes to rid him of Antonio tfWBerinthia,©/ eut 0fhisfaine. Nero may for a time fwili himfelft in £^S£ innocent bloud, but in the end we {hall heare him pitti- no MdVzx&i&jHwwmrtk* fully complaining and crying, (* ) Nee amicnm habeo TKfW fi T * 1 * '? 1 * I • r i & , . t J r b j l i -Hi (h; Tacit Iib.6.cap.i.An. Mcmmicttm,\\autl neitherfnend nor foe that will doe na l. methatcurtcfie,astoeafeme of mymiferie? It isfaid (*)^/^.*.dcCoaftaii: oii^iugujlus, that he tvas( L ) inhappiein his Livia, in his ("f^ !ll.Te Liria fortis luliajnTiberiut 5 in-Z/o//4,that his wife which lay in his Dirftar humanar mifto ad* bofome, fliould be ( »* ) the plotter of his death r in Iulia, monui ^ e *■«* tbatfhce who was his beloved daughter, fhouldturnc whore, and leadc a lewd and difhoneft courfe of life ; in Tiberius, that the fonne of his enemy ihould inherite his poffc flions-Punifhrnents indcede greater than a man could well wifh to befall vnto an enemy, yet the grea- teft of them is not to be parallelled to the leaft that the murrherer vndergoes-, punifhed is he in hisconfeience with the guilt of an abominable adi done j punifhed is he in his pofteritie, his Children, poore Children that never had cvill in their thoughts, are in a fort baftardi- fed & made incapable to inherit his pofTeffios jpuniihed is he in his goods and Chattels, ftrangers andenemies enjoy thofe things, which his Aunccftors carefully ga- thered together ; punifhed is he in his death,an ignomi- nious death doth he vndergoeiand well were it for him if his punifhments might end there ; but it cannot be 5 death fhallbe but as agate to let him in into a place, V-3 where,, l$Q Qj/ ATERNIO, Gehenna dcfcrktio. whcre > wherefoever hcturneth hirafelfe, he fliall be- bold nothing but hydeous and fcarcfull apparitions. Hie lachrymas fruflra mittunt, ibipettora tundum, Hie lacerant crines, ibi fit ■/ dent dent i bus, hie flat Pallor iner$ y illic maeiesfedet, horror vtrin^ efl, Hie rotat Ixion, hicfaxum Sifyphus vrget • Hie Titium laniat Prodigus & parens vine lis ftringuntur eifdem, Itxfticutfjr Princeps, nullo difcrimine, vbife Horridus ejl clamor, ftngultus & vndi% Uttus. In this place one fighing and fobbing to no purpofe, in that place another beating of his brcafts to as little, in this one tearing of his haire, in that another gnafhing of his teeth, in this (landing grimme palenes,in that fa- ting pale leanenefle, here Ixion turning of his whecle, there sifyphus rolling of his ftone,here the furies vexing and tormenting of Oreftes,ihexz Nero that drencht him- felfe in innocent bloud, drinking of gore bloud & poy- fon, here Caligula, whofe thoughts were ever buficd in inventing or afoure-fold n>ay to hue KeG. m inventing of new torments to punifh Chriftians,beaten with continuall ftripes, there Heliegabalut and Sardana. palus full of fores and botches and boy les, thedeferved wages of wantonnelfeand luxurie ^bcxtNeJlorius.Do- VAtHSy znd^rrius, burning in (**) fire that never goes (91) A4 mala ferraaw* $nt> there the Monkes boy ling in fcalding water in per- nort moritwamali, petuall darkeneffe ; here the Merchant, there the Law- yer, the Porter and the Courtier cou pled together •, for here there is no difference betweene learned and vnlear- ned, rich and poore, experienced and vnexperienced, prodigal! cV miferable,Prince and people ; all are bound vp in chaines together without any diftinction : every corner being filled with hydeous cryes and lamentati- ons • into this (linking Dungeon, I fay, motted about with Stygian (landing waters,(hall he be carried to Hue perpetually, that is guiltie of the (hedding of innocent bloud. Ruflic: But doe the Lawcs of other Nations punifli murther with fuch heavie punifliments as the Lawes of England dot i iurijp: Yes certainely : the Lawes of the Heathens doe fo. Ruflic: How commeth it to pa(Te then that in Rome there was no Law to punifli Parricides f Iurij} : Certainly ( k ) Romulus never thought that any ( U p^^ & &»*& man was fo barbarous to commit fuch a faff- who being dc- maunded this queftion, gaue this reafon : therefore the old Romanes did rather thinke thefe men to be Tygres and Wolues, than reafonable men, and provided put* nifhments for them accordingly * for they did vfually fut them into a ( l )facke, with an Afe, a Cocke,anda Viper, (1 ) Atoumitr&jkntnd*** to the intent that they might take fome rev ege of them, **■!•«*• % • and after caft theip into Tyber : and the ( »«) Perftans did ( m ) ^fr*<*fc fod\ vfually call fuch baftards, for they fuppofed they never had Fathers. Ruflic: But how was murther and parricide among other m (n) Alexander *h Alcxand: DtoJ. Siculm lil>. i, rerum Antiquarum. Cdp. j. Vide quomodo apud Ger- minos,Lui?tane*, Graecos, Macedones, Thebano$,ho. micida puniebatur. Akxd»i\ dk Alcxdud* (o) Dent. 19. z>.?. Loci refiigi j ftierc, Kcdejh in £d/*/. in monte Keptdli, She- fremiti monce Epbrdim^ri. mbdtbd in monte lndath t Betyr in d cferto, %*»">& in Giledd, & Ge/*» in BMfhdtt. Iofh. xo. (t)Sta»fordMb. % x*p.8. (£gyptiam,yo\\ fliall finde they did vfually thrufi long Needles vnder their miles and toes ,the tcndreft parts of their bodies, and to cut off their flefh before their fa- ces, and to throw it into the fire. If into the Lawes and Cuftomes of the ^£thiofians y to haue vfed in the Citie of Elephantine to haue enforced the murtherer to banc ufltdof the hearhe called Opbnifa, which being taken would make his fleepe to produce terrible and fearefull drcames, prefenting vnto them vifions more terrible than death it fclfe. So doe the Lawes of other of the Heathens punifh the fame. Rnfiic: Doe the Lawes, I pray you, punifh all men alikc,that happen vpon any occafion to kill a man i Iurijp: No verily ; they haue afpecialleye and re- gard to the manner of the fact ; for as there are degrees of man- daughter, fo there are degrees of punifhments : for if it be not committed ex de/linato, of malice and fet purpofe, then according to the Lawes of God, with men there is mercie to be found : by the Lawes of God there wereccrtaine ( ° ) Jfyla, places of refuge permit- ted, whe reunto the offender might flie and haue abfo- lurion ; as when a man had gone to the Wood with his neighbour to hew wood,and bis hand fetching a ftrokc with the Axe tocut downcthe Tree, the head had flip- ped from the helue, and wounded his neighbour, fo that he dyed, thereof $ he might haue fled vnto thofe places, and haue found refuge. Some refcmblance vn- to rhafe Lawes haue the Lawes of Nations, efpecially: the (-P ) Lawes rf the Nation wherein we Hue : if any fuch offender fhall betake himfelfe to the Kings Court for refuge, the King will prote& him as touching his life : yet he ffull not cfcape altogether vnpuniflied $ for as by. the Law of God, if abeatthadkilledaman, thebeafl was to be Ci)Jio&ed> and no man was to eate of his flefh. The or afoure-fold way to Hue ypelt. 155 The Lawes of our Nation haue fomerefemblance vnto thofe Lawesjforif it happen ar any time a beaftto {?)kiU CO st4nford.fi. cor. Uh. i. a man, or a Cart loaden mthgra:ne to goe over a man, Co F ^\ j£ c g £ f that the partie dye by reafon thereof, the owner (hall t.Ed.x.Fn^hltttxor.w. efcape with his life, yet the Oxe, the Cart, the Corne, ***• and the graine, and all other things that did moove and conduce to the death of the partie, (hall be confifcate. Agreeable with thofe Lawcs were the Lawes both in ^Athens and Rome •, in Athens the ftatue of Nico was ad- judged to be Confifcate by the ^ireopagites, and to be caft into the Sca,becaufe it fell vpon a man fitting vndcr it,and flew him : in ( f ) Rome likemfe the day ,the moneth, (() Sutton in Ufa*. and place, where Ctfarwas mttrthered,[Hfferedfor his deaths for vpon that day by a general 1 Content of the Senate, they were never to meete againe in Confutation : the Ides of March being the time when that bloudy Maffa- cre was comicted, was named ?arricidinm y & ih^ place they caufed to be dammed vp, and never after to retaine the name of the Senate- houfe. So did the things which could by nomeanes beacccfTarie vnto his death, fuflfer for it. All which was to (hew how odious a thing mur- ther is, both in the fight of God and man. So you fee, though no Homicide or murther efcapes altogether vn- punifhed, yet the Lawes haue a fpeciall eye and regard to the manner of the faft. Ruftic. Sir, you haue given me good fatisftftion, touching the Lawes derived out of thefe Lawcs. I pray you goe on vnto the third Law of the fecond Table, and (hew me what the Lawes are which are thence de- rived. Iurifp: I will therein fatisfie you .and firft,f will fhew you what is faid to be Adultery in the eye of the Lay? • then how it isdiflinguiflitfrom Inceft a n o Fornication; then what are the Lawes which puni(h or. enci s m 'Iv fe kinds j and lattly, what the puniftimenrs are |hat thsfe Lawcs haue provided. You lhall viuiei £u, 4 rhac X V)Adid- 154 Qjf A T E R N I O, ft) Adulter ft acUtrri di- ( t ) ^/^ * then properly [aid to be committed, and he or comur.cjuiaille ad alteram, n\ , £ j , r r A / ~ , , , fthxcadaitcrumteconfcrt. lactate an Adulterer or Adulter •effe ,who having taken the jSWfc holy (tare of Matrimony vpon them, inftirured by God in Paradife, (hall forgetting the promifc which they fometimcsmndeintheprcfenccofGod, in the face of the Congregation, and confirmed by the Ceremonies of the Church,in a prefumptuous boldnes,or bold pre. (u ) Conjugium cxduobus fumption, dare to infringe and ( ■ ) untie that knot which spe^ defiling or his neighbours bed,endcvounng as much as in him or her lyes, to induce a fpurious generation. Inceft is then faid to be committed, when they who by reafon ofconfanguinitieand nearenes of bloudare pro- hibited by the Lawes of God,and the holy Church, to joyne themfclues in Matrimony one to another, fhall yet notwithstanding, carnally know each other. Forni- cation is then faid to be Committed, when a fingle man and woman, be (he widow or virgin, having not taken the ftate of Matrimony vpon them, {hall carnally know one another. Thefearethe differences of thefe fevcrall kindes of whoredome. Rufiic: I prayyc, what are the Lawes which pu- (w)Vana(moricnte7%fc) niftlthofeoflfencCS? quehmonta dc natura pqta- i n ri(b : They arc comprehended vndcr thofe tirles, tur.quodbrcvchbi, diutur- _ , u . f n • • /? j „-•• j numcervis & cornicib H t vi- D * adultery s, dcftuprx y tncejtu, de nuptijs & matrtmomo, tsefpatiumdedcritjeumnon de divortijs^de fponfalibtM, and the like. And may well ^S^ficfeS be faid to be as are the precedent Lawes, either Lawes qulm diu, fed quam'ben^ of Commomtion, or Lawes of Anmadverfien. aftafitrefcrt^^^^ Ruftic ; What axe the Lawes otcontmonition? hliorf r toiu^S colp^ Imfp : They are Lawes made againft drunkenneffe, ca3icftia,cicmenta,qua?q^cx againft pride in Cloths, or exceffiue wearing ofappar- S{73SS£Em3 rell^ndagainftidleperrons, W ho cannot properly be font perfcaiora con .fterc. faid to liue like reafonable men, but to lubiilt and haue ]EcquidfiMvoiuit^V#cum a being iqtk world like the («) bruit fen fitiue Creatures, £,Sbiil!foi rhe birds of the ay re, andthebeafts of the field: Mm cacicftcm & radicibws inycr- W a$ n ot borne to fit ftill and fleepe,but like thcl?)$unnt feranuncupavrt. j# or a four e- fold rt>ay to Hue well. A%% tn the Firmament, to be ever in motion • and like the little Emmot in the Summer, to be ever working;and like the Trees and plants in the Spring, to be ever growing. Ruftic: I pray you giue me leaue a little to expoftu- late with you concerning thefe Lawes of Commmition, as you call them : and firft of the laft which you hauc A named ; How doth idleneffe conduce to the breach of thofc Lawes ? and how can a mm fitting ftill and doing nothing, be faid to be a tranfgreffor of thofe Lawes ? luri/p: The wanton Poet in his amorous verfcs will tell you in iE£//?**. QuAritur^£giflus qnare fit faBus adulter ; In prompt u can/a eft, defidiofus erat. Ovid. Whileft Venus is Courting of a looking glafle,paynting and pruning of her felfe, framing of her Countenance, fpeech, habit and gefture, to giue contentment, Cupid with his two Arrovves, opportunitieandimportunitie fets vpon her, and furprifeth her ^ whileft Diana ftands by and is impregnable, Venus entertaines him, and is (*♦) credulous, beleeues whatfoever he faith to be Oracles, ( 94) F*min«oai1at*effe Courts him kilTethhim, fports and playcs with him, fSSSSS^SS, /vntillihee beincnanted with his Charmes; and why., quam credere, qoamumvis becaufe (bee cannot entertaine the time otherwife : fliee ^idend, vd compiezajd, was never bred to paines-taking, nor knowes what be- nJiyn&ePot"™ y* 1 longs to a Needle, Violl, Virginall, or Lute, fheecan Fide parum,muitu«iq; vide Court alookingglafle, dreflTc her fclfeof thcfcfhion, J^St^LaA and knit a true loues knot, & this is all that (he can doe, damnaparit and is glad of any Company that fuits & fympathizcth ll' ~ M^^f 1 with her Condition : but as for Dtana, it is not 10 with derep.rns: her^fhe entertaines him too.bur it is to make fport with Seddanoreft altera, confi. him , (he knowes him to be a Verbalift, and fo values dere nulii# him, efteeming his words as winde, and his charmes as the charmes of Syrens, hcarcs him onely, becaufe fhe X 2 can- r i$us civ Aulico om- nemin modum fe con form a- re;monbu$ eorum quibuku Vivit; & Alcihidae imitari qui Mhenii Atnca. moru fuavita- tc vixit, LMcedtmom iolutius. CdJMntit.i.O'i. Qui fapit, innumeris mori- bus aptus erit. (*) In fermone vtrumqj ex- tremorum fugiendum eil 3 ruftici id'omatis viliras & li- brarian cocinniratis a tie da. tio. Ampullas & fefauipedalia verba. Afchihts condemned in Dc»oi hexes. (*)0#4v: Cm far Mxcenatem % Ttheuuv, & M4* cum jiHtoni? um ^han?ricos & phreneti- ci)$ tile punvic,quia fcripfc- runr, vt admirentur potius quam mtdJigtunt le&ores. Suctoniin OB ay, C < j u ' " H . lqui ™®]ZlZ and flatterers. Sometimes agarnc in betakes her ieljc tU n fan.rsregnanr; vnde toherLute,Vio!Lor VireinalLand with her little fin- Granrniatic«adulati©qaafi r r 1 j r u 1 n 11 adaubtodicitur; quo aJIu- gersfofwcetly ddcams vpcntntm, that The is aite to ^evidertiroW^canei* ;».*& the( h ) trees andfiones with Orpheus to daunce after tcm. her, and with * 7ythr*us, to rcviuc the mod dulland As ^^J™ mwfa drowfieftfpirits. Sometimes (lie betakes her felfevnto ^L./. dcedncand; her Needle, and with that little inftrurrunr, attended f Pf,n; Ubcr , . • l rn * • n j * ■ r\ c 0>) Hunr r< rrunt duros la- wirhafilkc orhlver trayne, drawes out tnepidmeof p,de s &flurr„nacantu, an Acorne or bloflomc, as liuely as i^ipel/e-s could doe Dfetmuifle, fua? captosdul- with his penfill. Sometimes againe (he goeth into the .$^^M Dairy, and converlerh with the oairy-maide, and in a ahdttdiie^ mmeMcfCeni, familiar manner of difcourfe ( fo curtcous (hi is and lo- **™j?*tf!l Co «* r >™ °f vingtothemerneil)learnesofherthe my fiery of her fi^^X^^bfltZ Art. Sometimes agcine into the Pair ry,whcre (he takes •/ hu pijimmmt mto dmther much delieht,and there either in raifing ot aMai chpane ™* b '*'r* rey^the^ like vnto a Pyramidcs, or in y pourtraynng out 3 Phea- enemies. fant, Cocke, or Partridge,(he doth a while recreate her ° "**** tbdtMujickeui^ felfe: Sometimes (he walkes into the open ay re, to fee JUltZths tbefierneft mm that no wrong be done to the feedes other huiwifery, at Ames her Hcmpe and Fiaxe which is ^rowino without \ from r "M*'«"« *■*■ **g«*»* i i -^ i n n i -i i i i i their Amies: thence to her Bees, where ihe itayes a whi!e 5 beholding ;/ tbeeresfdd foulest charme* profit come flying heme vnto her, the little Bee brine;, tbejrmtitkf** ing honey to the hive. Sometimes againe (he walkes in- "in!* '*" *" f * to the meades and pafturcs,to fee her horned creatures, km* beftmetbdt curies tb* that doe as duly as the dav comes offer vpthj materials, Ju dd ) h,t i , . •1111 I if r / i Of kiHitbdt writes tn.&esutiej wherewith the husbandman and piowmanss iomuch burwifre. delighted 5 of Butter and Cheefe,ofCrudsandcieamej 8™* and ifOp^asflie walkes doe come into her way, fte aoic,^Tmom'^K will fpend fome time with himtoo, and in exchange of fang. side %apudi*i*i/«»i a wittie riddle or two put him to a non-plus : but after TfTZ-^^t*?* . r , r nit i r> ■ P°" c fc M »nervam, Mate*, the expence ot an houre or t wo,fhe hath enough ot him-, rei Dianam vuln&fc 5 o U i a fo that ( c ) Cupid or his afociates haue no opportunity tofoL ^ c r ^ ccu P at *' n****** X 3 Hate ' otjcniur. I?8 Q_ V A T E R N I O, (90Vivcr^natur*r?con- liateberchaftitie : if the('S ) Client wouldliue According WoruUsT^^I opus to the Law, the Courts of Iuftice would haue little to eflet opt. doe : if the Patient would Hue according to the Lawes ^SjlSSr? "^ oi nacure > thc Colicdgcof Phyfirians would grow into Litibui , & qucmli garruli- decay : if Venus would line like Diana, Cupid might put tatc fori- Sic incom ma Bdrtoltu Et n us illedum codcrct difcOVered f ft fcri- V P Arrowes into his quiver, and feeke him a new oUu« P ° " trade and occupation ; for (o the Poet hath long agoe Otia fi tollas periere Cupidinis arctu. Contempt d£ jacent, &fme luce faces. Ovid. From thee and thine drive float h away, And Cupids fhafts wiU foone decay. rrt lonictru* Among the ( * ) Gymnofophifls, there was a Cuftome, Eadcmleximcr Apoftolos; that alwayes before dinner the younger people were to «am per Apoftohcas ordi- be examined how they had fpent their time from the S«£o»t rifingofthcSunnc, and ifthey could giue nogoodac- « bonis fidelmm; & Apo- count ofit, they werenortobe admitted to the Table : ftolusinqukjdcpisapud yo$ Amone the Lacedemonians, the Cuftome was, thateve- non laborat non manduca- p , 5 bitjoditcDiaDominusno- ry tcntn day thQEphtbt wereto be brought beforethc fterotioros. Epbm, the young men before the Governours, and if it (A3. io. t | iat d ur j n g t hofc tendayes, they had not improoved themfelues in the knowledge of fame laudable thing, they were fevcrely beaten and cbaftifed. Among the A- thcni7is when they came to manseftate^they were more fevcre !y dealt withall,and were put to death as theeues-j forthey held idle drones to (tend for ciphers,meereno- fd) Morbidafafltpecusto- things,carkaiTes & dead mtnjvhicb if they were noti d )re- ^SStftrc. movedmu/dp^eandpnwfie^ndllkcaCom^ton in- movenda grege. fed their neighbours j which made the Poet in hisGeor- mn,bttteri6retUAjij>fltout ^ c f iS n ffi r me 3 that there is no better way tokeepetl:e Th4tt7hatu/houidrotdthg prcttie fwect Common- wealth in profperkie, than to . ttnmtnt. roote out thofe degeneres afum reges, buzzing drones chawcer. t ^ at ma [. e f uc ^ a no yf^- anc j clamor, yet doe no manner of or afoure-fold way to Hue T»eU. 15*9 of good vnro it, and which gauc occafion to forne of the wifeft men of the world in their generations to af- firm c, that there arc two forts of people who dealt in extreames, which arc hurdenfome 10 all Common- wealths, the hu fie negotiator and vncenakcT 5 and thci- dle drone and fluggard, the onecompofedofthetwo light Elements, fire and ay re, the other of the two more groiTe, earth & \vater s the one fo bufic that he will haue an Oare in every mans boate, and a hand in every mans bufines, and fo that he may be doing and going, cares not almoft what he doth, nor whether he goeth ; being . one that confults little, but trots and travels much, and . his legs for the moil part out- run his wits : the other fo la^ie, who though he hath neither food for his belly,, nor cloth's for hisbacke, will rather fteale and ftarue, than take paines to get a living. The firft of thefe, that \s i xhc( t )giddiencgotiAtor, Tacitus thus reproues, there (OVidefabulamdefoefc haue beene, faith he, divers hopefull men, like to haue £££ "tafiJ&S come to great preferment in the Common-wealth, &oneobtineri.Certaroene. who defpifing that which with little patience might ^2f£5?i l ™!' e t, l u j -i_i- •• l in 1 i & P ,riend 'fccuJtate:Canisdi. hauc beene had with lecuritie, haue haftened to that, cebatnuiium animal hoc no- which being gotten before due time, hath bred their mine fecum glonaripoflej ruine and definition. And (*) Saint CMartin thus in ^ o rS«,^«"v3; aCoach-man,a Coach-man travailing to Z«/^/4, now i"rovcrbjum s called Paris, the prime Citieof Frauvce, in a full Car- ^* ni * feft "«nsc*- riere meeting with him, expoftulates with him, whe- f *) C ?mcn£ °* ther he might reach f night to Lutetia or no, to whom Saint J/ *>-*/>* anfwered, Si fefiines excluder is, fin lento paffuinccdss, r urben$ hocvefperi ingredieris, jf thou ridcfl not fo f aft thou maift ; which the Coach- man taking to hearr,thinking the holy man had derided him,driveson as faft as his horfes could well goe ; but being not gone! out of fight, one of the whedes of his Coach broke, fothat he was enforced to take vp his lodging there « that night i the Coach- man then remembred what the holy man had prefagedj and that if he had gone more eafily s Uo CO Smtun in Ca/kre. loripcr yirtutem prae» tar,quam perdedicus vivere. Sdlujtt & JLmiltm 'Btobut in ( h ) Stf *fc* Statute af *. . E - lizab:(4/r. 5. R aft-tic UhoK* rers a* iter yams. Seethe SM- tureo ieyi PhlipcrMa- rjr,R.aitiit. /E^/t Q^V A T E R N I o, eafUy, he had come fooner to his journeys end: the ci- ther, that is, the idle drone and fluggard is thus repro- ved by C, K^imbulareper tabernas, Latitart per poptnas. And thus by the ( { ) Cirizens of Rome in Bibulus, Ctfar and Bibnlus being Confuilstoge: her, when any thing happened worthy of note during the time of their Con- fulfhip, the Citizens pleafandy in dcrfion of Bibulus would fay,that it was done when lulius and Cstfar were Confute, making mention of his two names, asifthcy had beenefeverall men,and never remembringof Bibu- lus, but as a Cipher or dead leuer. Non Bibulo quicquam nuper, fed f Ca fare factum, Nam Bibulo fieri Confute nilmemini. Ctfar of late did many things, but Bibnlus net one. For nought by Conful Bibulus doe I remember done. C&far will rather ( s ) dye on the Mount aines, where honour is to be found, than Hue with F lor us or Bibnlus in Tav ernes andTaphoufes. Ctfar in dying gainesimmortahtie, but the other in living pcrpetuall flume and ignominie: the induftriousmanJiueswhcnheisdcad,burtheid!eman is dead vvhileftheliues. Nam qui nihil agit, effe omn'tnb nenvideturfmh the Orator.Or'both thefe forts,'hat is, borhof the induftriousand tluggifh people, the Lawes derived out of this facred Law take fjpedall r.oricc-and therefore as they doe eiuedue refpeft tofuch as Hue according to their profeffivw, by the fweat of their browes 5 So doe they ( & ) brant idUperfons with the S r ig- mtfica/l markes offhaine & ignominie, as incorrigible va- grants and vnworthy members in a Common wealth. Rujlic: or afoure-fold n»ay to Hue y»elt. \6l Rujlic: But how can drunkennefle be faid to conduce to the breach of thefe Lawes ? I*rijp: Very well . and not vnto thefe alone, but vn- to all other La wes derived out of the facred Lawes of both Tables,as will be made toappeare vnto you. And firft that it doth conduce vnto adultery ,fornication,aad inccft, I would haue you informe your felfe out of the Tragedie of Oedipus in Seneca, where you may behold the fruits and effe&s of this naftie vice, fet forth to the life : Laius having drunke toodeepe of thefruitofthe (96) — mnign*. grape, forgat what he-heard from the Oracle, lay with p^fu^^^^^ his wife and begat OedipM b thi$ fwolne-foote monfter, "SLn^Sis! mm * * afterwards requited him with death, lay with hk{* 6 ) m- Vnoavia partu, iiberos pei wtUmtherjaA of her begat two twinnes which killed ,$g^$fe each other, which the poorediftrefled mother behol. ther,thcr,v4iofhts/jre; ding.in very anguifli of foule killed herfelfe 1 yet the WihotberofhtiUttuMts, r— D ,. '1 . D 1 r i. t 11 r i to brethren fathtrdtrex Tragedie ended not there, tor at the funeral! of the two The Grandmother at every Twinnes Eteocles and Poly nices, which was performed ^thtohus^atui^dceUseife) by fire,thc afhes of them divided it fe!fe,the allies of the T^^Z'ti^, one flying one way, and the afhes of the other flying a- Seneca m Thefeaide, nother way h fo that as they lived all their life time in °^!^^f ,orty0 ^ nm diflTention, fo they dyed, and as they dyed, fo the fruit T$7Z£e's The \mm» «£. thereof fhewed it felfe in the manner of their funcralls, l<»t>'i>ecrue!ir,oiem 9 and in their pofteritie, for as long as there was any of ffiSETEESffi their pofteritie remaining vpon the face of theearth, «*l they could never be reconciled. 1 his Tragedie morali- /MT Bar J t5$ ' * ... k fcd, Will flieW VntO yOU that from this rOOte Of dr«-n- ^jcitur.qi^debncrasel.ma.. kenneffe proceedc thofe ftemmes and branches ( 4 ; neg- ]um > ™de omnia mala pui- incth s.perpetuali hatred, divtfion and di^[cntion. Againe, communicate crit v% ad you muft vnderftand, that ( * ) Bacchus and Venm arc ffWS** emend ^^ ; < r 11 ^ j/ u r • c ( ^ Vinum vt teftatur #«* lnfeparable Companions, and Jc'domegoealunaer, io »^^,vcUiptat;sjncendm that he that is familiar with the one* cannot be a fh an- eft » et vcmer ncro *ftuans gcr to the other. It isa hard thing for tman ferric KteS&SbS ( ^)fire inhisbofome, and not be burnt, to hue in Sodome minatur. and not to parrakc of theilnncs oisodome. Dectpit Lot (^Nonftdiecft, TamG Ui Qjf ATERNIO, C98) Ebrietaseft blandus cjjemon.dulcc vcnenum,ille- cebravolupratis, & pudoris injuria .quara nuilus no vent Chnlhanus. BeritdrJ. (k Pofrremum & perfeftif- fimuni opmdti tft homo, & reliquarum rerum dominus. Ztuchiw. (1 ) Vidif inqutt Petrarch*) juvmem po^gncuav cun- dem fenem revidi 5 quadivi caufar^ 5 null, m m;hi aliam reddidit, quam quodfe vino pemtus addicifler. Petri lib 5 Jamil . Epift . (m) Hinc (ubita? mones, atqjinteftatafencduf. Ixv: Sat. 1 . (n) Ebnetatem tanquam libidinis /omentum fugite. 1 fybef. * Era/mm lib. 8 . Afofhtbegn. ( * ) Jnhii evene hrejl be thought it keH 9 Hk money to inclo/e 5 Then wiJJjt he well whatever fa, lie jtonlJ itnever loft. Str Tbo; More wtm/j. ebrietas y quem Sodoma nondecepit, this(' 3 >fugred poyfon deceived him whom all the daintic Dames of Sodomy could not decciue. Whcreforethe holy Apoftle taking fpeciall notice af the fowlencflc of this loathfome vice, howkdrowncs thefoule in perdition, makes man the ( k ) gf*y of the Creatures^ to be a meere C haos. How it di- ftempers the whole bodic, diffblues the natu rail heatc of the liver, & caufeth it in ftead of bloud to fend forth water jhow it annoyes the brainc,and in hot fiery Con- ftitutions caufeth phrenfir and mndncs,incold & moift Conftitutions 3 E/>//^//^ & Apoplexies, Cramps^)Gowts, andDropfies, and oft entiwes ( m ) [uddaine death, by clogging andftoppwgof thevitattpaffages. How it infatuates the fences, confounds thememorie, intoxicates the phan- tafie, & very oftentimes occafioneth mi.rrhers, incefts, adulteries, and all manner of vncleanneffe, giues this fpeciall Caveztjo beware of the (*)hooke , leaftrve be taken rvith thebaite*Erafmu$ in his Apophthegmes liucly fet- teth forth the proper wages & reward of this in a yong ruffling Gallant, who having wafted his patrimonii? by drinking and whoring,and having run into debt further v than his ftate would fatisfie, became an humble fuitor to ^dlphonfus King of Arragon^ that he would be plea- fed to grant him a prote&ion againft his Creditors, that perfecuted him like aGhofl wherefocver he went-, to whom L^ilphonfus anfwered, that he would advife of ir, and if he found vpon enquirie, that he had fpent his e- cftatc, either in his fervice, or for the benefit of his Country, or in relieving of the fatherles and widowes, then he would notonely protefthim, but relieve and fuccbur him- ; but if he found that he had fpent it vpon himfelfe, and was able to giue no better an account of it, than the waftfull Steward did, who being called vp- on to bring in his bookes of Account, (*) Ospriml, de- indepod'eem oflendit, firft fhewed his mouth, then his pofteriors \ the one being his J^ooke of receipts, the o- ther or afoure-fold tip ay to liue Well. I & \ ther of difburfements, then tquum eft vtlnatc or ports, qui tantas opes impendebat corpori, it is good juftice, that the body which enjoyed the pleafure. fhould endure the paine. The Heathen Morahfts having taken fpeciall notice of the inconveniences th3t arife by reafon of this vice, haue prefented vnto vs divers lively patternes and piduresof fuch who haue perilhedbyit, to theend, that by their(°) harmes,we may be warned and admonifhed. (o) Pulchrum eft ex alio- When Plan ; faw ayoung man that had fpenr a great for- j*--; ££££ tune ( by Wine and Women ) at the dore or Pandoclnus quod ai>j cgcrint quaere, •begging his bread,and fupping vp cold water,paiTed by j ed q^optima adu fit no- , .- D /, D i • i- i , , ;" j/. / • f » _, • bis proponereadimttandu* him, (baking his headland relieved htm onely w{?) den- p 1 ^ quem faciimt $£ ding him, faying, if he hiddynedfo when time was, he nee- na peiicuia cammr* . dtdmmm to bmf^fedf,. When he ftw another time WSSS&Si the Argentines building continually, yet •(**) drinking and bat cibum a formids; cui rvborinr eentinnaHy, he bleft himfelfe, caftine vp his eyes [ OIHlicx > q"»<* ™ n collige- ,i^i j . , r i iii •• j ' -r Das in *"ate? Cui Cicada; and hands, wondnng wherefore they did build as it non eram otiofa, nam cane- thcy (hould live for ever, yet diinke& whore as if they ba«> nr.uGa* ; cui formica: j could not liue vntill the morrow. When the * EmbafTa ^ a ftate ™ d ^ h ™M™ dors of the Athenians, Philocrates, and JEfchines, retur- C99) D/unhmteffc W luft ned home from the Court of Philip of Macedonie : De * ia ' ot " e £ C€A :™ ^>*» dt} *> f- ... . - f / . fore AtmoniU hAueproytaed tnojlhenes was defirous to know what newes was mthe the (*m viminutHn for the Courtof Philip • to whom as athing of note they rela- Codte °t the ^uni^rd, **tbey to whom Demefthenes reply cd^ff abet banc vntutem cum tkt former, *m on the ufi rnulo communem, his mule would doe as much. Anrelia- W^j^^iW. nus the Emperour being told that Bonofus was furprifed by Prohm, and had ftrangled himfelfe, faid, that he ne- ver expe&ed to heaie better of him, that fuch a( J ) lifcs ( 1 ) k*x3 x'jwcoc. wxk as he led coiddnot produce a better end 5 he was borne not &*• to liue, but to drinke, and a Caske or veiTell is never in Vt ] ****$'. fj**\ vivers his proper place, except he be placed aloft. Leontycby- $r*f& das being asked wherefore the ( q ) Spartans did drinker ( q ) Aq; «iam spm* mos Co little, anfwered, becaufe they did confult much, and efH.udab^.s'.Ue, being asked a fecondtimr, anlwered, becaufe they did qu%fao. adore Chaflitie much • intimating, that VVine was an e- Y 2 nemy 1^4 Q^ V A T E R N I 9, enemy. to both. Diogenes being tendred a cup of Wine 3 (r)Virum modi ^fumr tum acceptcdthc Cup,but threw downe the Wine, and be*, awen. VndcPoi : ta; * n g demaunded the reaion,anlwered 5 that hehad rather Vma paranc amn o$, fad. fpill it 5 than it fhould fpoyle him 5 but I commend not totqjcojoritu. a, to,. ^ ^ ^ Cynickc# F y thag0ras tQ [\ s VSj that in thc Vine Fxmndi calitcs qucmnon there are three grapes $ afweet grape, a fower grape, fccercdiiercum? and a rotten putrified erape ; in the fvveet grape there is, / Kullapbctrcdiu, nee vive- r , r & r > r reCarminapoffunt, plcaiureand cjciignr, mirth and melodic-, in the lower Qua? knburniir aqua; po- grape 5 there is fliarpnes and harfiineSjCbrietie and folly ; ( T) D —The H commt^i;cs of m ^ lc rotten grape> gall and wormewood, madnes and the vw. fury. ( r ) ^A little Wtne revives and ( 2 ) ex hi Urates the Her /Aired i^uor tmpeMij ^ jrits mm thm ffafaftfa and opprejjeth the (firsts • Kfvws thrfpiriv, dndpuri. to drinke drunke kindles and enflames the fpirits. The fie* the brt xaemems their graues, and dyed likeabird vpona bough ) did in txpelUy their fympoftjs and merry meetings, vfually drinke their ^ n rZ%*° S l7J*y~ Miftris-health, as often as (he had letters in her name ; (()N*>^fexCyathisVfcp. if ( f > N* W4.fix Cups, if/^/ftt leaven, if Lydas fiue, if tem /*#vbibatur 5 Lyfc f ourc , if ida three •, and as many more as they had ^t^SS r, a mindc to. But finding that many Cups did oftentimes- CO Proci illi.apud utmtrum fo dafle their eyes,that with the (*) woers in Homer ; they ^aTp^t^^iml could not know the Miftl is fr ? m her rcaide,they made. u adpudlai. a Law inter leges Convivdes y that no man fhould drinke (u) EitApulei liber qui m- aboue three or thrice three Cups, which were nine, at jfcribitur Horidorum 5 vbi c 1 r • qaidprimiucrareragit,qi«a any of thole meetings. fecundus, ac deinceps facet & "SSnTlST- TerW<,vc!u»ester*os,Umjpcak X( (t. AuCon. cundusad lztitiam, tcxtius, adroluptatem^uanu ;idc- K^Allwhich (*)^Aptileius vtterly condemnes in hisflorU brietatcm, quintus adiram, » 1 t_ r n. 1 \ \ n 1 fcxmiad iitigium, feptimus dornm^vnles the firit three* where he (hewes how every adfuroremjoctavisadiom- Cup vnto the rinth, workes in the boJy of man;by the ;jy|m 3 nonusadmoEbum. x v fTrfl- or a four enfold nay to Hue rrett. l&p Crft,fti;h he,ourihirft isafTw?gcd|(>y the fecond natu* rail hcatc is ftirrcd vp, and wc arc made inclinable to nrrrhj by the third we are made fully merry * by the fourth dninkc; by the fifth angry ; by the fixt quarrel!*. Jomejby thefeavcnihmad: hythceighth flecpie- by the ninth fitkc : So I fay, all but the firit three he vttcrly (• * ) condcmr.es. Sympojiacelebrare.&cum amicis inter- (¥) Non inutilc conG n um dttmjocundati, non cfl centra, fapiemis viri profeftionem , Poct« ; friendly meetings and houresio be fet apart forrecrea- Q- ui c " r,t CT P mcm morbis ^ iijiit .t r rir 7 producer* vitam 5 nons, were allowed both by the Lawes or the Lacede- Accumbens menfe pocula medians & the Athenians, becaufe it recreates the mind, tnna b,bat - ftirresvpnaiurall hcatc in the body, (harpens thewir, tlZZ^^ and begets a great deale of louc and f riendfhip amongft Er fc dolce memm dcbile nienibuttodrinkcv/^4WCr^/4^ 9 vncilLwebcas]orh. nSElSS • f ' > <« • * A ■ i -rx Ueiride roiuptati, vim con- iomc as a Sowe,as wanton as an Ape,as mad as a Dog, ecdfttrWus, thar,.that hath beene.difaltowed both by the Lawcs of / Vc F oteriatcura,corda ^ b - the one and the other s and chiefly becaufe it delivers vp Tunclonvfvabibat poftrc. the Chaftitie of the husband belonging to the wife,aqd mnm ^rgius haufturu; of the wife belonging to the husband, into the hands of ^^y^™* lum,na ftrargers : A Germane taking notice how this vice of His mbus epotis, fano qui drunkennes was crept into his Country, thus bewayles ^ cor P orc r 8 audcr * , the II ate of it : Nulla wajorpejtis vnquam repp in no/tram bitqs domum. Germanism ; facile erat tokrare Tyr -antes ,c&des Jatrocinia; Qp* ver ° fincs praefenptos ifii$*ccunm& remedia cttm tempore wvenirepojfumns . N Sapro^rorc vene- /faw r#r4r* /**»* »//#/* medeUpoteJi \hmc hoflem in noflris , na bibiu finibus adeo fitperbe grajfantem vincere, autprohibere nulla fnodopojfnmus \ quomodoconverfaeftin luxum ftugalitas nofira * quomodo degeneramus a patribm no/If is ?( 3 )majo- ( $ ) Magnus erat quondam res nollri cum fanzine ejr fudore fuo pepererttnt nobis terra. jplcJo^decus^atqj venuftas, /;'-'.«* j j - - ■• o j Germanise Cannes pro- mmimpermm $ qnomodonosdeciptpermittimm I quomodo hxaqjbarbij AqttiU adgruem rediernnt f Never greater plague came Sed ^ntas nunc eft tama & into our Countrcy, than the plague of -drunfanneflTe 5 v^»SS.ipfifa« it is an eaiie thing to endure Tyrants, flaughtcrs, and pocula radam: Thefts,and in time we can finde out a remedy for them; Sci ^l^2^ pudot * but this Contagion, no phyficke can cure : how is our aplcn ^ C ;W^. d« fuig. frugalitie turned into luxurie?and how doe we degene- otmwm, Y i rate r 166 Qj A T £ R N I O, rate from our fore-fathers, they with fweat andbloud (w) Bmta bibuntqmRtum made vs to be Lords of the earth i and how are our fpi- c^i^tS^^aumi. rits effeminated, to fufFer that which they fo dearely na nulla bibunt: bought to be taken from vs i It is a Germane recreation, S aMJ^ :mm0 i di T fi " and I would to God they would take it home againe to iEternum ftygijs exatiawr tnem, that ree had no caufeto ( * ) comflatne with the Poet ; a( J uis - for how many haue weknowne in this flourifhing I- Taurus ha^etTertaspotandi Iand > ty reafon of c ^is to haue beene fentvnto their tempore leges : graues in the fpring and flourifhing time of their age by vSe>fvir idU,qUam vntimel V deaths * how man y hau ^ we knowne by rea- Sed nos divmi'qui cum ra- fon of this to haue out-lived their fortunes, their good tione vigemus, (*) names and reputations f how many incefts,adulteric s, \k^KnTJ} CC *" 5 ° l ebeiiioncs, l niuc3as& place? how many hopefuil plants haue weknowne by conmmacias^mnijpraptcrei reafonoffhis to haue beene Co (f) metamorphofed, that nonn l; *n-. ? dupo^m, & td ' iQ r " at " a d knowne them when they were young, after genus aii.-f .i^ertdcdicitur, fomc little difcontinuanceofacquaintance,would haue tl^S t £*!? ri " br - cne a mcere ftranger vnto them, fo puft were they in riteni. their faceSjiofwolne in their bodie, fogowtieintneir Cui i vx>cuinxs?cni fa« legged fo dcfoimrd in cverv part ?xA member ofth;ir cauij vu!nera?no3inchisqui '"j ; * * commorcntnr in vino f Prov. z$ Quanta dementiaeftltbidinisregnunv t u r is exilum,vulgi fabulam &rifum. bonnuTi odium & comemptum, lucrum & mane 2audium 3 conTt:r.:ior}cs v ursia, & incsutos co^rcPiiSjvinoproTnvcre^-teco nnhlumcbrientiseffc&us.Pf/r.- (jrjYideroiu multosarrate floremes, formoioi, aamAH:!ifri:m colons -xil^ntesjT.ox vbi contincntia: fines egrefll, & cbricutis confuetud.nem iaJuri,dcflucrc^cm.ircckerc,florcJnllum a:i3tis,ccanimi vigoicm amittcre, bodies ? ' or afoure-fold way to hue Well. l6j bodies? It hathbecne a queftion in the Schoolcs, as thofc that are Acadcmicks know, whether Socrates (though fober and temperate) vftxeidemnumro in age as he was in youth : but if this queftion had grownedf any ofthe fbnncs of BaccbttsM would haue beene deter- mined, as it was oithe (*) ship that was fa often patcht r*^ T hcf«,s hisHip »*s f and peered, that none of the firft materialls thereof re- bundr fac *«tranff.imstur? tending difhoneft women inScythia, anfwered, /**(*)*// * (*) •W«ww#etJKlff»fi4.i tisqmdtm.r-o Wine truely-,thereby fhewing that if there § ctVe £ us be no fuel there could be no fi re,or if there be both fuel andfire,yet iftherebenobellowes,it willnoteafily be / kindled. Thus elegantly haue the Auncients fet forth the deformitie of this naftie vice* j Ruftic: Sir, you haue fhot your fharpeft Arrowes at this abufe, but you might as well haue kept them in your Quiver, if you doe not fliew vs how we may re- ij}. McIiu "H«a ™i fa- forme and redrefle it jfor to difcover abules, and not to Sereniffimus nU per rex) ad fliewhowtoredreffethem,istolay open a wound^and f"«ndara perniaofam c - notroapplyaremedietoit &£&£+£: Iurifp: The ( * ) remedie is alreadie prefenbed, and if popinas ebnoforum rcccp. it were not, yet my intent is not to take vpon me the office tac " la ' tan ^ am { omitem \ • \* r 7 f r , T . r C J J exorpare ; [cones vrfoCqt of a Senator to reforme abnjes . y xhatlkauctomenot riper nonreperias nifivbi csver- judgemet, but to fliew you the deformity ofthe abufe, " a3 habentset purgaretur re- that fo you may avoyde both it and the Lawes : for be- buuLrirpatcmu!-/ 11111 latt * leeue me Sir, I am of opinion in this caCe^ as Tiberius (*) —Sim pauc* l cg c* 5 was in the like cafe, that ( * ) multitude of Lawes doe little ^SSJSff P ° ndCrC availe, and that in fome Cafes and at fome times the Vt folcundubVimer con- La wes may well be fufTcred to take their reft. The*/£- */; vl ' 3 ca?nis ' i./ J . » . , 1 1 T Multa sravant ftomachum aWtf/vpon a time complained, that the Lawes concer- fercula^aucajuvam. niflg the execifeofexpences was nought fct by, and the Sichebetat mews ieg Um Amiptuoufnefleofrnooycables which was forbidden, s ^&, tImiii daily encreafed, and defired the Lords ofthe Senate to nui!*for«. aflla I 1*8 Qjf A T E R N I O (a)Fcrturdixiflc W T*tiutib»V aflift them in the reformation thereof • the Lords not willing to meddle with the matter, referred the Confe- deration thereof to Tiberius himfelfc ; Tiberias wifely confidering how vnfeemely and ( a ) difbonortbltit would Sl£r **»«■*«* tb* »bich odd net becfeaed, or if it pitcr (jaoipoftc^noncfficc- could, yet with the ignominie and infamie of many no- **• ble men : he lent his Letters to the Senate to this pur- pofejit would be convenient my Lords perad venture, that in other matters I (hould be demaunded my opini- on in your prefence,& fpeakc what I thought behooue- fiillfor the Common-wealth ; but in this I thought it , were better to withdraw mineeyes, becaufe it i^not in my power cafily to redrefle it. If the ^Ediles had before asked my advice, I know not whether I (hould rather hauc perfwaded them to let pafTe ftrong and rooted vi- ces, than goe fo f arre that it (hould be knowne how vn- able we are to redrefle fomc kinde of abufes. If I (hould goe about any fuch thing, I know not where to begin. Shall I reduce to the auncient Cuftome your fpacious Country-houfes, the number of your fervitors, the quantitie of filver and gold, your painted Tables and Pi&urcs of moft curious workemanfhip, thefuperflu- oufnes of apparrell both in men and women, your pre- cious ftones, for which our money is tranfported to forraine Nations? I am not ignorant that thefe things are blamed at publicke meetings, and a meanewiflied for j but if any man would make it a Law to punifh thera,thofc thcmfelues that complaine would cxclaime that the mine of the Nobilitie is foughtafter, for that there are none free from this crime : Wherefore the beft mcancs to redrefle a generall cvill is, that every one would prefcribe a Law to himfelfe, and amend one: it was the wi(h of Tiberius in his dayes, & I wifli it with all my heart in our dayes. Rnftic: Sir, you hauefufficiently (hewed how that odious vice of drunkennes doth conduce to the breach of Sapicntcr di&u cujufcunqj i'lud fuit, Nee Veneris nee tu vini ca- piaris aiuore, Vno namq; modo Vina,FV- nfytfr noccnt. or afoure-fold way to Hue well. \6y <*f thofe Lawes, I pray you in the next place, fliew how Cloths and Apparrell doth any way conduce vn- toit. lurify' You mufl: know,that decent appareU is ( b ) com- (b) Veftcs ni g e4l*&can. , mended and commaunded by the Lawes of God and men ; it dldl morcs maiimcornam. is inordinate apparell which is prohibited ; when as we * ^ weare our Cloths not to cover our naked nes,but to did cover it, by dafling the eyes ot filly people, with glori- ous ourfides. A mifdemeanor,of which the Prophets, Apoftles, and reverend Fathers of the Church haue ta- ken fpeciall notice. Saint Peter in bis ( c yfi r Jl Eptjllc^ ( «) i "Pet. ? . verf. 3 . giues vs a fpeciall Caveat to abftainefrom intemperate uvea- In vcftitu fcperbia a deo a- ring.f^ni ; and the holy Fathers of the Church ff^JStSSlT. haueinlome indignation arraigned the proud men of f*y>* ™/i8. the world, and would needs know of them, why they ^" u fin ocdlle Tl tctar ; \ i i r r i i -n • J-/V r c r atur jollities muliebrif 5 fi fliould fo expenfiuely lavilh out in dilburfing of fo pulchr*fintmuliercs,fufficit much money tofo little profit, in fading corruptible n * u «j non contends ar* garments, and why they mould be fo proud of thofe SSgggggfc poore vanities, which being at the beft are but borrow- formitatem magis argu*. edout of the guts of thf earth, or of the filly fjlkc- worme, and ( *)begotten byfmne andtranfgrepon, and (<0 Vefti s EvM ? fcr P«* <&<*$}& haue the Lanes of («) men {hot jharpe Arrowes agvnflthcfe f^Stcihtsti 0/2*^ , perfons, and prefcribed them what garments they fhall h. s. cy. i $. put on. Ruftic: Sir, I pray you giue me leaue to expoftulare a little with you concerning thofe Lawes you now Z fpeakc 17° Qjf ATERNIO, fpeake of: for it doth conccrne vs all : Is it not Iawfull for a man to vvcare what Cloth's he will ? (6 ) rbijume *f 14. H. 8. jurifb: No ; it is not I 6 ) law full for Dukes and CMar^ *Pr>nce my y/ e po»krinzs m ; nor for Vifcounts and Barons to Cloth themfelues J&^m£* i^n at tire belonging to Earles j nor for Gentlemen to fare rtngeswiys Mat quejc wearc fuch habits as arc fet ap# t for Knights of the or* iWf/ d An E * rU ^ Qr> anc * men °^hcir qualitie and degree ♦, nor for yeo- ° WJ ' men,husbandmen,and ferving~mcn to attire themfelues like vnto Gentlemen 5 briefly, it is not Iawfull for fuch as arc fordidati, to put vpon them the habit ofCandidati r nor for xhtPlebei to attire themfelues in the habits of the Patritij, nor for fervi to goe as doe the ingenui : ina word, it is not Iawfull for men of low degree to cloth themfelues in the habit of men of high degree ; nor ho- norable for men of high degree to attire themfelues like vnto men of low degree ; but necefTary it is that every (7 )Formahabitw & vcftu man ftould weare a habit according to his (7) ranke and tut apud vctcrcs drifts ob- degree. n« a foiut; fca uLm^mir R( 'ft ic: what if a man doe tranfgrcfle in this kinde ; mulicrci. left* trad* ma what danger doth he incurre? ironas iUaj appdhtas effe, jnrifp: Bcfi Jes the danger of the Lawcs,and the cen- ^Nam ™,X fare of the multitude,hc doth .incurred Centre of C«- inhoneflifq 5 mulicnbus fto- far • ^ugnflu^ Crfar vpon a lime feeing fome Romance J^SS^o^r&S Cuizens clad in fhort fullyed cloaks called vpon them talos vfqj dimittebatur. * With a lo wde VOke, ( h ) Brffonm (h) Sueton: uvjiupufto Cx~ _ , , [Are. Romanos rerum dommos genttm^togat&m. ( i ) Convcnhint longs yc- As if he fhoud haue faid, yee Citizens which challenge ftcsquipubltcatradant to your felues a prerogatiue to be the Lords of the ^S^S^^ world, and to be the long-robed Nation ; how co neth Convenium fuccmaa viri$ n to paffe, that you are cla in habits more fit for fuch venantibus »pfa as | uc in fa Country , and : I/low ( * ) hawkes anddowes, J>aiIi2,ttnirapiantfpiP.a?,aut . f y - • t • ^ s virgoita morcntur than for men that governe Be giue Lawes vnto thepeo- •^orrcmcj, rapido rdoncnt pic •. I would haue you know,that lonq Gowncs would ncu flamine rentt. l *< better or a four e fold fray to liuewpett. tji better fuitc with your profeifions, than fuch (hort Jack- anapes Clokes. Ruftic: In my opinion Sir,it is a needlefle thing for a raantoftandfomuchvponthofc( k )^^r^^W ( k l^ l * sno * { * h ™°* apparances ^ if a man liuc as he fhould doc, it matters not si promiOa hch rapicmem what Cloth's he doth put on. ■ b«b a ,quid obftat, Tmfi: O but Sir, there is a decorum and order to be Barba««poflit qu» caper obfetved in every degree and condition of life,and thefe norm. outvArdoMAments Art the( { ) books in which the vulgar ( 1 ) Veflis ?imm indicat. that CAnnH iudte of thee, reade thy thoughts and intentions. "«! **& p« « nct **& n% If thou be a Student of the Lawes, & they behold thee bu$ roronbus. walking in the ftreets in thy boots and gingling fpurres, «&, voi miramur, & eft they prefently conclude, there goes Hot fur the Law- iitSXff^l^ yer, that thinkes the time never flyes faft enough, vn- cua. leffe heputsfpurres vnto it. If thou be a Divine, and H l^^^ amnoa ferveft at the AItar,and they behold thee in an irregular t u prxcrr cuitum nil mere, habir, and heare thee to make it a cafe of confeience mas habes. to put on thofc comely decent Ornaments, whichthe C ^SJB^ ' Church hath prefcribed,they prefently conclude,there Tetamcn& cuituidamnar, goes a wilfull peevifh foole, a difturber of the peace and & aa " s ™ m - the trAnquillme of the Churchy who though he hath not wit enough to know white from blacke, meate from muftard ( m ) henejiciumfrom obfonium y yet he will take ( m ) ciim mutti apiy/Mcb re- nameis Separatijt, others fay, he came out of the clouds mtimt. the good men of the f rQm ArifiophantS Cltit ofOcicheS jnd IS of the Religion Otietb4t*rc*ckecfthef4[ljt- , en i i • n i r i **/,** sir FhJipCaithorpc there proteft, and his name is Browmjt ; others fay he did* i. Drake afroomakfrof came out of the Moone from Lucians inhabited Country, a**tb*m > oftm*m£& a °d is of the Religion there profeft, and his name is Tim Knight baKnghouebt as N enter alt ft i others fay, he came out of Platoes Common- mM££g!3& «-**. /cituatcd diredly vnderthe Poles, where the Ta^Ur % i. Drake feeing the people 1 warme in Summer as the Bees doc in Winter, Atfta Clotb T tbe JP Ur £ anc * IS °^ c R c ^gi° n *here profeft, and his name is A- Jnm^ffih^t, mdSL "daptift ; every man wifheth him at home againe, for direBiontotheTdyiortenutie wherefoever he commeth, he hatcheth nothing but tS^^^tZ J fch ^ m « and dif fcntions. If thou be a ( 8 ) Citizen, and yentoyn&rfiaudtbereof/Z they behold thee in an vnufuall habit and attire differing memkring the o'd Proyerbe, f rom the fafliion of the Citie, they prefently conclude, mLmmdJih^Lutml thcrc § ocs a fpend-thrift, one who hath befpoken his hit cloth M fuB if hies m his lodging in zWjvtf^alreadie. If thou beaSouldier,and mZ&SAsZ rhe > 7 bchold thce ro faftlian thinc a PP are11 according to did According, dud mtik the fafhion of thine enemy, they prefently conclude, as 7t M '"ZdI' DtS b " T*^ r ^ c Southfayers did of Darius bis{ a ) Sword, that they £m,w6,cb*bi \MbeuX into w hofc fafhion thou putteft thy felfe,will be Lords fell wto Ap*$,or,4*dfwdn by over thee. If thou be returned frona the Indyes, or out &<^ of fomeforreine Nation, where thou haft had fomc the njior, then ulne^our croffes andloffes, and they behold thce in a habit vfed Mjtfortt, fir t b*-4f nude t j n thofe Countries, they prefently in ftcad of pittyins According to the Knights m aU j j sr j » j j fmttMiyu ttwm uHuded i M4rry ( ejuoth IoO if eyer J hecorre of the Knights cut ag4ine i J wiUgi.eysu least* te cut m mjny h\!e t in my j m 44 y,u ])4ue m\» done in my Grwne, (n) Vatim Fefir.itnver. vnoautalreroannopriufq lam cum yf/orW/cconfl gerer, glad/um quern indies ^eiiab^t Perfcttm, in hUetdamd enfis formam comnmtaritiquod cum ad jtugutesTd^mtn eft, llli evsper* fiAit chores tb;cdicepan«-, quorum mores Ddrtus in gladio unitatu effet. CajliU: 'ib, i . thce or a four e-f old tip ay to Hue ypeH. lyj thee deride thee and fay, well-fare his heart,hc hath not loft all, though he hath had fome knocks and Ioflcs,ytt be hath brought home the fafhion with him. If thou be a Gentle man,and they fee rhec lavifhingout in embroy- dercd fuits more rich than thy revc nues will maintaine, they prefently conclude, there nets a ( ° ) painted fooler, (°) Pi&wquidemei»,etm*. one who carry es a burden like initios a whole manner en his ^aceus mginta gallinawm backe^whok end if he amend not, in time will be begge. irai-itus. ry and mifery . If thou be effeminately clad, going all o- peninthedeadtimeoftheyeare, tofhewarich vnder- garment that was never paid for, they prefently con- clude, there goes one of Venw darlings,or (fnpids whir- ligigs, one that hath a wind-mill in his head, and the breefe in his tay le : whofe end ( \iTyburne take him not) * V i U is ohm vtcbatur hone- will be in an Hofpitall. If thou be Of the feminine fex, ftjewuliere^nieretricesnon. and in thy habit and attire doeft rtfemble the raafculinc, Vnd B jf °£ t7 cuttefi thy (*) haire> thy chiefefl ornament like vnU a man, Scripfiir ushzc illis,quarum and weareft thy Cloth's like vnto him, they prefently n ? n vitta h s atos - , iji 7 n ttl Attingit ennes, nee ttola conclude, tnerc goes a ftrange woman, an Hermaphro- j on | a pcdcs> dite,a Preferpixa, a good wife for Pluto, Rhadamanthw, o>U. or feme of their followers or acquaintance \ if thou be j£2T^Sft an i:^g///J-woman, and they behold thee following the wave the* beards % irKh- fafhion of thine owne Country in the Attire about thy T cn . Vid * St £ : f iber £o C head, in the habiliments about thy neckc the fafhion of PaXmem capita mv«w the French,ar>d in thy long robes the fafhion of the Spa- <* n*> to prohibit Engliflj- *ifb, they prefently conclude, there goes a ifkmx or a ££&££. """ ** (?)chim*ra, one whom G o d once made a woman, itwulaweUfocomethefeyn. and fhe hath made her felfe a monfter. If they behold ^ f ^^l^^{a^ rheerufftvptotheeares, cufftvpto theelbowes, and Ztf^%\firifi^eZ^ banded over thy fhoulders, they prefently conclude, ttttbt ratine *fK}»& Richard there goes Ruffe, Gift, and Band, a good fubjeS for t£ZJjfi&*X Poets to make fportwirhall. If thou be a Citizen, and and softer u the Emperonr they behold thee gadding after new fafhions, turning Wmii^s, hwgtbefirp that f A * i r n • r \ r i i J taught hngliln won?.cn to fait into Iooie D a flap into afan,\hey prefently conclude, r u$ vnffofMUi there goes a Counterfeit baftard Gtntlewom2n.If thou (p ) *&***?* Homer* fa be a Gentlewoman, & they fee thee one raoneth in one A ^ c {^' tctr6 drac0i me , Z 3 fafhion, dia ipfa<&*w4. *74 'Qv ATERNIO, fafhion, the next moneth in another, the third in ano- ther, and fo in as many fafhions as there are moneths iri the yeare, they prcfently conclude, there goes a wife for a Noble-man,that will make a Gentleman a beggar. If thou be a Lady, and they fee thee daubed over with gold and filver, and pranckt vp with rich Iewels and precious ft ones, beyond thy degree & husbands eftate, CsjEccewsomniamirido- t h ey p rc fently conclude, there goes C 8 ) a wanton, one rum mulicr fine pudore, be- i J , , , J , . r n t « /r • > ,* v X /? i . flu fine honorc, tppetens wb * fwtth her chiefefl happinefjem ( 9 )ft$nes y and is not primo« reaibitus in menia, a(bamcd of it, (he weares them in her forehead to en- V^^S^Sd^ chaunc paflTengers, and to tole home Cuftomers: the reajfempcrpigrajrixo&^cii- King o late honored her husband with the degree of oSwit'tr c £ Knighthood^ndthcHcraldsgauchimArmes, and it & in fcllacijs optima inihl ftall coft her a fall but (he will giuc him a Crcft, and Tw he Br ~ f it bring him into the forked order of the Knights of the JdnlLu\/lTZnyc/the Poft - I f the y behold thee comming from the (i ) Pain- EmprdTesw former times did tersjhop, having appareUedthj face in an artificialldj^j, rrSSSSSSS: chcypjrrfMvo^lu^thcregoes.trueBmblemof d*yes*hokM*nnors on their raorralitie, duft and afhes as beautifull as a rofe to the "r'Tb •& -f c y e 3 but touch her (he is full of deadly poyfon. As like Qcs^s jure pofefti«? *" her old ( r ) Grand- fat her as (he can looke, that can like Dicere cam fUcco pui?j$ & him metamorphofe her felfe into any fhape, as blind as Ymbra [ eZm- a mrme with P ri de and fclfe-loue,as greedy as a Vulture Simiiesfuntpuicherrimifi- to fatisfie her bcaftly appetite, as deceitfull as a Croci- fti^iibri, quorum aureiqui- j^ anc j zscmc \\ as a //W^ifthey behold thee at mid- dem vmbihci, et purpurea , . , . , , , . y . / , , , . foris pdiis, c*terum imus, day in rhy night habit, they prefently conclude, there am 7^/?«,iibeiosinCon- goes an O wlvbird, or more plainelv, an vglybird, a fit SffiSSStt; Wife ** S "*»PI~ oxHdiogabaL, thatturncd the cum duabus fcronbus rem nights intodayes and the dayes into nights. Thus doe h 3beni 5 de auibjj* P°« 5 $ our ^njj^ outward apparanas afford matter of fport Ilia tons vitto haulis mini . r rr a r\ ^\ r l viiai bciio. and pafhme to pallengers and Poets. The Lavves there- Et Alas. f ol c before mentioned are made to curbe vs, and keepc Hje tjuidem iunt roiis pul- chrx,mtus rcorbida?, marcenteset mire 4 informes,& firrilespirietiincrultato, intra quem mu'ta ruinofa funt > aui frpulchrofpltndideibris extruCto.quod deformes intus calvarias, nudaolla, & oh(c a?nos fjeto* res conunet, Vnde I'oeca , Eit i oia qua? prima dulcedjne fundit odorem. At grave formofa Tub cute virus olet. (r. Eft Terpens, verm*, vultur, Oocodytus, et Hydra, VS or afoure-fold rt>ay to Hue v>eli. I75 v$m>thattveexceede not a decorum in our ( xo )habits and (io)Mo quani & modernis belongs to women, but the onely glory and ornament traduacU moderation ha. to a man is valour and magnaniraitie. Infana ell ambitio £"" * ^j? p f r wteriorem r a j n- j J • i nabitum, fa»pe interior de - Jimumtegere purpura, & pallidum cadaver tnpherctroau- fi gn atnr. Vide contfitut: reo ponere, nam quo plusornatttSy eo plus honoris habet, otfafot Oib titalodehabi- faith one of the wits of his rime,* A< mttj and [extent ions J^£ lo i6 ads and his Country, to be beholding to hts neighbouring Mt, nd an tpitaph tfhis Countrycs for Cloth's to put on his backe. Z^^lTIm^nb' *"' Rupee I would to God I had given myTccmcof Vn^d^L^h^k hie Horfes and Oxen too, that there were a Law made to regit ofla tetrad,*, tyc vs to weare our Country- Commodiric s, and none ^££* c * [i re ^ ui * other ; and the old Law made in the dayes of King (*)Ed- ( t ) Bythesut.ofx :.Ec?w, ? . wardtbtz. were revived, and the statute made in the ^f/V^^* dayes r 17* QjT ATERNIO, daycs of King Henry 8. were put in execution,! am fare, it would be well for vs if it were fo.Our Wools would not fticke vpon our hands as now they doe } and I be- leeve the Citizens would not be forry for it. Iurifp: Sir, in my opinion, there fhould not needea Law in this Cafe if we did alfeft our Countryes as wee fhould, every mans reafon fhould be fufficient to pre- vaile with him. Why fhould any Engltfh man trouble himfelfe or others to fend fofarre as Naples and Perfia for filkes to Cloth him, when as he may furnifh him- felfe with materialls were vfefull and nece(fary in his (" ) owne Country i Why fhould he beftow hundreds in forraine parts tofecde moths and Cankars, when he may feedc them at home agreatdeale better- cheapen Certainely, 1 know not,vnle(fe he will allow this Para- Quiccjilidanvatlux«s,quic- doxe to be a Principle, That things farrefet and deare Ex^plSSS^ bought are good for Englijhmen. The Lawes of Godand iniuia prsdives. que toco natureenjoyne vs toloue our Countryes, and to prc- vix egct orbe ferrethc vfefull Commodities thereof before the fuper- Ec cujus cocas mdiget or* n ~ ,, , c c . , r |f bis op». fluous Commodities of forraine Nations, the Wooll Didu eft de i>mocauhti*, to weare thofe fomine light Commodities. If there- Quas regit illedeus 5 Spu« manti cujus ab ore Profiuic OctAhw. TcftcsLcn iomx ratibus,*tf«- tmU B4c(ho f Hereford* grcge, mrceftria. frue,e redundant, B'thd lacu , SalcbirA feris, Cantutrid pilce a Ebwtcnm filvis, Excsjlr'u cUrametaUts,&c. Hm\Hn7U:n^lnjlMb.\.\miio. fore we cannot be allured to affed our Coutries(which every good difpoiition naturally doth, and preferreth the Commodities thereof before the Commodities of forraine Nations ) by any argument drawne ab vtili & Commode. Yet let vs be allured by arguments drawne a necejfario; yet being as great a Sotecifme for fuchas live in cold Countries to put on light Cloth's, as for fuch as live in hot Countries to weare heavy garments. Rustic: or afoure-fold nay to Hue r*ell. 177 $a(lic: Sir,ifyoutell&tfri* gy - benefit of the whole.If the foggie vapours of the Hands rum terminal noht. offend them, toflieintothc Countryes morcconftant and fetled : and if the heate neare vnto the line offend them, to betake thcmfeluesvnto more temperate Clu mates. lurifr : O bu 1 1 would tell them againe, that Necejsitie forceth every wight, To loue his Country with all his might, I meane that Country wherein he drew his firft breath, where he trod his firft fteps,wherehe received hisedu- cation,which fcfliioned his minde,and gaue hira a well- being in the world, where his lands and revenewes lye, and where his friends and acquaintance are bound vp fjft together in the bonds of confanguinirie and affini- tie, and I would fend them to no other Schoolcmaiftcv than to the dumbe Creatures to be inftruded herein: the Naturahfts doe obferve, that the Hare when fhee is hunt will haften to the place where lhe was bred,ro take her laft farewc ll ; that the Foxe though he prey abroad, yet will kenntll at home; that the fowles of the ayre & fifliesoftheSeabyaninftindofnature, are fo taken witji the places where they were bred, rhat they will never depart farre from them. So that God and nature A a enjoynes IjS -Qjfc-A.T E R N lO, en joyncs every one to loue the Ceuntryes & the Com- modities thereof, where they are governed by good and wholefome Lawcs, and enjoy their pofieuions in fafetie before other forraine Countryes and Commo- dities • of whofc Lawes they receiueno benefit. Ruftic? O but if a man fuitehimfclfc with fuch Com- modities onely as his owne Country can afford him, no man will fee by him, or regard him, whereas if he be dad in filkes and velvets and the rich Commodities of other Nations, every man will honour him, as the (*)Cyrm apud ftw/ATplcn- ( x ) Perfians did Cyrus, when they beheld him in all his didirfimoami(5hidefcribitnr, bravery. ^^s™ ^c^eVm- . lHri ft : Truely amongft wife men Cloth's make no adorare,cum antehac ado- difference, if they favournot of irregularitie. Marry r *SS». 8. cyrop : guttering fhewes doe oftentimes dafle the eyes of filly women, and fometimes alfo of filly andfimplemenj whofe wits haue not an edge to pierce any further than &£^(££& the outfide °n e, y » but **» rril differ Crefu, to b^ md) f*hx eft, non magii Crefiujet him put on what ( H j habit he will,and a wi/e quamcxii!is s quibusfccpn-fi man will knowan Afle to be an AfTe by his neighing, & chlamydera- in fcama fa- , , - . . . . T _ J , . a o"> buU affignant,cum P ra?fcntc though he be clad in a Lyons or a Foxes skmnc. It was popuio dad inceficrum, « an apt anfwere which Solon once gaue Crxfus, when SS^fMSS Cr^hadputhimfelfemtoagorgcoushabK&attire,. fuum redeunt. and would needs know of him whether ever he raw a smec.Eftfi.76. morebeautifull fight in all his life^told him that he had Nans bona dicnur non qua?. r . _ , D , n pretioiis coioribu^piaaeft, teene the Pcacocke, that went more gorgcouflyonthe ncccuiargcmeumetaureuHj weeke dayes, than he did on the holydayes. It was a Jito^Xetfcd Puttie paffage likewife which happened bet weene the qua?.iiab«iis ct firmaeft, « poore man and the proud man in the Dialogue. A Gh* addendum incurfum mans. rio r vaunt j n p f his painted Cloth's that they were not i> da.Rcgulanonquamfor- ...> . ° % r c rn- j j/r ^ mora, fed quamieftaqiMN. hke other mens, but of a new faihion and different Cut riturmhominesute fiffcpotcftiocupicvm- A a 2 and probos at * P*° bus - i8o Qj A T B R N I a, (c) Veftitus infignis ftip^r* biz rcxillum niduf$ lux- uri*. tarsnh. and precious ftones, are common as well to the bad a* to the good, to whores as to chart: Matrons & Virgins : but thefe alone are impropriated to vertue and good- ne/Te. Yet I will acquaint you with a Cuftorae which the old Romanes vfed 5 the Romanes were vfed during the minoritie of their children, to make little difference be- twtene their fonnes and their fervants, their daughters and their hand-maides, by clothing and atty ring them, that time they fet apart for the beautifying & adorning of their mindes in all kinde of literature, and did con- ceiue to pranke them vp in ( c ) Clottis, rvouldbcameanes to withdraw their affections from thofe things, which in future times would doe them more good;and therefore vntill the time they intended to beftow them in marri- age, they kept them in a kinde of fcrvitude, but then as Flora in her prime, as the Sunne at the higheft, or the Moone in her complement did they fet them forth • fo that every childe tooke notice by the fuddaine alterati- on of their habits,what their parets did intend towards them : and fo Sutors as to a fayreand market repaired vntothem. Which cuftomc of theirs I commend as a raoft laudable cuftome,but for fuch as are alreadie pre- ferred,to lavifli out in Cloth's beyond their degrees and eftates, and to no other end, than to fleale away the af- fcSions of husbands from their wiues, or of wiues from their husbands, that I vtterly condemnc and dif. allow. Rufticr Sir,youhaucfufficiently fhewed how idle- neffe, drunkenneffe, and the inordinate wearing of ap- parrell doe conduce to the breach of the L3wcs deri- ved out of the facrcd Law \ and what the Lawes of Commonition arc which doe punifli the fame by way of prevention. I pray you in the next place (hew what the Lawes arc which doe punifli Adultery when it is com- mitted, and what punifhments the Lawes hauc provi- ded for the fame, lurifc: or afoure-fold way to Hue y>eff. 1 8 1 Turifp: The Lawes that punifh Adultery, areLawes of \Antwadverfion • which ( as the Lawes oiCommoni- //etf the ruth full end, Of thee o ruinous Troy . Senec .in Troad. ( h ) gen.6. & 7. lieu tama impietas toto grafiaturinorbe, Vt fubmerfa deus cun&a animata vclit ! If you looke into the Hiftory of the ( h )old world, you (hall there fee that this tranfgreffion was a principall pioner to vnderminc theearth,and to open the fluccs to let in the deluge vpon it. So odious hath this tranfgref- fion beene in the fight of God, and fuch fharpe and fe- vere punifhmems hath God ever infli&ed vpon tranf- greffors in this kinde. RhJUc: What Canonicall Lawes haue beene made to punifli this tranfgreflion ; and how did the Iewes and the Heathen people puniih the fame, I pray you ac- quaint me. lurid: You /hall vnderftandj that by the auncient Canons of the Church, that he or fhe that was con- vifted of Adultery,was to doc penance for the fpace of fcaven yeares,before he could receiue a plenary abfolu- tion. By the peculiar Canonicall Lawes ofrhis Nation wherein you liuc, if aMinifterhad beene convi&ed of (i)Rcformat.kgumEcc!f. Adultery, all his goods were prefentlyto i})divolvn8U ^ c ^ d afcltinrmo ife///»; defecundi* ttuftiijj, (q ) Oliratencbatur mulier li>gc c virvm per fpatium 10 n-" ., ccrapuj hodic eii (r) Thifbe /o>^Pyramus feferyentty that with thtfame fwbtdthdt he jlevp htm/elf e for Uveofher 9 /be kjlied her felfe for lone oj : bm , And dyed yf>on bis Corps. (* ) Miilieri ae credas ne more us quidem, HctM. Qj/ A T E R N I O, of(°) Valeria zndx^rtemifu haue continued folong, had not the loue they bore to their former husbands, and not rheLavvcs retrained them from tak-ing other husbands vnto them. So that without doubt thofe Lawes were made to little or no purpofe at all. Rtiflic: To what purpofe then were the Lawes made which did prohibite fecond marriages, vpon a penal- tie that women fhould forfeite whatfoever they had by their former husbands, and be branded with infa- mic ? lurid? Certainly,there were never any Lawes made to punifli marriages (P) duely celebrated and folemnizrd-, but the Lawes you fpeake of were made to punifh too too fpeedy marriages, that is, if the woman had marri- ed within the yeare after her husbands death, which in (<\)mncieht time rvas fet apart for mourning and lament atu /rf a certaine woman, who fo much lamented her husbands death as if flic would haue dyed with ( r ) TbifbevponhisCorpfe, who attending him to his graue in a mournefull man- ner, founded out nothing els but I would to God I might lye with thee, I would to God 1 might lye with thee 3 but it fo happened that this (*) woman that made fuch a (hew of lamentation,within very few dayes after married her felfe to a fervant of hers,that led her by the arme to fee her husband interred; fo that by the fequel the people gathered rhat her meaning was ^ fhee might lye with him that led her, and not with her husband in the grave 5 which being noy fed abroad, flie became a fcorne even to the children, folong as flic continued in Vttpia. So that I fay, that marriages duely executed were never punifliable, but too too fpcedie marriages, fuch as this was. Ru(tri: or afoure-fold Way to Hue veeX iSj Rufiic: To what purpofe likewife ( if marriage be honorable among all men > were the Lawes made that reftraincd decrcpir,aged & impotent people from mar- rying with young wiues ? Jnrijpr Certainely, I never read of any Rich Lawes, and indeed there necdeth none, forfuch marriages arc of themfelues fufficient puniftiraents vnto them, as ap- peares by the marriage of ( <") lanuary and CMay in the CO see the Marchams-tak. Englifi-Poet. Old Father Ianuary having part the heate &*»«*• of youth in afinglelife, in his decrepit old age doted vponawife, and none would ferue his turnc but a Vir- gin of fifteene ; and why,marry becaufe(to vfe the Po- ets language) i^A yonng thing a man may gye, Right as man may warme Wax with hands ply e. And according to his defire it fo happened, that he met with the young Lady(* ) ^whom he made his wife ; <• ) DiC fflT™^*' , r * i_ 5 r in • 'v T ; i r \- novis eft Virgo manus: but iee what befell him. Not long after the marriage virea fokt pucros, virgo was folemnizcd^ 1 *) Venus (as fhe is a profefled enemy domare viros, to the eyes ) deprived him of his fight, and then as old ( \Uj^^l^\ men naturally vfe to doe, hebegannetogrowpecvifh, iftanocentocuiis, fedvigi- jealous and fufpitious,and to Conjure his young wife, s }™^ lSmthetra Ruftic: if fiich inconveniences arife by rcafon of re- ftraining of men from marriage, it were more needful! in my opinion, that the old Law of- the Romanes of < (*; Papia or Poppta, which prohibited fmgle /#/i,and pro- (*)Tacimltk^cap.^ vided>that if any fhould abftaine from marriage and die without ifllie, the people fhould inherit his goods, fhould be fee af oote againe. Iurifp: Without doubt if it were,there would not be fo much vncleanneifc,and fo many exorbitant offences committed as now adayes there is in the world : neither fhould we fo often as we doe,fall from one finne to ano- ther, from whoredome to murther. I he { * ) nature of ( f ) Nitimur in vetitum flwfdoth ever long and third after that which is prohi- ^P^P'^^g"*. bited. The ( z ) old wan inCl&ndtan fo long as there was (*)**K* quiproprijs*rum no tye vpon him, could well content himfelfe to Hue iff^^L 9Vm within the Circuit of a little moddl of ground all his vidctipfafenem. life time, but when he was retrained his libenie, that ln ^l\^ 9VicinxneCm went nearevntohim: the ( a ) Singers in the Poet could AfpeaJLfturliberiorepo- hardly be drawne to fing at any time by their beft ^ ciaudumde-sne* friends, vntill there wasa Law that did command them Z^Z^^t to hold their peace, but then their beft friends could dfet. hardly make them to be filent. The ftrideft fed of men CO Omnibus hoc vitium ' j/i-r^ ■_•/*•• c 1 r canton bus inter amicos, are men,and iubject to the infirmities of men, andfor Vcnunquamincfucantani. them to be reftrained from the meanes which the Law mumcamarerogatij of God and nature doth allow to all Creatures, it can- l ZfSTs^mtsT not but goe nearevnto them. If a woman, a woman i no,butamonfterinthefhapeof a woman, fliali very oftentimes (the more the pittie) to avoyde fhame and ignominy one ly, lay viok nt hands vpon the fruit of her owne wombe, and lend it to his graue by vntimely death,what can be expe&rd from fuch vpon whom the Lawes inflid not fhame alone, but t b ) death for fnch an ( b^Bythestdtute «/ ? i.h. offence i 8.cap, 1 4. it wasfelonlefor d Rujlk: Sir, I am of your opinion, that if the lay you S££^ 3 Bb 3 ipeake »l?r. !£• QjT ATfiRNIO, fpeake of were fct on foote, fo many murthers would not be committed, but I verily perfwade my felfc that covetoufneife would more abound. Iurifp: No certainely 5 for in whatfoever condition orftatcoflife the Blackaraore hveth in, he will never change his hew ; to a covetous difpofition it is all one whether he hath wife or no wife, childe or no childe, he will be covetous ftill ; giue ^Akxtmdtr the world, yet he will defire more worlds. The Kingdomc of S^J^bfi; S" wil ' fcant co ? tent , ^™™*> when aC)r. antepofuit. Ijffcs is mllcontmHdmth bis Itbaca.To moderate minds ( i ) Opes quid curas ? for- a ( d ) little is emugh, but to the covetous nothing. Doe tunam. vduti tunicam we not f ce f ome m fa m {£ft Q f plentie, live in penury magis concinnam proba, ,. r ,, , , ..* ' . r , f <5uam longam. diicontentedly, and to be readic to put an end to their utf.M. i,j>oltt.(A}>.6. dayes, with the Covetous man in Cdjlilit, as often as (e)Cuminrummacaritate ( c) Cornegrowes cbeape, and others full of Children to *%S£S%& Hve happily & contentedly vpon a meanc eftate? wiues midiominorii effet pmij s and children arc but Clokes to the Covetous to cover < ^fc ri SnSSTiS l Sw- their c °vetoufneflTe.C4/(^/^i ( f ) DAHghter was made ^ofufpcjidi^cumq; acccf" the inftrument to fill his Coffers,vpon her forfooth the i?tr«vus,&funeocya$prae- burthen of his covetoufneflemuft be laid : as fooneas ^C^tlSS! foe was borne, then he complaines of povertie, and of r«, fremere caepit & md?g. the hcavie burthens that lay vpon him, the one as Em- nariconfciflumeficla^ueuai p er our,thc other as Father : and then do: h he by a pub- tam novitium, & de preao \ ' hvt cumfcryoexpoftulabat. hke Edict declare that he would receme all N J wyeares CdfliiJtb 1 oifrs thankfully, and then & not before did he wallow (f ) Suem: in CtkguU. fa ^ ^^ $ rf ^ and g,^ ^ had ^ daU g |ner never beene borne, he would haue adop ed twentie ra- ther rhan his Coffers fhould haue beene emprie.Sothat it is not the (late and condition of life we livein ? thatcan moderate our affe&ions, & make them either covetous or abftemious, but it is grace infufed in the divine pait mull doe the deede. Ruftic: Sir, giue me leaue, I pray you, to aske you one queftion more, and fo I will forbeare to trouble you any further touching the Lawes of* Adultery. What or afoure-fold way to liuewelJ. 191 What is the rcafon wherefore by the Lawes of G o d the punifliment dvc to the Adulterer and AdulterefTe is death,ar:d by the Canonicafl Lawes bur pecuniary and corporall, which manner of punifliment as 1 conceiue, doth in no dt gree fuitc with the natui e of the off nee ? for I ingenuoufly conftffe, I fliould fooner pardon any one that fliould take away my Horfe, my Oxc, or my Plowe, nay, rny Horfe, Oxe, Plowe, and all, though they conduce much to my livelihood, than that they fliould difmember me, take away ay to Hue Well. feme will hauc the word ( « ) Furtum to take denomina- tion a farm, from blackncs and darkenes, becaufe it is vfually committed clofely and fecretly,and the night is made the vale to cover their vnlaw full pra&ifesandde- fignes ; others a fraud* &ferendo, velanferendo, which I doeconceiuetobe the moft proper Etymologic of ir, being that it doth more fully exprefle the nature of if. Theft being nothing els but anvnlawfull taking iway of that which belongs to another man, be it by force or fraude, or by any other vnlawfull meanes whatfoever. The divers kindes whereof are well diftinguiflicdby furtnm magnum & parvum, Larcenie andpetit Larcenie, Larcenie being then faid to be commitred by the ( k ) Im* ferialiLatves, when the thing felonioufly taken away, amounts to the value of 5. s . and by the Lams of {^Eng- land, when it amounts to the valueof xij.J). Petit Larce- #/£,When the thing ftolne amounts not vnto thofe va- lues, the delinquents are diftinguifhed either by open and knovvne,or fecret theeves ; open & knowne theeves are fuch who make wrong and robbery their profeflx- oa 9 and thofe are of divers kindes, either fuch as make the high- wayes the places of their Commerce, and are commonly knowne by the name of high- way Theeves and Robbers • or fuch as make the fields the places of their Commerce, whom the imptriall L&wes terme { «» ) Abigei and Drovers ofCattell, who vie or rather a- bufethedriviug trade, interefling themfclues in things which they never paid for 5 and vnto which they haue no manner of title but poffcffio,as horfe-ftcalcrs^flicep- ftealers 3 and the like; orotherwife fuch as dealemorc clofely, making private houfes the places of their com- merce, fuch as are Burglarers,breakers of houfes, pick- lockes, and the like • and generally all fuch as take any thing from any man to the values before-mentioned furreptitioufly and felonioufly ; ( * ) fecret theeues or e- nemies more dangerous than the former;, are church. C c nbbers, 19$ (i) $fieg. (*) Ful&tck. (\) Seethe St4UofWtllm.il c and "*« » w *y * e f ) *■» hilq 5 non aggrefiurifumho- of many yet offers no violence to the perjons of any .Reward mines, finagms conatibus is thelife of vertue, and the nu rfe and nourifh.-r of li- Hirf na il* mia propORan " herall Arts and Sciences : it is(*) honour -which leades Ea refpub : tyranmdem fsph the Scnlditr into the field, profit and commoditie that makes SSZS^"^ ^ thefreemanpstvpon him the habit of fervilitie^t is than Mrfot. agaihe that makes the ( * ) cv arch ant and CMarincr to (* ;impigcr mremos cm> t hj n k c t j ic troublefotr.e and tempefiuous Seas to be mmercntcrad/«4w. ,,.,,- ,1 t • 111 j j- Subiatis^udiorumprarmijs delightfull vnto him • and the long and tedious voyage etum ftudi,> fcrcunt.r^;/; to the Indies to be fhorc 2nd momentary ; it is prefer- &&££&£& ™nrth* makes the Father rtraine himfelfc to trayne fub princ.^e recipmrn , ad vp his fonne at the Acadcmie, and the fonne ag^ineto (cnBcndum fui temporis hi- # ^ m a wear jf om e hourc in mnfins and rnedita- ftonamnunquadeeiunc de. J TL. J . , r ,r • 1 r 1 j; coraingcma? ting,Thc ready way thererore to difanimarc the Solium Ufj\ to. i.poiit, er or afoure-fold way to Hue VveU. \y% cr from the field,to cxpell & banifh the Tradefman and Artificer from the Citie, to pull dovone Colledgcs, Chur- ches, Kyicademies, is to make an abfolute reparation and divorce betweene induftrie and reward > and to damme vp the way betweene learning and preferment. This Inllm the Jpo/lata.ihc great Church. robber,and Arch-enemy to God and all goodneifeput in executi- on 5 he fell not vpon the Priefls and flew them, for he knew the next age would produce more $ but vnder pretence to fetthemin areadieway to heaven, he fell vpon the Pricfthood, and tooke away ail the rents and rcvenewes ofthethurch, making vfeof the words of the E vangelift to fer ve his tu r nc, (°) Bkjfed are the pore, ( o ) Redditus Ecde»« fur- for theirs is the Kinvdome of Heaven. And this ( p ) Dio- ">«!' nepoflimaljdoc&ei, nyfim oxSyracufa put in execution, who at ie verall times C os addidk f e facerc expedi- difrobed the Temples of their faireft ornaments, at one "ores ad repum csiefte, time taking a golden beard from the pifture of&fcuU- ^^^t^ pirn, forthiscaufe 5 becaufe his Father had none,faying (p)r'imMaxtmdii.i.c t t. it wouldbe an vnfeemely thing that you will rather thinke it given than lent, fo flow (lu!Iyou finde him to haften that which is due vnto him home a- gaine ; but the bufh which for a tim^relieved the fi haue an account of it;for he accounts that day loft,and «ci mini diem pereidi. m , . . , , . r \- cryes woe & alas at mght,that brings no profit to him $ by thefe fewmarkes you may know him • and that you may haue a more perfed knowledge of him, you may be pleafed to take notice that this is the man that fets vp a Trade that robs the Common- wealth of thofemu. tuall offices of loue and familiaritie which, fhould be betwecneman and man. The Evangelift gaue this in f f ) Lttk: 6* vtrftf. charge long agoe ( f ) Mntmm date nihil indejperantes^ lend freely, looking for nothing againe. And it was a Cuftome amongft Chriftians freely to relicue their bre- thren in their wants and neceffitics ;but the Evangelifts Charge is wholy negle&cd, and the Cuftome in vfe a- mong the auncient Chriftians now quite and cleane a- bolifht,by the bringing in of that old Itwijh trade of V- fury. And now it is become a Cuftome rather to lend to or afoure-fold 'fpay to Hue well. \yy to a Ierv,2 Tnrkejx any man for profit and commoditie, than to a friend, yea, the ncaifft of friends, though in want and neceffitic.So that this greedic defire of having hatch out of this 'Iewifh trade, hath beene an eye- fore in all ages of the world; and the wifedome of all times hath (hot fharpc Arrowcs at it, to banifh it, cfpecially the tampan: of it, as one of the greateft enemies of humane focietie 3 yet haue allowed of it as ihctysigfres C *7 ) Qui$ ignone fiagu- haue been allomdin many parts of the nW^where if they !?? c «" mcn malum cfle? it j „ tL t i i r 1 1 < J U,S "S n orat cruciatus qui- were not allowed common Whores, they would fall bus homines torqueturma- vpon honeft womcn.For even thofe vety*Lawes which ^efrcJQuisignoratmere- doedllowofitbywayofreftraint, and not otherwifedoe m^inTffej^t^S^tJS condemne it as a thing odious and deteliable both be- fcraminrepukmafumeffe ? fore God and man. The Statute of the third yeare of 31?^^^^ King Henry the feaventh beginneth thus^that all vnlaw- effe, vtmajoravitemurma! full Chevifances and Vfury be damned, and none to be J*£ *<™*rd. vfed vpon paine of forfeiture of the value of the money fiWtofn&fi!^^ * foChevifed and lent, and fogoethon 5 the Statute of wfc*»perCentum/*yw. the thirty-feaventh yeare ofKing£/^^ theeight begin- %%J thAt **** **"• neth thus ^where divers A&s of Parliaments haue beene made for the avoyding and punifliing of Vfury , being a thing vnlawfull,&c.The Stat, of the fifth yeare of King Edward the fixth is verbatim as followethrvvhere in the thfrty-feaventh yeare of the late King Henry the eight, amongft other Ads and Statutes then made, it wasen- a<3ed by authority of Parliament,that no perfon or per- fons at any time after the laft day of January in the faid thirty- feaventh yeare, fhouldhaue,receiue, acceptor take in lucre or gaines for the loane, forbearing or gi- ving day of pay ment for any fummc or fummes of mo* ney for one wholeyeareabcue the fummc often pound- in thehundred, and fo after that rate and not aboue of and for a more or iefTe fumme, or for longer or fliorter time, vpon the paines and forfeitures in the faid A£i mentioned and contained, the which ad was not meant or intended for the maintenance or allowance of vfury,. C c 3. as. l?8 (*) Iareoptimo(iaquit^- rip.) inhominuodiaincur- rit fameratio, quoniam ipfa pecunia fruftus ejus eft j nee ad permutandas res, cujus caufacomparata eftrcfertur. jtrifirt. lib. upQht.cap.f. $ccTaeit.l&.6tC4f.4. Qy ATERNIO, as divers pcrfons blinded with inordinate loue of them- felues, haueandyetdocmiftakcthc fame i but rather was made and intended againft all forts and kindes of Vfury, as a thing vnlawfull, as by the title and pream- ble of the faid Aft it doth appeare. And yet neverthe- lefle, the fame was by the faid A<5t permitted, for the a- voyding of a more evill and inconvenience that before that time was vfed and excrcifed. But for as much as Vfuryisby the word of God vtterly prohibited, as a ( * ) vice moll odious and deteftable, as in divers places of holy Scripture is evident to be fecne^which thing by no godly teachings and perfwafions can finkeinto the hearts of divers grcedie, vncharitable, and covetous perfons of this Realme $ nor yet by any terrible threat- nings of Gods wrath and vengeance that juftly hangeth over this Realme, for the great and open Vfury therein daily vfed and pra&ifed ; they will not forfake their fil- thy gaine and lucre, vnlelTe fome temporal! punifhment be provided and ordeined in that behalfe. For refor- mation thereof be it enaded by authoritie of this pre- fent Parliament, that from the firft day of May, which fhallbe intheyeare of our Lord God 1552. the faid A to be difi trhentedj and and if any man had beene Convi&ed thereof,hc was to bisUmhtoefcbeAte. forfeire all his fubftance, and to be reputed as an Out- oLnvaUib 7 .ca P .i£. law. In the time of King ff,^ the fecond, they were &\ t £%°$$g; denyedChriftianburiallrinthe Court of PrannceM was ne wmincra &yd* mto- the common and ordinary Table- talke, 3$ Edward the f rc § no _ ruo ;/ fif^i* Ccnfcfjor oblcrvcd, during that time that he made his 3- nus cxigf rethrow (ubrtama bode there, Quod{* ) vfura radix omnium malorum ejfet, V™?™ ■ c *y e r«i&poft«»pro that thcrewasnoevillin that Court that had not that ex ^"L *$*.& for a beginning. So odious hath this bcene cfteemed in &$&*»£»» e^wper thefe parts oi "the worldjiicither hath it beene diftaftfull ( * f J*£S» 3£* oncly ZOO ( vv) Pint arch in LhchUo. (i) Mgfttij &jitbenie*fes inftitu£re Ugem Syfxcthiamy ne ob fasnus corpora adiudi- caripoflincr jtkxdHtl ah Mexand. Pisa Arch in Soione. Viod. 5/c, tib. I . rtrum /tntiq: cdp.i. Nam iniqaum puta- banr,milites, qui pro p atria? falutc pericula fubirenr in carccrem pro frnore duci, ftntarcbi inAgid; & Cleom: (y) Elegantcr redarguit fa? - neratores Fancrari ant em quidefi, nifi hominem occi- dere?&$ faith Cato m the ( * ) Oratour. Orefles after that he had killed his mother, pleaded that he did it becaufe that fhe had before killed his Father ;and this was held a good plea to extenuate his offence, and to excufe him at onto, w afoure-fold way to Hue y»eV. aol a tanto, but not a toto. But can our delinquent plead any Swinboume •* hit b*>% $f fuch plea ? No 5 he hath taken away the lives of many, ^» ***« hm» thtmf. that were never guiltieofany fuch crying finne It was 7heutTJl s T£/tbZmtb a prettie paffage which happened betwecne the Skinner Sodomites $ wu&n vfurcr and cbe Vfuiaybefc two meeting on the wa y> the poore jS^SSEtt Skinner humbly falutcd the proud VTurer, and defired rtmutMy Outfit by * w®. further acquaintance of him,as being brothers of a fra- Swinb %W*» x i«Chqe ternitie, and birds of a feather : the Vfurer difdainfully beholding him,would needs know how it fhould come to paffc, that there (hould be fuch an affinitie betweene them two. Marry ( quoth he ) if with patienceyou will heare me,I will tell y ou,and will not goe fo farre to de- riue my pedigree, as the (* Plebeian did that would be the (a) QuMam wtijt file*: kinfman of Philip of Macedone. Wee dealc both in skins. tSuS^L^JSS^S You deale in the skins of reafonable men,and fley them erat 3 vt vnw fiiioram de a- whileft they Hue, 3nd I deale in the skins of brute beafts j£j*.- cui r « rcjpondit j a and ftay vntill they be deadend this is all the difference n?m, ^uL dares. S- betweene vs. Ithathbeene a faying of old, that it is hiipcmtuirctinercm. better to fall into the Company of( b )Crowes than flatterers 5 (b) Adulatoresfumforices becaufe that Crowes fcede not but vpon dead Carkaf- %., tl " cx P? lat, *» *!££** fes, bur Flatterers vpon living men. It may as truely be So^ofamtdc^^ralS verified of Vfurers j for if there be any Canniballs in prudemer jtmifthenes olim our Horizon, thefe are they. Thereto hold, that in "S^ltSS^S^ the Refurre&ion all men {hall rife againe with different dulatoresincidere i&Mm faces : that fome fliall appeare with faces as cleare as the mor ' uo$ » w Rentes deve- Sunne-, others with faces as cleare as the Moone ; others rarcfolent - mmnm < as the Starres:fomc againe with faces asblacke as dark- nefTe it felfe ; others with fwclne tongues ; others with Hogs faces ; that they which attained to any perfeftion of goodnefle whileft they walked vpon the face of the earth,fhall appeare as glorious as the Sunne;that others that lived vertuoufly* but attained not to that meafure of perfedion, (hall appeare like vnto the Moone and Starres ; that thofe that lived vidoufly and lewdly, fliall appeare with faces as blacke as darkenefTe it felfe- that they which gauethemfclues over to lying, fwea- D d ring. r 191 (c) Dc fauiore vivente* non sifi quafi Dsraoniaci refur- fenrjcum jpfi fxnerari quod )cas ncffis, & illicitum fta- tuitjicitis annec~tunt 5 diccn- tcs,fajnuseflequalii eft mer- catura : boni itaqj vi'ri dcum timete, & famerari preter- mit tire, nifi nam & odium dei & prop heta?fuftinebi tis. jikcr.tn MAbtrtt A\odr. 4. ( d) TfaUxeKUtn inter gala? proceres pofuit antiquitas, quod convivijs adhibiris in paropfides cmungeret,vt ab- ftinennbus extent folus llle frueretur. Ajunt optafle (ibi colluni °ruii« QjT ATERNIOj ring,and blarphemy,(ha!lappeare with fwolne tongues, but as for Vfurers, that they fhall haue no refemblance of the faces of men, but (hall appcare with faces like vnto hogs and fwine. Nay, they goe further, they hold that they which live vpi* ( c ) Vfnry ', Jhail not rifeagaine, otherwise then mththe Devih^s appearesamongft their Tenets in their Alcaron. Where this Caveat is given, Tee which are good feare God } and efchewV fury > leaft the anger of God and the Prophet a(foile you. There are many prettie tales whordedvp in Hiftory of thefe.kinde of people. And amongft thofe many I finde this, that vp* on acertaine time a Prieft being willing to grant abfo- lution to as many as defired it, wifhed them according to their fcverall my fteries to (land vp as he called them, and as they were abfolved fo to depart, and firft he be- gan and called vpon the Fabros, who flood vp and were abfolved and departed; then vpon the Pannifices, who didlikewife and departed* then vpon the Carpentaria, Ferrarios, and Macellarios, who all flood vp and were abfolved and departed tat lad, he calls vpon Vfnrarios y who being afhamed of their profeflion, fate flill and would not rife. Whereupon he demanded, Qualiterap- parebunt in diejudicij ad recipiendum &* er nam malediction ntrn, qui coram homimbus non audent furgere ad benedi- ttionem * how will they appearein the lad day before God to receiue a maledi turarjeontra naturam eit f ?t never got any thing by it, nor intend ever to doe, io 1 ait^^)vtpccunia P ariac never loft any thing by it 3 nor I hope ever fhalldoe, pecuniam : pugnat cum lege butbecaufe i finde it condemned by the law of God, cS'ficrJ^^uH^ pugnat by the law of Nature, by theCanonicall Lawes,by the cumiegibusCanonicis.-N/. Municipal! Lawes of all Nations yea, even by the '££$%gZZ la wes of the Heathens, therefore and for no other rea- iegibus municipaiibus vni. fon doe I condemne it, and adjudge it as a thins hate- a^fqjprovmd*: pugnat r u i i. i r ^» i i cum bonis motibus. Etbntct full both Defore God and men, ( rt vluurch .- & aHjfcripTc- Ruftic: You haue given me good fatisfa&ion. I pray runt) totos hbros de non yougocontothenextinyourCatalogue, SSJlElSS* lurid: 7 he next in the Catalogue is theMonopoli- cc(Titatis,vt appam in direr- zer, who is fo deformed in every part, that iflfhould ^fiatuns pro bono publico , 'i-ir--.tr r n ii Andorum conititutis. goe about to pay nt out his determine, I reare I fhould purchafe no more credit by it then the Painters in ApeHcs time did by paynting out of Venus ( f ) beantie. Yet I will adventure vpon him, andfirft vpon the faireft part of j2}^HfiV^ him, which is fouleenoi'gh, his face is like the face of th*t bttJU Mffrd* a&thc (s)refpafJ^ orthefacervhich Diogenes fpit vpon, who »ijg^ ^ comming into a houfe that was newly fwept and garni- hZd been ftrayningfor* (look* {iKd^vas vcqueftcdvt faltvam noneijcerettthzt he would Sucton:»Vefpafian. r • i • r J r \ c tttl r i " — Vultusgibbofu. .tracer; not fpit but into fomefowle corner of it. Who feeing Nafus cur £t Uf , & tedusl the good man of the houfe pafTe by him. fpit full in his aurisacuta: face, and being reproved for it, anfwered x«>* wwk Et |^K dw ^ A*M lvfVL*^*t> that in all the houfe he COuld not find a fou- Claries & barba rigeni ler place ; and for the other parts of his body, they frons&gcnapaika*. D d % are 204. Chancer. C 1 8 ) Eandem in abrafa ho - minis facie deform i tatc poe- ts ponunt,(]ua? fyluarom eft cum folia deciderunr; mm* td igitur pleriq; philofophi ad mod u ctaribarbam fcrip- lere non folum viris a natura Crnamenti dignitatis caufa contributam,fcd etiam rale- tudmis, quod ad tat nutrica- tionem fupervacaneura hu- morem exugit. f *) Ft runt Timtnem cam ▼idiflet hominem in arbore fufpenfum, optaffe vtquot- tannis tali tru&u omnes air- fares emberem 5 ideo^j non iramerito appcilatas eft £.* ) Monopolftim eft cum penes vnura aliquem tanttim vendendipottft iS m-ftit j id fitjC.im vnus ioIus aliquod genus me. caturx vnivci (urn emit, vt Kilos fuo .itbitrio Srendat, &prctmmibtuat, Sfitg. QjT ATERNIO, are proportioned like vnto the Reeves th the Englifh Poet. The Reeve was ajlender Cholerick man. His ( l8 ) beard was (haue as nie as ever he can ^ His haire was by his eares round yfhorne, His top was docked like a Prieft heforne ; Full long were his legges and eke full leant, I like ajlafe^ there was no calfe y feenc^* And as for his qualities and condition, they are as de- formed as is his outward feature and proportion $ his thoughts are onely fixt vpon himfelfe, and cares not though all the trees of the Forreft were taken with fuch vntimely fruit, as (*) Timnfometimes vnnaturally deft- red, fo that he may but enjoy the fruits of the Forreft, That loues no man, neither is beloved of any. A com- mon enemy, a generall grievance, a (tumbling blocke, and blocke of offence to the Citizen, to the Country- man, to the people in generall.The Citizen complaines of him, that he takes away his living from him, which he hath purchafed at adearerate, withtheexpenccof feaven y eares painfull labours.The Countryman com- plaines, that he hath enhaunfed the Commodities of the Citie, and that he findeth not that friendly and fa- miliar entcrtainement there that he was vfed to doc; that in ftead of Optatives^ he is entertained with Impe- ratives,^ ftead of milde and gentle perfwafions and in- treaties, he is entertained with imperious Commaunds : and in ftead of fatisfa&ory Anfwers, with fharpe repre- henfions 5 for if at any time he chance to make any en- quiries how Commodities came to be fo enhaunfccf,he is prefently filenced, andmuftmakeno reply, becaufe (* )heknowes not whither els togoe. The people in generall complaine, that by reafon of him, Trading is much decayed, for that the Citizen in a manner is com- pelled to forlakc his habitation, and to betake himfelfe late % or afoure-foUfPty to Hue well. 20S into the Country : and the Country-man is difcoura- gcd to fend his fonne for education to the Citie.So that every man you meete withalLcan tell you of this man. Yet there is one other marke, by which you may know him. He is alwaycs talking of the common good, and pretends nothing more, whereas he intends nothing lefTe,for { h )Thais by her neighbours vpon the firft fight ^ h ig?^ Vlcu ftcir>7 *^ is discovered to be T^//,notwithftanding all the glori- ** dus ornaments & outfides fhe can put on. And the firft hatchers of thefe new devifes a to be for the moft pare like Sea-faring men, who having fuffered Shipwracke at Sea, are ready to catch hold of every maft & planke, and pole of the fhip, to helpe themfelues. The next in the Catalogue,are Enclofers,a kinde ofgrecdie people, and fomewhat allycd to the former,who rob the King- dome, not of the meaneft Commodities of it by expor- tation, but of thechiefefttrcafure of it, the ableft men by expulfion and depopulation, by taking their lands and livings from them, and fending them into the high- * wayesor forraine parts, to feeke their fortunes. The next arc (** ) Fere ft alters, Rtrrators, and ingroffers, who C *) rbt cmitk u£+± out of a covetous defire of having, will not iuffer the Ztbestd.rfi.EAn.tJttf* Commodities of the Country to come vnto the Citie : *«. twpMii R*z r4 *' & ?*? or if they can be content to fuffer them to come vnto &?* the common Market, yet there they will meete with them, and fo firft or laft will make their private Grana- ries the publike Markets,whither every man muft come and pray and pay before he can haue it. The next in the Catalogue, are corrupt and ill-affe&ed Iuftices/uch as (*1 lethro m[ht fJM$(es to be ware of, men addi&ed to (») ExeAtB.- verfzil greedieCovetoufneffe 3 that maketoo much vfe of their hands in the execution of their places, which \j4ftlks never though t of when he pi&ured them without hands, as he did Iufticc without eyes. And thefe are of divers kindes : either fuchas afpjre to places of amhoritie,not fo much to execute the Law according to Iufticc, as for D.'d % their* r 106 Qy A T E R N I : 00 Nulla eritdiflamia per- their private ends, to plcafure their ( k ) friends. Which fonarum apud Iudicem:nam n / /• „ - r r .. ,. r . *' } . r tf . . . cyrm apud xtutfhi dicitur p ™ltus RhuIjus reproved in his tnend $ who lolliciting plagasaccepifle, quia ex ar- him in abufineffenot befitting him to doe, gaue him a ^^S^F^^ 9 fl ! ar P c 2nfwcre 5 which his friend taking to heart, told Lcxncq5cognatum,neca- him that in after- times he would not care for fuch micumagnovit,at^uis w friendfhip :to whom Rut Hi us pithily replyed,nor hefor Lancibus ct maonuponde. r \ c • 1 t 1 1 •* 1 • 1 r rat et minimum. * u ch a friend as would moue him in a thing not beice- Danda opera eft ma^uf, ming him to doe, and which Tbemifiedcs reproved in D^ro^rr^; Strides thc P°«, who follicinng him man vnjuft kd comitantemetu. & caufe,told him that Simonides could never be good Po- Oportc t amicis accommo- et except he did obferue the Rules of Poetry, nor The- Tali*dd>e?cflem^ftcrju- rnijlocles good Prdtor, if he fhould refpeci any mans ris, vtin eius manu oulhus perfon in the diftribution of Iuftice. And which Bias SSSS^jSSZ tooke fpeciall notice of, when he affirmed that in mac MagniquidcnM/^/J:cau- ters of Controverfie, he had rather haue to doe with fainCaftrenfi judicioaCo- his enemies than his friends ; for that of his friends he mihtombus ems , abiecto r , n . . . . . c terroredamnaraerpr. No- was lure to draw one of them to be his enemy, but or wtn a rjffimnt doquctiae do- his enemies one of them to be his friend. Or fuch as ££££$££ « j fl«nd fmoorher vp Caufes in corners, which would umfcntemiSpoftubbatin- be heard in publike, and in the view of the world. fentcr; eiujtamen petiuo which Kyinthonus reproved in his Brother tjttarfias, auaittnon crar, nee terror , . . £ • i * i- i r i t • i_ ^jr-wrf:necawhotitaf Pw- who having a fuitr depending, dehred that it might not ftgw*, juftitiae lanccmab b e fcanned in publike, and in the view of the world • a,quita^potuitdeci,nare, rowhom ^ ntiggnUA in f om e indignation anfwered* (1) Si injuilam caufam ha- if thy caufe be net t}) //^wherefore doeft thou contend ? beretefcis,cwliogas?fiiu- fo^. wherefore docft thou flie into Corners, where itanijCurfugisliDminifcon- . . n r rr r - - 2 1 • L,— \ n r- icientiam, c: addomdhcas it cannot want juft caule of fulpitionrand whicrK m )PA/- latebras rem fere penrahis ? Up of ?'*urcb m phii-m. f ore ' arc t h c Courts of Iuftice inftituted ? I had rather Cn)Pr3eftatvt:plemaieau- ^ . > .. ' , diat quam nos propteriptu. that thy friend mould ( n ) fuffer vndtr the Law, then I in Non tihi quod hceat, fcd mt CX c C uting efthem. Or fuch as are too affeftionate, C^a^emojiomet applying themfelues to the hearing of the one partic refpeaut hontfti. cidud. onelv, which (° ) Ittliantbe i^foflats, though aTyrant, &JESS& reprMdmMofbtsCoumcllors^hobti** moved by ditiidamnarciolcbat. Lottie. hlM \ of a four # fold ft ay to Hue y»eH. 207 him to giuc fcntence againft one that had offended, an* fwered that he would firft heare what he could fay for himfelferto whom the Councellor replyed,What guil- tie man then will be condemned^ he may be permitted to make an cxcufe^To whom lulian againe -, nay,rather what innocent may not be condemned, if fencence be given before he be heard. Of which Alexander tooke fpeciall notice,who vpon the hearing of any caufe, laid one of his hands vpon one of his eares 3 and being asked the rcafon,anfwered, that he kept that (*)eare for the (*) ^cfenfori dandut au. other pnrtie. Or fuch as are too carelefle and negligent 1 -rimmSkii Mamk in the hearing of Caufes, which is well reproved in (?) Philip of Macedene by the appeale of Machetes, who !(p) vlutmb mfhiity: being tryed before him and condemned, appealed from his fentencc, which Philip taking very ill, would needs I know to whom he would appeale, who anfwered^te- ipfttm oRex fi expergifcaris, & attentius audio* caufam^ to none other then to himfelfe* from Philip fleeping, to Philip waking. And which is reproved in Hvnoriusby his beloved Sifter, (* )Hmoritts being accuftomed to (*') Lonkerm* put his hand vnto writings before he had perufed them, which his Sifter perceiving, and obferving many in- conveniences to arife by reafon thereof , and having a. defire to beate him from it ; caufed a Writing to be drawne, by which he fhould promife her in marriage to a man of an ignoble condition, farre inferior vnto her in every degree,which the Lady having gotten into her handSj came vnto Uonorim vpon her knees and de- fired him that fhee might hauethe priviledge of the menneft fubjeft within his Dominion, and that fhee m ight rot be enforced to marry fuch a one as fhe could neither like nor loue. Whichwhenffa/wr//** heard, he wondrcd at,and with many proteftationsaffirmed,that he never dreamr of any fuch thing. But when the Lady fhewed him his hand-wrking,he found it to btpravam & parum tutm fonfuetudinern, an ill Cuftbrac, and re- foU- r r i*8 (*) Dm. i$. (*) Qoitus in rebus ipfi in- terefle nan pofTumus, in hit yiCttU fides fupponKur. Cictro. (*) UlfartUL w (t) Comieatus is dkitur lo- cusjinquovitam agic pnn- ccps, et Pdiatim omnes qui eunti Impetdtoriy Cdfdriq-y *fl£ftunt > dicunturejus Co. aoitatus, & ipfi nunc Comi- tes^ooiK Cotnuatcaks. •Hft QjT ATERNIO, folvcd in after- times to be more carefull how he put his hand to any Writing before he perufed it. The next in the Catalogue, are Councellors, Advocates, and At* turneys, whotogainca Fee, or a blaft of fame in the world, cndevour as much as in them lye to feducethe Iudge that fits to decide Controverfies, and to diftri- butelufticc to every one aright. The next are Tradef- men and Artificers, which vfefalfe weights, lights or meafures, of whom the ( <\ ) Lawes of Cod and men haue taken fpeciall notice. The next are double dealing vn- dcr-Sheriffes, who by mifcarrying of themfelues in their places, haue brought the name of Vnder- Sheriffc into contempt, and haue made the name of Vicecomes as odious almoft as was the name of Vicarim in Uttarti- als time. The name of Vicar was fometimes honora- ble, and none could execute that office but fuch as ex mandato principis DUcefin aliquam regebant. But after- wards when Churches beganne co be impropriated by PriorcfTesandNunnes, which tf(*) themfelues could not fay divine fervice, nor adminifter the Sacraments, then it grew into contempt ^ for they regularly made choyceof fuch ftipendary Priefls to execute che Cures, whom they could haue beft cheape, whom they called Vicars. By which meanes the name of Vicar grew to be more vile than the name of a fcrvant $ as we finde in the ( * ) Poet : E/fefat eft fervumjam nolo Vicarius tflLs* The name of Sheriffe,Vifcount 5 Comcs,and Procomcs was ever honorable, amongft the Germanes ( as Tacitus obferues) none were namtd Comites but fuch as were principibus in Confilijs . and amongft the Romanes the Councell of the Empcrour were called Cdfarxfa) Comi- tate, who were vfed in fecretis, or in remote. Thofe which were vfed in fee ret is, were much honored and had acccfTe to the Emperour at all times, and vpon all occa- fions : thofe which were vfed in more remotis, were ho- nored likewife, though not in fo high a degree as the o- thcr or afoure-fold way to Hue Veil. zo$ ther were, as ( f ) C$mes domorum, ( c ) Comes horreorttm, ( amtsfamrumtttt illcj ( • ) Comes Ubomm, ( «) CcmesremmfrivAtarum, (*) Co- *$£&£&&** mes facrarum largitiomm, ( y ) Comes patrimony ; 5 all thefe ft) owjhorreorum quiha- were Comites and Cenfilwij, though in divers degrees, buitmancipiaquardam pur- When the government of the Romaic Empire began to quendo^j pani pnncipu. fpread it felfe into other parts of the world,then this ti- ( u ) aiwlabonitn, qui « tie began to fpread it felfe likewife. The Saxons vfec it, S'Xiomnes!^^™" but not by the fame name as the Romanes did j for tho(c impcratorix artifices fubdi. which they called Cw/toand we *4rA» thes**«i/cal- ^irerumfamiferium led E alder men, ana the Danes, Ear las, which was a title privatarum>cuion7.sre$fa- and dignitienot hereditary in this Kincdome^asnow it miliaria camaiifla eft* , ° ii- mi i • c,„ it W Coiwei facrarum largttio- is,but temporary and arbitrary, vncill the time ouVilti- ^^ pcr quem C4/dr % ft*. am the Conquerour, who was the firfl: that made it he- p^cinqiiit F*r- waseven from the Conqueft, though the hereditary JSiftSSSSSK dignitie of ( x ) Vifcounts were mt knorvne vntill the time n?m Caftri, ofKingUcmythefxthinthefeparts, or vntill the dayes W ?Z f$ yifcou«i*^ J r„- „ J i r> h i T >. ' « / t> i *" t» England W4S made ttt oiKingHenry the hill andKing Stephen. But not long tbetmeejxiniHcnahe6 t M after the very firft Creation of their Office, did thefe /^^>lohn^avi$r»^rf- Vicecomites and their fubordinate Officei s 5 breakc forth &f^7wXJ^^ into divers outrages,and began to pill and pole the pco- of Gamofavwftrmttbtba.t ple,infomuchth^ dayes of King Henry the fecond, and was a Chauncelor honor conferredypwhima^ut of Canterbury, in an Epiftle dedicated vnto him, thus in- 'thefyaofRmg Hen: the u veighs Bgamftthem.ForeJtariorftm ftqmdem ac V iceconn. ^ j P %. ^ E piji. 9 f. turn innumeri off tci ales , dum avaritu & Cupiditatifu* fa- tisfacerc [Indent >depr& infamepupilhrnm, inpanperum nuditatejn afflitfione (implicium. Sic pauper es E e vict- *I0 QjT ATERNIO, vicecomitnm y autnem$ralinin]udicum & aliorum Coffatera- Hum funt efca & petw y ac pttbltca, degradations* occafio. In this Epiftle he fhewes that the grcateft grievances in our Common-wealth, hauc their originall from them, and their indired proceedings. For that they regularly rcturne, and makechoyce of luch to enquire of offen- ces, as either for favour or commoditie, doe rather co- ver and colour, then difcover and make knowne abufes totheworld. The King andludges he freely acquit- teth ; the King, becaufeit is impofllblc for him to vn- derfland of all abufes that are committed : for if in a (b) Cum muleafiunt in do- ( b ) private farnilie (fay th he) divers things happen which riSSfaSSTS.'S »cvtrcm e totbev«derpndingoftheMaificr,\, a nouo vefttsnegligcntiaeautmcu- be imputed toany carelefnes in any Prince,if in a King- ti* afcribendum 5 fi in tam ^me whiG h con fift e th of many thoufand families, di* fpeciofo & dflufis regions ,. , ,., J , f 3 , bm , qmbus dominus vo$ vers things happen which never come to his knowledg. prxkeit, (mguioruexcefliit 7 he Iudges likewife he excufeth, becaufe things are foTautcm lul&^o; Soothered, and either for loue or affeaion,or confan- vulgarkcr itinerames dki- guinitie and affinitie,or for fome other refpc#,thcy are niu,, dum errata hominum nc ver pre f cntcd anc j f he layeth the whole blame vp- dUigcntcrcxplorant,freque- * /r. 5 ,. J ^ 1 1 r tererrarecontingit:«ccffu$ onthe Ferejtaries & Vtcecomites. Such were the com. namqjhominumabfcondun. plaints againft thefc kind of people in the dayes of King w?SS" Henry the kcond. Againe, in the time of King Edward cdtismuneribusrcdimutur. the firff, they were complained of in Parliament for ?et. BUf: tbU. t fo C]T extortion, and oppreflion. Whereupon rhere was (*;; mfim 1. c*/>. a& (*)4Z4n?madethatnoSheriffe(liould take anything to doe his office of any other then the King, vpon paine to forfeit double as much as hefhould take, and to en- dure imprifonment at the Kings will andpltafure. In the dayes of King Edward the third rhey were complai- ned of againe, for that they would not rccciue any pri- foners without fees paid vnro them : whereupon there (*) st*t.Jejtn % ?\Mn. was (*)4Lajv made, that no Sheriffe or Gaoler ftould j. uf. io. takeany thing for receiving of felons. Inthedayesof King Henry the fourth,they were complained of againe (#; Am* 1, Ham 4. for their extortion. Whereupon theie was ( * ) a Law made* or afoure-fold way to Hue "&e!f. tti made, that if a Sheriffe did any extortion, he fhould be punifhed at the Kings pleafure. Inthedayesof King Henry the fixt, they were complained of againe, for the extorting of exceffiue fees, for the making of Arrefts. Whereupon there was (* ) a Law made which did limit ( * ) Ufc.x$,Hen:f Gflii and determine what fees they fhould take.That the She- riffe fhould haue x x. $. the Bailie that made the Arrcft iiij. fi.and the Gaoler iiij fc. Inthedayes of King Hen* ry the feventh,they were complained of againe,for that they did often enter plaints in other mens names, and caufed Amerciaments to be made for not appearance, whereas the parties amercied were never fummoned, and by that meanes made pillage of the people. Where- upon there was (*) 4 Z^made, that no plaint fhould C) n. Hcmjl up.\^ beentred,vnleffe the partie to whom the debt was due, was then prefent at the time of the entry thereof. A- gaine 5 in thecayc$ofQueen<:Elizal>ett>,thcy werecom- plained of againe for their taking of excefliue fees vpon the ferving of Writs of Execution. Whereupon there was ( * ) a Law made, which doth fet downe what they (* ) M. a?. £ H *HM» fhould take, and no more, viz. if that the debt did not amount vntoaboue thefummeof roo.li. they fhould take for every x x s xij. fc. and if it did amount vntoa- boue the faid fumme of ioo.li. then for every xx.s. o- verandaboue thefaid fumme of ioo.li. vi.fc. fochat this abu fe of that honorable title of Count & Vifcounr, is no innovation or new things but hath beene growing of old, 2nd now it is come to that growth of fcandall andigrominie, vtprofonm penefitejfeprobHm, that it is a kindeofdifpar2gernentforaman tobehoneft in the execution of the office, oratleaftforanhoneftman to take a deputation of it. It being a Proverbe or by- word rather, to be twice or thrice an VnderfherifFe, is to be a difhoneft man ever after. It is regularly an honor wee know f orany man to vndergoe any office of command and authorise, and the more often he doth it, the more E e 2 ho- ZT1 Qv ATERNIO) honor it is ftill vnto him. But in the execution of this place it is not, and why ? becaufe by abufe it is become ignominious,and contemptible.lt is worthy our paines therefore to enquire where the fault is.Is it in the Vice- comes?! wi(h I could fay no^but I cannot i for he doth depute fuch fubordinate Minifters and Officers vnder him, as doe pill and pole the people. If a Bifbop be ne- ver fohofpitious, charitable, and relgious himfelfe, fijO Nulla regis srquitatc, yet if his ( l * ) Stewards , Bayliffs, and other his Agents, w^t^rcf ib^edi doe racke and pole his Tenants, it is all one to theTe- m\g?tow1nfcrk>reT fimm nants as if the Bifhop himfelfc did it* If aludge fhall be faciumofficiumj nam fru- never fojnfl, vpright, and free from corruption, yet if ^S^lZT^i his fervantsandattendants (hall exaft and extort from trah»ntauulium.Vtaitiac. the fubje a ™>™J?™8io» 3 anJexam- ( c ) Erandenberg 5 the Citizens of Brandcnberg feeing^ sfllToidEagU flitters in and young man of a comely perfonaqc and countenance, «*, - that promifed much, condemn/. Tor alight offence; ™'"fto'J>''<»&<*™*>M> r .. '. n , to . *+. f h* htm about. they all with one vnammous confent^made mterailion ( c ; umcermex Mar-.uther. for his pardon, which being grauntcd, andtheTheife °^gue2 villain iivous po- fctaclibcreic; not long after in rcquitall thereof, here- Po^guk v Main « it vous turned to their Citieand burnt it,and being asked,how oindra. he could be fo barbaroufly ingratef ulUo rake away the An ™™ d J?*" w h ■"* liuelihood of them>that had been the meanes to iaue his But g a u dfymt and be will ' life, gaue them thisanfwere in effeS, that they deferue ***mjmu no liuehhood,that depriue the Law of hfe.which is the ^SS^tfe due execution of it* tbtmgmtlyihtyxn\lfl%ngyou % Ruftic: I am glad toheare you ranke Monopolizers, hut1 ty»»preffe the* thrift r t J p v> * t- r , r n r „ 5 nevtrburtyou.jindataiib.ld Enclofers, Ivgrators, Engroiers, and Forenallers a- prettify we told hi* Father, mong the enemies of the C ernmon-\vealth:for in many thatibtrev>ajd:btn+grewm places I heare. hey paflcfoi good husbands, wife and Jg^^£5 provident men, and are called vnto places of command that a dog miine™ ku any and authoritic. /i^T^X^^i^ Jttrid^ Truely in our Coafts we efteeme of them in ylj^LmeT ILir blfi E e 3 the fnvdu lljj, Q^V A f £ R N i O, the body politicke,no othcrwifc than we doe of boy les & vlcersin the naturali body, and will allow vnto them no other place to dwell in,than that Citie which Philip ofMacedette built for the excremen : s of his Kingdome, ( 20) vhitdrcb. in Th&tfi anc * called it by the name of ( 20 ) Pomroplis Civitas Ne- mmU. bulonum^ yet I muft confeffe, they rhruft themfelues fometimes into places of authorise and command, and (n)Furesprivatonimfur- gird thcmfeluesabout with ( 2t ) chaines f gold. But ihc toruminncrvoatqj in com- multitude repine at it, for they thinke tney better de- ^SZZfiSZ ferue Jt that !y e bou » d in chaines of r ron 5 for as to rob AnlmGtttdtb. 1 1^.18. and fteale from many is a greater offence, than to fteale from a few, fo the fault of the one is greater than the o- ther. Rujlic: I pray you goe on,and (hew me what are the Lawes that punifh the delinquents in bo:h kindes, lurid i I will therein fatisfie you. And firft what are Lawes which doe punifh rheeues properly fo called : the L3 wes which do punilh thceues properly fo called, are comprehended vnder thofe titles Dererum divifto- ne y de acquirendorerum dominio, dcrerum vindi cat tone, de furtis^feculatu, &facrilegijs, eH. t\% to infli<5l vpon fuch fouldiers as forfakc their Colours •, and is called ( d ) Fuptarium, baftinadoing : for the fe- (d) Foftuariummcrcturqui cond offence he is to be branded with the ignominious Jjg^Jjf*^ am prsfidio name of an old Theife, and to loofe one of his eares. iyt #. fm p&. For the third offcnce,he is to be branded with the name rhis^nifhwent MTjbttmt of a notorious old Theife, and to fuffer death as in cafe ]JX^2£& he had taken away the value of v.sJBy the Lawes of the ciurethi^ffageMmt^it. Kingdome of England, whofoevcr taketh away any _ Sueton: in Tibet: Ner. , . & / s i i i r •• %. i • ••/ Pro prirao peccaro fur, pro thing horn any man to aboue the value or xij, 0. his lire r ecun do fur confu«us, pro may be queftioned for the fame 5 if vnder that value, tertiofurfamoftsappeiiarai, then to be ftockc and whipt. Fu * Ruftic: Sir,in my opinion,the Lawes of England doe very much vnder-valuc the life of man. lurid: No certainly ^for no punifhment can be great enough for fuch,who having eyes, and hands, and legs, and limmes, and are able to purchafe a livelihood to themfelucs , even in the moft barren parts of the world, will yet notwithftanding roue vp and downe, beg and fteale, and expofe themfelues rather to an igno- minious death for a trifle at home, then vndcrgoe any labour, or adventure themfelues in the face of their e- p|J3SiS£i»- nemies abroad, where honour is to be found, giving iib.6.c^.io t occafion thereby to our neighbouring friends beyond Eadem feveritas inter &>m/- , r 1 T ^ ? -r i • »w; namlcxxa.tabularum the Seas,to eondemne our Lawes -and to magnifie their a dcd fu«o adrerfataeft, n owne. For thai in all their Coafts there are not fuch furem manifeftnm in fervi- mendicant vagrant perfons robefeene. The Lawcsof ^BiSSSStSUSL. ( e )Dr^<5>didpimifhhimin an equal! degree^ that had &fi node ftmumfaaum fir, ftolnc bur an Apple, with him that had ftolncan Oxe. fi/liqui$ orcidir, jurecsfut ~_ , T • i-j i r n elt. Totum hoc commemo- Yet the Lawg.vers did notahvayesgtue full reynes to r ^AiilmGthhb.\i^.\%. thofe Lawes, but let them in a Table, as they did the vbiprobatDeccmrirosnon Dragon abouc the !udiciall feate, to the terror of rhe ffggSESESS beholder. 7 he ( f ) Lawes efthe Athenians hkewife did *> qui farm omne mortepu* punifh idle perfons in anequall degree with theeuc sand Rire vcIie ;3 ac <33 nndlcni- robbers. ; amongftwhom,iffhemendicantScholIerhad tisfuppiicioduplitantups- fet vphistrade,their Lawes would quickly haue found namfaribusindixit 5 fedmer him out. It was a pretty paffage which happened vpon H^Sf 8 ^ 1 ^ a-time,. z\6 (22) Multisauthcribus do. ceraur non tarn paupertati ccndolcre.quam men Jicita- temdeteilarij nam publice mendicare,&circumirecivi- tatdoe punifh a f mail offence fometimes with death :yet thofe Lawes doe receiue di- vers mitigations. Firft, it is in the bofome ofthe Iurors to mitigate the fame; for tryalsof Criminallcaufes be- ing regularly by the oaths of 12. honcft and able men. 1 hofe honeft men in their wifedomes and difcretions, if the value of the thing taken and ftolne away, doe not plainely or afoure-fold way to hue WeU. tvf plainely appeare vntothem, doc often value the thing though it be of treble the value of xij.d.to be vnder the value, then the wifedome of the Kingdome by fevcraU A&s of Parliament haue fpecially provided, that if the felony be not aggravated with fomecircumftanccs odi- ous intheeycoftheLaw, the offender is admitted to his CIergie,and fo vndergoing fome light punifliment, fuch as the Lawes in fwch cafes haue provided, the of- fender is to efcape without any other punifliment. Rttftic: Sir, by the Law of God, a quadruple reftitu- tion was held a good fatisfa&ion, how commeth it to pafle then, I pray you, that the punifliment fliould now be fo grievous, and fo much differing from the penaltie appointed by the Law of God t lurid: In the time of the lewi(h Common- wealth, the labile was folemnifed every fiftieth ycare^but in the Common- wealth of the Romanes, it was changed from fiftieth to a hundred, from a hundred to fiftie againe j from fiftie to twentie- fiue $ one of the Popes being de- manded the reafon why in the folemnization of the Iv« bile, the Romane Common- wealth did fo much differ from the lewijh, gaue them this Anfwere, Non convenit folitia ludaic* politic Romant^hatthokfcvcvall Com- mon-wealths were governed by feverall Lawes and Cuftomes, and that which was thought fit in the go- vernment of the one, was not thought neceflary in the government of the othenthe fame anfwer in eflfeft may Igiue vnto you. 2V en convenit politia Judaic a plitU An* glicana, the Commodities of the earth when UWofes Lawes were given to the /*nw, were not of that estima- tion as in after times they were in thofe parts of the world where theLa wes are fo ftri& againft theeues and robbers. And therefore there needed not fuch fevere punifliments,asnow are provided againft fuchraale- fa&ors. Againe, the Lawes of Common- wealths ebbe and flow, rife and fall 3 liue and die;that which was Law F f fo r 1 *I8 Oy A T E R O, in the times of out progenitors, perhaps in our times is no Law, and that which is now Law, perhaps in the next age, though in the fame Common- wealth,will be none $ therefore no marvaile, though ihe Lawes of one Nation differ from the Lawe of anoiher^he Lawes of England from the Lawes of the J ewes. Ruflic: You haue fufficicntly fhewed v/batthe Lawes and punifhment s againfi priv &te thelites are^n rhe next place, I pray you, acquaint n:e wfjjifc arc :he Lawes a- gainft publicke thcetieS to the Commorvwcalch, I mcanejEnclofers^ForcilallciSjR-^ratorSjinJEngruf- fcrs, and Sheriffs that abufe their placed. lurid: Sir, the puhiftipents arc of different natures, according to the differenr Lawes. The punifhment of the Enclofers in one kinde,the punifhment of the Fore- fbller in another, of the Sheriffe in anoiher. The(*)/w- nijhmentofthe Enchfer, that fhall turne tillage intopa- fture, is a forfeiture ofonchalfe of the revenue of the land fo converted : the punifhment of ( * ) the ForeflaL ler, Relator, and Ingrojfer^ is for the firft offence two monethsimprifonment, and a forfeiture ofthegoods fo foreftalled and ingroffed. Forthefe h i #^#;j; ajjg ly , and comming vnto Rome he related vnto the Senate : ~' the caufe of his comming ; the Romanes o verioyed with the fight of their Regulus y being one that had deferved well of them 3 granted what he defired before they knew what his define was j which he taking tnoft kindly, yet F f 3 refufing J Ztt Qjt ATERNIO, rcfufing their kindnefle, after fome fliort ftay of Con- gratulation with them, told them that hf had a fecond requcft vnto them, which was that he nrght haue their loue and leaues to depart from them : at which the Ro- manes being aftoniihed, and not fo much joyed at the fir ft with the fight of him, as they were now grieved that he would depart from them 5 would needs know of him the motiucs that induced him vnto it. Regulus willing to giue vnto them all fatisfrftion, told them that he was abafhed to come vnto them vpon fo vn wel- come aMeffage, but defircd them to cxaifc him for that he was fent by the Carthaginians s and he mull ne :ds goe whom the Carthaginians d roue. The caufe where- fore he did now leauc them was, not for any ill will he bare them, or by reafon of any vnkindneffe conceived, ( 2 1 ) Vkit amorpatri* ra- b uc ou t of his ( 2 * ) hue andrefbeti vnto them, for that he tione valent:or omni. v '. , Jr M u CJ . r , t. r Omnium foc/etatum nulla was now grown old and full of difeafes and infirmities, efteratior (mqaic deem,) and not ableas formerly he had beene to doe them fer- ±5^55$! vice : and that he was but one,nor one neither,bat Uk ftrum 5 chari funt paremes, one : one foote being in the graae alreadie, and why fo charilibcri,propinqui,fami. many cam j ve Carthaginians (hojld be delivered for the hares; fed omnes omnium r * * • o ■ - charitatc* pattia vna com- raniome of one Romanexhz m Mneic or which were bet. picxacft j pro qua quis bo. ter a ble to do them iervicc than he was, (which was the "^^^^^ ca.ufe of his Embaffie ) he fuv no reafon for it . and that ckero lib. u of/c: they might juflly taxe him of his negled of them, if he fhould requeft fo vnreafonabk a thing of them, and fo defircd them as formerly 'ha: he might haue their loues to returne againe : with which the Romanes being yet not well fatisfied, per (waded yet further with him,t'hat as he had ever-loved them, fo he would continue it to the laft, and leauc his bones with them. My bones (a- las quoth he ) in rhem there is nothing but rottennefie and putrefa&ion, but that which is dearer vnto me, my (24) Ot6rq}quat*rq;bcatil heart I will: but as for ^)my to^feeing I tari te given Quels ante ora P atru,r^;> my fai^to the Carthaginians, tothem I muftbequcarh lab mamibus altis ' , • « * >l 1 11 Cojit.git oppetere. thcm 3 and recurne agame. When reply was made, but P7rgik JEneid. 1. it or afoure-fold way to Hue well. it was to the Carthaginians .O • bur with the Carthagini- ans faith is not to be violated. And fo notwithftanding all the perfwafions that could bevfd, he returned a- gaine ; vpon whofe returnc the Carthaginians caufed new kinde of torments to be inflate d vpon him, cut off his eye-lids, to the intent that he might not fleepc, and inflicted vpon himfuch ineffable punifhments, as no ( 2 * ) tongue orptnne is *bh to expreffe. The like Romane re. folurion is feid to bf in { ? ) Fornpsy, who having with fome others engaged himfelfc in a great dearth at Rome to make provifio for the Citizcns,bcing ready to hoyfe vp fayie, there fell out on a fliddaine very ftormie and rempeftuous winds,infomuch that they that were with him on the fhoie,and they which were with him in the Ship, and were to accompany him in the voyage, defi- red him to ftay vntill the ftorme were o verjvnto whom Pompey anfwercd,77 eam,nw vtvivam^neceffe eft, need- foil it is that I fhould goe, not that I fhould liue* for without mc, Rome mzy well fubfift,but not without meate and drinke 5 fo in the midft of the fturme,that he might not bethought careles of his word and promife, and of what he hadvnder-taken, he tooke his voyage, (* 6 )^murah, a Turke likewife, having made a truce with the King of Hungary, and taken his oath vpon his Kjdlcarm to keepe it inviolably,turned his forces inten- ded for Eurepe into the Coaftsof^/fo. Of which when theKingof/f/w^/Vhad notice, notwithstanding his oath, by the perfwafion of Julius the Popes L:gate,and other the Eomjh Bifhops, was drawne to invade the Turkes Territories in Thuda, contrary to the league, of which when the Turke was given tovnd rftand, he reduced his Forces ^on hwith into Europe againe,and fet vpon the Chriftians : where a^er a long Skirmifh, the T#r&enveighing againft tfae trechery of the Chriftians, lifted vp his eyes and hand* and cryed, O lefiis Chrift, if thou be God, as they fay ihou art, revenge thisabufe offered ziy (15) Quitfunerafando E^plicet ? aut poffitlachry- mis a?quare doiores ? Virgil: Miteid. a. (26) Vide gencralcm hi- ftoriatn T/tredrum mjimtirdb.6* %l^ Qjf ATIRNIO, offered vnto thy Name:and no fooncr had he fpoken it, the Battaile being before doubtfull, but the vi&ory fell to the Turke : the King being taken, and his head as an Enfigne of trechery being fet vpon a Speare, the Popes Legate and many of his Bifhops being flaine with him. IfRegulu* a Heathen, and x^imutAh a Turke ,were fo re- gular^ ftrifr/7. was the vow of ( k ) Herodvnto Herodiat for the cutting offlobn Baptift head i for which both he and fhee arc branded with infamie, and the ftigmaticall Characters ■jp) i sm. i?*w/i». remaine as yet vndefaced in them^or fuch as KingC 1 )^*- vid made for the killingofN 'abator fuch as our Votaries now adaies doe for the leading of a (ingle life, choofing „*x xm v » > n \ rather to be the Fathers of a fpurious generation, then /») Melius eft Yoraflultae . , , *, j t t_ r promiffionis non implerc, to brcake the vow which they haue made. Inthefeand quam crimen admittere. t h c like cafes, they may very well ( * ) fay le in the ftrift SKSS^^S! pctformance.The Lawes of Nature and Nations teach bus. vs 3 that no tye or obligation, be it never fo ftrong,wiII p Regem fidum i.fed tunc t e a man to ^ x a kicked a # or any thing that is in it tantummodo fidum, / r . r . . .- > 1 r i Majut perfidiaeft cum fee. felre mifchicvous $ as if a man make alolcmne vow and lusipfa edes. proteftation, or binde himfelfe in an obligation to kill ^XSww! fuchaman 5 burnehishoufc,orftealehishorfe. With Illkitum juramentum ncn thefea manaoay well difpence withall, becaufe they ^ SSSleric^i arcagainftthcUwcsoiGodandincn. or afoure-fold way to Hue »eB. z*% Unflic: Admit that Regnlus fliould not fo ftri&ly haue performed the vow which he made to the Cart&agiifi- ans : what harnje or wrong could it haue beenc vnto him, feeing that he was now at home amongft his friends, through whofc importunitie and follicitation he did what he did * lurid: Certainly befides the horror of his confeience, which is the ( m )greateji torment that any man can under- (myMa*imap*Mpeccat2 £K,the Romanes would not haue endured him,for they Mti/confcientiafimiliscft; held him vnworthy the name of a Romane, and not fit rxori Stow* qu*quotidi* to liuc amongft them that was fatfe and perfidious, and ^fj^gj^SSSS. that faith even with theeucs and robbers was to be ob- musfibi confcius. ferved, and for no refpeft to be violated, no not for a pldHt - **■**• Kingdome.(*) Alyar they hated* death, and madeno "ZlZZi^T** difference betweene a lyar, fwcarer, and perjured per- £**** fon 5 for he that would lye would fweare, and he that {2t^^TJ €f f^ s 3 , ,*s , , r ' ., 2 rf* noniccus ac mortem odlfle would 1 weare would forfvveare, if occaiion were ottc- inquit fe cum, qui aiiud ore red. A tale-teller likewifc and rumor- rayfer they could pwnMiud pedoKcUudiu pot endure; whom Plutarch in the life of Alexander *™n^^^^^ in PhilotaS hath Well fct forth t ( 2 ? ) PhylotOS having fet- Ctora;nani qui mentiri folet, MkU^hmvfmtbefme^b^ Antigen- S^^K tifan, whom he tooke Captive at the Battel! in Siciua, tiumad his Father Parmenio and himfelfe, and that they two ^/^**K^*»,» t r i n % * r f • t Put to flighty kept the young man ( for fo he ityled Alexander ) in his j>oore souUnn fidnd mtb throne, but no fooner had Antigona taken her leaue of f*"f** dfadfim^p him, but meeting with one of her acquaintance,ielated \ om td ^ vnto her what Philotas had told her,and what words he vfed of Alexander 5 and fo it went from one to another, whereby a fame was ray fed,which comming to the vn- derftanding of (*) Craterus, Ije forthwith acquainted (*) cuter* twt Jkuml Alexander with it, who fent for Philotas^ and he for his X^m^m^ft^ amt- vaine andfooliflibabling, received condigne punifli- foaZtiTmt^iT'™"'" ment.Suchkind of men as was this Philotas they would G g not xi6 ($v A T E R N I O not endure, norgiue any Credit vnto their words and (*JVw leges Riypnorum testimonies : but as for (* ) him that bad called their Cods perjari capue mutubamur. tomtwjfe, that what they had laid was true, or what lanquam duphci tencrentur • it i V •> ? . * i i rcclere.vtqaipietateindeos Iwj vowed rhey would perform?, vnro which they ¥iohient,&fidem inter ho- would haue beene abafhed to bane called a ( n ) friend, mines tollercnt maximum «,^/.i^ju u i_ ri_ u i vinculumfocictatishumana.. Y n fey'Cfj in thc one or the °ther ; fuch a one rhey ab- Di9d.sicM.i.reruman». hoired and derefted. It is reported of Attgnjlus defar, y k > V ec the y hare ^he perfon - Canibusquooitenduurpro- for that he which was fometimes penured in their bc- ditoresodiofo$efle(ua?fra. halfe, may vndoewhat he hath done, and fpeakethe Vide^/wwComicemin truth when times ferue. Solyman loathed and abhorred ^pologo. the Traytor that betrayed Rhodes vnto him, and in fbad ZgSE%&£ ofhis daughter whom he expecled to be given him in Maccdonibu3prodidiiict,ac marriage for a reward, he cautedhimto befleyed obidapudeos inhoRorcfii. faked, and in derifion told him, that it was not fir for a fleyed and for ffhi long^acccditjiumptrCa- ^hnftianto marry with a Turke, vrtfciie fte.putcir ms lira paffim prod Jiorappciia. old skin. (*) Charles the fourth rewas did the Souldiers &££&£%££ *at betrayed their Lord and Maifter with counterfeit titPhiUpr*,, Maudowsiuos coyne, and being defired to deliver currant money, an- bomiceicflc adm^du agrc. fwcred, that counterfeit coynewas the proper wages mmequam fuo proprto vo f° r counterfeit fervice. The lame revvard:as§ Pauius J&- care nefcirenr. Dicunteni(B milins reports) did Clodov&tit beftow Vpon then that Stt^SSSfonb* betrayed C4»«f4r«»ufto his hands. ^cW^caufca when Edrick bad beu ayt dins King and Count ty intohisbdnd^thatht (hauldfij, that Jhr bt&d(Jerftle/bcitU be advanced aUue theHchditti of England, which be immediately performed 'by ddvdwito bu btda >f>:n tbeTov* tr of London, (*J Ksmiu*\ %PauIi* JEmlmbb. i. Dcte^iefl: fthtc. inCiofto.yAo, Beffw i. r or a foure-fold way to Hue ypeH. ziy Bejfus that betrayed Darius to be put to death ; and Ca- far would not endure tolooke vpon Herodotus and A- cbillas^ that prefcntcd him the head of Pompey : and cer- taincly , \i ^™ lidi &«* l ™< ans : if a man had beene thrice found to haue becne a lyar, hewasnottohauevndergone any office, but to haue had his fingers and toes cut oflf:and as concerning the punifhment due to the( z ) rtmor-rayjtr> you ihall CO vUt*r&. m ftce* G g x finde zj8 Qj/ ATERNIO, findekwcll fet forth in the end of the life of Nicea in Plutarch. It happened vpon a time that a ftranger com- ming into a Barbers fhop,to be disburdened of forae fu- pcrfluous excrements which he carried about him, whilefthewas vnder the Barbers hands, told Wm of fome ftrange Occurrences which happened in Skilia, which theBarber conceiving to be true,relates the fame vnto the Citizens where he lived;the Citizens vpon the hearing of it make an vproare, which the Magiftrate en- devouring to fupprefle, would needs know of them the caufc of the tumult, which they affirmed to be by reafon of fome occurrences which happened in Sicilia 7 and being demanded to tell where they had their intel- ligence, it was found that it proceeded from a Barber • who being fumoned to appearc before the Magiftrate, affirmed, that what he related he heard of a ftranger in his ihop;but becaufe he could not produce the ftranger TromenddCC&Civitatis turbaurc in rot am delegatus ,& din tortus eft • he had the punifhment of the wheele, as a difturber of the peace of the Citie,and was cruelly tor- tured and tormented. Kuftic: Buthowdoethefe kinde of people ftandin the fight of God, cfpecially perfidious truce-breakers, and falfe-hearted perjured perfons i lurid? Moft odious and contemptible* as is manife- fted in all our hiftories both facred and prophane$looke in the Hiftories of former ages, and you (hall fee how miraculoufly God hath everpunifht this offence of per- jurie. Diodorm Siculu*, and KMacrobim fpeake of a re- ligious lake in Sicilie, where the Sicilians did v fe to take their oaths for the deciding of controverfies^and if they hadfwornethc truth, they returned without harme $ but if they forfwore thcmielues they were drowned* And Ariftotk fpeaketh of another lake neare vnto it, which is called Fons Jcadintu yinto which the depofit^- ons of the Witneflesare throwne, and if they containe noihing o r afoure-fbU V>ay to Hue VeH izp> nothing but veritie, they fwimme on the top of the wa- ter •, if otherwife, they finke to the bottome. And( a )£0- (u ) s^Umti'm Colleaaatir tonus hath fomething of a lake in Sardinia, with the wa- mum «*»orabili«D. tcr whereof the deponents arc coraanded to wafh their eyes, and if they hauedepofed the truth, their eyes be- came more cleare; if falfe, it put out their eyes. And Diodorus Siculus fpeakes of another Lake neare vnto Tiana, of which they that take an oath areaccuftomed to drinke, and if they f weare the truth,it affords a fwect andpleafant rellifh to the palate, and becomes nutri- mentall to their bodies 5 if falfe, it makes their bodies leprous, and fo benummes them, that they arc not able to ftirre, but continue there, be way ling their mifcrable cftatc and condition 5 the like water he reports to be in Ethiopia. Thus miracqloufly doth God punifll thi* offence. Lookc againc into the Booke of God,and there you (hall fee what puniflimcnt (")/*&*&/, and the reft (*) i&g*mc*f.%t.r:*}l that confpired againft Nabtth vndet- went ; how the ac- cufers oiDanielvftxt punifhed $and the ( *) falfe Wit. ( x .) seetbehifajofSuteh:^ neffes that rofc vpagainft Sufanna f How Sauls ( i)pofte- "*>>«;/ **• " ritie werepuniflied for the breach of the league which ( y) * "' w/ u lofuah made with the Gibeonites * How ( *) Simeon and (») Gw.49, *trf. $ Levi were cut fed by their Father at his death, for that they deftroyed Sicfom and Hamer, contrary to the Co- venant and league made with them. Looke intothe Ec* clefiafticall Hiftories, and there you ihall fee howthe ( •) thee Witnejfes that rofe vp againft NArcijfa, Bifhop oiUmfalem were punifhed 9 how according to their fe- < ^f^^ fi ^ m verall wifhes they received condigncpunifhment:three falfe brethren having cofpired againft the good Biftiop, to the end that they might dazletheeyesef the worlds and make the world belecue, that what they had faid was true, made three voluntary wifhes : the firft wi(ht, that if that which he had faid were not true, that a fud- dainefire might comedownc from heaven, and con- fiune him 5 tfiefecond wifht that fome extreame ficknes *3© (b) WiUidmMdltre&Jegt* fiii rtguyn ^ing x lib* 2. (c) tt.HmbtidJil'.i.p.i »o. c PrecfiMo Getii&i'U, Si deus caeli verar,& juftus, hocpanis fruftulum conce- dat ne °uttur pertranieat, 6 vnquam tc prodere cogira- verim ; Deus autera ( vt eft in hiftcna) audim ^ oc?m proditoris, & mox eodvm pane ftnngulatat mortem preguftavit anernam. (d) Plutarch, in He£i(Mji~ fojlhlhegi Qjf AT ERNIO, might befall him,and like a Cankar cat out the marrow of his bones ; the third, that his eyes might fall out; and according to their vvifhes it happened to rhern all : thefirft was burnt withal! his poffefTionsjthefecond perifhed with a ianguifhing and loathfome diTcaCc 5 the third perceiving the punifhment to happen to the other according to their wifhes and dcfiies,confefTed his of- fence, and defired pirdon of the Alrn!ghne,and by rea- (on of his continuaH pencren- ull reaves which he fhed, at length loft his eyes. So the Bi'hop that fled out of fearc, fearing that innocency couid not haue withftood the fury of three fuch violent Witneifcs, was fent for homeagainc,andreftoredtoall hispoirciTion>. Looke ngaine into the Monkifh and other Hiftories, and you ihall fee how ( b ) Mlfred a Nobleman of En*Lndvt&$ mi- raculoufly puniihed for perjury, who having plotted and confpired againft x^Adelflace to put out his cy^s y was put to his oath to make his purgation, by reafon no evident teftimony could be made thereof, who for that hetookc an Oath contrary to the truth and his confer- ence, he fell downeptefencly, and within rhreedayes dyed, You frail fee again how( c )Earle Godwin father to & ing Harold, who having confpired the vntimely death of King Edward the Confeffor, denyed it with many pro. reflations, being charged thcic with • but at one time a- houe the reft more ferioufly and folemnly -wifbed, that the bread which he had in his hand might be his laft, if ever he had any fuch thought ; and as he wifhed, fo it befell him ; for in the eating of it he was choked, Looke into Plutarch, and you (hall/eehow ( d )Cieomenes was pant fhed for the breach ofthzTmce which he made with tfw men of Argyers.cleemenes having made a Truce with the men of Argyers for feaven dayes, fee vpon them in the night, and flew many of them, and being reproved for doing fo, anfwered that he made a Truce but for fciven dayesjbut he efcaped not vnpunifhed 5 for as the Story or a foure-fold way to Hue we!!. i\\ Story fairh, affayling of the Citic,he had a mofl fharae- fullanddifgracefullrepulfe by the women, which fo perplcxthim, that he fell mad, and ript vp hisowne bovvells. Looke againe into Plutarch, and you fliall fee how Alexander Ecclipfed the glory of all his Enter- See Philip Commia- 6m prifes by putting of the poorc Induns to death,contrary ttffgjZSZ to his promife, who lubmitted themfelues vntohim. ring >/> of the enable of So odious haue Truce-breakers and perjured perfons * rance r***kJfm*fi*l* bcene ever in the fight of God. *&£*£*** Rttftic: The offences of lying, rumor-rayfing, and perjurie, being offences of fo high a nature ; how com. meth it to pafle, that wc haue no Lawes amongft our feluestopunifhthern? iHriJp: Sir, you are miftaken, we haue Lawes which punifluhcrnin a high degree, rhough not in fohigha degree, as did the Lawes made in the dayes of our fore- fathers and progenitors. Rnftic: What Law is there, I pray you, to punifh * rumor ray/cr, and how were they punifht in the dayes cf our progenitors? Iurijp : By the Ancient ( * ) Lawes of England, if any f c) Qui falfos rumores in one had been the Author of any falfe rumor, his tongue ^fJgHjSSK waste haue bcene cut out, vnklTe he would haue re- fis*flimauonevuitredime- deemed it with the price of his head* The Lawes of re » P er . l€ &* 8 ^l"ei^^iaU- troverfics, and to infringe the bond that vnites and tyes um adiudicandus. Vid.i™. man to man, fo as an enemy to mankinde doth thc Law in prifcis^Ucg-imcrlc bchold ^ ^ for after that ft ee hath branded them for ^idcmTupplicium per legem perjured perfons, and burthened them with a fine more tmm, & P ericgcm£^: & heavie than their fhoulders will well beare, fhee feque- ^rLl^k^V^Yc^nvcC fters them by imprifonmenr, as not fit to partake of hu- ganmr. vid. wtmk m ane focietie, and difables their teftimonies in all other t&S^^Sm cafes whatsoever. So doe the Lawes of our Kingdome caft probrura Cutum, puniili perjurie. Ruftic: I pray you refolue me this doubt, doe thc Statutc-Lawcs punifli allfalfe Witnelfes alike, making no difference betweene a Witneffc whofc teftimonie tends onely to thc taking away of the goods or good name of a man, and a Wirneffe whofe teftimony tends as well to the life as liuclihood of him . lurid: Certainely, in both Cafes the punifhmentis but pecuniary & corporall, yet more or lefTe according ( ^*^$£& t0 the naturc and 1 ualitie of thc of&ncc 5 for ifa wf e J - /s — teftimonj or a four enfold way to hue VveU. % } J teftmonj be vfcd in any Caufe depending before the Kings Iufticcs in any of his Highnes Courts of Record ztWejlm. be it by Writ, Adion, Bill, Information, or in any Leets., view of Frankpledge, Law-day or aunci- ent Demefne Court, Hundred, Court Baron, or in the Court of 'Stanneries in Dcvon(ktrc ox Cornwall, for any Lands or Tenements, Goods or Chattels, the punifh- raent is ccrtaine, that is to fay, fortie pounds againft a fuborner and procurer, andtwentie pounds where no fubornation is, it he hath wherewithall to fatisfie^if not then imprifonment forhalfeayeare, without bay le or mainprise, and to (land vpon the Pillorie for halfe an houre, within the Market-Towne where the offence was committed, or in fome Towne neare adjoyningj but if it be in Cafe of Confederacy or Confpiracy, \v here the life of a man is queftioned, then the punifh- ment is more or ldfe, according to the nature and qua- litie of the offence^as the Lords in their difcrctions fhall thinke meete and convenient. * Rujl: Giue me leaue, I pray you, to cxpoftulate a little with you-how can a pecuniary punifhmec be in any de- gree equivalent to the nature of the offece,which tends to the raking away of the life of a man^nd how cometh it to paffe, that the intent in fome cafes (hall be punifhed with death, when it extends no further then to the ta- king away of the goods of a man j and in other Cafes when it extends to the taking away of his life,it (hall be punifhed but with a pecuniary and corporall punifh- ment. As for example ; If a man haue an intent to rob a dwelling houfe,and purfue it fo far astobreakedownc a wall, though he take nothing away, yet if his feloni- ous intent doe appeare by the remoovall of goods out of their places, & packing them together, making them fit for portage, he (hall vndergoe the fame punifhment as he fhould hauc done if fo belie had taken them away: but if a man Jhall fuborne two Witneffes to depofe a H h thing *5+ CL ( I ) Lex TtdionU fcit indutta &pytbdg9re* ex auihoritate Hfj4ddrH4Htbi,qui inter came- ras leges hanctuht. Si qu;s quod fecit patiatur, jus erit zqutiai. 'jlrtfot.Ul>.$At iure Ttlhnk* Cuius pro oculo, dens pro dentc jD./^.ip.i i,EW.ai. ( rn) Vide Stat* dc Ann. $7, £^:j.cap.i8. (n)£> the Laws o/Scorland, A; fta/ dctuftth another of treafon^be isjccptited, com- mits tredfon. i°.Stat.Scot.i i.Parliam. Jac^.cap.^. Kon inutile coniil/um la* cob nuper Regis in oratione 5 ta .iniusTcnienteSjiurec6- ira vosrcddito, quiefcite,ali- £s fcitotenondormirc Ta« iionis legem. (o y SxctomiuNerone J4. Cornel: Tdcit. lib. 14 CAp. 3. (f>) VbiU Cornmin; tib.j^c 1 1 . (q ; Sir TbomAS Mm in Ri. VATERNIO thing which trcncheth to the life of a third perfon, though this fubornarion, plot, and Confpiracy be pro- ved by Confeflion of the partie, or otherwifc, yet the offender (hall efcape with a pecuniary and corporall pu- nifhment. By the Law of God fuch a WitneflTe was pu^ nifhc with death 5 ( l ) Lex Talionis was put in execution, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. And as well by the ( m ) Larves of England made in the dayes of King Edrv: the 3. as by the ( n ) Larves of Scotland made in the dayes of King James the fixth^Falfc accufers werepu- nifhed with the fame punifhment as they fhould haue becne that were accufed, if the accufation had beene true. lurid: Certainly, I know no reafon, why the one fhould Hue, and the other dye, vnlefle it were to that end and purpofe, as ( ° ) Nero was [ufferedto line that his punifhraent might be the greatcr,who after the murthe- ring of his Mother, was continually terrified with the apparition of her Ghoft, and with conceits that the fu- ries perfecuted him with burning torches- 5 or to that end and purpofe as (P) Alp fo# fa King of Naples was fufk- redtoliue, who having vnjuftly murthcredfoure and twentie of his Barons, could never afterwards fleepe quietly, but ever cryed in the night, that he heard the French. men comrning, and the trees and Hones founded France : or to that end and purpofe, as ( 1 ) Richard the 3. was [ufferedto Hue, who never enjoyed himfelfe after the murther of his Nephewes : of whom Sir 7 bo: More thus writetb. I haueheard(faith he) by fuch as were fe- crct with his Chambercrs, that after this abominable decde done, he never had quiet in his mindc, he never thought himfelfe fure -when he went abroad, his eyes whirled about, and his body was privily fenced, his hand ever on his dagger: his countenance in manner as if he had becne al wayes readie to ftrike; he tooke no reft at nights^ lay long waking and muling, fo wearied with caie or afoure-fold way to Hue welt. vtf care and watching, rather flumbercd than flept; trou- bled with fearefulldreames,fodainly fometimes ftartcd vp, leapt out of his bed, and ran about the Chamber, and fo his reftles heart was toifed and tumbled with a tedious impreffion and ftormy remembrance of his a- bominabledeede : or vnleffe it were for that end and purpofe, as they were fuffcred to Hue in the dayesof William the Conqu?rour, when the punifhmenr in no cafe was ( r ) Capita/! $ yet more terrible than death, the (V) GuilielmesConqueftor puniihmencfoinetimes being theloffeofahand I, fomc R^SK^S times of a leggtyometimes of every member or the bo- f H (p$daturproaliqua culpa, dv ; Ita Mod trunctts (olum remanent in fiznum nequitut* {5 d wuantur oculj, vel ab. J * %. t V • r \ rr i r ti " Icinaanturtefticulivci pedes, according to the quantie of the offence, I lay, I know vt lmanus, itaquddmmcus noreafon, vnleffe for tbefc reafons they were fuffcred folum remaneat in fignum toliue. And therefore I haue ever beene of opinion, (^jgtttgg. that i f in any cafe in the cafe of Sufanna, and P habits his wife, ( * ) Lex Talionis fhould be put in execution, and ( * ) Si qais qu* fecit pati. haue often willed that fome good Law were made to ■£ggSg3£k+ punifli ralfc Witnefies by the example of the Crow, Quam neeis artifices arte which Gfcmwina few Verfes hath well remembred. perire fua. Oy:d. I . De Arte JntdH. Expedes eadem qua? nobis Beware my Sonne, be no Author new, feccris ( Albi; OfC) ty dings he they falfeertru^ , "^fig? 1 **'*** Wherefoever thou come among high or low, (*) Rebusin hamanismag. Keepe wellthv tongue, and think* of the Crow. " a e ? dodrina tacerc, ° * J ' ^ * Magnuhocad requiephar- macon invemes. Ruflic: YOU haue given me good fatisfa&ion hither- Vnatanruralingufteaqjimer to, I pray you goe on vnto the next, which is the laft ^tSS Law in the Catalogue, and acquaint me ( as you haue mulcaaudirc&paucaiaqui, done of the/ormer ) what Lawes are thence derived. lurid- I will therein fatisfieyou.And firft I will fhew you what Covetoufnefle is ; then how vnto it as the fprings vnto the fountaine, all mifchiefes and inconve- niences in a Common- wealth haue relation 5 how from it arife difcords and diflentions, fadions and fedirions, Uimults and infurre&ions^how icfubverteththe Lawes Hha of 2J^ QjlT AT6RNIO, of €od and nature j how it makes a man miferable both in life and death • how the poore man that Hues con- tentedly with a little, is in better ftate than the rich co- vetous man * then^ho w the wift ft of the Heathens did abhotTcir, and how the wifeft of Kings prayed againft it • and laftly 5 whac Lawcs haue beene made to reftraine the vnbridlcd affc&ions of covetoufneffe and intempe- rate perfons -and fo conclude for this time. You (hall CO Avaritia q«* Gra^ V ndcrftand, that ( ( ) Covetoufnelfeis nothing ^but a thir- in foloargento tc! nuromis, ft,e and g r ; Ccl y defirC aftcr an 7 ^% whlch 1S prohlbl- fed in orrmbus rebus qu* ted ; nor of gold alone, fed vbicun/ip/H< vtdt quiffy quhn iP^VI&it f at e fi> but'wherefocver any one defires more than e- nd plus vultquifqsquam fat nough of any thing -j which the Auncients haue aptly c ?- , . . A *2ffi . , r termed radix & fcaturiro malorum^ the roote and cau fc jimbimu* hunt in? after bo. c \\ >r% > r - r^r i t_ r l >u mrj,*$Jmruiygo*b,we/c °* a ^ miichiefesin a Common- wealth •, for what evill tbecMfcsof thetiv&WArres is there in Court or Country, that hath not this for an ^ant^efT° /Yorke original! ? what faftions are there inCitie orfocietie, See Philip Commin: that hath not this for a beginning ? is it not this that di- lfbi.cap.7. ftuibesboth Sea and Land, Church and Common- wealth, that makes the fonne to wilh his Father in his graue defore his time?that makes theneareft and deareft friends fall fowle one vpon another ? Pylades vpon Ore- (t) Necauenquam/amfer- fles, and Damon vpon Pythias i ( ') C* far would not en- P^Lpeiufq; pmm ?nOICm dure a fuperior, nor Pompey an cquall.Bi.it what was the luca*. ith. 1. reafon ? they were bewitcht with a greedie defire of ha- ^tAukf^Z ving - (U) ^ would not endure ^/Mr,norr)iV4- NallafidesregnifocijsjonJ rius Sylla ; but what was the reafon ? it was (as Fforus nifq 5 potcftas obferues ) of their incxplebilis fames, of their too much- Impatiens conforus eric, i . j 1 • n • r yr\ i_ LncAnn. hungnng and thirfhng afrer greatneiie $ they were but (w ) Marius extenuiflimo two,but too many by two ; for had thev periflied in the SmSSSESL womb* or dyed as foone as they were born, it had fxiicitatismrnmrciret.neqj beene happie for rhe Romane Statc 5 how many thoufand- in honoreeflcnec frniin o. harmcleffe foules fuflfered, to fatisfie the pride of their tio prarfentibus facultacibu* , , , . i_ i . T t i • i i n ciletcontemuj. hearts, and ambitious thoughts { How did the ftreets vluurcb. in Marh, ftreame with bloud, & the poore Mothers mourneand V ^Tmc!^SSL lamentto fee their babes and fueklings taken from their breads., or a four enfold Way to Hue vaeU. Z37 breafts, Sdn their fight expofed to the fury of the beafts, undavit vrbcm in/mitls & before they were able to meafure the ground with their immec &. pafes { How did rhe poore Fathers fometimes lay vio- T.ilisinveJebatiu-in Cam. lent hands vpon themfelues, fometimes vpon their chil . p° MArttoinCcnptioinmom dr en? and all to prevent the fury of the enemy- How 7™Z%L > m ico mm were the (* ) pttblike Theaters lometimes the places of bcnefaais, vel inimicorum mirth and merriment, made the flaughtcrhoufes and ^ alcfa ^^"p«awm n . . , ' , , 1 1 D o 11 Koman ever furpAJfed htm m inambles, wherein werebutchered the Senatorsand u\q doinrgood to hitfrienA, And heads of the people ? how were the high wayes tending ™A*fetohiscnemies. to the Cities and the Market places, overgrowne with r) ^m^ll^ 1 ^ Moffe and graflfe, thornes and briars ? how was the mi- c»es, quafitotaretrorfum ftris of the world forlorne and become like an O wle in E( ^£ ™$™ n terra re ' the Dcfert fit is reported by the Romans Writers, that vj*% ficplandu*, fmgul- during the laft ten yeares Warres bet weene Marius and tu «> « rndiq 5 clamor $ Sjlla, were {laineaw (*) hundred and fiftie tkottfand per- Q 3tSlff!? ** /^i^befides thofe of the Nobilitie, with whole heads (*)orof!l,B.i. ^; a4 .. tMarius was vfed to recreate himfelfe vpon his fcftival! &utryM. ?. and gaudie dayes. And befides thofe that were (Line by . his Watch- word, which was that it fhould b:- a fuffici- ent Warrant to kill a man of qualicie, Cuifatdem iiUm fc'tlicet mannmnonprrexer at faint anti, who paffing by CMaritis and doing his dutie vnto hitn^iMarius did not giuc him his hand ro kiiTe.Of which miferies the poore Inhabitants of Sulmo and ( r ) Prtnejle were toofenfibk^. ( Syllajfrw w.thmfand: What was-thecaufe,Ifaylofali thofe miferies,but their ^mPrxn^em^utAU too much hungring and thirfting after greatneffitf Why fa-vtdbtsRojtc, but he would fhould not one hoiife content one man, nay more, one ™tiwMcountrjmenfan^ xr .,, *-*- • r^ v i a: ad. Tint, in SjlU. Village, one One, one Country, one Kirgaome, cne J wor!d, but wee muftgoe a hunting after many houfes 3 . Cities, Villages, Countries, Kingdomes 3 nay, with (t)\^ilexander after worlds ? Why fhould not one wife (O Non vnus Iuveni F*»- conrentone man • but wee rnuft with the barbarous ^^SnJwS 1 Moons thinkc him mod rich that can keepe moft wines? Why fhould not onefervant content one man ? When as by name wee are all thefonnesof one common Fa- iher, Why .fhould not one AiTe content one man,whcrr H.hij as. i$8 Qjf ATERNIO, as he that hath thoufands can ride but vpon one ? Why fhould wc Covet our neighbours houfc.our neighbours wife, our neighbours Oxe, our neighbours AfTe, ora- ny thing that is his, when as wehaue enough of our (t)DifdtequaniparToIicc- ovvne. ( K ) Nature is contented with a little : fliee defires E t a q^Z™etat. b«jt meate, drinke and clothing, and a competency in Satis eft populis flaviufq; all. It is opinion that is 10 rettles, that will not be fatis- Cere/q$. fi cc j # When Philip of CMacedone fell backwards and Clarum'cft di Nihil miferius terra nutrit homine. Scire velim quid te horam potiflime invitee ad fuperbi. am?anfragilitasmembroru, exercirufqj morborum ? an vita? brevitas ? an ca»citas a. nimi? anprseteritorum ob- liviof 3n ignorantia prarfen- rium&futuroium V an ho-- Jhuminfidiae ? an mortes a* micorum ? an ndverfitas per- feverans ? an fugitfV3 pro* fpentss e TetrdYcb. (z 9 )Th:C4le *f Wmford/J btUng to the Abbot of Weftmr yntik Wil: the Cwq\cof vended for it > and made tt his rojall pace : in it was home ]$. Ed m the 3. ahdimtwerelohn the Frcnc h King and David #*&. ofScotsfyptprifoners: andm it */ celt brat ed the Ho»:iffftitVm *;on of the Carter . vtbich is no Tvaj inferior to th^orderoftbt Annu :i adss joudedhy Amier furnav.edihcjreent £arleof Savoy, or U the Knighti ojtht- Snrre by <£*£rench^.{ohn, er of bis golden fleece by Philip Dukjt 'of Burguo die,or ofSainU MicKael bj Lewis th>il*>~ z4o (jo) JntbeCbWellofWm- for are interred the bodies of King Henry the jtxthrf King Edward the fourth, oj Kjn& Henry the eighth, ( x ) Interrogans cuidam quid fui,quid (u«r>,quid ero 5 refpondit divus Barnardus Tilefperma, vas ftercornm, efca?ermhina Quid eft homo nifi telta fragilis.lutum toluilejpellis morticina, vas putredinis> somet tinea:, cibus vermis* Bkfenf. ( *l ) $Wf0*tfruit vir lepidi & faceti ingenij^inter poecas laareadonatusjtn er Rheto- rcs rcgius fa&us oratorjobi jt 11. die Iunij Ann° 1*29. i'ub H. S. & tumulatus eft in ecclcfia Collegiata S* Petri VVeftmonaftenjcumhac in- Icriptione. Ichdnnes Skeltcmu vates Tierim hie efifit**. Qjf A T E R N I O, And my faire Lady Beffejong for me may yen call; How are we parted vnulldoomes day I Therefore loueyee the Lord that is etemalL where are now my Cables and Bnildings RoyxH 1 But Win for of all, I haue no more; Q°)Quiain Winfore wpnlvere dormio. Why jhould man be frond, or pre fume hie ; Saint Bernard thereof doth notably treats : Saying, a ( x )man is made of a fackc of ikreory. And jh all ret time to Wormes meatc^. What come of Alexandcj : the Great I OrofJlrongSzmpCon, who can tcllt Was not Wormes ordained them tofreate. of Salomon which was the wife ; 0/Abfalon that was fo bcatttifnll : For all his beaut ie Wormes eat e him alfo. K^ind I late in honour did excel It Et ccce nunc in fulvere dtrmio, &c. So much and more hath (i 1 ) Shelter* of KiHenry the 4. The Gymnofophifls, vpon whom Alexander doatcd f© much, that he promifed to giue them whatsoever they would demand ; being defirous to beate him from that greediedefireofhis of compafling the world, deman- ded of him immortalitie. Vritowhom Alexander an. fwered, that they demanded a thing which was not in his power to giue, he was a mortall man, and that im- mortalitie was proper vnto the Gods to giue, and not vnto men. Which when the Gymnofopbifls heard, they replyed 3 If thou be a mortall man, as thou fay eft thou art, why are thy thoughts fo infinite and boundleffe, that nothing but the world will fatisfie thee ? CMace- done is a faire poffeflion, and thy forefathers lived con- tentedly with it. Why fhouldft thou inhcritc their pof- fdfions,and not their venues ? Remember that thou art a man, «r afoure-fold way to hue ypeU. Z^X a man, and that nature is contented with a little. When Alexander afterwards had compaffed the world, and by reafon of his vi&orious enterprifes fee himfelfe on high, and would be called a God, the ( * ) Scythian Awkajja- (*) Curt. Ub. 7. dors fee vpon him, and told him, if thou be a God, as thou fay ft thou art, remember thy felfe to be fo ; the Gods doe no wrong, they giue and tskc nought from any man. U Alexander could haue added yearcsco his life, ashcdidKingdomestahispofTeflions, he might ., A well haue fty led himfelfe to haue beene a God 5 or if he £f ^r^p&?^qTp^ could but haue alfured himfelfe to haw:, attained to the nummeveiletpropemoduai age of his Forefathers ^dm^hulhtfh, or any of ^^^S the Patnarkcs that lived io long in the time of the old t radunt ; veneno fur -xjn« world 5 fo that he might haue enjoyed what he attained &&b cum annorum diet cri. vnto with fuch perils and dangers, he might haue had naflhduo^ciro *' fome caufe to haue gloried and triumphed in his many sum™*.. vidories and Conquefts,but feeing that in the midft of ^SSaSSSS his jollitie in tbe(* 1 ) faring of his age, when he fhould cker* haue reaped the fruits of them ; he mud with Bahhafar T ^SfJ^ q — non be taken off from them,it had been better for him never \ yiir/tfi, ° Veiegi 6. to haue known them, then having know nthem,fofud- Vwhtobe tHmdUgcM • ,„ fine vagina, fagucafinepha- ment; riches and honors and preferments giue zf?)graec r£t ra. Petrmb. andluffrett a man, whileft hecreepesvponthefaceof (z;ire,redire/equiditutn the earth jbut what availe they him in the day of death? Ex^iiTftams eft ! red nan the poore man then is in (*) better cafe than he * the poore fie hurjuiaftra. man can goe freely to his grave without diflurbance, ^ra&aratracolietcam- O / & > pircdolennaprata, he hath taken no mans houfe,nomansfervant, oxeor Exiguiwaatuscft, (cd fie I J %{\q magis itiir ad aftra. l\Z QjT ATERNIO afTe from him • he hath done the Country-man no wrong-, he hath depopulated no Villages, nor pulled downc any Steeples > he hath done the Citizen no wrong •, he hath Monopolized no Commodities, nor debarred him of any priviledgcs ; he hath done the ( a ) Refcrt phfy Commmi wor i i j J r • i-i Turcicum mhil depioraflc ro the Lawes of God and nature 5 definng little more vehementmsmTeftamemo than meate, drinke, and Clothes. But is it fo with the S^topS£? W * rich ? No ; ( • ) CMabomt is troubled with his exttiiws, TbiL commin. hb. t\ when he jhould depart in peace. Againe, ( b ) a little Tree^ /L ,„.. 'f^'^fyffi falls to theground without any noyfe, butagreatOke (b)VideApologumdeifof- , . D /•/•.» o cub&quercu,quooftcndi- that hath becne many yeares agrowing, cannot be cut turquamomaiuscftrobur, downe but it will giue a great cracke. Ik pore man S^?™"' {»)(te*leso»tofthemrld, and doth no harme when he Prseciarac/cfro,nihilcft goeth ^but fcldome dyesthe rich man, but ftormes and longuminquoGtali- te mpefte, fuits and contentions follow after. Againe, quidvlumum* r ' . .. , - .,-.,, , A - , ©- ? ( 34) Et cum tranfierint a poore man is a kmde or a ( M ) Subftanttue, as bejtands exad* tcrrpora vita?, by himfelfe 7 fo he falls by himfclfe ; but the rich covetous C bbe U to. aCit ° S ^ man,isan^f5/^,ashecannotfubfift withoutothers,. (ii) Pr*ciarumdddonum fo he cannot fall without others. Againe, a poore man eftpaupcrtas: huius autem that j s no t rooted in the earth, can bid adiew vnto it doni gratiam intellexit ale . f , . f , 3 .. r • 1 1 • 1 Stnccx ne P os,referens kc** without a loath to depart 5 but it is not fo with the rich ritatcm animae paupem m- ^ iar]t crcejusis fo glued and nay led to his poffeflions, **'"'' : o!Suutujiii tliat ^ e cannot be fevered, or endure to heare of an vltL Pauperis, anguftiq 5 lares i mum vale, but with torture and torment $ for it is im- 6 rnuneri nondum poffiblc that thofe ( * ) peffefions which haue beene got- Intellect3 Mini, qiJibus hoc r ; * \ J 4* u J 1 t« i • 1 r coming ttmnrV, ten with io much trouble and travel], kept with lo ma- Am Temple potuit, nullo n y carcs anc j ftares, fhould be left without a great deale c^lltZ^xcmtiml of griefeandforrow. Sothatthe Cafe of the rich cove- itnan. tens man, is more defpicableand miferableat the time (c)nivit^qu^mdifrici- £h\ s (i6) departure out ofthis life, than of a poorcla- ies, MflodKuanxis, amiflu : . v ' I n . ' * J \, T n 1 ficbiks. bounng Cottager & husbandman. Yet I mult acKnow- pesr^chU. Uererum \c^oq when ficknefle^the meffenger of death comes/hat feft^a^dly^s marina- P/xwin the opinion of the multitude, is morchappie iiir qui in cxim hujus virx t\\znLazarPU ; but it is in the opinion of the multitude aon ciefideramfuifle pauper- Oflelv or afoure-fold way to Hue npeU. 243 onely, in ( d ) trttejttdgement it is not fo. It is true, better ( d ) Beatior in fua mifbrU attendance and more obfervancc he hath.but it is better «putand« eft pau P er,pu!s him backe ae;aine,& wifheth gfrium hngu* ardrmii di- him to remember his old Vncle cbrcmesthn hath been 2^ e L ^gStS; beaten with ftormes and tcrapefts,with crofles and lof- recepiftibonam vita ma, & fesin the world, Another attends him for Pafibulats Lzzilm ^!/^ fake, & cryes remember,0 remember Pajihla the faire CeitcapudpaupcrcmChri- Pdfibda, your old vncle Chremes his daughter, that is ftum jwetiofior eft tituta J * n j • c paupcns,quam divitig.Chri- come to womans eftate^and wants a portion to preferre Lspauper & pauperis virgi- her in marriage: a third at tends for Davus his fake, and nis films pauperes elegit in calls vpon him to remember D*w», hisold fervantB* ^S^^ doMm i?*" l r 1 • 1 jiini u- / 6 uh ^ntroite dignatus eft, ne *vu4> that ipent his youth and his belt dayes inhisier- honoraredivitiasvidcrctur. vice, and now being o!d wants fuccour and reliefe : a BU A fourth attends tofinde a fit opportunitietofpeakefor himfelfc : every mans end ind ayme is to get a fleece from him : no man waits vpon him for Gods fake,or for any loue they beare vnto him. But is it fo with the poor man f No j he is never troubled with any fuch remem- brancers, when death calls him, and fickneffe like vnto Philips Page, fummons him with a KjMement§ wori, he hath a free paffage without difturbance.We reade in hi- ftories, thatitisaCuftome in tome (') Countries, that fOMof-figypriorumfui^rt when any man is condemned of any notorious Crime, pJna^d^SSm L^ to feaft and fat him, that he may vndergoe and endure neci 3 camam ex regis menfa the greater torment ; Even fo doth God dealc with the accipcrent p/^ /w cieom . rich covetous man 5 he giues him riches as the ( f ) nife- QuemTfumcifaristempo. man faith, to his hurt, that when he is pleafed to take ei- ^mbn^A legimus. ther him from them, or them from him, hisgnefcand (f)Dat*mntmuitisdiviti* forrow may bcthegrcaterj for the more he hath, and in laqucum&capturam. rhelongerhe hath kept them, the more vnwilling will SttU/ ' *' y * r/ * ■■* I i 2 he 244 Qjr A T E R N I o, he be to leaue them. It is no trouble or caufe of griefe for a man to abandon the focietie of him whom he ne- ver faw ; but either on the high- way, or in a Common Inne, or in the Market-place^ but to leaue a familiar bo- fome friend hopcleffe to fee him againe 5 for Demos to leaue this prefent world, or Dives his Mammon, and to befequeftred into a dungeon of darkenefle andraifery, there to remaine throughout all eternitie,that is torture and torment : and this is theCafe of the covetous man,, for whatcan that man exped when he dyes, that never fo 7 ) Matrimonium inter adored while he lived any other God than his(*7 W*//, aurum & argentum, eft du i i j r in l t * ' • « ' vortium inter Dcum& ani- or looked after any other Heaven than earth ? certainly, mam. A»g»ji. nothing els, but eternal! woe and mifcry * fo (? 8 ) that frlLTuKgS^; niferableinhislife, miferable in his death, miferablein dmtescummuhiscruciati- his body, miferable in his foule, and miferable in his ftudenf ircrefibi8chennam po(Teffions,vpon which hefo much doated,is the cove- rs )Mifer eft omnis am- to us man \ for when death comes, heknowesnotwhat mus vinaus amicitia rerutn to doe with ir^ keepe it he cannot, & leaue it he will not, SStfeJJ^IS^newouldhecanyitalongwithhimibuthisConfci. amittk. encetells him that in juftice he is bound to leaue it be- m„« ? u &J i - u -^ c ' n ff hinde him, to make fatisfadion for the many wrongs Non tarn mcundus in ad- ■•-••■%* i • % r • i 1 i i ventu quammoieftusmde- andiniunes he hath commitred ; fame would he then^ seaieftcunauliu bonorunu ]jue to make fatisfacHon, but the fentence of death be. rng paft, dye he muft, faine would he then dye, bur dye he cannot ; for on the one fide ftands the husbmdman and difturbes him, calling vpon him for fansfadion for the wrong done vnto him by depopulating of the Vil- lage wherein he lived : on the other fide ftands the Citi- zen and difturbes him, calling vpon him for fatisfa&ioi? for the wrong done vnto him, for Engrofling of the Commodities whereby he was accuftomrd toget his- liuing, round about him (land the poore the fatherleffe and thewidowes, calling vpon him for far isfaftion for the wrong done vnto them 5 fo {landing diftra&cd as it were, betweene life and death, ar length dea;h leizeth vpoahioij and carries him out of the flame into the fire, into or afoure-fold Way to Hue i»eU. %^% iliroan (* 9 ) habitation prcpat ed of old for fuch COVCtOUS (; 9 ) Avaritiametrapinam opprcfling people as be was, of the torture and torment redirguit/*^*/? proponedo whereof he had a kinde of tafte and feeling before- S^l^JXm ™o." hand. pnam, vbipucas.mittendLS Rtiflic: Sir, it fhouldfecme then, that (* )^elaus eft< R »n™fit alienam ? Si , J a . . r^ \ r \L l ^ cum diabolo ardct qui nu- the poore Aicadian Cottager, whole thoughts never dum non veftivit, vbiputas ti efpalTcd vpon his neighbours ground, nor his appetite arfurus eft.quicxpoiiavit > vpon his neighbours (tore, nor his back vpon his neigh- vS^^^^^ bours flocke,contented with his little Cottage,his own Retfec^ parta recula,- " provifion, and the wooll of his owne (beepers in better ^^T^ *** div " fi Cafe than Gyges, who ruled and governed over Lydia. q UO£ j vuI^aTerexprimunr. lurid: You know what ( f ) Apollo s opinion was long Cumdatokfculamcnfami- agoe,andccrtaindy Iamofhis rainde, that the poore ffc ^S^3S52ftSU«- man that hath hut little,and hath gotten that little well, prandia,ij t erepleta. is in better Cafe than he that hath much, and hath got- ^^JS^Sit^S^ ten itby wrong androbbery > the nights aflfbord him beatior ZzZwr^TlL more reft and the dayes morefolace and comfort, the ^k*»pr*ftrei»t quierat one is ever difquieted in his thoughts, and when he S&:' fliould fleepehe tumbleth and toiTeth, and faine would exceflerar.^/fr^A^^ i.. he reft, but he cannot; one while he is affrighted with ^fj^^f^ tefta c " m the dreame of (&) Caligula, that ftipter with his great toe itopmm faJLpj jjfr^ kickt him out of heaven. Another while wirh the feare- feiidorhx qui full apparitions of fuch whofehoufcs he had ruinated ^57"' and depopulated y one while againe the light of the iw.devhieue. Moone doth offend him ^another while thedarkenefle £P w" ,a uli ^ u ' of the night doth terrifie him nhe barking of thedogs, ll ^ J t ^ satton4tu *P e ora the crowing of the Gockes, and theyallmgof the Cats Pemmfq^ voi v ir,rapior,fcd muftbearetheburthen of his difquiemeffe. Whereas in c^^frL~> r truth all is nor well at home,a ficke C onlcience he harh nm. within him, which will no* fuffer him to take, anv reft. s^c mh r j}. Whereas the other fieepes as (4- ) [county in the midft' ^^ZthU^l of the Ocean vpon a booid,as in a irtherbed vpon fume Fonuna metu%! land, notwithstanding the found of the Trumpet, the V jfc wSSSSfSSR' (41 ) EcekjUfl:f\ yerf, 12, Cefpcs Tyrio molifor oilro. Solit impavides duccre fomnos. Sent* in-* Hercule Onto. \\\ M.mdaquies, dulccfgj fab arhore fomni 5 Non fucco i!icdi>tardiq$ papavexis Jhau** fio. Tbjrimrt 07/ r mt 1 P e • f £? rfwN& #) goe is, fortunes & preferments femper inarvis, willqucnch his third : whereas the other is never parcht *£te CCnSS with heatc, or pincht with cold ; never molten with a (h) Quipotiasdubiasra- defireof having, nor frozen with adefpaireof not ob- bularumpabubiites teyninc* he never lookes after potentum (itperbapaUtia, Qu^mmoveat, mavult ce- J T>» - . J% rlrw f J 5 J derc hire fuo. mc ( ) for mi data, ]udicum jubjeuta^ec altcu]us dedecus & (i)Quodfise{revclisnihiiqj ruinam, the ftarelv buildings ofthemightie,nor to fit as c "i'V* „„. «,,m„c xt~* Iudgein the Co ififtoiy, nor to rayfe himfelfe bv the Jummum nee menus diem z> J ' # ■ nccoptes. ruines or any 5 he knowes that n iturc is contented with M T U 'uViua'zil' a l i ctle, that the chiefefthappinefieistoenjoy God, and h finT^emlibtt^fle^ * ^ ^ ^ e ^ mcanes to attaine thereunto is to dealc with all Quod non esnolis,quodpo. men as he would be dealt withall,and to Hue contented- ih« S ± *Z tm <*** ty J? 'M (; ) /^" nd condition of life vnto which he is would fi*ie, called, and therefore his chiefeft care is vtbenc act am mohisfmumjitstiimhide. v ' lU f A \, t dam^ulchro fvt concludatfhzi he may liueand mufea non redStlnfipi- dye well : When dinner time appoacheth, the Table of dum. Petrarch. the one is furnifhed with varieties of all kindes of dain- ZfS&SctS; ties that the feafon can affoord ' and no artendants are paupere?,fednonvivuntme- wanting. Circumflant canes aulici, mnrtfy domeftici, & liiis nee diutius, nee bedfe, a dulatorum turba, but what is he thebetter for it ; in the fs°nc°c honcftlds" cat^nec midft of all he fits like Tantalus, and is ( * ) troubled ei- faoa us: pro his omnibus r- ther with an extreame winde, or an cxtreameheate,or S^&rJuSSS an extreame cold : either he is puft vp with a tympanic virunt. far 4 nit. of or afoure-fold vt>ay to Hue weft. iffi of pride and ambition, and is plotting of treafons, and rebellions, or inflamed with the heate of envie and ma- lice,and is thinking how to enveigle and circumvent his neighbours^ or is frozen with the cold of diftruftand defpaire of not effecting and bringing to pafTe, what he hath mifchievoufly imagined and conceived,fo that no* thing will downe with him jone while he defires to tafte of the Venifon 3 but downe it will not, it is not feafoncd or baked as it ihould be : another whiJe he defires to tafte of the Phcafant or Partridge, but theyrellifh not with him, they are not roftedasthey fhouldbe, the poore Cooke muft fuffcr for it ^ when as G. Lew when he did beft, never did better ; and when indeede there is no fault in him, but the fault is in the ftomacke,occafio- ned by reafon of the extrcamewinde, heate, orcolde. Whereas the other appoints no fe times for eating fi>SSJSSC when his ftomacke femes him he falls to his meate, and ante famem. when he is ( l ) dry he takes vp the Cup and drinkes, and C») Omimum condimen. not before jhe never fends into forraine parts for Gliues (n^rrJ/T^Bpamfnofti and Capers to fharpen his appetite, all his care is to get das-«w hacked tw/on. provifionathome to take away the edge of it : as for InMia Sft^nf 1« fawces he lookes not after them, better ( m ) fames than lamibus aurds Spaine or Pertngallczn affoord,he carries alway cs about J. oxica deci P iunt - himshisTableislikevnto theTableof(»)£^w/w>i. chmS^ns das 7 andisfeldomeburthened with varieties, or with TurbaTo^atoruoi. more than an individuall * he commonly hath but one *£^' W ' ney€rM difli, and if it chance a fecond to be added to make vp a y flr /w^Ambrofa, deadly, number, it is a gawdieandfeftivall day ; he feeds hear- Arfenkke. ti ily , and is never troubled with flatus hjfochondriacus- a- °ui non eftTerminus js°qui , tra bills or melancholia $ rifeth contentedly, and goes a- Nunc piebeius erat, jam bout his wcrke chearefullyj when dinner is done, the v dn *i™? cx ?Z lt ' 4l L iU ~ t i !_• r it l- \ i j ■> vt_- i i jt For x » b " hai <#> the Bnthet; one betakes himfelfe to his old trade, and his ola diiea- f#& hisirotber .• fes betake tbemfclues to him ; ever ( ° ) bibbinv he is,yet **'•$>" b*fi*** ttojam never fatisftcd, ever gaming, yet never hath enough, The mLhismfe, theater and focontinues vntill Supper time :the other likewife wdded peere - y betakes himfelfe to his trade, which is inter mufa & **- ^etXte^ ° " b * farMta Bartas) 248 Qjf ATERNIO, her alia fludia, cjr novarnm rerum invent i mm & veterum memoria tempus confumere ,to learne to liue and die well, and in this he continues all his life time -, when Supper- time approacheth, the one betakes himfelfe to his accu- ftomed Crapulam -his Table is furni(h?d as it was at din- ner, and the fame attendants, with many more, Pipers, and Fidkrs,and Singers,and Maskers, mu ft then hz had to make him merry; and Wine muft brdrunke in full Bowles ; but alas, thefeaftbord him no cafe : the fire cafts a greater heate after that water harh becne caft vp- on it : the Ague taketh fafter hold vpon a m;m after he hath revelled vpon his good day 5 and the Current ra- ( 44 ; Cm ■ iiiwmf-m g ech morC violently, after it hath becne ftopt : {**)plca- nu$, commotiunculas illai fores ^ delights, and jellifies, doe adde fuell to the fife, ad- primai non rar6 fan irum :i. m i n jft er ma teriaIIs for the difrafe to fecde vpon; and ra?,dolorn,amorn,atnun. r * quam3egntudinero,qu«ra« courage to the Current, to runne more iwiftly : the diccsegit &fixit pedem. wound putrifies andcorrupts within, whileft it is flub- y fT !£L „;L>!Z ,«ri- bered over, and made faire to the eye onely : and this is hdanon extra hunt humor c t he Cafe ofthe Covetous man. The other likewife, he noiium, fed m***** betakes himfclfc to his accuftomed dyct.which is cither vana hxz dcledatio irntat .•*+* «, J i-i in nobii fiudum libidinum to eate nothing with (** ) Plate, or very little, accor- &adauget. ijpfi *M- dins; to theRules of (* 6 ) Galen and Hippocrates, and Non dorr us et fundus, non . p , t - >r * V t ■ • j a^ris acer^us & auri, which of thefe two is the happier man, judge you. iEgroto domini deduxit Rujiic Certainely, if I be Iudge, I muft adjudge as corporefebrcs. a jj QUr Countrcv renders ticer* the walls or braile. So that in the time or wai re wee arc Hic,ha?c,hoc,nummHs,r«- confident, there isnofuch weapon as money is, whate- iSX&XEZ* ventbeinthetimeofpeace. uia Jnnd: Ir is an excellent weapon in the time of wane Nil cam munimm eft, quod j muf} con f c /f e anc j r b ar ( - r ) Alexander knew well, who Gt,CHe*Z would at no time part with his rcaate money, but vnto WjUexfindermtuvRtttt- his Souldiers : but how many haue wee heard of in the XZ$£!EZ& » me of P e3Ce > whom their riches haue caufed to haue Al&**k beenc made fooles vpon record 5 who other wife might haue p ffl for as wife men as their ne ; ghbours.How ma- ny haue we heard of, whom their elbres haue brought into mifery and confufion, and made their owne CW or afoure-fold way to Hue rt>eff+ i$l dren become their butchers and executioners ? Doe we not readeof a Citizen of Vmce, who being banifht for a mifdcmeanor, and Proclamation made, that whofoe- ver could bring his head, fliould haue his eftate, his fon onely being made privie where he made his abode t togaine his eftate, became hisexecutioner?Doe *ve not readeof Vifl*r y a King oiGothUnd, who by his grcedic Covetoufneffe,having heapt vp an abundance of riches, and for that caufe being had in Contempt of all men, that his fonnes thinking he had lived too long, feized vpon his treafure, fct fire vpon his houfe, & burnt him, with all his familie c Doe we not reade that it wasCra- fus great revenue that fet Cyrus teeth on edge,and made his body indefatigable, vntill he had fubdued him t Doe we not reade, that it was Crafftt* proud fpeeches (being the greateft man of wealth in his time ) that no man was worthy to be accounted rich, vnlelfe with his proper goods he could maintaine an Army ; that drew theP&rthiam vpon him, and made them never to giue him over, vntill they had overcome him, and filled his mouth with gold, after which he fo much thirfted? Doe we not reade againe,that it was the Covetoufnefle of the lews, that caufed twentie thoufand of them at a liege oiHierafalem vnder Vefpaftan, to haue their bow- ells ript vp,and be maflarrcd < And doe we not reade in Diodortu Siculus, of the Citizens inhabiting the Hands in the Sptwfh Seas, to haue csft all their treafu res into the Seas, fearing they might be motiues to draw a for- reine enemy vpon them, or to make them fallfowle one vpon another * So that ycu fee, the golden way is not alwayes the furcft and fafeft way. Ruftic: Though fomc haue periihed in that way, and by their grecdie Covetoufnefle, haue pulled their houfes vpon their heads^yet,! hope,you will not blame that man that having a long journey to goe, maketh fome provifion to relieue him in his journey, & relyeth not wholly vpon fortune. K k 2 ' Ih- / / 252. QjT ATERNIO, Iurifp: Miftakemenot. Icondcmnehimnot-foras I hate to fee an old man covetous, fo I loue to fee a young man provident. I cannot but commend him, who having a journey to goe, makes provifion to fuc- cour him in his journey ;but for him that is at his jour- (f) Dc fenili avarith quid neyes end : for an ( *)*ged Father, vvhofe head age hath Joircti^cftff dyedintoafilvcrdycj whofe teeth with agedocfari piam cflc abfurdiuj, quam from him, as the leaues in Autumne from the trees $ wUumnrnrtfatifim yjfofe eyes with agc a e f un k e into his head 5 whole illud Seneca 5 mtmuiti opt* "gnt is becone dimme and darke - 3 whole hearing with %ec dm 5 cuoi in ommj state age is become thicke and hard : and vvhofe body (lands veruin feneauteveriffimu. / * v . i_ i r » • j ■ Pitt. wrm. de wut.vitmd. ( ) ottering at the mouth of the pit.ready every houre (« ) vol mc detinuit mor- to fall into it ; for this man to make provifion as if he S^iS^ werc to g° c as Ion § a )° urnc y as W«b*(iTcrem", Ru $ ic •' Sir,what would y ou haue a man doe,or how infcnedutcvtbcncmoriar. WOuld you hauehim Hue? Smct. Bfrtu f„ ri J. Q oe tQ rfjtol; 3n( j hc wil j re jJ yQU § j c v^ould be deemed prefumptio in mc to vndertake fuch a taske : Yet I will tell you freely, what I haue heard him fiy 5 If thou be a head of the Church, Hue like thy felfe, as God hath placed thee in degree aboue others, fo be I*) Pwt* puns do, nu&i thou in thy converfation,a light and lampevnto others 5 cUudarpt hmefh, ienpfit keepe ( * ) bofbitalttie } giuealmes vnto the poore, and ffiSK£ ^efome deeds of charitie 5 it is thy dutiefotodoe, ceflbr mutavit pundum for fo much isenjoynedthee by th?generallCounceIs y •H^& a i! 1 and by the facred Scriptures. Read over the senerall iFortapatenscftonullijCiau- ^ / *,., ~ . r i i * t- w r dariihonefto 5 red propter Councel held at P ambhionVomeiu kard,leaue of thy drinking, when thou thy felfe deligb iSgSS^SSft tefl in no place more than in Tavcrnes and Taphoufes ? cium, cdm ipfe non formi- How canft thou fay to the ambitious, defift from thy d /A* Ambitiofo . ., « ambitious thoughts, whileft thou thy felfe thinkeft thy quaimts ampium Scend ftlfenever^A/VA^w^.whileft another is abouc thee? P lrum cft > cu ™ eft aliquid How canft thou fay to the contentious and malicious, J^JSjttSS defift from your malicious thoughts, whileft thou thy dantur, infpiciunt. felfe lived in continuall ftrife & contention i How canft ( ° > . Sc *?ff "**»*&*** in ir- i m r \ r o«nittiA nabiti qtu ynmsf • thou lay to the fornicator, deiilt from thy fornication, «^*>, feu morm vipereo when thou thy felfe liveft in Adultery ? Theft things, nocucrum . _ with many more, are put home vpon thee in that gene-' ( h , 55 ^K rallCouncell. So that it is thy dutie to giue good En- tertimrofpid vrbis ma g u fample, by a vertuous life and convention • orherwifc ftr ««P r ^«» &&PH thou (halt (s) prill dctvne with one hand,what thou ray- ( 49 ) Cum ftmel impure £ ft with the other. If thou be a publike Magi ft rate,. ' uerint in fomibusvndaj; hue thou like thy felfe, now is the time to (*) jhewthy la ^^ s4 ^^ felfe : if thou be vertuous,thy vermes will fhine like the Vt Capite*grorofanosdeft- Sunne, and caft a greater luftre : if thou be vicious, thy *™ ^ iPartu> ' iwce^L will. like aiWjCont/tgionfprcad themfelues among skm ™ra nefas fefe divuU K~k l the gat ab aula, m Q^V A T E R N I O f the multitude » defefts in an emptic vefTdl appeare not, but being filled with water, they quickly (hew them- felues;pure gold cannot be difcerned from bafe mettall, butbythetouch • the ycaresof thy Corfrifhip will likeatouchftone rry thee, whether thou bccftlikeC^- faroxBibulusy a&iue or idle, hofplublc or Covetous, good or bad, and the poore will be the Trumpets and Heralds to proclaime and found thy name and fame vn- («) Nullum vitmm (inquit to the world. Exhauft not then the common {?;,trea- cicrr )tctriusquamav.nt«a, fa t nor ray fe thy felfc by ruinating of the poore. If rem publicam gubemanti- tnou bea private man. hu«. j rhou like thy felfe, be not lo bui: habere cnim qu^ftui eager after the poore vanities of the world, as if thou ^eSiSSlawr, «" vvert bornc to no other end or purpofe, but to rake and am & nefarium. fcrape together \ nor yet fo rety re thy felfe, as if thou ckerM. i.ofir. wer(; korne mely t0 eat e 5 drinke, and flerpe : if God hath endowed thee withabilicies of bodieand minde, (hew the fruit thereof in thy life and converfation : De- ferts and folitary places are provided for the Savages, (i ) Maxima vrtutis laus anc } t he Cloyfters for (« ) tjtionkes and Fryars • but for Ma^na!il^°h!ud hus eft men of a&ion, there are Cities and Villages provided, minimefaciendomererij Ic was a good and holy refolution o(HiUri$n : Hilaridn *'*«*»* Mo»4ch»r«t*. havi caft , e p ion f devills by the fpirit of God out of Orion, Orion to fhew his thankfulnetfc vnto him, ■won Ids needs haue rewarded him with forne gratuities, which Hilarion perceiving, in fome indignation asked him,whether he never read or heard what befel Gehezi} and whentfr/tftfftiilpreired him to accept of his gift, he made him this further anfwere • Why fhould I that {jo) Nemonegligcnstnre hauc(* )/*/f mine own, accept of yours:and when a third towSlfilr^ diiiCaS timc > he P rcfltd him t0 acce P c of Mpdtogiucit t° th ^ poore i he anfwercd, who fhould better know how to difpofe of yours, than your felfe, and who fhould bet- ter know who had moft neede than you, who walkc through the high wayes, and Citks, and Villages; as for my felfc, I Hue in a Cloy fter, and what I doe I mud doe by others^but you may make your owne eyes your overfeers. or afoure-fold way to Hue well. tf> overfcers. This was a holy refolution, and did well be- come this^ood man, becaufe he was a man of God, and had fequeftred himfelfe from the affaires of the world : but for a fccular man, that fhould be a man of imploymenr, to fequeftcr himfelfe from the affaires of the world,and to fie Sunning himfelfe with the Cymcke all his life time, I cannot commend it in him. Diogenes was named by the name of a dog, and well he deferved it, becaufe he would not endure the company of men. The fenrence oflupiter was juft vpon the fnayle, when Jupiter had curteoufly invited the fnayle, with the reft of the creatures to a feaft, when all other came, the fnayle ftaydar home j which Jupiter taking ill 3 would needs know wherefore he carne not with the reft of his neighbours : vnto whom the fnayle returned this An- fWere $ Novi, Jupiter ynufquam gentium delict as optabtlio* res, quarn *&»*/; cenaincly, my meate never rellifheth fo well with me, as it doth at home : but he received a condigne punifhment for his careleffe negled, becaufe he loved home fo well, his punifhment was that he fhould never depart from home, but fhould carrie his houfevpon his backe. It was an vnfeemely anfwerc which Diogenes gaue to Alexander ,when Cdlexander was pleafed to ftoope fo low as to come vnto him, and to teli him, that he vnderflood he was in want, and that he was come to fupply his necefltties ; he had not the manners to thanke him, but expoftulaus the Cafe with him* whether of the two warned moft, he that wanted! but a ^)(cripOK\Achell y ox he that wanted Countries or (k) Vtcr _ ift . ft| ^ KmgdQmcs?Tja,%iu* might well haueaccepted the gift e ^ct? ego, qui vitraperami which Vefpapan fent vnto him, without any difparag& n,] J™**** *« <« qwm* menr,and forborne to hauegiven that A nfwer vnto ium e cownws P a wtt i c $w_;- wlrch he did, which was, that he would be pleafed to turne his Curtefies another way, vpon the greedie and covetous, that looked after fuchxhings, as for himfelfe- he had enough, and looked after no more. For as to looka %%6 Q^V^ TERNIO, lookc after every thing is grcedie CoveroufnefTc ; Co to lookc after nothing is carckffcwretchednefferourdc- fires therefore and affe&ions, fhould be guided by the rules of reafon and difcrerion •, if they be dull, they fhould be quickned and rowfed vp with the thought of penury and neceffitie-, ifchey be too free, they fhould be curb'd and kept in with the thought of fhamc and ig- nominie ; for as he cannot be but a poore man, and fall into mifery, that having nothing cares for nothing : ib he cannot be but a diihoneft man, that having all things is contented with nothing : for him that bath but a little to refufc a regard from him that hath more, and can better fpare it than he wsr.t it, it will be accounted folly or arrogancie in him ,• but for him that hath enough, co be catching and (hatching from him that hath not, it will be accounted bafecovetoufneffc !k crueltiein him. An example of abftinence in thiskinde wee may take from TamerUine without difparagement ; Tdmerlainc^ being told that a Countryman within his Territories had found much treafure, he caufed the fame to be brought vnto him, which he perilling and finding by the effigies and infeription, chat it was the Coyne be- longing to the Romanes, and not the proper Coyne of his Country, he caufed the fame to be delivered backe againe- faying,What God had fene vnto him,he would not take from him : the poore man had ncede of it, and therefore was it given him. The like parternes may we fijwit tovtmj/k take from divers others. When Dmyfks vnderftood of a great rich man that had much trcafure.andput it to ri) AHtcbdrfb otim fcit* no other vfe than the C 1 ) Athenians d\^ be caufed his Kn££K houfetobennfackt,andagi«tpartof his treafureto ocrandum. be taken from him ; which when the rich man faw, he was at his wits end, and being defirous to know what offence he had committed that he fhould be fo vfed -, it was told him, that Dionyfius tooke it ill that he fhould Jhord vp his treafure, and put it to no vfe> he having daiiy or afoure-fold y»ay to Hue ifrell. daily occafio to vfe it •. which when the rich man heard, fearing the reft might goe the fame way,he began to be- ll irre him,to buy and fcll,trade & trafficke,and no man was then morea&iue than he j of which when Vionyfus was given to vndcrftand, hefent him his treafure backe againe ,and withall fent him word, that it was not his money which he lookt after, but to let him know, that money was therefore Coyned that it might be vfed, and that filver and gold doth loofe its luftre and beautie when it is horded vp. ( m ) Fbilip efuwacedortehaving overcome the Athenians^ one night after Supper asked thisq eftionof the wife men that attended him, what they thought to be the gre3teft thing in the world 5 one anfwered, the water, becaufe a man may fee more of that than of any other thing ; another anfwered, the Sunne, becaufe it did enlighten both heaven and earth ; a third, the mountaine Olympm> becaufe it did extend it felfeabouethe Clouds ;a fourth, the Giant Atlas, vpon whofe fepulchre the fearefull Mountaine itb gnat cermmcdtnmi- him, to waitevpon him. K^4riftarchH4> a man of great %a^£j!^ account among the r^^y, was vfed to fay, Quid op. nt J bis Empire tofctdiiaad Us , out quid fugias nefeis , italadit tempos sWhat a man f^M^'Xt^t'. fcoulddefirc, or#hataman mould efchew, he knew Piacenda, intbt ?rori»Kef not, times were io fickle, and therefore his relolution Eftrcmadura. wa$5 if he could but get a little meate and drinke, and a few Cloathes, he would be therewith content. Diode- fan and cMaximiMdftJbxothers rather than Copartners in the Empire, fo lovingly did they Hue and rule toge- ther, voluntarily laid downe their Crownes both in a fe> flmmkm Silo*. &y>™* bct00k f themfelues to private liues.Thc : (fl/fc. venmfe-men of Greece, one after another refuiedthe golden Table that was taken vp by the Fifhcrmcn of Coo in CMilefta : the Cafe was thus 5 a certaine man ha- ving bought the next draught that fhould be taken vp by the Fi (her men; it fell our, that in the draught there was agolden Table taken vp, and to whom itfliould belong, grew a queftion : the Fifhermen pretended that it did belong to them, for that they affirmed they fold but the Fifli that fhould be taken \ the buyer pretended that it did belong to him,for that he affirmed hebought whatfoever Ihould betaken in the next draughmvhere- upon by Confent the matter was referred to ^4poSo to be decided » who to put them both ourof ftrife did ad- judge or afoure-fold V»ay to Hue well. if% judge it to the wifeft man of Greece, and fo by a generall Confent it was given to Thales, but Thales would none of it, but put it offto Bias, Bias refufedit, and put it off to Pyttacus, Pyttacus to another, and he to another vn- till at length k came to Solon,Solon refigned it to Apollo, and defired him to difpefe of it to fome other ; for that he tooke no pleafuve in it. Thefe men thought them to Omnia eontemnae ali^i* be mod rich, that were endowed with moft wifedomc, 5^^^^ moft patience, moft temperance •, vertues tliat could ad per comemptum divitianun yeares to their dayes, and prolong their lives > as for v,aeft * gold and filver, they did in fome fort neglect, as things mc ' ™ which were attended with cares £nd fearcs j enemies to thelifeofman: all the glorious outfides, the delicious dainties,and all the vaine pompe and glory of the world they contemned and derided: how did (%) Epicurus ( q ) Epicurus fummus vo- that hath beene fo notorious for a belly-god in all ages Juptatis affrrtor, aquaetpo- of the world fince his time Hue ? did he line, as Sard&na- quddTolupwtes averfarttu" pains did vpon the egges and heads of Partridges, Po- kd quod in tenui viau fe pingaies, Pheafams, and Peacockes ^ No : his ordinary f£l t Yoh?t2tlt repcrire a- food was bread & water. How did Crates and Antiflhc- iW.^ jtuxdnd. nes Hue ? did they not contcmne and defpife the glory **■ *■ c4 /* "• of the world, and betooke themfelucsto aftaffc and wallet: how did Phocion, Pelopidas, Socrates, Ephialtes Hue f did they not write ( * ) inferiftions in a Temple at {*)Ak*mi.*b ukxdxJ.JM TbehesagiiinR King CMenim, for inducing delicacies in- to the Cities t did they not condemne the lonims, that induced fcregrtnaobfonia& gnU novifiimatrritamenta, fecond Ccurfes into the world ? and did they not make ( * )Lawes, which they called leges Cib art as, and which (*) Tb.jLa*o& lv .Cx* Cato Cenforius called fumptuarias, for the regulating of fa suet'i^^ c*fare excefle in meates and drinkes ? and did not G alien and Hippocrates learnedly Comment vpon thofe Lawes, and plainely demonftrate, Eos Athletas quorum vita& arsfaginaejldiuviverenonpo/fe; thofe belly-gods that place their happinefle in their throates, can neither haue foundnefic in their bodies, or fan<3itie in their foules * L i 2 And i6o (r) Nilmagis praedatHr o- tulos quam irqluvies vcn. tris« Disnyfiut lite teterrimus Sycilise tyrannus, dum gulac *?acarst,octiIos pcrdidit. /»/?/». //£. i • Smcrf talitcrobiurgat gulo- fos. Taurus (inquit pauciffi- morum iugcrumpafcuis im» pletur, ynafVUaElcphantis pluri«r»is fufficit ; homo & ternipafcituretmari ; quid ergo tarn infatiabilem nobis natura aluum detfi^cumtam modica corpora dediflet 3 vt vaftiflimorum, edaciffimo» rurrq- i-nimaiium aviditatem vinceremu*.* minimi. Saut E?ijl.6o. £ $ I ) Mortales primiru&a- bant gutture ghndem, (*) Non tarn late habites, fed quam lane requiritur ad beatam ritam : fspe* vel in ^alatijx regum labordolorq; habitant, & intugurijs pau- perum quies & gaudium. I (0 Ea fit veftitus confede- ration ncc nimium diflolu- tus fit, quod eft rufticitatis, nee nimium mollis, quod eft inconftantia»,et levitatis : v- trumqj extrtmum fugiendu. Siquide Viogcne .rperfpiciens Rhodios perelegantes , hlc Cinquit) faitujeftjrurfufqj !Laca?da»monios fordidos, hlc alms faftus;rurftM idem Cynir.us munditicm Plato- rascalcans, Platonisfaftum caico inquit, cui Ulc, fed alio fcfto,. QjtT ATERNIO, And did not the ( r ) Sicilian Tyrant forfeit his eyes, for tranfgrelTing and infringing of thofc Lawes ? And were not thofe men and women generally in moftcfteemea- mong chem, that voluntarily fubmittcd rliemfclues vn- to them, and thofe in moft contempt that difobeyed them, and gaue therafelucs over to gluttony and drun- kennefTePhow did they Hue in many parts of che world, before the vfe of Corne was knowne ? did they nor 1 iuc vpon ( * * ) K^{cornes y and vpon fuch things as the Earth brought forth naturally f What habitatios had our Wife aged Fathers in auncient times, the Philofophers and learned men of the world ? orinwhathoufes did they live? did they not live as the Tartars doe, and as many of the Inhabitants of the Kingdomes of Feffe and iMor- rocco doe at this day, in Tents built vpon Plaines, moo- vable at their plcafure ? They built not their ( * ) h$»Jes vpon the tops of hils like vnto Pyramides,mher to catch the eyes of paffengers, than to feede their bellies : their houfes were more for vfe than for ornament, and were furniihed with fuch materialls as the noble Duke in the Courtier preferred before his rich hangings of Arras and Tapftrie,and his veffelsof gold andfilver, chat is, with Libraries of Greeke and Latine Bookes, contai- ning varietie ofall kinde of learning : where they might converfe with Kings and Princes, and with fuch ofall profeffions as had beene moft famous in their generati- ons in the knowledge ofall Arts and Sciences, at all houresimheday : with fuch Vtenfels were their habi- tations adorned. What Clothes did :hey weare t their Clothes like wife were not fo ( f ) curious and effeminate, as to dcizlc the fences of filly women : yet nor greafie, and like an ^Alm&nackc out of date, bur fubftantiall, to kcepe off the parching heatc of the Summer, and the pinching colde of the Winter : their dyer was not fo daintie, as to adde fuell to their lufts, but fuch as did fe- tisfie their hunger, and quench their thirft : they feafted corn or a foure-fold Way to Hue vtell i6l continually , but their feafts did not confift Of vaiictie of diflies, but ofvarietie of dainties 5 and happie was that man that could be admitted thereunto; there was no (0 Semper hxc ingcnuis ffcrikMbxam, that to pleafe himfelfe would dif- »2gZ£££& pleafe his neighbourjnorno man there did eate to plcafe Ubusiuderet impun^modd his palate \ every mansdcfires were to haue his earcs J^fnt»««minrabi«i$ r rit_ • i_ i ju- lum hoc in eenercdivus Hi- mOre expankjthat he might heare more,and his memo- eronymiis,iufit£//^Prophe- rie more ftrong, that he might beare away more^there ta j n idoioiatri* cukoies. i were never two hands in a difh, nor two tongues walk- phefa , cap/44.'^^ ,Pr °" ing together, whatfoever was fpokcn was fpokcn with- Vetem dixerik duplies effc out interruption, and no man would profiler to beginne ^-! "^^ er . curij 5 Mo " before the fir ft had made an end,or to diftu rbe the fpea- Swua^fcpitoSwSS ker : merry they would be often and jefting, but their nocemm alijs : faiem Mo- jefts were without offence, ( <) elegant, facetious, and Z^^t^** vQideoffcurrilities,obfcxmi\z$jin& effeminate ribaldry; Scurrilitas eft vitium,qud in inveftiues were not heard of amonsft them>vnlefle they »«ndo madumacedimu*, . , rr P ., . J nullahabxtarationeautlocL met with opprcflion, extortion, bribery, corruption, tem P oris,aut P erfonarum. and the like. Thefe vices they land to the depth : and Omni ftudiofo lufus eft nc- ftuwffwisnoc lb jerking as they were then. Thefe *JSg£Sgg£ feaftswereinftitutcd for the Continuance of fnendfhip temcorporalemsficfatigatio and familiaritie betweene thera,and in requirall of Cn r- jj^ 1 " uL^ft 61 ^' °" em ia tefies which paft betweene each other, and the guefts m*T* ^ iquie$ani " were regularly fophi&philofbpbi y fober, difcreete, wife ( u ) ^ tthe **k"g «/ Callis men ,****•», pot-Companions, rumor rayfers, SjteJgSft£ or tale- tellers were hitherto admitted jbut if they could tnthetndtktjQn&tookfhm. fill vp the mufickc, beare a part in the Conforr.and end ^Jiy^^K^uprim a Comedie with lomc wittie Apophthegme and Con- tmm ^ mfyftfp&temi ceir, they were welcome guefts s their Enrertainments migomfi fetbimdtUfa* generally were fuch as King Edward the third gaueto %Z"i^jXX Sir ( n ) Enftaee Rabamcnt ,iht French Kn?ght,at the win- hted^^hkhbu clenmieb: ningofC^//*r- j free and noble, and beyond cxpcwere lHt hs wne tbeKingferyed wifedgmejemferance, juftice, fortitude^ and the like. Of indtnhebtnntt of s/>wal- which c very o*e rafted,yet feldome or never but of one : tSSSSStSSA dim at one time. Sometimes wifedomc was preferred, Sivertfgit mmnht t»ja». vpon which every one fed liberally, as vpon a receipt j* convMumpMofcK. •LIS ^ phicunv Z&Z Q^V A T E R N I O, as could in a fort antidate their dayes, nnd giuc them an cffence and being with the holy Pairiarkes, Prophets, and Evangelifts, with rhe reverend Farhers & Do&ois of the Church, and with the learned Naturaiiite and Moralifrsofthe world, that were d; pined in peace to their graves long before their great Grand fathers were borne -, by telling them how they lived, and how they dyed * that by their examples they might prudently husband the timeprcfent j amend and reforme whac hadbeene amifTe in times paft, and carefully provide for the time to come.Sometimes Temperance was pre- ferred, vpon which every one rafted liberally likewife, as vpon a Cordiall that could adde yeares to their lives, and prolong their dayes $ vnto which every mans purfe rw) Cuiuflibetedcrectbi- would not ( w ) extend. Sometimes Iuftice was piefer. berccft, fed cum mo4o ct red, which they did compare for goodneffe vnto the menfuraidpaucorumeA. $umc ^ tfae firmame nt, vnco the foule in thebodie, to the rule of life, affirming there was no fuch Current to water a dry and thiiftie land, no fuch bond to vnite and (x) Qaid fam rfgna nifi tye man to man as this was,without which no ( * ) Citie, h ilL°cftlc u C mcffcau$ ftitl1, f° cictic > or Common-wealth could fubfift. Sometimes qua* c c s^^. w • Fortitude was preferred, which they did compare vnto Cy)Noninuc«ieConGImm, a Mineiall, more foveraigne than that aurumpotabil **?8" UTn 'J'Jl'f/" 1 ? 1 r ji-ii i- 1 v ' ,* i / J r • principx e it corona ienum& preferred, which they did compare vnto Salt,feafomng cordatomm confilhriotu. all things i that was firft fet on, but laft taken off the Ta~ cinftum effe. **£**> ble 5 totheheartinthebodie, being the firft thingthat ^it^fil: liues,thclaftthatdyes;toabencdi<3ion, that in all fer- tia omniagem, (up«rbum vices hath the firft and laft placebo a cup of Neftar and ^^ ab0i ^ quiB1, Ambrofia, that warmes and prepares the ftomacke be. pSincipeji bonfifaciuntpk. foremeate* and to a well-made Conferve that clofeth rtoqjboniConfibarijided. vp the ftomacke after meate.fo that where this was wan- ^^fiSgfe , ting, bread, becre, fait and fpoones, and all things were Princeps malm, etc onfiiia- warning, Pitticandcompaflionwas in great requeft a- gftftlSg'BE mong S^«udcmvm)$makisapl«k m videre premi. ( * J Chawctr* l6^ Q^V ATERNIO, r Jmis bonis corr^i potcfi * mong them, they knc w well that what befell to( *) any ~™f s ££S3S '*' mi s ht bcfa11 to evcr y onc ' and thcrcfore wnh^jfc nonpotcrum. <^> in rhe Poet,they had a fellow- feeling one of anothers Ltnp-MJkxAxJ. mifery. Contentions there were often amongft them, quod cufquam poJft" bur tJie y wcrc ^h a * are moralized in the Enghfti Poet (d;Nonignaram 3 li,mire- in his (*) Frankly as tale. Every one driving withallhis risfuccurrere ditco. «rg» m jpht and power toexceede each other in the doing of deratorGlympi, Currefics, and performing or fncnaly offices one to a- Semper vt aitcrius .peiftrat nether, who fliould be moft hofpitable, and makemorc Necma^sin totoquicqua invitations i who (hould entertaine mod neighbours, reororbeferinumj and relkue moft poore ? who fliould compofe mod ^fj^fn^ ] * ca mcme flrifes 5 and be moft readic t0 makc P- >lce bet wceae fuch as were at variance? who fliould be moft forward to vndertake a commendable and worthy achievement^ and moft backward to attcmptadt/honefta&ion? moft readie to patronize the good, and moft flow tofupport the evill: moft wife to finde out the fubtiltieofthe op- prefTor & extortioner, and moft fimple to offer the lead v wrong to the innocent : in a word, who Ihould be moft SSSSS&Z o^rvant of that golden Rule of Moralitie, not to offer Tttdecelebratur dictum pbi~ that to another which he would nothaue done tohim- ^ Mc ^^^^ felfe. tfdMatters offtate they lookt not after; they knew ws°/& S roytuVquamfartu. they were (landing & referved dirties, which Alexander nanimregiarum partem vel- i lac j provided for his owne palate, and commanded that cunqsvoiucris,mcadnefe. prefume toprieinto them, vnleffethey would incurre cretiahcuius. thedanger which the men of( f ) Bethfhemefh did in pry- Non inutile confiliu Poet*; . . & . A1 , , r v ' , / . J -r ** ■ Arcanum non tu fcrucaberis *ng into the Arke ; and therefore witn the wile Senators viliui vnquam : of ( « ) Tiberius^ they did oftentimes profeffe they had C SS^f. te8 ° ,Ctf ^ i dined and fupped when their ftomackes were emptie; Korat. becaufe they would not haue Tiberius hauc the leaft faf- (() ; i s*nwd6. rerf. i 9 . pi c i Q n of them, that they gaped after the diflies which inttiuge^ he had referved for his owne palate. Prodigalitie they vdktri&rm». cared notfor,they knew well that though it did delight ^fiSm^^i' thetafte, and tickle the palate, yetitengendred nought but corrupt, waterifli, and melancholike bloud^ which would Vide Apoi< gca?edineTa. or a four e- fold rvay to hue well. l6$ would quickly wafteand fade away --arid therefore this faying wem Currant arnongft them, as nothing can fa- vour of greater intemperance, than for a little pleafure which vanifheth in the tht oate, to adventure the health of the whole body 5 fo nothing can favour of greater {^)mainiffc and folly, thantowafte aneftne to beac- (40 SuWt* UrgWonisc^ counted abrauc fellow for a fliort feafon, when he (hall ^f n ^^^ x ^^^ be accounted a foole ever after. G dentation they lookt th- } & btcratitatciiSttalita* nocaftcr, they knew it to be a meatc that would fet the pcnt j^/# 2 w rf Cdp I7c whole bodie on the Tenters, and produce nothing but noyfomeand ill- fmelling favours; and therefore aptly compared it to winde in the belly, which being evacua- ted,becomes vnfavoury to every one but (} ) to him that (i) s-m$ cm<# crepitus be- vented it. So that if at any time thev met withaRo- T n *° l£t - r ~.j-w • J ; Lausinpraprioarefordefcif. thomontatho,fuchaoneas Cafintph&xh well lee forth Bjtbeumofjtrmet dBr^ in his Courtier, that would be talking of Armesvnto g^euubratideimtbad^ Ladies, every one ftopt his cares, as they did vfe to doe jeM# drl a 7em e»&in* theirnoftrills againft ill Tmellin^ favours; for thev did &'fa f . vfe ever, rather to affume too little wither, than too ^j^^^-^ much with Thrafo to themfelues ; they delighted not to "saieu. garnifh and fet forth their diflies with leaves.words they s No1 * fua kudabit ftudia, am compared vnto leaues, which had their ( * ) bloffomings a ^"^h^"* and buddings, their ripenings & fallings, and were fub- (k) Vt filv* toiijs pronos jeft to be blowne away with every winde 5 and therefore v SS^rS&^ in aftile-that the meaneft Capaeiue might vndcrftand vemsinteritltas. them, not in tropes and figures, riddles and obfeurities, *jHs***f ^J ormec ffp^ or in phantafticke orpedanticke tcrracs, did they ex- mZ^aThundredje^es^d prelfe themfelues. Sloth and idlencs they didefchew vordstho as two dangerous rockes and gulfcs, that would dafh ^S2S^ """ them in peices, andfwallowthern vpquicke, without chawcer. leaving; any manner of remembrance behinde them. Mei«useft(inquu^-«;?.) T - S • j • r\* i« •• r vcreprehcndancnosGram. . Hatred and intemne malice never came in in anyfer- roa tici/}uamnonirueiiigant vice, but was as lothfomeasSwines flefh to the lewes • popuir:ide6q-maiuitdicere Ifany offence had beene given that was not of an high ^235« n ^ nature^ fubmiffion was ever held afumxientfatisfaSi- ^«g*X" on. Mm ( l ) Corpora 1$6 Q^V A T E R N I O, (\)rouKi»isth4tbr*rctbt (1) Corf era ma?mnimo fat is eft preftrajfe Le»ni\ JSi&SPSIttmtm r»s*f*Z>fKmfiim\«a hojiis, babct. Ovid. iJ^UitLyHutbdt doe ut+ The Lyop is as kinde to thofe that yceli^as crucll to his ye>-/bow, foeS;but( m ) Wolucs and Bcares, nothing will fatisfie '"'SS^ r but Moid, bl0 "d , they accounted it the greateft glory FoTc, &noilr,nobik. for them that could be 5 to defervc that Encomium and ParccrefubiettivcdcbeUa- no bi e teftimony which Tnlley gaue of 'Cafar, tohauea reiuperbosj J c ■ • • t_ / n v • • Semper inbeilisjBflr«C7w. memory never to forget any thing but ( n ) manes. ( m ) Atlupuf,ctturp»iii- ^ingajlm his (°) moderationby which he drew his very ( *"AttteM £!££»■ enemits > the Aritaf and Scythians vnto him,they had in quaaneinmagpitiim cahu great admiration 5 for with this they alwayes cured the c6rcnuiaer,reipond[ C ,imuri. v < Tiemous biting of mad dodges : one while they made as ierendoetgr anas agendo. ,- c . ~> op - 1111 (o) suetm in jtugfyo. vie of the Antidote by which ^ingujlm expelled the Optima irmiriaevltiocltob- poyfon oUnniiU NoVAtM, and CapHd Patavinus:axOm Th?jjetbath*r : one ihewed how PUtoes Com- moD. or a four e-f old way to Hue well. z6j mon- wealth flouriihed Jxxaufc this was a ft; ager there; *•* tmimkd the Romam another how the Common- wealth of Spsrta penfhed, UvdrhfbeidmberbmJ, becaufe this was a familiar there •. In flatus Common- jipmfctbathurghyA^Andi wealth ( (aid one) no man wanted, becaufe no man a- M^ bt^dboundjo bounded \ every mail had enough, becaufe no man had Mm^tfdhide^e^efimg. more than enough : In the Common-weakhof Sparta, OHttf^pur/uretberecam many men wanted, becaufe many men abounded s ma- voZbJtwrecotnmethki her ny men had not enough, becaufe many men had more thought > y than enough. Which difproportion of cftites occafio- ^th^1^Y mm : ned-akmdc of corruption in the manners and conditi- ons of the people- it made the vlchgrowprmd, high- minded, and to giue themfelues to oppreffion, and vnto a licentious courfe of life : ft made the poore to repine, tomurmure, and to * mntinie, vntill it brought that * inequalitk ctu/ab tumult* (r)fmri(bwg Commonwealth vpon her knees : which «** tnfuneUiom. the Romanes fearing made a Law 5 which was called Lex ( r ) Apollo PySiusOrM- Agraria, whereby inequalitie of poffefiions was Cryed loedi«jir,Sparram nulla alia downe. Such were the feafts that thefe wife men made, tt nifiayaritiapcrituram. thatgauciuch contentment to their guefts, that every one was well fatisfied j yet every one rofe with an appe- tite. Thus did thefe men fpend and end their dayes, dying neither too rich nor too poore, having enough to carry them through the world to their graues, without being burdenfome ortroublcfomeroany. it was a de- vout and good (*)prayeriand well befeeraing the wiftft (C) Pnv $o. verf.8. eyj* of Kings yGiue menot too much, lea ft I grow proud andfo ^g™ animi cft,mcdioMf forget thee, nor too little, leajl I grow too much dtietted, ma $21*™^™ p. andfo for get myfelfe : a little to the wife is better than great Melius eft modicum jufto; poffefions to the fooUfk : a Cottage well gotten, is better than tdtafp/S ^"SF a Palace gotten by wrong and robberie, Which made olde Nonfperno numm'oV, fi fit ( * ) Samuel arraigne himfeife and make Proclamation, B p^ffio juftaj tmxifhe hadtakenanymansOxeorA(fefromhim,orifhe Et » J^ Bfl ~ 3 ^o n» hadwrong'edoroppreffed any man, or if he had taken a gift, (*) is*m.ii.yerf.$ s unlawfully againft any man, he was there readie to reft ore it. jhe dayes of mavare few and evill, and that which in the end of thofe few dayes (hail giue mod contentment to a Mai 2 man 3 2^3 QjT ATERNIO, man, fhall be this ; that no man can juftly fay, that he hath taken ought vniuftly from him. It was a glory to Cjrmjthskl he was accounted pater patriae, and he carried it to his graue with him 5 but it was an ignominy to Da. rins^ that he was accounted a Negotiator^ and he left it ft) lncedd>antnudi Adam behinde him : Wee brought ( ■ ) nothing into the world, net- to. TZv^inParadifum: nos ther (hall we-carrie am thin? out. Why then fhould wefo Jiincmigr S bimus.Cumig!- greedily Covet onr neighbours hon\e, our neighbours wife, turirWeflus & egrcfliis no- our neighbours Oxc, his A(fe> or any thin? that is his i SSSK£n- ***•• You hauc fufficiently (Wd me what Cove- twuoscfle noftra^one, vt toufnes is,and the fruits & effefts of it , Iprayyonnow affedibus ab avaritia nudu» fl }cw me w h at L awcs haucbeen made out of this facred inhocmundoverfemur: & r n . . i .« j hla« r.^ fi qu d nob!s aufnetur, di- Law, to reftraine the vnbndled attentions or Covetous camuscum/e^nuduscgreA perfons &„ r iSS«S Imd ' Youftallvnderftand.rhatfromhcncearcdc ad!t& Dominusabduljt 5 rived all thofe Lawes called (*)thsCyncian } thc Iulian, ac fktftilh non crubdeunt znd Calphurnian Lawes. By the firft, Orators were re- ftiamnudiratem^cnosnon A . ( r .. / j r i j- i_»r pudetnoftra? P aupcrtatisin {trained for taking ot rewards for pleading; bythefe- quavuitnosDeusvivcre. cond,fuing after dignities was prohihitedfby thethird, Z ^ r creatitne! h0mini8 bribery and extortion in Magiftrates was condemned Eftqua?f*usmaximuspietas and ouniflicd. Againe^ you (hall vnderftand, that all C rrT,^ ; n nrU5n i ih,lin I ! uli ; thofe Lawes which are called Leges CibarLe, or fumptua. musinnjncmundunuhaud . . . , - ^ , ./ ,»• ; dub u, nee auferre quid poi- rtt, which doc take away excefmie ayct and luperflui- fimu$ s ha rentes alimcnca 3 & ties, and all thofe La wes which are called leges Agrarix, Tl^^iTi™™**™* which punifh the Depopulator and Encloier, are hence Hud** vtbtterramvtmifk derived. Againe,all thole Lawes which punifli Incefts, £$£k/htfim W 4m. ad ul . ter * c M nd fornications, and all thofe Lawes which Jirayidetij ? punifh thefts, grea? er or Icflcr^ publicke or private, aid y n -r M° ru *' which are comprehended vnderthefe Titles, dfc Adulte- rifSy Abigeis, fimum regendornm y Larcente, petit Larcenie, and the like : generally all Lawes, by which any exorbi- tancie or intemperancic in any kmde is condemned, are hence propagated and derived. Rtfflic: 1 pray you Sir, fatisfie me in one thing before yx)u goe any further : I haue often heard, a man may be as intemperate in his ftudies as in his meales. Is this kinde §r a four enfold Way to Hue ypeU. 269 Jcindc of intemperance within the Compaffe of thcfe Lawes ? lurid: Yes certainely • vbicunfcplus vult qttif^y qium fat efti in what cafe focvcr a man defircs more than c w ) e- f w ) pi us cdrt velle quam w/i^A, he incurres the danger of thofe Lawes- and for fa t cft >intemperami* genus your further fatisfaclion, I would hauc you looke into £l&&$fe&2i (**) Tacitus, and there you (hall fee how Agricola re- fapit. ftrained his affe ' ' : 'l i , (x)Quibinos Icporcsko- Et fuge (CU ptflem W 7S0\VWfAy(A0avm. ra&aatureadcmj Vno cjuauddq; , quandtf 95 Let not the husbandman enterfare with the Citizen 5 nor (»;Mkindn^^^ the Citizen wi'ch the husbandman : let not the Liwyer ™»qs finguli bolus artis k meddle with the Divine, nor the Divine with the Law- fSSlSSSSSSSl yer . It is not for Glauco vmbra cr rafa Tabula, white pa- plebi? 5 cerdones, fabros, a- per, vpon whom a man might write any thing, to ralke s ri 5 oias « aIio5 j?E* rit0 « what he would doe if he were ^ x ) Ktng-oxConfr.lt. The £Qrego c (Tem,ita jabe.rem 3 i- adling of rhat part alone belongs to Soveraigncy and fu- tacocfuicrem.-qmbus pbo r - preamC power. tuc SocrateijSi quis(inquit) • noK faber de demo, aut gn» T# ^f re imperio, popnhs ( Rem ant ) memento. r " «^od- C - ^ - COn d r *" Navjta dc vciiris, de uur/t . It is cafars part to rule and governe :it is Glauco s part to narrctawtor : ferve nnd nhrv Enumeret rr.iles vutaer*-? icrve and oo^y • 0^ la , suHq . natitart6Brift . M m 3 i?///W; cafefxercea^ ZJQ QjT ATBRNIO, 'Ruflic: O but Sir, if the husbandman (hall in (lead of Wheate vtterchaffe and tares, will you not allow the Citizen to tell him of it? if the Citizen fliall fell & fend forth bafe Commodities in ftead of good and marchan- table, will you not allow the Countryman to doethe like to him ? iftheLawyer 5 whofehoufe(2SCr/*/7^ faith in the Orator ) is as the Oracle in the Citie, fhall fet a man out of his way, will you not allow the Divine to tell him of it? and if the Divine fliall publilh falfedo- dtrine, will you not allow the Lawyer to doe the like to him t lurid: By no meanes* for in every well governed Common- weakh 5 there is fpeciall care taken to hawefu- perintendents, to whom the redreffing of abufes in eve- ry faculty are committed. If a Divine offends,it belongs { * ) The Poly^igmon ^ not to thee being ( * ) a lay -man to redrefle it, but to the *'^ J T k ! h T t '*V'. Bifliop.goetohimand acquaint him with it, and if he ny further thAttttaemember: r> & 1 3 ofhisowe hdie, * u*rntf will not doe it, let the blame lighr vpon him . thou halt <^**'^^ done thy dutie. If the Lawyer offend in his facultic, it tbn^^tbenn^uu belongs not to thee being a Divine to redrefle it, goe to comi>*te,nortkeb4ndtout{e, the Iudges and acquaint them with it, and if they will SS^t&£S not doc "* let the Wame light vpon them. If the Citizen they yoiumriiy de*k etch in offend, it belongs not vnto thee being a Countryman to his jfe B 5^» reformc it 5 goe to the Magift rate and acquaint him with non prziu wfartSl ****** it 5 and if he will not doe it,lct the blame light vpon him. Affeftatcerebrum 5 magnis If the Countryman offend,it is not for thee being a Ci- cSSle ieve S *. tizen t( > redreffc '*&<* t0 thc Iuftices * nd acquaint them naturodorcs: with it, and if they will not doe it, let the blame light N y!^ ftinircf P ubIicafe ' vpon them 3 it is a dutie belongs vnto them * and thou Ca^wjat fhidijs, et cmo muft not Covet that which is theirs. fxderequ*q; Raftta O but Sir, if a Divine fliall publifh in writing Sj SS,S. data ^^^ any thlng re P u S nant to the d O(5lrine of the Church wherein he liveth, I hope you will not thinke it vnfit for any man of the fame Church to write againft it and confute it. lurid: Nothing more vnfic j vnlefle he doe it by fpe- ciall or afoure-fold toay to Hue ypeQ. IJ% ciall Command from higher powers 5 for in fo doing thou giucft occafioa whofoever thou art, to the Adver- farics of the Church whercot thou art a member,to tri- umph and fay, it is no marvaile they agree not with vs, feeing they agree not amongft therafelues. Againe, a- mongft wife men thou (halt be accounted a foole for thypaines, though perhaps among the ignorant multi- tude thou maift winne a iirrlefame and r^nowne • Nam f dpi ernes ambignntvter ftultior^ifne qui fluke dicit, an qui finite dicentem [crib refutare coxtendit* the Doctors doubt whether is the more very foolc,he that writes fooliihly, or that ferioufly anfwers a foohfli writing f Leaue then the reformation Qf matters of the Church to the head of the Church,to whom it appertaines,as bti^ 6 ) name ( ^^'Ew/b-xowc^eftin- will tell <:hee. And doe thou if any idle Pamphlets haue fpeftorfc curatory vn another from Cart hag e.a third &om Sicilies fourth from Rhodes, a fifth from Athens>z fixth from Lacedemonie.x feaventh {xotv^Sicion.Ptekmie mooved this queftion vnto them? *A titierfVelo^nsfotnatn? Qu&nam ifiarumfrovinciarum refpubltca melioribm kgi- ym Corifl ^« bus regerentttr, which oft heir Provinces were governed by the beftLawes < Which quefticn after it had beene wittily, %JZ QjT ATERNIO, wittily for a time debated, every one (landing for the Lawes of his owne Country. Pultmte to determine the Controverfie, defired them viquilibtt tres leges qnasin fuaqaiffc repub: fciret obfervari omnium opt imasjro ferret, ebqjationefntummputabat,vt, quxnam illarnm mdiusre- gereturfaaTt perfpiceretttr ,thatevery one wou Id'propofe three of their bed Lawes, by which he made no doubt but he fhould be able to judge which of the Countries had the beft Lawes. Whereupon the £*;»*»*- AmbafTa- dor began thus ; Romstempla honor ari ,magiflraubus obe- dientiam priori, malos Cajligari ; at Rome God is glori- fied. Magistrates are obeyed, wicked men are punifhed. After him the Carthaginian Ambafl : began thus > } Cartha- ginenobiles viros fempcrcnm fuU boftibus decertare^ popn- lum labor are, Pbilofopbosrridioresinformare*, at Carthage the Noble men alwayes wage warrc in perfon with their enemies, all men are inadion,and thofe that are skilful! inftru&thofe that are ignoranr. Afrerhimthe Sicilian AmbafT; thus ,- siciliajuftitia admimflratur, Veritas am a- tur,&qualitas laudatur $in Sicilieyadicc is duel y admini- ftred, truth is beloved, and a^qualitie preferred. After him the AmbafTador from Rhodes, thus > Rbodt benefits effeviros fenes ,pudicos)uvenes, tranquilitset illabe facias matronas ; at Rhodes old men are honed:, young men are fhamefaft, matrones are fober and without fpot and blemifh. After him the ^Athenian AmbafT: thus ; Athe- nis non per mitt untnr divites faBiofi, popular otioftuguber- natores tmperiti-fm Athens ic was not permitted that rich men fhould be fa&ious, pooremen idle,and Governors ignoranr. After him the Lacedamoiian AmbafT: thus; Laced&mone tuc invidiam, quia annes tbi erant aquales, necavaritiam, quia omnia erant commtwia,nee dejidiam, quiaomnes labor abant rcgnari permitti ^ In Lacxdemoni^j envie hathno place, becaufe all men arecquall, Cove- toufnefTe is thruft out of dores, becaufe all things are in common \ idlenefle is banifht, becaufe all men are made to or afoure-fold way to Hue ifreli. iy$ to workel After him theSicion Ambafkthus-, Sycion^j nttllos extraneos.qui res novas excogitarent.ntdlos medicos ■, qui b eve valentes enecarent 7 nuUos advocatos^qnilites in in- finitum protrjiherent^dmitti • at Sjcion no new* Lords arc admitted to make new Lawcs; no phy fitians to kill men being in perfed health § no Advocates to fpinne out and protra<3 cau fes to the end of the world. A 1 1 wh ich when Ttolemie heard, and ferioufly pondered them in his thoughts, he affiimed they were all fo good that he knew nox^Qtuwam illaru fit lex p&ftantifima. What Pto- lemie faid of the Lawes of thofe Countries, I may well fay of the wayes wehauc paft through. They are all fo good, I know not w ch is bcftrlet the young man take his choyce, ashisphantafieleadeshim, he cannot choofe amifTe. A more fatisfa&ory Anfwerc at this time I can- not gine you ? for you know it is a hard thing for an Ar- tificer to fit a man with a habite whom he never faw, and knowes not whether he be high or low, little or great ; and it would be deemed an inconfiderate part in me to take vpon me to ( * 7 ) direB another what wayes C f7 ) Velfcfuum cu% eft; hertiouldwalke, when as by the Lawes of Licurgus, ^ d j P er ™ ct x ^°^ Nemo jecjm debet id quod menus )udacio\equt)u\]m eft, in foro fhgellis c*fus, cui- fed id tantumtptodo ad quod a n&tnra prop en fit fe njidet maxi- da ! n adhortanti,* ed raagis '* t \ *, T .,, ., i i T ' ij I • i if ieflinarct quo citius tantis me. Yet I will tell you what I would doe in the like CT uciatibasiibcrarctur,tale cafe. If I thought theyoung man you fpeake of would deditrefponfum; tu c&mi- proucaChok-ricfceCV^, Iwouldadvifehimtow:lke t^f v ^4o^ the private Country way invisible as neare as he could ^ vt mihi videbitur,ibo. if a patient wife man, then to take his journey through Ca ^ $*' *-• the Cities, if a devour religious man,then through the Temple jif an honeft juft man,then through the Courts of luftice. And withall,I wouldadvife him to bearein mindethefe^autions: if he did purfue theCountry- rode,then to ta^e heede that he did not wafte too much time in the vaine delights thereof, and fo the night fteale vpon him,and petiury feizevpon him,andftrip him out of his rich robes of plentie, into her owac rags of igno- N n minie* Z7f Qj V A T E R N I O ( 5? ) Hereditaria* ijlc mor- bus, qui ab initio mundiec- clefias a(flrxir,& pcfiundedit, eft ambirio mixra avaritiaj vr*aitlar.ntiptrl\cxinlib.2 ad Htw/r.ntlpcr pnncipem. (59) Simon propter excel- lentiam qua in arte mag»ca valcbat, hUgus appellatus 5 qui cum vidillet: iigna & mi- ricuiaab Apoftobsfadam- ifle,per impofitione manuu, addudusdeiTdv r.ohuiufmo- di gratiam affequendi, pecu- riianiaft£rebatFf/yo 9 cuiP*- /mrefpondcbat,ptcuniatua tecum lit in perdu one, quia exiftimaih donum fpiritus pecuniaacquiri. (y) Vnivcrfavita mortalium natiua & ie°ibus guberna- tur 3 & id eft iei-,cuinecc Ga- lium eft omnibus parere 5 & cum rnulusalijs de cauG$,tu prasferiim, qudd omnis lex eftinvemum et munus Deo- rum (vtir.qjiitDcniofi hexes) incratione contra uitiftogi- totiem- (« ) BctciAeog cjttafe Bang 2i. Cum premcretur inops multitude ab ijs qui maiores opes habcbanr>ad vnum ali- quern confugicbant, virtutc praeftantem 5 qui cumproli* beret iniuria tenuiores a> quitate conftituenda/umos cum infamis pari iure deti- nebat,eademqj conftituen. darumlegum caufa,quam re- gum# Ciccnlit.ZiOffic* minie. Ifhe had a minde to take the Cities in his way, then to take heede that he did not trifle out the time too long in dallying and feafting with Bacchus and Venus, and their alfociatcs, and fo the night overtake him and he be compelled to take vp his lodging in Ludgate or Newgate, If he had a minde to take his voyage through the Temple, then to beware that Simonie and (5 8 )Co- vetonjnejfc: -pride and luxnrie, envic and malice, did not hinder him, and fo the night overtake him, and he be compelled to take vp his lodging with ( s0 ) Simon Ma- gus, and his fraternity .11 he had a minde to take his voy- age through the Courts of Iuftice,t.hen to take heed that he be not hindrcd with falfhood and double-dealing, with lying andfalfe informing, with bribery and cor- ruption, and fo the night overtake him and luftice (tlzo. vpon him, and make him a fcandall to allpofteritie. To conclude, I would advife him which way fo ever he went, to pay for what he called for, to owe nothing to any man but loue, and to carry a good tongue in his head, which if he did obferue, I would pawne my Cre- dit, that he might vvalke any way vntill he were weary, without difturbance and moleftation. And thus the Conference ended. And thus am I come to a period of my Difcourfe. Wherein I haue endevoured to (hew that Lawes are nor,a$ they hauebeene fondly andigno- rantly conceived, the ftreines and quirks of mens wits, or the meere invention of man ; but as ( f )Demofthenes longagceobferved %w* ^ISv Se£v ^%oy,thc inventi- on and gift of God himfclfe, and given to that end and purpofe, as Kingsand Princes were fet vp in the begin- ning, when the great and mightie began to oppreffe the poore and needie : God fet vp a man whom the Graciant haue well fet forth in their (*)Bow/Ae5*, to whom rhey might flee for fuccour and reliefe. Now admit thofe facred myfteries are adminiftred in earthen Veflells by polluted hands. Admit that cants Officers doe pill and pole or a four e -fold way to Hue well. pollc the people, taking for their Syngrapha and Opifto- grapha.moxt then is due or belongs vnto them : fhall the fprkigs of a pure founxaine loofe any of their proper worth and vertuc, becaufe they run through fome vn- hallowed putrified Channels or Concavities^ or fhall Cato be condemned < No > the Lawes are fprings of a purefountaine, derivatiucs out of the primitive Law of God, which cannot be polluted with vn wafhen hands j we ought therefore to haue a reverend opinion of them} and be mote ( *)Converfant with them, becaufe they arc fprings proceeding from fuch a fountains *7* ( *) Rex et lex man that lived inVtoph, who was much troublcdwiththe winde Cholicke, andhis daily prayerwas y pvo Crepitu ven- tres, to haue the winde to be loafed out of his belly ^hut finding no eafefor a long time, and defy ay ring of healthy he changed hisdittie, andprayedpvo regno Cadcfti, that God would giue htm the Kingdome of Heaven. Whtch hisfoole hearing, hurft out into a great laughter ; and when theftanders by re- proved him for it > and demanded of him why he wasfo mer- ry, his M after being foftcke, anfweredjo thinke that his Ma~ Jlerfbouldbefovery afeole,as to thinke that God would giue him a Kingdome, that denied him fof mall a matter as a fart. ^ Which when his Uti after heard to proceed from his foole,fell intofuch a laughter, that fhooke his entrails, that he vented forth a little winde ; info much, that the Phy huangaue out, that the venting of that winde was worth a{ 62 ) I o o.pound $ ( $ a )Hunc flatum centum which thefoole hearing, he like Boreas blew at hispofterne crede yalcrcmina* cum irgenti fonitu, and to „ • -rt. L* i • /• i r /• Sl pr«tiofa magi* podic,e gigs which Sir Thomas More made in lots youth for hts re- ^ v ^ t faabet? creation •, the fc op e whereof is, ncfutor vltra Crepidam, and fay $ He that bath left his Hofiers trade, and falleth to maken (hun : The Smith that fhal) to painting falJ,his thrift is well me done. When a Hatter (hall gee flatter m Phi.'ofophie : Of a Pedlar waxe a Medici in Thcologie : A man of Law that never (aw the waves to buy and fell ; Weening to riie by Merchandise, I prav God fpeedhim well. N n i If *7$ Epilogvs. If any man ft) all rip vp thofe Rhymes, I fay, and fay } as Ifup- pofe I heare feme whiff ering that it is not proper to aprofejfor oftheLawteperfonate a Country man, Citizen, or Divine, or to talke of dogs and hawkes, things out of the lifts and li- mits $f his profession. To him I dfifrvc+fybat Erafmusyifm- (6 4 ) Omneuilitpunaum edr,o leffs ( 6 *■ ) Art in writing of his Booke, for which he quimifcuit tvk dalci, ma j € t fa Apologic JJtatf he did by fcttin? forth the learned Lcaoremdcleaando, pari- J , r * A to A ? _. T1 . ' } e .*i . j „ A terqsmonendo. Labours of St. Auftin, St, Hirromc, SV^ypnan, and St. Indicat ingenium ftuhiria Chryfoftomc. K^d nd Sir Thomas More gained no leffc^j ^tdeEra/m- Poeta. &*& and reputation in writing his Vtopia, than he did in putting forth the life cfPycus de Mirandula ; andtheflory of King Richard the 3. Nam vt nihil nugacius eft quam (*) Ludicradumtraaogra- / * } f rf nusatoric-tra&ire i ita nihil feftivius. quam ha Dum leviter trado feria, traciare nugas, vt nihil ramus quamnugatus, ruiflc vU ludo ftudens. dearis ; as nothing is me*e de'teftable than to handle a fenons fub)ectcarelefly and negligently, fo nothing is more delectable than to handle a toy and trifle elegantly and wittily m who can- not goe in a Common rode without a guide, and who cannot write an Encomium of the four e Cardinal! vertues, when as every Booke will jeeld vnto him a helping hand f But with that honorable Knight to write an Vtopia^r with Erafmus to write a Pancgyre of follie, or with Synefius in pray fe of baldnes,0riw£Glauco in pray fe of injuftice ; to extract vertue out of a red Herringjr to make a Catfpeak,hic labor, hoc opus eft. Who cannot difcourfe of the nature of Coun- tries, and tell how Lutetia isfituated, and from thence direct the way into Icaly 5 and commend triples for noblenes, Flo- rence for fairenes, Bononla for fatnes, Ravenm foroldnes^ Venice for richnes, Milhineforgreatnes, andGenozfor ( *0 Optimi ad fcribendu, flatelines ? But with the three ( 6 $ ) be ft and worjl Orators, peffimi ad loq^ndum Dcmofthencs, Cicero, and 1 (berates, to draw the affetfi- func &r 3®s • ons °f thc ^habitants of thoft Countries vnto them, as the Vtloquutus Augufiut de Adamant doth then -on, that is pray fe-wortby . Who cannot . Tikmo. glut himfelfe, having an appetite, that hath meate enough be- fore him'andwho cannot giue freely , that wallowes in wealth and abundance ? But to extract water out of a Roche, to fatisfie . himfelfe, Jfc, p i hirnfelfe, and relieue others, that is pray fe- worthy . Who can- net write in Commendation of the.Country life, when as Ca- to 3 Columella, Varro, Palhdius, and divers otAer's^ haue written at large de re ruftica? And 'who cannot commend the Lawes to he moft excellent 3 wh en as many before haue written ofthatfubjecl? But with Seneca \to reade vnto vs golden lef- fons ofMoralitie, and to teach vs how to behaue our f elites in the ciiie.andinthe Country iandwithHcvbachiusjofiew whence the Lawes receine this excellencie, that y is pray fe-wor- thy. * If vnto this 1 haue given thee a helping hand^giue Cod the pray ft, giue me thy hue and good will. ^ ^Author ad librum at alibi c Rof]us. Vadc nee horrefcas quocunq; vagaris in orbe*, Forte fuperftcs eris me moriente liber $ Ncc metuas de te quid dixerit ifte, vel ille, Arbitrij dominus flat fibi cpifq; fui. IdetQ de eodetn. Si fortetantum commeritus fuero,vt inter multitudinern pauci^aut inter paucos,faltem vnus, in Labyrinthads via? & vita? fua* anfra&ibus & ma*andris,per banc me- am Quaternionem rede edo&us atq$ inftrudus efle fibi videatur, erit ( vt fuit olim Antimacho Poetas vlato ) folus ille inftar omnium. The *8o The names of fuck Writers, as the Author hath made vfe of.yi this Booke. H Efod. Alexad.ab Alexad. Sencc. Ovid. Martial. Horat. Ariftot, Cicero. Virgil. Cato. Bartas. Feme. Raftali. Scat, vrbis Roma;. Sir Edw: C«okji$ Reports, Petrarch. Chawcer. Phii:Iod. <&neas Silv. Tibullus. iEfops fab. Plutarch. Xenophon. Tacitus. Gucverra. Io. Stow. St. Bernard. Origcn. Chryfott. Hieroaie. Arcadia. Dic»|. Laert. Lipnus . Gwillim. Vegetius. Frontinus* Comminei. Plinius. Pet. Blefenfis. Guicciardine. Scotus. Lufcinius* Plato. Natal. Comes. Spieg. Sueton. » Morus. Huttenut. Textor. Leighe. Paullov. Plautusv Zsnch. Rhenanus Segar. Lonicer. Diodorus Sic* Caftilio. PauU^Emilius. Bcllus. Ioh.Saliib. Cornel Agrip. Apuleius. Spartianus. Hcrodianus. Ortcllius. Leandry. Keckerman, Munfterus. Amianus Marceil; ^.milius Probus. Curtius. GJover. lean de Seres. Scaliger. Ferinus. Iuftinianus. Aoguftin. luvcnal. Reform, legum ecclefi- afticaruin. Brit ton. Bradon, Barletius. Iofcphw. Eufebius, ^Blianus* Math. Paris. Platina. Onuphrius. William Malmesb, Ioh. Rofle. Mantaamis- Ccremon: ecelef.Rom. LamrdeprifcAngLleg. Dyer. Eraimus. Hemingius. Cambden. Valerius Max. AuIusGellius. Macrob. Sat. Fulbecks parallels. Bernard mirandul. dc fingul. ceitam. Beda; Ecclef . hift. Stanford. Heresbachiut. Saluftius. Terentiu$, Briffbnius. Aufonius. Homerus. Efidetus. Buxdorfius. Tiraquillus. Iuftioian. Socrates Scholaft. Zozimen. Claudianus. AyraruJ. Hift. tripartit. GlanviL Swinbourne. AlcoranMahom. Lucanus. H. Huntingdon^ Stat. Scot. Flows. Stat. Hibcw. Oroiiuj. Eutrop. Lamprid. Bofwell. VValfingham. Benlgnum eft & plenum ingenui pudorhfrteri per quos profeeeri^ reprebenfione autem digmm,M4iwum tacere nomina, (£* cerum fibi approfr'wc interna. Plin. FINIS. •— - _^___^_— I ^-^, 1 S3