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 Bodenham's Belvedere; or, The garden of 
 
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^nUitatiom of t\)t Spenser ^otittv* 
 
 Issue A^efij I J 
 
 BODEMJHAM'S 
 
 W^ 
 
 B E L¥ E D E R 1 
 
 OR 
 
 THE GARDEN OE THE MVSES - 
 
 REPRJNTJED FROM THE ORIGINAL ^ITIO^ OF 
 160Q 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE SPENSER SOCIETY 
 1875 
 
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 CO UNC IL. 
 
 JAMES CROSSLEy, Esq., F.S.A., President:. 
 
 THQMA$ jONpSv ^sq.^ B.A., F^-S-iiA ' 
 
 Rev. THOMAS CORSER, M.A.,ii-.S. A. 
 
 JOHN LEIGH,, E'sq:." 
 
 G. W. NAPIER, Esq. 
 
 RICHARD j:OHNSDN, Esq., r«<M«y«^. 
 
 JOHN ^, BREMNER, Esq.'^F.S.S., Hon. Secretary. 
 
BOD EN HAM'S 'luu 
 
 BELVEDERE 
 
 OR 
 
 THE GARDEN OF THE MVSES 
 
 REPRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITION OI 
 1600 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE SPENSER SOCIETY 
 
 187s 
 s 
 
 ctA 
 
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 PkiNTED BY ChAKLHS Sv, 
 MAKCKE5TER. 
 
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 
 
 BODENHAM'S Belvedere, or Garden of the 
 Muses, may be said to be the last of the series 
 of early poetical collections, extending from 
 Tottel's Miscellany to Davison's Poetical Rhapsody 
 which remains to be reprinted, and accordingly, as 
 promised in the preface to Kendall's Flowers, it 
 forms the subject of the present issue. Notwithstand- 
 ing the amusing attack of the witty author or authors of 
 Returne from Parnassus, and the disparaging remark 
 of the excellent editor of the edition of Dodsley's Plays, 
 now in progress (see note, vol. ix. p. i ii), it is conceived 
 that it possesses sufificient interest and attraction to be 
 worthy of a place in the series above referred to, and in 
 which it may be taken as a fitting introduction to Boden- 
 ham's next poetical collection, the charming England's 
 Helicon. The limitation of the extracts to one and two 
 lines may perhaps give it too uniformly axiomatic a 
 character for continuous reading ; but the praise of 
 Belvedire by the editor's elegant panegyrist A. B., in 
 
iv Introductory Notice. 
 
 the lines prefixed to the second work, was surely, on the 
 
 whole, not undeserved : 
 
 " In the Muses Garden gathering flowers 
 Thou mad'st a nosegay as was never sweeter, 
 Whose sent will savour to Time's latest howres, 
 And for the greatest Prince no Poesie meeter." 
 
 The address " to the Reader," omitted, for what reason 
 it is hard to conjecture, in the second edition, which 
 enumerates the authors from whom the extracts were 
 made, has a peculiar value in its connection with the 
 history of Elizabethan poetry, and will always be read ^ 
 with pleasure. To trace back to each author on the list 
 the lines in the following collection, which he might have 
 claimed as his property, would be no easy task even to 
 those most conversant with our early poetry. It is, how- 
 ever, sufficiently obvious on the most cursory perusal of 
 the book, that amongst the writers whom he laid under 
 most frequent contribution, Shakespere, Spenser, Mar- 
 lowe and Daniel have, at all events, not been neglected. 
 
 Of John Bodenham, whose merits as a literary col- 
 lector and compiler were considerable, nothing positively 
 seems to be known beyond the fact of his being the 
 editor of Politeuphuia, Wit's Commonwealth 1598, Wit's 
 Theatre of the Little World 1599, Belvedire 1600, and 
 England's Helicon 1 600. 
 
 The sonnet addressed "to the Vniuersitie of Oxen- 
 ford," prefixed to the following work, was probably his 
 own composition, and, if so, tends to prove that he was 
 himself a respectable poet. 
 
Introductory Notice. v 
 
 Belvedere has been noticed by various critics and 
 bibliographers, references to whom will be found in Mr. 
 Corser's valuable Collectanea Anglo-Poetica, part ii. p. 298, 
 where he gives a full and accurate description of the two 
 editions of the work. The second edition appeared 
 under the title of " The Garden of the Muses. Quern 
 referent Musse viuet dum robora tellus, Dum coelum 
 Stellas, dum vehet amnis aquas. Printed at London by 
 E. A. for John Tap, and are to be sold at his shop at 
 Saint Magnus corner, 1610." Sm. 8vo, pp. 260. The 
 type appears to be the same as that used in the first 
 edition, but the book is contained in fewer pages. The 
 result of a careful collation of the two editions, which is 
 given afterwards, serves to show that, with frequent 
 differences in the spelling, there are no material varia- 
 tions in the text besides the omission in the second 
 edition of the address " to the Reader," and the addition 
 therein of two lines, in laudation of queen Elizabeth, 
 not contained in the first. 
 
 The members are indebted to R. F. Ainsworth, esq., 
 M.D., for kindly affording an opportunity of collation by 
 the loan of his beautiful copy of the second edition. 
 
 J A?- Crossley, 
 
 President. 
 
The following discrepancies appear in the first 
 and second editions of Belveddre, published 
 in 1600 a7td 16 10: 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 To Bodenham: Line 12, friends; 1. 13, 
 renowme; 1. 16, hereafter 
 
 Of this Garden of the Mufss: 1. 3, fiov/res, 
 fnal; 1. 4, find; 1. 10, fente; 1. 12, 
 comprize 
 
 Sonnet to the Mufes Garden: 1. 2, fweets; 
 1- 4, honey; 1. 6, ecchoes; 1. 10, flowres; 
 phyficke; 1. 14, ficknefle, mind; 1. 15, 
 fiiid; 1. 16, fliee; 1. 19, heart; 1. 20, 
 fnee; 1. 22, mind 
 
 Of the Booke: 1. 3, honey; 1. 6, tvophee 
 
 To Cambridge: 1. 1, vniuerfitie; 1.6, niayfl; 
 1. 8, fiowres; 1. 9, plentie; 1. 10, attyre, 
 hir, watry; 1. 12, daintie; 1. 16, glorie 
 
 To Oxenford: 1. 1, vniuerfitie; 1. 3, nurferie; 
 1. 6, happie; 1. 8, fuck't, honie; 1. 10, 
 yeelde, woord; 1. II, fupplie; 1. 15, 
 ne're, dye; 1. 16, worlds, they 
 
 Page I : Line 6, v/eight; I. 7, abundace; I. 8, 
 
 daungerous; 1. 15, pacient; 1. ig, dare 
 P. 2: 1. 3, gifts; 1. 5, exceed; 1. 13, helpe; 
 
 1. 14, mercie; 1. 17, foon, down; J. 18, 
 
 quickly; 1. 32, dwell 
 P. 4: 1. 4, decay; 1. II, afterward 
 P. 5: 1. 17, habitation 
 P. 6: 1. 5, lampe; 1. 7, wee; 1. 10, foUie; 
 
 1. 14, wherwith; 1. 30, fun 
 P. 7: 1. I, lawes; 1. 5, in; 1. 15, for; 1. 16, 
 
 clothes; 1. 20, excells; 1. 21, brightneffe 
 P. 8: !. 5, iron walls; 1. 19, alwayes 
 P. 9: 1. 10, worldly; 1. 21, fhew; 1. 24, 
 
 truly; L 2^, loden; 1. T,-^,fenc't 
 P. 10: 1. 5, defpaire, kills; 1. 12, walls; 
 
 1. 23, einploi'd 
 P. II: 1. 3, embrace; 1. 5, make; 1. 6, 
 
 clarks; 1. 9, vnf potted; 1. Ii, feldome 
 P. 12: 1. 17, only 
 P. 13: 1. 15, htcwledge 
 P. 14! 1. 5, holds; 1.8, irue/y; 1. H,find 
 
 a f.raungcr iufl; \. 20, aid; 1. 27, vpon; 
 
 1. 32, fhee 
 P. 15: 1. 10, here; 1. 11, fmile; 1. 13, 
 
 neither; 1. 25, hurt 
 
 Second Edition. 
 friend; renowne; heereafter 
 
 flowers, (hall; finde; fent; comprife 
 
 fweetes; hony; eccho; flowers; phificke; 
 ficknes, minde; finde; flie; heatt; flie; 
 minde 
 
 hony; trophees 
 
 vniuerfity; maift; flowers; plenty; attire, 
 her, watery; dainty; glory 
 
 vniuerfity; nurfery; happy; fuckt, hony; 
 yeeld, word; fupply; ner'e, die; world, 
 it 
 
 waight; aboundance; dangerous; patient; 
 
 dares 
 giftes; exceede; help; mercy; foone, 
 
 downe; quickely; dtvel 
 
 decaie; afterwards 
 
 hahitation 
 
 lampes; "vae; folly; v/herewith; funne 
 
 lawe; to; the; cloths; excels; brightnes 
 
 yron wals; alwaies 
 
 wordly; flicvre; truely; loaden; fenc'd 
 
 difpaire, kils; walles; imploi'd 
 
 imbrace; makes; clarkes; vnfpoted; 
 
 fiidotne 
 cncly. 
 knowledg 
 holdes; truly; finde aflraunger to be itifl; 
 
 ayde; vppvii; fne 
 
 hcarc; fiiiiks; nithcr; hurts 
 
VUl 
 
 First Edition. 
 P. l6: 1. 15, nource 
 P. 17: 1. %,yeeld\ 1. 11, mind; 1. l6^jjnke; 
 
 1. 28, difgrac'd 
 P. 18: 1. 18, rich 
 P. 19: 1. 18, ech; 1. 24, gay; 1. 26, re- 
 
 nowm'd 
 P. 20: 1. 15, fauor ; 1. 27, renowmd 
 P. 21; 1. 9, will 
 
 P. 22: 1. I, ouer-poifde; 1. 4, violate 
 P. 23: 1. 21, thereupon 
 P. 24: 1. 15, but feare to fall; 1. 16, but 
 
 feare the worft 
 P. 25: 1. 10, wee; 1. 18, alwaie 
 P. 26; 1. 9, falls ; 1. 14, their ; 1. 26, fubieifl 
 P. 27: 1. 8, gifts; 1. 14, calleth, nource; 
 
 1. 17, faith 
 P. 28: 1. 8, trueft; 1. 12, hath deadly; 
 
 1. 16, ice 
 P. 29: 1. 10, fowne, feldome; 1. 15, daunger 
 P. 30: 1. 16, fire 
 P. 31: \. iZ, yet is the; 1. 22, nourifh; I. 26, 
 
 diuided 
 P. 32, 1. 14, louers; 1. 16, traly; 1. 17, 
 
 brefts; 1. 20, faultes; 1, 23, woon 
 P. 33: 1. 2, only; 1. 5, ech; 1. 14, iuie; 
 
 1. 27, Perdiccas 
 P. 34: 1. I, ftoicke; 1. 9, eies 
 P. 35: 1.2,lhew; l,ll,ftf«»/i?//,/n«a/; 1. 14, 
 
 mercie, whome; 1. 25, nouritheth 
 P. 36: 1. 1, happie; 1. 24, nor; 1. 26, 
 
 Demetrius 
 P- 37: 1- 3. procur'de; 1. 7, chajl; 1. 16, 
 
 incen/e 
 P. 38: 1. 4, gift; 1. 14, clothing; 1. 22, 
 
 cha/litie; 1. 32, their 
 P. 39: 1. 13, controUes; 1. 14, woman; 1, 18, 
 
 fente 
 P. 41: 1. I, drugs; 1. 2,fweetly; 1. 12, 
 
 alwaies is; 1. 15, encreafe; 1. 26, been 
 P. 42: 1. 2%, perfwade 
 P. 43: 1. 12, we; 1. 17, immortalizd 
 P. 44: 1. 22, fierd 
 P. 45: 1. II, compard; 1. 17, well 
 P. 46; 1. I, raife ; 1. 2, wills; 1. 17, jealous 
 P. 48: 1. 3, of wit and wifdom 
 P. 49: 1. 7, pawfe ; 1. 10, wayes 
 P. 50: 1. 23, opportunities 
 P. 51: 1. 5; wandering 
 P. 52: 1. 3, employ'd, fliines; 1. 12, wifdom; 
 
 1. 20, gift ; 1. 21, tearmes 
 P. S3: 1. 5, art; 1. 13, know 
 P. 54: 1. 6, draw; 1. 8, leameth ; 1. 18, 
 
 fitted in well ; 1. 21, publicke 
 P- 55= 1- 3j knowledge; 1. 25, trial 
 P. 56: 1. 2, helpes ; 1. 3, renowme ; 1. 8, 
 
 honey; 1. 11, mindes ; 1. 15, Alexander 
 P. 57: 1. 2, Gods ; I. 10, iujiiccc 
 
 Second Edition, 
 nurce 
 yeelds; minde; fmcke; difgra'cd 
 
 riche 
 
 each ; gaye ; renow'md 
 
 fauour; renowm'd 
 
 wil 
 
 ouer-poizde ; violated 
 
 therevpon 
 
 but feare the worft ; but feare to fall 
 
 we ; alwaies 
 
 falles ; thier ; iubieil 
 
 giftes ; called, nurce ; faid 
 
 tueft ; hath a dead ; yce 
 
 fower, fildome ; danger 
 
 fier 
 
 yet the; nourrifli; deuided 
 
 hues; truely; breafts; faults; wonne 
 
 onely; each; yuie; Perdicas 
 
 ftoike; eyes 
 
 ihewe; councell, priuate; mercy, whom; 
 
 nouniflieth 
 happy; not; DDemetrius 
 
 procur'd; chajle; incence 
 
 guift; cloathing; chajlititie; theer 
 
 controles; wanton; fent 
 
 drugges; fwiftly; is alwaies; increafe; 
 
 beetle 
 per/uade 
 
 v/ee ; immortalliz'd 
 fir'd 
 
 compar'd ; wel 
 raies ; ivils ; iealious 
 wit and wifdome 
 paufe ; waies 
 oportunities 
 wandring 
 imploy'd, ihine ; wifdome ; guift ; termes 
 
 arte ; knowe 
 
 drawe ; learned ; filled well in ; publique 
 
 knoweledge ; tryall 
 
 helps; renowne; hony; minds; A Alex- 
 ander 
 God ; iujlice 
 
First Edition. 
 :£• 5°: 1. 10, inward 
 
 P. 01: 1. 4, mj^s'fe; 1. 22, fcueraigntie 
 ^. 62: 1, 7, princes 
 
 Pr \ "> °' kingclomes, &c. ; 1. II, 
 
 aejired 
 
 ?■ ^1" }■ 5' ^'^-:''''^; I- 12, fiorifh 
 
 l*. 66: 1. 6, gladly; 1. 7, vnworthie; 1. 12, 
 
 «r/raj^; 1. 1 9^ ftoupes; 1. 20, defpaire 
 i:'. 07: !■ 8, ran/acks ; 1. 14, fhines ; 1. 25, 
 
 only 
 P. 68: 1 8, funs; I 10, pleafant; I. 15, 
 
 Camillus ; 1. 18, phxyficion 
 P. 69: 1. I, diflionor; 1. 5, honor; 1. 7, 
 
 only; 1. 17, cheapnetli 
 P. 70: 1. 32, foueraigulie 
 P. 71: 1. 12, (/i/Jfl/^; 1. 13, glorie 
 P._72: 1. I, crj-es; I. 5, dreame; 1. 13, 
 
 inconftancie 
 P. 73: 1. 4, mitigate; 1. 5, counfell; 1. 6, 
 
 p; 11. 9, 13, counfell; 1. 15, ■whol- 
 
 fome; 11. 17, 18, counfels ; 1. 19, cmin- 
 
 fe!l; 1. 20, aduii'd 
 P. 74: 1. I, coztn/ell; I. 15, counceli ; 1. 16, 
 
 counfels; 1. 17, vtito a careleffe man; 
 
 1. 19, counfell ; 1. 26, counceli 
 P. 75: 1. II, treachers 
 P. 77: I. 8, higly 
 P. 78: 1. 26, were 
 P. 79: 1. 5, pollicie 
 
 P. 80: 1. 24, crafts-men; 1. 26, fubtiltie 
 P. 81: 1. 10, commend, gouernment 
 P. 82: 1. <i,Jlorms; 1. ?>,fourges 
 P. 83: 1. 4, dwelles ; 1. 9, which flie; I. 13, 
 
 glorie 
 P. 84; 1. 6, broyles; 1. 12, naught; 1. 20, 
 
 fomtimes 
 P. 85: 1. 6, the Jkame Jhall ; 1. 13, Ihorcm; 
 
 1. 19, war, forrov/s 
 P. 86: 1. I, braue ; 1, 6, feldome ; 1. 14, 
 
 wonne; 1. 16, e-iureafe; 1. 26, countrie 
 P. 87: 1. 19, hai-meleife; 1. 22, fickneffe; 
 
 I. 28, hee 
 P. 88: 1. 6, harme to none; 1. 9, worthy; 
 
 \. II, ftoops, mean 
 P. 89: 1. 6, profiteth; 1. 8, toucht; 1. 10, 
 
 fpeedie; 1. 11, darkneffe; 1. rg, con/umes 
 P. 90: 1. 2, intents 
 P. 93: 1. 13, ro 
 
 P- 9S' 1- S> dwells; 1. 33, alwayes 
 P. 97: 1. 10, good; 1. 23, /o 
 P. 98: 1. I, mauy; 1. 15, tride 
 P. 99: 1. 10, otily; 1. 19, doe 
 P. 100: 1. 4, mild; 1. 10, bloodie minds doe 
 
 fcuffle; 1. 20, kindle ftill the; 1. 22, im- 
 
 paires; 1. 23, made; 1. 29, approou'd; 
 
 1. 31, difcreete, brooke 
 
 IX 
 
 Second Edition, 
 inmard 
 ey 
 
 wip'd; foueraingtie 
 prrinces 
 of kingdomes ; dofir'd 
 
 obay'd; fiourifli 
 
 gladdly ; vnwodthie ; or apraife ; ftoopes ; 
 
 dii'paire 
 ranfackes ; fliine ; onely 
 
 fnns ; plefant ; Camillitis ; phifition 
 
 diihonour ; honour ; onely ; cheapeneth 
 
 foueraignetie 
 
 defeafe; glory 
 
 cries ; drearme ; incoftancie 
 
 mittigate; counceli; _;2fe; counceli; -whole- 
 Jome ; coimcels ; counceli ; aduiz'd 
 
 counceli ; counfell ; councels ; vnto carelej/e 
 men ; counceli ; counfell 
 
 trechers 
 highly 
 where 
 policie 
 
 craflls-men ; fubtilitie 
 commemd, gouuernment 
 Jlormes ; /urges 
 dwells ; that fly ; glory 
 
 broiles ; nought ; fometimes 
 
 the Jhall ; through ; warre, forrowes 
 
 braues ; Cldome ; won ; increafe ; country 
 
 hannleffe ; fickeneffe; he 
 
 harme none; worthie; ftoopes, meane 
 
 profitteth; iouch'd; fpeedy; darkenefle; 
 
 coufumes 
 intents 
 to 
 
 dwels; alwaies 
 goocd; fo 
 many; try'd 
 onely; doth 
 milde; bloody mindes fcuffle; kindle the; 
 
 impairs; make; approu'd; difcreet, 
 
 brookes 
 
First Edition, 
 P. 103: 1. 14, fente; 1. 15, workes; 1. 21, 
 
 made for one 
 P. 104: 1. 6, fhadow 
 P. 105: 1. S, counfels; 1. 10, long; 1. 30, 
 
 one to enuie 
 P. 106: 1. 3, mercie; 1. 17, tky wife 
 
 P. 107: [omitted between 11. 19 and 20] j 
 
 P. 114: 1. 7, hfoms 
 
 P. 116; 1. 19, been 
 
 P. 119: 1. 1, flies; 1, 18, fire 
 
 P. 121: 1. 15, liieede 
 
 P. 122: 1. 31, greedie 
 
 P. 123: 1. 5, examples likewife on the fame; 
 
 1. II, fonne 
 P. 124: 1. I, of pride, &c. 
 P. 125: 1. 22, his; 1. 24, rich 
 P. 126: 1. 10, Cyrus 
 P. 127; 1. 14, other both 
 P. 128: 1. 24, fiie 
 P. 129: 1. 28, dyed; 1. 29, feeing 
 P. 130: 1. 17, kingdoms 
 P. 131: 1. 2, ingendreth; 1. 6, toies 
 P. 135: 1. I, Dionyfius; 1. II, gluttonie 
 P. 136: 1. 5, Gates; 1. 10, fecrecie 
 P. 139: 1. 4, with; 1. 12, fow; 1. 18, neer; 
 
 1. 33, forow 
 P. 140: 1. 15, ebbbes; 1. 18, beare; 1. 34, 
 
 choofe 
 P. 141: 1. 2, fore-father; 1. 26, forow; 
 
 1. 30, forrow 
 P. 142: 1. 15, chat; 1. 31, facietie 
 P. 143: 1. 8, alwayes; 1. IJ, helpe 
 P. 144: 1. 2, Coriolanus; 1. 13, penfiues 
 P. 145: 1. 10, perile; 1. 20, frowning 
 P. 146; I. 17, rightly 
 P. 148: 1. I, wrong; 1. 11, opportunities 
 P. 149: 1. 6, ftraunge 
 P. 150: 1. 16, mijhaps 
 P. 151: 1. z,ill 
 
 P. 152: 1. 9, little; 1. 20, ruines 
 P. 155: 1. 10, mend 
 P. 156: 1. 13, dyde 
 P. 157: 1. I, mind 
 P. 159: 1. 15, minds 
 P. 162: 1. 2, affedlions; 1. 25, displayed; 
 
 1. 28, dwells 
 P. 167: 1. 8, Antoninus; 1. 9, priuat 
 P. 170: 1. 16, entreats 
 P. 171: 1. 15, magique; 1. 16, fnake; 1. 26, 
 
 aboundance; 1. ■i,2,Jliew 
 P. 1 72 : 1. I, vainly; 1. 6, vnjkilfulnes; 1. 24, 
 
 doe; 1. 34, wholfovi'Ji 
 P. 173: 1. 7, whome; 1. lo, feldome; 1. 12, 
 
 fomwhat; 1. 14, fay; 1. 17, recalde 
 P. 174: 1. 3, than; 1. 4, refrain'd; 1. 6, 
 
 Cherillus; 1. l<), flatterie 
 
 Second Edition. 
 fent; works; made one for 
 
 ihadowe 
 
 councels; longe; to enuie one 
 
 mercies; the wife 
 
 Elizabeth late Englands famous Queene 
 
 Amongft all women hath a mirrour beene 
 
 bofomes 
 
 beene 
 
 flyes; fier 
 
 greadie 
 
 fimilies on the fame fubiefl; foone 
 
 of pride 
 
 Mr; riche 
 
 vyrus 
 
 both other 
 
 flye 
 
 died; feing 
 
 kingdomes 
 
 engendreth; ioies 
 
 Dyonifius; gluttony 
 
 cares; fecretie 
 
 whith; fowe; ne'er; forrow 
 
 ebbes; heare; chofe 
 
 fore-fathers; forrow; forow 
 
 that; focietie 
 
 alwaies; help 
 
 Corialanus; penfmenes 
 
 perill; fi-ouning 
 
 rightcly 
 
 wrongs; oportunities 
 
 ftrange 
 
 mifhas 
 
 il 
 
 title; mine 
 
 men 
 
 dide 
 
 minde 
 
 mind 
 
 affeilion; defplayed; dwels 
 
 Antonius; priuate 
 
 intreats 
 
 magicque; fnail; abundance; _fliewe 
 
 vainely; vnfkilfulneffe; doth; wholefom'Jl 
 
 whom; fildome; fomewhat; fpeake; 
 
 recald 
 then; refraind; Cherillius; flaierie 
 
First Edition. 
 
 P. I7S: 1. IS, chufe few friends; 1. l8, 
 
 figure; 1. 21, hypocrites; 1.22, alwayes 
 
 P. 177: 1. 6, offence; 1. 10, ^i^j 
 
 P. 178: 1. 3, only; 1. 8, authors; 1. 9, wil; 
 
 1. 10, cruelt'ft 
 P. 179: 1. 16, highejl, quickely; 1. 19, wee; 
 
 1. 23, well-done; 1. 26, doe; 1. 27, fiiew 
 P. l8o: 1. I, foone; 1. 3, bewrayes; 1. 14, 
 
 Philip; 1. i8, ftatej 1. 21, aud 
 P. 181: 1. 21, il 
 
 P. 182: 1. 5, euils; 1. lo, helplefle 
 P. 183: 1. 10, fmoother; 1. 23, ihoufands 
 P. 184: 1. 8, witch-craft; 1. 12, little 
 P. 185: 1. I J, feldomej 1. 15, eare; 1. 20, 
 
 alwayes 
 P. 186: 1. 3, agreee; I. 26, bewrayes 
 P. 188: 1. 13, perfwade 
 P. 189: 1. 7, drawn'd; 1. 18, quallifie; 1. 25, 
 
 fmall; 1. 31, wich 
 P. 190: 1. 20, ihowres 
 P. 191: 1. 2, theit 
 P. 192: 1. I, cedars 
 P. 133: 1. I, and 
 P. 195: 1. 12, weakneffe; 1. 31, quickely; 
 
 1. 32, height 
 P. 196: 1. 18, guarrell; 1. 21, faults are 
 
 quickely fpyde 
 P. 197: 1. 6, example 
 P. 198: 1. 31, alwayes 
 P. 199: 1. 4, deeds; I. 9, Ask; 1. 21, fight; 
 
 1. 23, die 
 P. 200: 1. 9, dyde 
 P. 201: 1. 6, killes; 1. 12, &.?» 
 P. 202: 1. 4, weak; 1. 19, fickneffe 
 P. 203: 1, I, ioumies; 1. 6, hafte 
 P. 205 : 1. 9, it euer 
 P. 2og: 1. 17, fcomd 
 P. 210: 1. II, Pyrrhm 
 P. 211: 1. 8, precious is tbe tree ; 1. 10, ap- 
 
 proou'd; 1. il, renowme; 1. 15, grain 
 v. 212: 1.9, thankfulneffe; 1. II, pooofe; 
 
 1. 19, honey; 1. 22, couetoufnes 
 P. 213: 1. 20, wantonnes 
 P. 214: 1. 19, counfell; 1. 25, anfwere; 1. 26, 
 
 Jlrait; 1. 29, quickely 
 P. 215: 1. 17, femblaunce; 1. 18, fummer; 
 
 1. 23, praifed; 1. 32, pained 
 P. 216: 1. 2, counfell; 1. 7, reckning; 1. 16, 
 
 is; 1. 17, forrowes 
 P. 217: 1. 29, ejleeme 
 P. 218: 1. 31, Philip 
 P. 219: 1. \^,Jlomacke 
 P. 222: 1. 8, Tyber; 1. 16, exchaunge 
 P. 223: 1. 15, wrinkled; 1. 25, 
 P. 224: 1. 14, fickneffe 
 P. 225: 1. 7, phyficke 
 
 XI 
 
 Second Edition, 
 chufe friends; figures; hipocrites; aliaaies 
 
 offence; guifts 
 
 onely; authours; will; cruel'ft 
 
 higher, quickly; we; wel-done; doth; 
 
 fliewe 
 fooneft; bewraies; Phillip; ftates; and 
 
 ill 
 
 euill; helpeleffe 
 fmother; thoufand 
 witch-crafts; litle 
 fildome; eares; alwaies 
 
 agree; bewraies 
 
 perfuade 
 
 droun'd; qualifie; fmal; with 
 
 Ihoures 
 
 their 
 
 cedar 
 
 nnd 
 
 weakeneffe; quickly; hight 
 
 quartl; failus are quickly fpide 
 
 examples 
 
 alwaies 
 
 deedes; he; fight; dye 
 
 dide 
 
 kills; beene 
 
 weake; fickeneffe 
 
 ioumeies; hate 
 
 is euer 
 
 fcorn'd 
 
 Pyrrus 
 
 precious the tree; approu'd; renowne; 
 
 graine 
 thankefulneffe; proofs; hony; coueteoufnes 
 
 wanttonnes 
 
 councell; sxihiex; firaight; quickly 
 
 femblance; fommer; priafed; painted 
 
 councell; reckoning; as; forrow 
 
 ejieme 
 Phillip 
 Jlomcike 
 
 Tiber; exchange 
 wrinckled; vnequal 
 fickeneffe 
 phificke 
 
xu 
 
 First Edition, 
 P, 226: 1. 4, wandering; \.6,<layes; l.'j,fzvo; 
 
 I. II, dayes; 1. 12, than; 1. ii^,fweet 
 P. 227: 1. 6, purchafe, dearely; 1. 7, than; 
 
 1. !•] ,oppO}-tunitie; 1. 19, feldome; 1. 21, 
 
 twahu; 1. 31, fowi-e; 1. 32, no; 1. 34, 
 
 defpoyle 
 P. 228: 1. I, lifeneueris; 1. 16, wayes, but 
 P. 229: 1. I, forward 
 P. 230: 1. 2, if the keye, vnlocks; 1. 6, die; 
 
 1. 8, his; 1. 12, tragicque 
 P. 231: 1.9,than; l.l6,(i»«/?; Lz"] , Jtealeth; 
 
 1. 26, mourning; 1. 33, there's 
 P. 232: 1. 10, thing; 1. 12, Jickneffe; 1. 13, 
 
 wayss; 1. 23, euery, 1. 25, renowme 
 P. 233: I. 7, darkneiTe; 1. 8, forward'ft; 
 
 1. 12, fickneffe; 1. 14, young; 1. 20, euery 
 P. 234: 1. II, fliall; 1. 12, booke; 1. 14, hee; 
 
 1. 15, plainely 
 P. 235: 1. 1, looke; 1. 8, this firft impreffion; 
 
 1. II, knowne; 1. 17, therin; 1. 19, 
 
 determinately; 1. 21, hee 
 P. 236: 1. S, intended 
 
 Table of 
 P. 1: I. I, alphabetical!; 1. II, counfell 
 P. 2: 1. I, amitie; 1. 5, arrogancie; 1. 10, 
 
 authoritie; 1. 12, beautie; 1. 13, beleefe; 
 
 1. 15, blafphemie 
 P. 3: 1. 3, charitie; 1. 4, chaftitie; 1. 10, 
 
 ciuilitie; 11. 1 1, 14, pittie; 1. 20, counfeU; 
 
 1. 21, confpiracie; 1. 22, conftancie 
 P. 4: 1. 4, counfell; 1. l6, darkneffe 
 P. j: 1. 8, deeeds; drunkenneffe 
 P. 6: 1. 4, fraud; 1. 22, iealoufie; 1. 24, 
 
 idolatry 
 P. 7: 1. 13, gluttonie; 1. 21, pittie 
 P. 8: 1. 8, lecherie; 1. 9, kindnes; I. Ii, 
 
 libertie; 1. 15, lowlineffe; 1. 21, mag- 
 
 iftrates; 1. 24, malice 
 P. 9: 1. S, melanchoUy; 1. 9, mind; 1. 14, 
 
 modeftie; 1. 18, poetrie; 1. 22, neceflitie 
 P. 10: 1. 2,;mggardife; 1. 4, nobilitie; 1. 13, 
 
 authoritie; 1. 16, opportunitie; 1. 23, 
 
 flatterie 
 P. II: 1. 7, periurie; 1. 9, pittie; 1. 14, 
 
 poetrie 
 P. 12: 1. 6, pitiej 1. 14, vain-glory; 1. 16, 
 
 idleneffe 
 P. 13: 1. 23, waiTe 
 P. 14: 1. 7, temptation; 1.8, terrour; 1, 17, 
 
 trueth 
 P. 15: 1. II, vnkindneffe 
 
 Second Edition, 
 wandring; daies; too; daies; then; fmeete 
 
 porchafe, dearly; then; oportunitie; fildome; 
 two; fower; not; de/poile 
 
 life is neuer; waies, and 
 
 foreward 
 
 is keye, vnlockes; dye; is; iragicke 
 
 then; doji; Jleatleth; morning; thre's 
 
 things; y?f/J«!e^f; waies; euerie; renowne 
 
 darkeneffe; foreward'fl;; fickeneffe; yong; 
 
 euerie 
 thai; book; he; plainly 
 
 look; this impreffion; known; therein; 
 determinatly; he 
 
 intentended 
 
 Contents : 
 alphebeticall; councell 
 amity; arrogancy; authority; beauty; be- 
 leeefe; blafphemy 
 
 charity; chaftity; ciuility; pitty; councell; 
 conf piracy; conftancy 
 
 counfell; darkeneffe 
 
 deeds; drunkennes 
 
 fraude; ieailoufie; idolatrie 
 
 gluttony; pitty 
 
 lechery; kindenes; liberty; lowlines; 
 maieftrates; mallice 
 
 melancholy; minde; modefty; poetry; 
 neceffity 
 
 nigggardife; nobility; authority; oppor- 
 tunity; flattery 
 
 periury, pitty; poetry 
 
 pitty; vaine-glory; idlenes 
 
 wdrre 
 
 temptatation; tenor; truth 
 
 vnkindeneffe 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 To the Reader 
 
 To his louing and approoued good Friend, M. John 
 
 Bodenham 
 Of tliis Garden of the Mufes 
 A Sonnet to the Mufes Garden 
 Of the Booke 
 
 To the Vniueriitie of Cambridge 
 To the Vniueriitie of Oxenford 
 Of God page i 
 
 Simihes on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples Hkewife on the fame. 
 Of Heauen 5 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedt. 
 Of Confcience 8 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples like wife on the fame. 
 Of Religion 11 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Truth - 13 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie(5l. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 OfVertue 16 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Faith andZeale 21 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Hope 24 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
XIV 
 
 OfLoue , page 28 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie6l. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 O f Hate 34 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Chaftitie 37 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Beautie 40 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie(5l. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of lealoufie 45 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie(5t. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Wit and Wifdom 48 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie(5t. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Learning, &c 53 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieft. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Kings and Princes 57 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Kingdomes, &c 63 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie<5l. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Nobilitie 66 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Honor & dishonor 69 
 
 Similies on the fame fiibie<S. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Councell, &c 73 
 
 SimiUes on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of luftice, &€.; 76 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
XV 
 
 Of Pollicie page 79 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Peace & Concord 81 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiefl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 OfWarre 84 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie6t. 
 
 Examples hkewife on the fame. 
 Of Fame and Infamie 88 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Praife, &c 91 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Friendfhip, &c 94 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Patience 99 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Man, and Men 101 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Women 1 04 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Ambition 108 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife. on the fame. 
 Of Tyrants, &c in 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Treafon, &c 114 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 OfEnuie 117 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
XVI 
 
 Of Luil page 120 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedt. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Pride, &c 124 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiecSt. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Couetoufnes, &c 127 
 
 Sim.iUes on the fame fubieet. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Sloth, &c 130 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Anger, &c 132 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedt. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Gluttonie, &c 135 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 OfGriefe, &c i,=" 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedt. 
 
 Examples hkewife on the fame. 
 Of Feare, &c 14-1 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedt. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Fortune, &c 149 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedt. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Fate, &c 154 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of the Mind 157 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedt. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Aifedion, &c 161 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedt. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Difdaine, &c ^165 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedt. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
XVll 
 
 Of Slaunder, &c page 167 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieft. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of the Tongue, &c 170 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiecfl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Flatterie, &c T74 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieft. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of good Deeds, &c 177 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of euill Deeds, &c 181 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedt. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Thoughts 185 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 OfTeares, &c 188 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Humilitie, &c 191 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Authoritie, &c 194 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiecTl. 
 Of Courage, &c 197 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Pleafure, &c 201 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Paine 204 
 
 Similies on the fame fubied. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Pouertie, &c 207 
 
 Silnilies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples lilcewife on the fame, 
 c 
 
xvm 
 
 Of Bountie, &c.- page 2 1 1 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieft. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 OfFollie 213 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiefl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Time 216 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie6l. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 OfYouth 219 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Age 222 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 Of Life 226 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiedt. 
 OfDeath 230 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiecTl. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 The Conclufion 234 
 
 An Alphabeticall Table, of the feuerall things han- 
 dled in this Booke 
 
Bel-vedkre 
 
 THE GARDEN OF 
 
 THE MVSES. 
 
 Qttem referent Mufa vmet dum robora tellus, 
 Dum calum Jlellas, dum veket amnis aquas. 
 
 Imprinted at London by F. K. for Hugh AJl!e}i, dwelling at 
 Saint Magnus corner. 1 600. 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 T fhall be needleffe (gentle 
 Reader) to make any Apolo- 
 gie for the defence of this la- 
 bour, becaufe the fame being 
 colle6led from fo many fm- 
 gular mens workes; and the 
 worth of them all hauing been fo efpecially 
 approoued, and paft with no meane applaufe 
 the cenfure of all in generall ; doth both dif- 
 burden me of that paines, and fets the better 
 approbation on this excellent booke. It (hall 
 be fufficient for me then to tell thee, that here 
 thou art brought into the Mufes Garden, (a 
 place that may befeeme the prefence of the 
 greatefl Prince in the world.) Imagine then 
 thy height of happineffe, in being admitted 
 to fo celefhiall a Paradife. Let thy behauiour 
 
 A 3 then 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 then (while thou art here) anfwere thy great 
 fortune, and make vfe of thy time as fo rich a 
 treafure requireth. 
 
 The walkes, alleys, and paffages in this Gar- 
 den, are almoft infinite ; euery where a tur- 
 ning, on all fides fuch windings in and out : 
 yet all extending both to pleafure and profit, 
 as very rare or feldome fhalt thou fee the like. 
 Marke then, what varietie of flowres grow all 
 along as thou goeft, and trample on none 
 rudely, for all are right precious. If thy confci- 
 ence be wounded, here are ftore of hearbs to 
 heale it : If thy doubts be fearefull, here are 
 flowres of comfort. Are thy hopes fruftrated ? 
 here's immediate helpes for them. In briefe, 
 what infirmitie canft thou haue, but here it 
 may bee cured ? What delight or pleafure 
 wouldft thou haue, but here it is affoorded ? 
 
 Concerning the nature and qualitie of 
 thefe excellent flowres, thou feeft that they 
 are moft learned, graue, and wittie fentences ; 
 each line being a feuerall fentence, and none 
 exceeding two lines at the vttermoft. All 
 which, being fubiedled vnder apt and proper 
 
 heads, 
 
To tlie Reader. 
 
 heads, as arguments what is then dilated and 
 fpoken of: euen fo each head hath firft his de- 
 finition in a couplet fentence ; then the fingle 
 and double fentences by variation of letter do 
 follow : and laftly, Similies and Examples in 
 the fame nature likewife, to conclude euery 
 Head or Argument handled. So let this ferue 
 to fliew thee the whole intent of this worke. 
 
 Now that euery one may be fully fatisfied 
 concerning this Garden, that no one man 
 doth affume to him-felfe the praife thereof, or 
 can arrogate to his owne deferuing thofe 
 things which haue been deriued from fo ma- 
 ny rare and ingenious fpirits ; I haue fet down 
 both how, whence, and where thefe flowres 
 had their firft fpringing, till thus they were 
 drawne togither into the Mufes Garden, that 
 euery ground may challenge his owne, each 
 plant his particular, and no one be iniuried in 
 the iuftice of his merit. 
 
 Firft, out of many excllent fpeeches fpo- 
 ken to her Maieftie, at Tiltings, Triumphes, 
 Maskes, Shewes, and deuifes perfourmed in 
 prograce : as alfo out of diuers choife Ditties 
 A 4 fung 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 fung to her ; and fome efpecially, proceeding 
 from her owne moft facred felfe : Here are 
 great ftore of them digefted into their meete 
 places, according as the method of the worke 
 plainly deliuereth. Likewife out of priuat Po- 
 ems, Sonnets, Ditties, and other wittie con- 
 ceits, giuen to her Honorable Ladies, and ver- 
 tuous Maids of Honour ; according as they 
 could be obtained by fight, or fauour of cop- 
 pying, a number of moft wittie and fmgular 
 Sentences. 
 
 Secondly, looke what workes of Poetrie 
 haue been put to the worlds eye, by that lear- 
 ned and right royall king and Poet, Iames 
 king of Scotland, no one Sentence of worth 
 hath efcaped, but are likewife here reduced 
 into their right roome and place. 
 
 Next, out of fundry things extant, and ma- 
 ny in priuat, done by thefe right Honourable 
 perfons following : 
 
 Thomas, Earle of Surrey. 
 
 The Lord Marquejfe of Winchefier. 
 
 Mary, Counteffe of Pembrooke. 
 
 Sir 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 Sir Philip Sidney. 
 From Poems and workes of thefe noble per- 
 fonages, extant. 
 
 Edward, Earle of Oxenford. 
 Ferdinando, Earle of Derby. 
 Sir Walter Raleicrh. 
 
 o 
 
 Sir Edward Dyer. 
 
 Fulke Greuile, Efquier. 
 
 Sir fohn Harrington. 
 From diuers effayes of their Poetrie ; fome 
 extant among other Honourable per- 
 fonages writings ; fome from priuate la- 
 bours and tranflations. 
 
 Edmund Spejicer. 
 
 Henry Confiable Efquier. 
 
 Samuell Daniell. 
 
 Thomas Lodge, Doctor of Phyficke. 
 
 Thomas Watfon. 
 
 Michaell Drayton. 
 
 John Dauies. 
 
 Thomus Hudfon. 
 
 Henrie Locke Efquier. 
 
 fohn 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 yokn Marjlone. 
 
 Chrijlopher Marlow. 
 
 Beniamin yohnfon. 
 
 William Shakfpeare. 
 
 Thomas Churchyard Efquier. 
 
 Thoma,s Najh. 
 
 Thom,as Kidde. 
 
 George Peele. 
 
 Robert Greene. 
 
 Jofuah Syluejler. 
 
 Nicholas Breton. 
 
 Geruafe Markham. 
 
 Thomas Storer. 
 
 Robert Wilmot. 
 
 Chrijlopher Middleton. 
 
 Richard Barnefield. 
 Thefe being Moderne and extant Poets, that 
 haue liu'd togither ; from many of their 
 extant workes, and fome kept in priuat. 
 
 Thomas Norton Efquier. 
 George Gafcoigne Efquier. 
 Frauncis Kindlemarfh Efquier. 
 Thomas Atchlow. 
 
 George 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 George WJietJlones. 
 
 Thefe being deceafed, haue left diuers extant 
 
 labours, and many more held back from 
 
 publifhing, which for the mofl part haue 
 
 ■ been perufed, and their due right here 
 
 giuen them in the Mufes Garden. 
 
 Befides, what excellent Sentences haue been 
 in any prefented Tragedie, Hiftorie, Pa- 
 ftorall, or Comedie, they haue been like- 
 wife gathered, and are here inferted in 
 their proper places. 
 
To his louing and approoued good 
 Friend, M. lohn Bodenham. 
 
 "^ \^0 thee thaiart Arts louer, Learnings friend, 
 -*- Firjl caufer and colle£lour of thefefloures : 
 Thypaifies iufl merit, I in right commend, 
 Cofling wholeyears, months,weeks,& daily hours. 
 
 Like to the Bee, thou euery where didft rome, 
 Spending thyfpirits in laborious care: 
 A nd nightly broughffi thy gather dhony home, 
 Asa true worke-man info great affaire. 
 
 Firfl, of thine owne deferuing, take the fame; 
 Next, of thy friends, his due hegiues to thee : 
 
 That loue of learning may renowme thy name, 
 A nd leaue it richly topofierity. 
 Where others {who might better) yet for/low it. 
 May fee their fhame, and times hereafter know it. 
 
 A.M. 
 
Of this Garden of the Mufes. 
 
 '' I ^Hou which deligMJlto view this goodly plot, 
 -^ Here take fuchflowres asbejijhalferue thy vfe. 
 Where thou maijlfindin euery curious knot, 
 Offpeciallvertue, and mq/i precious iuyce, 
 Set by Apollo in their feuerall places, 
 A nd nourijhed with his celejiiall Beames, 
 And watered by the Mufes and the Graces, 
 With thefrejh dew ofthofe Cq/lalianjlreames. 
 Whatfente or colour canji thou but deuife 
 That is not here, that may delight thefenfe ? 
 Or what can A rt or Indujiry comprize, 
 That in aboundance is n^t gather d hence? 
 No Garden yet was euer halfefofweet. 
 As where Apollo and the Mufes m.eet. 
 
 A. B. 
 
A Sonnet to the Mufes Garden. 
 
 "P Aire planted Eden ofcolle^ed/weets, 
 
 -■- Crop t from the bofome of the fertile ground, 
 
 Where Science with her honey-current greets 
 
 ThefacredSiflers: where her libera II found 
 
 Makes Angels ecchoes, and to heauens rebound 
 
 The repetition offententiousfpirits; 
 
 (Oh deare beloudin vertues painfull merits.) 
 
 Fruit-furniffit Tempe, all the worlds abflraB, 
 Forflowres ofvertue, hearbs of rare effe^, 
 From whence, as wellfoules Phyficke is extract, 
 As bodies gouernment; holdin refpeSl 
 What Science giues {though Ignorance reie5i) 
 For euery maime andfickneffe of the mind, 
 A wounded life a precious balme may find. 
 
 Shee fends you not tofearch the hidden mynes 
 For gorgeous iewels, nor toforraine lands. 
 But in one casket all her wealth combines. 
 And giues it freely with heart-open hands. 
 Shee limits not her bountie within bands: 
 Lookefirft, then likejuruey, take one or all; 
 Choofe with the mind, the eye is fancies ball. 
 
 W. Rankins, Gent. 
 
Of the Booke 
 
 ' I ""Hefundry beames proceeding from one Sunne, 
 -^ The hiue where many Bees their honey bring , 
 The Sea, to which a thou/and riuers runne. 
 The garden wherefuruiues continuallfpring. 
 The Trophee hung with diuers painfull hands, 
 Abflra£l of knowledge. Brief e of Eloquence, 
 Aiding the tveake, preferuing him thatflands: 
 Guide to thefoule, and ruler of the fenfe. 
 Such is this Volume, and the fraight hereof , 
 How-euer ignorance prefume tofcoffe. 
 
 R. Hath way. 
 
To the Vniuerfitie of 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Mother f Mufes, and great Nurfe of A rt, {grown, 
 Which leiifjlthe rootefroni whence thefe/weets are 
 Now with increa/e, receiue a bounteous part, 
 Which thou mayjl iujily chalenge as thine owne: 
 That Grant may to thecoinfortofherjireames 
 Behold her {Seedes of late) now Didcetflowres, 
 And with theplentie of the famous Thames, 
 A ttyre hirNimphs, and decke her wafry bowres 
 And cherifJting thefeChoyces of delights, 
 WithdaintieGarlands,Crownethepeacefullfhore, 
 Prepardfor Feafting, and Triumphant fights, 
 More Beautiftill then ages heretofore: 
 
 WhiPfl all the Floods fa famous but of late. 
 Shall giue their glorie to adorne herflaie. 
 
 Sua cuique gloria. 
 
To the Vniuerfitie of 
 Oxenford. 
 
 Thou eye of Honour, Nurferie of Fame, 
 Still teeming- Mother of immor tall feed: 
 Receiue thefe bleffed Orphanes of thy breed, 
 As from thy happie iffuefirfl they came. 
 
 Thofe flowing wits that bathed in thyfoord, 
 Andfuck't the honie dew from thy pure pap: 
 Returne their tribute backe into thy lap, 
 In rich-wrought lines, thatyeelde no idle woord. 
 
 O let thy Sonnesfrom time to timefupplie 
 This Garden of the Mufes, where dooth want 
 Such Flowers as are not, or comefhort, orfcant 
 Of that perfection may be had thereby : 
 
 Sofhallthy nam,e Hue fill, their fame ne're dye. 
 
 Though vndergroundwhole worlds of time they lie. 
 
 Stat fine morte decus. 
 
God is beyond fraile fence to comprehend, 
 Hefirjl began all, and of all is end. 
 
 WHere God puts too his hand, all elfe is vaine. 
 God thunders oftner than he ftrikes or beates. 
 God giues his wrath by weight, but mercie free. 
 Where God doth bleffe, abundace quickly fprings. 
 Gods wifdome too much fearcht, is daungerous. 
 Gods iuftice ouer-urgde, ftrikes heauily. 
 WitJiout the vnderjianding of Gods will. 
 Our wit isfollie, and our bejl fight ill. 
 God doth not hate to loue, nor loue to hate. 
 God with his finger ftrikes, and not his arme. 
 No man fo poore, but God can blejjfe his dayes. 
 Who padent lob did from the dunghill raife. 
 In vaine it is for man with God to fl:and. 
 God will controU when mortall men haue done. 
 Gods equitie doth euery adtion prooue. 
 Gods hand holds thunder, who dare him offend ? 
 Faith finds free paffage to Gods mercie feate. 
 
 B Where 
 
Of God. 
 
 Where verhte raifeth men to dignitie. 
 There God his blejjings ftill doth multiply. 
 
 Little auailes Gods gifts where wants his grace. 
 
 Men order warre, but God glues viftoiie. 
 
 Gods mercie doth his iuftice farre exceed. 
 
 God deales not with vs as our finnes deferue. 
 
 Gods doiflrine is the rule of prouidence. 
 
 God is etemall, therefore without end. 
 
 God made all mortall things, and orders them. 
 According to his wi/dome, where and when. 
 
 Gods greatnes is more feene in loue, than wrath. 
 
 God ne're made any equall to himfelfe. 
 
 If God helpe not, yet deeme him not vniuft. 
 
 Gods mercie is the worke of our redemption. 
 If thou liftvp thyfelfe, God flyes from thee: 
 If thou he humble, then he comes to thee. 
 
 If God dart lightning, foon he dewes down raine. 
 
 Gods wrath foone kindled, is as quickly quencht. 
 
 No mifaduentures croffe, where God doth guide. 
 
 Where God doth faue, no other falue doth need. 
 How can that enterprife ill iffue haue, 
 Where God himfelfe doth guide, doth f peed, dothfatie. 
 
 Happy are they who fauoiir from God find. 
 
 God and our Ihame are flaies vnto our fmne. 
 
 Gods iuilice doth mans iuftice farre excell. 
 
 Thofe that God loues, in them he nothing hates. 
 How can afimple current him with/land. 
 Who all the mightie Ocean doth commaund? 
 
 God loues the faithful!, but doth hate their fmne. 
 
 Good life begun in earth, in heauen is ended. 
 When Sathan tempts, he leads vs vnto hell. 
 But God doth guide whereas no death doth dwelt. 
 When Sathan tempts, hefeekes our faith tofoile. 
 But God doth feale it, neuer to recoile. 
 
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 God makes our burning ualefull bright tojhine, 
 
 Amongji the candles of his Church diuine. 
 
 God euerfeekes by triall and temptation. 
 
 To found mans heart andfecret cogitation. 
 
 God well knowes men, andfiill his eye doth fee. 
 
 All thoughts of men, ere they conceiued be. 
 
 God out offeafon neucr yet doth trie. 
 
 His children new comteried by and by. 
 
 Man made of earth, founds not the feas profound 
 
 Of Gods deepe iudgeriients, where there is no ground. 
 
 The Lord law-maker, iufl and righteous. 
 
 Doth frame his lawes, not for himfelfe, but vs. 
 
 Gods wifdome guides this worlds focietie. 
 
 With equcdl power, and equall pietie. 
 
 Gods word which made the world, and guides itflill. 
 
 To diners ends condudis both good and ill. 
 
 He that preferres not God fore all his race. 
 
 Among (l thefonnes of God deferues no place. 
 
 He that thefurrowes ploweth of Gods field. 
 
 May not turne backe his fainting face, nor yeeld. 
 
 Sathan fuggeileth ill, God mooues to grace. 
 
 God can doe all, fane that lie will not doe. 
 
 Our mightie God, alwaiesfor his eledl. 
 
 Of wicked things can draw a good effeil. 
 
 God keepes his watch aboue thefiarrie skies. 
 
 For his eleil, who neuer idle lyes. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie5l. 
 
 As one poore drop is nothing to the fea. 
 So all we can is nothing in Gods fight. 
 As the bright Sunne defaceth candle-light, 
 So Gods great power controUeth all the world. 
 As Princes are to be both lou'd and fear'd, 
 So God the Prince of princes, mnft haue more. 
 
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4 Of God. 
 
 As with great care a Pilot guides tlie fliip, 
 So with great grace doth God direft the world. 
 As when the foule departs, the body dies : 
 So where God bleffeth not, all things decay. 
 As mothers hugge their children in their armes, 
 So God enfolds his chofen with his grace. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 PHerecides, for his contemning God, 
 Was eate with lice, and dyed miferably. 
 Lucian an Atheift, and denying God, 
 Was afterward in pieces tome with dogs. 
 lujlinian for his light regard of God, 
 Became a foole, and fo in foUie dyde. 
 Th' Athenians baniihed Protagoras, 
 Becaufe his bookes queflion'd the deitie. 
 Socrates did confeiTe one cnely God, 
 And tearm'd the heathen Gods but vanitie. 
 Plato, when he wrote any ferious thing. 
 Began ftill. In the name ofonefole God, 
 
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Heauenis Gods feat, the throne of endles grace: 
 The Soules true home, and Hopes defired place. 
 
 ALl powers are fubiedl to the power of Heauen. 
 Nothing but Ileauen, is perfedl happineffe. 
 What heauen will haue, that needs muft come to paffe. 
 The Soule is heauenly, and from heauen relieu'd. 
 Heauen is as neere to fea, as to the land. 
 Heauen fings for ioy, when fmners truly pray. 
 The waking heauens will plague all deeping ill. 
 
 When as the heauens are to iujtice bent. 
 
 All things are turned to our iujl funijhment. 
 None can attaine what heauen and earth withftands. 
 Earth muft come in, when awfuU heauen commaunds. 
 When heauen yeelds meanes, they muft not be negleft. 
 Though men reuenge not, yet the heauens will. 
 Heauen is the habitation of th'eleil. 
 Heauen is the iuft mans true inheritance. 
 
 Ifs hard to Hue well, eafie to dye ill: 
 
 Hard to lainne heauen, eafie to keepefrorn thence. 
 In vaine do men contend againft the ftarres . 
 
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6 Of Heauen. 
 
 Heauen workes our fall, but yet the fault is ours. 
 
 All men ought know they haue the Heauens aboue them. 
 
 No walles can hide vs from the eye of heauen. 
 
 Repentance carries heauens etemall keyes. 
 
 When heauens lampe fhines, all other lights are loft. 
 IVe netter know what ^tis in heauen to dwell, 
 Till wee haue had fame feeling of grim hell. 
 
 Heauen is our home, we are but ftraungers here. 
 
 All earthly things are darke, to them diuine. 
 
 What heauen decrees, foUie may not withftand. 
 
 Earths admirations are the heauens delights. 
 
 Heauens deepe deffignes are hid from mortall eyes. 
 
 We are at heauens difpofe, and not our owne. 
 
 Heauen fets our time, wherwith can nought difpence. 
 High heauens hand reflraines our wilfull powers, 
 Whofe will mujl rule aboue this will of ours. 
 
 Heauen doth repaire what fortune hath deftroid. 
 
 Things that are heauenly, no corraption taft. 
 
 Whome heauen doth fpight, the earth difdaines to hate. 
 
 Heauens couers him that hath no buriall. 
 
 Earth feeds on earth, heauen giues the fpirit food. 
 Prouidence heauenly, paffeth humane thought. 
 And doth for wretched mens reliefe make way. 
 
 Earth giues vs gold, but heauen the wealth of grace. 
 
 The Sunne wliich iliines in heauen, doth light the earth. 
 
 Hell cannot hurt, whome heauen doth preferue. 
 
 The care of heauen doth feeke the foules content. 
 It is the doome of heauen, which can and will, 
 Confound the braunch, whofe root was planted ill. 
 
 Sinne, is earths Sun ; the Sun of heauen, fmnes death. 
 
 Thoughts fixt on heauen, contemne all earthly things. 
 
 Mortals may feele heauens doome, but not remooue. 
 
 All men are fubiecl to the powers aboue. 
 
 Heauens fecrets are conceald from mortall fight. 
 
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Of Heaiien. 
 
 By mortall lawes a bond may be diuorjt. 
 But hemiens decree by no meanes can beforji. 
 
 From heauen, our foules receiue their fuftenance. 
 
 Hell is the place of horror, heauen of reft. 
 
 Good death is tiiie inheritance in heauen. 
 
 The way to heauen is not fo wide as hell. 
 Men looke vj> to thejiarres, thereby to know, 
 That as they frogrejjfe heauen, they earth Jhoiild fo. 
 
 Heauen often winkes at mortall mens amiffe. 
 
 Heauens Sun doth fhine both on the good and bad. 
 All humane wijhes neuer haue the power. 
 To haft or hold the courfe of heauen one hower. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie5l. 
 
 As hell was made to punifti fmnes proud guilt, 
 Euen fo was heauen for comfort of the iuft. 
 As bafe clothes ill become a princes court, 
 So none can enter heauen but purely clad. 
 As trauailers defire their natiue homes, 
 So (liould all foules long for their heauenly home. 
 As hells obfcuritie excells all darke. 
 So nothing with heauens brightneffe may compare. 
 As lacob for his Rachell thought fower fweet. 
 So we for heauen ought deeme all elfe but vile. 
 As all ioyes in this life are fraile and vaine. 
 So none but heauens ioyes are perfeft gaine. 
 
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Confcience is that accufeth andcondemnes, 
 Needing no other witnejffe than itfelfe. 
 
 FAults long vnfelt, the confcience wUl bewray. 
 The feare of confcience entreth iron walls. 
 Where coyne preuailes, confcience beares little fway. 
 Kings, but the confcience, all things can defend. 
 Death, but an adled pajfwn doth appears. 
 Where truth giues courage, and a confcience cleare. 
 Confcience owne doome doth halfe condemne a man. 
 No armour proofe againft the confcience terror. 
 Weake confciences are with vaine queftions wounded. 
 Sound confcience, well is cald a wall ofbrqffe: 
 Corrupted, fit compar'd to broken glaffe. 
 ' In confcience booke, our faults are daily writ. 
 There confcience failes, where faith beares no account. 
 A guiltie confcience neuer is fecure. 
 
 The confcience Jiain' d with blood of innocents. 
 Is alwayes fubieiH to appeaching guilt. 
 Repentance brings the keyes of confcience. 
 After minds guilt, doth inward griefe begin. 
 
 Riinne 
 
Of Confcience. 
 
 Runne where thou wilt, into all lands betake thee. 
 
 Yet will a wounded confcience nerefor/ake thee. 
 A ftained confcience finds no ioy at all. 
 They dread no fliame, that vfe no confcience. 
 
 If thou but find thy confcience be vpright. 
 
 No matter for the worlds rebuke orfpight. 
 Confcience will neuer fuffer wicked tliGughts. 
 Confcience needs no tormenter but it felfe. 
 Confcience fees that which no eye elfe can doe. 
 
 Confcience once drowndin wealth and worldly ponipe, 
 
 Eficemes all wifdome as meere foolifhnes. 
 A guiltie confcience is a gnawing worme. 
 Confcience takes vengeance on her o\vne tranfgreffions. 
 Nothing but true repent cleares confcience. 
 
 The riches we may carrie to our graue. 
 
 Is a good confcience: bleffed thty that haue. 
 Confcience once faultie, ilill abides in feare. 
 Innocence is the ioy of confcience. 
 
 A confcience flanding free from all detedl, 
 
 Feares no accufe, or doth excufe refpeifl. 
 Lookes confident and fober, ihew cleane foules. 
 Confcience for heauen contemns all worldly things. 
 
 To frame excufe, before thoic be accufde, 
 
 Shewes that thou hafl not confcience truly vfde. 
 Confcience doth couet nothing but her owne. 
 Confcience cranes nothing, but by lawfuU meanes. 
 Confcience will willingly offend no man. 
 
 Confcience once loden with the weight offinne. 
 
 Is Tudge and luror to it selfe therein. 
 Confcience doth bind vs to refpeft our kinne. 
 Confcience defpifeth bribes in any cafe. 
 Confcience commaunds vs to relieue the poore. 
 
 A confcience cleare, is like a wellfenc't tower. 
 
 Not to befhaken by rough Canon Jhot, 
 
 Confcience 
 
I o Of Confcience. 
 
 Confcience, to princes alwaies giues their due. 
 Confcience fubmits, when luftice doth commaund. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieH^. 
 
 As peifecution is the bodies death: 
 So foule defpaire quite kills the confcience. 
 As the bright Sunne doth lighten all the worid, 
 So a cleare confcience Ihineth in the foule. 
 As beautie is a thing glads mortall fight, 
 So vnftain'd confcience doth high heauen delight. 
 As wine cheeres vp the heart when it is fad, 
 So peace of confcience makes it much more glad. 
 As brazen walls defend a cittie beft. 
 So confcience taintleffe, is at peace and reft. 
 As gold is beft, when through the fire 'tis tride, 
 So confcience is by troubles purifide. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 OReJies matricide was iuftly plagu'd, 
 With fting of confcience by his mothers ghoft. 
 And Nero (whofe foule fadt did equall his) 
 Was whipt in confcience with her walking ftiape. 
 Ccefar Caligula could neuer reft, 
 But confcience torment did him ftill moleft. 
 Tullie affirmes, a confcience well emploi'd. 
 Is chiefeft comfort in aduerfitie. 
 Plato faith: Sweetly fleepeth innocence, 
 In the fafe chamber of good confcience. 
 Ladlantius writes, that no finne can preuaile. 
 Where quiet confcience fits, and guides the faile. 
 
 Confcience mtijl leaue a little ■while to grieue. 
 
 To let in horror, comming to reprootte. 
 
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1 1 
 
 Religion is the ground of euery grace, 
 And.teachetk manfaluation to embrace. 
 
 WHere God is not, religion cannot be. 
 Sundrie religions, make no religion. 
 Where faints are claries, there alwaies God is iudj 
 Religions touchftone beft doth trie the truth. 
 
 Religion is thefouU of innocence, 
 
 Working in each vnfpotted confcimce. 
 After religion, painted zeale doth runne. 
 Bleffings come feldome, but by earnefl prayer. 
 Ignorance is religions enemie. 
 
 The Scriptures arefufficient to refolue 
 
 All doubts that in religion can arife. 
 The word's a med'cine to a troubled mind. 
 Religion is the perfeft bond of loue. 
 No poyfon worfe than Scripture falfly taught. 
 Religion is in truth, not fallacies. 
 
 Nofurerfigne of kingdomes ouerthrmu. 
 
 Than where religion litieth in contempt. 
 Change of religion is moft daungerous. 
 
 Faith 
 
12 Of Religion. 
 
 Faith, and not reafon, teacheth true religion. 
 Man was created for religions vfe. 
 
 There is no error halfefo daungerous, 
 
 As that committed in religion. 
 Ill happens when religion we negledl. 
 Doubt in religion, punifhment deferues. 
 Where no religion is, no vertue bides. 
 Religions cloake can couer much abufe. 
 
 Thofe men may well be cald religious. 
 
 That hate the world, and nothing mind but heaiien. 
 Religion linketh men in vnitie. 
 Religion, to all vertues is the guide. 
 Humilitie expreiTeth true religion. 
 
 Religion doth relieue the fatherleffe. 
 
 And fuccours widowes in aduerfUie. 
 Religion is the councell of the iuft. 
 Religion only can fupport the weake. 
 Religion teacheth remedie gainft fmne. 
 Religion comforts all affliiftions. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 Like as a Torch diredls vs in the darke. 
 So doth religion lighten all our hopes. 
 As thefe our bodies hue by earthly food. 
 So true religion doth our foules moft good. 
 As yron maketh foft the rudeft earth, 
 So doth religion temper hardefl hearts. 
 As fore eyes cannot gaze againft the Sun, 
 So wicked minds brooke no religion. 
 As want of food the body hunger- flerues. 
 So pines the foule through pure religions lacke. 
 As med'cines make ficke bodies whole and found. 
 So doth religion wafli out errours wound. 
 
 Examples 
 
Of Religion. 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 BRennus for wronging of religion, 
 Was fmitten with a thunderbolt to death. 
 Conomcichus, religious rites prophan'd, 
 But with an earthquake was he fwallowed vp. 
 Pherecydes, nick-nam'd religion, 
 For which he was confum'd by wormes aliue. 
 In Athens they would not create a king, 
 Except he had tane orders of a Priefl. 
 The chiefefl oath th' Athenians had, was this: 
 Pugnabo pro facris, Of cum alijs, Sffolus. 
 Old Rome, her fonnes fent to Hetruria, 
 To be inflrucfted in religion. 
 
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 Truth is the fountof knowledge, earths befl light: 
 Thefcale to heaun, andonely rule of right. 
 
 THe weakeft things are ftrongeft props to trath, 
 Tnith is mofl flrong, and alwaies findeth friends. 
 Truth neuer failes, and true loue wants no might. 
 
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14 Of Trueth. 
 
 Triall doth certainlieft the truth bewray. 
 Falfliood with truth may by no meanes abide. 
 
 Deeds not by manhood, or the doers might. 
 
 Are to befcand, but by their truth and right. 
 What fhineth neareft beft, holds trueft worth. 
 Where then is truth, if there be no felfe truft ? 
 Truth is the onely fhield of beft defence. 
 
 When truely in our /elites our faults we fee. 
 
 We deeme them known to all, as well as wee. 
 An honeft tale fpeeds beft being truly told. 
 Tnith may be ftient, but neuer ihall be fliam'd. 
 Truth to all goodnefle is the perfecft guide. 
 All doubts refoluing, is by finding truth. 
 
 Howfliall he thinke to find aflraunger iufl. 
 
 That in himfelfe dare put no confidence ? 
 Falfe dreames do euerraore the truth deny. 
 Time fhewes the truth, and wit that's bought is beft. 
 Truth foundeth fweetly in a fiUie tongue. 
 Who cherilh wrongs, are bent agaiufl the truth. 
 Truth needeth not the aid of Rhetoricke. 
 
 Happie the people, bleffed is the land, 
 
 Where truth and vertue get the vpper hand. 
 Nothing fo hard, but is by truth explain'd. 
 All hidden fecrets, truth can beft difclofe. 
 Truth to all goodnes, is the perfeft guide. 
 Truth hath two friends; Wifdome, and Conftancie. 
 
 Truth flandeth not vpon the tongues of men : 
 
 Nor Honour, on authorities bigge frownes. 
 Truth triumphes long, when falftiood foone decaies. 
 The truth of things, the end or time will trie. 
 The fmootheft tale, hath oft-times fmalleft truth. 
 Truth moft delights, when ihee goes meaneft clad. 
 
 Thefeate of Truth is in ourfec7-et hearts. 
 
 Not in the tongue, which falfliood oft imparts. 
 
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Of Trueth. 1 5 
 
 Truth needs no Orators to plead her caufe. 
 Truth feareth nothmg more than to be hid. 
 Truth with her owne hght is beft fatisfide. 
 A certaiue truth doth need no fubtill glofe. 
 
 Truth is a health that neuer will beficke : 
 
 An endleffe life, a Sunne that neuer fets. 
 Truth ftiewes her felfe in fecrecie of trufl : 
 A cleare cafe needs no ihifting councellour. 
 Truth vnbefriended, will find friends at laft. 
 Truth hateth mofl to here a feigned tale. 
 
 Innocence fmile before the Judge by truth. 
 
 And fal/hood found before he was fufpeil. 
 Reprooue not rafhly, neither hide the truth. 
 Truth is a blab, and will no treafons hide. 
 Truth is a text that troubles many minds. 
 Truth ftill hath certaine bounds, but falfhood none. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As the beft; fteeled glaffe bewraies the face, 
 So truth beft fhineth in an honeft foule. 
 As pureft Emeralds without foyles thine beft, 
 So truth moft pleafeth in her plaineft clothes. 
 As wormwood fitteth not a lickerifti tafte. 
 So truth doth neuer pleafe a lyars tongue. 
 As clouds oft threaten raine, and yet fhed none, 
 So ftormes oft menace truth, yet hurt her not. 
 As darkeneffe is an enemie to light. 
 So falfhood is continuall foe to truth. 
 As meane attire impaires not beauties face. 
 So pooreft ranges to truth giue no difgrace. 
 
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1 6 Of Trueth. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 IVUan Apoflata the foe to Truth, 
 Cried out at length, that Truth had conquerd him. 
 Neftorius, who contended with the truth, 
 His tongue was eaten in his life, with wormes. 
 The Perfians In the honour of the truth. 
 Ordained death to fuch as did denie it. 
 Popiel king of Poland, for vntruth. 
 Was as he fate aliue, deuour'd with Rats. 
 Cato was fo renowmed for the truth, 
 That he was onely faid, to fpeake the truth. 
 Vntruth, faith Seneca, are meetefl Armes, 
 For any coward or bafe minded man. 
 
 Vertue, is Queene of labour, Nource ofloue: 
 The minds true grace, and blefsingfrom aboue. 
 
 ALl things decay, but vertue cannot die. 
 Vertue makes beautie more angelicall. 
 Vertue is free from time, and fortunes power. 
 
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Of Verhie. 1 7 
 
 Men cannot leaue their verlues to their heires. 
 
 Faire vertiiesfeat is deepe %mthin the mind. 
 
 And not byjiiewes, but inward thoughts defined. 
 Vices are noted, vertues foone forgot. 
 Vertues beft ftore, by giuing doth augment. 
 There is no vertue that is borne with vs. 
 No vertue fprings, Vi^here wanteth due regard. 
 
 Vertues obfcurde, yeeldfmall and forte gaines: 
 
 Bui ac^iuely employd, true worth retaines. 
 Winne fame by vertue, let opinion goe. 
 Vertue is in the mind, not the attire. 
 Vertue and fortune neuer could agree. 
 Vertue is loath'd of fooles, lou'd of the wife. 
 
 Vertue is much more amiable andfweet, 
 
 When therewithal! tnie maiejlie doth meet. 
 Vice careth not if vertue fmke or fwimme. 
 Wit fhines in vertue, vertue ihines in wit. 
 Sweeteft temptations moft make vertue knowne. 
 
 Vertue itfelfe turnes vice, being mifapplyed: 
 
 And vice fometimes by adlion dignified. 
 The field of honour, vertue neuer loofeth. 
 Vertue will beare what can on vertue fall. 
 True happinefle, on vertue taketh ground. 
 The more vice reignes, the leffe doth vertue thriue. 
 
 To vertues goods we onely ought to cleaue. 
 
 The reft are good in femblarue, but deceaue. 
 Vertue wUl line when villanie fliall die. 
 Vertue may be difturb'd, but ne're difgrac'd. 
 No beautie like the vertue of the mind. 
 Vertue through darkeft Ihades doth light her felfe. 
 
 Vertue in greatefl daungers being beflfhowne, 
 
 May be opprefi, but neuer ouerthrowne. 
 Vertue oft lyes where life is in difgrace. 
 If finne were dead, vertue could not be knowne. 
 
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1 8 Of Vertue. 
 
 Sweet is the gaine which vertuous trauaile brings. 
 All vertuous minds doe vertuous deeds declare. 
 
 Our vices nor our Virtues neuer die. 
 
 Though vnder ground a thoufand yeares we lye. 
 Vertue doth mortall things immortall make. 
 The bond of vertue alwaies furefl binds. 
 Than vertue, there can be no greater dower. 
 'Tis vertues felfe, that her rewards doth pay. 
 Enuies black cloud would dim bright vertues rayes. 
 
 All forrowes in the world arefarre more lejfe. 
 
 Than vertues might and valours confidence. 
 Sinne counted folace, vertue is defpifde. 
 Vaine praife is fliame, but honour vertues due. 
 Without defence of vertue, nothing lafts. 
 
 Onelyfaire vertue feales eternitie, 
 
 Aboue earths all-abating tyrannic. 
 All Orators are dumbe when vertue pleads. 
 Vertue but ftampt in Lead, is rich enough. 
 That growes apace which vertue helpes to raife. 
 Vertue curbes in the moft vnbridled will. 
 
 With goodneffe men doe/oone grow di/content, 
 
 Where Jlates are ripe to fall, and vertue /pent. 
 True vertue is rich dower for chaftitie. 
 In vertuous deeds all ftratagenis are good. 
 Vertue is beautie of the inward man. 
 Exclude difcretion, vertue tumes to vice. 
 Like to the Sunne, fo vertue lights the world. 
 
 Such as leaue offfaire vertues to ejleeme. 
 
 Doe greatly erre, that take things as they/eeme. 
 Vertue will ftiine though ne're fo much obfcur'd. 
 Vertue depreffed, is expreffed more. 
 Vertue makes women feeme to be diuine. 
 With honours eyes let vertues plaints be fcand. 
 
 Vertue doth raife by very fmall degrees, 
 
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Of Vertue. 19 
 
 Where in a moment Fortune cajleth dotune. 
 While vertue fuffers, ftill it vanquifheth. 
 Need clad with vertue, is aboundant rich. 
 Vertue is better and more fure than Artes. 
 Vertue is not to get things, but to keepe them. 
 
 Vertue on earth dothfooneji bring vs fame. 
 
 Makes our graues glorious, writes our names in heauen. 
 Vertue inofl giieueth at her owne difgrace. 
 A vertuous aft feemes ftraunge in fome mens fight. 
 A vertuous mind cannot be miferable. 
 Death is true life to euery vertuous man. 
 
 Though vertue many times wants due reward, 
 
 Yet/eldome vice ef capes deferued blame. 
 Vertue doth neuer enuie good defert. 
 Loue maketh vertue liue, and vice to die. 
 Reports can neuer harme the vertuous. 
 He is not vertuous that's too timerous. 
 
 Ech cunning finne being clad in vertues Jliape, 
 
 Flyes much reproof e, and manyjlormes doth f cape. 
 Vertues are many times by faults difgrac'd. 
 Honours defefts, by vertues are fupplyed. 
 Vertue ftUI doteth on perfeftion, 
 Vertue, in beauteous bodies fhineth bell. 
 
 All the gay pleafures that the world canprooue, 
 
 Are but ficke forrowes to pure vertues loue. 
 Vertue is mofl renowm'd in honors eyes. 
 Vertue ftill fmiles, vfhen vahie conceit doth crie. 
 Immortall vertue Hues an endleffe date. 
 Wifdome on Vertue as her handmaid waits. 
 
 The worlds opinion fo doth vertue fmoother. 
 
 As one beares that belongs vnto another. 
 Vertue makes euery where a ftraungers home, 
 Vertue doth conquer diffolute defires. 
 Vertue in Princes is moft glorious. 
 
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20 Of Verhie. 
 
 Vertue deferueth more than wealth can doe. 
 
 The blajb of Fortune naier can preuaile. 
 
 In the mainefea where vertue hoi/eth faile. 
 All pompe is vile, where vertue hath no place. 
 Vertue doth vanquiih Fortune, Time, and Death. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieSl. 
 
 As feare of torment holds the wicked in. 
 So vertues loue make good men loath their fm. 
 Looke how one vice begets another fmne, 
 Euen fo one vertue drawes another in. 
 As Muficke profits nothing but by found, 
 So vertue helpes not if it faile in life. 
 Like as the Sunne obfcures all leffer lights, 
 So vertues luflre damps all enuies fleights. 
 As fpices in their bniifnig fauor moft, 
 So vertue in affliftion beft is feene. 
 As wine refreiheth fad difmayed minds, 
 So vertue comforts poore diflreffed foules. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 King Alexander got the name of Great, 
 By vertuous cariage of himfelfe in warre. 
 Sfurina chofe to mangle his faire face. 
 Rather than be feduc'de from vertuous thoughts. 
 Hercules, bad vaine pleafure get her gone: 
 And made faire vertue Ms companion. 
 Xerxes for beaftlines was not fo blam'd, 
 As Galba for his veitue was renowmd. 
 Thales affirmes, that nothing in the world, 
 For man was meet, but vertuous aftions. 
 Cicero faith: That vertue of it felfe 
 Is the fole caufe of happie life and death. 
 
 Vertue 
 
Of Faith and Zeale. 
 
 Vertue was neuer hireling of the mind, 
 Buejlill will Hue though fame had neWe a tongiu 
 Whatfute of grace hath vertue to put on, 
 Ifvicejlmll weare as good, and doe as well. 
 
 21 
 
 FaithJkewesagoodmansfniits,preferuesthefoule, 
 And zeale doth bejigme euidence of faith. 
 
 FAithes beft is triall, then it fliineth moft. 
 Ttie faitiifuU ftands, the faultie man will flye. 
 Zeale is but cold where loueleffe law reftraiues. 
 Tis haftie ralhnes where true faith doth flye. 
 In deepe diilreffe, true faith doth beft auaile. 
 When once mans faith isfpotted and defamd. 
 The bodie had been better neuer framd. 
 Zeale and good courage beft become a Prince. 
 Faith bides no perfit triall, but by time. 
 Shipwracke of faith is made, where confcience dyes. 
 Friends haue no priuiledge to breake their faith. 
 The gift deferueth moft is giuen in zeale. 
 Falfe fainting zeale, fhadowed with good pretence, 
 Can find a cloake to couer each offence. 
 
 C 3 Falfe 
 
2 2 Of Faith and Zeale. 
 
 Falfe faith is ouer-poifde with weakeft weight. 
 
 The ballance yeelds vnto the lighted feather. 
 
 An eafie yeelding zeale is quickly quaild. 
 
 Faith violate, is moft deteftable. 
 
 Faith once refolu'd, treads fortune vnder foot. 
 
 The man that holds no faith, fhall find no truft. 
 Where faith doth fearelejffe dwell in brazen tower. 
 There ffotleffe pleafure builds her f acred bower. 
 
 A zealous heart is alwaies bountifull. 
 
 The faith of Knighthood is by vertue tryed. 
 
 Euery occafion quailes a hireling faith. 
 
 The gift deferueth much is giuen in zeale. 
 
 A princes greateft fault, is breach of faith. 
 
 The faith of Pagans ought not be belieu'd. 
 I^aith is afortrelfe gainjl all fainting feare : 
 And Zeale, the walles doth euermore vp-reare. 
 
 Take faith from iuftice, all things runne to fpoile. 
 
 Authoritie is ftrengthened befl by zeale. 
 
 Who binds himfelfe by faith, had need beware. 
 
 Faith to ralh oathes no credit giues at all. 
 
 The greater faith, the greater fufferance. 
 Faith is the true foundation ofthefoule, 
 Andfoonefl doth redeeme the fame from finne. 
 
 Zeale makes opinion ftand inuincible. 
 
 A good mans wifli, is fubftance, faith, and fame. 
 
 Selfe-will doth frown, when earneft zeale reprooues. 
 
 Faith mounteth to the clouds on golden wings. 
 
 Faith brings forth workes, and workes declare our faith. 
 
 No faith too firme, no truft can be too flrong. 
 
 A; 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie6l. 
 
 S raine makes euery gi-oiuid bring forth encreafe. 
 So faith of euery foule doth (hew the fruits. 
 
 As 
 
Of Faith and Zeale. 23 
 
 As honours fire doth kindle high defires, 
 So zealous faith lifts vp the loweil foule. 
 As night doth bed the diamonds glory fliow, 
 So fliarpe afflidlion befl makes faith to grow. 
 As wifdome is the only way to weale, 
 So trae difcretion beft direfteth zeale. 
 As loue and hate cannot agree in one, 
 So without zeale, faith thinkes her felfe alone. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 'VyArmenio wild his king to breake his faith, 
 X I would { quoth he ) were I Parmenio. 
 Lyfander made no reckoning of his faith, 
 And therefore was by euery one reproou'd. 
 Attilius fent to Rome vpon his faith. 
 Boldly rettirn'd, although it coft his life. 
 Rajlrix the Duke of Cleueland, breaking faith. 
 Was therefore difpoffeft of both his eyes. 
 Let none fpeake ill of vs, faid Pittacus, 
 To whome we ftand obliged by our faith. 
 Keepe faith (faith Cicero) with enemies 
 What ere milhap doe follow thereupon. 
 
 C4 
 
 Of 
 
Hopeis thefad hearts help, thejick thoughts friend, 
 A nd what dijiruji impair es, Hope doth amend. 
 
 ALl hope is vaine mtliout the feare of God. 
 Hope, on each lead occafion taketh hold. 
 Hope doth forbid vs forrow to beleeue. 
 When loue gi'owes fickely, hope then daily flerues. 
 Things out of hope, by ventring oft are vroon. 
 Hope many times on bleifed hap doth light. 
 When hope is lofb in care then comfort bleeds. 
 Vnworthy he of grace, ivhome once deniall 
 Excludes from fairejl hope, without more triall. 
 All foolilh hopes haue euermore bad fpeed. 
 Councell doth come too late when hope is pafl. 
 Men well may hope to rife, but feare to fall. 
 Its good to hope the befl, but feare the word. 
 Chaunging the aire, hopes time will alter chance. 
 Defpaire and hope doe flill attend on loue. 
 Its good to feare, yet let our feare befo. 
 That to our hope it prooue no oueiihrow. 
 Oft prefent hap, makes future hope to yeeld. 
 
 No 
 
Of Hope. 2 5 
 
 No hap fo hard but hope doth much amend. 
 
 Hope to enioy, is little leffe than ioy. 
 
 Honour once loft, giues farewell to all hope. 
 
 Vnhappie men are fubiedl to no hope. 
 
 Fortune may take our goods, but not our hope. 
 The heart that's inly hurt, is greatly eafd, 
 With hope of that may make grief e befl afpeafd. 
 
 Hopes are vnfure, when certaine is the paine. 
 
 We often fall, when moft we hope to clime. 
 
 As wee waxe hopeleffe, violence ftill growes. 
 
 Hope well in loue what euer be thy hap. 
 
 Hope is the daily dreame of waking men. 
 
 This life, is but the hope of endleffe life. 
 Vnworthie is he of one happie day, 
 T/'iat will not take the offer of good hope. 
 
 There is no truft in youth, nor hope in age. 
 
 The hope of things vnfeene beares greateft price. 
 
 Good confcience alwaie hath a perfedl hope. 
 
 Hope is a pleafmg paffion of the mind. 
 
 To hope againft all hope, is high refolue. 
 
 True hope isfwifi, and fly es with fwallowes wings. 
 Kings it makes Gods, and meaner creatures Kings. 
 
 Inconftant hope is drowned oft in feares. 
 
 In midft of griefe, hope alway hath fome part. 
 
 Hope being deluded makes the torment more. 
 
 Who cannot feare to loofe, ne're hopes to haue. 
 
 All greedie hope, vaine vicious humour feeds. 
 
 Hope is companion euermore to loue. 
 
 No one without great hopes, will follow fuch, 
 Whofe power and honour doth not promife much. 
 
 No hope of reft, where hap true hope delayes. 
 
 Hope ftill perfwading hope, expefteth good. 
 
 Hope is the God of miferable men. 
 
 In vaine he hopes, who here his hope doth ground. 
 
 From 
 
 / 
 
26 Of Hope. 
 
 From fruitleffe hopes but fillie fauoiirs fpring. 
 The euenings hope may comfort mornings care. 
 
 Hope built vpon the world, doth neuer thriue. 
 
 But grounded once on God, at no timefailes. 
 Hope is the bread and food of wretched men. 
 Bad haps are holpe with hope and good beliefe. 
 No greater griefe in loue, than fruitleffe hope. 
 Hope waits on great mens tongues, and oft beguiles. 
 Hopes aboue Fortune, doe fore-point deepe falls. 
 Who thinkes to thriue by hope, oft haps to begge. 
 
 Xo hope too mtich, is boldly to prefume: 
 
 To hope too little, bafely to defpaire. 
 Small is his gaine that hopes for golden griefe. 
 Meane mens preferments eleuates their hopes. 
 Sad hopes feeme ouer long and burdenous. 
 Grace to thy hope is alwaies fafeft guide. 
 
 When hope and hap, when health and wealth is higheji. 
 
 Then woe and wracke, difea/e and need is nighest. 
 Hope of all (paffions) is the pleafauteft. 
 Vaine hopes, are like a Vane turn'd with the wind. 
 To haue no hope, is held moft miferable. 
 
 To Hue in hope of that men meane to giue. 
 
 Is to deceiue ourfelues, and not to Hue. 
 Hope not for that which iuflice doth denie. 
 Where gi-ace begins, hope makes a happie end. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieSl. 
 
 As greateft calmes oft tume to thunderclaps, 
 So fweetefl hopes doe change to fowreft haps. 
 As in meane places may much wealth be hid, 
 So little hopes may mightie things expefl. 
 As fadnes is the hearts chiefe punifhment. 
 So hope is higheft helpe in deepe diftreffe. 
 
 As 
 
Of Hope. 27 
 
 As one part of the body toiles for all, 
 
 So hope ftriues to accompllfh all defires. 
 
 As euery mettall is of Sulphur made, 
 
 So euery pleafure doth from hope proceed. 
 
 As honeft paflimes can no way offend. 
 
 So good mens hopes muft needs haue happy end. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 WHen Alexander gaue great gifts away, 
 Being askt, What for himfelfe he kept ? replied, Hope. 
 Coefar continually was led with hope, 
 That he fhould gouerne many Monarchies. 
 AndrocUdas derided being lame, 
 Said; Then in fight I hope I fliall not flie. 
 Pindarus calleth hope, The nource of age; 
 And Thales faid, Hope was a common helpe. 
 Learned men differ from the ignorant 
 (As Bias faith) but onely by their Hope. 
 Hope (as Simonides the Poet faith) 
 Is the fole guide and gouemour of men. 
 
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28 
 
 Loue is a vertue, meafurdby duteous choice. 
 But not if it be maim'd with wilfull chawtce. 
 
 TRue loue is fimple like his mother Truth. 
 Firme and vntainted loue, had neuer meane. 
 In long delay, loue moft impatient is. 
 Our treafure we may hide, but not our loue. 
 The trueft loue is moft fufpitious. 
 Loues eyes in looking neuer haue their fill. 
 
 MA Y is not loues month, MA Y is full of flowers. 
 But dropping A PRIL : Loue is full offhowers. 
 Leud love breeds loiTe, ill peace hath deadly fight. 
 Life is moft loath'd, where loue may not preuaile. 
 Loue is the miftreffe of a many minds. 
 Loues little fweet, oft finds a longer fower. 
 Loue's like the winters Rofe, or Sommers Ice. 
 Loue where ic likes, life where it loues would be. 
 Loue doth defire the thing belou'd to fee, 
 That like itfelfe in louelyfhape may be. 
 As loue is loth to part, fo feare ftiunnes death. 
 Lukev/arme defires baft fit with crazed loue. 
 
 Valour 
 
Of Loue. 29 
 
 Valour nor loue dwells where diuifion is. 
 
 Nought worth is loue without true conftancie. 
 
 Loue cannot found well, but in louers tongues. 
 
 Loues ftrongeft bands, vukindnes doth vnbind. 
 Firms loue that is in gentle brejls begun, 
 No idle charme may ea/dy remooue. 
 
 Short is the ioy of him that longeft loues. 
 
 Loue neuer can endure a Paragon. 
 
 The greater loue, the greater is the loffe. 
 
 True loue is often fowne, but feldome growes. 
 
 Loofe loues are vaine, and vanilh flill to fmoake. 
 
 Loue, that two hearts makes one, fo frames one will. 
 Too hard a lejjfon iis for lining clay, 
 From loue (in courfe of nature) to refraine. 
 
 Firme loue, the dread of daunger doth defpife. 
 
 Loue may not be compeld by mafterie. 
 
 Sweet loue barres lewdneffe from his companie. 
 
 Caufeleffe to chaunge loue, is moft foule reproch. 
 
 Loue hateth thought of all vngentlcnos. 
 
 A louers heauen muft paffe by forrowes hell. 
 All lofft is leffe, yea lejfe is infamie. 
 Than loffe of loue to him that loues but one. 
 
 They cannot iudge of loue, that ne're did loue. 
 
 Loue wants his eyes, yet flioots he paffing right. 
 
 The flirine of loue doth feldome offrings want. 
 
 What can be faid, that louers cannot fay? 
 
 Blind loues, bed Poets haue imperfecft fight. 
 
 Loue deeply grounded, hardly is diffembled. 
 Loue is a fiend, a fire, a heauen, a hell, 
 Where pleafure, paine, and fad repentance dwell. 
 
 Where both deliberate, the loue is light. 
 
 Trae loue is mute, and oft amazed ftands. 
 
 Who euer lou'd, that lou'd not at fii-ft fight? 
 
 The darkeft night is Cupids brighteft day. 
 
 Loue 
 
30 Of Loue. 
 
 Loue alwaies makes thofe eloquent that loue, 
 There's nothing more than counfell, louers hate. 
 
 The light of hidden fire, itfelfe difcouers : 
 
 And loue that is conceald betraies poore louers. 
 A louer moft reftraind, the woifer fares. 
 Loue is too full of faith, too credulous. 
 Great force and vertue hath a louing looke. 
 No ftonle limits can hold out true loue. 
 What loue can doe, that dare it ftill attempt. 
 Sweet are thofe bands that true loue doth combine. 
 
 Lo2ie goes toward loue like fchoole-boyes from their bookes: 
 
 But loue from loue, to fchoole with heauie lookes. 
 No loue fo fweet as where both foules confent. 
 True perfedl loue is quickeft of beleefe. 
 It's better loue and liue, than loath and die. 
 Free vent of words, loues fii'e doth affwage. 
 Lookes doe kill loue, and loue by lookes reuiues. 
 Foule words and frownes will not conipell a louer. 
 
 Louers well wot, what griefe it is to fart, 
 
 When twixt two bodies liiieth but one heart. 
 Loue eafily commenteth on euery woe. 
 Loues gentle fpring doth alwaies frefh remaine. 
 Loue maketh young men thrall, and old men dote. 
 In foUie loue is wife and fooUih wittie. 
 A louers houres are long, though feeming iliort. 
 
 Louers doe fay. The heart hath treble wrong, 
 
 When it is bard the ay ding of the tongue. 
 Loue doth with gall and hony both abound. 
 It is not loue, that loues to auger loue. 
 Loue flill is free and led with felfe-delight. 
 Sweet is the loue that comes with willingnes. 
 
 Who learnes to loue, the leffon is fo plaine: 
 
 That once tnade perfeil, neii.er loft againe. 
 There is no paine like loues fweet miferie. 
 
 Great 
 
Of Loue. 3 1 
 
 Great talke of loue proceeds but from the tongue. 
 Loue makes blunt wits, right pleafmg Oratours. 
 All loue deceits are held excufable. 
 Loue is moft fweet and faire In euery thing. 
 
 Loue well is /aid, to be alife in death, 
 
 That laughes and weepes, and all but with a breath. 
 Such vertue loue hath, to make one of two. 
 The fire of loue is blown by dalliance. 
 Loues fpeciall leffon, is to pleafe the eye. 
 Loues glorie doth in greateft darknes (bine. 
 
 Loue is afpirit all compaiH of fire, 
 
 Not groffe tofinke, but light and will a/pire. 
 Loue paints his longings in faire virgins eyes. 
 If merit looke not well, Loue bids, ftand by. 
 Loue loftie, doth defpife a lowly eye. 
 Loue neuer will be drawn, but muft be led. 
 
 Although fweet loue to conquer glorious be. 
 
 Yet is the paine farre greater than the fee. 
 He that ihewes all his loue, doth loue but lightly. 
 Fauours make happy louers euer dumbe. 
 The lateft wonne, is alwaies lou'd the longer. 
 Equall eflate, doth nouriih equall loue. 
 
 Loue in braue fpirits, kindles goodly fire. 
 
 Which to great height of honour doth afpire. 
 Loue makes at once, ficke, found, aliue, and dead. 
 Loue makes diuided creatures Hue in one. 
 Loue is a thing that feeds on care and feare. 
 Poore is the loue that pouertie impaires. 
 All loues conceits are excellently wittie. 
 
 Two eyes him needeth, both to watch and wake. 
 
 That louers will deceive and find their fcape. 
 That loue is fmgular, is leaft in fight. 
 A pregnant loue conceits a thoufand things. 
 Wanton conceits are rife, where loue is wittie. 
 
 Difdaine 
 
32 Of Loue. 
 
 Difdaine to true loue yet was euer foe. 
 That loue is it which alwaies lajieth long. 
 That tends to neither of the louers wrong. 
 
 Vnwoed loue knowes not what pittie meanes. 
 
 They loue indeed, that dare not fay they loue. 
 
 Loues workes are more than of a mortall temper. 
 
 Hearts are Loues food, his drinke is louers teares. 
 Loue is a golden bubble full of dreames. 
 That waking breakes, andfils vs with extreames. 
 
 The gaine is griefe to them that traffique loue. 
 
 Loue is in prime of youth, a Rofe; in age, a Weed. 
 
 Loue, for a minutes ioy, payes endleife paine. 
 
 Meane men in loue haue frownes as well as Kings. 
 Two confiant louers being ioynd in one, 
 Yeslding to one another, yeeld to none. 
 
 Loue truly bred, true triall will abide. 
 
 Mens loue is written on the Angels brefts. 
 
 Loue, with true friends will alwaies liue and die. 
 
 Loue is refiner of inuention. 
 
 The faultes that are in loue, by lotie committed. 
 By loue for loue doe claime to be remitted. 
 
 Loue teacheth muficke to vnskilfuU men. 
 
 Loue woon by vertue, ftill is permanent. 
 
 The loue of beautie, reafon oft beguiles. 
 
 Loue is the Lord of hope and confidence. 
 
 Loiie whets the dullefl wits, his plagues arefuch: 
 Yet makes the wife by pleafing dote as much. 
 
 Likenelfe in manners maketh loue moft pure. 
 
 Vertue cannot be perfedl, wanting loue. 
 
 Loue is moft fortunate where courage lines. 
 
 Concealed loue burnes with the fierceft flame. 
 Louers befl like to fee thetnfelues alone. 
 Or with their loues, if needs they mufi haue one. 
 
 A cold bafe loue, cooles not a hot defire. 
 
 Hate 
 
Of Loue. 33 
 
 Hate in the name of loue doth oft prefume. 
 Selfe-loue, of mifchiefe is the only ground. 
 The cowards warfare is a wanton loue. 
 
 Where growes a pcrfedl fympathie of hearts, 
 
 Echfaffion in the one, the other faineth. 
 Pure loue did neuer fee the face of feare. 
 Lafciuious loue is root of all remorfe. 
 Loue wonne in heat, will with a cold be loft. 
 Loue, and high feat, no equals can endure. 
 Louers haue quick all-corners fearching eyes. 
 
 Sifnilies on the fame fitbieSl. 
 
 Like as the waxe doth quench, and feed the flame, 
 So loue to men giues both defpaire and life. 
 As luie finds fit meanes whereby to climbe, 
 So loue forts out his fubieft where him lift. 
 As fire with violence confumeth wood, 
 So fcome with crueltie doth murder loue. 
 As young vines yeeld moft wine, but old brings beft, 
 So young loue fpeaketh much, but old doth moft. 
 Like as affedWon is in louers reftleffe. 
 So being perfedt, it is likewife endleffe. 
 As fancie muft be cured by affedlion, 
 So loue is onely remedied by loue. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 PAufanias lou'd his wife with fuch firme loue, 
 As no defcription well could fet it downe. 
 Perdiccas for his loue to Alexander, 
 Refufed mightie wealth in Macedon. 
 The Emperour Claudius would not loue or hate, 
 But as he was thereto by others led. 
 Scifio fo lou'd the Poet Ennius, 
 That being dead, he kept his pidlure ftill. 
 
 D Zeno 
 
34 Of Hate. 
 
 Zeno, although a Stoicke, yet did yeeld, 
 
 That loue in young men was moft requifite. 
 
 Cicero not gain-faid wife men to loue 
 
 So they might loue without deepe cares and fighes. 
 
 Hate, is loues enemie, and Friend/hips foe : 
 Neighbourhoods bane, and Peaces ouer throw. 
 
 HAte cannot worke, where nature planteth loue. 
 Hates eies may ilumber, but can hardly fleepe. 
 Hatred is chiefeft enemie to loue. 
 That which is held with hate, we feare to loofe. 
 Who hates himfelfe to loue another man, 
 SenceleJlfe Jhmild be ejleemed of all men. 
 The deadUeft hate, with fmiles, fecurely ftands. 
 Where rancour rules, there hate doth moft preuaile. 
 Lewd loue, is hate ; and bafe defire is fliame. 
 Youth old in will, age young in hate doth make. 
 ^Tis incident to them who many feare. 
 Many to them more grieuous hate doe beare. 
 In meekenefie maskes the moft diftemperd hate. 
 
 True 
 
Of Hate. 35 
 
 True faithful! loue will neuer turne to hate. 
 Men oft fhew fauour to conceale their hate. 
 Hatred attendeth on profperitie. 
 
 Thefweeteji loue, changing his propeiiie : 
 
 Turtles to thefvwreft and mojl deadly hate. 
 Loue fo, thou maifl haue little feare to hate. 
 Few hate their faults ; all hate of them to lieare. 
 A rooted hate will hardly be difplac'd. 
 Fie on the loue that hatcheth hate and death. 
 
 Thefe are tlie greaiejl /pollers ofajlate: 
 
 Young counfell, priuat gaine, and partiall hate. 
 Hate without might comes euermore too late. 
 A poore mans hate is very perillous. 
 Mercie may mend, whome hatred made tranfgrefle. 
 From deepe defires, oft conies the deadlieft hate. 
 
 Hatred mujl be beguiVd by fome new courfe, 
 
 Where Jlates arejirong, and Princes doubt their force. 
 Neuer put trufl in them that hate their blood. 
 Hate feekes to falue his harmes by fwift reuenge. 
 Enforced wedlock breeds but fecret hate. 
 Hate euermore is blind, and fo is loue. 
 
 In vulgar eares delight it alwaies breeds, 
 
 To haue the hated authors of mif deeds. 
 Where hate doth rule, Lordfliip fmall fafetie hath. 
 Hate nourifheth contempt, debate, and rage. 
 Hate furrowes vp a graue to burie loue. 
 But few will follow them whom princes hate. 
 
 Hate and difdaine doe neuer brooke refpedl, 
 
 Confijling in true louing hearts negleil. 
 To colour hate with kindneffe, fome commend. 
 Hid hate exceedeth open enmitie. 
 Lookes oft times hate, when as the heart doth loue. 
 No hate like that of friends, once chang'd to foes. 
 Who fofter hate, can neuer find out loue. 
 
 D 2 Moa 
 
36 Of Hate. 
 
 Mojl hapjiie he, to whome hue comes at lajl. 
 
 And doth rejlore what hate before did luaji. 
 Hate many times is hid in fmootheft lookes. 
 The wrong of friends exceeds the foe-mans hate. 
 Hate buried once, hm'ts deadly aftenvard. 
 A bad mans hate can neuer harme the good. 
 
 With fleafmg fpeech men promife and protejl, 
 
 When hatefull hearts lye lurking in thdr breajl. 
 Whome all men hate, none is fo fond to loue. 
 Hate commonly doth moft offend it felfe. 
 Hates winking is a prep'ratiue to death. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiell. 
 
 As Lyons are difcerned by their pawes, 
 So hatefull men are by their qualities. 
 As enuie braggeth and can draw no blood, 
 So hate in flead of hurt, oft doth men good. 
 As greenefl wood lies long before it burne, 
 So hate ftands watching till fit time to harme. 
 As blmdnes, led by blindnes, needs miift fall, 
 So hate, vrg'de on by hate, harmes leaft of all. 
 As children for their faults haue (lye excufes. 
 So hates fmooth lookes hide very foule abufes. 
 As craueu Cocks make fliew, yet dare not fight, 
 So hate makes proifers, when he dares nor bite. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 DEmetrius Phalerius did condemne 
 Any that iuflly could be faid to hate. 
 Stefilia did procure Themijlocles, 
 Euen to the death to hate AriJUdes. 
 Cato and Cee/ar hated not each other, 
 Vntill Seruilia made them enemies. 
 Clodius did hate the men that lou'd him moft. 
 
 And 
 
Of Chajlitie. 
 
 37 
 
 And therefore was of all abandoned. 
 Cicero faith, No honeft citizen 
 Can be procur'de to hate his enemie. 
 Pindarus held no vice more odious, 
 Theui enulous hatred, in what man fo ere. 
 
 Chajl life is graces feale, deuotionsflaffe, 
 Marke of the iufl, andcrowne ofmartyrdome. 
 
 CHaftitie is bright honours glorious crowne, 
 Lojl iewels may be found, Chajlitie neuer 
 Thafs loft but once : and once loft, loft for euer. 
 Shee is mofl chart, that's but enioyd of one. 
 Pure chaftitie is beautie to ourfoitles, 
 Grace to our bodies, peace to our defires. 
 We breake chafl vowes when we Hue loofely euer. 
 The pureft incenfe on the altar fmokes. 
 But chafteft thoughts are Neiflar in loues ftght. 
 Chaftitie loft, can neuer be reftor'd. 
 Eternall ihraldome rather Jhould be wijht. 
 Than lojjfe of chaftitie, or chaunge ofloue. 
 Chaft loue is founded on a iuft defire. 
 
 D 3 When 
 
38 OfChrJiitie. 
 
 When chaftitic is rifled of her /lore, 
 
 Luft, the proud theefe, is f oarer than before. 
 Chaft things are charie to the Gods thenifelues. 
 
 Chaji eyes are blind at any gaudie gift. 
 
 And deafe her eares to goodliefl promifes. 
 Chaft eyes will baniih luftfuU fights away. 
 
 Riches and beautie fraifeth not a wife. 
 
 But pleafmg of her husband, and chafl life. 
 No princes wealth can prize true chafbitie. 
 
 772^ browne complexion favi d for chaflitie, 
 
 Exceedeth farre the fait^Jl fufpeiHed beautie. 
 No life to libertie, no loue hlce chaflitie. 
 
 Chaflitie beautifies the meanefi coat. 
 
 Better than blame in richefl clothing clad. 
 Beautie vnchaft is reckned nothing worth. 
 
 Chaflitie, weakely can laithfland proud wealth 
 
 And dignitie ; both leagued to affazdt. 
 Chaflitie is the crowne of happy life. 
 
 In wedlocke, chaflitie is fpeciall good : 
 
 But more, in virgins life and widowhood. 
 Chaftities wrongs, bondage awarrants not. 
 
 Chaflitie is the beautie ofthefoule. 
 
 The ioy of heauen, befi iewell here on earth. 
 Wanton defire, chafl lookes doth often Iride. 
 
 Chaflitie, charitie, and humilitie. 
 
 Are the vnited vertues ofthefoule. 
 Frugalitie is badge of chaflitie. 
 
 Beautie vnchafl, is like the Mandrakes fruit. 
 
 Sightly infhew, but poyfonous in tafl. 
 Idlenes is the foe to chaflitie. 
 
 Nothing in women worthy praife remaines. 
 
 If once their (glorie) chaflitie be lofi. 
 Where gold's too plentie, chaflitie growes cheape. 
 
 Faire is the face which promifeth pure loue, 
 
 But 
 
Of Chajlitie. 39 
 
 But that celtftiall, Imes by chajlitie. 
 Fortitude, with chart Ufe, adome the foule. 
 
 Shee is not chaft that is by feare comfeld: 
 
 Neither Jlie honejt, that with need is wonne. 
 Modeft and chaft, is dourie rich enough. 
 
 ChaJUtie in extremitie is knowne. 
 
 And in the end crownd with eternitie. 
 A wandring eye bewrayes an vnchaft mind. 
 \Vitli reafons reines, chaftitie bridles luft. 
 
 Where needie want is ioynd with chajlitie. 
 
 There vncleane life getsjome authoritie. 
 Chaft eares cannot endure dilhoneft tallte. 
 The modeft eye controlles loues wanton ryot. 
 Chaft modeft thoughts befeerae a woman beft. 
 
 Similies on the fame fotbie5l. 
 
 As beautie lookes like flowers in the fpring, 
 So chaftitie is like the ftarres of heauen. 
 As Violets fmell fweet in any fente. 
 So chaftitie ftiines bright in euery eye. 
 As water-drops will pearce the hardeft flint. 
 So chaft refolue o'recomes the proudeft luft. 
 As glaiStes broke, can neuer be repaird. 
 So chaftitie once loft, is ne're reftor'd. 
 As luft and libertie doth fliorten life. 
 So chaftitie makes endleffe Hue the foule. 
 As champions by their manhood are beft knowne, 
 So is good life by fpotleffe chaftitie. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 npHe Spartane virgins rather chofe to die, 
 X. Than loofe the honour of pure chaftitie. 
 Nicanor moou'd a Thebane m.aid to luft, 
 Which to preuentj (he gladly flue her felfe. 
 
 D 4 Z,ucrece 
 
40 Of Beautie. 
 
 Lucrece once rifled of her chaftitie, 
 Imagin'd following life, but infamle. 
 Diripentina, by her fathers hands, 
 Was done to death to faue her chaftitie. 
 Varro did hold the man religious, 
 That made a confcience of his chaftitie. 
 Quintilian faith, That heauens chiefeft gift 
 Beftowed on man, is bleffed chaftitie. 
 
 Beautie is Natures priuiledge, a clofe deceit, 
 AJIwrttimes tyrant, and vaji Monarchie. 
 
 BEautie but feldome feene, makes vs admire it. 
 Beautie is fuch a bait, that (fwallowed^ choakes, 
 Beauties beft treafure, is the owners harme. 
 Selfe-pleafmg foules doe play with beauties baites. 
 There is no name (ifjhee befalfe or not) 
 But being faire, fome enuious tongue will blot. 
 Beautie doth varniih age, as if new borne. 
 Where faire is not, no boot to paint the brow. 
 Beautie being borrowed, merits no regard. 
 
 Simples 
 
Of Beautie. 41 
 
 Simples fit beautie, fie on drugs or Art. 
 
 Beautie dothfweetly quicken when 'tis nigh : 
 
 But dijtant farre, murders, where 'tis belou'd. 
 Seldome want guefts where beautie bids the feaft. 
 Care and fufpition is faire beauties dower. 
 Beautie brings perill, wanting fafe prote<3:ion. 
 Beautie at death can be bequeath'd to none. 
 
 Were beautie vnder iwentie lockes keptfaji. 
 
 Yet hue will through, and picke them all at laji. 
 Nice fooles delight to be accounted faire. 
 Beautie is fooneft loft, too choicely kept. 
 Beautie to beautie alwaies is benigire. 
 Beautie within it felfe (hould not be wafted. 
 
 Bright beautie is the bait, which with delight. 
 
 Doth mojl allure man to encrea/e his kind. 
 Beautie and wealth are firaught with coy difdaine. 
 Beautie is often with it felfe at ftrife. 
 True beautie needs no oflier ornament. 
 Men praife the face, yet blame the flintie mind. 
 
 The fairejl Jbwer of beautie fades away. 
 
 Like thefrefh Lillie in the Sun-fhine day. 
 Swift time makes wrinkles in the faireft brow. 
 Faire women grieue to thinke they muft be old. 
 Pittie and fmiles doe beft become the faire. 
 Beautie hath priuiledge to checke all dutie. 
 
 All things that faire, that pure, and glorious beeit. 
 
 Offer themfelues on purpofe to befeene. 
 Alluring ftiewes moft deepe impreiTion ftrike. 
 Sweetly it fits the faire to wantonnize. 
 Nothing but crueltie miffeemes the faire. 
 Beautie is nothing if it be not feene. 
 
 No greater corfiue to our blooming yeeres. 
 Than the cold badge of winter-blafled haires. 
 Beautie will be where is the moft refort, 
 
 Beautie 
 
42 Of Beautie. 
 
 Beautie is mightie, yet her ftrength but weake. 
 Beautie like Autumne fades and falls away. 
 Beautie hath power to ouercome the ftrong. 
 
 Faire flowers that are not gathered in their prime. 
 
 Rot and confume themfelues in little time. 
 The Summers beautie yeelds to winters blalls. 
 By clouds of care beft beauties are defac'd. 
 Beautie being fliamelefle, feemes a loathfome fight. 
 Amongft faire Rofes grow fome flinldng weeds. 
 
 The fairer and more beautifull the skie. 
 
 The ouglier/eeme the clouds that in it lye. 
 Nothing fo foone allures as beautie doth. 
 Religion is auftere, but beautie mild. 
 The fair'ft in fliew muft carrie all away. 
 At faireft fignes, beft welcome is furmiz'd. 
 
 Beautie in heauen and earth this grace doth win, 
 
 Itfupples rigor, and it lejjfens finne. 
 Dainties are made for taft, beautie for vfe. 
 Seeds fpring from feeds, and beauty beauty breedeth. 
 Beautie oft crazeth like a broken glaffe. 
 Both old and young, and all would faireft be. 
 
 Hardly perfeilion isfo abfolute. 
 
 But fome impuritie doth it pollute. 
 A fmall fault foone impaires the fweeteft beautie. 
 The verie faireft hath her imperfe(5tion. 
 Beautie to dwell with woe, deformes it felfe. 
 As faireft beautie fades, fo loue growes cold. 
 
 Beautie it felfe, doth of it felfe peifwade 
 
 The eyes of men, without an Oratour. 
 If beautie were not, loue were quite confounded. 
 The faireft flowers haue not the fweeteft fmell. 
 The painted face fets forth no perfeft blood. 
 The beautie of the mind excels the face. 
 
 Vefire being Pilot, and bright beautie prize. 
 
 Who 
 
Of Beautie. 43 
 
 Who can fiare finking where fuch treafure lyes ? 
 Beautie is able forrow to beguile. 
 There's none fo faire, whofe beautie all refpeft. 
 The faireft buds are fooneft nipt with frofts. 
 Who builds on beautie, builds but for a while. 
 Beautie is euer heldfi} rrnich more faire. 
 
 By how much leffe her hate makes lotie defpaire. 
 That's quickly ilaind, which is the pureft fine. 
 In faireft ftone fmall raine foone makes a print. 
 Ill fare that faire which inwardly is foule. 
 Beautie is inward vertue of the foule. 
 
 We trample grajfe, and prize the Jhmers in MA Y, 
 
 Yet grajji is greene, when fairefi flowers decay. 
 The loue of beautie, Reafon quite forgets. 
 The caufe of loue is only beauties lookes. 
 Beautie and youth once baniiht, ne're returne. 
 Chaft thoughts makes beautie be immortallizd. 
 
 Faire beautie is thefparke of hot defire, 
 
 Andfparkes in time will kindle to afire. 
 Sickneffe and age are beauties chiefeft foes. 
 Weeds oft times grow, when faireft flowers fade. 
 Beautie is like a faire, but fading flower. 
 Where beautie moft abounds, there wants moft ruth. 
 
 The goodliejl gemme being blemifht with a cracke, 
 
 Loofeth both beautie and the vertue too. 
 Beautie doth whet the wit, makes bold the will. 
 Beautie makes Art to worke beyond it felfe. 
 Vnhoneft beautie is a deadly poyfon. 
 Vertue-leffe bea.utie doth deferue no loue. 
 
 The faireft flower nipt with the winters froft, 
 
 Injhewfeemes worfer than the bafeft weed. 
 The perfeift glalfe of vertue, beautie is. 
 No bait fo fweet as beautie, to the eye. 
 White feemes the fairer when as blacke is by. 
 
 The 
 
44 Of Beautie. 
 
 The pureft Lawne is apt for euery ftaine. 
 
 Better it is with beautie to be blinded. 
 
 Than beauties graces Jhould be blindly minded, 
 Beautie is tearm'd the miftreffe of delight. 
 Beautie oft iniures them endued therewith. 
 Beautie enflates and puffeth vp the mind. 
 Humilitie with beautie feldome is. 
 
 Beautie brings fancie to a daintie feajl. 
 
 And makes a man, that el/e were but a beaft. 
 Man of all creatures is moft beautifuU. 
 Beautie not proud, nothing more excellent. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As the right Corall need no other grace, 
 So Artleffe beautie beft fets forth the face. 
 As fineft cloth will foonefl catch a flaine, 
 So faireft lookes may fhadow minds moft vaine. 
 As greateft feafts feldome can want fit friends, 
 So beauties houfe will hardly lacke refort. 
 As medlers with the fire are eafily fcorcht. 
 So they that gaze on beautie foone are caught. 
 As coldeft Climates haue their Summer dayes, 
 So cooleft thoughts are fierd at beauties blaze. 
 As that fame Speare which harme muft heale the wound. 
 So looke where beautie kills, it muft reuiue. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 HErcules being a mightie conquerour. 
 Yet valid his courage at faire beauties feet. 
 The Lybian Lyons loofe their ftemeft might, 
 If of a beauteous face they once get fight. 
 The Scandian Lord, by nature dull and rude. 
 By fight of beautie loft this feruitude. 
 Alcejlaes beautie made Mceanders Swannes, 
 
 To 
 
Of lealoufie. 
 
 To leaue the flood and on her flioulders pearch. 
 Chryfippits held, that beautie did prefenie 
 Kindnes, and all focietie with men. 
 Zeno, the Prince of Stoickes did agree, 
 That beautie, like could very hardly be. 
 
 45 
 
 lealoujie is hells torment to the mind. 
 Quite quenching reafon, and encreajing rage. 
 
 LOue euer langhes when lealoufie doth weepe. 
 If age be iealous, youth will be vntrue. 
 No hell can be compard to iealoufie. 
 Thisjlill we find, wke7-e iealoufie is bred, 
 Homes in the mind are wor/e than on the head, 
 Sufpedl bewraies our thoughts, betraies our words. 
 Sufpitious eyes are meffengers of woe. 
 Iealous fufpedt is linked with defpaire. 
 
 Well fares the man, how ere his cates doe tajl. 
 That tables not with foule fu/pition. 
 Better to die, than be fufpitious. 
 Truft not too foone, nor all too light miflruft. 
 
 Miftruft 
 
46 Of lealoujie. 
 
 Miftruft doth treafou in the truftieft raife. 
 Where lealoufie diredleth forward ■wills. 
 
 Beauties fweet dalliance with defpight it kills. 
 lealoufie kindles enuies qiienchleiTe fire. 
 Sufpition alwaies haunts a giiiltie mind. 
 Sufpition often wounds as deepe as death. 
 
 When fweet repofe doth calme the troubled mind. 
 
 Then bafe fufpeil footifi leaues his fling behind. 
 Daungerous fufpefl ftill waits on loues delight. 
 Sufpition oft times breeds a further ill. 
 Once guiltie, and fufpedled euermore. 
 
 O lealoufie, when h-uth once takes thy part. 
 
 No mercie-wanting Tyrant fo feuere. 
 No fecrecie can be without fufpedt. 
 lealoufie is the father of reuenge. 
 lealoufie pines it felfe to death aliue. 
 
 Thy "wife being faire be not thou iealous, 
 
 Becaife fufpilion cures not womens follies. 
 lealoufie growes extreame, by lengthning it. 
 A iealous man no counfell will admit, 
 lealoufie is the fruit of fuddaine choice. 
 
 The heart being once infeifl with iealoufie, 
 
 Griefe is the night, and day darke mifem. 
 No thraldome like the yoke of iealoufie. 
 Sufpition giues continuall caufe of care, 
 lealoufie is Difdaines blacke harbinger. 
 
 Iealoufie is the torment of the mind, 
 
 For which, 7ior wit, nor counfell helpe can find. 
 Sufpition wounds, but iealoufie ftrikes dead. 
 Sufpedl fends men too fwiftly to their end. 
 Who trauailes in fufpeft, are bound to hafte. 
 
 Too mu^h fufpition of another, is 
 
 Aflat condemning of our owne amiffe, 
 Paflions kept priuat, doe moil preiudice. 
 
 Sufpition 
 
Of lealoufie. 47 
 
 Sufpition needs no vrger but it felfe. 
 Wife men haue alwaies hated iealoufie. 
 
 Where once fufpition breedeth enmitie, 
 
 'Tis hard withjhewes to compaffe amitie. 
 Iealoufie murdereth liofpitalitie. 
 Iealoufie rootes vp all good neighbourhood. 
 Iealoufie reckons friends no more than foes. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieSl. 
 
 As no content is like the fweetes of loue, 
 So no defpaire can match with iealoufie. 
 Loue, as it is diuine with loyaltie, 
 So is it hellifli, wrapt in iealoufie. 
 As from fmall brookes great riuers doe arife, 
 So huge diftemper fprings from iealoufie. 
 As Crowes do deeme their brood the faireft birds, 
 So iealous men their owne choife mofl commend. 
 As fliippes in tempefts by the winds are tofb, 
 So fond conceits doe hurrie iealous heads. 
 As Idndneffe doth delight in companie. 
 So is it poyfon to mad iealoufie. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 THe Perfians were fo iealous of their wiues, 
 As but in waggons they ne're went abroad. 
 Fkaniits lockt vp his wife through iealoufie, 
 Whereby fhe compafl what fhe could not elfe. 
 Procris was ilaine through her owne iealoufie. 
 Hid in a buih to watch her husbands walke. 
 Argus, albeit he had an hundred eyes. 
 Yet could not keepe from lo, lufiter. 
 Cicero calleth Iealoufie, a feare 
 Of loofing that belongs to ones owne feHe. 
 
 Chryfippus 
 
48 
 
 Of Wit and Wifdome. 
 
 Ckryftppis holds, that iealoufie ill brookes 
 A partner in the thing it moil efteemes. 
 
 ^S^Of Wit and Wifdom- 
 
 Wifdome is Natures child, Experience heire, 
 Difcretely rul'd, while Wit gads euery where. 
 
 Wifdome feemes blind, when ihe beholdeth beft. 
 Wifdome grovvne wealthie, liueth then at quiet. 
 No wifdome with extremities to deale. 
 IVs wifdome to giue much: a gift preuailes 
 When deepe perfwading Oratoriefailes. 
 Mans wit doth build for time but to deuoure, 
 Wifdome is alwaies held the chiefeft wealth. 
 Ech foyle or countrey is a wife mans home. 
 He is not wife, that hauingfcapte a harme 
 Will afterward goe meddle with it more. 
 Faire fober fpeed, is counted wifdomes haft. 
 All after-wit, is euer dearely bought. 
 Wifdome bids flay, though foot be in the gate. 
 Not cowardife, but wifdome warnes to yeeld. 
 When fortune aids the proud infulting foe. 
 
 Feed 
 
Of Wit and Wifdome. 49 
 
 Feed fooles with toyes, and wife men with regard. 
 When clouds appeare, wife men put on their cloakes. 
 He wifely walketh that doth fafely goe. 
 
 All places that the eye of heauen furuaies. 
 
 Are (to a wife man) happie ports and hauens. 
 What wife men fee, the vulgar little thinke. 
 Sad pawfe and deepe regard, becomes the wife. 
 Warie fore-fight doth matter head-ftrong will. 
 
 Wife men doe feldome fit and wayle their woes. 
 
 But prefently freuent the wayes to waile. 
 No common things can pleafe a wandring wit. 
 Without difcretion, vertue feemes like vice. 
 Good wit ill vfde, may harme a common-wealth. 
 
 Wifdome commaunds to part the dead andficke, 
 
 Leafl they infeil the faultleffe and the quiche. 
 Difcretion praftifeth the things are good. 
 In loue, difcretion is the chiefeft helpe. 
 Ouer difcretion, Fortune hath no power. , 
 
 All after-wit is like afhower ofraine. 
 
 That falls untimely on the ripened graine. 
 SharpeneiTe of wit quickly enflames defire. 
 What ftrength denyes, wit may afpire vnto. 
 Wit bendeth not where will doth fhew moft force. 
 
 If thou haue lofl by fore-wits rafh preuention. 
 
 Win it againe by after-wits contention. 
 Who trufteth mofl his wit, is ignorant. 
 Wifdome in midft of rage appeareth befl. 
 By others faults wife men reforme their owne. 
 
 "Vhe Pilot, that by skill thefhip doth guide 
 
 And not by might: makes iieffels brooke the tyde. 
 Wifdome is poore, her dowrie is content. 
 To play the foole well, is good figne of wit. 
 Some little pawfe doth helpe the quickeft wit. 
 
 Wife men for fortune doefo well prouide, 
 
 E That 
 
50 Of Wit and Wifdome. 
 
 That though flie Jkake them, yet they will notjlide. 
 Wifdome will flourilh when as folly fades. 
 True wifdome bids, rather doe well than fpeake. 
 Wife-men haue companie, though left alone. 
 
 Wifdome mujl iudge twhct men apt to amend. 
 
 And minds incurable, borne to offend. 
 A wife mans countrey is the world throughout, 
 Wifdome is wealth, euen to the poorefl wretch. 
 Natures imperfedl things, wifdome makes right. 
 
 Reformed tmt can f cant fo iuflly deeme. 
 
 But that it leaues true goods, forfuch asfeeme. 
 Wifdome doth beautifie meane pouertie. 
 VnskilfuU heads run reckleffe on their will. 
 Sound iudgement flightly weighes opinion. 
 
 Too few there be that doe difcreetely learne. 
 
 What profit rightly ought themfelues concerne. 
 Who trufts his wit, by wit is fooneft tript. 
 By wit we fpeake, by wit the mind is rul'd. 
 By wit we goueme all our aftions. 
 
 Wit in a woman, like to oyle enflam'd. 
 
 Kindles great vertue, or much vanitie. 
 Wit is the load-iUrre of ech humane thought. 
 Wife men will take their opportunities. 
 All wifdomes heires are iealous of their fall. 
 
 Wifdome hath charmes and incantations, 
 
 Can tame hugefpirits and outragious pafjions. 
 Slow to beleeue, from wifdome doth proceed. 
 High is the feat which wifdome doth commend. 
 It's wifdome when we wirme, to winne to faue. 
 
 When all gainfi one, and none for him will fpeake. 
 
 Who thinkes himfelfe mofl wife, will prooue too weake. 
 Will doth defire, what wifdome ftill reprooues. 
 Wifdome breeds care, but foUy want doth bring. 
 Wit daunceth many times, when folly pipes. 
 
 Tattempt 
 
Of Wit and Wifdome. 5 1 
 
 T^ attempt with others daunger, not our owne, 
 
 A chiefeftfart of wifdome may be knawne. 
 'Tis wifdome not to be too credulous. 
 Short liued wits doe wither as they grow. 
 Home ftill is yrlcefome to a wandering wit. 
 
 Wife men haue euermore preferred farre, 
 
 TKvniuflefl peace, before the iufiefi warre, 
 Vnwife weaues he tliat takes two webbes in hand. 
 Things well regarded, longeft doe endure. 
 Fore-fight doth ftill on all aduantage wait. 
 
 It is no wifdome to enlarge a thrall, 
 
 Whofe freedome may rtturne thee greater harme. 
 The office of wifdome, is to fhadow griefe. 
 Wifdome is that whereby the foule doth line. 
 Wifdome is plentifull in good examples. 
 
 Thofe wits that know how much f aire graces mooue. 
 
 May thereby draw found arguments ofloue. 
 Wit getteth wealth, but none by wealth get wit. 
 No noble badge like ornament of wit. 
 Nothing more fine than wit, nothing more fickle. 
 
 Men that negledl their owne for want of wit. 
 
 Make fomething nothing, by augmenting it. 
 Wit wonne by induftrie is hardly loft. 
 When age approcheth, wifdome waxeth young. 
 Wifdome makes poore men rich; rich, honourable. 
 
 All pearles are not deriuedfrom onefliell. 
 
 Nor all good wits within one countrey dwell, 
 luftice, not iojm'd with wifdome's crueltie. 
 Wifdome in man, is no meaue happineife. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As from the earth the plough all brambles cleares, 
 So wifdome from the mind all vices root. 
 As wife men for them-felues are meeteft fcribes, 
 
 E 2 So 
 
52 Of Wit and Wifdome. 
 
 So fooles ne're care what ftraunger knowes their hearts. 
 
 As braffe or yron ('by vfe) become moft bright: 
 
 So wit employ'd, fhines faire in all mens fight. 
 
 As emptie veiTels'yeeld the loudeft found, 
 
 So thofe of meaneft wit will prattle mofl. 
 
 As Bees by their owne hony oft are hurt, 
 
 So wit by wifdome many times is fcourg'd. 
 
 As Sea-crabs vfe to fwimme againft the flreame, 
 
 So wit with wifdome alwaies will contend. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 CM/ar in his great fortunes gloried. 
 Yet by his wifdom all were brought to paffe. 
 Antonius the Emperour was fo wife, 
 He ne're repented what-foe're he did. 
 Scipio, accuf'd vniuilly, by his wit 
 In making anfwere, wonne himfelfe renowme. 
 The Senate did acquite Emilius Scmtrus, 
 Onely becaufe he anfwer'd wittily. 
 Plato in his Conuiuim doth affirme, 
 That wifdome is the onely gift in man. 
 Tullie tearmes wifdome, miftreffe of this life: 
 Likewife, an Art inftrucSling to liue well. 
 
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53 
 
 Learning and Know ledge are the la^npes of life, 
 Chief e guides toArtes and all perfe^ions. 
 
 L Earning in fpight of fate will mount aloft. 
 Vaine is tlie Art that will deceiue it felfe. 
 Midas ba/e brood doe fit in honours chaires. 
 Whereto the Mu/es/onnes are onely heires. 
 Art hath a world of fecrets in her power. 
 There is no age ought thinke too late to leame. 
 The world doth /mile on eueryfottijh clowne, 
 And mojl vngently treadeth learning downe. 
 Oft higheft worthes are paid with fpightfull hire. 
 Art is but bafe, with them that know it not. 
 None have more hard or more obdurate minds, 
 Than vicious hare-braines, and illit'rate hinds. 
 The rareft gifts doe need no trumpets found. 
 Learning by vertue is more beautiful!, 
 True Art can wound as deepe as any fteele. 
 Who may haue helpe affuredly elfe where, 
 In vaine feeke wonders out of Magique Art. 
 Knowledge is hurtfull, if difcretion want. 
 
 E 3 An 
 
54 Of Learning and Knowledge. 
 
 Art muft be woiine by Art, and not by might. 
 
 Needs muft thofe men be blind, and blindly led, 
 
 Where no good lejfons can be learrid or read% 
 Nature is moft of all adorn'd by Artes. 
 The pureft ftudle feeketh heauenly things. 
 
 Learning hath power to draw men waxen rude. 
 
 To ciuill loue of Art and fortitude. 
 Wit leameth vs what fecrets Science yeelds. 
 Artes perifh, wanting honour and applaufe. 
 
 Learning can bridle the infernall kind: 
 
 To wit, the perturbations of the mind. 
 The prieft vnpaid can neither fing nor fay. 
 Skill, and the loue of skill, doe euer kiffe. 
 
 Fooles will find fault without the caufe difcerning. 
 
 And argue moft of that they haue no learning. 
 No bond of loue fo ftrong as knowledge is. 
 Learning, to graue experience, ought to bow. 
 
 True Science futed in well couched rimes. 
 
 Is nouriftied for fame in after-times. 
 Learning to conqueft addeth perpetuitie. 
 Learning, firfl founder was of publicke weales. 
 
 Wlien dolts haue lucke, on honours ftep toftay: 
 
 Let Schollers burne their bookes, and goe to play. 
 Learning is ages comfort, youthes beft guide. 
 Learning makes young men fober, old men wife. 
 
 Dull idiots neuer learning doe deftre, 
 
 But hate allfuch as are by nature wife. 
 To vnlearne euill, that beft learning is. 
 Opinion without learning is not good. 
 
 Some menfofiriue in cunning to excell. 
 
 That oft they marre the worke before was well. 
 Knowledge continues when all wealth elfe wafts. , 
 Knowledge in all things is right profitable. 
 
 77^5 mind withdrawne from ftudie, for fupplies. 
 
 Is tear- 
 
Of Learning and Knowledge. 5 5 
 
 Is learnings wracke, where want doth tyrannize. 
 To know, and want performance, is milhap. 
 Beft knowledge is for men to know themfelues. 
 
 Coy readers deeme, that dull conceits proceed 
 
 From ignorance, the caufe being onely need. 
 Poets are borne, but Oratours are made. 
 Poetrie qiiickeneth wit, fweetens difcourfe. 
 
 Poets fcant fweetly write, except they meet 
 
 With found rewards, for fermoning fo fweet. 
 Learning and knowledge, good minds moft defire. 
 Knowledge, before all elfe ftiould be preferd. 
 
 True learning hath a bodie abfolute. 
 
 That in apparant fence itfelfe canfute. 
 Breuitie is great praife of eloquence. 
 Silence in wife men is fweet eloquence. 
 
 The man that fcorneth all the Aries offchoole. 
 
 Laches but a long coat, to be natures foole. 
 Eloquence is the ornament of fpeech. 
 Eloquence makes bad matters oft feeme good. 
 
 They which doe like all Artes which can be thought. 
 
 Doe comprehend not any as they ought. 
 Experience is the miflreffe of old age. 
 Men rich in knowledge hate all other wealth. 
 
 Arts, which right hard doe feeme at our firfl fight. 
 
 By triall are made eafie, quiche and light. 
 Experience, times characters raceth out. 
 Knowledge diftinguiflieth twixt men and beads. 
 
 Learning will Hue, and vertue flill fhall fliine, 
 
 When follie dyes, and ignorance doth pine. 
 Learning, with courage, make a man complete. 
 Let Guns ferue gownes, and bucklers yeeld to books. 
 Arts want may flop our tongues, but not our teares. 
 
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5 6 Of L earning and Knowledge. 
 Similies on the fame fubieSl. 
 
 As learning helpes to purchafe all men fame, 
 So (truly learn'd) doth more renowme tlielr name. 
 As ground vntil'd can neuer bring forth graine, 
 So vnlearn'd valour fruitleffe taketh paine. 
 As men by folly differ from the Gods, 
 Euen fo by knowledge come they neereft them. 
 As Bees fucke honey out of diuers flowers. 
 So out of Sciences men knowledge learne. 
 As feales imprint their liuely forme in waxe, 
 So Poets in dull mindes fweet thoughts impreife. 
 As Mufique quickens difcontented hearts, 
 So drowfie foules are cheer'd with eloquence. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 ALexander honoured Arijiotle, 
 And made his pillow Homers Hiades. 
 In campe or ehe-where Cm/ar alwaies bare, 
 His Commentaries as his bofome-friend. 
 Robert king of Scicill vs'd to fay. 
 Kingdome and all goe, ere I learning loofe. 
 Ptolomie Philadelphics, learnmgs friend, 
 Fiue hundred thoufand bookes had in his ftudie. 
 Man f'as faith Ari/loile) was create 
 To vndeifland, and afterward to doe. 
 Oh Science (faid graue Plato) how would men 
 Loue and efteeme thee, if they knew thee right? 
 
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Kings are the images of Gods on earth: 
 
 A nd therefore they are cal'd, Gods of the earth. 
 
 Kings like to Gods fliould gouerne euery thing. 
 Monarclis mifdeeds cannot be hid in clay. 
 Vnhappie kings, that neuer may be taught 
 To know themfelues, or to difcerne their faults. 
 Princes are glaffes to their fubiefts eyes. 
 The lines of princes are their fubledts bookes. 
 To whome J!iould fuHeiUs for true iufiicce flie. 
 When Kings themfelues doe reigne by tyrannie? 
 The greateft fcandale waits on greateft ilate. 
 Poore groomes are fightleffe night ; Kings, glorious day. 
 A king fhould euer friuiledge his pleafure, 
 And make his peeres efleeme it as their treafure. 
 The cares of kings waft life, and haften age. 
 Within one land, one fingle fway is befl. 
 Princes like Sunnes are euermore in fight, 
 All fee the clouds that doe ecclipfe their light. 
 Diuided kingdomes make diuided hearts. 
 Good deeds from kings mufl not be drawne perforce. 
 
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58 Of Kings and Princes. 
 
 A Princes wealth, in f pending Jlill dothfpread. 
 
 Like to a poole with many fountaines fed. 
 Minions too great, argue a king too weake. 
 Kings fleeping, fee with eyes of other men. 
 Whereas pfoud conqtieft keepelh all in awe. 
 
 Kings oft are fore' d in feruile yokes to draw. 
 A kings great arme doth reach from fhore to fhore. 
 Kings vfe their loues as garments they haue worne. 
 
 Princes haue but their titles for their glorie. 
 
 And outward honour for an inward toyle. 
 Kings pardon death, but can not pardon fliame. 
 Kings want no means t'accomplifh what they would. 
 
 Princes, for meere vnfelt imaginations, 
 
 Do often feele a world ofreJUeffe cares. 
 It fhames a Prince to fay • IF THA T I CO VLD. 
 Kings liues reputed are their fubie(5ls lights. 
 
 Betweene kings titles and their lowly name. 
 
 Therms nothing differs but the outward frame. 
 No common fortunes can once blemifh kings. 
 A begging prince, what begger pitties not? 
 
 Where Angels in the caufe of Kings doe fight, 
 
 VVeake men muflfall, for heauen regards the right. 
 A king, woes flaue, muft kingly woe obey. 
 Kings may winne kingdoms, but not conquer hearts. 
 
 JVbt all the water in the rough rudefea, 
 
 Can wafh the balmefrom an annointed king. 
 The linlies of princes loue, are blood and warre. 
 Poore priuat men found not their princes hearts. 
 
 This fault is euer incident to kings, 
 
 Too muxh to credit ouer-pleafing things. 
 Princes refpedl their honour more than blood. 
 To be a Prince, is more than be a man. 
 
 The man that at afubiedls life doth aime, 
 
 To the princes hodie glues apriuie maime. 
 
 Princes 
 
Of Kings and Princes. 59 
 
 Princes like Lyons neuer will be tam'd. 
 Kings will be onely, competitors muft downe. 
 Gnats are vnnoted where-foire they jtie. 
 But Eagles gaid vpon with euery eye. 
 A kings great name makes not his fault the leiTe. 
 Defire of foueraigntie refpedls no faith. 
 Foolijh the begger, that to touch a crowne, 
 V Vould with the fcepter Jlrait be /mitten downe. 
 The threats of kings are like the thunders noife. 
 Kings haue long armes, and rulers reach at large. 
 Princes are as the glaffe, the/choole, the booke. 
 Where fubiedls eyes doe leame, doe read, doe looke. 
 Maieflie Ihines like lightning from the Eaft. 
 A princes will ought not exceed his law. 
 Mildnejfe doth better fute with maiejlie. 
 Than rajlt, reuenge, and rough feuerilie. 
 Princes defires are many times corrupt. 
 Princes oft fauour flatterers more than friends. 
 Kings doe approach the neerejl vnto God, 
 By giuing life andfafetie to their people. 
 Vnworthie mens preferment, fliames the prince. 
 Kings Courts are held as vniuerfall fchooles. 
 Succeeding heapes of plagues doe teach too late. 
 To leame the mif chief es of mifguided flate. 
 Kings by example fmne more than by aft. 
 Kings feates for foules diftreft, are fandluaries. 
 The youth of Princes haue no bounds for finne, 
 Vnleffe them-felues doe make them bounds within. 
 Princes oft purchafe quiet with price of wrong. 
 Wifh for good princes, but endure the ill. 
 Subiedis may well complaine, but not corre^ 
 A princes faults, they beare more high refpeil. 
 No ruler yet could euer all content. 
 The face of kings makes faultie'fubiefts feare. 
 
 Kift«s, 
 
6o Of Kings and Princes. 
 
 Kings, Lords of times and of occafions. 
 
 May take aduantage when and how they lifi. 
 It's hard to rule, and pleafe both good and bad. 
 New kings doe feare when old Courts furder ftraine. 
 
 Poore maieftie, that other men mufl guide: 
 
 Whofe difcontent can neuer looke aright. 
 When princes worke, who then will idle ftand? 
 Peafants may beare, but kings muft needs requite. 
 
 Who would all maflring maieflie defeat 
 
 Of her befl grace: that is to make men great. 
 A princes wrath is meffenger of death. 
 What els is pompe, rule, raigne; but earth and duil? 
 
 Kings muft hauefome be hated worfe than they. 
 
 On whome they may their weight of enuie lay. 
 Pride is no ornament for diademes. 
 Selfe-loue doth very ill befeeme a prince. 
 
 Blefl is that league, where citties further Kings, 
 
 And kings doe further them in other things. 
 Kings that would haue lawes kept, muft rule themfelues. 
 Graue heads are meeteil Councellors for kings. 
 
 Looke what a King doth mofl of all embrace. 
 
 To that hisfubieifls will encline asfafl. 
 The ftrength of princes is their fubiefts loue. 
 icings ought be free from partialitie. 
 
 Sleepleffe fufpition, pale difirufl, cold feare, 
 
 Alwaies with princes company doth beare. 
 Kings ihould be fathers to their common-weales. 
 Kings fliould preferre them moft that feeke it leaft. 
 
 A Prince not fear' d, hath oft his death confpir'd: 
 
 And dreaded Princes haue their deaths defir'd. 
 Maieftie fcornes to looke on cowardife. 
 Kings reafons fhould be more than their opinions. 
 
 What elfe are kings when regiment is gone. 
 
 But like tofkadruoes in a Sunfhine day? 
 
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Of Kings and Princes. 6i 
 
 In fubiedVs wrongs, princes fuftaine abufe. 
 It's greater care to keepe, than get a crowne. 
 
 Kings fauours in their eye-lids vfe to hang. 
 
 Ready with euery winke to be wifte out. 
 He is no king, that is affecSions flaue. 
 No fall like his that falleth from a crowne. 
 
 Kings are not tearmed Gods for wearing crownes, 
 
 But for o'refame and fortune they are Lords. 
 Mifgouem'd kings are caufe of common wracke. 
 Kings chaunging cuftomes, euer feare a chaunge. 
 
 left not with Princes if that thou be wife: 
 
 For in vnequall iefl great daunger lyes. 
 Kings are their fubietfts ioy, their countries hope. 
 True fubiedls hearts are princes chiefefl ftay. 
 
 In Princes, thefe tioo qualities well fit: 
 
 For Jirength a Lyon, and a Foxefor wit. 
 Great perils are compriz'd within a crowne. 
 Beggers make maieftie a gazing marke. 
 
 Tru£ iufliee is the chiefe and onely thing 
 
 That is required and looktfor in a king. 
 Miflikes are fillie lets, where kings refolue. 
 luft foueraigutie can neuer be difplac'd. 
 
 A king, bereft of all his truflie friends 
 
 Is dead aliue; for fame and honour ends. 
 All lawfuU princes, firfl or lail preuaile. 
 A princes fafetie is his peoples loue. 
 
 Who hath been kneeVd vnto, can hardly kneele. 
 
 Or beggefor that which once hath been his owne. 
 Kings greatnes Hands on the great king of heauen. 
 No maieftie, where vertue is defpis'd. 
 
 A; 
 
 Similies on tltefamefubie£l. 
 
 S princes wills are commonly held lawes. 
 So life or death dependeth on their lookes. 
 
 As 
 
62 Of Kings and Princes. 
 
 As often burials is Phyficians ihame, 
 So many deaths argue a kings hard raigne. 
 As beafts obey the Lordly lyons looke, 
 So meane eftate mud mightie princes brooke. 
 As the Sun-beames doe lighten all the world, 
 So princes liues are lanternes to their lands. 
 As Princes wanting wealth, learne tyrannic, 
 So too much treafure makes them vicious. 
 As biggeft winds enkindle greateft flames. 
 So much fubmiffion makes a king moft mild. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 THe Kings of Perfia, alwaies ihewed themfelues 
 More fubieft to the law, than to their Lords. 
 Antiochus told his fonne Demetrius, 
 That kingly rule was noble flauerie. 
 Belus the fonne of Nemrod, was firft king 
 That in this world had title of that name. 
 The Romane kings did vfe to weare no crownes. 
 But alwaies bare their fcepters in their hands. 
 Tully faith, then 'tis beft to checke a prince. 
 When he forgets himfelfe to be a prince. 
 Socrates wil'd good kings preferre their friends, 
 And (hewe fome kindneffe to their enemies. 
 
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TheKingdome, Countrey,andthe Comnion-weale, 
 Are things thatfubie5ls loue doe mojl retieale. 
 
 KIngdomes are Fortunes flattering gifts, foone loft. 
 Kingdomes are burd'nous to the wifeft men. 
 Concord doth keefe a Realme injiablejtay. 
 When difcord brings all kingdomes to decay. 
 Wretched the ftate where men defire to die. 
 Who ftriues to alter lawes, difturbes the ftate. 
 Kingdomes are commonly much fooner loft 
 Than kept: defer' d, than had with mightie coft. 
 Kingdomes are Fortunes fatall tenife balls. 
 A wicked king, makes a more wicked land. 
 A man that takes delight in doing ill, 
 To trouble all the State deuifeth flill. 
 In a well-gouern'd ftate one head is beft. 
 Some men vnwilling benefit their land. 
 Fooles/et in office, doe their fpknes reueale: 
 And meaning well, moft hurt the common-weale. 
 Some Tnawares their countries good preferre. 
 AU earthly kingdomes, euen as men muft periih. 
 
 Kingdomes 
 
64 Of Kingdomes and Common-weales. 
 
 Kingdomes are rul'd but badly, where the bafe 
 
 Will checke the chiefe that fit in- higheji place. 
 No flate ftands fure, but on the grounds of right. 
 Realmes neuer get by chaunge, but paine and loffe. 
 
 When lawe! are made, they ought to be obey'd. 
 
 And rulers willes with reuerence to be weigh'd. 
 Wifdome and care are kingdomes chiefeft props. 
 Rude multitudes are kingdomes ouerthrow. 
 
 By nature, man vnto the worji is bent. 
 
 If whol/bme Jiatutes Jiay not his intent. 
 Innocent men are common-weales beft treafure. 
 Innocence makes kingdoms florWh more than arms. 
 
 T!iat kingdome ought of right to be dejlroy'd. 
 
 Which once was vertues flower, now vices weed. 
 Wife princes are their kingdomes comforters. 
 Vniuft exactions killes a common-weale. 
 
 No greater daunger to a common-wealth. 
 
 Than when vnskilfull leaders guide her powers. 
 Kingdomes are nothing elfe but common care. 
 Where fools beare rule, the common-wealth decaies. 
 
 In realmes a many fee how broyles begin, 
 
 But few reffeil the end, and remedie. 
 Where ivife men are neglefted, kingdomes perilh. 
 No nearer kiured can be, than our countrey. 
 
 There are no common-weales more loofe and bad. 
 
 Than where the commons haue mofl libertie. 
 Our countrey, parents, kin, claime part in vs. 
 Our countries loue ought be moft deare to vs. 
 
 Authorities of common-weales decay. 
 
 Where buildings waft, and careleffe heads beare fway. 
 Where any may line well, that is his countrey. 
 Remembrance of our countrey is moft fweet. 
 
 In common-weales fuch fhould be honour' d mofl, 
 
 Asfhew their care both infierne warre and peace. 
 
 Our 
 
Of Kingdomes and Common-weales. 65 
 
 Our countrey firft by nature claimeth vs. 
 Sweet is the death in caufe of common-weale. 
 
 The gouernment of common-weales andjlate. 
 
 Will (without wifdome)foone be ruinate. 
 Reward and punilhment are kingdomes keyes. 
 Peace in a common-wealth is mellodie. 
 
 There's nothing can imprejfefo deare conjlraint, 
 
 As countries caufe and common foes difdaine. 
 Men of defert, their countrey leaft efteemes. 
 Difcretion beft doth rule a common-weale. 
 
 Tliat Mngdome may he counted fortunate. 
 
 Where no man liueth by anothers fweat. 
 Seditious heads difturbe the common good. 
 Vnruly members foone ihould be lopt of. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie^. 
 
 As fpring and Autumne hazard health by chaunge, 
 So innouations harme a common-wealth. 
 Looke how the body void of members is, 
 Euen fo are kingdomes difpoiifeft of lawes. 
 As Ihips in tempefls need all helping hands. 
 So in a kingdome none muil idlely ftand. 
 As many Elements one temper frame, 
 So diners mens endeauours helpe the ilate. 
 As from the heart all members haue their life, 
 So from the common-wealth comes each mans good. 
 As Captaines are the eyes to lead their men. 
 So kings are Load-ftarres to their common-weales. 
 
 V: 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 Lyffes lou'd fo deare his natiue land. 
 As for it, he refus'd to be immortall. 
 
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66 Of Kingdomes and Common-weales. 
 
 Aglaurus to redeeme his countries peace, 
 
 From Athens walls himfelfe threw headlong downe. 
 
 Faire Iphigenia for her kingdomes good, 
 
 Made willing facrifice of her owne blood. 
 
 King Codrus, rather than his realme fliould perifh, 
 
 Gladly did runne vpon his foe- mens fwords. 
 
 Zenophon did thinke them vnworthie life, 
 
 That made no confcience of the common-wealth. 
 
 He that denyes to die in comitries caufe, 
 
 Deferues (faith Tullie) hate of all good men. 
 
 Nobilitie, is ajir-name or praife, 
 
 Which to ourfelues by vertue we doe rai/e. 
 
 A Noble nature no mifhap can daunt. 
 Vertue feeds fcome; and nobleft honour, fliame. 
 A noble mi\id doth neuer dread mifchaunce. 
 That which in means nun we call patience, 
 In noble breajis, is pale, cold cowardife. 
 Noblenes neuer floupes to feruile feare. 
 A noble heart doth ftill contemne defpaire. 
 
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Of Nobilitie. 67 
 
 Oft noble deeds by falfliood are defac'd. 
 
 Good gifts are fometimes giuen to men pa.fi good: 
 
 And nohleJJ'e ftoopes oft times beneath his blood. 
 Our vertues make vs noble, nothing elfe. 
 Nobilitie from kinred is but borrowed. 
 It is thine owne deferts ennobles thee. 
 
 He is not noble, but mofi bafely bred. 
 
 That ran/acks tombes, and doth deface the dead. 
 A noble nature is to all men kind. 
 Nobilitie contemneth flatterie. 
 A noble refolution makes men iuft. 
 
 Nobilitie is befi continued. 
 
 By thofe conuenient meanes that made it rife. 
 In boldeft aftions, noblefife Ihines mod cleare. 
 He is not noble, beares a niggards mind. 
 True nobleffe is a figne of happie life. 
 
 In chaunge offireames ech fijh makes fhift to Hue, 
 
 And euery place a noble mind contents. 
 Nobilitie ('to bad men) is reproch. 
 To vertuous men, nobilitie brings glorie. 
 Nothing are noble titles worth, if life be bad. 
 
 If nobleneffe gets but a minutes fiaine. 
 
 An hundred yeares fcant makes it well againe. 
 Truth is the title of true nobleneffe. 
 'Tis vertue only giues nobilitie. 
 In vertues loue no noble mind difmayes. 
 
 Faire fpeech, with vfage affable and kind. 
 Wipes malice out of any noble mind. 
 Much babbling doth offend a noble eare. 
 A noble nature is religious. 
 Pouerties beft friend, is the noble mind. 
 Noble difcents make vertue more diuine. 
 
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68 OfNobilitie. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieSl. 
 
 As none but Eagles gaze againft the Sunne, 
 So none but vertuous eyes difceme nobiKtie. 
 As credit from opinion often comes, 
 So from defert enfues nobilitie. 
 As bricks from clay haue their originall, 
 So nobleffe firft rofe from meane parentage. 
 As groffe thicke clouds obfcure the Sims faire light, 
 So muddie crimes difgrace nobilitie. 
 As bitter roots may yet yeeld pleafant fruit. 
 So meane difcent may bring forth noble minds. 
 As in the barren grounds beft gold doth grow. 
 So pooreft race ftaines not true nobleffe. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 CAmillus did expreffe a noble mind, 
 In fafe returning the Falerian youthes. 
 Pyrrhus well found Fabrititts noble nature, 
 When his Phyficion would haue poyfon'd him. 
 Lyfander in his famous vidtories, 
 Euer declar'd his minds true nobleneffe. 
 Catilines wicked life difgraced him, 
 And quite obfcur'd his former noble race. 
 The name of Noblenes (faith Cicero) 
 Muft giue them place that by their vertue claime it. 
 Plato affirmeth, that a noble heart 
 Will not by bafe attempts once wrong it felfe. 
 
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" jOf Honor&dif[ionor.,K^H' 
 
 Honour, is that the mind doth couet mojl: 
 And no dijhonour like that honour loji. 
 
 Honour once loft, can neuer be repair'd. 
 Honor, ambitious womens fexe dotli pleafe. 
 It is no honour to be Princes heires: 
 When we can boajl, but only birth is theirs. 
 Their fall is great, that from high honour Aide. 
 Honour is leaft, where oddes appeareth moft. 
 Honour was firji ordained for no cau/e, 
 But to fee right maintained by the lawes. 
 To honour, beautie is a due by right. 
 Die rather, then doe ought diflionour yeelds. 
 
 Tt^c loiu doth alwaies bring forth bounteous deeds, 
 And in good minds defire of honour breeds. 
 It is more honour to preferue, than fpill. 
 Who cheapneth honour, muft not ftand on price. 
 Fie on the fame, for which good fame is fold. 
 Or honour xviih indignitie embac'd. 
 Honour is grounded on the tickle Ice. 
 No kingly vaile can couer villanie. 
 
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70 Of Honour and Dijhonour. 
 
 An honourable graue is more ejleem'd, 
 
 Than the polluted dofet of a king. 
 No fcepter femes dilhonour to excufe. 
 No fubtill plea reuokes diflionours error. 
 
 Profile with honour Jlill mujl be cotnmixt, 
 
 Or elfe our ailions are hutfcandalous. 
 Honour and enuie are companions. 
 Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we doe. 
 
 To frufirate them that but expedl their dM, 
 
 Doth ill befeeme an honourable mind. 
 On generall bruit, honour doth moil depend. 
 With painfull toyle is honour fooneft found. 
 
 Honour will hardly fellow/hip endure. 
 
 Nor neuer Crowne corriuall could abide. 
 Some honour lines in honourable fpoUe. 
 'Tis honour to forgiue a yeelding foe. 
 
 The mightier man, the mightier is the thing: 
 
 That makes him honoured, or begets him hate. 
 Daunger hath honour; great defsignes then- fame. 
 Honour's a thing without vs, not our owne. 
 
 Its honour to depriue dijhonour' d lift: 
 
 The one "will Hue, the other being dead. 
 Honour by oath, ought right poore Ladies wrongs. 
 Honours are fmoakes, and dignities haue cares. 
 
 Honour and beautie in the owners armes. 
 
 Are weakely fortreji from, a world of harmes. 
 Honour relieues a foe as well as friend. 
 It is no honour to be fwolne with pride. 
 Honour doth fcome diflionourable thoughts. 
 
 The vidlor can no honour iujily claime. 
 
 To loofe the meanes thatjhould aduance thefami. 
 Where hate beares foueraigutie, there honour dies. 
 He that regards his honour, will not wrong it. 
 Difquiet honour hurteth more than helpes. 
 
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Of Honour and Dijhonour. 7 1 
 
 Honour and wealth oft times too dearely cojl 
 
 The death of all, fo altogither lofl. 
 Honour doth euer iudge with lenitie. 
 No greater honour than a quiet mind. 
 Honour's no priuiledge againft defame. 
 
 Alwaies doth great employment for the great. 
 
 Quicken the blood, and honour flill beget. 
 Honour, to many is more fweet than life. 
 Honour is fruit of vertue and faire truth. 
 Honour once gone, bids farewell to all hope. 
 
 The inward touch that wounded honour beares, 
 
 Findeth no helfe, till death cure the difeafe. 
 Honour and glorie labours in miftruft. 
 Honour is firft ftep to difquietneffe. 
 How hard is princely honour to attaine? 
 
 High honour, not long life, the treafure is. 
 
 Which noble mindes without refpeifl defend, 
 Diihonefl deeds no honour can attaine. 
 The praife of honour is not alwaies blood. 
 
 Ntuer retire with^iame, bright honour faith. 
 
 The worfl that can befall thee, is but death. 
 Honour doth fcorne the height of Fortunes pride. 
 Great honours youth may loofe it felfe in age. 
 
 Report, that f eld to honour is true friend. 
 
 May many lies againfi true meaning mint. 
 No honour comes by fpilling aged blood. 
 Who feekes for honour, lingers not his time. 
 
 Vilde is that honour, and the title vaine. 
 
 The which true worth and honour did not gaine. 
 Honour doth hate with bafe delights to dwell. 
 Honour helpes nothing where contentment wants. 
 
 He that contends with th'inferiour fori, 
 
 May with difhonour reape but bad report. 
 Honour is worthleiTe in a wretched ftate. 
 
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7 2 Of Honour and Dijhonour. 
 
 High honour cryes reuenge vpon his foes. 
 
 No death or hell can damnifie thine honour. 
 
 So long as reafons arme vpholds thy banner. 
 Who reach at honour, fpurne at beauties baits. 
 Honour is like a vaine, yet pleaCng dreame. 
 Honour deckes learning that with honour reares it. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As fairefl bloiloms foone are nipt with froft, 
 So honours pride by fortunes frownes are croft. 
 As goodly trees that yeeld no fruit are bad, 
 So beauteous bodies f'honour-leffe) as bad. 
 As ihadowes are the fleeteft things that be, 
 So honours haue the like inconftaucie. 
 As raine in harueft doth but little good, 
 So fooles for honour beare no likelihood. 
 As he that climbes aloft may quickly fall, 
 So honours feat is not the fur'ft of all. 
 As euery crowne fits not a conquerour. 
 So honour not agrees with euery one. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 NEJlor rehearft his honourable deeds. 
 That Heilors combat might be vndertane. 
 Leonidas to honour Eutichus, 
 Led him from forth the daunger of the fight. 
 Pericles being requefted to fweare falfe, 
 Replyed : That honour would not fuffer him. 
 Agefdaus vrg'd to giue fentence wrong. 
 Said : But for honour he could eafily doe it. 
 Parmenides, his fchoUers did inftruift : 
 No wound was comparable to difhonour. 
 Cleobulus condemn'd that citie quite, 
 Where honour was not held in high efteeme. 
 
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73 
 
 Councell and good aduife is wifdomesfquare, 
 A nd mojl auailing to the life of man. 
 
 COuijcell doth mitigate the greateft fmarts. 
 In puhUcke fliame, oft counfell feemes difgrac'd. 
 That counfell mermore is held mojljit, 
 IVhich of the time doth due adtiantage take. 
 They that thriue well, take counfell of their friends. 
 Vntroubled night giues counfell euer beft. 
 With grauefl counfell all mufl be direifled. 
 Where plainefl fhewes are openly fufpeiled. 
 All wounded minds good counfell helpeth moft. 
 With patient counfell thirft is not appeas'd. 
 A Mngdomes greatneffe hardly can hefway. 
 That wholfome counfell will notfirfl obey, 
 Direil not him, whofe way himfelfe will choofe. 
 Oft long debated counfels hinder deeds. 
 In vaine be counfels, flatutes, humane lawes, 
 When chief e of counfell pleads the vniufl caufe. 
 Ne're grieue his harme that would not be aduis'd. 
 Friends by aduife may helpe ech other much. 
 
 Ahvay 
 
74 Of Counfell and Aduife. 
 
 Alway too late comes counfell to be heard. 
 
 Where will doth mutinie with wits regard. 
 The ficke man may giue counfell to the found. 
 The wifefl men (in need) will lift aduife. 
 
 When greene deuife by graue aduife is flayed: 
 
 A world of harmes are ofenly difplaied. 
 Who vfeth counfell, is not foone deceiu'd. 
 A worldly mans aduife is daungerous. 
 
 Time, and ft place, giues alwaies befl aduife: 
 
 For what comes out offeaforCs out of price. 
 Aduife is quickly giuen, not ta'ne fo foone. 
 No man fo ivife, but he may counfell want. 
 
 Oft times the counfell of a very friend. 
 
 Appearing good, may faile yet in the end. 
 Councell confoundeth doubts, diffolues denials. 
 Affliiled hearts, all counfels doe deferre. 
 
 Counfell vnto a careleffe man applyed. 
 
 Is like a charme vnto an Adders eare. 
 The wife accept of counfell, fooles will not. 
 The careleffe man is full of wretchedneffe. 
 Counfell vnto it felfe moft honour drawes. 
 
 Wounds oft grow defperate, and death doth end. 
 
 Before good councell can the fault amend. 
 Aduife bids quench a fparke before it flame. 
 Counfell beft curbs doting affeflions. 
 
 Where found aduife and wholfome counfell wants. 
 
 Trees hardly prooue, but perifh in the plants, 
 Counfell, the iealous fcorne, and will not learne. 
 What boots complaining, where's no remedie?. 
 
 It cannot be, butfuch as counfell fcorne. 
 
 Shall in their greatefl need be left forlorne. 
 In euils, counfell is a comfort chiefe. 
 Good counfell oft times cheares difpairing mindes. 
 
 Theficke that loathes to liften to his cure. 
 
 To 
 
Of Counfell and A duife. 7 5 
 
 To die the death for lacke ofhelpe isfure. 
 Good counfell may be call'd a right good worke. 
 Courteous aduife, calmes ftormes of miferie. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieSl. 
 
 As wife men fcome not to accept aduife, 
 So fooles hold counfell not of any price. 
 As young rafh heads without difcretion run, 
 So old mens cotinfels tell what fliould be done. 
 As gentle (howers doe caufe the earths encreafe. 
 So mild aduife affures the confcience peace. 
 As treachers treafons prooue againft themfelues, 
 So euill counfell oft tumes on it felfe. 
 As flowers in their prime haue fweeteft fente, 
 So in diftreffe counfell beft fliewes it felfe. 
 As foes by fleering feeke each others harme, 
 So friends by councell gaine each others good. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 '"T'^O Plutarch did the Emperour Traiane write, 
 
 X Only to counfell him what he fhould doe. 
 The Emperour Galba faid; All his miihaps 
 Enfued, becaufe he would not be aduis'de. 
 Demetrius of Macedon would fay: 
 Reprooue me, when I councell doe refufe. 
 
 Verres had neuer fallen in miferie. 
 
 But that good counfell alwaies he defpis'd. 
 
 Solon bad wealthie Crcefus be aduis'd, 
 
 For counfell was more worth than all his wealth, 
 
 Philoxenus the Poet did efleeme 
 
 Nothing fo precious as difcreete aduife. 
 
 Of 
 
76 
 
 lujlice is that which giueth equall right, 
 Punijheth wrong, keepes law in p^lblicke fight. 
 
 IVftice and order keepe vp common-weales. 
 luflice allowes no warrant to defraud, 
 lufticc giues euery man that is his owne. 
 Good luftices are common-weales Phifitions. 
 Honour and fame hold vp mild iujlice traine. 
 And heauenly hopes in heart JJte doth retaine. 
 Wrong muft haue wrong, & blame the due of blame. 
 A world of wrongs can not weigh downe one right. 
 Men are content to leaue right, being diftreft. 
 Weak doth he build, that fenceth wrong with wrong. 
 To ajlrong man, and of moft puijfant might. 
 He giues him more that takes away his right. 
 What wrong hath not continuance out-worne? 
 Yeares makes that right, which neuer was fo borne. 
 That right is wrong, ill fought, and got with fpoile. 
 Proud, rich, and poore, to iuftice are alike. 
 Princes ne're doe themfelues a greater wrong. 
 Than when they hinder iujlice, or prolong. 
 
 With 
 
Of lujlice, Eguitie, &c. 'j'j 
 
 With loue and law is iuftice ioyned ilill. 
 Wrong richly clad, to blindneffe feemeth right. 
 To pay each with his owne, is right and due. 
 In fuffering harmes great wrongs are offered. 
 
 Where iuJUce fwayes in time of peace and quiet. 
 
 It fits not JItifters fijiiing, nor their diet. 
 Right often-times by might is ouer-raught. 
 Men higly wronged, feare not to difpleafe. 
 True noble minds doe ftill refpecft the right, 
 luftice, not pittie, fits a princes mind. 
 
 Where our owne wrongs doe worke our ouerthrow, 
 
 In vaine we hope to weave it out with woe. 
 Men arm'd with iuftice, know not how to feare. 
 Companion to offence, is puniftiment. 
 The punifhment of fome, reformeth all. 
 Speed doth loue right, but long delay is wrong. 
 
 Innocence, concord, friendjhif, and godlinejfe: 
 
 Thefe doe fupport iufiice and eguitie. 
 Right maketh roome fomtimes where weapons faile. 
 Accufers fhould themfelues be innocent. 
 Iuftice forbids to flay them that fubmit. 
 The foe doth iuftly kill where prince forfakes. 
 
 The iudge himfelfe doth for condemned fiand. 
 
 Where guilt goes free with pardon in his hand. 
 Poffeffion is no plea where wrong infults. 
 They that haue part in wrongs, haue part in griefes. 
 Wrongs are remembred while the fcarres remaine. 
 A lawleffe peere, by law deferues to die. 
 
 luftice is vertues badge, andfiaffe of -peace : 
 
 Maintaining honour in her rich increafe. 
 True iuftice payes the bloodie home their hire. 
 Blood fpilt by wrong, calls vengeance fcourge by right. 
 Seldome aduantage is in wrongs debar'd. 
 Who foweth wrong, is fure to reape the fame. 
 
 All 
 
78 Of lujlice, Equitie, &c. 
 
 All runnes to wracke and mine, where felfe-Mnd, 
 
 From f elf e-fame kind with-holdelk mutuall right. 
 Delay in punifhment no pardon is. 
 A publicke fault cranes open punifhment. 
 Who flyeth iudgement, flxewes his guiltineiTe. 
 Equitie iudgeth mildly, law feuerely. 
 
 Wrongs done vs, we are /paring toforgiue: 
 
 Not minding, we by mercie onely Hue. 
 Wrong is the triall of true patience. 
 Law with extremitie is extreame wrong. . 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie5l. 
 
 As hardeft mettals in the fire is melt, 
 So greateft finnes by iuftice foone are felt. 
 As finne at firft is fweet, but after fower, 
 So Law lookes fterne, yet Ihewes not all her power. 
 As from worfl; maladies befl med'cines come, 
 So are befb lawes from lewdeft manners form'd, 
 As citties with their walles are fenced round, 
 So are good minds with right and equitie. 
 As he that wanteth reafon is no man. 
 So who liues lawleffe may be tearm'd a beaft. 
 As thirftie foules doe feeke fome long lookt fpring. 
 So wrongs receiu'd with right, doe comfort bring. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 PHilip, when any made complaint to him, 
 Stopt one eare, till the other part were heard. 
 AriJUdes fo loued Equitie, 
 That he of all men was fir named IVST. 
 lunitis the Confull fo refpedted right, 
 As his owne fonnes he did condemne to death. 
 Cato Cenforius was fo iuft and firme. 
 As none durft mooue him in a naughtie caufe. 
 
 Iuftice 
 
Of Pollicie. 
 
 79 
 
 luftice (faith Seneca) is the law of God, 
 And bond of all humane focietie. 
 Deuotlon and good will (LaiHantius faith) 
 loynes vs to God, as iuflice doth to men. 
 
 Pollicie is a wife anddifcreet care, 
 
 For King, for countrey, and for common good. 
 
 Pollicie oft religions habit weares. 
 What wants in ftrength, is holpe by pollicie. 
 Small follicie hath froweJJ'e learn' d, to /pill 
 Much blood abroad, to cut her owne with skill. 
 Small harme, pretending good, is pollicie. 
 Oft times hath reaching pollicie deuifde, 
 A cunning claufe which hath himfelfe furpri^ d. 
 A wraftlers Heights oft counter-checketh force. 
 Strength, wanting wit and pollicie to rule, 
 Isfoone caji downe, and prooues him/elfe a foole. 
 'Tls pollicie to feare a powerfull hate. 
 Counfell in any kingdome pollicied. 
 More worthie is than warre, more dignified. 
 
 No 
 
8o OfPollicie. 
 
 No pollicie where lambes doe lyons lead. 
 
 It is thefumme of perfedl pollicie. 
 
 To viorke fecurely with vulgaritie. 
 Who builds on flrength, by pollicie is ftript. 
 
 More worthie 'tis, by wit and pollicie 
 
 To compaffe honour, than by progenie. 
 Pollicie is to proweffe chiefeft friend. 
 
 Where power and pollicie do often faile, 
 
 Refpedl of gold both conquers and commaunds. 
 The very pooreft hath his pollicie. 
 
 Men may in conqueft benefit ihetnfelMs, 
 
 As much by pollicie as power and might. 
 All pollicie is foone deftroy'd by pride. 
 Pollicie oft fubdues where valour failes. 
 
 Courage that hath nor wit nor pollicie, 
 
 Flyes like aflaue before his enemie. 
 A well-eflablilht pollicie is befl. 
 Societie mull be preferu'd by pollicie. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As dull neglecfl is follies chiefefl badge, 
 So quicke conceit is figne of pollicie. 
 As careleife heads doe fooneft harme a flate, 
 So pollicie fore-fees before too late. 
 As cunning crafts-men are commended jnoft. 
 So Realmes of polliticlce aduifers boafl. 
 As fubtiltie is flye to helpe it felfe. 
 So poUicie is wife to Ihield it felfe. 
 As daungers felt are worfe than others fear'd, 
 So pollicies not executed, moft; offend. 
 As counfell is fome comfort in diftreffe, 
 So pollicie employ'd, kills wretchedneffe. 
 
 Exam- 
 
Of Pollicie. 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 LIcurgiis by his polliticke aduife, 
 Reforra'd the Lacedjemou mangled ftate. 
 Ntinia Pompilius difcreete pollicie, 
 Made Rome to flourifti in her royaltie. 
 Deucalions pollicie befriended Greece, 
 And brought the people to religious awe. 
 Scipioes Lieutenant nam'd Polybius 
 Was highly praifed for his pollicie, 
 Byas did much commend the gouernment, 
 "Where the chiefe heads were wife and polliticke. 
 Plutarch thought, cities could as ably fland 
 Without foundations, as no pollicie. 
 
 8i 
 
 '"^^J^^Of Peace & Concord.^^^ 
 
 Peace is the ground of kingdoms happineffe: 
 Nource of true concord, loue, andallencreafe. 
 
 PEace is great riches in the pooreft ftate. 
 Men know not peace, nor rightly how to deeme it. 
 That firjl by warre haue not been taught t'ejieeme it. 
 
 G Peace 
 
82 Of Peace, and Concord. 
 
 Peace hath beft biding in a fetled mind. 
 
 Peace 'brings in pleafure, plea/ure breeds excejfe: 
 
 Excejfe procureth want, want workes dijirejfe. 
 Peace doth depend on reafon, warre on force. 
 
 You whofefaire cahne make neighbors Jtorms feeme fore. 
 
 Try you your tydes, before you trufithefhore. 
 Peace, all extreames concludeth with remorfe. 
 
 Sourges may rife onfuddaine ere we thinke. 
 
 And whiles we fwimme fecure, compell vs fmke. 
 Mild calm'd-fac't peace, exceeds blood-tliirfting war. 
 
 Warre is ordained for nothing elfe but peace: 
 
 And perfein peace is end of bloudie warre. 
 Peace flouritheth where reafon beareth fway. 
 
 Peace ftill is honeft, humane, and vpright: 
 
 When warre is brutifh, fofUred by defpight. 
 Concord of many, makes an vnitie. 
 
 Concord makes fmall things mightily encreafe: 
 
 Where difcord makes great things c^ fafl decreafe. 
 True peace, is peace with vertue, warre with vice. 
 
 In peace, for warre let vsfo well prouide. 
 
 As in eachflate, no harme doe vs betide. 
 Peace from a Tyrants mouth, is treacherie. 
 
 Dear! and vnprofUable is the peace, 
 
 Thafs furchafl with expence of guiltlejje bloud. 
 The weight of peace, is eafie to be borne. 
 
 They iuflly doe deferue thefword of warre. 
 
 That wilfully withfiand faire offered peace. 
 To flye from peace, is feeking felfe-decay. 
 
 Peace asketh no lejfe wifdome to preferue it. 
 
 Than valour was befiowed in getting it. 
 Peace ftill fucceeds, what euer drifts withftand. 
 
 That's more efleenid, obtained by peace full words. 
 
 Than any thing atchieu'd by violence. " ^ 
 State-ftabling peace, brings firoward minds in faihion. 
 
 Similies 
 
Of Peace, and Concord. 83 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie^l. 
 
 As members knit in one, doe maintaine life: 
 So ftates combin'd in peace, doe nourifh loue. 
 As defolation dwelles where difcord is, 
 So where is concord, liues all happinefTe. 
 As Laurell euer crownes the Conquerour, 
 So peace -becommeth any Emperour. 
 As they that feeke their harme, deferue to haue it, 
 So they which flie from peace, ihould neuer feele it. 
 As warre cuts deepe, and maketh mightie wounds. 
 So peace like foueraigne balme doth cure them all. 
 As griefe is cognifance of falUng ftates. 
 So peace is glorie of faire fliining fway. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 FOrtie yeeres keeping lanus temple (hut, 
 Gaue teftimonie of the Romanes peace. 
 Numa (the fecond king of Rome^ fo loued peace, 
 That all his reigne, was neither warre nor ftrife. 
 Archidarmis, wrote to the Elians 
 Nothing but this; Peace is a goodly thing. 
 The caufe why Cato did oppofe himfelfe 
 Againft great Ccefar; was. For breach of peace. 
 Tullie faith : Let vs fo begin our warre. 
 That afterward we may be fure of peace. 
 Phocion being askt; What fitted kingdomes beft? 
 Replyed: A little warre, to win long peace. 
 
 G 2 Of 
 
84 
 
 Warre is mojl lawfullfor a countries good. 
 To purchafe peace with leajl expence of blood. 
 
 WArre makes the conquer'd yeeld, & ferae with hate. 
 Where warre once enters, ruine doth enfue. 
 Great is the horror ofintejline broyles. 
 When with our blood we fat our natiue foyles. 
 Warre makes the vidtour to defire debate. 
 A Captaine talketh beft of boiftrous warre. 
 Looke where the fwo7-d for pittie leaues to fpill, 
 Pittie that lufiice Jhould begin to kill. 
 Warre leaues naught fure, though we prefume to choofe. 
 Bloodftied by bloodihed ftill is nourifhed. 
 
 Warre Jhould not fill kings pallaces with mone: 
 Nor ferill come when 'tis leaJl thought vpon. 
 In vaine are armes, when heauen becomes our foe. 
 Warres rage hath no refpeft of pietie. 
 It is a meritorious f aire dejjigne. 
 To chafe iniuftice with reuengefull armes. 
 Vertue may fomtimes be furpriz'd by number. 
 Valour and Art, are both the fonnes of lone. 
 
 Who 
 
Of Warre. 
 
 Who would not be a Souldiour in that band, 
 
 Which (ere it fight) holds vidlorie in hand? 
 Arte is Nobilities true regifter. 
 Nobilitie, Arts champion ftill is nam'd. 
 
 Honour doth fay: That ifjhee chaunce to faile. 
 
 The braue attempt the Jhame Jhall countei'itaile. 
 Learning, is fortitudes right kalender. 
 Faire fortitude is learnings faint and friend. 
 
 Honour Jhields learniiig from all iniurie. 
 
 And learning, honour from blacks infamie. 
 A cro-ivne twixt breethren breeds contention. 
 Valour in gieatefl daunger fhines moil bright. 
 
 Ifthorow rafhnes valour doe get honour. 
 
 We blame the rajhnes, btit reward the honour. 
 Well doth he die, that dies gainft countries foes. 
 An honourable buriall is the field. 
 
 He that hath once fuflairi d the bullets wound, 
 
 What need hefeare the Canons harmeleffe fotmd? 
 Blood, nought but fm ; war, nought but forrows yeeld. 
 Sad are the fights, bitter the fruits of warre. 
 
 Thofe that are brought vp in the broiles ofrealmes, 
 
 Thiiike it beft fifhing flill in troubled ftreames. 
 A martiall man ought not be fancies flaue. 
 Men vs'd to warre, are greatefl; foes to peace. 
 
 Thefmallefi iarres if they befuffered run, 
 
 Breed wrath and warre, yea death ere they be done. 
 No warre is right, but that which lawfull is. 
 The fword muft mend what infolence did marre. 
 
 Who knowes to win by fword, can iudge of wit: 
 
 For withottt wit, no warre can proffer well. 
 On little broyles enfueth bloodie warre. 
 Who beft doth fpeed in warre, fmall fafetie finds. 
 
 The befi obferuing prouidence in warre, 
 
 Still thinkethfoes much ftronger than they are. 
 
 G 3 Vmiaturall 
 
86 Of Warre. 
 
 Vnnaturall warres where subiefts braue their king. 
 A bloodie conqueft ftaines the captaines praife. 
 
 A brauer mind hath he that fights for more. 
 
 Than he that warres for that he had before. 
 His flight is fliamefull that flyes viftorie. 
 Warres conquerours, in loue doe feldome pine. 
 
 When warre and troubles doe vs mofi molefi. 
 
 Then wicked perfons euer profper befi. 
 In warre and loue, courage is moft requir'd. 
 A coward Captaine marres the fouldiours fight. 
 
 Arines, but in great extreames, doe neuer ferue 
 
 To reconcile and punijli fuch asfwerue. 
 A valiant leader, makes faint cowards fight. 
 By armes, Realmes, Empires, Monarchies are wonne. 
 
 Jiet warre his boaft of dignitie furceafe, 
 
 Atul yeeld to wifdome, which feekes all encreafe. 
 To armes, lawes, iuftice, magiftra'.es fubmit. 
 Artes, Sciences, before Armes triumphes fit. 
 
 The plough-mans hope, and husbands thriftie tillage. 
 
 Oft times become the wajlfull fouldiours pillage. 
 Vnciuill warre, all iuftice doth diuorce. 
 Eafely he fights, that warres as others bid. 
 
 Ws much to conquer, but to keepe it then. 
 
 Is full as much, if not a great deale more. 
 Booke-expert warriours ne're are truly bold. 
 Warre for our countrie is a holy fight. 
 
 Thofe wifer heads that know thefcourge of warre, 
 
 Seekefafefl meanes to mitigate the iarre. 
 Warre rightly handled, is moft excellent. 
 Who fights for crownes, fet life and all- too light. 
 
 To k'.epe our countrie fafe from any harme: 
 
 For warre or worke, we either handfhould arme. 
 Warre was ordain'd to make men liue in peace. 
 Warre doth defend our right, repulfe our foes. 
 
 In 
 
Of Warre. 87 
 
 In warre they are efleeenCd as Captaines good. 
 That win the field with leaji expence of blood. 
 
 Neuer vfe amies where money may preuaile. 
 
 Th'effedls of warre, are couetous defires. 
 
 Let defperaie men and Ruffians thirjlfor blood: 
 Win foes with loue, and thinke that conquejl good. 
 
 In warre, let female honour be preferu'd. 
 
 Ambition is the chiefell caufe of warre. 
 He that was woont to call hisfword to aid: 
 Ifs hard with him, when he mujljland to plead. 
 
 Necefsitie makes warre to feeme moft iuft. 
 
 Many may talke of warre, but few conclude. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieB. 
 
 As Earth and Fire v/ere firil in this worlds frame, 
 So Warre and Peace are chiefe in kingdom es rule. 
 As cunning Pilots beft can guide the fliip, 
 So expert Captaines apteft manage warre. 
 As peace may fuffer wrong, and be abus'd. 
 So warre is harmeleffe, if but rightly vs'd. 
 As pleafant talke makes (liort the longeft way, 
 So valiant leaders whet on duUefl mindes. 
 As lingring fickneffe moft oifendeth life, 
 So quicke difpatch in waiTe is glorious. 
 As rufticke notes likes any loutiih fwad, 
 So drummes and trumpets pleafe a Souldiour beft. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 PApyrius Curfor punilht Fabius, 
 Eecaufe vniuftly hee commenced warre. 
 The Emperour Aurelius gaue flriil; charge, 
 That no man fhould abufe himfelfe in warre. 
 The worthie Souldiour Bellizarius, 
 Would neuer warre but on fome fpeciall caufe. 
 
 G 4 Traiane 
 
88 
 
 Of Fame, and Infamie. 
 
 Traiane was neuer vanquiflied in warre, 
 Becaufe he would not meddle, but in rights 
 Warre makes men cruell, fo faith Seneca : 
 But peace prouoketh them to gentlenes. 
 JP/ato affirmed, warre was excellent 
 When it did harme to none but enemies. 
 
 ^^■^^ jOf Fame and I nfamie. (^^^"^"^^ 
 
 Good Fame is that which all men ought dejire : 
 But euillFame is bad mens worthy hire. 
 
 FAme neuer finds a tombe t'enclofe it in. 
 Fame neuer ftoops to things are mean or poore. 
 No fame doth follow any vniuft aft. 
 
 To fames rich treafure. Time vnlockes the doore. 
 Which angrie Fortune hadjhiit vp before. 
 Fame neuer lookes fo low as idle drones. 
 Bafe Enuie ftill will barke at Heeping fame. 
 Life is not loll that brings eternall fame. 
 All perils ought be Itffe, and leffe all paine. 
 In open field, than the deare loffe of fame. 
 Dearer is loue than life, and fame than gold. 
 
 The 
 
Of Fame, and Infamie. 89 
 
 The path is fweet which daunger leads to fame. 
 Fame being once foil'd, incurable the blot. 
 
 Our deeds in life to worth, cannot be rated : 
 
 In death our life with fame euen then is dated. 
 Fame is not fubiedl to authoritie. 
 Fame neuer profiteth a wicked man. 
 Infamie hath no power to hurt the good. 
 
 Thy fame defac'd, or toucht with anyflaine: 
 
 Being oitce fupplanted, neiier gi'owes againe. 
 Fame is a fpeedie herald to beare newes. 
 A good report, in deepeft darknelTe (hines. 
 Good life is readieft way to purchafe fame. 
 
 Iffpotleffe reputation be away. 
 
 Men are but guilded loame, or painted clay. 
 Fame, by our vertuous adlions is maintain' d. 
 Rumours foone rais'd, decay ; but fame ftands firme. 
 A man can haue no fweeter friend than fame. 
 
 Fame, not fuppos^ d to wajle, but grow by wajling: 
 
 (Like /now in riuersfalne) con/umes by lafling. 
 Couet not fame, without great care to keepe it. 
 No like niiftiap, as to be infamous. 
 Fame, that the liuing faues, reuiues the dead. 
 
 Fame hath two wings; the one offalfe report: 
 
 The other hath fame plumes ofveritie. 
 No law can quit, where fame is once endighted. 
 Fame is the ioy and life of valiant minds. 
 Preferre fliarpe death before infamous life. 
 
 The chiefefl thing a princes fame to raife. 
 
 Is, to excell thofe that are excellent. 
 Glorie doth neuer blow cold pitties fire. 
 There's nothing can be done, but fame reports. 
 To know too much, is to know nought but fame. 
 
 Let not proud will hold vp thy head for fame. 
 When inward wants may not expeil the fame. 
 
 Fame 
 
90 Of Fame, and Infamie. 
 
 Fame dyes with them that all their honour wafte. 
 Fame, bad concealer of our clofe intenrs. 
 Fame got by foUie, dyes before it lines. 
 
 Fame with her golden wings aloft dothjlie, 
 
 Aboue the reach of ruinous decay. 
 He liueth long enough, dies foone with fame. 
 Where fame beares fway, there Cupid will be bold. 
 Good fame is better than a crowne of gold. 
 
 Similies on the fame fMbie6l. 
 
 As thunder nol fierce lightning harmes the Bay, 
 So no extremitie hath power on fame. 
 As precious ftones (though fet in Lead) will fhine, 
 So fame in pooreft corners will appeare. 
 As earth producing fait, brings nothing elfe, 
 So vertue, feeking fame, cranes nothing elfe. 
 As many voices make the confort fweet. 
 So many vertues doe confirme true fame. 
 As pride is enemie to good report. 
 So lowly thoughts doe lead the way to fame. 
 As fight receiues his fplendour from the aire, 
 So fame from vertue doth derive her felfe. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 PVblicola wonne fame for leading armes; 
 And Solon by his ciuill aftions. 
 The fame Milciades got at Marathon, 
 Would not permit Themijiocles tojleepe. 
 FaHus did by his vertues get fuch fame, 
 As Maximas was added to his name. 
 Lyfmiachus was famous through the world, 
 Becaufe he kill'd a Lyon in his youth. 
 
 Seneca 
 
Of Praife, and Commendation. 91 
 
 Seneca faith ; Fame (hould be followed, 
 Rather than coueted by fond defire. 
 No man (faith Cicero) is learn'd and wife, 
 But fame muft needs attend his aftions. 
 
 Praife is the hyre ofvertue,for thofe partes 
 That welldeferue it, both in eyes and hearts. 
 
 PRaife is but fmoake that iheddeth in the skie. 
 Men for their owne deeds Ihall be prais'd or blam'd. 
 True laud proceeds by the report of other : 
 Of more efieeme, •when vie our feints itfmoother. 
 The peoples voice, is neither ihame nor praife. 
 Safetie may breed delight, not nourifli praife. 
 Hard words doe dif commend fome men to day. 
 Yet praife to morrow with all might they may. 
 Many will praife in words, but fpight in workes. 
 Chiefe praife confifteth in contented life. 
 Ifs better to he praifedfor a truth. 
 Than for a leafing to be honoured. 
 To praife vnworthie men, is flatterie. 
 
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92 Of Praife, and Commendation. 
 
 Saue vertuous deeds, there's nothing merits praife. 
 When men del praife themfelues immoderately. 
 
 Makes other fentence them with obloquie. 
 Praife ftirres the mind to great and mightie things. 
 Praife nouriiheth true vertue where it fprang. 
 
 The benefits of peace deferue m-ore praife. 
 
 Than all the cunningfl fh-atagems oftuarre. 
 Praife maketh labour light, enricheth hope. 
 When others praife thee, beft to iudge thy felfe. 
 
 Praife is apoyfon to ambitiotis men, 
 
 Becaufe it makes them md-run honeflie. 
 In doing that we ought, deferues no praife. 
 By counterfeited vertue feeke no praife. 
 
 In vaine we feeke the idlefmoake of praife. 
 
 Since all things by antiquitie decayes. 
 All good tilings haue preheminence in praife. 
 Neuer praife that which is not commendable. 
 
 Oft thofe whome princes patronage extold, 
 
 Forget themfelues and what they were of old. 
 Condemne not that deferueth praife by due. 
 An ill mans praife, is praife for doing ill. 
 
 Whoflriues to gaine inheritance of aire, 
 
 Leattes yet perhaps but beggerie to his heire. 
 Helping the poore, deferueth double praife. 
 Vertue begetteth praife ; praife, honours height. 
 
 Nothing of more vnceriaintie than praife : 
 
 For one dayes gift, another rob vs of. 
 An open praife deferues a fecret doubt. 
 Too much commending, is a heauie load. 
 
 He that commends a man before his face. 
 
 Will f cant fpeake well of him behind his backe. 
 Bad nature by good nurture mended, merits praife. 
 Abafmg worthie men, argues felfe-praife. 
 
 It is more worthie praife to keepe good fame, 
 
 T/ia» 
 
Of Praife, and Commendation. 93 
 
 Than the harejiile, or getting of the fame. 
 Our elders praife, is light vnto our Hues. 
 Be not too rafti in difcommending any. 
 
 Be not too hafHe in befloiuing praife : 
 
 Nor yet too flow when due time calls for praife. 
 A mans owne praife, is publicke infamie. 
 Honefl attempts can neuer want due praife. 
 
 Similies on thefamefubiefl. 
 
 A S ihadowes on our bodies doe attend, 
 .ii-So praife doth wait on vertue to the end. 
 As praifmg make the Peacocke fpread her taile, 
 So men commended doe expreffe themfelues. 
 As fooles in folly are not ro be footh'd. 
 So wicked aftions are not to be prais'd. 
 As Cockes by crowing (hew their vidlorie, 
 So mens owne praifes blab their obloquie. 
 As niggards are difcerned by their giftes, 
 So mens commendings doe expreffe their loue. 
 As greatefl praifes fatten not thy fields. 
 So much commending pleafeth not thy friend. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 THe noble Romane Titus Flaminius, 
 Could not endure when any praifed him. 
 Cafar beholding Alexanders image. 
 Wept, in remembring his exceeding praife. 
 Pompey did count it praife enough for him. 
 To fet Tigranes in his throne againe. 
 Agathocles condemned all vaine praife, 
 And ftill confeft himfelfe a potters fonne. 
 By vertue (faith Euripides') get praife. 
 For that will liue when time expires thy dayes. 
 
 Solon 
 
94 Of F'riendjhip, and Friends. 
 
 Solon faid, All vaine-glorious men were fooles ; 
 And none praife-worthie, but the humble-wife. 
 
 '•sy^X£f^ Of Friendfhip, &c. ^^H^ 
 
 Thefumme offriendjhip is, that of two Joules 
 Onefhould be made, in will and firme affeSl. 
 
 TRue friends partake in either weale or woe. 
 Faint-hearted friends, their fuccours long delay. 
 A deare friends graue is a more heauie fight, 
 Than all thefeares wherewith death can affright. 
 Of foes, the fpoile is ill ; farre more of friends. 
 Who faileth one, is falfe, though true to other. 
 Thai friendjhip can no length of time endure. 
 Which doth caufe ill, or euill end procure. 
 The trueft friendfhip, is in equalitie. 
 Likeneffe in manners, makes belt amitie. 
 When equall might is vp vnto the chin, 
 Weake friends become firong foes to thriifl him in. 
 Among kind friends, departing drinkes vp ioy. 
 Better a new friend, than an auncient foe. 
 Call him not friend, that fauours mofl of foe : 
 Tearme him thy deaths-man, looke he prooue notfo. 
 
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Of Friendjhip, and Friends. 95 
 
 Giue foes no oddes, nor friends vnequall power. 
 Truft not to foes, if friends their credit loofe. 
 
 For friends ifonejhmild die, were rarely much : 
 
 But die for foes, the world affoords nonefuch. 
 In bafe minds dwells friendfhip nor enmitie. 
 No feruice will a gentle friend defpife. 
 
 Loohe what ahife is offer'' d to a friend, 
 
 Thejhame and fault finds no excufe or end. 
 To wrong a friend doth prooue too foule a deed, 
 Foes often wake, when loyall friends doe fleepe. 
 
 Faire loudly concord, and tnoji facred peace. 
 
 Doe nourifh vertue, and make friendjhip fafi. 
 A fteadfaft friend is to be lou'd as life. 
 Faint friends, when they fall out, prooue cruell foes. 
 
 Thofe friends that loui the Sun-fliine of delights, 
 
 Willflye the winter when afflidlion bites. 
 True friendfhip at the firfl affront retires not. 
 Mofl friends befriend themfelues with friendfhips fhew. 
 
 Suffition isfedition mongfl good friends. 
 
 When eithers drift to others mifchiefe tends. 
 They kill, that feele not their friends liuing paine. 
 Be enuied of thy foe, rather than pitied. 
 
 More conquejl is the gaining of a friend. 
 
 Than the fubduing of an enemie. 
 He is too foolifh that miflrufls his friend. 
 In greateft need, a friend is befl difcern'd. 
 
 JVe ought fometimes as well to reprehend. 
 
 As praife the partie whome we count a friend. 
 True friendfhip maketh light all heauie harmes. 
 A friend in moft diftreffe, will moft afsifl. 
 
 Who entertaineth many friends, doth loofe 
 
 The title of a true and Jtedfajl friend. 
 Men in their friendftiip, alwayes ihould be one. 
 A hard attempt to tempt a foe for aid. 
 
 Make 
 
96 Of Friend/hip, and Ftiends. 
 
 Make all men our well-willers if we can. 
 
 But onely chufe good men to be otir friends. 
 Small is that friendftiip table-talke will cracke. 
 Requefts twixt friends are counted as commaunds. 
 
 To Jiraungers let great proffers flill be made: 
 
 But to true friends vfe found and feifeifl deedes. 
 Performance is in friendfliip held a dutie. 
 No man fliould loue himfelfe more than his friend. 
 
 Foure things we ought fupply our friend withall : 
 
 Our perfon, counfell, comfort, and our goods. 
 A friend is to a man another felfe. 
 With euerj' one to (hake hands, is not good. 
 
 Who wanteth friends to backe what he begins 
 
 In lands farre off: gets not, although he ivinnes. 
 A wife man takes not ech one as his friend. 
 Prooue llrangers to loue them, and not loue to prooue them. 
 
 The man that makes a friend of euery firaunger, 
 
 Difcards him not againe without fome danger. 
 True friendfliip ought be free, like charitie. 
 Opinion of vertue is the fount of friendfliip. 
 
 Infriendjhip this one difference is tryde: 
 
 True friends fland fafl, when as the feigned flide. 
 Who neuer had a foe, ne're knew a friend. 
 Friendfliip admitteth not an angry frowne. 
 
 A true firme friend will neuer found retreat, 
 
 Norfloope his failes for anyflorme of weather. 
 Vnitie, is Amities chiefeft eflence. 
 Hazard difpleafure to relieue a friend. 
 
 True friend/hips Sunne continually doth lafi, 
 
 Andjliines the clearer hi the bitterfl blafi. 
 They are no friends, that hazard them they loue. 
 True friendfliip fcornes confederacie with fhame. 
 
 In eamefl, ieafi, in quiet, peace, or warre : 
 
 Neuer prefume to try thy foe too farre. 
 
 Aduerfitie 
 
Of FriendJJiip, and Friends. 97 
 
 Aduerfitie doth beft difclofe a friend. 
 Amitie ftretcheth not beyond the Altar. 
 
 An open foe a man may foone preuent. 
 
 But a falfe friend, murders in blandijhment. 
 A feigned friend will quickly chaunge conceit. 
 Ouer-much boldneffe makes men loofe their friends. 
 
 WhiVfl things go well, friends alwaies will he neer thee. 
 
 But failing once, the dearefl friends willfeare thee. 
 What death is life, when dearefl friends are loft. 
 It's good to haue a wife and difcreete friend. 
 
 No foe fo fell, or cunning to efcape. 
 
 As is a friend, clad in a foe-mans fhape. 
 Often to trie our friends is profitable. 
 Flatterie is friendfhips forme, but not the fruit. 
 
 Many to tliofe theyjiiould mofifriend/ltipfhino. 
 
 Doe lie in wait to worke their ouei-throw. 
 Sufpition is the poifon of firme friendlhip. 
 ForgetfuU fooles vnfriendly vfe their friends. 
 
 Of any foe, be fare no gift thou take, 
 
 Leafl to thy ruine itfome entrance make. 
 FoUie refpefteth flatterers more than friends. 
 Good natures inly grieue to trie their friends. 
 
 No mortall foe fo full of venemous fpight. 
 
 As man to man, when mifchiefe he pretends. 
 Begging at friends hands, is efteemed buying. 
 Friends hide no coine, or fecrets from their friends. 
 
 Who fees their friends in want, and them defpife : 
 
 When they doe fall, neuer deftnie to rife. 
 True friends doe foone forget a friends offence. 
 ScomfuU and proud, are very perillous friends. 
 
 He that intendeth guile, and thoufindftfo ; 
 
 No wrong thou doefl, to vfe him as thy foe. 
 Where friends are knit in loue, there griefes are fhar'd. 
 Quicke promifers, flow doers, are flacke friends. 
 
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98 Of FriendJJiip, and Friends. 
 
 Where many hearts doe gently fympathhe 
 In f acred friendlhip, there all bliffe abounds. 
 
 No friend like him whome no diftreffe can daunt. 
 
 Happie is he that finds and feeles a friend. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieH:. 
 
 As no calamitie can thwart true loue, 
 So no mifliap can feparate firme friends. 
 As want of friends is very perillous, 
 So talking friends doe prooue too tedious. 
 As fire from heat cannot be feparate, 
 So true friends hearts will no way be disjoyn'd. 
 As Phyficke cures the fecret'ft griefes we haue, 
 So friendfhip heales the hearts extreameft woes. 
 As inftruments are tun'd e're muficke's heard, 
 So friends are tride ere they be firroely found. 
 As exiles haue no comforts but their cares, 
 So home-abiders haue no ioy like friends. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 CYrus vpon his left fide plac'd his friends, 
 Becaufe they fiiould be neereft to his heart. 
 Dyon and Ccefar rather wilhed death. 
 Than they fhould grow diftruflfull of their friends. 
 Cato this poefie caried in his Ring : 
 Befriend to one, and enemie to none. 
 Ltccillius feeing Brutus round engirt, 
 Call'd himfelfe Brutus, that his friend might fcape. 
 Phocion, in defperate furie fau'd his friend, 
 Saying : F01' this caufe was I made thy friend. 
 Three things (faith Tullie) men ihould with their friends : 
 Health, good account, and priuiledge from need. 
 
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99 
 
 Patience, is voluntariefufferance 
 Ofhardejl matters, for f aire vertues/ake. 
 
 PAtience preuailes againft a world of wrongs. 
 What Fortune hurts, patience can onely heale. 
 No banijhment can be to him affigfid. 
 That hath a patient and refolued mind. 
 The minds affliiftion, patience can appeafe. 
 To be borne well, and die worfe, breaketh patience. 
 That life is only miferable and vile. 
 Which fromfaire patience doth it/elfe exile. 
 Patience doth paffions alwaies mortifie. 
 The minds diftreffe, with patience is relieu'd. 
 
 They that loofe halfe, with p-eater f alienee beare it. 
 Then they who/e all, is /wallowed in confufwn. 
 For cureleffe fores, patience is chiefeft falue. 
 Patience, all trouble fweetly doth digeft. 
 True patience can mildly fuffer wrong. 
 Where rage andfurie doe our Hues defame. 
 True patience Is the prouender of fooles. 
 Patience importun'd, doth conuert to hate. 
 H -i 
 
 The 
 
lOO Of Patience. 
 
 Theftnngth to fight with death, is patience. 
 And to be conquer' d of him, patience. 
 
 The onely falue for wrong, is patience. 
 
 Reuenge on fortune, is raUd patience. 
 Let/uch lahome patie}ice cannot moderate, 
 Endaunger them that would endammage him. 
 
 He is moil valiant that is patient. 
 
 No conqueft can compare with patience. 
 Patience is oft from princely feat puld downe. 
 When bloodie minds doe fcufflefor a crowne. 
 
 Patience makes light, afHidlions heauieft load. 
 
 The ihield of patience beares off all miihaps. 
 
 ComfortlelTe patience brings confumption. 
 No fling hath patience, but afighinggriefe: 
 That flings nought but itfelfe without reliefe. 
 
 The end of patience, is expect of promife. 
 
 Patience beares that which care cannot redreffe. 
 
 A heauenly fpirits hope, is patience. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£i. 
 
 As rage doth kindle ftill the fire of wrath. 
 Patience to quench it, flore of water hath. 
 As fire impaires not gold, but makes it bright, 
 So greateft wrongs by patience are made light. 
 As phyficke doth repaire decayed health. 
 So patience brings true blelTmgs to the foule. 
 As water quencheth the extreameft fire. 
 So patience qualifies the mightieil wrongs. 
 As Diamonds in the darke are belt difcern'd. 
 So patience is in trouble befl approou'd. 
 As angrie fplenes are haftie in reuenge. 
 So difcreete foules brooke all with patience. 
 
 Exam- 
 
Of Patience. 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 WHat-e're mifhap Darius did befall, 
 Yet in Ms mind he was not moou'd at all. 
 Marcus Aurelius faid, that patience 
 Had holpe him more than any thing be fide. 
 Sylla endur'd reuilings patiently, 
 And mildly yeelded his Diftator-Ihip. 
 Mauritius moou'd not at his childrens death, 
 Although he faw them flaine before his face. 
 When Socrates was councel'd to reuenge. 
 Said ; If an AJjeJlrike, fnall I firike againe ? 
 In patience confli(3:, faith Euripides : 
 The vanquijht doe exceed the vanqui/her. 
 
 lOI 
 
 
 
 ;g^^ Of Man, and Men 
 
 Man is a creatttre of fuck excellence, 
 As allelfe was created for his vfe. 
 
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 An in himfelfe a little world doth beare. 
 AU other creatures follow after kind. 
 But mati alone is ruled by his mind. 
 H 3 
 
 All 
 
1 02 Of Man and Men. 
 
 All men, to fome peculiar vice encline. 
 
 The greater man, the greater is the thing. 
 
 Be it good or bad, thai he doth vndertake. 
 A man once ftung, is hardly hm-t againe. 
 
 Fond is the man that will attempt great deeds. 
 
 And loofe the glorie that attends on them. 
 Where eafe abounds, men foone may doe amiffe. 
 
 Men doe not know what they them/elues will be. 
 
 When as more than them/elues, themfel-Ms they fee. 
 The worth of all men by their end, efteeme. 
 
 When men haue well fed, and the blond is warme, 
 
 Then are they mofl improuident of harme. 
 Birds haue the aire, Fifh water. Men the land. 
 When from the heaii of man afcends truefighes. 
 
 From Gods diuinefl fpirit defcendeth grace. 
 The man that feekes his thraldome, merits it. 
 
 Man of himfelfe is as a barren fold. 
 
 But by the grace ofheauen, a fruitfidl vine. 
 Men eafily doe credit what they loue. 
 
 The man that liueth by anothers breath : 
 
 Looke when he dies, is certaine of his death. 
 No man weighes him, that doth himfelfe negleft. 
 
 Men ought efpecially tofaue their winnings 
 
 In all attempts, els loofe they their beginnings. 
 Oft one mans forrow doth another touch. 
 
 The man vniufi, is hofeleffe fortunate : 
 
 Quickely miffe-led, but hardly reconciVd. 
 It grieues a man to aske, when he deferues. 
 
 Men are but Fortunes fubie^s, therefore variable : 
 
 And times difciples, therefore momentarie. 
 Deuife of man, in working hath no end. 
 
 There Hues no man fo felled in content. 
 
 That hath not daily fomewhat to repent. 
 Ech man muft thinke, his morning fhall haue night. 
 
 Mens 
 
Of Man and Men. 103 
 
 Mens imperfedions often-times are knowne, 
 
 When they repine to thinke them as their awne, 
 Man neuer takes delight to heare his fault. 
 
 Men often iudge too well their owne deferts : 
 
 When others /mile to fee their ignorance. 
 Men honoured, wanting wit, are fruitleffe trees. 
 Man is but meere calamitie it felfe. 
 
 Man when he thinkes hisflate is mofl feciire, 
 
 Shall find it then both fickle and vnfure. 
 Mans nature is defirous ilill of chaunge. 
 To greateft men, great faults are incident. 
 Mifliaps haue power o're man, not he o're them. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiefl. 
 
 As flowers by their fight and fente are knowne. 
 So men are noted by their words and workes. 
 As fnow in water doth begin and end, 
 So man was made of earth, and fo fhall end. 
 As waxe cannot endure before the fire. 
 So cannot vniuft men in fight of heauen. 
 As all things on the earth are for mans vfe. 
 So men were made for one anothers helpe. 
 As Toades doe fucke their venime from the earth. 
 So bad men draw coiTuption from foule finne. 
 As fooles ereft their houfes on the fands. 
 So wife men doe rely their hopes on heauen. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 PHilip of Macedon was daily told: 
 Remember Philip, thou art but a man. 
 Cyrus held no man worthie gouemment. 
 Except his vertues were to be admir'd, 
 
 H 4 Thofe 
 
I04 Of Women. 
 
 Thofe men did AlciUades count fafe, 
 
 That kept their countries lawes vnchangeable. 
 
 Timon was cal'd, tlie enemie to men, 
 
 And would perfwade them to deftroy them-felues. 
 
 What elfe is man (faith Pindarus) but a dreame, 
 
 Or like a ihadow we difcerne in fleepe ? 
 
 Homer cryed out : Man was moft miferable 
 
 Of aU the creatures that the world contain'd. 
 
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 Women are eguall euery way to men, 
 And both alike haue their infirmities. 
 
 ""Omen by men receiue perfection. 
 Women and loue like emptie houfes perifh. 
 Like vntu}T^ d golden Jlrings faire women are. 
 Which lying long vnioucht, will harjhly iarre. 
 Faire and vnkind, in women ill befeemes 
 Women are wonne, when they beginne to iarre. 
 Grief e hath two tongues, and neuer woman yet 
 Could rule them both, without ten womens wit. 
 
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Of Women. 105 
 
 AU women are ambitious naturally. 
 
 In womens tongues is quickly found a rub. 
 
 A womans will that's bent to walke ajiray. 
 
 Isfeldome chaun^d by watch or/harpe rejiraint. 
 Ripe ftill to ill, ill womens coimfels are. 
 All things are fubieift, but a womans will. 
 
 ' Tisf aft good will, and gentle courtefies 
 
 Reclaime a woman, and no watching eyes. 
 Women are moft wonne, when men merit leail. 
 Women that long, thinke fcome to be faid nay. 
 
 Neiter as yet was man/o well aware, 
 
 Butfirft or laft was caught in womens fnare. 
 Find conftancie in women, all is found. 
 Women defire to fee, and to be feene. 
 
 Great ■vaunts doe/eeme hatcht vnder Sampfons lockes. 
 
 Yet womens words can glue them killing knockes. 
 Women haue teares for forrow and diffembling. 
 Women allure with fmiles, and kill with frownes. 
 
 It is a common rule, that women neuer 
 
 Loue beautie in their fexe, but enuie euer. 
 Women with wanton eyes, haue wanton trickes. 
 Vertue is richeft dowrie for a woman. 
 
 Though men can couer crimes with boldfterne loohes, 
 
 Poore womens faces are their owne faults bookes. 
 Women leaft reckon of a doting loner. 
 What cannot women doe, that know their power ? 
 
 If womens hearts, that haue light thoughts tofpill them 
 
 Die of themfelues : why then fhould forrow kill them ? 
 No beaft is fiercer than a iealous woman. 
 Women oft looke, one to enuie another. 
 
 A womans teares are falling ftarres at night. 
 
 No fooner feene, but quickly out of fight. 
 A womans fauour lafleth but a while. 
 Two things, to be a woman, and a Queene. 
 
 Women 
 
io6 Of Women. 
 
 Women doe hold, 'tis ioyes life, lifes befi treafure. 
 
 Both to begin, and leaue to kijfe at leifure. 
 Oft womens mercie, more than mens is feene. 
 Some womens wits exceed all Art, in loue. 
 
 A womans faffions doth the aire refemble: 
 
 Neuer alike, they/mne if they diffemble. 
 Loue, women, and inconftancie ne're part. 
 Bluihes ihew womens thoughts, and teach men wit. 
 
 Thofe vertues that in women merit praife. 
 
 Are fober Jhewes without, chajl thoughts within. 
 A womans heart and tongue, are relatiues. 
 Women may fall, when there's no ftrength in men, 
 
 Thofe women of their wit may iuflly boaft. 
 
 That buy their wifdome by anothers cofi. 
 A womans mind is fit for each imprefsion. 
 High praifes hammer bell a womans mind. 
 
 Thy wife being wife, make her thy fecretarie : 
 
 Elfe not, for women feldome can keepe filence. 
 Women in mifchiefe, are more wife then men. 
 A womans tongue, wounds deeper than her eye. 
 
 Confiant in loue, who tryes a womans mind: 
 
 Wealth, beautie, wit, and all in her doth find. 
 Women are Natures wonder, louing Nature. 
 Women doe couet moft, what's mofl denyed them. 
 
 Extreame are womens forrowes, paft redreffe: 
 
 Orfo diffembled, not to be beleeu'd. 
 A woman of good life, feares no ill tongue. 
 Silence in women, is a fpeciall grace. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie5l. 
 
 As none can tell a griefe but he that feeles it. 
 So none knowes womens wrongs, but they that find them. 
 As women mofl defpife what's offered them. 
 So to denie their minds, is worfe than death. 
 
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Of Women. 107 
 
 As a fliarpe bridle fits a froward horfe, 
 So a curft woman muft be roughly vs'd. 
 As the beft mettal'd blade hath iron commixt, 
 So the beil women are not free from faults. 
 As readines of fpeech becomes a man, 
 So filence doth a woman beft befeeme. 
 As goodlieft gardens are not void of weeds, 
 So faireft women may haue fome defedt. 
 
 Examples likewifeon the fame. 
 
 IStrina, fometimes Queene of Scithia, 
 With her fweet voice, made calme the rough fwolne feas. 
 Romane Cornelia was fo eloquent. 
 That to her they did daily facrifice. 
 Lachis of Athens, to her country-men 
 Appointed lawes for ciuHl gouermnent. 
 Queene Parifaiis caus'd the Perfian kings, 
 To haue their buriall in rich tombes of gold. 
 Plato held women in a familie, 
 As needfull as a kingdomes gouernour. 
 If nature doe defrre her felfe to fee, 
 (Saith Plutarch) women then her glaffe may be. 
 
 Of 
 
io8 
 
 Ambition is a humour that a/pires, 
 Andjlayes itfelfe infeeking high dejires. 
 
 AMbition, with the Eagle loues to build. 
 Ambition being once iniir'd to raigne, 
 Can neuer brooke a priuatjlate againe. 
 Ambitious fauorites alwaies mifchiefe bring. 
 TJHafpirer once attain! d vnto the top. 
 Cuts offthofe meanes whereby himfelfe got vp. 
 Ambition yet tooke neuer lafting root. 
 
 High aimes, young fpirits, birth of loyall line : 
 Make men playfal/e, where kingdomes are thejlakes. 
 Th'ambitious will find right, or elfe make right. 
 // is ambitions Jlcknes, hauing much. 
 To vexe vs with defeil of that we haue. 
 Might makes a title where he hath no right. 
 Thofe men that commonly o're-looke too much. 
 Doe ouer-fee themfelues, their Jiate isfuch. 
 Ambitious minds, a world of wealth would haue. 
 Ambitious minds to get a princes trains, 
 
 J'/o::!d 
 
Of A mbition. 1 09 
 
 Would afterward ofbeggers life befaine. 
 Ambition, paine, and loue, brookes no delay. 
 
 Lyons doe neuer cajl a gentle looke 
 
 On any heaji, that would vfurpe their den. 
 Who dimbes too foone, oft time repents too late. 
 
 Bloud and alliance nothing doepreuaile. 
 
 To coole the thirjl of hot ambitious breafls. 
 Afpiring things are readie ftill to fall. 
 
 Bruifes arefootter caught by reaching high. 
 
 Than when the mind is willing tojtoope low. 
 Many vfurpe, but moft in mifchiefe end. 
 
 Fortune doth neuer grudge at them that fall: 
 
 But enuie flings and biteth them that climbe. 
 Afpiring thoughts led Phaeton awry. 
 
 Bezvare ambition, 'tis a fugred ill, 
 
 That fortune layes, frefuming minds to kill. 
 Ambitious Icarus did climbe too high. 
 
 Ambitions bold and true begotten fonne. 
 
 Is quite fpent in deflre ere hope be wonne. 
 Gazers on ftarres, oft ftumble at fmall ftones. 
 
 Seldome can proud prefumption be enthroaiid 
 
 To Hue ejieemd; or die, to be bemoaned. 
 Ambition, no corriuall will admit. 
 
 The man that doth prefume aboue hisflate, 
 
 Inflead of loue, incurres but deadly hate. 
 Higheft attempts to low difgraces fall. 
 
 Craft giues ambition leaue to lay his plot. 
 
 And croffe his friend, becaufe he founds him not. 
 Competitors the fubiedts dearely buy. 
 
 Prefuming will counts it high preiudice 
 
 To be reproou'd, although by found aduife. 
 Beware ambition in felicitie. 
 
 Such reaching heads as neuer thinke them well. 
 
 After their fall, their owne mifhaps may tell. 
 
 High 
 
no Of Ambition, 
 
 High mounting Eagles foone are fmitten blind. 
 Ambitions dying, is great glorie wonne. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieB. 
 
 As breath on fteele, as foone is oiif as on, 
 So climbers are as quickly downe as vp. 
 As nothing in fubftance is more light than aire. 
 So nothing can out-goe ambitious thoughts. 
 As winds being vp, doe blow more violent, 
 So proud vfurpers tyrannife in height. 
 As bad men grieue at good mens happineffe, 
 So high afpirers grudge at lowlines. 
 As powder fier'd, is but a fuddaine flafh, 
 Euen fo ambition is no more than fmoke. 
 As Bats doe flutter, not direAly flie, 
 So climbers aime at much, and miffe of all. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 FRedericke the third, was by his baflard fonne 
 Ambitious Manfroy difpoffefl of life 
 Geta murdered Antonius his brother. 
 Through his ambitious mind to rule alone. 
 Crajpus procur'd himfelfe a fhamefuU death, 
 Through his ambitious fpight at Ccefars fame. 
 Marius, not fatisfied with former praife. 
 Through his ambition foone abridg'd his dayes. 
 Plato would haue good men exalted flill. 
 But none that fauour'd of ambition. 
 Saith Anjlotle, kingdomes foone decay, 
 Where pride, or elfe ambition beareth fway. 
 
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1 1 1 
 
 Tirants are kingdoms plagues, andgoodmens woe: 
 Their owne dejlroyers, andfoone ouerthrow. 
 
 A Tyrants lookes breed terror after death. 
 Oft in the childrens flaughters, fathers die. 
 The man that once isjlrong in equitie. 
 Will f come tKauftereJi lookes of tyrannie. 
 Tyrannic ilill ftrikes terror to it felfe. 
 Death is the vtmofl; end of tyrannie. 
 
 Thofe that in blood a violent pleafure haue, 
 Seldome defcend but bleeding to the graue. 
 Birth is no fhadow to fterne tyrannie. 
 Ladies and tyrants doe refpeft no lawes. 
 WJien tyrannie is withjirong aid fupported, 
 All iujlicefrom good minds is quite extorted. 
 No tyrannie can force true fortitude. 
 Tyrants are leaders to a many ills. 
 A tyrant that hath tajled once ofbloud. 
 Doth hardly thriue by any other food. 
 Tyrants wUl brooke no tearmes, or lift difpute. 
 Tyrants are torturers of honeft foules. 
 
 Words 
 
112 Of Tyrants aizd Tyrannic. 
 
 Words not freuaile, neither canfighes aduife. 
 
 To mooue the heart thafs bent to tyrannife. 
 No fame confifts in deeds of tyrannie. 
 Tyrants are alwaies traitours to them-felues. 
 
 To punijh many for tKamiffe of one, 
 
 Mofl properly to tyrants appertaine. 
 Where tyrants reigne, God help the land that while. 
 It's worfe than death, to liue a tyrants flaue. 
 
 Tyrants being fuffred, and not quail' d in time, 
 
 Will cut their throats that gaue them leaue to climbe. 
 The fmalleft worine will turne, being trode vpon. 
 The Doues will pecke in refcue of their brood. 
 
 Thefauage Beare will netier licke his hand, 
 
 Thatfpoiles her of her young before her face. 
 By vniust deeds, a true prince growes a Tyrant. 
 Nothing more abieil than a tyrant is. 
 
 lie that in bountie doth exceed himfelfe. 
 
 Becomes a tyrant afterward to others. 
 Tyrants fubdue by ftrength, maintaine in hate. 
 Tyrants are Nobles fcourge, the commons plague. 
 
 Kings as they ought, Tyrants rule as they lifl : 
 
 The one to profit all, the other few. 
 No peace, no hope, no reft hath tyrannie. 
 One iniurie, makes not a tyrannie. 
 
 Princes ought iuflly to defend their owne. 
 
 Rather than tyrant-like to conquer others. 
 Who kings refufe, deferue a tyrant Lord. 
 Vfurping rule is held by tyrannie. 
 
 Tyrannie in a leather is mofl vile: 
 
 For youth with loue, not rigour fhould be taught. 
 Tyrants tread lawes and honour vnder foot. 
 Subiefts in Tyrants eyes, are held as flaues. 
 
 Tyrants by armes, the iufl referre their caufe 
 
 To due arbitrement of right and lawes. 
 
 A tyrants 
 
Of Tyrants and Tyrannie. 1 1 3 
 
 A tyrants reigne hath feldome permanence. 
 Tyrants doe neuer die an honeft death. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieSl. 
 
 As kings doe rule by counfell and aduife. 
 So tyrants by their wUl, and not by law. 
 As want of riches makes a tyrant prince, 
 So great abundance heapes vp wickednes. 
 As boiflrous winds doe ihake the higheft towers, 
 So blood and death cuts off proud tyrannie. 
 As enuie thooteth at the faireft markes, 
 So tyi"ants leuell at true princes hues. 
 As foreft tempefts are in largeft feas, 
 So greateft euill enfues on tyrannie. 
 As trees are alwaies weakeft toward the top, 
 So falleth Tyrants in their chiefeft height.- 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 THrafdlus teaching meanes of tyrannie, 
 Was firft enforft; to taft thereof himfelfe. 
 Scyron threw others headlong in the fea. 
 Till Thefeus did the like by him at length. 
 Caligula wiflit Rome had but one head, 
 That at one ftroke himfelfe might fmite it oif. 
 Cyrus that neuer had enough of blood. 
 Had afterward his head all drown'd in blood. 
 The foules of tyrants, Plutarch doth afiSrme, 
 To be compos'd of crueltie and pride. 
 A tyrant feekes his priuate benefit 
 And no mans elfe, as Seneca maintaines. 
 
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114 
 
 Treafon is hated both of God and men, 
 Asjuch ajinne, as none can greater be. 
 
 TReafon hath no place where obedience is. 
 Rebellion doth bewray corrupted nature. 
 There is no treafon woundeih halfefo deepe. 
 As that which doth inpriiues bo/oms Jleepe. 
 Rebellion fprings of too much head-ftrong will. 
 The rebell flirinkes, where rule and order fwayes. 
 Kings pallaces Jland open to let in 
 Thefoothing traitour, and the guide tofinne. 
 In darkneffe dwels the bUnd rebellious mind. 
 Traitours are loath'd, and yet their treafon lou'd. 
 They that gainjl Jlates and kingdomes doe coniure. 
 Their head-long mine none can well recure. 
 Treafon firft workes ere traitors are efpied. 
 Moft bitter-fower doth foule rebellion tafte. 
 Betime 'tis good to let the traitour die. 
 For /paring iiijlice feeds iniquitie. 
 All filthie floods flow from rebellions brinks. 
 No vertue merits praife with treafon toucht. 
 
 No wor- 
 
Of Trea/on, Traitours, &c. 1 1 5 
 
 No worthy mind by irea/on will affaile. 
 
 When as he knowes his valour can preuaile. 
 A facflious Lord feld benefits him-felfe. 
 Who builds in blood and treafon, builds vnfure. 
 
 A troubled Jireame of puddle mixt with mire, 
 
 Doth quench the thirjl of rebels hot defire. 
 Men in feditions nourc'd, in fadlions Hue. 
 Shame, is the rightfull end of treacherie. 
 
 Ifs madnejfe to giue way to treacherie. 
 
 Without due vengeance tofuch iniurie. 
 In careleffe truft is treafon fooneft found. 
 Reuolted fubiedls, of them-felues will quaile. 
 
 No greater fpight, than bafely be betrayed 
 
 Byfuch a one whome thou before hafl made. 
 Reuolt's a mifchiefe, euer-more pernitious. 
 Who nill be fubiefts, fhall be flaues at length. 
 
 Conuerfe with treachers, lookefor treacherie: 
 Who deales with bad men, mufl haue iniurie. 
 Conflidl with traitoi's is moil perillous. 
 A traitor once, ne're trailed afterward. 
 
 They that doe couei deadly to betray. 
 
 By fweetefi meanes firfl prailife to entrap. 
 No place is fafe enough for any traitour. 
 Time is the touch that treacherous minds doth try. 
 
 Nothing auailes, flrong bulwarkes, fence or towers : 
 When treacherous foes all inward firength deuoures. 
 Traitours are fubiedl to continuall feare. 
 Traitours, like vipers, gnaw their countries bones. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As luie kills the tree embracing it, 
 So traitours murder with their fmootheft lookes. 
 As euill fauours doe corrupt the aire, 
 So treachers doe pollute a common-weale. 
 
 I 2 As 
 
1 1 6 Of Trea/on, Traitours, &c. 
 
 As in faire weather greateft ftormes arife, 
 
 So in mild feafons, treafon is moft bold. 
 
 As braunches too much loden quickly breake, 
 
 So traitors too farre trufted, doe moft harme. 
 
 As too much rankeneffe bends the ftalkes of come, 
 
 So too much mildneffe whets the traitor on. 
 
 As hawkes are loft by foaring ouer-high, 
 
 So traitours perifli in their chiefeft hopes. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 THey that flew Cizfar in the Senate-houfe, 
 Periflit like traitours, neuer profpered. 
 The traitours that great Pomfey did betray. 
 With death did Ccefar iuftlyguerdon them. 
 Sylla to her owne father proou'd vntrue, 
 And therefore felt defert accordingly. 
 Lycifcus rotted aliue aboue the ground 
 For his vile treafon to th'Orcmenlans. 
 Th' Athenians would let none be buried, 
 That had been traitours to the countrey. 
 Tullie faith : Wife men not at any time 
 Will truft a traitour or a faithleffe man. 
 
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Of Enuie. 
 
 Enuie is nothing els but grief e of mind, 
 Conceitidatjight of others happineffe. 
 
 ENuie is hand-maid to profperitie. 
 Enuie let in, doth in more mifchiefe let. 
 Enuie doth ceafe, wanting to feed vpon. 
 Enuious is he, that grieues his neighbors good. 
 Enuie hath oft times eloquence injiore 
 To feme Ms turne, than which he craues no more. 
 Ill will too foone regardeth enuies cryes. 
 Hee's moit enuied, that moil exceeds the reft. 
 Promotions chaung'd, glorie is enuies marke. 
 No fooner excellent, but enuied ftraight. 
 Enuie doth vertue infuchfort dif grace. 
 It makes men foes to them theyfhould embrace. 
 Enuie to honour, is a fecret foe. 
 The fruits of enuie, is defpight and hate. 
 It's hate, which enuies vertue in a friend. 
 Anger and enuie, are lifes enemies. 
 Enuie Hues with vs while our felues furuiue. 
 And when we die, it is no more aliue. 
 
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 Let 
 
ii8 Of Enuie. 
 
 Let enuie with misfortune be contented. 
 Honour is ftill a moate in enuies eye. 
 Enuie cannot offend but fuch as liue. 
 On dead mens vertues, enuie hath no power. 
 
 'Knuie in this point may be kncfwne from hate: 
 
 The ofte is euident, the other hid. 
 All poyfoned thoughts, are enuies daily food. 
 Enuie is friendihips fecret enemie. 
 Enuie at other fhoots, but wounds her felfe. 
 It's better be enuied, than pitied. 
 
 Enuie doth make the body ill difpos^d. 
 
 And kills the colour of the countenance. 
 Men enuious, by their manners are beft; knowne. 
 Enuie doth often brag, but drawes no blood. 
 Enuie like lightning in the darke is feene. 
 Enuie is blind, and vertues mortall foe. 
 
 Enuie dothfcorne to cajl her eye below. 
 
 As proud ambition alwayes gaseth vp. 
 As rufl the iron, fo enuie frets the heart. 
 At good mens fatneffe, enuie waxeth leane. 
 Enuie fpots beauties colours with difdaine. 
 Enuie will reach at them are fartheft off. 
 
 The enuious man is fed with daintiefare. 
 
 For his oivne heart is his continuall food. 
 Enuie is mightie mens companion. 
 Enuies dtfeafe proceeds from others good. 
 Enuie at vertues elbow alwaies waits. 
 The enuious man, thinkes others loffe, his gaine. 
 
 I(s better be a beggers mate in loue. 
 
 Than in bafe enuie, fellow with a king. 
 Enuie teares vp the dead, buries the quicke. 
 Enuie fpeakes alwaies what comes next in mind. 
 Glorie eredls, what enuie cafteth downe. 
 
 Enuie is like a fliaft flwt from a bow, 
 
 Which 
 
Of Enuie. 1 1 9 
 
 Which flies a while aloft, but lighteth low. 
 The enuious man ne're fpares to perfecute. 
 Hid enuie is more daungerous than knowne. 
 When enuie winkes, then waiteth he moft harme. 
 
 If any man be good, he is enuied: 
 
 Ifeuill, then himfelfe is enuious. 
 Patience endures what euer enuie dare. 
 An enuious neighbour is a double ill. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie5l. 
 
 As Bauens by their bands are eafily knowne. 
 So enuies lookes doe moft difclofe her felfe. 
 As greateft floods haue alwaies quickeft ebbes. 
 So enuies heat is commonly foone cold. 
 As rigour blafteth fancies faireft bjoomes, 
 So enuie doth the nobleft man difgrace. 
 As no difeafe with inward griefe compares, 
 So nothing more than enuie wounds the mind. 
 As fire not maintain'd is quickly out. 
 So enuie not fupplyed, dies of it felfe. 
 As in the Cedar, wormes doe neuer breed, 
 So in the wife, enuie can haue no power. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 PHilip was told, that men enuied him : 
 Quoth he ; / care not, I haue giuen no caufe. 
 Caligula had fuch an enuious heart, 
 As he repin'd at all mens happineife. 
 Th' Athenians fo enuied Themiftocles, 
 As they made verfes in reproch of him. 
 Pompey and Ccefars enuie to each other, 
 Can fcant be matcht in any hiftories. 
 Plutarch faith, enuie is damn'd forcerie, 
 And therefore wifht it generally abhorr'd. 
 
 I 4 Thury- 
 
I20 
 
 OfLuJi. 
 
 Thucidides grauiits, wife men may be enuied, 
 Only to make their vertues (hine the more. 
 
 Lujl, is the minds di/iurber, pur/es foe : 
 The conscience wronger, andfirjljlep to woe. 
 
 LVft oft is fiU'd, but neuer fatisfied. 
 Lafciuious lufl the fences doth deceiue. 
 Where luil gets footing, fliame doth foon enfue. 
 Lufl like a lanthorne Jhnveth through itfelfe. 
 The foyfoned venime hid within itfelfe. 
 Luft puts the moft vnlawfuU things in vre. 
 The Leachers tongue, is neuer void of guile. 
 Luft lines by fpoile, like theeues that rob true men. 
 Lufl makes obliuion, beateth reafon backe: 
 Forgettethfhames pure blufh, and honours wracke. 
 The flames of luft doe from loues fewell rife. 
 The filth of luft, vncleanneffe wallowes in. 
 Luft gads abroad, defire doth feldome fleepe. 
 Mojifweei it is, fwiftfame to ouer-goe: 
 But vile, to Hue in lujls blacke ouerthrow. 
 
 Where 
 
Of Lujl. 121 
 
 Where luft is law, it booteth not to plead. 
 Luft laclcs no wings, when loue is fled away. 
 Blind is bafe luft, falfe colours to defcrie. 
 
 Lujles Owle-fight eyes are dazeled with the light. 
 
 Yet fee too clearely in the darkejl night. 
 Loue furfets not, luft like a glutton dies. 
 Loue is all truth, luft full of perjur'd lyes. 
 Lufts winter comes ere fommer halfe is done. 
 
 While luJl is in his pride, no exclamation 
 
 Can curbe his heat, or reine his rajh defire. 
 Luft being Lord, there is no truft in kings. 
 Leud luft is endleife, pleafure hath no bounds. 
 As come o're-growes by weeds, fo feare by luft. 
 
 Allfaire humanitie abhorres the deed, 
 
 Thatjlaines imih luft hues modeft /now-white weede. 
 Teares harden luft, though marble weare with drops. 
 Faire loue, foule luft, are deadly enemies. 
 Luft blowes the fire when temperance is thawed, 
 
 Faire day difcouers luftes obfcureft wayes, 
 
 Andjheweth ech thing as it is indeed. 
 The loue of luft is loffe vnto our health. 
 Luft led with enuie, dreads no deadly finne. 
 Sower is the eafe that from lufts root doth fpring. 
 
 Inchaftitie is euer proftitute, 
 
 Whofe tree we loath, when we haue pluckt the fruit. 
 It is great vertue to abflaine from luft. 
 Who foUowes luft, can neuer come to loiie. 
 Luft alwaies feekes the ruine of chafte loue. 
 
 Better feueritie that's right and iuft. 
 
 Than impotent affections led with iufl. 
 Greatneffe doth make it great incontinence. 
 No bondage like the flauilh life to luft. 
 Luft is a pleafure bought with after paine. 
 
 The gate that opens to iniquitie. 
 
 Is vu- 
 
122 Of Lujl. 
 
 Is vnreftrained luJl and libertie. - 
 Luft by continuance growes to impudence. 
 Shame and difgrace attend vnbridled luft. 
 Adxilterie is iniurie to nature. 
 
 Where wicked luft doth dwell infoule excejfe. 
 
 That is no houfe but for damn'd beaftlines. 
 Adult'rie is vnlawfull matrimonie. 
 Adult'rie is defpis'd among bruit beafts. 
 Concupifcence doth violence the foule. 
 
 Loue comfortetk like Sun-ftiine after raine. 
 
 But lufls effeil is temfeft after Sunne. 
 No beaftlines like bafe concupifcenfe. 
 Luft is the path-way to perdition. 
 Concupifcenfe leads on the way to death. 
 
 Poore fdlie flyes may teach great men be iuft. 
 
 And not to yeeld thetn-felues a prey to luft. 
 Luft is in age moft loathfome, vile in youth. 
 Luft makes vs couet things beyond our power. 
 Luft cuts off life before the dated time. 
 
 Luft neuer taketh ioy in what is due, 
 
 Butftill leaues knowne delights tofeeke out new. 
 A man long plung'd in luft, is hardly purg'd, 
 Slothfulneffe is the nourilher of luft. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie^. 
 
 As fire confumeth wood into it felfe, 
 So luft drawes men into her deepeft fmnes. 
 As Sulphur being hot, is quickly fier'd, 
 So luft vnbridled eafily is prouokt. 
 As wanton thoughts are full of wanton fpeech, 
 So leud conceits are fild with loofe defires. 
 As greedie minds encroch on others right, 
 So luft makes no refpeft of leud delight. 
 
 As 
 
Of Luji. 123 
 
 As leprofie the members doth corrupt, 
 So luxurie enuenometh the foule. 
 As rauenous birds make no refpedt of prey, 
 So all are apt that come in lulls foule way. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 CLeopatra had her brothers companie. 
 Wronging thereby her husband & her felfe. 
 ThaUJlris trauail'd fiue and twentie dayes. 
 To lye one night with mightie Alexander. 
 Claudius of his owne fillers made no fpare. 
 Semiramis in lull defir'd her fonne. 
 Nero flew Atlicus the Romane ConfuU, 
 That he might haue acceffe vnto his wife. 
 Arijlotle faith, that lull mens bodies chaunge, 
 And likewife breedeth madneffe in their foules. 
 Hippocrates call'd lufl the foule difeafe, 
 Than which could be no worfe infedlion. 
 
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124 
 
 Pride, is apuft vp mind, afwolne dejire, 
 That by vaine-glory feeketk to afpire. 
 
 PRide, Is the chiefe difgrace beautie can haue. 
 Pride drawes on vengeance, vengeance hath no meane. 
 Wealce weapons doe the greateft pride abate. 
 When pride but pointeth once vnto his fall. 
 He beares a /word tojlay him-felfe withall. 
 Vaine-glorie neuer temperance doth retaine. 
 Vaine-glorie fondly gazeth on the skies. 
 Pride gapes aloft, and fcorneth humble lookes. 
 Pride is contemned, /corned, difdairi^d, derided: 
 While humblenejje of all things is prouided. 
 Proud will is deafe, and heares no heedful! friends. 
 The flefh being proud, defire doth fight with grace. 
 Suppreffe the proud, helpe to fupport the meeke. 
 Vaine-glories vice, like to the mifiie night. 
 Doth blemifli oft our vertues Jhining bright. 
 Small Gnats enforc'd proud Pharaoh foone to ftoope. 
 Very vnfurely ftands the foot of pride. 
 Vaine-glorious men defire to pleafe their eies. 
 
 Such 
 
Of Pride, Vaine-glorie. 125 
 
 Such is the nature Jlill of haughtie pride. 
 
 Than others prai/e, can nothing loorfe abide. 
 In-fight illiiftrates, outward brauerie blinds. 
 Shame foUowes pride, as doth the bodies Ihade. 
 Wit oft-times wrackes, by felfe-conceit of pride. 
 
 Though pride leads on, yetjimme doth wait behind. 
 
 And Jhame for pride by iufUce is affign'd. 
 Beautie breeds pride, pride bringelh forth difdaine. 
 Vertue is plac'd, where pride may not prefume. 
 The plague of pride prefumption did begin. 
 
 Nothing there is that heauen can ivorfe abide, 
 
 Amongfl mens deeds, than arrogance and pride. 
 Truft not to choife of proud confederates. 
 High-builded caftles ouer-looke low lands. 
 Enuie is auncient'ft fmne, but pride is greateft. 
 
 Proud thoughts, that greatejl matters take in hand. 
 
 Falls foonefl, where theyfafefl thinke tojland. 
 Sorrow ne're followes him that flyes from pride. 
 Where leaft defert is, alwaies pride is moft. 
 Prides loweft ftep is blood, Enuie the highefl;. 
 
 Pride bathes in teares of foore fubmiffion. 
 
 And makes hisfoule the purple he puts on. 
 A proud mans glory, foone begets defame. 
 A rich man hardly can be free from pride. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiefl. 
 
 As vapours in afcendin^ foone are lofl, 
 So prides prefuming but confounds it felfe. 
 As great fires hazard fimple cottages. 
 So pride in poore men is mofl perillous. 
 As winds blow ftemely being neere to ceafe, 
 So pride is loftieft, neere deftnidVion. 
 As Ciedar trees vnfruitfull are and fliffe, 
 So proud men helpe not any, nor themfelues. 
 
 As 
 
126 Of Pride, Vaine-glorie. 
 
 As pride is the beginner of all vice, 
 So the deftni(5Hon is it of all vertue. 
 As ftill the dropfie couets after drinke, 
 So pride is neuer pleafed but with pride. 
 
 Examples likewi/eon the fame. 
 
 F Aldus the Senatour, o're-corae with pride, 
 Swallowed a haire in milke, and thereof dyed. 
 Poppeia that was Heroes concubine, 
 Had with the pureft gold her horfes (hod. 
 Chares for hurting Cyrus in the knee, 
 Became fo proud, that forth-with he ran mad. 
 The Emperour Dioclefian in his pride. 
 Would needs be call'd the brother to the Sunne. 
 Saith Ariftotle, Men ouercome with pride, 
 Their betters nor their equals can abide. 
 Quintilian would haue men of greateil gifts, 
 Rather be humble, than fwolue vp with pride. 
 
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!^^^ Of Couetoufnes, &c. h^^^^Q 
 
 Couetoufnes is onely root of ill, 
 
 That kingdome, confciencefoule and all dothfpill. 
 
 THey that moft couet, oftentimes loofe more. 
 Gaine commeth in, while as the mifer fleeps. 
 Couetous wretches doefuch grief es fttflaine. 
 That they f rootle bankrupts in their greatejl gaine. 
 Vaine is it, all to haue and nothing vfe. 
 Intemperance thralles men to couetife. 
 Treafure is mojl alms' d, being hoorded vp. 
 When being employed, it tumeth two for one. 
 It's vaine to couet more than we need vfe. 
 He that encrocheth much, is alwaies needle. 
 Rich roabes, other both and themfelues adorne. 
 But nor themfelues nor others, if not worne. 
 Great is the fcope that greedie will defires. 
 Gaines got with infamie, is greateft loife. 
 
 Leffefinnes thepoore man, that dothflarue him-felfe, 
 Than he thatflayes his foule by hoarding pelfe. 
 Defire to haue, doth make vs much endure. 
 Auarice is good to none, worfe to himfelfe, 
 
 Who 
 
128 Of Couetoufnes, Auarice. 
 
 Who would not wijk his treafure fafe from themes. 
 
 And rid his heart of pangs, his eyes from teares ? 
 The man that couets much, he wanteth much. 
 The gaine of gold makes many loofe their foules. 
 
 Learnings decay, is thankeleffe auarice: 
 
 Not rendring vertue her deferuing price. 
 All vices haue their tafte from auarice, 
 The couetous mans excufe, is childrens care. 
 
 Who hugs th'idolatrous defire of gold, 
 
 Tofcorne and ruine hath his freedome fold. 
 The deuils mouth is tearm'd a mifers purfe. 
 Mens faults, by couetoufnes the world difcemes. 
 
 The greedie wretch that for him-felfe fiill f pares. 
 
 Doth hoard vp nothing but continuall cares. 
 A couetous eye doth feldome find content. 
 Defire of gaine, at no time hath enough. 
 
 A niggard feldome wanteth this flye fliift. 
 
 To call his curfed auarice, good thrift. 
 The couetous minded man is alwayes poore, 
 Couetoufnes ruimes round about the world, 
 
 Couetoufnes deferueth fpeciall hate 
 
 In ludges, or in rulers ofaflate. 
 Auarice difeafe, nothing can cure but death. 
 To file from auarice, is a kingdomes gaine. 
 
 So greedie minds may but augment their wealth, 
 
 They not refpeifl how much they harme their health. 
 How hard from couetoufnes can men refraine ? 
 Gold, that makes all men falfe, is true it felfe. 
 
 Treafures fafi bard vp by a couetous mind. 
 
 As prodigall expenders after find. 
 The more we fpare, the more we hope to gaine. 
 To haue gold, and to haue it fafe, is all. 
 
 In old men, couetoufneffe is monfirous, 
 
 Becaufe they arefo neare their iournies end. 
 
 Auarice 
 
Of Couetoufnes, Aua^rice, &c. 129 
 
 Auarice f'like the dropfie) ftill feekes more. 
 The gulfe of greedineffe will ne're be fild. 
 
 The couetotis churle, whofe care great keapes attaines: 
 
 Hath for his end afflidlion, grief e his gaines, 
 Auarice is the chiefell hooke of death. 
 The mifers mind is neuer fatisfied. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie6l. 
 
 As fire, the more it hath, the fiercer buraes, 
 So couetous minds doe alwaies craue for more. 
 As Bees doe flocke vnto a hony dew. 
 So couetous men ftill haunt the fente of gaine. 
 As greateft filh deuoure the fmaller frie, 
 So couetous wretches feed vpon the poore. 
 As gluttons from them-felues can nothing fpare, 
 So mifers will let nothing paffe their purfe. 
 As without waues we neuer fee the fea, 
 So couetous men are neuer free from cares. 
 As clouds doe fomtime hide the Sunnes cleare light, 
 So couetoufnes depriues the light of grace. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 HErmocrates lying at the point of death, 
 Bequeath'd his goods to no one but him-felfe. 
 Euclio hid his treafure in his houfe. 
 And durft not goe abroad for feare of robbing. 
 Caligula became fo couetous, 
 That he would fpare no meanes to compaffe coine. 
 Demonica for gold fold Ephefus, 
 And after dyed vnder the weight thereof. 
 Socrates feeing one ignorant, yet rich, 
 Said : He was nothing but a golden flaue. 
 Diogenes would fay to couetous men, 
 That he had rather be their ftieepe, than fonne. 
 
 K Of 
 
Sloth is to Vertue, chief ejl enemie: 
 And Idlenes, the guide to euery ill. 
 
 SLoth dulles the wit, and doth corrapt our ftrength. 
 Sloth both corrupts, and chokes the vitall powers. 
 Idlenes is a death in life eileem'd. 
 Long flumbers are for idle perfons meet. 
 The idle luske, that no way is endin'd, 
 Walkes as one dead among the liuing kind. 
 Eafe is the mothet of diffention. 
 Who growes too negligent, too foone repents. 
 Humours, by much exceiife of eafe are bred. 
 All idle workes, are but the workes of lyes. 
 All idle houres are Calenders of ruth. 
 And time ill /pent is preiudice to youth. 
 IdleneiTe caufeth errour and ignorance. 
 Through idlenes, kingdoms haue ben deflroi'd. 
 Idlenes is the root of defperation. 
 The idle mind is apt to all vncleannelife. 
 In height of weak who hath aflothfull heart. 
 Repents too late his ouerfoolifk part. 
 
 Sloth 
 
Of Sloth and IdleneJ/e. 1 3 1 
 
 Sloth blunts conceit, but ftudie fliarpens it. 
 Profperitie alwaies ingendreth floth. 
 The flothfull man in his owne want doth fleepe. 
 Sloth hinders thrift, and much difpleai'eth God. 
 
 Loue is aprodigie to loytring wits, 
 
 A hell of life, a trap for idle toies. 
 The idle heart is mooued with no prayers. 
 In doing nothing, men learne to doe ill. 
 Sloth is a feare of labour to enfue. 
 The Bees abide no idle Drones among them. 
 
 Vfurie is the nource ofidlenes: 
 
 And idlenes the mother of all euill. 
 The wife mans idlenes, is daily labour. 
 A noble nature, floth doth foone corrupt. 
 Idlenes is the canker of the mind. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As mothes eat garments that are feldome worne. 
 So idlenes infeiteth loytring wits. 
 As too much bending breakes the flrongefl bow. 
 So too much floth corrupts the chaftefl mind. 
 As mofle growes on thofe flones which are not flirr'd. 
 So floth defiles the foule, not well employed. 
 As flanding waters venemous wormes ingender. 
 So idle brarnes beget vnholy thoughts. 
 As pooles freeze fooner than the rumiing ftreames, 
 So idle men fpeed worfe than thofe that worke. 
 As fitters fooner fleepe than they that walke. 
 So fmne tempts fooner floth, than diligence. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 SCipio did banilh from his campe, all fuch 
 As could be toucht with floth or idlenes. 
 
 K 2 The 
 
132 Of Anger, Wrath, &c. 
 
 The wife men thus did anfwere Alexander, 
 
 If he were idle, long he could not liue. 
 
 Becaufe the Sabies did abound in wealth, 
 
 They gaue them-felues to nought but idlenes. 
 
 Metelltis being arriu'd in Africa, 
 
 Difmift all meanes might offer idlenes. 
 
 Tully faith, Men were borne to doe good workes. 
 
 As a preferuatiue gainft idlenes. 
 
 Pythagoras gaue all his fchollers charge. 
 
 At no time to admit an idle thought. 
 
 Anger is entrance to vnfeemely wrath, 
 Prouoking Furie, Rage, and Violence. 
 
 ANgers raih fire conceal'd, enkindles more. 
 Anger muft be no reafon of diuorce. 
 Anger doth ftill his owne mifhaps encreafe. 
 Thunder affrighteth infants in thefchooles : 
 And angry threats are conquejts meet for fooles. 
 What reafon vrgeth, rage doth ftill denie. 
 Vntamed rage doth all aduife reieft. 
 
 Raee 
 
Of Anger, Wrath, &c. 133 
 
 Rage is like fire, and naturally afcends. 
 
 Hot haftie wrath, and heedlejfe hazardie. 
 
 Breeds late repentance, and long infamie. 
 Full many mifchiefes follow haftie wrath 
 Happie who can abftaine when anger fwelles. 
 Words haue great power t'appeafe enflamed rage. 
 
 Furie and frenzies are ft companie. 
 
 To helpe to blaze a viofull tragedie. 
 Mightie mens anger is more fear'd than death. 
 Misftiapen ftuffe is meet for rude demeanour. 
 Violent fires doe foone bume out them-felues. 
 
 Oft times we fee, men troubled with annoy 
 
 Doe laugh for anger, and yet weepefor ioy. 
 Small (howers laft long, but angry ftorraes are ihort. 
 Oft outward rage doth inward gi-iefes encreafe. 
 The wrathfull man is feldome free from woe. 
 
 The broken tops ofloftie trees declare. 
 
 The furie of a mercie-wanting fiorme. 
 Men will not fpend their furie on a child. 
 Young ilippes are neuer graft in windie dayes. 
 Loue being refifted, growes impacient. 
 
 Raine added to a riuer that is ranke. 
 
 Perforce will make it ouer-flow the banke. 
 Calmes feldome hold, without enfuing ftormes. 
 Choller vnto digeflion is a friend. 
 He that loues eafe, offends no angrie man. 
 
 If once the fire be to the poiader got. 
 
 Its then too late tofeeke to flie thefltot. 
 Heat added vnto heat, augmenteth it. 
 There is no reft, where rage runnes all on head. 
 The waters fwell before a boiftrous ftorme. 
 
 In luindie dayes we hold our garments fafl. 
 
 But glaring Sun-fhine makes vs put them off. 
 Tydes being reftrain'd, o're-fwell their bounds with rage. 
 
 K 3 The 
 
134 Of Anger, Wrath, &c. 
 
 The depth is hid by troubhng of the flood. 
 Great mifl;s arife before the greateft raine. 
 
 If rage /pare not the walles ofpietie, 
 
 Howjhall the profane piles offinne keepe Jlrong? 
 The raine doth ceafe, before the floods doe rife. 
 All flormes are calmed by a gentle flarre. 
 Pale angrie death a greedie longing flops. 
 
 When difcontented feiHes and fchifmes arife, 
 
 They feed thefmple, and offend the wife. 
 The edge of reprehenfion, is fliarpe words. 
 Reprooue with loue, not anger, others faults. 
 Cold breath doth not coole fire, but makes more hot. 
 
 What is withfurie andflerne rage begun, 
 
 Doth challenge fhatne before it be halfe done. 
 Fond difagreement is loues ouerthrow. 
 Loue fliould preuaile, iufl. anger to aflwage. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie^. 
 
 As hate is oft conceiu'd vpon no caufe. 
 So anger on fmall matters doth enfue. 
 As he that loueth quiet, fleeps fecure. 
 So he that yeelds to wrath, much harmes him-felfe. 
 As wrathfiiU anger is a grieuous fault. 
 So fufferance is great commendation. 
 As winter commonly is full of flormes. 
 So angrie minds haue ilill impatient thoughts. 
 As luke-warme water inward heats affwage, 
 So gentle language calmeth angers rage. 
 As tumours rife by blowes vpon the flefli. 
 So anger fwelles by buffetting the mind. 
 
 Examples likewfe on the fame. 
 
 GReat Alexander, in his angrie mood 
 Kild Clytus, his old councellour and friend. 
 
 Dion ]n'ius 
 
Of Gluttonie, Drunkennejfe, &c. 135 
 
 Dionyfius being ouer-come with rage, 
 Stabd to the heart his innocent poore Page. 
 Periander, angry and miffe-gouerned, 
 His deare wife moft vnliindly murdered. 
 Architas, though his bond-man did amilTe, 
 Yet in his anger he refus'd to finite him. 
 Euripides, held nothing in a man 
 Of more defedt, tlran fleme impatience. 
 The elder Cato counfaii'd angrie men, 
 To banilh rage, if they defir'd long life. 
 
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 Es^ 
 
 
 Of Gluttonie, &c ^'''^^-^- 
 
 Gluttonie, drunkenneffe, and leudexceffe, 
 Is the high-way to woe and wretchednejfe. 
 
 WHo daily tafte neat wine, do water loath. 
 Diforder breeds by heating of the blood. 
 Aduantage feeds him fat, while men delay. 
 In Italic, the fat, faire, Jlicke and full. 
 Are better IX d than leane, lanke, fpare and dull. 
 Stani'd men befl geffe the fweetneffe of a feaft. 
 Worldlings (like Antes) eat vp the gaines of men. 
 
 K 4 Things 
 
1 36 Of Gluttonie, Drunkennejfe, &c. 
 
 Things vndigefted, neuer turne to blood. 
 
 Steele is the glqffe of beautiefor our fight. 
 
 But wine is tearm'd, the mirrour of the mind. 
 A beaftly fliape with brutilh foule agrees. 
 Set-banquets made by Courtiers, want no cates. 
 It's good in health to counfell with a Leach. 
 
 Ks good abflaining from fuperfluous feafls : 
 
 Where too much feeding maketh men bruit beafls. 
 Wine burnes vp beautie, and prouokes on age. 
 No fecrecie abides, where lines exceffe. 
 Exceffe is nothing elfe, but wilful! madneffe. 
 
 He that delights in pampering vp himfelfe. 
 
 Is chief efl feeker of his bodies flvxme. 
 Chaftities daunger waits on drunkenneffe. 
 Wine is the earths blood, and th'abufers blame. 
 A double fire in man, is wine and youth. 
 
 Gluttonie dryes the bones, more thereby die 
 
 Than in a kingdome perijk by thefword. 
 Surfet hath fickneffe to attend on him. 
 Gluttonie caufeth many maladies. 
 Exceffe is that which foone difpatcheth life. 
 
 Rich men may feed their bellies when they pleafe, 
 
 Butpoore mens dinners flay till they haue meat. 
 Much feeding caufeth much infirmitie. 
 The belly alwaies is a thankleffe beaft. 
 Drunkenneffe is a many-headed monfter. 
 
 Moderate diet is a wife mans badge. 
 
 But furfetting, the glory ofafoole. 
 Women and wine haue made the wife to dote. 
 Too much of any thing conuerts to vice. 
 Ameane in all things is moft commendable. 
 
 Similies 
 
Of Gluttonie, Drunkenneffe, &c. 137 
 Similies on the fame fubieSl. 
 
 As corporall fafting quickens vp the foule, 
 So too much feeding dotli depreffe it downe. 
 As fable clouds obfcure the filuer Moone, 
 So gluttonie dirames glorie of the mind. 
 As birds with weiglitie bodies hardly ilie, 
 So men o're-come with drinke, fcant rightly goe. 
 As too much wet doth caufe a moorifli ground, 
 So too much drinke doth make a muddie mind. 
 As fhips of lighteft burden lightlieft faile, 
 So minds of quickeft motion are moft apt. 
 As drowfie fouldiours are vnfit for fight, 
 So drunken humours are not meet for men. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 THe Tyrant Dionyfius, by much drinke, 
 Loft vtterly the benefit of fight. 
 Aruntius in his beaflly drunkennes, 
 With his owne daughter inceft did commit. 
 Ptolomie ilew his father and his mother, 
 Through wine and women, dying like a beaft. 
 Geta the Emperour three dayes feafting fate, 
 Seni'd by the order of the Alphabet. 
 Men giuen to belly-feruice, Plato faith, 
 Deferue no better name, than brutifh beafts. 
 Exceffe (faith Tullie) is a teflimonie 
 Of foules incontinence, and bafe defires. 
 
 Of 
 
138 
 
 Grief Cf Sorrow, Woe, andjighing care, 
 Endaunger health, and often vrge defpaire. 
 
 GRiefe doth await on life, though neuer fought. 
 Griefe being difclos'd, the fooner is recur'd. 
 Ech griefe beft iudgeth of his contrarie. 
 Extreame and hard with f arrow doth it goe. 
 Where woe becomes a comforter to woe. 
 Sorrow doth dimme the iudgement of tlie wit. 
 Great griefes more eafily can be thought than told. 
 There is no griefe, but time doth make it leiTe. 
 Sighes of them-felues, are ouer-filent much, 
 Andfarre toojhort to make ourforrowes knowne. 
 Griefe, to it felfe moil dreadfuU doth appeare. 
 Neuer was forrow quite deuoid of feare. 
 Sorrow beft fitteth with a doudie cell. 
 Still we behold fome griefe our blijfe befets, 
 Yet often-times that griefe, fo7ne good begets. 
 Sorrow difclofeth what it moft doth grieue. 
 The deapth of griefe with words is founded leaft. 
 No plaifter helpes before the griefe be knowne. 
 
 Words 
 
Of Grief e, Sorrow ^ &c. 139 
 
 Words are butjhadovies of a further /mart. 
 
 But inward griefe doth truly touch the heart. 
 Sower is the fweet that forrow doth maintaine. 
 A heauie heart, with forrowes pipe mull daunce. 
 Sorrow her felfe, is in her felfe confounded. 
 
 Where forrow ferues for food, where drinke is teares, 
 
 There fleafure fighes amidfl confufed feares. 
 Sighes often fue, but feldome times find grace. 
 We may conclude our words, but not our woes. 
 Great griefes are mute, when mirth can chearely fpeake. 
 
 What bootes it plaine that cannot be redrefl, 
 
 Orfow vaine forrowes in afruitleffe eare? 
 Nothing auaileth griefe, when fates denie. 
 Cares, clofc conceal'd, doe aggrauate the paine. 
 It's eafe to tell the cares that inly touch. 
 
 Men tome with tempefts, fafe arrived at lafl, 
 
 May fit andfmg, and tell of forrowes pafi. 
 Well fitteth moane the mind, neer kill'd with care. 
 A double griefe afflifts concealing hearts. 
 One louing hower quits many yeares of griefe. 
 
 When thou dojlfeele thy confcience rent with grieje. 
 
 Thy felfe purfuefl thy felfe, loth robd, and thiefe. 
 All earthly fights can nought but forrow breed. 
 Woe waxeth old, by being ftill renew'd. 
 Woe neuer wants, where euery caufe is caught. 
 
 When forrow once isfeated in our eyes, 
 
 What-^re we fee, encreafeth miferies. 
 Men change the aire, but feldome change their cares. 
 Griefes are long liu'd, and forrowes feldome die. 
 Griefe need no feigned adtion to be taught. 
 
 Know how to weepe when mightie griefes conflraine, 
 
 Elfe teares andflghes are meerely fpent in vaine. 
 Sorow growes fence-leffe, when too much ihe bears. 
 We need not cherifh griefes, too fafl they grow. 
 
 Woe 
 
140 Of Grief e, Sorrow, &c. 
 
 Woe be to him that dyes of his owne woe. 
 
 To meane ejiate, but common woes are knowne, 
 
 But crownes kaue cares that euer be vnknowne. 
 Sorrow doth make the Ihorteft time feeme long. 
 One griefe conceal'd, more grieuous is than ten. 
 From ftrongeft woe we hardly language wrefl. 
 
 Oft times it haps, that forrowes of the mind 
 
 Find helfe vnfought, thatfeeking cannot find. 
 Huge horrors, in high tydes of griefes are drown'd. 
 Woe paft may once laugh prefent woe to fcorne. 
 Griefe carueth deepefl, comming from the heart. 
 
 Enough of griefe it is to penfiue minds, 
 
 Tofeele their faults, and not be further vext. 
 Care makes men paffionate, and forrow dumbe. 
 High floods of ioy, oft falls by ebbbes of griefe. 
 No note is fweet, where griefe beares all the ground. 
 
 Ifs euer f leafing for a man to heare, 
 
 Thofe griefes difcoiirfi, that once were hard to beare. 
 Some often fmg that haue more caufe to figh. 
 Griefe neuer parts from a care-filled breaft. 
 Free vent of griefe doth eafe the ouer-flow. 
 
 Vnhapfie man, thefubieil of misfortune, 
 
 Whofe very birth doth following woe importune. 
 Mens dayes of woe are long, but ihort of ioy. 
 Our time may pafle, but cares will neuer die. 
 Oft greateft cares, the greateft comforts kill. 
 
 Men die, and humane kind doth paffe away, 
 
 But griefe (that makes them die) doth euer flay. 
 Ioy ftill afcends, but forrow fmgs below, 
 Men may lament, but neuer difanuU. 
 Sorrow ftill feazeth on a grieued heart. 
 
 Things offmall moment we can fcarfely hold. 
 
 But griefes that touch the heart, are hardly told. 
 They eafily grieue, that cannot choofe but moane. 
 
 Sorrow 
 
Of Grief e, Sorrow, &c. 141 
 
 Sorrow concludes not when it feemeth done. 
 
 Conceit deriues from fome fore-father grief e. 
 Concerned griefe reboundeth w}ure it falls: 
 Not with the emptie hollowneffe, but weight. 
 
 Things paft redreffe (hould be as free from care. 
 
 It is no lofle to be exempt from care. 
 
 Againfl a chaunge, woe is o're-ran with woe. 
 Woe with the heauier weight doth alwaies fit. 
 Where it perceiues it is but faintly borne. 
 
 The deepefl cares cure not tlie fmallefl griefe. 
 
 Sorrow is mortall enemie to health. 
 
 Griefe wanteth words to vtter what it would. 
 Fell gnarling forrow hath leafi power to bite 
 The man that mocltes it, and dothfet it light. 
 
 No need to haften care, it comes too foone. 
 
 Griefes beft redreffe, is the bed fuiferance. 
 
 Griefe finds fome eafe by him that beareth like. 
 Sharpe forrowes tooth doth neuer ranckle more. 
 That when he bites, and launceth not the fore. 
 
 The hearts deepe forrow hates both light and life. 
 
 Mirth may not foiourne with blacke male content. 
 
 What helpeth care, when cure is paft and gone ? 
 Ech fubflance of a griefe hath twentiefliades. 
 Which fhewes like griefe itfelfe, yet is notfo. 
 
 It is fome eafe our forrowes to reueale. 
 
 Sorow doth euer long to heare the worft. 
 
 Long are their nights whofe cares doe neuer fleepe. 
 The eyes of forrow glazed with blinding teares, 
 Deuides one thing entire to many obieils. 
 
 No farre remooue can make fterne forrow leffe, 
 
 Care-charming fleepe, is fonne of fable night. 
 
 Idlely we grieue, when fruitleffely we grieue. 
 Thnr legges can keepe no meafure in delight, 
 Whofe heart doe hold no meafure in their griefe. 
 
 They 
 
142 Of Grief e, Sorrow, &c. 
 
 They that report griefe, feele it for the time. 
 Sad foules are flaine in merrie companie. 
 Griefe is beft; pleas'd with griefes focietie. 
 
 In wooing forrow, it is bejl be briefe. 
 
 When wedding it, there is/uch length in griefe. 
 Great griefe grieues moft at that would do it good. 
 Griefe dallied with, nor law nor limit knowes. 
 A wofuU hofteffe brookes no merrie guefts. 
 
 Ech thinks him-felfe to fetch the deefefl grone, 
 
 Becaufe hefeeles no forrow but his owne. 
 Diftreffe likes dumps, when time is kept with teares. 
 Woe is moft tedious when her words are briefe. 
 Though woe be heauie, yet it feldome fleepes. 
 
 Kind felloiufhip in woe, doth woe affwage, 
 
 As Palmers chat makes fhort their pilgrimage, 
 Loue ne're fo loyall, is not free from care. 
 Weepe ne're fo long, yet griefe mufl haue an end. 
 Of forrow, comes but fancies and fond dreames. 
 
 True forrow then is feelingly fuffis'd. 
 
 When with like femblan-ce it is fymfathiz^ d. 
 Sad hearts with weeping line vpon their teares. 
 Sad fighes fet downe the hearts moft feeling woes. 
 Affurance alway putteth griefe to flight. 
 
 Deefe woes roll forward like a gentle foud, . 
 
 Which being flopt, the bounding bankes o're-fowes, 
 Accuftom'd forrow, is meere crueltie. 
 Sorrow is very doubtfuU in beleefe. 
 Silence, is forrowes chiefeft Oratour. 
 
 To fee fad fights, mooues more than heare them told. 
 
 For then the eye interprets to the eare. 
 Sacietie makes paffions ftUl leffe ftrong, 
 All fence muft die where griefe too much abounds. 
 All care is bootleffe in a careleffe cafe. 
 
 Sorrow is like a heauie hanging bell. 
 
 Which 
 
Of Grief e, Sorrow, &c. 143 
 
 Which fet on ringing, with his owne weight goes. 
 Sorrow beft fpcakes by fignes of heauie eyes. 
 On greateft charge, the greateft care attends. 
 Dombe is the meflage of a hidden griefe. 
 
 Sorrow breaies feafons, and repofing Iioures: 
 
 Makes the night morning, and the noon-tyde night. 
 Our inward cares are moft pent in with griefe. 
 Sad cares, mens eyes doth alwayes open keepe. 
 Short walkes feeme long when forrow metes the way. 
 
 Sorrow hath onely this poore bare relief e. 
 
 To be bemoand offuch as wofull are. 
 Wounds helpe not wounds, nor griefe eafe grieuous deeds. 
 Exceffe of forrow liftneth no reliefe. 
 Pafsions encreafmg, multiply complaints. 
 
 To moane ones care, yet cannot helpe his thrall. 
 
 It kills his heart, but comforts not at all. 
 No griefe like to the bondage of the mind. 
 No outward vlterance can commaund conceit. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie^. 
 
 As fire fuppreft, is much more forcible, 
 So griefes conceal'd, vrge greater paflions. 
 As flreames reflrain'd, breake through or ouer-flow, 
 So forrow fmoother'd, growes to greater woe. 
 As tendreft wood is moft annoyed of wormes. 
 So feebleft minds doth forrow moft afflidt. 
 As clouds doe rob vs of faire heauens beautie. 
 So care bereaues vs of our fpeeches libertie. 
 As the fweet rofe doth grow among the bryars. 
 So oft in forrowes fome content is found. 
 As difcreete Pylots doe for ftormes prepare, 
 So in our ioy let vs prouide for care. 
 
 Exam- 
 
144 Of Grief e, Sorrow, &c. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 COriolanus, finding his offence 
 For warring gainft his country, dyde witli griefe. 
 Torquatus, banifht from his fathers houfe, 
 For griefe thereof did raftily flay him felfe. 
 The Romane matrons for a whole yeares fpace, 
 Sighed and forrowed for Brutus death. 
 Lefidus grieuing long liis wiues abufe, 
 Shortned his owne dayes with conceit of griefe. 
 The Pythagorians alwaies had this poefie : 
 The heart ought not be eaten with fad griefe. 
 Cicero thought, the minds chiefe enemies, 
 Were melancholly griefes, and penfiues. 
 
 Feare is defeat of manly fortitude, 
 Continually by dread and doubt purfude. 
 
 A Hell-tormenting feare, no faith can mooue. 
 Safetie (mofl fafe) when (lie is fenc'd with feare. 
 
 Better 
 
Of Feare, Doubt, &c. 145 
 
 Better firft feave, than after ftill to feare. 
 Dauiiger deuifeth fliifts, wit waits on feare. 
 
 Abhorre fmne paji, preuent what is to come, 
 
 Thefe two are things feare not the day of doome. 
 The bait in fight, the hooka much leffe is fear'd. 
 Who euer feares, is better neuer feare. 
 To loue for feare, is fecretly to hate. 
 Feare is companion of a guiltie mind. 
 
 Faint feare and doubt Jlill taketh their delight 
 
 Inferile, which exceed all perill might. 
 Fidelitie doth flye where feare is hatcht. 
 Feares vrge defpaires, ruth breeds a hopeleffe rage. 
 By needleiTe feare, none euer vantage got. 
 The benefit of feare, is to be wife. 
 
 Who would not die, to kill all murdering griefes? 
 
 Or who would Hue in neuer-dying feares? 
 Feare giueth wings, and need doth courage teach. 
 Fond is the feare that finds no remedie. 
 The dread of dying, payes death feruile breath. 
 Who lines content, need feare no frowning fate. 
 
 To feare the foe, when feare oppreffeth Jlrength, 
 
 dues in our weakneffe, flrengthning to the foe. 
 Feare finds out fhifts, timiditie is fubtill. 
 No greater hell than be a flaue to feare. 
 Birds feare no buflies that were neuer lim'd. 
 The guilt being great, the feare doth more exceed. 
 
 Feare, and bejlaine, no worfe can come to fight: 
 
 And fight and dye, is death deflroying death. 
 Loue thriues not in the heart that fliadowes feare. 
 Againft loues fire, feares froft can haue no power. 
 The Lyons roaring, leffer hearts doe feare. 
 Doubt takes fure footing oft in (Tipperie wayes. 
 
 Huge rockes, high windes, flrong pyrats, fhelues andfands, 
 
 The merchant feares, ere rich at home he lands. 
 
 L Delay 
 
146 Of Feare, Doubt, &c. 
 
 Delay breeds doubt, and doubt brings on difmay, 
 A fearefull thing to tumble from a crowne. 
 Giue no beginning to a doubtful! end. 
 It's fearefull fleeping in a ferpents bed. 
 
 Extreamejl feare can neither fight norflye, 
 
 But coward-like, with trembling terrour die. 
 Our owne examples makes vs feare the more. 
 Feare that is wifer than the truth, doth ill. 
 Greatneffe that ftaudeth high, ftands ilill in feare. 
 Feare cafts too deepe, and euer is too wife. 
 
 Whofeares afentence, or an old mans/aw. 
 
 May by a painted cloth be keft in awe. 
 The doubtfull can no vfuall plots endure. 
 A moderate feare fore-cafts the worft of ill. 
 It's vaine to feare the thing we cannot (hun. 
 Better to feare thy choice, than rue thy chaunce. 
 
 He rightly may be tearm'd a valiant man, 
 
 Whome honeft death doth not affright with feare. 
 Diftradled terrour knowes not what is beil. 
 No feare of death fhould force vs to doe ill. 
 Dread of vnknowne things breeds a greater dread. 
 Feare not the things muft come, bethinke faults paft. 
 
 In vaine with terrour is hefortifide. 
 
 That is not guarded withfirme loue befide. 
 The loue vnfeene, is neuer knowne to feare. 
 A feruile feare, doth make a drooping mind. 
 Leafl we prefume, we muft goe backe with feare. 
 Delay doth much torment a doubtfull mind. 
 
 It much offendeth to be old with feares. 
 
 When youth faith, thereof thou want'fl many yeeres. 
 Hardly we credit what imports our ill. 
 Men feare not them whofe feeble ilrength they know. 
 Feare commonly doth breed and nourifli hate. 
 Small eafe hath he that feared is of all. 
 
 Cold 
 
Of Fear e, Doubt, &c. 147 
 
 Cold douU caiiills with honour, fcormth fame. 
 
 And in the end, feare weighes dmvne faith withfhame. 
 
 Diflention euer-more breeds greater doubt. 
 
 We foone beleeue the cafe we would haue fo. 
 
 A fearefuU looke bewrayes a guiltie heart. 
 
 Death is farre fweeter than the feare of death. 
 Ifs better much, tofuffer that we feare, 
 Thanflill by feare, to Hue in martyrdome. 
 
 Continuall griefe, is feare beyond all feare. 
 
 Eafeneife aduanced, purchafeth but feare. 
 
 Who walke in feare, fufpedl the pathes they tread. 
 
 Death being affur'd to come, deferues no feare. 
 Whiles timerous knowledge fiands confidering, 
 Audacious ignorance performes the deed. 
 
 He that knowes moft, the more he hath to doubt. 
 
 Better miflruft too foone, than rue too late. 
 
 We deeme things doubtfuU, breed not contentation. 
 
 Where men leaft feare, there harrae they foonefl find. 
 Wicked men commonly are void of feare. 
 And therefore daunger alwaies with them beare. 
 
 Loue neuer was without both feare and teares. 
 
 Feare lendeth wings for aged folke to flie. 
 
 Similies an the fame fubieB. 
 
 As fuddaine bleeding, argues ill enfuing, 
 So fuddaine ceafmg is fell feares renewing. 
 As leaking veifels cannot long endure. 
 So fearefull minds haue flender permanence. 
 As nettles haue no prickes, and yet doe fling. 
 So feares haue little motion, yet oft kill. 
 As fait ta'ne moderately doth rellifh meat. 
 So difcreet feares doe often benefitc. 
 As in calamitie good friends auaile, 
 So found aduife aduantageth in feare. 
 L 2 
 
148 Of Fear e, Doubt, &c. 
 
 As wrong fufpitions are but mens difgrace, 
 So needleffe feares declare but want of wit. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 CLaudius being giuen to feare, his mother faid, 
 Nature begun, but had notfinijlit hhn. 
 Midas grew desperate by his fearefull dreames, 
 That to be rid of them, he flew liim-felfe. 
 Arijlodemus fear'd with howling dogges, 
 Tooke fuch conceit, that foone he ended life. 
 Nicias th'Athenian, through cowardly feare, 
 Loft many famous opportunities. 
 Tully faith. Much more euill is in feare, 
 Than in the thing that doth procure the feare. 
 Solon gaue inilance to his country-men, 
 That ihame did euermore attend on feare. 
 
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W^^ Of Fortune, &c. %^^^ 
 
 Fortune is nource offooles,poyfon of hope, 
 Fewellofvaine dejires, deferts dejiruflion. 
 
 WHat fortune works, feemes not alwaies pretended. 
 Fortune not alwaies doth poure forth her bagges. 
 Fortune in tariance, to her felfe is ftraunge. 
 Fortune her gifts in vaine tofach doth giue, 
 Who when they Hue, feeme as they did not Hue. 
 The end is it that maketh fortune good. 
 The fea of fortune doth not alwaies flow. 
 Hap commeth well although it come but late. 
 When Fortune all her vtmojifpight hathjlutven, 
 Some blijfe-full houres may ne^ re-theleffe afpeare. 
 Fortune's not alwaies good, nor alwaies ill. 
 Fortune doth fome-times laugh as well as lower. 
 Misfortune foUowes him that tempteth fortune. 
 How can mifchaunce vnto thatjliip betide, 
 Where fortune is the pylot and the guide? 
 Fortune oft hurts, when moil flie feemes to lielpe. 
 Wifdome predominates both fate and fortune. 
 Oil where bed chaunce begins, ill chauncc doth end. 
 
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150 Of Fortune, Misfortune, &c. 
 
 Misfortune is attended by reproch : 
 Good fortune, fame and verttie flellifies. 
 
 Th'euent oft-times makes foule faults fortunate. 
 
 What foUie hurts not, fortune can repaire. 
 
 Like clouds continually doth fortune chaunge. 
 Where Fortune doth her bountie franke heftow, 
 There heauen and eaiih mujl fay whatflie doth owe. 
 
 Mifliaps are maflred by difcreet aduife. 
 
 The helpe-leffe hap, it booteth none to grieue. 
 
 Misfortune waits aduantage to entrap. 
 
 Misfortunes power can neuerfoyle thy right. 
 Doe thou but beare a mind in her defpight. 
 
 Misfortune foUowes many ouer-faft. 
 
 Where firft mifhap began, there will (he end. 
 
 A chaunce may win, what by mifchance was loft. 
 Where great tnifliaps our errours doth affault. 
 There doe they eafisft make vsfee our fault. 
 
 Nimble mifchaunce, is verie fwift of foot. 
 
 Silent mifhap difclofeth mourning griefe. 
 
 Our friends misfortune doth encreafe our owne. 
 A viif chief e feene, may eafily be preuented. 
 But being hapt, not helpt, though flill lamented. 
 
 In fome things all, in nothing all are croft. 
 
 On mifchiefes maine, mifhap full faile doth beare. 
 
 The greateft loffes feldome are reftor'd. 
 Nothing fo much a mans mifhap torments. 
 As who to him his goodflate reprefents. 
 
 Harmes vnexpefted, ftill doe hurt vs moft. 
 
 Vnlookt for things doe happen foon'ft of all. 
 
 Power hath no priuiledge againft mifhap. 
 Complaine not thy misfortune to thy foe. 
 For he will triumph when he fees thy teares. 
 
 The higheft ftate awarrants not mifhaps. 
 
 Vnfortunate are fome men that be wife. 
 
 Happy 
 
Of Fortune, Misfortune, &c. 151 
 
 Happy he Hues that tafteth no mifchaunce. 
 
 0/? times we fee amidft the greatejl cares. 
 
 Some ill/uccejje doth flip in vnawares. 
 No wit nor wealth preuailes againft mifchaunce. 
 If ill approch vs, onely that is ours. 
 Of greateft ill, a greater good may fpring. 
 
 The man thatflill amidft misfortunes ftands, 
 
 Is forrowes flaue, and bound in lafling bands. 
 Neuer ftayes tickle fortune in one ftate. 
 The bafefl meanes, oft highefl fortune brings. 
 Well may he fwimme, held vp by fortunes hand. 
 
 The world is rightly tearmedfull of rubs. 
 
 When all our fortunes runne againft the byas. 
 Fortune hurts not where fhe is held defpis'd. 
 The fleece of fortune ftriues to haue the fell, 
 Who keepes his fortunes wifely needs no more. 
 
 They fall, which truft to fortunes fickle wheele: 
 
 Butftayed by vert lie, menfhall neuer reele. 
 Time goes by turnes, and chances change by courfe. 
 A tragicke note belt fits a tragicke chaunce. 
 By fortunes fmiles enfues the greateft. falls. 
 
 He cannot iudge aright of fortunes power. 
 
 Nor tafte thefweet that neuef tride thefower. 
 Fortune may raife againe a downe-caft foe. 
 The cards once dealt, it boots not aske, why fo ? 
 Loue throwes them downe, whom fortune raifed vp. 
 
 Riches are nothing elfe but fortunes gifts. 
 
 And bring with them their owne confuflon. 
 Mariners found at firfl for feare of rockes. 
 Fortune affaults, but hurts no conftant mind. 
 Phyficall drugs helpe not fmifber chaunce. 
 
 It's feldome feene in any high eftate, 
 
 Father andfonne like good, like fortunate. 
 Fortunes fierce frownes, are oft times princes haps. 
 
 L 4 Fortunes 
 
152 Of Fortune, Misforttme, &c. 
 
 Fortunes being equall, are loues fauorites. 
 
 Where Fortune fauours much, (lie flatters more. 
 Nothing is ours that we by hap may loofe: 
 What nearejl feemes, isfurtheft off in woes. 
 
 Birth many times by fortune is abas'd. 
 
 Fortune in fleepers nets poures all her pride. 
 
 To painfull perfons fortune is ingrate. 
 
 When Fortune doth mojl fweetly fetme to /mile. 
 Then foone Jhe frownes, Jhe laughes but little while. 
 
 Few reape the fweele, that tafte not of the fower. 
 
 Whome fortune fcomes, the common people hate. 
 Truft not to Fortune when Jht feemes to /mile. 
 For then Jhe doth intend the greatejl guile. 
 
 Fortune is tear'md a bog or dauncing mire. 
 
 Fortune, though fickle, fometime is a friend. 
 
 Fortune helps hardie men, but fcometh cowards. 
 Long-paffed cares renew againe their cour/e. 
 When fatall chaunce doth chaunge from bad to worfe. 
 
 Fortune can take our goods, but not our vertues. 
 
 Fortune is firit and laft, that mines flates. 
 
 Fortune oft brings vs to misfortunes gate. 
 Defert awaits, while fortune makes prouifion, 
 Forfooles and dolts, and men of bafe condition. 
 
 While worthiefl: fall, fortune doth worth-leffe raife. ' 
 
 Fortune beft fliewes her-felfe in women kind. 
 
 Fortune doth gloria in her chaunging mood. 
 
 While graffe doth grow, the labouring Steed may flame. 
 For fortune f eld each wifhers turne dothferue. 
 
 On vertuous adlions fortune hath no power. 
 
 Fortune can neuer hurt a fleadfafl mind. 
 
 Who fartheft feemes, is to misfortune nigheft. 
 
 Similies 
 
Of Fortune^ Misfortune^ &c. 153 
 Similies on the fame fubieSl. 
 
 EVen as the racket takes the balls rebound, 
 So doth good fortune catch ill fortunes proofe. 
 As winds blow fome men good, and other harme. 
 So fortune friending fome, on others frownes. 
 As Archers alwayes cannot hit the white. 
 So no man may of fortune alwaies boaft. 
 As glaffes fliew the figure of the face, 
 So doe our fortunes beft difclofe our minds. 
 As Hedge-hogs doe fore-fee enfuing ftormes. 
 So wife men are for fortune ftill prepar'd. 
 As haile hurts not the houfe, though makes a noife, 
 So haps may daunt, but not difmay the mind. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 SCylla for multitude of high good haps. 
 Would often fay : That he was Fortunes child. 
 Cafar faid to the Pilot in a florme : 
 Feare not, thou cariefi Ccefar and his fortune. 
 Augujhis wiflied Scifioes valiancie, 
 And Pompeys loue, but Fortune like him-felfe. 
 Paulus Aemilius greatly feared Fortune, 
 Chiefly in thofe things which he held diuine. 
 To him whofe hope on fortune doth depend, 
 Nothing can be affured, Tully faith. 
 Pindarus faid, the Romanes did rely 
 Only on Fortune, as their patroneffe. 
 
 Of 
 
Dejlinie, or thefirme decree of Fate, 
 Isfure to happen, be itfoone or late. 
 
 No priuiledge can from the fates protedt. 
 The fates farre off fore-feene, come gently neere. 
 Men are but men in ignorance of fate. 
 To alter chaunce exceedeth humane Jlate. 
 Mens haps by heauen are fram'd prepofterous. 
 That yeelds to fate, which will not ftoope to force. 
 We often find the courfe offatall things, 
 Is befl difcern'd inflates ofrealmes and kings. 
 No one can turne the ftreame of deftinie. 
 No man can flmn what deftinie ordaines. 
 It lyes not in our power to loue or hate. 
 For will in vs is ouer-ruVd by fate. 
 There's none by warning can auoid his fate. 
 Our haps doe chaunge, as chaunces on the dyce. 
 In vaine we prize that atfo high a rate, 
 Whofe befl ajfurance but depends on fate. 
 What fate impofeth, we perforce muft beare. 
 All mens eftates alike vnfteadfaft are. 
 
 Things 
 
Of Fate and Dejiinie. 155 
 
 Things which pre/age both good and bad there be. 
 
 Which fate fore-Jhewes, but will not let vs/ee. 
 Our frailties doome is written in the flowers. 
 Fate cannot be preuented, though fore-knowne. 
 
 VValles may a while hold out an enemie. 
 
 But neuer cajlle kept out dejiinie. 
 Errours are neuer errours but by fate. 
 No prouidence preuenteth deftinie. 
 
 Tho/e fates that one while plague poore men with crojfes. 
 
 Another time prouide to mend their lojfes. 
 The fairefl things are fubiedl flill to fate. 
 No man is fure what final! fruits to reape. 
 
 Men attribute their follies vnto fate. 
 
 And lay on heauen the guilt of their owne crimes. 
 What happens me this day, may you the next. 
 He thriueth beft that hath a blelfed fate. 
 
 Fatall is that afcent vnto a crowne. 
 
 From whence men come not, but are hurled downe. 
 What fate intends, follie cannot fore-ftall. 
 Whome fate cads downe, hardly againe recouers. 
 
 The breach once made vpon a battered Jlate, 
 
 Doione goes dijlreffe, no JIulter Jhrouds their fate. 
 Force cannot winne, what fate doth contradift. 
 Men are but men, and may not know their lot. 
 
 When men doe wijhfor death, fates haue no force. 
 
 But they (when men would Hue) haue no remorfe. 
 It fatall is to be feduc'd with ftiewes. 
 To alter courfe, may bring men more aftray. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubiecl. 
 
 Like as the day cannot preuent the night, 
 So vaine it is againft the fates to fight. 
 As with the worft, fate fpareth not the beft. 
 So faults are eafier lookt in, than redreft. 
 
 Euen 
 
156 Of Fate and Dejlinie. 
 
 Euen as the ftarres and fands haue wondrous date, 
 So are our hues fubieft to nought but fate. 
 As cities are o're-come by batterie, 
 So all on earth muft yeeld to deftinie. 
 As lookes of loue oft fhadow inward hate, 
 So times faire hope is ihortned foone by fate. 
 As flowers in morning frefli, oft fade ere night, 
 So fate cuts off what goodliefl feemes in fight. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 As Bibulus in triumph rode through Rome, 
 His fate was with a tyle-ftone to be flaine. 
 Aurelius fifler, Lucia, by her needle 
 But prickt her breafl, and dyde immediatly. 
 Cneius Rufferius, combing of his head. 
 One of the teeth bereft him of his life. 
 Methridates, fuppos'd mens deftinies 
 Confifted in the power of hearbs and flones. 
 Chilo of Lacedsemon did maintaine. 
 That men might comprehend what was to come. 
 Plato affirmed, That a good mans fate 
 Neuer to euUl could be deftinate. 
 
 Of 
 
TheMindistJiat bright eye,whichgtiides thefoule 
 A nd gouernes men in all their anions. 
 
 THe mind is free, what eiier man afflifls. 
 Libertie is the minds beft lining fame. 
 Hopeof long life, is balefuU to the mind. 
 (y re-many thoughts, maze-like the mind enclofe 
 Confufedly, till order them diffofs. 
 Patience doth giue a troubled heart delight. 
 Patience is the true touch-ftone of the mind. 
 The griefes of troubled minds, exceed beliefe. 
 
 When roomes ofeharge are giuen to minds ofpraife, 
 Then maiejiie dothjhewe her brighteji rayes. 
 The gentle mind, by gentle deeds is knowne. 
 The nobleft mind, the beft contentment hath. 
 No deuilifh thoughts difmay a conflant mind. 
 Fame, cherijher of honour-breathing hearts. 
 Is valours friend, and nource offacred Artes. 
 By outward lookes, the mind is oft difcern'd. 
 The mind difcernes, where eyes could neuer fee. 
 A yeelding mind duth argue cowardife. 
 
 The 
 
158 OftheMi7id. 
 
 The adlion and affe/fiion of the heart. 
 
 Two wayes whereby a chrijiian playes his part. 
 The vertuous mind beares patiently all wrongs. 
 Ill may a fad mind forge a merrie face. 
 The highefl lookes haue not the higheft minds. 
 
 The carelejfe man with vnaduifed mind, 
 
 Doth blindly follow euery puffe of wind. 
 Free is the heart, the temple of the mind. 
 Mens bodies may be ours, their minds their owne. 
 
 The mind of man doth many times behold. 
 
 That which fraile fight can neuer reach vnto. 
 Great hearts will breake before they yeeld to bend. 
 A priuat mind may yeeld, yet cares not how. 
 
 Mans mind a mirrour is of heauenly fights : 
 
 A briefe wherein all maruailes fummed lye. 
 No man can flay the mind refolu'd to die. 
 Our feeming each man fees ; God knowes the heart. 
 
 The mind a creature is, yet can create. 
 
 And adde to natures patternes higher skill. 
 None hath enough for euery greedie mind. 
 Mens minds oft times are tainted by their eares. 
 
 Bad mind,fo much to mind anothers ill. 
 
 As to become vnmindfull of his owne. 
 Men haue rude marble, women foft waxe minds. 
 Theeues, cares, and troubled minds, are long awake. 
 
 There's none can tell the eafe the mind doth gaine. 
 
 When eyes can weepe, heart groane, or griefe complaine. 
 The mind corrupted, takes the worfer part. 
 A gentle mind will alwaies iudge the beft. 
 
 Oh what a balme is made to cheare the heart. 
 
 If pearle and gold and f pices beare a parti 
 Where minds are knit, what helps, if not enioyed ? 
 What the tongue dares not, oft the mind doth fay. 
 
 The gentle mind doth plainly reprefcnt, 
 
 The 
 
Of the Mind. 159 
 
 The glorious fplendour of the firtnameni. 
 The mind ftoopes to no dread, though flefli be fraile. 
 Little perfwafion raooues a wicked mind. 
 It's pittie gold ihould funder vertuous minds. 
 
 He doth hit pine among his delicates, 
 
 VVhofe troubled mind is Jluft with difcontent. 
 The heart oft fuffers for the eyes offence. 
 Much promifeth the mind, if fate as much. 
 Great is the will, but greater farre the mind. 
 
 In cafe ofiarre, when as one man efpyes 
 
 Another s mind like his, then ill breeds worfe. 
 Hire of a hireling mind, is earned fhame. 
 The guiltie mind hath neuer quiet life. 
 The bodies refl, is quiet of the mind. 
 
 Agrieued minds feldome weigh the intent, 
 
 But alwaies iudge according to th'intent. 
 The mind well bent, is fafe from any harme. 
 Cares cruell fcourge doth greatly whip the mind. 
 No plague is greater than the griefe of mind. 
 
 The feeble tnind through weakneffe coines newfeares: 
 
 When fironger hearts their griefes more wifely beares. 
 Ignorance is the deadly night of mind. 
 Mens faces glifter when their minds are blacke. 
 The face is held the Herald of the mind. 
 
 Whereas the mind is willing and addiifi. 
 
 Examples are more forcible andflriifl. 
 The greatefl minds doe aime at greateft things. 
 Pithie demaunds are whetflones to the mind. 
 The faireft face may haue the fouleil mind. 
 
 All impious minds, though their fore-cafls be great. 
 
 They cannot hide them from the greatefl great. 
 The minds old habit hardly will be chaung'd. 
 Pure is the mind that neuer meant amiffe. 
 Where mind confents not, faults deferue excufe. 
 
 When 
 
i6o Of the Mind. 
 
 When many tunes doe fweetly fymphonize. 
 
 It conquers hearts, and kindly them compounds. 
 
 Dombe plaints in feeling minds, make greateft noife. 
 
 The mind by wrong is made a male-content. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As Scales by poife are mounted vp and downe, 
 So too and fro conceits doe vrge the mind. 
 As tender trees bend euery way we pleafe, 
 So gentle minds are eafily ouer-rul'd. 
 As heauines fore-tels fome harme at hand. 
 So minds diflurb'd, prefage enfuing ills. 
 As fickly bodies brooke not heat nor cold. 
 So crazed minds diflike of euery thing. 
 As working veffels are by vent kept found, 
 So troubled minds by conference find eafe. 
 As fennie grounds fend forth vnfauorie fents. 
 So bad minds blunder out diflempered thoughts. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 SCeuola in the greatneffe of his mind, 
 Entred Porfennaes Tent to murder him. 
 Queene Tomiris to fliew her dauntleffe mind. 
 With Cyrus blood, reueng'd her deare fonnes death. 
 Zenobia told Aurelian in the field. 
 He was not able to fubdiie her mind. 
 Lucius Deniatus, neuer matcht for mind, 
 Came eighteene times a conquerour from field. 
 Citero faith, the goodneife of the mind, 
 Is moft difcem'd in pardoning iniuries. 
 Socrates faid. His quietnes in mind 
 Was caufe he neuer fickned till his death. 
 
 Of 
 
i6i 
 
 Affe£lion,andfweet fancies fecret fire, 
 Kindle the coales, that quicken vp defire. 
 
 WHere we affedl, we feldome find defeiS. 
 Of things vnknowne, we can haue no defire. 
 Men oft ajfed them, that doe loue them leaji. 
 And leaJl doe loue them whome theyjhould like bejl. 
 That one defires, another doth difdaine. 
 Affeftion by the countenance is defcried. 
 Full eafily the fault may be redrefl, 
 Where kind affedion onely hath tranfgrefl. 
 Kindly affeiftion, youth to Hue with youth. 
 Trueft affedtion doth no bounds retaine. 
 Affeilion is a fierce, yet holy fire: 
 Free ofhim-felfe, and chain' d tojlrong defire. 
 Defire, with fmall encouraging growes bold. 
 It's eafie to defire, but hard to chufe. 
 Affeiflions fpeech, that eafily can diffolue. 
 Doth moifien Flint, yet Steele infUffe attire. 
 The fea hath bounds, but deep defire hath none. 
 In darkeft nights, defire fees beft of all. 
 
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1 62 0/ AffeHion, Fancie, &c. 
 
 Sweet are the kiffes, the emhracemcnts fweet. 
 
 When like dejtres, with like affeiHions meet. 
 Affeftions flaiie regards no oathes nor lawes. 
 Luke-warme defires beft fit with crazed loue. 
 
 Affeilion is a coale that mujl be coold: 
 
 Elfe fuffered, it willfet the heart on fire. 
 Entire affeflion hateth nice coy hands. 
 Affedlion will like fire, him-felfe betray, 
 
 Affeilion faints not like a pale-fac^ d coward, 
 
 Bui then wooes bejl, when moji his choife isfroward. 
 The coales are quicke, where fancie blowes the fire. 
 Defire can make a Dodtor in a day. 
 
 Whei-e loue doth reigne, dijlurhing iealoufie 
 
 Doth call him-felfe, affeilions Sentinell. 
 Fauour and grace, are tearmed fancies fuell. 
 An equall age doth equall like defires. 
 
 Bad mens affeilions, turne tofeare and hate: 
 
 And hate, to daunger and defe:-ued death. 
 That's hardly kept, which is defir'd of many. 
 The mod maid-feeming, is not without affedUon, 
 
 That needs muft iffue to the full perfedlion. 
 
 Hath grounded-being by the minds affeilion. 
 There's nothing can affedtions force controU. 
 Drunken defire doth vomit his receit. 
 
 Affeilions gawdie banner once clifplayed. 
 
 The coward fights, and will not be difmayed. 
 Things much reflrain'd, make vs the more defire them. 
 In meanefl fliewe, the mofl affeftion dwells. 
 
 Small drops doe oft-times quench a mightie fire. 
 
 But hugefi Seas not qualifie defire. 
 All qualifide aifeftions loue doth hate. 
 Beautie ftrikes fancie blind, vaine fhewes deceiue. 
 
 Sad perturbations that affeilions guide. 
 
 Should not giue iudgement, till their caufe be tride, 
 
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Of AffeHioH, Fancie, &c. 163 
 
 Defire is life of loue, and death of feare. 
 
 Death is the finall end of all defires. 
 Nothing can quench an infinite defire, 
 Once kindled through thefirjl conceiued fire. 
 
 Sad fighes doe fliew the heat of hearts defire. 
 
 Defire controld, doth aggrauate defire. 
 
 Defire being fierce, is fpring of fighes and teares. 
 Men once degenerate and gro^une deprejl. 
 Are pleafd tojhare affeilions with a beaft. 
 
 Defire doth fpring from that we wifh and want. 
 
 Fancie is blind, deafe, and incredulous. 
 
 Fancie is watchful!, and doth feldome fleepe. 
 Fancie comfeld, to Lute-firings is compar'd. 
 Which ouer-ftretcht, doe crache before they found. 
 
 Lawful! defires, are honefties befl notes. 
 
 Affeftion's reft-leffe, yet (being perfedl) end-lefle. 
 
 Delay is preiudiciall to defire. 
 
 The greater fart leane to example fo. 
 
 That what they fancie, they will f cant forgoe. 
 
 Fancies befl cure, is mutual! affedlion. 
 
 Fancie foone fires, but long before it quench. 
 
 When loue leads lookes, no compaiTe Iceepes defire. 
 A hot defire, on prefent heat doth dote: 
 When cold repentance will it not fore-note. 
 
 Low fortunes often-times haue high defires. 
 
 Like fortunes globe, euen fo is fancies feat. 
 
 Appetites flame, with wifdome beft is quencht. 
 There neuer did all circumfiances meet. 
 With thofe defires which were conceiu'd before. 
 
 Affeftion brooketh no diuifion. 
 
 Sleepe hath no priuiledge ouer defire. 
 
 M 2 Similies 
 
164 Of AffeBion, Fancie, &c. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieB. 
 
 As poyfon fweetly mixt is fooner ta'ne, 
 So fancie clofe conceal'd, is fooneft fier'd. 
 As Chryfolites are prooued in the fire, 
 So is affeffion in enforc'd reftraint. 
 As cities wanting Magiilrates, decay : 
 Euen fo defire vngouern'd, hurts it felfe. 
 As all the world were darke but for the Sunne, 
 So life, but for affedtion, were vnfure. 
 As fteele brings fire from the hardeft flint, 
 So fancie mollifies the fteameft mind. 
 As Almond trees in age doe beare moft fruit, 
 So yeares doth befl approoue affedUons. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 ZAleticus to the Locrians made a law. 
 To loofe their eyes that finn'd in foule defires. 
 Appius was banilhed the cittie Rome, 
 For lend affe(5lion to Virginia. 
 Marke Anthonie difgrac'd his former fame, 
 By not reftraining his affecflions. 
 King Alexander hated to the death 
 In men or women loofe and leud defires. 
 Fancie (faith Arijiotle) often makes 
 A frenzie in their foules are led thereby. 
 Defire (faith Socrates) no limits holds. 
 And therefore hardly can be maftred. 
 
 Of 
 
i65 
 
 Contempt and Scorne, are Wits infirmitie, 
 Wherwith Difdaine and Scoffes keepe company. 
 
 FLint, froft, difdaine ; weares, melts, and yeelds we fee. 
 Tilings long in getting, quickly are difdain'd. 
 Prefent difdaine oft after-loue diuines 
 Prayers preuaile not, where is coy difdaine ? 
 Better to die a thou/and deaths and more, 
 Than Hue contemn' d, that honour' d was before. 
 Difdaine deliuers a depraued mind. 
 Griefe often-times giues place to nice difdaine. 
 Too much precifeneffe fauours of felfe-loue. 
 Gibing demaunds deferue fcornefuU replyes. 
 Neither can wit or Art take any place, 
 Where aduer/e fcorne, with feare, Jlrikes boldnejfe dead. 
 Prefumption giues no guerdon, but difdaine. 
 Defpifed men on earth, muft liue in heauen. 
 There muft be fome contempt, ere plagues enfue. 
 Difdaine attends where greateft honour haunts. 
 In high difdaine, loue is a bafe deftre: 
 And Cupids fames doefeeme but watrie fire. 
 
 M 3 Difdaine 
 
1 66 Of Dif claim, Contetnpt, &c. 
 
 Difdaine repines at all good things it fees. 
 
 They others vertues fcorne, that doubt their owne. 
 
 Mocke none in need, beware thine owne mifliap. 
 
 Scoffes without feare, from foUie doe proceed. 
 The choice is hard, where fdence kills with griefe, 
 Orfpeech reafes no reward, but bafe contempt. 
 
 To mocke a friend, is held no manly part. 
 
 Scorne can haue no reward, but like contempt. 
 
 leafting is toUerable, but fcorne mod vile. 
 
 Difdaine declares a proud prefuming heart. 
 Loues pajfions quenched by unkind difdaine. 
 Doth often-times encrea/e the more dejlre. 
 
 Scorning is artificiall iniurie. 
 
 Who fcorneth moft, fhall be but paid with fcoffes. 
 
 Scorne not thy wife, leaft fcorn'd, flie do thee fcathe. 
 
 Better an open foe, than fcornfuU friend. 
 
 Better be borne a foole, than wrong thy wit. 
 
 No mocker, but at length did meet his match. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie^:. 
 
 As hotteft loue hath foonefl cold difdaine. 
 So greateft pleafures haue the greatefl paine. 
 As good and ill each other doe purfue. 
 So hate-full eftimation fcorne fucceeds. 
 As Adders keepe their venime in their tayles, 
 So fcoffers poyfon lurketh in their tongues. 
 As faireft beautie may deferue fome blame. 
 So wittieft fcoffes prooue but ridiculous. 
 As fome things fweet in tafte, are fowre going downe, 
 So fcoffes that like the eare, diflike the mind. 
 As fau-e demeanour mofl commends a man. 
 So fcornes and fcoffes as much diihonour him. 
 
 Exam- 
 
0/ S launder, Detra£lion, &c. 167 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 CAligula did couet his owne eafe, 
 And yet difdain'd others fliould doe the like. 
 Anthonie caufde the head of Cicero 
 In fcorne, be fet before him at his meat. 
 Plato, XenopJwn, and Demojlhenes, 
 Agalnft each other were contemptuous. 
 Geta and Antoninus, being brethren, 
 Slew one the other through their priuat fcorne. 
 Among all perturbations, Tullie faith, 
 Difdaine is mofl iniurious to it felfe. 
 And Fabitis Maximus holds like conceit, 
 Affirming, nothing worfer than contempt. 
 
 S launder and bafe DetraSlion, is the fruit 
 Ofdeuilifh hearts, and foule polluted foules. 
 
 Ho hues, that ftandeth out of flaunders reach? 
 Detraiftions tongue, delights in ill reports. 
 
 M 4 lVh;t 
 
1 68 Of S launder, DetraSlion, &c. 
 
 What likes not mallke, Jiraight dif praised mujl he, 
 
 Slaunder is blind, and cannot vertuefee. 
 In flaundring fpeech, enuie takes pleafure moft. 
 With fpightfuU tongue detraft no honeft mind. 
 
 Doe what we will, we cannot /cape theJUng 
 
 Ofjlaundrous tongues, thatjiill afrefli doefpring. 
 
 Take not away that thou canji not rejiore: 
 
 Encreafe not grief e, but rather falue the fore. 
 
 JJetratfling fpeech, of heauen doth notfmell. 
 
 But rather flinking, like the pit of hell. 
 Leudneffe is ftill defam'd, and euer was. 
 Bold flaunders tongue, time neuer can fuppreffe. 
 
 Good words of all men gaineth laud and praife. 
 
 Where flaunders are but counted cafl-awayes. 
 No fecret's hid, where ilamider keepes the dore. 
 Detradtion will not fpare Dianaes name. 
 
 Detraining talke, Gods pidlure out doth race, 
 
 Andfetteth vp the Deuils in the place. 
 A free confent is priuiledg'd from blame. 
 Slaunder can neuer iuft deferts deface. 
 
 The Bee hath honey, fo he hath a fling: 
 
 The one doth wound, more than the other heales. 
 Againft bad tongues, goodnes cannot defend her. 
 A fprightly wit difdaines detraflion. 
 
 Men hardly flop the infamie and noife, 
 
 Offlautiderspublifhed by common voice. 
 An vniuft ilaunder hath no recompence. 
 Foule mouth'd detraftion is his neighbours foe. 
 
 Blame is efleem'd more blame-leffe generall, 
 
 Than that which priiiat errours doth purfue. 
 Slanders call things in queftion, not approues them. 
 A tale vnaptly told, may be deprau'd. 
 
 An open flaunder, often times hath brought 
 
 That to effeifl, which neuer elfe was thought. 
 
 Flatterie 
 
Of Slaunder, Detra^ion, &c. 169 
 
 Flatterie, lyes, and flaunder, are fworne friends. 
 Slaunder will wrong his friend behind his backe. 
 Slaunder like enuies dogge, detefts the dead. 
 
 Slaunders like arrowes gahift a wall rebound, 
 
 Andfoon'Ji of all the Jlaunderer doth wound. 
 Slaunder being odious, fo would others make. 
 Slaunder may barke at truth, but cannot bite. 
 All itching eares doe fwallow many wrongs. 
 
 Who by his Jlaundring tongue his neighbour harmes, 
 
 Doth wound his ownefoule by his wicked words. 
 Large flauuders are apparant fignes of emiie. 
 Slaunder offends the liuing, gnawes the dead. 
 Patience is prooued by detradlion. 
 No bane to friendfiiip, worfe than flaunder is. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As Rats and Myce doe feed vpon our meat, 
 So flaunderers feed on fleih of other men. 
 As diuers meats doe hurt digeftion. 
 So changeable reports begetteth flaunder. 
 As Princes armes reach very farre in length, 
 So flaunder fl;retcheth vnto following times. 
 As deepe incifions are for fefl;red fores, 
 So mightie meanes mufl; cure vp flaunders wotmds. 
 As vultures prey vpon dead carion. 
 So flaunderers feed vpon mens liuing names. 
 As Somners liue by peoples daily flnnes. 
 So flaunders liue by killing mens good fame. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 NArfetes that renowmed Generall, 
 By flaunders was difmiffed from his charge. 
 When Scipio was by flaunder highly wrong' d, 
 His difcreet anfwere foone acquited him. 
 
 Calijihcnes, 
 
 a a 
 
I/O Of the Tongue, Words, &c. 
 
 Califthmes, Parmmio, and Philotas, 
 By flaundrous accufations loft their liues. 
 Augujius pardon'd one that would haue flaine him. 
 But banifht him that falfely flaundred him. 
 Diogenes affirmed, the flaunderer 
 Was worfe than any wild or furious beaft. 
 Seneca faith, Of theeues men may beware. 
 But hardly ihall they fcape the flaunderer. 
 
 The tongue is tell-tale ofthepriuat thoughts, 
 And words oft times doe ouer-reach the wife. 
 
 WOrds are but wind, they bid, but doe not buy. 
 The greateft words, oft times haue weakeft deeds. 
 Deepe founds make leffer noi/e than Jliallow f cords : 
 And /arrow ebbes, beijig blowne with wind of words. 
 Imperious tongues doe fcorne to vfe entreats. 
 The vulgar tongue prooueth vnpartiall ftill. 
 Few words doe euer fit a treffajfe hejl. 
 Where no excu/e can giue thefatilt amends. 
 
 A fofl 
 
Of the Tongue, Words, <2fc. 171 
 
 A foft flow tongue, true marke of modeftie. 
 The leaft difcourfe is commonly moft ftout. 
 
 Prefumption! s merfullejl of deceits. 
 
 And many times proud words haue poore effedls. 
 Words are but fliadowes of a further fmart. 
 Things being twife told, the vulgar not allow. 
 
 The further men doefpeake of things well done. 
 
 They haue more mouthts, but not more merit ■wonne. 
 Not words, but deeds are ftill refpeifled moft. 
 No charming words by dead tongues vttered are. 
 
 Of others faults what need we babble fo. 
 
 When we ourfelues hau^ vices many moe? 
 Few words will ferue a righteous caufe to plead. 
 Great power haue pleafmg words, and mickle might. 
 
 Faire pleafmg words are like to Magique Art, 
 
 That doth the charmed fnake in flumber lay. 
 With words and gifts, it's eafie to attempt. 
 Speech doth preuaile, where weapons cannot win. 
 
 He that no more muflfpeake, is liflned more, 
 
 Than they whome youth and eafe hath taught to glofe. 
 By good perfwafion, what cannot be done? 
 Curfes, are but vaine breathings in the aire. 
 
 Curfes refemble arrozves fhct vpright. 
 
 Which falling downe, light on thejliooters head. 
 The tongues of dying men enforce attention, 
 The hearts aboundance iffues from the tongue. 
 
 Still eafie yeelding zeale is quickly caught. 
 
 With what the mouth of grauitie hath taught, 
 Foule paiment for faire words is more than needs. 
 The tongues mif-vfe oft breeds the bodies fmart. 
 
 Sorrow makes filence her befl Oratour, 
 
 Where words may make it leffe, nolfhew it more. 
 In poore mens words, the rich haue fmall delight. 
 Report can make a fubflance of a (hade. 
 
 Follic 
 
172 Of the Tongue, Words, &c. 
 
 FolUe doth guide the tongue that vainly fpeakes, 
 
 Andvaine is that which modejl meafure breakes. 
 In many words muft needs be much amiffe. 
 Mens thoughts and words nothing fo oppofite. 
 
 Few words among the wife haue greater grace. 
 
 Than long Orations with vnskilfulrus. 
 Words are the fhadowes of our daily workes. 
 Superfluous fpeech doth much difgrace a man. 
 
 Griefe fomelimes doth dijlrejfed minds fo wreake, 
 
 That hedrt neere hurfleth ere the tongue canfpeake. 
 The tongue gads many times before the wit. 
 Much babling doth bewray great impudence. 
 
 Words are but fruitleffe that infeil the eare. 
 
 Without fome fweet impreffion of the mind. 
 Wine often-times is caufe of many words. 
 The fewer words, the more difcretion. 
 
 That man may worthily be f aid to dote. 
 
 That truflsfaire words, andfelles his goods for fmoke. 
 When fwords haue pleaded, words doe come too late. 
 The lelTe men fpeake, the more they meditate. 
 
 Bargaines made by confiraint, may well be broken: 
 
 And words by force compeld, as well vnfpoken. 
 By the hearts thoughts, the tongue is carried. 
 Few words well coucht, doe moil content the wife. 
 
 Reports in Courts are held both night and day. 
 
 As common guefis, and feldome part away. 
 Seld fpeaketh loue, but fighes his fecret paines. 
 Of whome the tongue talkes much, the heart thinkes more. 
 
 Better by fpeaking little, make afcarre. 
 
 Than by much babling caufe a wide deepe wound. 
 Report hath oft a blifter on her tongue. 
 The fweetefl words may come from fowreft hearts. 
 
 The words that found the fweetefl in the eare. 
 
 Are not the wholfom^fi ahvaies to the heart. 
 
 In 
 
Of the Tongue, Words, &c. 173 
 
 In many words is couched mofl. miftruft. 
 
 Who fights with words, doth fooneft wound himfelfe. 
 Many repent the words thai they hauefpoke. 
 But neuer any, that they held their peace. 
 
 The coldeft words, oft cooles the hotteft throat. 
 
 Workes, and not words, doe moft commend a man. 
 Spend yiripes on him, whome words may not retaine: 
 Yetfpend to mend by Jlrokes, but not to maime. 
 
 From feweft v/ords may great effedls enfue. 
 
 Silence liath feldome yet made any fad. 
 
 Whereas dtfire doth vrge the tongue tofpeake, 
 Somwhat muji out, or elfe the heart will breake. 
 
 The tongue is call'd, the gate of hfe and death. 
 
 Who fpealces with heed, may boldly fay his mind. 
 The man zvho/e tongue before his wit doth run, 
 Ojtfpeakes toofoone, and rues when he hath done. 
 
 A word once paft, can be recalde no more. 
 
 Better be filent, than in vaine to fpeake. 
 
 As good be dombe, as fpeake and not be heard. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieB. 
 
 As one fparke may procure a mightie fire. 
 So one ill tongue may caufe great enmitie. 
 As riuers are bound in with bankes for ouer-flowing, 
 So reafon ftiould reftraine too lauift talking. 
 As gold boiles befb when it doth bubble leafl, 
 So mild deliuerance fweetens beft our words. 
 As filence is a gift deuoid of feare, 
 So talking is a thing to vrge fufpedl. 
 As he beares miferie beft that hides it moft, 
 So he declares leaft wit that prateth moft. 
 As we muft giue account for idle filence. 
 So much more muft we for our fruitleffe talke. 
 
 Exam- 
 
174 Of the Tongue, Words, &c. 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 POmpey let burne his finger in the fire, 
 Rather than he would be too free of tongue. 
 VlyJJes in his youth refrain'd from fpeech, 
 Becaufe in yeares he would direft his tongue. 
 Great Alexander, gaue Cherillus cohie 
 To hold his peace, and to forbeare to write. 
 Antigonus this leffon taught his fonne, 
 Firil to learne filence, then to praflife fpeech. 
 Zeno reprooued one that prated much. 
 And faid, his eares were founded on his tongue. 
 The tongue (faith Arijiotle) blabs the mind. 
 And fooles or wife men foone thereby we find. 
 
 Flatterie, isfriendfhips vtter ouerthrow, 
 The wracke of States, andhonefi natures foe. 
 
 THe greeneft hearb, oft hides the fouled; toad. 
 The ftillefl. water hath the deepeft channell. 
 
 It's bet- 
 
Of Flatterie and D if simulation. 175 
 
 Ifs better to be blamed by a friend, 
 
 Than to be MJJed of a flatterer. 
 Soothing gets friends, but truth doth purchafe hate. 
 A feeming friend, is a deceitful! bogge. 
 
 Flatterie ftiruiues not at the dead mans dore. 
 
 Line men haue eares, when tombes are deafe andpoore. 
 Of falfe diffembling, foulie muft befall. 
 The beft diifembler, hath the braueft wit. 
 
 It is efleenHd no certaine way to thriue, 
 
 To praife the dead, hut flattering men aliiie. 
 Diifembled holineffe, is double crime. 
 Faire feigned tales conuey foule things from fight. 
 
 Diflembling fometimes may attaine tofaue 
 
 Mens Hues, their fame, their goods, and all they haue. 
 Chufe few friends, trie them, flatterers fpeake faire. 
 Men ftrew fweet flowers to hide the deepefl fnares. 
 
 Mens pleas in loue, like painters penfils are. 
 
 Which figure fhadowes, and thefubflance leaue. 
 Faire outv/ard fliewes prooue inwardly the worft. 
 Loue looketh faire, when hap is mofb accmfb. 
 
 The badge of hypocrites is noted ftill. 
 
 By alwayes fpeakitig well, yet doing ill. 
 Flatterie doth verie feldome want rewards. 
 To flatter wife men, Ihewes difcretions want. 
 
 When greateft braues are brought to trials proofe. 
 
 The boafters are content to fland aloof e. 
 Flatterers refpedl their owne good, no mans elfe. 
 Better a wretch, than a diffembler. 
 
 Falfe flatterers are worfe than greedie crones: 
 
 The one deuoures aliue, the other dead. 
 Plaine, and not hcneft, is too harfli a fl;yle. 
 Men fl;ill doe fouUeft, when they faireft fpeake. 
 
 Fond Phyfeognomies complexion. 
 
 Guides not the imvard difpofUlon. 
 
 lietter 
 
1 76 Of Flatterie and Difsimulation. 
 
 Better offend with truth, than flattering praife. 
 Flatterers are nought elfe but trenclier flyes. 
 
 True loue's a Saint, /oj/mll ye true hue know, 
 
 Falfe Ictie's a Scitkian, yd a Saint injhow. 
 Flatterie is the nource of wickedneffe. 
 Diffembling weares a cloake, truth naked goes. 
 
 The fiiiocthejl lookes, doefoon^Ji of all beguile. 
 
 And oft are clokes to cogitations vile. 
 Womens diffembling hardly can be matcht. 
 A foe is better than a diffembling friend. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieEl. 
 
 As vultures fleepe not where they find no prey, 
 So flatterers haunt not but where profit growes. 
 As vermine breed in places of moft warmth, 
 So flatterers cling where befl they find reliefe. 
 As Pilgrims creepe not but where is fome croffe, 
 So flye diffemblers crouch not but for gaine. 
 As mothes the fineft garments doe confume. 
 So flatterers feed vpon the frankeft hearts. 
 As Panthers haue fweet fents, but rauenous mmds. 
 So flatterers haue fmooth lookes, but killing hearts. 
 As flraightefl; trees haue ftill the crookedfl; roots, 
 So all diffemblers haue the craftiefl; trickes. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 THe Emperour Sigifmond ftrooke a flatterer, 
 And faid : He bit worfe than a Scorpion. 
 Auguflus fo detefl;ed flatterie. 
 Pie could not bide his feruants kneele to him. 
 Tyberius feruants might not call him Lord, 
 Becaufe he faid, therein they flatter'd him. 
 Clifiphus was call'd Philips counterfeit, 
 Becaufe like him he fafhion'd all he did. 
 
 Phodi 
 
Of good Deeds, &c. 
 
 177 
 
 Phocion faid to king Antipater, 
 
 He could not be his friend and flatterer. 
 
 Wife men (faith Bias) make not all their friends, 
 
 But haue a fpeciall eye to flatterers. 
 
 Good Deeds confound all bad,fuppreffe offence : 
 CorreBing faults with loue and patience. 
 
 THat is a good deed which preuents the bad. 
 Good vowes are neuer broken by good deeds. 
 He tkat/ets downe what gifts in goodnes lurke. 
 Shall breath him iwi/i, before he end his worke. 
 In perfons full of note, good deeds are done. 
 Vowes are but feeds, and good deeds are the fruits. 
 Good turnes ought not be held aferuile bond. 
 To bind their doers to receiiie their meed. 
 That which doth good, difgraceth no degree. 
 We haue no good, that we can fay is ours. 
 Of pdjfed good to make a new difcourfe. 
 By double vfurie doth twife renew it. 
 
 N Good 
 
 II 
 
1 78 Of good Deeds, &c. 
 
 Good lampes will (hine till all their oyle be gone. 
 Each goodly thing is hardeft to begin. 
 When as the doing good, is only thought 
 Worthy reward, who will be bad for nought? 
 Raife not the bad, to make the good complaine. 
 No good at all, with doing ill, is wonne. 
 
 Let vs not thinke, that that our good can frame. 
 
 Which ruined hath the Authors of the fame. 
 They are too blame, which deeds well done wil wreft. 
 Good deeds, the cruelt'ft heart to Idndneffe brings. 
 
 Good done to any, doth imfrefjion fbdhe 
 
 Of toy and loue, in all that are alike. 
 Good deeds, are famiihment vnto the deuill. 
 The end is crowne of euery worke well done. 
 
 GoodftUl is befl when it isfooncfl wrought. 
 
 For lingringfauour euer comes to nought. 
 The way to good, is neuer leam'd too late. 
 Faults (hould be meafur'd by intent, not deed. 
 
 Nothing fo good, but may through guiltie fhame. 
 
 Be nnich corrupt, and wrefled to great blame. 
 Ignorant faults craue pardon ftill by courfe. 
 Faults done, may be repented, not reclaim'd. 
 
 He that will furchafe things of greatefl price, 
 
 Mufi conquer by his deeds, and not by words. 
 Faults vncommitted, challenge no repent. 
 Many deferts, may leffen flender faults. 
 
 Vniufl offences daungerfcape a time. 
 
 But yet at length reuenge doth pay them home. 
 Faults oft are meafur'd by their fecrecie. 
 An error pafl, is likewife paft recalling. 
 
 There's nought fo vile that on the earth doth Hue, 
 
 But to the earth fome fpeciall good doth giue. 
 Good is the end that cannot be amended. 
 Where good is found, we ihould not quit with ill. 
 
 There s 
 
Of good Deeds, &c. i']C) 
 
 Theris }U>ught/o good, but Jlrain! d from thatfaire vfe: 
 
 Reuolts to vice, andflumbles on abufe. 
 Gold and bafe mould, no difference but by vfe. 
 Better to heare than doe what is not well. 
 
 For ones offence, whyjhould a number fall. 
 
 Or pnuatfmne be plagued in generall? 
 Seldome but fome good commeth ere the end. 
 Gay without good, is good hearts greatefl loathing. 
 
 Forraine defeils gluing home-faults the way, 
 
 Make many times bad actions wellfucceed. 
 Still the direfteil courfcs bell fucceed. 
 Vertue condufteth to all things are good. 
 
 Firji weigh the qualitie of each offence. 
 
 And thereunto apply the punifliment. 
 What one thinkes good, another counts as vaine. 
 
 The higheji iudger quickely can efpie, 
 
 Jffazilts or fraud doe vnder couert lye. 
 Wifdome diredls to know the good from bad. 
 As oft as we doe good, wee facrifice. 
 
 The more our grace and goodneffe doth encreafc. 
 
 The more our foules prepare themfelues to God. 
 Truth is the guide to all good a<51;ions. 
 Neuer repent thee of thy well-done deeds. 
 
 The goodneffe that proceeds from ignorance. 
 
 Is like the hearbs that on a dunghill growes. 
 Good men doe ftill delight in doing good. 
 Good deeds doe (hew the fruits of zealous faith. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As hardefl ftones are pierc'd with fofteft drops, 
 So vertuous deeds reforme the loofeft minds. 
 As fond behauiour moft difplaies a foole. 
 So honefl deeds declare an honefl heart. 
 
 N 3 As 
 
i8o Of good Deeds, &c. 
 
 As falling ftarres are foone extinguiflied, 
 
 So flight offences craue quicke pardoning. 
 
 As fuUein lookes bewrayes reuenge-fuU thoughts, 
 
 So mild afpeft declares a gentle heart. 
 
 As golden bridles better not a horfe, 
 
 So words without good deeds, fhew not a man. 
 
 As bankets haue no grace, where wanteth guefls, 
 
 So words are litle worth, where deeds come Ihort. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 TRaiane reproou'd for liflning poore mens wrongs. 
 Said : None Ihould hinder him from doing good. 
 The Emperour Aurelian had great care, 
 Leaft malice fliould obfcure his well-done deeds. 
 Philip did thanke the woman for her checke. 
 And faid : Still chide me when I doe not well. 
 Auguflus left his friend to iudgements triall. 
 For hindring law f'quoth he) becomes no king. 
 Cleon being call'd to deale in ftate affaires, 
 Fore-warn'd his friends be carefull of their deeds. 
 Reward the good (faith Solon) for their doing good, 
 Aud punifh them delight in wicked deeds. 
 
 Of 
 
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 Emll deeds and wicked, come from vicious minds: 
 And here, orfome-whereels, due vengeance finds. 
 
 ■ Xtreamefl ills, fonie time a ioy pofleffe. 
 
 Ill hardly fet on, is as hard got out. 
 ' Thofe things which we deeme good, oft prooue but ill. 
 Counfell that comes when ill hath done his ■worji, 
 Blejfeth our ill, but viakes our good accurjl. 
 To put backe ill, our good we muft forbeare. 
 Euill tidings ftill doe fafter flye than good. 
 Our greateft ills, we moft of all miflruft. 
 A guiltie confcience, vrged with the thought 
 Of former ill done deeds, not eafdy erres, 
 Euils vnto euils, ftill condufters are. 
 Ill comes too foone, repentance oft too late. 
 Ill newes hath wings, and with the wind doth flye. 
 In thefrfl rifing, feehe toflifle ill, 
 Leaft it get head, and grow againfl thy will. 
 That daye's ne're ill, that brings a pleafing night. 
 Worfe than the worft of euils, are wicked thoughts. 
 No bludi can paint the fliame is due to il. 
 
 The 
 
1 82 Of eiiill Deeds, &c. 
 
 The apprehenfion of what ^re is good, 
 
 Giues but the greater feeling to the worfe. 
 All wicked deeds doe wrathfuU doomes procure. 
 In euills, counfell is the comfort chiefe. 
 Many times good doth grow by euils proofe. 
 
 By euill courfes may be vnderjlood, 
 
 That their euents can neuerfall out good. 
 When ill is hapt, teares but encreafe the ill. 
 Ill by example often gaineth good. 
 It's double griefe to fee a lielplefle ill. 
 
 Great men that will haue lefse doe for themflill, 
 
 Muji bears them out, although their deeds be ill. 
 Good heart ia ill, doth much the ill amend. 
 It's better to reforme, than cut off ill. 
 The worfer deed, the doer likes for beft. 
 
 Neuer was manfo euill, did or thought, 
 
 But would pretend fame good caufe, though Jiarke naught. 
 Good words doe often couer ill pretence. 
 One day doth wreake the ill that many wrought. 
 Mifchiefe oft falls vpon the meaners head. 
 
 An euill deed done by author itie. 
 
 Is mightiefmm and fubornation. 
 The good compar'd with bad, is fooueft feene. 
 Who will not ftoope to good, muft yeeld to ill. 
 Mifchiefe doth euer ouer-match the bad. 
 
 The wicked cannot fleepe or take their rejl 
 
 Till they be pleafed withfome ill done deed. 
 Mifchiefe is light, and mounteth ouer head. 
 Old mifchiefes oft doe fet new ills abroach. 
 Ill prefident, the tyde that waftes to vice. 
 
 A minute fpent in good, feemes long-loath' d day: 
 
 But nights of ill like moments flip away. 
 The more ill threats vs, we fufpedl the leffe. 
 To harme, there alwaies needs but little helpe. 
 
 liuill 
 
Of euill Deeds, &c. 183 
 
 Euill enfueth of each wrong intent. 
 
 With vnhi/l men tojiand debating lawes. 
 
 Is to giuepnver to hurt a righlfull caufe. 
 Conftrained ill miift needs be fuffered. 
 We fee the good, but yet we chufe the ill. 
 Oft that is vile, fnewes like a vertuous deed. 
 
 Nothing the world zvith greater harme doth fill, 
 
 Than want of feeling one anothers ill. 
 Mens faults doe feldome to them-felues appeare. 
 Men fmoother partially their owne mifdeeds. 
 Faults ftill againft them-felues giue euidence. 
 
 When better choices are not to be had, 
 
 We tieeds muji take thefeeming bejl of bad. 
 The euiU doth alvvaies argue the offence. 
 One bad done deed, may worke to many ill. 
 Euill feeming good, is moft pernicious. 
 
 Thofe euils whereto a man by loue is driuen. 
 
 So much the rather ought to beforgiuen. 
 Things badly got, can haue but bad fuccefTe. 
 Cuflome con&mes, and makes ill in perfedlion. 
 Nothing is euill, that is neceifarie. 
 
 Toofmall a facrifice for mifchiefes done 
 
 Is one mans breath, that thoufands did defeat, 
 Mifchiefe is no meet way to feeke redrefle. 
 Mifchiefe is oft thought good by fpeeding ill, 
 A bad beginning makes a worfer end. 
 
 Ill fome-times is the caufe of good fucceffe. 
 
 And wicked meanings turne to happinejfe. 
 One mifchiefes Sunne, thawes not anothers Ice. 
 The fight of euiU fets out goodneffe beft. 
 Euill deffignes haue euill accidents. 
 
 Allfuch as are the miniflers of ill, 
 
 Thegallowes eates, or fatall fword doth kill. 
 
 N 4. Similies 
 
184 Of euill Deeds, &c. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieB. 
 
 As Fowlers by their craft beguile tlie birds, 
 So wicked deeds corrupt plaine meaning minds. 
 As ferpents food is onely on the earth, 
 So wicked mens delights is ill done deeds. 
 As flieep-cloath'd Wolues do alwaies greateft fpoile. 
 So painted deeds doe moft of all deceiue. 
 As Circes witch-craft chaunged men to beafts, 
 So wicked deeds makes feeming men bruit beafts. 
 As braunches profper not cut from the tree. 
 So all is vaine that fwerues from honeft courfe. 
 As little fparkes of fire procure great harme, 
 So leaft ill deeds doe hardly find amends. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 PEricUs faid, th' Athenians loued him, 
 Becaufe they neuer could deteft his deeds, 
 Demetrius loft all his followers, 
 Becaufe he had no care of doing ill. 
 Pyrrhus defired to be fmit with death. 
 When he did ought that ill befeem'd a King. 
 Seuerus caus'd his man be fmoakt to death, 
 Becaufe his deeds fhould not difhonour him. 
 Men to doe ill, or iniurie each other. 
 Is no meane eye-fore, Tullie doth affirme. 
 No man (faith Socrates) ihould deale vniuftly 
 In any matter, be it ne're fo fmall. 
 
 Of 
 

 Thoughts are theflowring bloffoms of the mind, 
 And words, the daily fridts of our defires, 
 
 CLofe thoughts Hands free from fword or violence. 
 No kings commaund could euer hinder thought. 
 What thought can tljinke, another thought can mend. 
 A fecret (hame in euery thought will fmother. 
 Where feares doe Candie-thoughls "with Tcie-cold, 
 Heat JUrres the tongtte to daungers manifold. 
 Thoughts are but dreames, till their effefts be tryed. 
 Vnflained thoughts doe feldome dreame of ill. 
 A fault vnknowne, is as a thought vnadled. 
 Preuention fpeaketh all, but what he thinkes. 
 That which the thought would by the tongue digeji. 
 The eare conuayes it backe into the breajl. 
 The thoughts of men are fed with expeftations. 
 All wifhing thoughts fprout forth by quicke defire. 
 Citties doe baftardize the braueft thoughts. 
 It's very hard, imprifoned thoughts to bale. 
 Pure thoughts doe alwayes Jleepe fecure andjlill. 
 While luji and murder wakes tojiaine and kill. 
 
 Thoughts 
 
1 86 Of Thoughts. 
 
 Thoughts oft times force a lingring life to pine. 
 
 Hope flrengthened, addes much matter to each thought. 
 
 All womens tongues and thoughts feldome agreee. 
 
 How poore foeuer, thought is rich enough. 
 Iffpringing thoughts be any iot diminijht, 
 They wither in their prime, and frooue nought worth. 
 
 The heart hath but one firing, yet many thoughts. 
 
 All earthly thoughts are fubieft to annoy. 
 
 Vnreuerend thoughts gainfl kings, are treacherie. 
 
 Vnmeafur'd thoughts, by fortune are cut fhort. 
 Nothing dothfooner dry vp beauties blood, 
 Thanfullein thoughts, though it be n/re fo frejh. 
 
 Oft princes thoughts are tyed to beauties wings. 
 
 All wicked thoughts haue ftUl a wicked end. 
 
 Sweet is the thought, where hope perfwadeth hap. 
 
 Sweet are the thoughts that neuer found amiffe. 
 Nothing doth fooner Jhorten life of man, 
 Than vaine deluding hopes, and idle thoughts. 
 
 Deare is the thought whereby difcretion lines. 
 
 Thoughts profper not, where feare doth perifh them. 
 
 No witneife.needeth for a guiltie thought. 
 
 The meaneft man, will yet in thought afpire. 
 
 Our narrow-eyed thoughts oft times looke more direifl, 
 Than our loofe wifdomes, borne with wild negleil. 
 
 All leaden thoughts, than earth no higher flyes. 
 
 Full many fignes bewrayes our fecret thoughts. 
 
 Thoughts often-times doe (hroud vs in the earth. 
 
 To mufe and meditate, is learnings life. 
 By common cariage of the outward parts. 
 The fecret thoughts arefeene of many hearts. 
 
 Carrie thy thoughts in filence fealed vp. 
 
 Sweet are the thoughts of pleafures we haue tryed. 
 
 Thoughts are not feene, yet lookes bewray the mind. 
 
 Similies 
 
Of Tlwzights. 187 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieH:. 
 
 As white and blacke are contrarie in fight, 
 So words and tlioughts are very different. 
 As fire and water neuer can agree, 
 Euen fo mens words and thoughts doe difagree. 
 As courtiers cloakes are fliifted very oft, 
 So are our thoughts neuer at certaine flay. 
 As light is welcome to perplexed minds, 
 So merrie thoughts doe banifli fadneffe beft. 
 As euery tree hath his peculiar fruit, 
 So euery man hath his owne priuat thought. 
 As merrie hofts care not for frowning guefts. 
 So pleafant minds can brooke no penfme thoughts. 
 
 Examples likewife on thefam^. 
 
 CAe/ar did neuer feare a merrie looke, 
 But doubted fad men to haue wicked thoughts. 
 The Spartanes carried commendation, 
 Becaufe they fcom'd to beare iniurious thoughts. 
 PuluUlus being told, his fonne was dead. 
 Made anfwere : Therefore he would take no thought. 
 When Scipio read the bookes of Xenophon, 
 He faid : They counfail'd him from taking thought. 
 Thoughts doe afflift the mind, faith Cicero, 
 And makes it fubieft to no certaintle. 
 Saith Ariftotle, They need Phyficke moft. 
 That doe deuoure their health by fretful! thoughts. 
 
 Of 
 

 
 S^^ Of Teares, &c. 
 
 Teares are bejl friends tofolitarie minds : 
 And mourning is a foe to company. 
 
 WEeping auailes not, v/hore laments are fcorn'd. 
 Our teares oft times draw teares from others eies. 
 Gfeat lofies, greatly are to be bemoan'd. 
 Teares iye the tongue of an accufers ^j'tidge, 
 Andfofts the rigour of the Jkarrujt iudge. 
 No griefe like that, to mourne and be defpis'd. 
 A troubled foule in teares her comfort feekes. 
 Well mourning garments fit a mourning mind. 
 Teares are dumbe Oratours, and wanting fpeech, 
 Perfwadefome-time more than the tongue can doe. 
 Teares are the moft eJfedluall rhetoricke. 
 Teares are the treafure of a griefe-gald heart. 
 Griefe tyes the tongue, and forrow ftoppeth teares. 
 Teares muft not be as torments, but as markes 
 Tofhew the loue we beare vnto our friend. 
 Teates will appeafe, where trefpaffe hath incenft. 
 Repentant teares doth quench Gods kindled ire. 
 Teares fhed in time, doth winne a bliffe-full houre. 
 
 Our 
 
Of Teares, Mourning. 1 89 
 
 Our teares mujl lie as drops ofvitall bloody 
 
 Not feigned, hut da-iuedfrom the heart. 
 The heart may weepe, although the eyes be drie. 
 Partners in loue, are partners in laments. 
 Eyes are firfl caufers of the hearts lamenting. 
 
 Mufieke can hardly folace humane eares, 
 
 When firings are broke, and eyes are drown' d in teares. 
 Soft teares make batterie in the hardeft heart. 
 Teares deem'd but filent, are as loud as thunder. 
 Teares are fwift poftes to certifie our griefes. 
 
 Thsy feldome doe reffedl poore beggers teares, 
 
 That may haue mujique to delight their eares. 
 Teares are as nourifhment to godly foules. 
 Weeinng is ioy to well-affefted minds. 
 Our eyes muft not be drowned, nor yet dry. 
 
 To itieepefor lojfe, or worldly dignitie 
 
 And not for finne, is meere hypocrifie. 
 Teares kindle loue, and quallilie difpleafure. 
 The deepeft cares, breake neuer into teares. 
 Teares ill becomes the ludge that fii-ft condemnes. 
 
 To weepe alone, is thought an yrkcfomefore : 
 
 Yet companie difiurbeth fome m,uch more. 
 Venus fmiles feldome in a houfe of teares. 
 It's better wake and weepe, than fleepe and ioy. 
 Teares eafe the mind, though elfe doe fmall auaile. 
 
 Drops pierce the flint, not by their force orfirength. 
 
 But by oft falling weares it out at length. 
 Teares flied for vertues fake, are bleffed teares, 
 Teares worke no ruth, but where the heart is tender. 
 Teares are the riches of a fighing foule. 
 
 Griefe-broken hearts doe Hue wich teares in eyes. 
 
 And dye with mirth, appearing in their lookes. 
 Griefe till all ends, hath neuer perfeil ending. 
 Sighes vfually proceed from griefe and fmart. 
 
 Teares 
 
1 90 Of Teares, Mourning. 
 
 Teares doe but blind the eyes, as clouds the aire. 
 
 The rich man doth reuenge him-felfe by amies. 
 
 But poore men haue no other helpe than teares. 
 Whofe griefes are great, haue need of quickeft cure. 
 Teares cannot change what God hath fore-decreed. 
 Teares do want eies which fhould glue tears to weep. 
 
 Teares are no retnedies for fad dijlrejj'e : 
 
 Neither can prefent plaints eafe paffed harmes. 
 Hearts true contrition, is foules bliffe beginner. 
 Teares are the badges of true penitence. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieil. 
 
 As fome men weepe that are not rightly fad, 
 So many fmile that are not rightly glad. 
 As trees by nature bringeth forth their fruit, 
 So forrow doth by cuftome fhed fad teares. 
 As thunder alwayes is not quencht with raine, 
 So griefe not euer is appeafd with teares. 
 As too much boldneffe is in women bad, 
 So fits it not in men to be too fad. 
 As fhowres of raine doe caufe the earths encreafe. 
 So Ilreames of teares doe glue the foule true peace. 
 As weeping Oliue trees moft fruitful! are, 
 So mourning minds doe foonefl kill defpaire. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 BRaue Coriolanus being banifht Rome, 
 Toucht with his fault, went forth, and dide in teares. 
 The Romane matrons for old Brutus death, 
 For one whole yere did nothing elfe but moume. 
 The wife of Lepidus, her misbehauiour. 
 In teares and anguifli did abridge his dales. 
 Crajfus was neuer feene in all his life 
 But once to fmile ; but many times to moume. 
 
 Senei a 
 
Of Humilitie, and Lowlineffe. 191 
 
 Seneca faith, That mightie men by power 
 Reuenge themfelues ; the weaker, by theit teares. 
 The broken heart ffaith Tullie) hath moift eyes, 
 When often-times it faignes forth merrie lookes. 
 
 Humilitie, is lowlinejfe of mind, 
 The onely way, the feat ofbliffe to find. 
 
 HVmilitie lookes lowly on the ground. 
 Humilitie, her friends with kindneife feeds. 
 The lowly dales enuie not higheft hills. 
 Humilitie, to heauen, thejleppe, thejlaire. 
 Is by deuotion, heartie grief e, and frayer. 
 The lowly mind doth higheft gifts adorne. 
 Meekneife of heart is glorie to man-kmd. 
 Humilitie admires his paine with ioy. 
 
 The kindly deio drops from the higher tree. 
 And wets the little plants that lowly dwell. 
 The Cedar yeeldeth to the Axes edge. 
 Better fit ftill, than rife, and after fall. 
 The (hrub is fafe, when the tall Cedar fhakes. 
 
 He 
 
192 Of Humilitie, and Lowlineffe. 
 
 He that high growth on Cedars did bejiow, 
 
 Gaue likewife lowly Mujhromes leaue to grow. 
 Humble and meeke, becomes both young and old. 
 Gray hath leffe griefe, than coftly filken futes. 
 
 Humilitie walkes lowly on the earth, 
 
 AJfur'd of certaine dignitie in heaiien. 
 The loweft ihrubs doe feele the feweft ftormes. 
 The minds fubmiffion pulls downe loftie lookes. 
 
 When as the Eagle meanes his highejl flight. 
 
 He makes his mozmting in the Iffivefi dale. 
 Great floods doe often rife from humble flreames. 
 Content below, ne're climbes to feeke aloft. 
 
 The cottage feated in the lowly dale, 
 
 Is morefecttre than higheft foiteraigntie. 
 HumiUtie, the foules chiefe beautie is. 
 Humilitie doth anger foone aflwage. 
 
 A lowly life thatfeares nofuddaine loffe, 
 
 IsfHll content, how-euer thitigs goes crofse. 
 An humble mindle fauours of pietie. 
 True hurablenes doth all mens vertues praife. 
 
 A mind thatfeares no fall, nor craues no crowne. 
 
 Is in the rightefl way to true renowme. 
 Religions chiefe precept, is humblenes. 
 Ilappie that man, who is in honour humble. 
 Where humble thoughts doe to the heauens affire. 
 
 There is no place for any proud defl^'e. 
 The minds beft armour, is humilitie. 
 Lowlinefle is the perfeifl path to honour. 
 
 Humilitie hath brought thofe things to paffe. 
 Which reafon, nor no vertue elfe could doe. 
 Pride wageth warre againft humilitie. 
 By lowlineffe, is true difcretion wonne. 
 Proud minds can hardly learne humilitie. 
 
 Humilitie augments beneuolence, 
 
 Snpportcth 
 
Of Hiimilitie and Lowlinejjfe. 193 
 
 Supportelh truth, and keepes a kingdome fafe. 
 Humilitie reuiues dead chavitie. 
 The face doth foone expreffe an humble mind. 
 Truth foone appeares to humble minded men. 
 
 The noble Lyon neuerjlayes the leaji, 
 
 But alwayes preyes vpon the proudejl beajl. 
 Humilitie rules all the minds affedls. 
 No way to lieauen, but by humilitie. 
 Humilitie winnes immortalitie. 
 
 Humilitie with perfetfl grace Jlands fq/l, 
 
 When all things elfe are vanijhed and paji. 
 Breake not a bending reed, fpare the fubmiffe. 
 Earth veffels, with the brazen may not ftriue. 
 
 Similies on the fame fit,bie5l. 
 
 As lowlinefle of heart brings downe heauens grace, 
 So humble words can proudeft. tearmes deface. 
 As fait doth feafon euei-y kind of meat. 
 So lowlinelle doth fliew all vertues beft. 
 As vallies fertilneffe the hills exceeds. 
 So humble lowlinefle fliewes fairefl deeds. 
 As wine in loweft vaults is beft preferu'd, 
 So grace in humble minds is befl difcern'd. 
 As proud prefumption feekes his owne decay, 
 So lowlineffe to bliffe diredls the way. 
 As ignorance moft fcometh to be taught, 
 So humblenelfe defireth ftill to learne. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 PHilip for humblenes of mind was praifd, 
 Beyond all princes of the Macedons. 
 Antigonus with great humilitie. 
 Bare off the (launders of his enemies. 
 
 O Sdpio 
 
 dd 
 
194 Of Authoritie, Might, &c. 
 
 Scipio, in all his foi'tunes neuer fwem'd, 
 From patient fufferance, and humilitie. 
 Pericles moft of all defam'd him-felfe, 
 By making fcorne of true humilitie. 
 Tullie affirm es, all vertues what-foe-re, 
 Are fooneft learned by humilitie. 
 Plato calls lowlinelTe, the foules defence. 
 And onely fliield againft extremities. 
 
 Authoritie, proudpompe, andworldly power, 
 Makes monarchs but as marks, whe/ate doth lower, 
 
 AVthoritie makes many men feuere. 
 Death giues no thanks, but checks authority. 
 It is in vaine, and fondly we rejljl, 
 Againjl proud might, that can doe what it lijl, 
 A lawfull title counter-checks proud might. 
 The greateft oft may need a weaker helpe. 
 Little atiailes a lawlejje vfurpation. 
 Which gaines afcepter, but not rules a nation. 
 
 Might 
 
Of Authoritie, Might, &c. 195 
 
 Might wanting meafiire, pvooueth furquedrie. 
 Nothing fo fell as wrong, being arm'd with right. 
 
 Might is reputed abfolute alone. 
 
 When of two powers there's true coniundlion. 
 Some leame to rule, while others leame to liue. 
 They that Hand high, haue many blafts to fhake them. 
 
 Vaine is the vaunt, and vidlorie vniuji. 
 
 That more to might, than rightfull cau/e doth trujl. 
 When great leaues fall, then winter islat hand. 
 Needs mufl we doe, what might will force vs doe. 
 
 The ouer-fpreading pompe of greatejl might. 
 
 Will darken weaknejfe, and debafe his fight. 
 What mightie men mifdoe, they cannot mend. 
 Deepe are the blowes made with a mightie Axe. 
 
 More than enough he finds, that finds his might. 
 
 Hath force to make all that he will haue, right. 
 The more, the mightier, if they gree in one. 
 Arme not vnskilfulnes with mightie power. 
 
 He, who his owne caufe makes, dothflill deuife. 
 
 To make too much, to haue it more thanfure. 
 Great is the daunger of vnmaftred might. . 
 Too many great, one kingdome cannot hold. 
 
 Where power hath decreed to find offence. 
 
 The caufe is better flUl, than the defence. 
 Might makes a title, where he hath no right. 
 Men count that wrong, is compaifed by might. 
 
 He onely treads ihefure and f erf e^ path 
 
 To greatneffe, who hue and opinion hath. 
 Vncertaine power, cannot it felfe retaine. 
 Cuflome hath power to kill with weakeft might. 
 
 Who falls but low, may quickely rife againe: 
 
 Who falls from height, is mercileffely flaine. 
 Loue is not alwaies dignities companion. 
 The talleft trees are fhaken mofb with winds. 
 
 O 2 Wlien 
 
196 Of Autko7'itie, Might, &c. 
 
 When one felfe-power is common made to two. 
 
 Their duties they norfuffer, nor will doe. 
 Preferment is the firft ftep to difquiet. 
 In equall play-fellowes, no perill lyes. 
 
 The man thatgiues a weapon to hisjironger. 
 
 Is like him/elfe to carrie rule no longer. 
 Ech little fpot, appeares moft in the face. 
 ■ Great might is like a fortified tower. 
 
 No man can manage great affaires qfjlate. 
 
 And yet content a wayward multitude. 
 Where many lead, they lead to many blowes. 
 Let Gods with Gods, and men with men contend. 
 
 What ere he be, with his/uperiour playes, 
 
 Stands in the mouth of daunger many wayes. 
 He hardly will entreat, that may commaund. 
 AH dignitie on tickle flayes doth ftand. 
 
 With mightie men 'tis better ceafing Jlrife, 
 
 Than an vneguall quarrell to maintaine. 
 There is no hell, like to declining pompe. 
 He fits not fafefl, that is mounted high. 
 
 In high degree f mall faults are quickely fpyde. 
 
 But low ejlate a many errours hyde. 
 No high eftate can yeeld a quiet life. 
 The power of vertue euer-more preuailes. 
 
 What though our finnes goe braue and better clad? 
 
 They are in ragges as bafe and all as bad. 
 Might breakes the law the facred Senat makes. 
 The more our greatneffe, makes our faults the more. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As in fine cloth the brighteft flaines we fee, 
 So faults are moft difcern'd in high degree. 
 As haflie climbers oft catch fuddaine falls, 
 So might mif-vfde, doth kindle nought but braules. 
 
 As 
 
Of Auihoritie, Might, &c. 197 
 
 As he that ftands on high, ftands ftill in feare, 
 
 So they that manage dates, doe want no care. 
 
 As Rafors are not fit for children^ hands, 
 
 So fooles no way befeeme authoritie. 
 
 As prefidents are apteft raeanes for youth, 
 
 So rulers goodneffe giues example bed. 
 
 As the great Elme fupports the fpreading vine, 
 
 So might ought ftill fupport humilitie. 
 
 Examples hereof are generally through the booke: 
 
 as in Kings, Princes, Kingdoraes, Magiftrates, &c. and 
 therefore no need of other coUedlions. 
 
 ^H^^ Of Courage, &c. 
 
 Cottrage, is foe to faint-heart cowardife : 
 And man-hood, teacheth valour to be wife. 
 
 Courage emboldneth wit, wit courage armes. 
 Without experience, valour wants his armes. 
 Daunger and feare, like cowards turnes afide. 
 When man-hood is by refohition trydc. 
 
 O 3 Skill 
 
198 Of Courage, Valour, &c. 
 
 Skill valour guides, and valour armeth skill. 
 Who hopes a conqueft, leaues no means vnfought. 
 
 The inward thoughts, that haughtie courage beares, 
 
 Grieues more at words, than deaths pale-faced feares. 
 Courage, with cowardife will not be matcht. 
 The valiant man, doth moft in warre delight. 
 
 Seldomejhall any liuing creature fee. 
 
 That courtefte and manhood dif agree. 
 The coward feekes to Hue at home in eafe. 
 Valour is neuer knowne till it be tryed. 
 
 They that attempt high daungers euideftt, 
 
 Vpon no reafon, are not valiant. 
 Affions doe kill imaginations fway. 
 Vnequall warres, t'vnequall fliame is fold. 
 
 The man that dares, not caring how he dares. 
 
 Sells Virtues name, to purchafe fooli/h skarres. 
 Rebellious natures muft be roughly vs'd. 
 Repining courage yeelds no foe a foot. 
 
 Cowards doe onely wifli and call for death. 
 
 While valiant hearts infUence banifh breath. 
 Vaine words cannot bewitch a valiant mind. 
 Meafure not manhood by the outward fliewe. 
 
 The noble courage neuer weeneth ought, 
 
 That may vnworthie ofitfelfe be thought. 
 ChaflFer no words, high courage to prouoke. 
 Courage may lend a cloake to cowardife. 
 
 Nothing the praife of manhood more doth marre 
 
 Thanfoule reuenge, and bafe contentious iarre. 
 Adlion, is fierie valours foueraigne good. 
 True valour lodgeth in the lowlieft hearts. 
 
 High courage with true wifdome alwayes backt. 
 
 Winnes perfeiH fame, andfhunneth each mifhap. 
 Weakeneffe is falfe, and faith in cowards rare, 
 Glorie doth follow, courage goes before. 
 
 The 
 
Of Courage, Valour, &c. 199 
 
 T^e man that couples courage with defire, 
 
 Runnes freely through his daunger, and freuaiUs. 
 True valour aimes at honour euermore. 
 A cowards heart keepes words and deeds afunder. 
 
 A iewell in a ten-times iard-vp chejl, 
 
 Is a boldfpirit in a loyall breajl. 
 Courage and induftrie can neuer want. 
 In conquering will, true courage moft is fliewen. 
 
 In vaine heefeeketh others to fupprejfe. 
 
 Who hath not learned firjt tofubdue him-felfe. 
 All ftrength is fraile, and full of fickleneffe. 
 No fortunes frowne can daunt true valors heart. 
 
 Beggers (but feigning brauerie) are the proudefl: 
 
 And cowards (bragging boldnejfe) wrangle loudefl. 
 A valiant mind difdaines to hide his head. 
 It's cowardife, vnworthie wrongs to beare. 
 
 Where wronged valour reignes, it's hard to find 
 
 Such pittie, as may honours pride controll. 
 True valour, feeles- nor griefe nor miferie. 
 Refolute courage, makes loue fortunate. 
 
 Cowards in peace doe dread the weapons fight, 
 
 But wg'd by need, will venture then the pikes. 
 Courage to die, exceeds a captiu'd life. 
 Courage defpifeth dread, and conquers death. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As courage addeth wings to braue defire. 
 So bloodie Ihewes doth quench incenfed ire. 
 As it is valour to be conquerour. 
 So wifdome maketh vfe of viftorie. 
 As courage keepes the mind from bafe affaults, 
 So cowardife infedls it with all faults. 
 As courage is efteem'd a wife mans coat, 
 So cowardife is follies cognifance. 
 
 O 4 As 
 
200 Of Courage, Valour, &c. 
 
 As Faulconers doe in Faulcons moft delight, 
 So mightie men reioyceth in their might. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 THe Romane Sergius, loofmg his right hand, 
 Slew with his left hand, foure in fingle fight. 
 Sceeuola entred king Porfennaes Tent, 
 Either to kill him, or be ilaine by him. 
 Agis difiwaded from the fight, replyed : 
 No man wonne ihame, that with true courage dyde. 
 Stout Alcibiades cheerd vp his followers. 
 By his couragious leading them to field. 
 Courage, faith Seneca, is of fuch power, 
 As it can conquer any miferie. 
 Plato faith, Courage eleuates the mind. 
 To all things that are laudable and iuft. 
 
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20I 
 
 ^^g Of Pleafure, &c. |^^ 
 
 Pleafure andfweet Delights, doe much beguile: 
 ExpeSling ioy, grief e happens oft meane-while. 
 
 PLeafures are poore, and our delights foone dye. 
 Where pleafure is difplac'd, care keepes his marte. 
 Where care killes pleafure, life not long endures. 
 Who tries, Jhall find, that pleafures long reftrairCd, 
 Befarre more plea/ant when they once are gain' d. 
 Where flrife Is ftirr'd, there pleafure hath no part. 
 Worlds pleafure lalls not long, but griefe abides. 
 Farewell delight, when graueld is all grace. 
 JVeuer haue vniujl pleafures been compleat 
 In ioyes entire, but feare Jlill keepes the doore. 
 The fweetefl pleafure hath the fhorteft date. 
 Long wifhed things, a fweet delight doe beare. 
 Pleafure and penaunce ftill are mortall foes. 
 Enforced folace, like a vapour fiyes, 
 And hath no power repining hearts to mooue. 
 Solace and forrow haue their certaine times. 
 While pleafure withers, paine more ripe doth grow. 
 When pleafures ebbe, then griefes begin to flow. 
 
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202 Of Pleafiire, Delight, Cfc. 
 
 To vaine delights, a man may eafily goe: 
 
 Butfafely to returne may much be fear' d. 
 Beft muficke breeds delight in loathing eares. 
 The ftrong, through pleafure falls ; the weak, by fmart. 
 Pleafures doe neuer feed, but on exceiKe. 
 
 He that infleafures vaine doth time bejkrw, 
 
 Treads but the path to his owne ouerthrow. 
 In things without vs, no delight is fure. 
 Pleafure iS felt, opinion but conceiu'd. 
 Pleafure is fliort, and glory lafts not long. 
 
 The/weets we wi/hfor, turne to loathed fowers, 
 
 Euen in the moment, that we call them ottrs. 
 That pleafeth moft, is farlhefl from the eye. 
 Low is the ftalke, whereon beft pleafures grow. 
 Pleafure afleepe, then forrow will awake. 
 
 Maids are not wonne by bnttijh force or might. 
 
 But fpeeclies full of pleafure and delight. 
 Pleafure maintain'd by care, is quickly loft. 
 After long ficknelTe, health brings moft delight. 
 Vncertaine pleafures, bring a certaine paine. 
 
 Maydes doe take more delight, when they prepare 
 
 And thinke of wiues flate, than when wiues they are.- 
 Shorteft delights, doe bring a long repent. 
 Pleafures them-felues, are but imaginations. 
 Things foone obtain'd, doe leaft of all delight. 
 
 This world is but the pleafure of an houre. 
 
 And yet the forrow of a thoufand dayes. 
 Oft pleafures paft, doe way to woe prepare. 
 In worldly mirth, lurketh much miferie. 
 All fweet delights, are drown'd in dulled minds. 
 
 Pleafures {like pofling guefls) make but f mall flay. 
 
 Where griefes bide long, and leaue a f core to pay. 
 It's true delight, to know the caufe of griefe. 
 Mirth foundeth harfti to melancholly men. 
 
 Mirth 
 
Of Plea/ure, Delight, &c. 203 
 
 Mirth makes the longeft lournies to feeme ftiort. 
 What more apparaiit figne can be of madneffe. 
 Than kaue anothers fleafure caufe thy/adneffe? 
 
 Who buyes a minutes mirth, may waile a weeke. 
 
 Mirth fearcheth out the bottome of annoy. 
 
 Vnlawfull pleafures, hafte deftruftion. 
 Potions {if pleafant) though infedlious, 
 Arefooner ta'ne, than holefome pills for health. 
 
 Sorrow, fore-going pleafure, graceth it 
 
 Gladneffe with griefe, continually is mixt. 
 
 Banke-vTipts in pleafure, can but pay with woe. 
 We are right docible to imitate 
 Depraued pleafures, though degenerate. 
 
 Short pleafures many times haue large repents. 
 
 Pleafures are ftiU induftions to our griefes. 
 
 Oft hath a tiagicke entrance, pleafant end. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As no eftate can ftable ftand for aye. 
 So euery pleafure hath his ending day. 
 As fmall brookes fwell and are enrag'd with raiiie. 
 So fight of pleafure trebleth euery paine. 
 As weeds expeld, the corne doth better thriue, 
 So care being kild, pleafure bides long aliue. 
 As greateft griefes doe make the leaft not feene, 
 So huge delights caufe meane ones vaniih cleane. 
 As greateft light, is in the largeft skie, 
 So that dehghts, is furtheft from the eye. 
 As fad minds brooke no merrie companie, 
 So forrow is to pleafure enemie. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 SArdanapalus was fo giuen to pleafure, 
 That of a man, he made him-felfe a beafl. 
 
 Xerxes 
 
204 Of Paine. 
 
 Xerxes bellowed gifts on none but fuch, 
 
 As daily could inuent new kinds of pleafures. 
 
 In King Latinus Court, the Troyans 
 
 In choife of all delights did fpend their time. 
 
 Demetrius being to all vaine pleafures giuen. 
 
 Was by the Macedonians quite expulft. 
 
 Cineas told Fabritius, that vaine pleafure, 
 
 Did like a moath confume the life of man. 
 
 Demqfthenes in his Orations, 
 
 Alwayes forbad voluptuous vaine delights. 
 
 Paine, as companion doth on Pleafure wait: 
 And Daunger is the hand-maid to Delight. 
 
 SHort paine may be endur'd, that brings long eafe. 
 He neuer findeth helpe, that hides his paine. 
 Farre harder is it, to learne continence 
 In ioyfull pleafures, than in grieuous paine. 
 They leffer paines can beare, that hide the great. 
 Paine profit reapes, if feeds be wifely fowne. 
 
 Wliere 
 
Of Paine. 205 
 
 Where words hefcarfe, tK are feldonie /pent in vaine. 
 
 For they fpeake truth, that breath their words withpaine. 
 Soone-dying mirth, begets long-liuing paine. 
 Who bears the wound, perforce muft feele the paine. 
 
 The man that needs will feeke for vnknowne gaine. 
 
 Oft Hues by loffe, and leaues with mickle paine. 
 The greater paine, the greater miferie. 
 Paine payes the in-come of each precious thing. 
 
 It eafeth fome, though none it euer cuf^d. 
 
 To thinke that others haue their faines endur'd. 
 It's paine to keepe the things we would expreffe. 
 All labours haue their end, but paine hath none. 
 
 No paine orfickneffe doth fo fwiftly breed, 
 
 As euill humours grow, the grief e to feed. 
 To get, and keepe not ; is not loffe, but paine. 
 Paine breedeth honour, vertue getteth fame. 
 
 Better in prifon euer to remaine. 
 
 Than being forth, tofuffer greater paine. 
 With eafe a fparke, with paine is quencht a flame. 
 Pleafure doth follow paine, and bliffe annoy. 
 
 If s paine and griefe, to beare andfuffer wrong: 
 
 ButfJiame andfmne to him that caufeth it. 
 An inward fore flrikes the Phifition blind. 
 Salues feldome helpe ouer-long feflred fores. 
 
 How mightie is the foueraigne power oflotie. 
 
 Which paine, thirfi, hunger, no nor death can mooue ? 
 Sad muficke to fad paflions, addes more paine. 
 One paine is leffened by anothers atiguifti. 
 
 Let him for euer Hue in woe and griefe, 
 
 Thatfeeleth paine, and will not haue reliefe. 
 Paine is the entrance to eternall ioy. 
 How fraile is that which men atchieue with paine? 
 
 They that mufl either ferue, orpine in want. 
 
 Ought fcorne no paines, that may relieue their f cant. 
 
 The 
 
2o6 Of Paine. 
 
 The caufe, and not the paine, the martyr makes. 
 Remembrance of ioyes paft, breeds greater paine. 
 
 He that with eafe may faine and harme efchew. 
 
 Is vaine, if he his prober death purfue. 
 Patience doth put all toyle-fome paine to flight. 
 He beft doth beare his paine, tliat hides it moft. 
 
 Few Ihikefor loue, but all for greedie gaine, 
 
 Though in the end, it turnes them mofi to paine. 
 An vnknowne paine, is greateft miferie. 
 He cannot iudge of pleafure, ne're felt paine. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieci. 
 
 As daunger waiteth at the heeles of pride, 
 So euery pleafure hath a following paine. 
 As where miihaps doe flow, there loue doth ebbe, 
 So where friends faile, the heai-t feeles no like paine. 
 As ficke men with leaft anguifti are diflurb'd. 
 So to vexe troubled minds, augments their paine. 
 As Sun-fliine daies of fortune getteth friends. 
 So paine or perill loofeth them as foone. 
 As miferie a med'cine hardly finds. 
 So inward paines, are not with pratings cur'd. 
 As he beares forrow beft that hides it moft, 
 So who knowes patience, ftands prepar'd for paine. 
 
 Examples likewifeon the fame. 
 
 PHilofirates endured all his paines. 
 To th'admiration of his enemies. 
 Marius the Romane faid, he felt no paine 
 In all his liurts, if but one friend were by. 
 Sextus Pompeius could abide no paine. 
 No, not fo much as feele his head to ake. 
 The Spartanes for their pleafures, made ftrift lawes. 
 Shewing, what paine to each one did belong. 
 
 Cicero 
 
Of Poueriie, Need, &c. 
 
 Cicero faid, No paine could touch the mind, 
 That was but rampierd-in with fufferance. 
 And AriJlotU held the fame opinion, 
 Firme refolution could fubdue all paine. 
 
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 Pouertie is a vertue of it f elf e, 
 Content with want andneedie miferie. 
 
 POuertie is not wifdomes hinderance. 
 Contented pouertie is greateft wealth. 
 Need, is efteem'd a perfedl Schoole-miftrefle. 
 Need anfwers not to euery mans requeft. 
 Poors miferie is troden on by many. 
 And being low, neuer relieu'd by any. 
 Wife men, muft giue place to necefsitie. 
 Ignorance is the greateft pouertie. 
 Stout vowes are oft repeal'd in extreame need. 
 Sweet are poore crummes, where pained thoughts doe flame. 
 Need hmieth nonefo much as fUlie foules. 
 Who cannot patiently endure her yoke. 
 
 Plentie 
 
2o8 Of Pouertie, Need, &c. 
 
 Plentie breeds perill, want procures difdaine. 
 Miferie craues rather mercie, than reproofe. 
 There is no vertue like neceflfitie. 
 Thanks ought be deem'd th'Exchequer of the poore. 
 
 Wejhould ourfelues not miferable deeme, 
 
 Sith none arefo but in their mine ejleeme. 
 To needie men, delay is euen as death. 
 Moil wretched he, that is, yet cannot tell. 
 Miferie oft makes fport to mocke it felfe. 
 The wretched conquered, may nought refufe. 
 
 Who in diftrejfefrom refolution flyes. 
 
 Is rightly /aid, to yeeld to mi/eries. 
 That needs muft be perform'd, which need conftraines. 
 Poore wretches haue remorfe in poore abufes. 
 The graunts are fmall to them that ftand in need. 
 Men flye from foes, but not from miferie. 
 
 Sharpe are the wounds, hutfweet the midcines be. 
 
 That wretched foules from wearie bondage free. 
 Want pines away, and comfortleife doth dye. 
 Delay leads impotent and fnaile-pac'd need. 
 He is not poore, hath little, but that much defires. 
 Contented pouertie, is happineife. 
 
 A little Jiroke willferue to make him. die. 
 
 That is halfejlaine before with miferie. 
 Diligence moft enableth pooreft men. 
 The loue of poore men, great mens harmes debates. 
 Loue neuer keepes where wretchednes abides. 
 Poore men fhould fuffer for no great mens fmnes. 
 
 No truer friends haue poore men than their teares. 
 
 Wherein jnen {each way wretched) may be rich. 
 It is too much for one good man to want. 
 Giue them that want, not fuch as haue no need. 
 To Hue and lacke, doth breed a daily griefe. 
 Sharpe is the food necefsitie impofeth. 
 
 Want 
 
0/ Pouertie, Need, &c. 209 
 
 Want /miles /ecure when princely thoughts doefeele 
 
 Thatfeare and daunger treads vpon their heele. 
 Speed in necefsitie is chiefeft fpuiTe. 
 Diflreffe cuts deeper than fterne fortunes frownes. 
 Necefsitie endures what elfe would not. 
 Miferie finds no multitude of friends. 
 
 It is an honour to aduerfUie, 
 
 Withjleights to vndermine pro/peritie. 
 Where need compells, Orations are in vaine. 
 Occafion makes them ftirre, that elfe would not. 
 The iuft mans miferie is no meane merit. 
 Though thou art poore, yet feeke, and thou fhalt find. 
 
 Profperitie is loiid of very many. 
 
 But men in want are hardly holpe by any. 
 By others wants we know our owne good haps. 
 Miferie doth the braueft mind abate. 
 Need makes men feeke for that they fomtime fcomd. 
 Want, is the enemie to good defires. 
 
 Pouertie oft with heauie clogge of care 
 
 Pulls many downe, when they afcending are. 
 Poore men are little Ihrabs, rich men tall trees. 
 Need fometimes doth inftrucfl vnlawfuU things. 
 A poore and honeft life hath no compare. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieSl. 
 
 As Kings haue honour to beare out their deeds, 
 The poore haue honeftie to guide their Hues. 
 As riches feemeth cumberfome to fooles, 
 So pouertie is pleafmg to the wife. 
 As riches is the mother of delight, 
 So pouertie doth nource calamitie. 
 As want, to many is intollerable, 
 So in good men, it is moil comfortable. 
 
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2IO Of Pouertie, Need, &c. 
 
 As the wild Affe is ftill the Lyons prey, 
 So doe the rich feed on the poore ech day. 
 As euery Artizane beft knowes his trade, 
 So eueiy poore man beft doth feele his want. 
 
 Examples likezvife on the fame. 
 
 PVblicola caft downe from high degree, 
 Sham'd not, but ioyed in his pouertie. 
 AriJUdes, from humble pouertie. 
 Was raifed to degree of dignitie. 
 Fabritius in his meaneft pouertie, 
 Pyrrhus made choife of, as companion. 
 Viilturnus baniihed by Anthonie, 
 Neuer repined at his miferie. 
 Pouertie, is helpe to Philofophie, 
 Learn'd of it felfe ; fo faid Diogenes. 
 Lailantius faid : Take away infolence. 
 And there's no difference iwixt the rich and poore. 
 
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21 I 
 
 Bountie hath open hands, a zealous hart: 
 And liberally bejiowes without refpe5l. 
 
 Like clouds that haue no raine, are liberall words. 
 The whole effeft of bountie, is in loue. 
 
 The liberall heart, God cherijheth and loues. 
 
 And from himjlill, all caufe of want remooues. 
 The more the fruit, more precious is the tree. 
 The more the fiih, more valued is the ftreame. 
 
 That bountie is the beji, and niofl approou^d. 
 
 Which without perill ofrenowme ispaji. 
 The goodliefl; night is, when moft ftarres are feene. 
 
 Bounties befi honour is to helpe the poore. 
 
 And happines to Hue in good mens minds. 
 'We count that ground the beft, which yeelds moft grain. 
 
 Bountie, remitting fraile and mortall things. 
 
 Doth for reward, receiue immortall fame. 
 The whole effeft of bountie, is in loue. 
 
 They that in bountie doe begin to want. 
 
 In weake efiate flmll find their friends and foes. 
 True bountie is not faftened to refpetft. 
 
 P 2 A fpend- 
 
2 1 2 Of Bountie and Liberalitie. 
 
 A fpend-thrift fworne to prodigalitie, 
 
 Excufeth it with liberalitie. 
 A liberall minded man, bafe enuie hates. 
 
 He thatJUll drawetk forth without fupply, 
 
 Thefountaine ofhisjlore willfoone he drie. 
 He neuer giues in vaine, that giues in zeale. 
 
 Gifts to the poore, let them be done with f peed. 
 
 For long delay, more wretched makes their need. 
 Bountie and thankfulneffe are concords bonds. 
 
 One gift in time bejlowed, as good minds doe. 
 
 Falls out in pooofe to helpe much more than two. 
 A liberall heart procures beneuolence. 
 Honours chiefe giace is liberalitie. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieSl. 
 
 As pride makes enemies of perfeft friends, 
 So liberalitie makes friends of foes. 
 As hollow fpouts retaineth nought but aire. 
 So hollow hearts all bountie euer hate. 
 As Bees doe flocke vnto a honey dewe. 
 So multitudes flyes to a liberall mind. 
 As fliadowes hinders ripening of the fruits. 
 So couetoufnes ftill holdeth bountie backe. 
 As Henbane caufeth death by fleepines, 
 So bountie is deftroy'd by niggardnes. 
 As manhood is difcern'd by cowardife. 
 So bountie is beheld by wretchedneffe. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 BY liberall bountie, Alexander wonne 
 More fame, than all his conquefts elfe befide. 
 Ccefar, by bountie to his followers, 
 Was call'd the liberall'ft prince in all thofe times. 
 
 Archelaus 
 
OfFollie. 
 
 Archelaus gaue not to vnworthie men, 
 
 For that he held not liberaUtie. 
 
 Titus, remembring one day nothing giuen, 
 
 Said : O my friends, how liaue we loil this day? 
 
 Plato faid, Niggards neuer can be good, 
 
 For all attendeth on the bountifuU. 
 
 Phocylides will'd no man fleepe at night. 
 
 Till that day he could count fome well-done deed. 
 
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 Follie is doth rewarded and refpeBed, 
 When wit is often fcorned and reie£led. 
 
 WHat folly can pretend, wifdome preuents. 
 A greater figne offoUie is not knvwne. 
 Than trujling others force, dijirujl our owne. 
 Repentance, youthfuU follie quite expells. 
 Who hazards his ejiate, to remedie 
 A cureleffe mifchiefe, may be iearm'd afoole. 
 Wiflies are vaine, where will is follies guide. 
 
 Fooles may not play with /words, nor maids with lone, 
 Leaji follie crye, and wantonnes repent, 
 
 P 3 Fooles 
 
214 Of Follie. 
 
 Fooles many times, to dignities arife. 
 
 A foole fuch pajlime with his pkafure maketh. 
 
 As in the end his ruine he awaketh. 
 Fooles wanting knowledge, doe contemne the wife. 
 
 He is a foole that doth prepare a ginne. 
 
 To be him-felfe thefirjl man td'ne therein. 
 Vnlettered fooles, at learning doe repine. 
 
 Who with a rccfour thinkes to cut the Flint, 
 
 But vnder-takes afooUJhfruit leffe taske. 
 Follies oft leaue a memorie of fliame. 
 
 Learning doth Hue in penurie and bare. 
 When fooles grow rich, and feed on daintiefi fare. 
 Wifdome doth frowne when folUe is in place. 
 
 Fooles arefet vp in offices full gay. 
 When wifer vien corns downe, and fit below. 
 It's better be a foole, than prooue a Foxe. 
 
 Follie is itidg'd inftlence to be wife. 
 
 For too much babbling, wifdome doth defpife. 
 Follie flings forth, if counfell touch him neere. 
 
 For childrens hands, a rafour is vnfit. 
 
 And fooles vnmeet in wifdomes feat to fit. 
 What greater fcourge than follie, is to wit? 
 
 Foolifh thatfcience is, held ne'refo deare. 
 
 Which fore fhewes perils farre, not daungers neere. 
 Silence is ftUl beil anfwere to a foole. 
 
 Promote a foole, his follie firait appeares. 
 
 And prooues afhame to them which cans' d him climbe. 
 All's prouender to Affes, but the aire. 
 
 Mount vp a foole, his wit is quickely heard: 
 
 Theft keepefuch doivne, let wife men be prefer)' d. 
 Inftruftions giueu to fooles, encreafeth follie. 
 
 A leaden fword clad in a golden fheath. 
 
 Is like a foole of natures fineft mould. 
 Follies are fooner thought on, than redreft. 
 
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Of FoUie. 215 
 
 For man, it is great follie to delight 
 
 In fading fmoake, and loofe the heauenly light. 
 Follie, to faue a part, and loofe the whole. 
 
 A very foole I doe himfirmely hold. 
 
 That loues his fetters, though they he of gold. 
 A Lyons skinne hides not the Affes eares. 
 
 So mitch doth follie thrujl men into blame. 
 
 That eiien to leaue offjhame, they count afhame. 
 Follie, though ouer-giult, at length appeares. 
 Profperitie oft maketh fooles ftarke mad. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie^. 
 
 As foolifh queftions merit filence beft. 
 So kind deraaiinds require as kind replyes. 
 As no mifhap can mooue a careleffe mind, 
 So no inilriiftions can reforme a foole. 
 As wife men not efbeem'd by outward fliewes, 
 So any femblaunce fatisfieth fooles. 
 As fnow in Summer no man doth commend, 
 So none deemes honour requifite for fooles. 
 As fpots disfigure any beauteous face. 
 So follie is the blemiih of the mind. 
 As fmoake at higheit, fooneft vaniiheth, 
 So follie praifed, quicklieft periflieth. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 BY follie Nicias was ta'ne aliue, 
 Difmayed onely with the Moones ecclipfe. 
 Mmilius tearmed Perfes but a foole. 
 To be difmay'd becaufe of vanquifhing. 
 Cleander, who would needs betray his lord, 
 Loft all his hopes, and proou'd hira-felfe a foole. 
 Torquatus foolilhly ihunn'd dignitie, 
 Becaufe himfelfe was pained with fore eyes. 
 
 P 4 Be 
 
2l6 
 
 Of Time. 
 
 Be neither fimple, nor yet oner fubtill, 
 Such counfell gaue the wife and learned Bias. 
 FoUie, faith Cicero, pollutes the foule, 
 But wifdome is a glorious ornament. 
 
 Time calls account of what before ispafl. 
 For tim,e willhaue a reckning made at lafl. 
 
 Time wanting bounds, ftill lacketh certaintie. 
 Time hath a falue for all extremities. 
 There's none but haue in time perfwaded been. 
 Flowers haue time, before they fall to feed. 
 Wee can helpe time, to furrow vs with age, 
 Butjlop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage. 
 Times of&ce is to end the hate of foes. 
 Times glorie is to calme contending kings. 
 Time is a tutour both to good and bad. 
 Short time feemes long, in forrowes fharpe fuilaining. 
 Time is the herald, that doth bejl of all 
 Emblazon all affedlions of the mind. 
 
 They 
 
Of Time. 2 1 7 
 
 They that watch well, fee time how flow it creepes. 
 
 Dalliance of time doth long lookt ioyes preuent. 
 
 Time offers ftill each houre to doe amiiife. 
 
 In time all things decay, and draw to end. 
 Time is the/weet Phifition, that allowes 
 Some remediefor all our pajl mijliap. 
 
 Times minutes loife, no treafure can reflore. 
 
 We may much (horten time by negligence. 
 
 Time heales, when Art and reafon both doe falle. 
 
 No time fo long as that which breedeth griefe. 
 Nothing than time there is more frecioits. 
 And nothing leffe than time accounted of. 
 
 Nothing fo firme, but time diffolueth it. 
 
 Faire baits of time doth all the world deuoure. 
 
 By time and wifdome, paiTions are fuppreft. 
 
 In time, fmall wedges cleaue the hardeft Oakes. 
 He that will not endure thejlormie time. 
 Where will he lius vntill the lujtie prime? 
 
 In time the flint is pierc'd with fofteft fliowers. 
 
 Time is the anker both of truth and right. 
 
 In great extrearaes, aduantage hath no time. 
 
 Times loffe, is greatefl; prodigalitie. 
 
 Time ripens all, and hajles the harueji on, 
 Tofcfw new feeds ere all the old are gone. 
 
 Showres come out of time, when come is ripe. 
 
 Time is difcouerer of all miflaaps. 
 
 Time hath fet downe the compaffe of his courfe. 
 
 When time is loft, repentance is but vaine. 
 While we haue iewels, we doe not efleeme them: 
 But being lofl, would with our Hues redeeme them. 
 
 Times chaunge, and we in them, doe alter ftUl. 
 
 By times delay, new hope of helpe ftill liues. 
 
 Time is the father of vncertaintie. 
 
 Time meafureth our daily aftions. 
 
 Times 
 
2 1 8 Of Time. 
 
 Times motions equalleth the reeling Sunnes, 
 
 Or as the Sea reciprocally runnes. 
 That longeft kept, mull yet at length be fpent. 
 Both life and loue, in time muft haue an end. 
 Our daily labours harbour deepe diftruft. 
 Time, on the wearieft wretch, beftoweth reft. 
 
 The loj/e of time, all other lofse exceeds: 
 
 And commonly, too late repentance breeds. 
 Time is beft gouernour of all our counfailes. 
 Time to the greateft forrowes limits end. 
 Negledled time is follies chiefeft figne. 
 Time is our lines difcreeteft councellor. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As when the fliip is fplit, no anker helpes, 
 So time once fpent, can neuer be repeal'd. 
 As ioynts cut off, the plaifter comes too late. 
 So time being pafl, repentance booteth not. 
 As no retrait auailes, when fight is fought : 
 So no deuife recouereth paffed time. 
 As time well vfde, a mans beft treafure is. 
 So badly wafted, is moft miferie. 
 As nothing is of greater price than time. 
 So nothing fliould with greater care be kept. 
 As winter nips the frefheft flowers that be, 
 So time makes furrowes in the faireft face. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 SEuerus made fuch deare account of time. 
 As nothing grieu'd him more than loffe of time. 
 Pyrrhus had priuat obferuations, 
 Whereby to know how time did fteale away. 
 Philip of Macedon would chide hira-felfe. 
 For the leaft vaine employment of his time. 
 
 Great 
 
Of Youth. 
 
 Great Alexander leam'd of Diogenes, 
 How in his warre affaires to fpend his time. 
 Byas maintain'd ; Fooles might in time be wife, 
 And ignorance attaine to learnings reach. 
 Our happines of time (in Solans mind) 
 Confifteth in the fhorter while it lafls. 
 
 219 
 
 Youth is thatjiate our minds doth mojl affe6l, 
 Ourfpeediejlfpoile, without mojl wife refpe5l. 
 
 YOung grafts of future goodneife, foone appeares. 
 When youth haue wealth before they can well vfe it. 
 It is no wonder though they doe abufe it. 
 Cuftome, fmall faults of youth permits to fcape. 
 The meane is beji, young fruits the Jiomaxke gripe. 
 And elder cloy, when they are ouer-rife. 
 Sufpedl is ftill a page that waits on youth. 
 The Summers glorie figures youths vanitie. 
 The winters wracke, ages declining Jteps, 
 
 Youth 
 
2 20 Of Youth. 
 
 Youth hardly can obey an old decree. 
 
 Looke what impreffion we in youth retaine. 
 
 In age, our reafon hardly will refraine. 
 Loue is youths plague, wits fcourge, and ages hell. 
 
 Looke where vnbruifed youth, with vnjbift braines 
 
 Doth couch his limtes, there golden Jleepe remaines. 
 The fpring hath flowres, but autumne witherd leaues. 
 
 Ifs often feme, that loue in young men lyes 
 
 Not truely in their hearts, but in their eyes. 
 Youths loue is quicke, fwifter than fvriftefl; fpeed. 
 
 Nothing can temper well a young mans rage. 
 
 But thraldome, wedlocke, or theflaffe of age. 
 Youth is too hot, and void of care or dread. 
 
 Youth learnes to chaunge the courfe that he hath run. 
 
 When he perceities and knowes what age hath done. 
 Youth minds no daunger in his haftines. 
 
 Young flips newfet, are quickely pluckt away. 
 
 But elder roots cleaue fafler to the clay. 
 Youth, into needlefle quarrels foone is led. 
 
 How-euer youngflers feeme to boafl and braue. 
 
 Their worth and wit, they from their elders haue. 
 Lewd obie(5b, forward natures foone retaine. 
 
 Youths common fault, is to admit and chufe 
 
 Thofe errours which their lawleffe parents vfe. 
 Youth by encreafing, doth as fall decreafe. 
 
 What things by vaine examples youth conceiues. 
 
 The fame for lawfull daily he receiues. 
 Youth well inftrufted, makes age well difpos'd. 
 
 The faults and follies men in youth commit. 
 
 Are caufes of repentance in old age. 
 Examples are beft prefidents for youth. 
 
 The prime of youth is like the pine tree flowers, 
 
 Seemely in fight, vnfauorie in their fente. 
 Like to a ftiipwracke is the death of youth. 
 
 Hee 
 
Of Yoiith. 221 
 
 He that in youth, by reafon guides his life. 
 
 In age Jhatt find the foot-flep from decay. 
 Youth vfetli paftimes but as naturall reft. 
 
 The better that a child is borne by birth. 
 
 The more refpedl Jliould wait vpon his youth. 
 So tutour youth, that ages fumes may die. 
 
 Good doilrines chara/lers being fiampt in yoiUh, 
 
 No age or fortune once can weare them out. 
 Vanitie is the maske for youths fond march. 
 
 Where vice in youth doth beare the chiefejlfway, 
 
 Their vertue is negUned mojl in age. 
 Leffe paine to leame in youth, than dote in age. 
 
 Tyrannie is no fchoole-majler for youth. 
 
 Rather vfe kindneffe than compulfion. 
 Wild youth, by gentleneffe will fooneft yeeld. 
 
 When beautie and fweet youth are banifhed. 
 
 They neuer after can be call'd againe. 
 Young willowes eafily bend, greene wit foon caught. 
 Youth grac'd with vertue, then moft perfeft is. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubieSl. 
 
 As fmne is fooneft entertain'd in youth, 
 So is it hardly fhaken off in age. 
 As gentle mould is apt for any print, 
 So youth receiues what-e're imprefsion. 
 As vntill'd fields bring nothing forth but weeds. 
 So vntaught youth yeelds all but vanitie. 
 As frelheft flowres the canker fooneft eats, 
 So youthfuU heads are quickly caught by vice. 
 As vnripe apples fall not but by force. 
 So vnconftrain'd, youth hardly yeelds to die. 
 As youngeft nettles are not free from ftings. 
 So wifeft youth hath imperfedlions. 
 
 Examples 
 
2 22 Of Age. 
 
 Examples likewifeon the fame. 
 
 COmodiis not well tutor'd in his youth, 
 Did afterward prooue a moil wicked Prince. 
 Heroes vnbridled youth, made him to fall 
 To greater leudneiTe than was euer heard. 
 Cato would to his fonnes be fchoole mafter, 
 Becaufe he would not haue their youth infedted. 
 Scemides and her fonne were caft in Tyber, 
 For bringing vp the gulfe of Ihame to Rome. 
 Youth well inftnidled, faith Euripides, 
 Doth after make his age more honourable. 
 Pythagoras bad, tutor fo young youth, 
 The fmnes of age be not impofde on thee. 
 
 Age is the gift ofHeauen, expence ofyeares : 
 Exchaunge of haps, andgraue experience fchoole. 
 
 AGe is a Cinicke, not a flatterer. 
 
 L-Age, or infirmitie, foone blafteth beautie. 
 Age is alike in Kings and other men. 
 
 Gray 
 
Of Age. 223 
 
 Gray haires in youth, kindles no greene defires. 
 
 The power of Kings may well with-Jland proud foes. 
 
 But cannot keepe backe age, with time that growes. 
 In womens honour, age is worft difeafe. 
 Let fpringing youth reiourne old ages woes. 
 For age to die, is right ; for youth, it's wrong. 
 
 Blame we not youth, if wantonly he wooes. 
 
 Since doting old, and booke-wife cannot choofe. 
 Follie in youth, is finne ; in age, it's madnelTe. 
 Age, though conceal'd, doth warme with thoughts defire. 
 Cold age dotes moft, when heat of youth is gone. 
 Age ftill is prone to credit what it likes. 
 
 Mens chiefejl aime, is but to nource vp life. 
 
 With honour, wealth, and eafe in waining age, 
 Refpedt and Reafon, wait on wrinkled age. 
 YouthfuU delights, lode crooked age with griefe. 
 Age is as credulous as fufpitious. 
 
 What can auaile vnpleafurable age, 
 
 That feeds on lufi, or bafe vnable rage? 
 Age is a glorious crowne, adorn'd with grace. 
 Death is the due to nature, ages almes. 
 Gray haires are fruits for death, not flowers for life. 
 Trees may haue roots, although they beare no leaues. 
 
 Loue (as a veriue) is in age allowed. 
 
 Except vnequall choife doe difallow. 
 Age well may ioyne with youth in law, not loue. 
 When old Bees dye, the young poffeiTe the hiue. 
 Age is chill cold, and full of doubts and feares. 
 
 Pleafani conceits are bloffoms for young yeares. 
 
 But melancholly thoughts, fruits of gray haires. 
 Age with fore-fight, a many harmes preuents. 
 Age takes aduife, ere he prefume too farre. 
 Age is ordaind to counfell, youth to fight. 
 Age lends fore-fight, young courage muft enadl. 
 
 Age 
 
2 24 Of Age. 
 
 Age is allowed to gaze at beauties tree. 
 
 But youth muft climbt and gather vp the fruit. 
 Old age, helpes by good counfell and fore-fight. 
 Old age can neuer pay youthes debt fet downe. 
 Difcretion waxeth young, when age drawes neere. 
 
 Care herpes his watch in euery old mans eye, 
 
 And where care lodgeth, Jleepe can neuer lie. 
 Age breedeth no defedt in innocence. 
 Innocence is an excellence in age. 
 Old age being come, life cannot long endure. 
 Each age of man hath end, but old age none. 
 
 Age can report, and youth doth daily prooue, 
 
 There is no comfort like thefweets of hue. 
 Sickneffe and age are our condudls to death. 
 It helpes not age to -wiih him young againe. 
 It's grieuous to be old with feares, not yeares. 
 
 Ifs time to flyefrom brawles of iudgement feat 
 
 And publique noife, when age once gets theflart. 
 Gray haires are wifdomes badge, and ages pride. 
 The benefit of age, is libertie. 
 Refpeft old age, it commeth not alone. 
 Old men, are young mens meeteft prefidents. 
 
 Aduifed age right warily doth kcepe, 
 
 What headfirong youth would loofe, and loofmg weepe. 
 Youth runneth well, when age the bridle holds. 
 Old age hath all things, and yet all things wants. 
 
 Our parents age, worfe ihatt our grand fires be, 
 
 V Ve worfl beget, our children worfe than we. 
 White haires, are grauities embaffadours. 
 Aged and wife, deferues great reuerence. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As Cedars in their age the ftraighter growes, 
 So men in age fhould haue the grauer Ihowes. 
 
 As 
 
Of Age. 225 
 
 As bonds being feald, are paft recalling backe, 
 So age once come, by no meanes can be Ihund. 
 As flood-gates helpe not, when the towne is drown'd, 
 So cunning helpes not, when gray haires are feene. 
 As coine confum'd, expence is rued too late. 
 So fnow-white heads in vaine wifli youth againe. 
 As phyficke boots not for a bodie dead, 
 So counfell helpes not ages wayward head. 
 As faireft Sunnie dayes muft haue their nights, 
 So goodlieft youth old age at length affrights. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 CLitomachus of Carthage, in good yeares 
 Went to be fchoUer to Carneades. 
 Marcus Aurelius told to Lucius, 
 He went to leame what yet he did not know. 
 Terentius Varro, and Marcus Fortius Cato, 
 Went to leame Greeke when they were verie old. 
 Alphonfus, king of Arragon, at fiftie yeares, 
 Tranflated Liuie into the Spanilh tongue. 
 When men (faith Tullie) looke on their white haires. 
 They muft doe nothing mif-becomes thofe yeares. 
 Old men, whofe foules are fed with heauenly light, 
 Grieue not their age, but ioy it, fo faith Sophocles. 
 
 Q 
 
 Of 
 
 hh 
 
2 26 
 
 Life, is afrojiofcoldfelicitie, 
 And death, a thaw of all ourmiferie. 
 
 Life is a wandering courfe to doubtfull reft. 
 Life is but loffe, where death is counted gaine. 
 When vertues dayes doe end, they are not done. 
 But Hue two Hues, where others haue but one. 
 The death of fmne, is life vnto the foule. 
 Mans life ftill endeth, with the end of life. 
 In vanitie of Hfe, and wandring wayes. 
 The wicked run and weare out all their dayes. 
 Better not be, than being, foone to die. 
 Life is moft loath'd, where loue may not preuaile. 
 Death is mojl louely, fweet, and amiable. 
 But captiu^d life, forfoulneffe admirable. 
 The longer life, the greater is our guilt. 
 Life muft with life, and blood with blood be paid. 
 Hate not thy life, but loath captiuitie. 
 Where refls no hope to purchafe vidlorie. 
 He that giues life, beft knowes the date thereof. 
 Mans life may leff ned, not enlarged be. 
 
 Who 
 
Of Life. 227 
 
 Who will not bide the burden of dijlreffe, 
 Miift not here Hue, for life is wretchednejjfe. 
 True loue defpifeth iliame, when life is fear'd. 
 Life warres with lone, and loue contends with life. 
 
 Too long they Hue, that Hue till they be naught. 
 
 Life f arid byfinne, bafe purchafe, dearely bought. 
 More are mens ends markt, than their Hues before. 
 As death is foe to life, fo hate to loue. 
 
 Euen then when we of obfcure life doe boaft. 
 
 It often frooues, that then we are knowne mofl. 
 Men muft haue griefe, fo long as life remaines. 
 Life is not that which ftiould be much defir'd. 
 
 We often fee, who on a king relyes. 
 
 Finds death aliue, while liuing yet he dyes. 
 So fome men liue, they care not how they Hue. 
 Life fuffers wrong, when death would end her woes. 
 
 ///, compaffLug fit opportunitie, 
 
 Or killes his life, or elfe lifes qualitie. 
 That dead things can giue life, we feldome find. 
 Contrition doth reformed life begin. 
 
 To liue or dye, which of the twaine is better. 
 
 When life isfham^d, and death reproches debter? 
 Firft doe we bud, then blow ; next feed, laft fall. 
 We aske deaths aid, to end lifes wretchedneffe. 
 
 God guides mans life, and when he lifi to haue it. 
 
 Wit, wealth, nor any thing befide canfave it. 
 Our life is death, if we doe liue in fmne. 
 A dying life, all kind of deaths exceeds. 
 
 Contented meane efiate, true life doth giue, 
 
 Refiing fecure, not rifing vp to grieue. 
 This life affoords no fweet without fome fowre. 
 To liue and loue not, is no life at all. 
 
 Fond blinded greatnefjfe, with his bufie toyle, 
 
 Seeking for happie life, doth life defpoyle. 
 
 Q 2 Life 
 
iiS Of Life. 
 
 Life neuer is too ftiort, where death is wiflit. 
 
 There is no force fo great, as life enforc'd. 
 What kind of life (alas) Hue thofe men in. 
 That cannot Hue vHthout, nor with their kinne? 
 
 Life is ill fpar'd, that's fpar'd to fpUl Uiore blood. ' 
 
 To liue in death, is but a dying life. 
 Long vfe of life, is as a lingering foe. 
 And gentle death the onely end of woe. 
 
 Sweet is the life that is maintain'd by loue. 
 
 Redeeme thy life, although with all thou hail. 
 The good doe liue, as if they lined not: 
 And die, as if their death were but a dreame. 
 
 That life is death, where men doe Hue alone. 
 
 A good life doth beget as good a death. 
 No wife man likes infuch a life to dwell, 
 Whofe wayes areftrait to heauen, but wide to hell. 
 
 Mans Ufe may not be deftitute of office. 
 
 A good life, is next way to winne good fame. 
 The life corrupt with vnexpet^ed fhame 
 And Hmeleffe death, is buried with defame. 
 
 They liue but ill, who alwayes thinke to hue. 
 
 To men in miferie, life feemes too long. 
 
 Long life hath commonly long cares annext. 
 
 The breath that maintaines life doth finifh life. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie^. 
 
 As falls the tree, fo proftrate ftill it lyes; 
 So fpeedeth life, in liuing, as it dyes. 
 As men by life in bondage foone are brought, 
 Euen fo by death is freedome fooneft wrought. 
 As fire burnes fiercely, being ftill fupplyed, 
 So life poftes fwiftly when it leaft is fpyed. 
 
Of Life. 229 
 
 As fliarpe frofts eafily nip forward fprings, 
 
 So life to end it, hath too many things. 
 
 As Eafterne winds doth towardly bloffoms blafl, 
 
 So inward cares malces life to finiih faft. 
 
 As life is onely by the gift of grace. 
 
 So death by nature taketh time and place. 
 
 npHere is hardly any one Chapter in this 
 -*- Booke, but it deliuereth plentie of exam- 
 ples for this argument of life; the whole 
 fumme (indeed) but containing the courfe 
 of our a6lions, euen from our entrance into 
 life, vnto the verie houre of our death: 
 therefore there fhall need no fpeciall colle- 
 6lion vpon this head. 
 
 Of 
 
2 30 
 
 Death is the keye, which vnlocks miferie, 
 And lets thefoule to blejfed liber tie. 
 
 DEath is the end of woe and wretchednefle. 
 When deaths houre comes, let none aske reafon why. 
 He ought to die, that not defenies to Hue. 
 Who dyes the death with honour in the field. 
 Both his lifes woes and/orrowes briefly ends. 
 With (harpe affliilion, death firfl grounds his caufe. 
 The faireft bloffome, deaths fterne winter nips. 
 Death hath no dart to flay deferued fame. 
 
 The tragicque Scene where death her play begins. 
 Are ails of night, and deeds of ougly darke. 
 To wretched men, death is the welcom'ft friend. 
 Death neuer comes when need doth moil require. 
 Life is but loffe, and death felicitie. 
 
 Who dyes, the vtmojl anguijk doth abide: 
 But he that lines, is left to waile his lofse. 
 Sad life, is much more worfe than gladfome death. 
 Our life is day, but death is ougly night. 
 Faire death it is, to (hun more ihame, to die. 
 
 Death 
 
Of Death. 231 
 
 Death to Jharpe forraw, quickely eafe doth fend. 
 
 For death, doth griefe and forrcw foonejl end. 
 Death to the wretched, is both grace and gaine. 
 In death, aduife for daunger comes too late. 
 It's worfe than death, to linger on reliefe. 
 
 Death is the gulfe of all, and then I fay. 
 
 Thou art as good as Ccefar in the clay. 
 A ficke man beft fets downe the pangs of death. 
 Deaths name is much more mightie than his deeds. 
 To die, is all as common, as to line. 
 
 It is not death, that which the world calls dying. 
 
 But that is death, which is all ioyes denying. 
 The ihade purfues the bodie, fo death vs. 
 Death is the driery Dad, and duft the Dame. 
 Death is misfortunes nionarchizing foe. 
 
 Thy fatall end, why doefi thoufo begin. 
 
 Locking death out, yet keep'fl deflruiflion in. 
 None moane his death, whofe Kfe hath all annoy'd. 
 We haue one life, and fo our death is one. 
 Death lends vs fight, while he doth fpare vs breath. 
 
 Ifs treble death, a freezing death tofeele. 
 
 For him on whome the Sunne hath euerfhone. 
 Long Hues the man, that dies in luftie yeares. 
 Death is the loweft ftep a man can fall. 
 Death is not fliunn'd of them that dutie yeeld. 
 
 Death which ends care, yet careleffe of our death, 
 
 Dothfleale our ioyes, butfiealeth not our breath. 
 Parting breeds mourning, abfence cruell death. 
 To good and bad, death is an equall doome. 
 Though death be poore, it ends a world of woe. 
 
 Death is tofome a fierce vnbidden guefl. 
 
 But thofe that craue his aid, he helfeth leafl. 
 There's nothing we can call our owne, but death. 
 Death's the deuourer of all worlds delight. 
 
 Q 4 It's 
 
232 Of Death. 
 
 It's fweet to dye, when we are forc'd to Hue. 
 
 When heapes oftreafure is the meed propofed. 
 
 Though death be adiuntH, there's no death ftippofed. 
 Neere death he ftands, that ftands too neere a crowne. 
 It's double death, to drowne in ken of fhoare. 
 Death is too good for bafe diflioneft life. 
 
 Therms nothing elfe remaines for m be/lde. 
 
 But teares and coffins onely to prouide. 
 All things are fubiedt to deaths tyrannie. 
 What thing foeuer liues, is fure to die. 
 All-kUling death, by Chrift is kill'd him-felfe. 
 
 Oh SickneJ/e, thou art many times belyde. 
 
 When death hath many wayes to come befide. 
 The Iharpeft fling of death, hurts not but helpes. 
 Carrion corruption is the food of death. 
 The day of death, excels our day of birth. 
 
 Oft times their gaines whome greatneffe fauoureth. 
 
 When chiefe preferr' d, fland as preferr' d to death. 
 Raife vp no lining blame againft the dead. 
 A prefent death exceeds a lingring life. 
 Life leads to care, death to the fcale of heauen. 
 
 The dying m^n, whofe eyes arefunke and dimme, 
 
 Thinkes euery paffing bell rings out for him. 
 To die in life, is but a lining death. 
 Good death, not loftie life, is mofl; renowme. 
 In countries caufe to die, is noble death. 
 Death doth no time, no age, no reafon meafure. 
 
 Similies on the fame fubie£l. 
 
 As the hearb Rew is bitter in our tafte, 
 So deaths remembrance fearefull is to many. 
 As fleepe depriues the memorie of paines, 
 So fleepe of death ends all our wretchednes. 
 
 As 
 
Of Death. 233 
 
 As all fmall currents runne into the fea, 
 
 So all mens toiles are fwallowed vp in death. 
 
 As borrowed money muft be paid againe, 
 
 So what life owes, muft be by death difcharg'd. 
 
 As we are merrie at our childrens birth, 
 
 So fliould we not grieue vainly at their death. 
 
 As darkneffe doth obfcure the faireft day, 
 
 So death laies hold vpon the forward'ft life. 
 
 Examples likewife on the fame. 
 
 HEtfior faid to his wife Andromache, 
 Grieue not my death, all men are borne to die. 
 Gorgias, askt in fickneffe how he far'd? 
 Said, Sleepe now yeelds me to his brother death. 
 Pindarus fleeping on a young lads breaft, 
 Neuer awaked, but in that fort dyed. 
 Vefpafian flood vp at the point of death, 
 And faid. An Emperour fhould Handing dye. 
 Plato thankt Nature, that the let him liue, 
 In fuch a time, as taught him well to die. 
 Thales will'd euery man amend his life, 
 Elfe he could haue no honour in his death. 
 
 The 
 
2 34 
 
 The Conclufion. 
 
 g His worke, which cofl no 
 
 t^^M}^i|^3i "^^3.ne paines and labour, to 
 
 reduce into this forme and 
 method ; is thus at the length 
 happily concluded, & com- 
 mended to the kind accep- 
 tation of all gentle and well-difpofed minds. 
 If fome carping Sycophant (readier alway to 
 cauill and find fault, than corre6l and amend) 
 Ihall miflike of the courfe obferued in this 
 booke, and imagine the heads not aptly or 
 properly placed, (according as in his nice opi- 
 nion perhaps hee would haue them :) let me 
 thus plainely anfwere him, That they were 
 neuer meant for the pleafing of his vaine ap- 
 petite, and therefore hee hath more loue to 
 
 looke 
 
The Conclujion. 235 
 
 looke off, than be prying into matters aboue 
 his capacitie, Onely to the iudiciall and affa- 
 ble iudgements of this age, both the paines 
 and pleafure of this labour is publifhed : not 
 doubting, but they will meafure it by the 
 iuft defert, and cenfure thereof as their owne 
 kind natures haue euer beene accuftomed. 
 
 In this firfh Imprefsion, are omitted the 
 Sentences of Chaucer, Gower, Lidgate, and 
 other auncient Poets, becaufe it was not 
 knowne how their forme would agree* with 
 thefe of ten fyllables onely, and that fome- 
 times they exceed the compaffe herein ob- 
 ferued, hauing none but lineall and cou- 
 plet fentences, aboue and beyond which 
 courfe, the Gentleman who was the caufe of 
 this colleftion (taking therin no meane paines 
 him-felfe, befides his friends labour) could 
 not be perfwaded, but determinately aimed 
 at this obferuation. Neuertheleffe, if this 
 may enioy but the fauour hee hopes it will, 
 and the good intent thereof be no way mif- 
 conflrued : at the next imprefsion it fhall be 
 largely fupplyed, with things that at this pre- 
 
 fent 
 
236 The Conchijion. 
 
 fent could not be obtained, both in refpe6l 
 
 of fome vrgent occafion, beeing the hinde- 
 
 rance thereof: as alfo becaufe there wanted 
 
 apt meanes to furnifh further purpofe then 
 
 intended. All which, Ihall then be anfwe- 
 
 red effe6lually,and any thing els may be 
 
 thought auaileable to this worke, 
 
 and the good liking of 
 
 the wife. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
An Alphabetical! Table, of the 
 
 feuerall things handled in this 
 
 Booke. 
 
 A 
 
 A 
 
 Boundance. vide Riches. 
 
 Abfence. vide Loue and Friend/hip. 
 
 Abjlinence. vide Gluttonie. 
 
 Accufation. 
 
 vide lujiice. 
 
 ASlions. 
 
 \M,\%^o,^1,&c. 
 
 Admiration. 
 
 vide Loue. 40 
 
 Admonition. 
 
 vide Counfell, Aduife, &c. 
 
 Aduerjitie. 
 
 vide Pouertie. 1 2 
 
 Aduife. 
 
 73 
 
 Adulterie. 
 
 vide Lujl. 
 
 AffeMion. 
 
 161 
 
 AffliBion. 
 
 12,20,74 
 
 Age. 
 
 222 
 
 Ambition. 
 
 108 
 
 
 A ndtie. 
 
The Tablk. 
 
 Amitie, 
 
 vide Friend/hip. 
 
 
 Angels. 
 
 vide Heauen. 
 
 58 
 
 Anger, 
 
 
 132 
 
 Armes. 
 
 vide Warre. 
 
 
 Arrogancie. 
 
 vide Pride. 
 
 
 Art. 
 
 vide Learning. 
 
 
 Afpiring. 
 
 vide Ambition. 
 
 
 Auarice. 
 
 
 127 
 
 Auncejlors. 
 
 vide Kings. 
 
 
 Authoritie. 
 
 B 
 
 194 
 
 TyAbbliHg. 
 ■^ Beautie. 
 
 vide Words. 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 Beleefe. 
 
 
 30 
 
 Benefits. 
 
 
 63 
 
 Blafphemie. 
 
 vide God, and Heauen. 
 
 Bleffednes. 
 
 2 
 
 ,11,16,24 
 
 Blood. 
 
 58.7i.77,79,82,84,df^. 
 
 Boa/ling. 
 
 vide Pride. 
 
 
 Body. 
 
 vide Mind. 
 
 
 Bountie. 
 
 
 22,21 1 
 
 Bragging. 
 
 vide Pride. 
 
 
 Brauerie. 
 
 vide Pride. 
 
 Care. 
 
T 
 
 HE Table. 
 
 
 C 
 
 r~^Are 
 ^-^ Charitie. 
 
 vide Greefie. 
 
 vide Loue. 
 
 Chajlitie. 
 
 37.38,39.40 
 
 Chaunce. 
 
 vide Fortune. 
 
 Chaunge. 
 
 J 1, 24,29,34,37, &c. 
 
 Children. 
 
 36,97 
 
 Choyce. 
 
 46 
 
 Choller. 
 
 vide Anger. 
 
 Ciuilitie. 
 
 vide Anger. 
 
 Clemencie. 
 
 vide Pittie. 
 
 Comfort. 
 
 20,24,54,64,8o,df<:. 
 
 Coimnon-wealth. vide Kingdomes. 
 
 Compafsion. 
 
 vide Pittie. 
 
 Concord. 
 
 81 
 
 Concupifcence. 
 
 vide Lufil. 
 
 Confidence. 
 
 18,32 
 
 Conqueji. 
 
 vide Warre. 
 
 Confidence. 
 
 8,9,10 
 
 Confideration. 
 
 vide CounfielL 
 
 Confipiracie. 
 
 vide Treafion. 
 
 Confiiancie. 
 
 vide Women. 
 
 Contemplation 
 
 . vide Religion. 
 
 Contempt. 
 
 vide Difidaine. 
 
 Content. 
 
T 
 
 HE Table. 
 
 Content. 
 
 vide Peace. 6,49,67,71 
 
 Contention. 
 
 vide Anger, Concord,&c. 
 
 Couetoufnes. 
 
 127 
 
 Counfell. 
 
 72, 
 
 Countrey. 
 
 vide Common-wealth. 
 
 Courage. 
 
 197 
 
 Courtejie. 
 
 vide Kindnefse. 75 
 
 Cowardife. 
 
 33,48,60,66,86 
 
 Craft. 
 
 97 
 
 Credit. 
 
 22,68 
 
 Credulitie- 
 
 30.5i>58 
 
 Crueltie. 
 
 vide Tyrannie. 33,41,51 
 
 Curiojitie. 
 
 vide Pride. 
 
 Cujiome. 
 
 61,70,79 
 
 
 D 
 
 1 \ Arkneffe. 
 ^-^ Daunger. 
 
 vide Day and Night. 
 
 vide Feare. 
 
 Day. 
 
 29,46,57.92 
 
 Death. 
 
 230 
 
 Deceit. 
 
 vide Falffiood. 
 
 Deeds, 
 
 i77,&c. 
 
 Delay. 
 
 28,78 
 
 Delight. 
 
 201,&C. 
 
 Defert. 
 
 19,65,67,68 
 
 
 Dejire. 
 
The Table. 
 
 Dejire. 
 
 i6i 
 
 Defpaire. 
 
 24.26,33,43,45,47,66,74 
 
 Defperation. 
 
 vide Defpaire. 
 
 Dejlinie 
 
 154 
 
 Deuill. 
 
 vide Sinne. 2 
 
 Deuotion. 
 
 vide God. 37 
 
 Diligence. 
 
 vide Labour. 
 
 Di/cord. 
 
 vide Concord. 
 
 Difcretion. 
 
 18,48,49,50,53,65,6'f. 
 
 Difdaine. 
 
 165 
 
 DiJJtoneJiie. 
 
 39.43.71 
 
 Dijhonour. 
 
 vide Honour. 
 
 Difsimulation. 
 
 29,i74,&c. 
 
 Dijireffe. 
 
 20,21,26,59,75,76,80 
 
 Dijirujl. 
 
 vide Trujl. 24 
 
 Diuijion. 
 
 vide Di/cord. 
 
 DoElrine. 
 
 vide Learning. 
 
 Doubt. 
 
 144 
 
 Dread. 
 
 vide Feare. 
 
 Drunkennes. 
 
 vide Gluttonie. 
 
 Dutie. 
 
 vide SubieBs. 41 
 
 
 E 
 
 Y^Arth. 
 ^--'Education. 
 
 2,5,6,12,19,42,57,60,63,87 
 
 vide Children. 
 
 
 R Election 
 
 kk 
 
The Table. 
 
 Ele£lion. vide Choice. 
 
 Eloquence. 3°) 55)56 
 
 Enuy. ii'j,&c. 
 
 Equalitie. vide Equity. 
 
 Equity. i,3.i3.33.76,c2f^-94 
 
 Error. 12,18 
 
 Eternity. 18,37,39,54 
 
 Euill Deeeds. 181, &c. 
 
 Example. 5i)59 
 
 Excejfe. vide Drunkenneffe. 
 
 Exile. 82 
 
 Experience. 48,54,55 
 
 Extremitie. 32,39,46,48,78,82,90,98 
 
 F 
 
 ~pAitk 21, &c. 
 
 -*- Faljhood. vide Friends and Friendjhip. 
 Fame. ' ZZ,&c. 
 
 Familiarity, vide Friendjhip. 
 Fancie. vide Affe6lion. 
 
 Father. 60 
 
 Faults. 14,19,21,22,32,35,36,42,(57',?. 
 
 Fauour. 2,26,31,35,59,61 
 
 Feare. i44.,&c. 
 
 Felicitie. vide Happines. 
 
 Flatterie. 
 
The Table. 
 
 Flatterie. 1 74,(57*^. 
 
 Foes. vide Friends, and Friend/hip. 
 
 Folly. 1,5,17,24,30,41,49,50,52,213 
 
 Fortitude. 
 
 39,54.85 
 
 Fortune. 
 
 i49,dJ*A 
 
 Force. vide Strength. 
 
 Fraud. 
 
 vide Deceit. 
 
 Friends. 
 
 9A,<Sfc. 
 
 Friend/hip. 
 
 vide Friends. 
 
 Frugality. 
 
 38 
 
 Fury 
 
 vide Tyrants. 
 
 
 G 
 
 r^Aine. 
 ^-^ Generall. 
 
 18,26,32,35 
 
 vide Warre. 
 
 Gentlenes. 
 
 vide Kindnes. 
 
 Gladnes. 
 
 vide Toy. 
 
 Glory. 
 
 31,38,67,71,89 
 
 Gluttony. 
 
 iZi,&'c. 
 
 God. 
 
 1,2,3,4,11,24,26,37,41,59,79 
 
 Gold 
 
 vide Riches. 80 
 
 Goodnes, 
 
 14,17,18,36,50 
 
 Good Deeds. 
 
 177, &c. 
 
 Good name. 
 
 vide Fame. 
 
 Good will. 
 
 vide Loue. 
 
 
 R 2 Gifts. 
 

 The Table. 
 
 
 Gifts. 
 
 2,2i,26,27,38,40,48,df^. 
 
 Grace. 
 
 21,24,26 
 
 ,2>7A2AA 
 
 Greefe. 
 
 
 i2,?>,&c. 
 
 Guile. 
 
 vide Fraud. 
 
 
 Guiltines. 
 
 H 
 
 A^>77,7^ 
 
 yiAp. 
 
 ■*- ^Happi 
 
 vide Fortune, and Fate. 
 
 nes. 5,17,25,27,36,51 
 
 ,67,81,98 
 
 Hate. 
 
 
 3A,&c. 
 
 Health. 
 
 
 26 
 
 Hearing. 
 
 vide lujlice and Judgement. 
 
 Heauen. 
 
 
 5,6,7 
 
 Hell 
 
 vide Sinne. 2,6,7 
 
 ,29,45,72 
 
 Honejlie. 
 
 14,15.27,39 
 
 ,82,92,93 
 
 Honour. 
 
 
 69,c2f^. 
 
 Hope. 
 
 
 2/^,&C. 
 
 Hofpitalitie. 
 
 , vide Bountie. 
 
 
 Humanitie. 
 
 vide Manhood. 
 
 
 Humilitie. 
 
 I 
 vide Sloth. 
 
 i9i,<5^^- 
 
 T Dlenes. 
 -*- lealoujie. 
 
 
 
 45,6'^- 
 
 leajling. 
 
 vide Plea/ure. 
 
 
 Idolatry. 
 
 vide God, and Religion. 
 
 
 
 Igno- 
 
The Table. 
 
 Ignorance. 
 
 9.1 
 
 [ 1.27.49.55 
 
 Immortalitie. 
 
 
 18,19,43 
 
 Impietie. 
 
 vide Religion. 
 
 
 Impudence. 
 Incontmence. 
 
 vide Shame, 
 vide Lujl. 
 
 
 Indujlrie. 
 
 vide Learning. 
 
 51 
 
 Infamie. 
 
 vide Fame. 
 
 
 Ingratihide. 
 
 vide Loue. 
 
 
 Inmry. 
 
 vide Wrong. 
 
 44.85 
 
 Iniujlice. 
 
 vide luJlice. 
 
 
 Innocence. 
 
 10,11,15,64,77,224 
 
 Injiru^ion. 
 
 vide Arte. 
 
 
 Intemperance. 
 
 vide Gluttonie. 
 
 
 Inuention. 
 
 vide Learning. 
 
 32 
 
 loy 
 
 5.8,9.25.: 
 
 29,32,61,89 
 
 Ire. 
 
 vide Anger. 
 
 
 ludge. 
 
 vide lujiice. 
 
 
 Itidgement. 
 
 
 3.77.78,92 
 
 lujlice. 
 
 K 
 
 I6,&c. 
 
 'XT' IndneJ/e. 
 ^^-^Kingdome 
 
 vide Pittie. 
 
 3.7 
 
 s. 
 
 (>Z,&c. 
 
 Kings. 
 
 
 S7,&c. 
 
 Kinred. 
 
 
 2,Mfi7 
 
 
 Ri 
 
 Knight- 
 
The Table. 
 
 Knighthood. 
 Knowledge. 
 
 T A hour. 
 
 ^—^Lamentation. 
 
 Lawes. 
 
 Learning. 
 
 Lecherie. 
 
 Lenity. 
 
 Liberalitie. 
 
 Liber tie. 
 
 Life. 
 
 Light. 
 
 Loue. 
 
 Lowlineffe. 
 
 Loyaltie. 
 
 Lujl. 
 
 Lying. 
 
 \l\Adneffe. 
 1 V X Magijlrates. 
 Magnanimitie. 
 Maiejiie. 
 Malice. 
 
 22 
 
 L 
 
 16,71,92 
 
 vide Sorrow & Teares. 
 
 Z,6o,6i,&c. 
 
 vide LuJl. 
 vide Kindnes. 
 vide Bountie. 
 
 vide Day. 
 
 17,38,39,64 
 226 
 
 30 
 28 
 
 vide Humilitie. 
 
 M 
 vide Furie. 
 
 47.95 
 120 
 
 15.71.92 
 
 47 
 64,86 
 vide Courage and Warre. 
 17,59,60,61 
 vide Hate. Sy 
 
 Man. 
 
The Table. 
 
 Man. loi 
 
 Manhood. vide Valour. 
 Marriage. vide Loue, and Lujl. 
 Meane. vide Equitie. 
 
 Melancholly. vide Griefe. 64 
 
 Memory. vide Learning. 
 
 Mercie. 1,2,35,78 
 
 Might. vide Power. 
 Mind. 157 
 
 Mifery. 19,26,30,46,75 
 
 Mijhap. 2,55,66,89,98 
 
 Mijlrujl. vide Trujl. 
 
 Moderation, vide Law. 
 Mode/lie. vide Temperance. 39 
 
 Monarch. 27,40,57,86 
 
 Money. vide Wealth. 87 
 
 Mourning. 188, &c. 
 
 Mufes. vide Poetrie. 53 
 
 Mujicke. 20,32,56,98 
 
 N 
 
 NAture. 29,34,40,48,50,54,55,64,6"^. 
 Necefsitie. vide Need. 
 
 Need. 19.26,39,55,74,87,95 
 
 Negligence, vide Sloth. 
 
 R 4 Neigh- 
 
T 
 
 HE Table. 
 
 Neighbour. 
 
 34,47,68,82 
 
 Niggardife. 
 
 67,93,212,213 
 
 Night. 
 
 29,46,57,73 
 
 Nobilitie. 
 
 66,&c. 
 
 Nurture. vide Children. 
 
 r\Ath. 
 
 ^^ Obedience. 
 
 u 
 
 37>7o 
 
 vide SubieEls. 
 
 Obliuion. 
 
 vide Memory. 
 
 Occajion. 
 
 22,24,69 
 
 Offence. 
 
 9,21,36,77,97 
 
 Offers. 
 
 vide Gifts. 
 
 Office. 
 
 vide Authoritie. 
 
 Old age. 
 
 vide Age. 
 
 Opinion. 
 
 17,19,22,50,54,60,68,96 
 
 Opportunitie. 
 
 vide Occajion. 50 
 
 Oratory. 
 
 vide Oratours. 
 
 Oratours. 
 
 15,18,31,42,55 
 
 Order. 
 
 vide luftice. 
 P 
 ,29,31, S2,5SM,70,204:,&C. 
 
 Y^Aine. 25 
 ^ Painting. 
 
 40,&c. 
 
 Parajites. 
 
 vide Flatterie. 
 
 Pardon. 
 
 vide Obedience, and Age. 
 
 
 Parents. 
 
The Table. 
 
 Parents. 
 
 
 64,66,68 
 
 Partialitie. 
 
 vide lujlice. 
 
 
 Pafsions. 
 
 
 26,33,46,50 
 
 Patience. 
 
 
 ^%&c. 
 
 Peace. 
 
 
 'i\,&c. 
 
 PerilL vide Daunger. 
 
 
 Periurie. 
 
 vide Oath. 
 
 
 Perfeiierance 
 
 . vide Patience. 
 
 
 Pittie. 
 
 32,35,41,43,45,47,77,84 
 
 Plainnejfe. 
 
 vide Plonejiie. 
 
 15 
 
 Play. 
 
 vide Pleafure. 
 
 
 Pleafure. 
 
 
 20\,&C. 
 
 Plenfie. 
 
 vide A dundance and Wealth. 
 
 Poetrie. 
 
 vide Learning. 
 
 
 Pollicie. 
 
 
 1%&c. 
 
 Poore. 
 
 vide Need. 
 
 207 
 
 Pouertie. 
 
 i,i5.3i,35.-50,5 
 
 i,57>58.c^^- 
 
 Power. 
 
 5,14,18,25,26, 
 
 35,42,49,54 
 
 Praife. 
 
 18,38,41, 5o,66,9i,dft. 
 
 Prayer. 
 
 
 11,79,80,81 
 
 Precifenejfe. 
 
 vide Pride. 
 
 
 Preferment. 
 
 vide Promotion. 
 
 Prefumption 
 
 !. vide Ambition 
 
 and Pride. 
 
 Pride. 
 
 
 124,&'C. 
 
 Princes 
 
 It 
 

 The Table. 
 
 Princes. 
 
 57.58,6-^. 
 
 Prodigality. 
 
 vide Bountie, and time. 
 
 Profit. 
 
 50,54.70 
 
 Promife. 
 
 36,34,70 
 
 Promotion. 
 
 26,59 
 
 Profperity. 
 
 vide Wealth. 35 
 
 Prouidence. 
 
 2,6,85 
 
 Prudence. 
 
 vide Wifdome. 
 
 PuniJJtment. 
 
 65,77.78 
 
 
 Q 
 
 Qualitie. 
 
 36,61 
 
 Quietnes. 
 
 10,48,59,71,77 
 R 
 vide Anger. 35.45,49 
 
 UAge. 
 ■^ ^Rajhnes. 
 
 21,22,49,59,75,85,93 
 
 Reafon. 
 
 12,15,32,39,43,45,60,72,82 
 
 Religion. 
 
 \1,&C. 
 
 Repentance. 
 
 6,8,29,213,217 
 
 Report. 
 
 19,71.89.9^ 
 
 Reproch. 
 
 vide Shame, and Slaunder 
 
 Re/olution, 
 
 22,25,39,61,67 
 
 Reuenge. 
 
 5.35.46,59,72 
 
 Rhetoricke. 
 
 II 
 
 Riches. 
 
 9,18,38,51,76,81 
 
 
 Right. 
 

 The Table. 
 
 Right. 
 
 13,14,64,69,77 
 
 Rigour. 
 
 vide Cruelty. 42 
 
 Riot. 
 
 vide Prodigality. 39 
 
 Ruine. 
 
 84-90,97 
 
 Rule. 
 
 vide Authority, and Kings. 
 
 Ruth. 
 
 vide Pitie. 
 S 
 
 26 
 
 Q^AdneJfe. 
 '^Sapience 
 
 ?. vide Wit, and Wi/dome. 
 
 Science. 
 
 56,86 
 
 Scoffing. 
 
 i6s,&c. 
 
 Scorne. 
 
 vide Difdaine. 
 
 S elf e- hue. 
 
 33.40,60 
 
 Selfe-will. 
 
 vide Vain-glory. 22 
 
 Secrecie. 
 
 46 
 
 Security. 
 
 vide Idleneffe. 
 
 Sen/es. 
 
 vide Learning. 
 
 Seruice. 
 
 vide Duty. 
 
 Shame. 
 
 2,18,29,42,58,59,66,67,71,73. 
 
 Sicknes. 
 
 vide Death. 43,74,75,87,224 
 
 Silence. 
 
 vide Talke. 
 
 Sinne. 
 
 2,6,9,i2,i7,dff. 
 
 Sight. 
 
 vide Loue. 
 
 Slauery. 
 
 vide Tyrants. 
 
 Slaunder. 
 
 i6t,&c. 
 

 The Table. 
 
 
 Sleepe. 
 
 vide Death. 
 
 
 Sloth. 
 
 
 \lo,&c. 
 
 Sobriety. 
 
 
 9,48 
 
 Solitude. 
 
 vide Griefe. 
 
 
 Sorrow. 
 
 vide Woe. 
 
 
 Souldiours. 
 
 
 86,87 
 
 Soule. 
 
 
 5.7 
 
 Sparing. 
 
 vide Niggardife. 
 
 
 Speech. 
 
 vide Words. 
 
 
 Spending. 
 
 vide Bountie. 
 
 
 Spoile. 
 
 vide Warre. 
 
 
 Sport. 
 
 vide Delight. 
 
 
 Stabilitie. 
 
 vide Refolution. 
 
 
 State. vide Kings and Common-wealths. 
 
 Strength. 
 
 vide Power. 
 
 
 Study. 
 
 vide Learning. 
 
 
 SubieBs. 
 
 
 ^1,&c. 
 
 Subtilty. 
 
 vide Fraud. 
 
 
 Sufferance. 
 
 vide Patience. 
 
 
 Surfet. 
 
 vide Gluttony. 
 
 
 Sufpition. 
 
 vide lealoujie. 
 
 
 Swearing. 
 
 vide Oath. 
 
 
 Sword. 
 
 vide Warre. 
 
 
 Talke. 
 
The Table. 
 
 T 
 
 '^Alke. vide Words. 
 ■^ Taunts, vide Difdaine. 
 Tajling. 38,42 
 
 Teares. i^'i^&c. 
 
 Temperance, vide Sobriety. 
 Temptation. 3,17 
 
 Terrour. vide Tyrants and Feare. 
 Thankfulneffe. vide Kindnes. 
 
 Thotights. 
 
 i85,df^. 
 
 Time. 
 
 
 Tongue. 
 
 \^o,&c. 
 
 Treafon. 
 
 I i4,&c. 
 
 Treafure. 
 
 28,40,43,57,62,64,71 
 
 Triall. 
 
 3,14,21,24,55,78,82,97,98 
 
 Trouble. 
 
 vide AffliBion. 10,63 
 
 Truetk. 
 
 ^2.&c. 
 
 Trujt. 
 
 14,22,25,45 
 
 Tyranny. 
 
 vide Tyrants. 
 
 Tyrants. 
 
 IWj&C. 
 
 
 V 
 
 'XTAliancie. 
 
 86, df^. 
 
 * Valour. 
 
 18,29,56,80,82,84,85 
 
 Vaine-glory. 
 
 vide Pride. 94 
 
 
 Vanity. 
 

 The Table. 
 
 
 Vanity. 
 
 18 
 
 ,26,44,50,53 
 
 Variety. 
 
 vide Pleafure. 
 
 
 Venery. 
 
 vide Lujl. 
 
 
 Vertue. 
 
 
 \6,&c. 
 
 Vice. 
 
 
 l'/,&C.62,S2 
 
 Victory. 
 
 
 2,85,86 
 
 Violence. 
 
 vide Crueltie. 
 
 
 Virginity. 
 
 
 37 
 
 Vnderjlanding. vide Wijdome. 56 
 
 Vnity. 
 
 
 12,38,82,96 
 
 Vnkindneffe. 
 
 vide AffeBion. 29 
 
 Vowes. 
 
 vide Oath. 
 
 
 Vfury. 
 
 vide Riches. 
 W 
 
 
 WJAnt. 
 
 
 39,55,82,89 
 
 * " Wantonneffe. 3 1.33.38, 39.41 
 
 Warre. 
 
 84,&c. 
 
 Wealth. 
 
 9,20,26,33, 38,42,48,6'(r. 
 
 Weeping. 
 
 vide Mourning. 
 
 Wife. 
 
 38,46 
 
 Will 
 
 i8,29,30,43,44,46,49,c2^f. 
 
 Wine. 
 
 vide Drunkennes. 10,20 
 
 Wifdome. 
 
 48, df^. 
 
 Wit. 
 
 vide Wifdome. 
 
 
 Wickednes. 
 
The Table. 
 
 Wickednes. 3,63,86,89,93 
 
 Woe. vide Grief e. 
 
 Women. loi^^&c. 
 
 Words. i'jo,&c. 
 
 Workes. 22,32,60,75,86 
 
 World. 12,17,19,26,53,74,87 
 
 VVretchedneJfe. vide Mifery. 
 Wrath. vide A^iger. 
 Y 
 
 Youth. 
 Zeale. 
 
 Z 
 
 1,2,60,85 
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 21,22,23 
 
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