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A10793	Of the foolishnes of men in putting-off the amendement of their liues from daie to daie a godlie and profitable treatise for the present time; written in the Latine tongue by that reuerend and worthie member of Christ his church in this age, Iohn Riuius. Newlie translated by Thomas Rogers.; De stultitia mortalium, in procrastinanda correctione vitæ. English	Rivius, Johann, 1500-1553.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.	1582 (1582)	STC 21066; ESTC S105156	60,254	183

quaffing plaieng dauncing reuelling all the night together to adde nothing more filthie I name that which is well knowen and those things which are so certaine that they cannot be denied and so shamefull that they may not be excused any kinde of waie And forsomuch as Schoolemaisters whose dutie were with all endeuour diligence and seueritie to bring downe the boldenes to tame the wildenes and to bridle the wantonnes of youth both by instruction admonition and correction doo suffer the youth committed to their trust to be corrupted and carried headlong into all vice and wickednes what hope is there of their amendement when they come vnto riper yeeres and to mans estate For it is vnlikelie that either he will liue honestlie when he is old which ledde a wicked and filthie life when he was yonge or that he which was naughtelie brought vp in his childe-hood will in his man-hood be brought vnto good order Such a matter it is to be accustomed to a thing from tender yeeres as the moste excellent Poet dooth saie And as another Tragicall Poet writeth The minde easelie forgetteth not VVhat long time since it learnd got Oh that cities would cōsider the waightines of this matter and yeeld in no wise neither to affection nor to affinitie and kinred nor to the cōmendation sute of their familiars in choosing Schoolemaisters Surelie at euerie mans letter of cōmendation a Schoolemaister should not be appointed especiallie because it is much to the benefit of a cōmon-weale to haue a godlie learned teacher that will traine vp children in religion teach them ciuilitie and endue them with liberall both manners and discipline Notwithstanding how in this pointe now a daies men offend no tongue can expresse For now there is no place for godlie and learned Schoolemaisters whose honest life commendable behauiour and faithfulnes is well knowen Vnlearned Sciolies doo euerie where so creepe into the freendship familiaritie of mightie men and so perswade thē that they alone are thought to be meetest when they are as meete for that office as the Asse is for the harp according to the cōmō saying to gouern Scholes and to bring vp children And for their doctrin it is such as no wise mā wil giue a straw or a burnt thred therefore their ignorāce is verie grose notwithstāding they can hide the same maruelous cunninglie And for that in respect of their ignorāce rudenes they carie none auctoritie the which a learned mā doth easelie attaine they lose the raines of discipline to much maryong minds with their cokring that youth may the more willinglie chuse thē for their teachers But that I may returne to my purpose seeing that parents thēselues with teachers maisters do nussell yong children in wickednes giue thē the head to do what they list and haue no care at all of gouerning restraining their desires what maruel if hardlie or not at all they can leaue those vices in their old age whereunto they were accustomed in their youth custome so commeth to a nature And although when the daie of iudgement comes into their minde they thinke of repentance yet custome hath so marred them that whether it be vnwillinglie or against their knowledge they fall euermore vnto worser wickednes and like fooles neuer ceasse to prolong their amendment more and more Now what good members of a Common-weale shall we thinke they will prooue in their old age which in their youth are so corrupted through their parentes meanes and so ill brought vp through their maisters negligence For whence come so manie adulterers now a daies so many corrupters of maidēs so many ruffins so many bawds so manie vnthrifts and prodigall cousins whence are there so many dicers such a nomber of most wicked cittizens but euen from this fountaine as it were of vngodlie and euill education of children For they had neede of a purgation which laie the vices of this age vpon the Gospell It is not the Gospell which causeth such wickednes it is wanton and ill bringing vp it is negligent carelesse magistrates that I saie nothing of higher Princes which must beare the blame They who are in auctoritie should most seuerelie punish and correct sinne not winke thereat If the Iulian lawe of adulterers which with death puuisheth adulterie and violaters of marriage neither suffereth the wickednes of whoredome to goe vnpunished if I saie this lawe were againe established and if they which abuse the name of God and spue out blasphemie against his holines and sweare by the crosse by the woundes and blood of Christ which when godlie Sermons are making be quaffing plaieng gadding idlie vp and downe which obaie not their parents nor giue them due honor which are mankillers and murtherers and theeues dicers rauishers church-robbers and Vsurers if iuglers coseners dronkards gluttons and prodigall vnthrifts if ill speakers backbiters braulers forsworne persons idle talkers and liers finallie if they which are apparentlie wicked were not wincked at but seuerelie punished neither would there be such large scope for vice and wickednes nor all men should crie out as they doo now of the loosenes of this world Let euerie magistrate therefore thinke vpon his office and perswade himselfe that when Christ shall returne to iudge the world he must yeeld an accompt and learne of Paule that he beareth not the sworde for naught For he is the minister of God to take vengeance on them that doo euill as the same Paule writeth vnto the Romaines And for so much as Paule dooth witnesse that the Lawe is not giuen to a righteous man but to the laweles and disobedient to the vngodlie and to sinners to the vnholie and to the prophane to murtherers of father and mothers to manslaiers to whoremongers to buggerers to manstealers to liers and to the periured and because in his office the magistrate is a minister of the lawe doubtles he cannot be negligent or slacke and dissolute in punishing without great sinne VVherefore such as beare auctoritie and rule in the Common-weale must remember that loosenes of behauiour and wildenes must be tamed and bridled by euerie good meanes and that mē must be terrified from vice and wickednes from naughtines and from all deceipt and deadlie and hainous crimes through the feare of punishmēt Vnles they do so they make themselues guiltie of horrible sinnes and shall aunswer for the faults of others For as the Poet saith He that may restraine vvickednes vvil not Dooth vvill men to sinne and spare not I am afraide the seuerenes of Ethnickes in punishing sinne and cutting off malefactors wilbe a witnes against our negligence and slothfulnes in that point at the daie of iudgement They had their punishments appointed by lawes for offenders there lacked no cōmissioners to cite them vnto iudgement they had examiners and iudges finallie they had executioners which with all seueritie punished wickednes And so by that meanes wilde