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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29240	Times treasury, or, Academy for gentry laying downe excellent grounds, both divine and humane, in relation to sexes of both kindes : for their accomplishment in arguments of discourse, habit, fashion and happy progresse in their spirituall conversation : revised, corrected and inlarged with A ladies love-lecture : and a supplement entituled The turtles triumph : summing up all in an exquisite Character of honour / by R. Brathwait, Esq.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1652 (1652)	Wing B4276; ESTC R28531	608,024	537

you may bee ennobled in heaven after your descent to earth Laus Deo Totum hoc ut à te veniet totur● ad te redeat A Gentleman IS a Man of himselfe without the addition of either Taylor Millener Seamster or Haberdasher Actions of goodnesse he holds his supreme happinesse The fate of a yonger brother cannot depresse his thoughts below his elder Hee scornes basenesse more than want and holds Noblenesse his sole worth A Crest displayes his house but his owne actions expresse himselfe Hee scornes pride as a derogation to Gentry and walks with so pure a soule as hee makes uprightnesse the honour of his Family Hee wonders at a profuse foole that hee should spend when honest frugality bids him spare and no lesse at a miserable Crone who spares when reputation bids him spend Though heire of no great fortunes yet his extensive hand will not shew it Hee shapes his coat to his cloth and scornes as much to bee holden as to bee a Gally-slave Hee hath been youthfull but his maturer experience hath so ripened him as hee hates to become either Gull or Cheat. His disposition is so generous as others happinesse cannot make him repine nor any occurrent save sinne make him repent Hee admires nothing more than a constant spirit derides nothing more than a recreant condition embraceth nothing with more intimacie than a prepared resolution Amongst men hee hates no lesse to bee uncivill than in his feare to Godward to bee servile Education hee holds a second Nature which such innate seeds of goodnesse are sowne in him ever improves him seldome or never depraves him Learning hee holds not onely an additament but ornament to Gentry No complement gives more accomplishment Hee intends more the tillage of his minde than his ground yet suffers not that to grow wilde neither Hee walkes not in the clouds to his friend but to a stranger Hee eyes the Court with a vertuous and noble contemplation and dis-values him most whose sense consists in sent Hee viewes the City with a princely command of his affections No object can with-draw him from himselfe or so distract his desires as to covet ought unworthily or so intraunce his thoughts as to admire ought servilely Hee lives in the Countrey without thought of oppression makes every evening his dayes Ephemeris If his neighbours field flourish hee doth not envy it if it lie fit for him hee scornes to covet it There is not that place hee sees nor that pleasure hee enjoyes whereof he makes not some singular use to his owne good and Gods glory Vocation hee admits of walking in it with so generous and religious a care as hee makes Piety his Practice acts of Charity his Exercise and the benefit of others his sole solace Hee understands that neither health commeth from the clouds without seeking nor wealth from the clods without digging Hee recommends himselfe therefore in the morning to Gods protection and favour that all the day long hee may more prosperously succeed in his labour Hee holds idlenesse to bee the very moth of mans time Day by day therefore hath hee his taske imposed that the poison of idlenesse may bee better avoided Hee holds as Gods opportunity is mans extremity so mans security is the Divels opportunity Hoping therefore hee feares fearing hee takes heed and taking heed hee becomes safe Hospitality hee holds a relique of Gentry Hee harbours no passion but compassion Hee grieves no lesse at anothers losse than his owne nor joyes lesse in anothers successe than his owne peculiar Recreation hee useth to refresh him but not surprize him Delights cannot divert him from a more serious occasion neither can any houre-beguiling pastime divide him from an higher contemplation For honest pleasures hee is neither so Stoicall as wholly to contemne them nor so Epicureall as too sensually to affect them There is no delight on mountaine vale coppice or river whereof hee makes not an usefull and contemplative pleasure Recreation hee admits not to satisfie his sense but solace himselfe Hee fixeth his minde on some other subject when any pleasure begins too strongly to worke upon him Hee would take it but not bee taken by it Hee attempers his attractivest pastimes with a little Alloes to weane him all the sooner from their sweetnesse Hee scornes that a moment of content should deprive him of an eternity of comfort Hee corrects therefore his humour in the desire of pleasure that hee may come off with more honour Acquaintance hee entertaines with feare but retaines with fervor Hee consorts with none but where hee presumes hee may either better them or bee bettered by them Vertue is the sole motive of his choice Hee conceives how no true amity nor constant society can ever bee amongst evill men Hee holds it a blemish to the repute of a Gentleman and an aspersion to his discretion to make choice of those for his associates who make no more account of time than how to passe it over Conference hee affects and those hee admits onely into the list of his discourse whom hee findes more reall than verball more solid than complementall Hee will try him before hee rely on him but having found him touch they touch his honour that impeach him Moderation in his desires cares feares or in what this Theatre of Earth may afford hee expresseth so nobly as neither love of whatsoever hee enjoyes can so enthrall him nor the losse of what hee loves can any way appall him A true and generous Moderation of his affections hath begot in him an absolute command and conquest of himselfe Hee smiles yet compassionately grieves at the immoderation of poore worldlings in their cares and griefes at the indiscretion of ambitious and voluptuous Flies in their desires and feares Perfection he aspires to for no lower mound can confine him no inferiour bound impale him Vertue is the staire that raiseth to height of this Story His ascent is by degrees making Humility his directresse lest hee should faile or fall in his progresse His wings are holy desires his feet heavenly motions There is no sense which he offers not up as a sweet incense to expedite his course and refresh his conscience He holds it the sweetest life to be every day better till length of dayes reunite him to his Redeemer Hee hath plaid his part on this Stage of Earth with honour and now in his Exit makes heaven his harbour FINIS An exact TABLE or Directory leading to the Principall points contained in this BOOKE YOVTH Observat. 1. OVR youthfull yeares our Climactericall years with the dangers that attend on youthfull yeares seconded by an authentick story out of Eusebius p. 1.2 The vanity of Youth displayed in foure distinct Subjects 3 Two reasons why Young-men were not admitted to deliver their opinions in publike assemblies 6.7 Three violent passions incident to Youth 15 Two reasons why Youth is naturally subject to those illimited passions of Ambition Lust Revenge ibid. Especiall motives or

time as hee was espoused I thanke God said he that I abandoned my conceit and thus embraced an honourable state As I was long time in chusing I shall bee longer ere my thoughts incline to a changing As increase of Posterity put me upon the one so shall my vowed fidelity divert me from the other Her condition whom I have taken doe's so suite me as I should make my selfe unworthy such a choyce should I ingage my desires to any forraine fancy Vndeserving is he of a worthy one who intangles his affections with more then one This is the way then Gentlewomen to ingratiate your selves in their bosoms with whom you live and whom onely you are entirely to love to make a contract betwixt your eyes and hearts when at any time you goe abroad or are admitted to any necessary visit that your eyes may not become treacherous Tarpeia's to your hearts Nor suffer any intrusive thought to enter that may incroach upon your honour For it is no lesse errour to have a desire to be sought by others then to seeke after others To cast out deluding eyes and like subtile Falconers with light deceiving lures to seaze on amorous fooles which howsoever it imparadise them it cannot chuse but highly disparage you For speaking eyes are such dangerous Orators that though they allure others to folly they ever ingage themselves most to apparent misery But your discreet moderation ha's taught you a better Lesson your thoughts are impatient in giving reines to any such diversion One Sun is but for one Spheare one Diadem for one Head and one Conjugall Embrace for one Bed this best becomes you this crownes you This as it confirmes your loyall love while you are living so will it leave a memory of your goodnesse at your dying For as to love a Wife while she lives is a pleasing fancy so to reteine the memory of a Wife when she dies is an act of Piety Thus having sufficiently treated of this Conjugall Office which deserves preheminence because dignified by a primitive Ordinance wee purpose now to descend to our second Observance wherein wee are briefly to recommend to your candid Iudgements the distinct qualities of Parentall and Filiall Offices Of Parentall Offices PArents as they beare a naturall love to those they get so are they to have an innate care in providing for those they have got Which parentall care properly reflects upon two Objects Internall Externall Internall the better to inable and prepare them for the happy fruition of things eternall Externall to accommodate them in a way of livelihood lest they should become indigent or necessitous in things temporall The former ha's proper relation to nurture the latter to such necessaries as conduce to the conservation of nature For the first it is an excellent Lesson which the Wiseman giveth Teach a Child in the trade of his way and when he is old hee will not depart from it Wee say vessels keepe a savour of their first liquor As cloath dyed in graine reteines his prime tincture How cautious then should Parents be of their Childrens nurture If wee should take a re-view of preceding Ages we might find with what diligence and intentive care the very ancient Pagans provided Schoole-masters for their Children not only to instruct them in Principles of learning but discipline of living Yea even our most ancient and eminent Princes so much was Soveraignty enamoured on Philosophy men of highest quality on morall Piety reteined ever some Philosophers to their Familiars as Alexander Aristotle ●arius Herodetus Augustus ●iso Pompeius Plauto Titus Pl●ni● Adrian Secundus Trajan Plutarch Anthonius Apollonius Theodosius Clandinus S●v●rus Fabatus And there were not onely imployed in their owne conference but in composing and delivering Precepts or rules of Instruction to their Children you then Parents who reteine in you better grounded hopes then airy thoughts of Elysian fields you I say who treasure great hopes in your Posterity and with a provident eye labour to improve their estates by advancing them to places of dignity Be it your primary care to enrich them inwardly that they may know how to manage an estate before they come to be Masters of an estate Many have lept into faire and full fortunes conferred on them by their Parents Providence who as they kn●w little how their too carefull Fathers got it so with as much indifference they dispatcht themselves of it Education which is a second nature had given them no better nurture then to follow feathers in the ayre their best of Philosophy was Hunting or Falconry And more excusable had it beene if they had to closed But corruption of manners stript them of all their Mannors forty entertaining those Consorts of death loose Pandars or light Parasites they exhaulted those streaming treasures and exuberant fortunes in one yeare which many yeares ac●ompanied with watchfull ●ares had to ●●lici●ously gathered Nor is it indeed a thing possible that young Gentlemen who are mounted to high e●●stes attended by numerous Reteiners supplyed with variety of pleasures but indigent in these mentall treasures should devote themselves without some miraculous inspiration to any studious employments Learning as it was a stranger to them in their youthfull minority so the very thought of it begets a fastidious aversenesse to their memory Bookes are for retired spirits but soone tired would their spirits be to be so retired Divine fancies they hold I remiticall frenzies Such Studies must never make them leane for they professe themselves Aliens to all Stories but Legends of Love O what a word of disgrace in these Novices eares is the title of a Scholler And to estrange themselves the better from such pedanticall Consorts they have resolv'd already never to entertaine any such for their Follower or Ret●iner that holds least correspondence with a Philosopher The reason is as their Parents indulgence would not suffer them to l●arne when they were young so now they hold themselves too old to learne To prevent this malady too Epidemicall in most places be it your principall care to prepare such Tutors for them as may instruct them in the Principles of divine and humane Learning And by their incessant diligence so enable them as they may taste a sweetnesse in those Sciences they have learned For the onely reason of his neglect or remissenesse in Arguments of Knowledge is their deficience in Knowledge For did they but understand the sweetnesse of Learning they would preferre the incomparable delight of one houres study before a myriad of houres imployed in vanity That brave Picene had arrived no doubt at this port who though his Descent was noble his Revenues ample and his Objects of pleasure many yet hee ingenuously protested that the least graine of Philosophy which either his Tutors industry or his owne sedulity had purchased him was of more weight in his scale than all the revenues that were left him Truth is as youth is most docile