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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90197	Advice to a son; or Directions for your better conduct through the various and most important encounters of this life. Vnder these generall heads I. Studies &c. II. Love and marriage. III. Travell. IV. Government. V. Religion. Conclusion.	Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659.	1655 (1655)	Wing O508; Thomason E1640_1; ESTC R203068	48,531	168

your owne to professe your selfe a Master therein especially since they scorne to learne yours And to shew this is not grounded on my single Judgment I have often been informed that the first and wisest Earle of Pembroke did returne and Answer to the Spanish Embassador in Welch for which I have heard him highly commended 10. It is an Aphorisme in Physick That unwholsome Aires because perpetually suck'd into the lungs do distemper health more then courser Diet used but at set times The like may be said of Company which if good is a better Refiner of the spirits then ordinary Bookes 11. Propose not them for patternes who make all places rattle where they come with Latine and Greeke For the more you seeme to have borrowed from bookes the poorer you proclaime your naturall Parts which only can properly be called your owne 12. Spend no time in reading much less writing strong-lines which like tough meat aske more paines and time in chewing then can be recompensed by all the nourishment they bring 13. Books flatly writ debase your stile the like may be truly objected to weake Preachers and ignorant Company Penns improving like childrens leggs proportionally to their Exercise so as I have seene some stand amazed at the Length of their owne reach when they came to be extended by employment As appeared in the late King Charles who after his more imperious destiny had placed him under the Tutorage of an unavoidable necessity attained a Pen more Majesticall then the Crown he lost 14. The way to Elegancy of stile is to employ your pen upon every Errand and the more trivial and dry it is the more brains must be employed for sauce Thus by checking all ordinary Invention your Reason will attaine to such an habit as not to dare to present you but with what is excellent And if void of affectation it matters not how meane the subject is There being the same exactnesse observed by good Architects in the structure of the Kitchin as the Parlour 15. When businesse or Complement calls you to write Letters Consider what is fit to be said were the Party present and set downe that 16. Avoid words and Phrases likely to be learned in base Company least you fall into the Error the late Archbishop Laud did who though no ill speaker yet blunted his repute by saying in the Star-chamber Men entred the Church as a Tinker and his Bitch do an Ale-house But this may easily be declined by those who read for their imitation the incomparable lines of the late King written in a stile as free from affectation as levity 17. Grant if ever a Curtesy at first asking for as expedition doubles a Benefit so delay converts it into little lesse then an Injury and robs you of the thanks the fate of churlish natures whereas some I have knowne able to apparell their Refusalls in such soft robes of Courtship that it was not easily to be discerned whether the Request or Deniall were most decent 18. Be not nice in assisting with the advantages Nature may have given you such as want them who do not seldome part in exchange with those of Fortune to such as can manage their Advice well As they only do that never give counsell til called nor continue it longer then they find it acceptable 19. It is not safe for a Secretary to mend the copy his Master hath set him unlesse own'd as from his former inspirations Least he should grow jealous that you valued your conceptions before his who measures his sufficiency by the length of his Employment not the breadth of his naturall Parts This made the Lord Chancelour Egerton the willinger to exchange incomparable Dr. D. for the lesse sufficient though in this more modest Mr. T. B. 20. But in case his affaires be wholly left to your management you must not only looke to correspond for his miscarriages but as obstinately to renounce any honour may be given you to his prejudice imputing all to his single sufficiency your selfe owning no higher place than that of the Executioner of his commands For though many great men like Properties or Puppets are managed by their servants yet such are most deare to them as can so carry their hands in their actings that they make them appeare lesse Fooles then in truth they are easily done by giving them the honour to concede or deny in publike without interposing any other arguments against it then may become the mouth of a servant however you may order him in private 21. That it is not unlawfull to serve beare Office or Armes under such as ascend the throne or other high places by stepps washed in bloud you may be abundantly satisfied in Conscience by the Church in Nero's house the good Centurion and many others mentioned in Scripture 22. Write not the faults of any persons neare the throne in any Nation you reside in least your Letters should be intercepted and you sent out of the world before your time but reserve such discourse for the single eare of your master into which you must powre it with more caution then malice least it should come to be discovered as it is odds but it will And then the next endeavour is revenge it being lesse danger to traduce a King then his Minions The first still looked upon as aboue blame because uncapable of punishment but the latter are not onely subject to accusations but the aggravation of their Enemies which fills them full of caution and prejudice to all they feare are able or but willing to detect them I could produce sad effects that have followed the want of care in this but that I intend Advice not a History 23. It is an office unbecoming a gentleman to be an Intelligencer which in real truth is no better then a Spy who are often brought to the torture and die miserably though no words are made of it being a use connived at by all Princes To whom I give this Caution That they do not stay after their patrons are called home which do not seldome in emulation to their Successor or to gratify the Prince they have treated withall and it may be from whom they have received presents and high Commendations to their owne King discover all that are imployed to do him hurt 24. Court him alwaies you hope one day to make use of but at the least expence you can observing it the condition of men in power to esteeme better of such as they have done curtesies for then those they have received greater from looking upon this as a shame upon the other as an honour 25. Mingle not your Interest with a Great man's made desparate by Debts or Court-injuries Whose breakings out prove fatall to their wisest Followers and Friends averred in the last Earl of Essex but one where Merrick his Steward and Cuff his Secretary though of excellent parts were both hanged For such unconcocted Rebellions turne seldome to the hurt of any but the parties that

exercise in the Common-wealth instrumentall to your private Malice No murders being so bloudy as those committed by the sword of Justice 37. Let not the cheapnesse or conveniency of Church-lands tempt you to their purchase For though I have not observed vengeance so nimble in this world as Divines pretend yet what prudence is there to submit all your future successe to be measured out by so severe Expositions as Church-men usually make of Sacrilegious Persons which all are registred to be that meddle with their Revenues besides the danger and shame of refunding in case a contrary zeale should repossesse the people whose clamours and warrant cannot be thought lesse sufficient to obliterate your Title then the former written as may be supposed with more Authentick Inke 38. Denounce no enmity against the Clergy for supported by Prayers or Policy they cannot long want an opportunity to revenge themselves Oppose no Religion you find established how ridiculous soever you apprehend it For though like David you may bring unavoidable Arguments to stagger a popular error None but the Monsters owne sword can cut off the head of one universally received 39. Run not hooting after every new Light you may observe to wander about nor endeavour by a tumultuous dispute to puff it out for he that will not quench the smoaking flax may possibly accept of a Lamp composed of no richer stuffe then Rushes 40. Grudge not Tithes to the Teachers of the Gospell assigned for their wages by the divine Legislator Of whose Institutes this was none of the least profound That the tribe of Levi were prohibited all other revenue then what was deducible out of the tenth part of the other Elevens increase setting bounds thereby to all the improvement their wisdomes and the tie the Priest-hood had over the peoples consciences might in the future possibly make In causing their Maintenance to rise and fall proportionable to the generall standard of the Nations felicity which this limitation obliged them to promote and for their owne sakes to oppose all incroachments likely to interrupt their brethrens utility This prompts me to believe that if the like salary were assigned here we might promise to our selves the same successe Prouided the soveraigne Power reserved in their owne hands the collation of Benefices without giving leave to any Stipendiaries or Lecturers that signify little lesse then an Anti-clergy And to perswade this there may be more Reason then the narrow project of this Discourse is able to find roome for 41. Yet I cannot but by the way mind you of the superlative Wisdome of Moses who least one sacrilegious injury should have proved a precedent for a greater had the people made a benefit by the spoile imployed the Censers of Corah and his complices to make plates for the Altar But finding the Gold of Idol● too ranck decently to be used in the service os God filed them to dust and threw them into the River least the Multitude having beene flesh'd on a Calfe a false Diety should after assume the boldnesse to rob the true One and those his Institutes appointed to live by his service 42. And here it may not improperly be said that Cardinall Wolsey was ignorant of or had forgot this Aphorisme of Policy when he pulled downe Monasteries to build Colledges by which he instructed that docile Tyrant Henry the eighth to improve the same there being nothing forwarder to demolish the results of zeale and Ignorance then Learning and knowledge Neither did he discover himselfe a more accomplished Courtier when he laid the foundation of Grave for a living King who could not be delighted with the sight of a Tombe though never so magnificent having lived in so high a Sensuality as I may doubt whether he would then have exchanged it for the joye● of Heaven it selfe I instance in this as ● fit example to diswade you from thinking it discretion ormanners to use funereous discourses before Princes or men in power who hate nothing so much as the thought of their owne Mortality and therefore unlikely to be pleas'd with the Messengers of it VI Conclusion Carriage towards Your 1. Mother 2. Sister 3. Last will 4 5. Buriall 6. Death 7. Judgment 8. Close of all 1. BEare alwaies a filiall reverence to your deare Mother and let not her olde age if she attaine it seem tedious unto you Since that little she may keep from you will be abundantly recompensed not only by her prayers but by the tender care she hath ever will have of you Therefore in case of my death which wearinesse of the world will not suffer me to adjourn so much as by a wish doe not proportion your respect by the mode of other Sons but to the greatnesse of her desert beyond requitall in relation to us both 2. Continue in love and amity with your Sister and in case of need help her what you are able Remembring you are of a peice and Her's and Your's differ but in name which I presume upon want of issue will not be denied to be imposed on any child of her's you shall desire to take for your owne 3. What you leave at your death let it be without controversy else the Lawyers will be your heires 4. Be not sollicitous after Pompe at my Buriall nor use any expensive funerall Ceremony by which Mourners like Crowes devoure the Living under pretence of honouring a dead Carcasse Neither can I apprehend a Tombe-stone to adde so great a weight of glory to the dead as it doth of charge and trouble to the Living None being so impertinent wasters in my opinion as those that build Houses for the Dead He that that lies under the Herse of Heaven is convertible into sweet herbes and flowers that may rest in such bosomes as would shreek at the ugly buggs may possibly be found crawling in the magnificent Tombe of Henry the Seventh which also hinders the variety of such contingent Resurrections as unarched Bodies enjoy without giving interruption to That which He that will not againe die hath promised to such as love him and expect his appearing Besides that man were better forgotten who hath nothing of greater moment to register his Name by then a Grave 5. Contest not with such frantick people as deny men the Buriall formerly cal'd Christian since unquietnesse importunes a living Body more then a Ceremony can advantage one that is dead This and an hundred other changes ought not to perplex our Rest who are lesse interested in what can happen after our death then in that was extant before our birth No bookes being legible in the Grave 6. Neither can I apprehend such horror in Death as some do that render their lives miserable to avoid it meeting it oftentimes by the same way they take to shun it Death if he may be ghest at by his elder brother Sleep borne before he was thought on and fell upon Adam ere he fell from his Maker cannot be so terrible a Messenger being not without much ease if not some voluptuousnesse Besides nothing in this world is worth comming from the house-top to fetch it much lesse frō the deep Grave furnished with all things because empty of desires 7. And concerning a future account I find the Bill to swell rather then shrink by continuance Or if a stronger propensity to Religion resides in Age then Youth which I wish I had no cause to doubt of it relates more to the temperature of the Body then any improvement of the Mind so unworthy of any other reward then what is due to the effects of humane infirmities 8. To conclude Let us serve God with what reverence we are able and do all the good we can making as little unnecessary worke for repentance as is possible And the mercy of our Heavenly Father supply all our Defects in the Son of his Love AMEN Thus I have left you finished Deare Son a Picture of the World in this at least like it that it is fraile and confused being an Originall not a Coppie No more forrein help having been imploy'd in it then what my owne miserable Experience had imprinted in my Memory And as you have by Triall already found the Truth of some of these So I most earnestly beg of you to trust the rest without thrusting your fingers like a Child into those flames in which your Father hath formerly beene burnt and so adde by your owne purchase to the multitude of inconveniences he is forced to leave you by inheritance Now You are Taught to Live ther 's nothing I Esteeme worth Learning but the way to Die The End