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A68482	A remedy for sedition vvherin are conteyned many thynges, concernyng the true and loyall obeysance, that comme[n]s owe vnto their prince and soueraygne lorde the Kynge.	Morison, Richard, Sir, d. 1556.; Cheke, John, Sir, 1514-1557.	1536 (1536)	STC 18113.7; ESTC S122062	27,498	54

suppeth euyll that for his good supper kepeth his bedde a seuen nyght after You wyl thynke I knowe London well that make this offer vnto you Blyndefelde me ca●…e me after to what place ye woll I wyl lyttell fasle to tel where ye set me and before whose doore They that know not my cunnynge wyll skace beleue me I praye you can ye set me in any place but I may say and lye lyttell I am nowe before a Tauerne or an ale howse Fayle I maye but farre I can not fayle In Italy it is all moste as moche shame for an honest man to come out of a tauerne betwene meles as it is here to come frō the ba●ke In Venis there is no moo tauernes thenne there be innes neyther wyne is to be solde by the quarte but in the innes bicause it becometh none to bye after such facion but strangers those that can not tary longe in a place How moch good myght a few good men do a fewe myght so begyn to redresse this errour that there shulde nede no lawe to cōpell men to do them selfe good who was amonge the Romans but he myght fynd in his hart to haue fewer dyshes whā Manius Curius beyng dictatour that is in the highest office that any man coude beare in Rome was contented not onely to lyue with wortes but also glad to styrre the potte hym selfe and to gyue Ambassadours theyr answeres as he was kelynge the potte We banyshed the best thyng that euer was with manne when frugalitie was dryuen away we kowe not what welth is in smal thinges nor yet what ryches is in contented pouertie Pouertye hath ben the inuentrice of all good craftes and of al other thynges that eyther gyue ornamētes or brynge cōmodities vnto mans lyfe Recken but one goodthynge that a welthy person hath inuēted a thousād euyl I can reherse Pouertie hath ben the maker of al ryche realmes What citie had a poorer begynnynge than Rome what lesse Ryches then Venys What kyng was porer then the kynge of Portyngale ¶ Socrates was axed howe his comon welthe shulde withstand the malice of a rycher seing that he wolde the communes to haue very lyttell and thother neuer a deale to moche Howe they maye withstande one sayth he I nede not telle you but I am sure they shal be good inough to fyght ayēst two if they bothe be welthy and ryche ynoughe Howe so saythe Adimanthus Euer sayth Socrates one poore soudiour is good inoughe for two ryche in batayle He is quycke these are dulle he leane and lusty these fatte and foggy he made to hunger thurst and hardenes these delycate and deed if they be a nyght or two out of theyr nestes Howe shall they fyghte well that ii or .iii. shildes woll skace couer theyr belyes ¶ Who wyll beleue that Scipio so worthy a capitayn of the Romayns could leue his doughters nothyng to theyr mariages but the comune welth fayne to gyue them their dowries what Romaine coulde thinke pouertie to be refused whan so noble a manne was contente with it I can not tarye in exāples Cincinnatus Fabricius and many other I muste not speake of It is skace credyble that Plutarche wrytethe of a capitayne of the Lacedemonians Euermore whan this wente to warfare they were fayne to gyue hym money out of the comune hutche to bye hym botis and showes what souldiour coulde thinke hym selfe poore when he sawe his capytayne haue so lytel They were contented with suche extreme pouertie and doo we thynke it laufull because we be not so ryche as we wold be to ryse ayenst our prince this our prince so louyng so lerned so made of nature to a kyngdom so endued of god with all such prīcely vertues as are to beautifie a comon welth coude we if we knewe what we dyd go agaynst kynge HENRY the VIII of whom I wyll say nothynge but this that his gracis fame and prayse can not falle but when all good letters fall which can not be before men leaue the erthe and the erth men I wyll saye nothyng of myn owne Al be it me thynke it moch apperteyneth to hym that wyll handel this mater well bothe to shewe howe moche Englande is bound to loue his grace and howe moch we ought to hate all them that wolde his grace any euyll But I wyll let Erasmus the greattest lerned man of our tyme speke for me Harke what he sayth of our kynge ¶ VVHAT REGION of this world is there but it may reioise at the high felicitie of England if it loue Englande what nation but it may enuy the welthe of Englande if it loue not Englande Vndoubted it is a kynge that eyther makethe a a Realme noble or that obscureth it with whatte bookes with howe many sortes of tongues shall the posteritie testifie that Englande in all kynd of vertue so flourysshed in kynge Henry the .viii. his tyme a prince sent of god vnto Englande whiche may seme but euen nowe to be borne euen now to be Englande so clensed of euyll customes and vices so imbued with all excellent ordinaunces that Massilia it selfe may here take example of ciuilytie soo instituted with Christes faythe that Rome nowe may come to skole to Englande soo stuffed with lerned men that Italye may enuy England sauynge that enuye hath no place where good letters reigne Englande hath a kynge whiche may be a rule vnto all princis that hereafter shall gouerne any comune welthe Good lorde this this in dede is a kyngedome This is a Princelyke court that his grace kepethe I lette passe the greatte gyftes that god hath endued so abundantly bothe his gracis goodly personage and mynde which al be it they come of god rather than of our industry yet they are hyghely profytable to a comune welth whā they light on a good prīce And although this many yeres it hath ben smal praise in a prince to be well lerned yet his hyghnes shall bring it to passe y t as in time past it hath ben the chiefe ornament of a kynge to be lerned soo it shall here after be iudged hyghe prayse worthy a kyng to excel in knowlege His gracis singuler qualities shall declare them but fooles that are wonte to saye that noble courage of princely stomake is moch defaced moche broughte downe by lernynge and studye For what kynge can they brynge forthe that hath ben without letters whiche had more dexteritie in any feate that belongeth to a prince than his hyghnes hath so made of nature apte to euery thyng that in rydynge shotyng and suche other common pastimes there be fewe that are to be compared with hym There be fewe kyndes of musyke but his grace hath a good knowlege in them Wonderfully well seene in the sciences Mathematycall who can be more diligenter in oppressyng vice he hath dryuen out of his realme those that lyued by myschiefe he hath netted his realme of ydle vacabundes wold god his grace had done but the one as

geuen vnto qualities of the mynde the seconde to the bodye the thyrde to external thynges as nobilitie possessions and ryches If ye breake this order and put th one in thothers place that is if ryches be chiefly estemed the body next and vertue laste of all here can be noo welthe This cytie can not longe contynue sayth Plato Nowe as there is a difference in these thynges so muste we put also a difference in men that ar endewed with them They must best be estemed that haue moost gyftes of the mynde that is they that do excell in wysedome Iustice temperauncy and suche other vertues they nexte that haue moste gyftes of the body as helth strength quycknes beautie They thyrdly that haue ryches and possessions the lawes not withstandynge hauynge euermore theyr full strength that is no man presumynge of what qualities so euer he be to preferre hym selfe to any offyce or landes but as the gouernours or lawes shall call hym to Iustyce muste be in euerye acte And therfore me thynke Plato dydde wonderfull wel to entitle his boke that he writeth of a comon welth de iusto that is of Iustice Euery man must be sure of his owne and be cōtent that his neyghbour haue more than he if that by honest wayes he can atteyne vnto more For welthe can not be where rape is permytted ne rape lacke where order is broken A comune welth is as I thynke no thynge elles but a certayne nombre of cities townes shires that all agre vpon one lawe and one hed vnyted and knytte together by thobseruation of the lawes these kept they must nedes florishe these broken they muste nedes perisshe The heed muste rule if the body woll do well and not euery man make hym selfe ruler where only one ought to be Thynges be not doone in this worlde by chaunce neyther ought to be gouerned by rasshenesse God maketh kynges specyally where they reigne by successyon God toke awaye prynce Arthure wold king Henry the eyght to be our heed and gouernour Woll we be wyser than god wol we take vpon vs to know who ought to gouerne vs better than god God made hym kynge and made also this lawe Obey your kynge Howe can ye obey hym that refuse his lawes that seke his dishonour that hate theym whom his grace can not chose but loue whome also ye wolde loue yf ye dyd not sooner vppon false reportes than iuste cawse hate Who shall doo the kynge trewe seruyce who shall desyre to stande mooste in his fauour if atte the malycious requestes of fonde and lyght people his highnes shoulde without any other cause put downe them whom his grace with the rest of his counsayle thynke moste worthy fauour we be but men many of vs ignorant many without knowlege let vs thynke that we knowe moch worse then god who ought to be our gouernour Let vs cōtent our selfes that he rule whom god made our kynge whome god preferred in takynge away Prince Arthure his gracis elder brother If we woll this to be our prince heed gouernour than we must also lette his grace gouern vs by suche officers as he shall knowe to be beste for vs and not we to appoynte hym suche as we shall thynke metest that seldome eyther see what is good for vs or who most entendeth our profite ¶ A comune welthe is lyke a body and soo lyke that it can be resembled to nothyng so conuenient as vnto that Nowe were it not by your faythe a madde herynge if the fote shuld say I wyl weare a cappe with an ouche as the heade dothe ▪ If the knees shulde say we woll carie the eyes an other whyle if the shulders shulde clayme eche of them an eare if the heles wold nowe go before and the toes behind This were vndoubted a mad heryng euery man wold say the fete the knees the shoulders the heles make vnlaufull requestes and very madde petitions But if it were so in dede if the fote had a cap the knees eies the shulders eares what a monsterous body shuld this be God send them suche a one that shall at any tyme go about to make as euil a comune welth as this is a body It is not mete euery man to do that he thynketh best The Locrians had a very good custome amonges them no man might there come to speke agaynste a law that was constituted by suche as had auctorite to make it except he came to the disputation therof with a corde about his necke If he proued the lawe to be naughte then he caste of the corde and was highly commended but yf he dyd attempte it and after fayled of his pourpose he was forthwith truste vppe They thought hym worthy to dye that dyd but speake ageynst a lawe albeit he also thoughte therby to doo good vnto his countrey in speakynge agaynste that that he iudged moche hurtefull to the comune welth ¶ Plato gyueth lesse lybertie to his cytezens he wyll no man shall dispute any lawe in the presence of youthe or comon people that hath lytel iudgement in suche thynges It is noo parte of the peoples play to discusse actes made in the parliamēt Euery man dothe well in his office euery thynge standeth well in his place Socrates fyndeth this to be the only welth of all realmes that euery man setle hym selfe to his owne affayres and busines and intermedle with no other mannes office The handes are content the fete go the tethe pleased that the tongue tell the hole tale the eare doth not desire to see nor the eie to here a payre of shoes of viii d. dothe better seruice to the fete than a cappe of .v. s. though ye put theron a fether of forty pēce a payre of gloues of lamme skynne dothe moche better fytte the handes than a payre of breches of right satyn a frese cote dothe better on his backe that hath to do at the carte or at the plowe than a gowne of veluet furred with sables To my purpose Lordes must be lordes comunes must be comunes euery man acceptynge his degree euery man contente to haue that that he laufully maye come by We must if we pourpose euer to come to welthe whiche we ofte lese in wronge sekynge for it all agree that the lawes haue their place It is but an easy remedy that maketh the sore greatter He knoweth not the way to quenche fyre that powreth oyle into it Chese is no medicine to driue awaye rattes neyther sedytion a meane to make men welthy What ende of myserie shall there be where no man wexeth ryche but a nother is made a begger Where no man is mery but .ii. or .iii. be sadde for it what ende of robbynge and spoylynge shall there be if the poore maye euermore rob the riche If the stronger may pulle from the weaker Must not you abyde the same lawe that you make your selfe must not you whan you haue spoyled them that are ryche and so made your selfes welthy suffre