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A04569	The pilgrimage of man, vvandering in a vvildernesse of vvoe wherein is shewed the calamities belonging to man being borne in this world, and how all the principall estates thereof are crossed with misery.	Johnson, Richard.	1635 (1635)	STC 14691.7; ESTC S2158	18,352	32

taxe and draw money from the poore people and generally all their study is imployed to bée wastfull and prodigall in the exactions and miseries of the poore commons The third and last sort are such that vnder the cloake of kindnes and honesty counterfayting good men haue alwayes their eyes vpon other mens liuings and make themselues reformers of vices They inuent wicked and false deuices not only how to get other mens goods but oftentimes their liues who before God are most innocent Behold here you may well sée the manifold miseries that compasse Scepters and states of Princes Here are the Thornes that they receiue in recompence of their brightnesse and royall Dignity which ought like a Lampe to giue light to all the world but when it is eclipsed or darkned with any vice it is more reprochfull in them than in any other priuate person whatsoeuer for they sin not only in the fault which they commit but also by the example that they giue The abundance of honours and pleasures that Princes enioy serueth as a baite to induce them to euill and are the very Matches to giue fire to Uice What was Saul before hée was made King whose life is shewed in the holy Scripture whom God did elect yet he made a sudden eclipse or changeing How wonderfull was the beginning of the Reigne of King Salomon the which being ouercome with Royall pleasures gaue himselfe as a prey to women Of two and twenty Kings of Iuda there is found but fiue or sixe that haue continued in their vertue If we consider the estate of the Assyrians Persians Grecians and Egyptians wee shall finde more of them wicked than good If wee consider what the Kings and Romane Emperours were which hath béene the most flourishing Common-wealth in the world we shall find them so ouercome with vices and all kind of cruelties that I do almost abhorrs to speake of their corrupt defiled liues What was the estate of their Common-wealth before that Scilla Marius did murmure against it before that Catiline and Catulla did perturbe it before that Caesar and Pompey did slander it before that Augustus and Marcus Antonius did destroy it before that Tiberius and Caligula did defame it before that Domitian and Nero did depraue it For although they made it rich with many Kingdomes and Lordships yet were the vices they brought with them more greater than the Kingdomes they gayned For their goods and riches are consumed yet their vices remaine vnto this day What memory remaineth of Romulus that founded the City of Rome Of Numa Pompilius that erected the Capitoll Of Ancus Martius that compassed it with walles Did not they shew what felicity remaineth in high estates who are more subiect to the assaults of Fortune than any other earthly creature For many times the thred of life breaketh when they thinke least of death and then the infamy of those that bée wicked remaineth written in Histories for a perpetuall memorie thereof The which thing all Estates ought more to regard a thousand times than the tongue that speaketh euill which can but shame the liuing but Bookes record a perpetuall infamy for euer Which thing being duely considered of by many Emperours and Kings in times past they forsooke their Scepters and royal Empires and betooke them to an obscure life resting better contented with a little in quiet than to enioy with full sayle the crooked honours of the world CHAP. V. Of the misery of vicious Courtiers and of their wicked liues WHat greater felicity can there bée in this world than to bée in a Princes fauour to bee at his elbow at all times to vse courtly manners and other offices of humanity of which number there be some so subtile crafty that they doe play as the Fisherman who as soone as he hath gotten any thing in his Net giueth ouer the Court and goeth his way Othersome there are that play all out and other that remaine vntill they become wonderous rich and in the end they are made to restore all backe againe There are also others that doe nothing but inuent meanes to enlarge their treasures and become wealthy with spoyling poore people Princes doe by them many times as we doe by our Hogs we let them fatten to the end we may eate them afterward so likewise are they suffered many times to enrich themselues to be disposed of afterward when they are fat and one that is new come oftentimes is preferred in their places By this you may see that Courtiers oftentimes do sell their libertie to become rich For they must obey all commandements they must frame themselues to laugh when the prince laugheth to wéepe when he weepeth approue that which he approueth and condemne that which he condemneth They must alter and change their natures to be seuere with those that are seuere sorrowfull with those that are sorrowfull and in a manner transforme themselues according to the nature of him whom they will please or els he shal get nothing To be briefe they must frame themselues to his manners and nature and yet many times one little offence staineth all the seruice they haue done in their life time before Many in Princes Courts put off their Cappes to them whom they would gladly see cut shorter by the head and often bow their knees to doe them reuerence whom they wish had broken their neckes Here you may sée the life of a great number of vicious Courtiers which is no life but rather a lingring death here you may sée wherein their youth is imployed which is no youth but a transitory death for when they come to age they bring nothing from thence but gray heads their feete full of Gouts their backes full of paine their hearts full of sorrow and their soules filled with sin CHAP. VJ. Of the misery of Magistrates that administer not true Iustice with a discourse against wicked Iudges NOw our discourse of Courtiers being past it is requisite that we speake of things done in the ciuill life and to how many miseries it is subiect For although it be at this day a degrée most Noble and necessary for the peace of mans life yet shall we find that it deserues to haue his part in this Pilgrimage as well as others and if there be any delectation pleasure or honour depending thereon yet it is transitory and vnconstant First knowing that all the actions of Magistrates passe before the eyes of the common people whose iudgements in matters of state be but simple yet haue they a certaine smell or sauour to know the good from euill wherefore those that be Iudges and Magistrates be subiect as in a Play to be hissed at and chased away with shame and confusion For the hare-brained people which is compared to a monster with many heads are mutable vncertaine fraudulent apt to wrath and mutiny ready to prayse or dispraise without wisedome or discretion variable in their talke vnlearned and obstinate Therefore it behooueth

Doce me Domine viam tuam ut ingrediar in veritate tuâ Teach me thy WAY O Lord I will walk in thy TRUTH Ps. 86.11 THE PILGRIMAGE OF MAN WANDERING IN A WILDERNESSE OF VVOE Wherein is shewed the Calamities belonging to man being borne in this World and how all the principall Estates thereof are crossed with Misery A gorgeous Iemme for Gentility That liue in golden Felicite LONDON Printed by I.B. 1635. The Contents of this Booke Chap. 1. Of the miseries of man in his birth and of his first calamities Chap. 2. Of the miserie of Man entring into his youth and yeeres of discretion Chap. 3. Of the Misery of Man being come to his full strength Chap. 4. Of the Miserie of wicked Kings Princes and Monarches Chap. 5. Of the Misery of vicious courtiers and of their wicked liues Chap. 6. Of the misery of Magistrates that administer not true Iustice with a Discourse against wicked Iudges Chap. 7. Of the praise of Marriage and likewise the miseries that ensue thereon Chap. 8. Of the worlds generall Misery and the vices of all sorts in the Communalty Chap. 9. Of the misery of Age and mans Death with his resurrection and the terrible iudgement of God at the latter day THE PILGRIMAGE OF MAN WANDERING in a wildernesse of Woe CHAP. 1. Of the miserable birth of Man and of his first calamities MAN being the Image of God and the chiefe worke of Nature of all other creatures is most miserable in his birth For both beasts and birds are brought into the world either couered with haire feathers or wooll not so much as the séeds and corne of the ground but Nature hath clothed them with eares and huske man onely excepted for he being once come from the prison of his mothers wombe séemeth no other thing but the similitude of a poore worme that commeth creeping out of the earth With what clothing is he couered making his entry into the Palace of this world but only with bloud where in he is bathed and couered the which signifieth no other thing but the image and figure of sin What is the first song that he singeth at his comming into the world but only wéepings waylings which are as messengers and foreshewers of his calamities to come the which because he cannot expresse in words he witnesseth by tears Likewise pittifull cryes in the beginning of Monarchs Emperours and Kings and others that cause so many Tragedies to happen in the world But now contrariwise the worme be he neuer so little as soone as Nature hath brought him out of the earth beginneth to craull and creepe and to séeke for food The little chicken so soone as he is out of the shell is found cleane and needeth not to be washed like vnto man but runneth after the Hen and knoweth when he is called he picketh and eateth hee feareth the Kite without proouing before her malice he flyeth danger only guided by Nature But behold Man so soone as he is come into the world is like vnto a little monster and a lumpe of flesh which will let himselfe to be eaten of other beasts if he be not séen vnto and die for hunger before he can find his mothers breast and will as soone eat poyson as good meat and handle hot fron before he can discerne the good from the euill yet for all this he nameth himselfe the Prince of all other creatures Thus man being brought into this miserable world and plunged in the gulfe of miseries he then requireth to haue norishment and clothing to comfort the infirmity of his nature The office of which is appointed to mothers in consideration whereof nature hath giuen them breasts which are like two little bottles very proper and necessary for their sustenance But now to speake of the misery of Man in his nurriture how many mothers are there at this day in the world nay rather we may truly call them cruell stepmothers who hauing according to Nature brought their Children forth into the world because they will not take a little paines to nourish them themselues they send them to sorry villages to be nursed of strange vnknowne nurses which oftentimes do change their children bring home others in their stead Yet for all this they wil not be ashamed to hold a litle dog in their armes rather than the fruit that was ingendred in their wombes This inhumane practise is not vsed amongst beasts be they neuer so brutish for their natures are such that they neuer put their yong ones in the kéeping of others though nature giue them neuer so many but they nourish them themselues and are such zealous protectors of their young ones that they kéepe them almost alwayes in their presence till such time as they can auoid danger And that which is more to be marueiled at there riseth a certaine strife betweene the male and the female which of them shall be the kéeper And for that intent they many times quarrell and fight one with another the which may be séene not only in Apes but also in Beares which in nature are fierce and cruell yet they haue so great affection to their young ones that they are not onely content to nourish them with their milke but as soone as they are brought forth hauing almost no forme or fashion they licke them and pollish them to make them more perfect Likewise the little Birds couering fiue or sixe vnder their wings hauing neither graine nor other seed for their sustenance notwithstanding they spare neither art nor diligence wherewith nature hath endued them for their nourishment It is therefore a true witnesse of humane Misery in that Children are forced against Nature to sucke the milke of a strange woman and many times of such a one as may bée found best cheape what corruption or deformity soeuer she haue the which many times is so contagious to their Children that it were better for them to be nourished by some bruit Beast in the wildernes than to be put into the custody of such a Nurse as for example The cruelty and infamous life of Caligula the fourth Emperour of Rome was not imputed to Father or Mother but to the Nurse that gaue him sucke which woman was so cruell and barbarous of her selfe that she rubbed the Nipples of her Breasts with blood causing the child to whom she gaue milke to sucke them the which thing was so well practised of him that he did not onely commit an infinite number of Murvers but many time licked his sword and dagger being bathed and stayned in blood and wished that all the world had but one head to the end that with one blow he might behead them and then reign alone vpon the earth Séeing then that the Child hath not felt or suffered sorrow enough in his Mothers wombe but as soone as he is borne there is prepared a new sorrow for him by the ingratitude of such mothers which are so delicate and tender of