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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18805	The booke of freendeship of Marcus Tullie Cicero; Laelius de amicitia. English	Cicero, Marcus Tullius.; Harington, John, d. 1582.	1550 (1550)	STC 5276; ESTC S111226	36,865	162

The booke of freendeship of Marcus Tullie Cicero Anno dn̄i 1550. To the righte vertuouse and my singuler good Lady Katharine duchesse of Suffolke AS my prisonment and aduersitee most honorable lady was of their owne nature ioigned with great and sundrie miseries so was the sufferance of the same eased by the chaunce of diuerse and many commoditees For thereby founde I great soule profite a little minde knowlage some holow hertes and a few feithfull freendes Wherby I tried prisonment of the body to be the libertee of spirite aduersitee of fortune the touche stone of freendship exempcion from the world to be a contempt of vanitees and in the ende quietnes of mind the occasion of study And thus somewhat altered to auoide my olde idelnesse to recompense my lost time and to take profite of my calamitee I gaue my selfe among other thynges to study and learne the Frenche tonge hauyng both skilful prisoners to enstruct me and therto plenty of bookes to learne the language Among whiche as there were dyuerse notable and for their sondry mattier woorthy readyng so none liked me aboue this Tullius booke of freendship nor for the argument any with it to be compared The whole wherof whan I had perused and saw the goodly rules the naturall order and ciuile vse of freendship where before I but liked than was I rauished and in a certaine wonder with the heathen lernyng which chiefly for it selfe I phantasied and for my state I deemed good to be embraced as a glasse to discerne my freendes in and a ciuile rule to leade my life by These causes moued me to thinke it mete for moe Wherapon I as I coulde translated it and though not so liuely nor yet so aptly as some wold loke for and many culd doe yet I trust thei will rather beare with my good will then rebuke my boldnes for that it proceded more of a good mind than of any presumpcion of knowlage and so my enterprise is to be enterpreted rather by freendes as a treatise of frendship then by lerned clerkꝭ in an argumēt of translacion Well how so euer it shalbe liked of the learned I hope it shalbe allowed of the vnlatined Whose capacitees by my owne I cōsider and for lacke of a fine and flowyng stile I haue vsed the plaine and common speache and to thende the sence might not be chaunged nor the goodnes of the matter by shift of tounges muche minished I caused it to be conferred with the latine auctor and so by the knowen wel lerned to be corrected after whose handelyng me thought a new spirite and life was geuen it and many partes semed as it were with a new cote araied aswell for the orderly placyng and eloquently changeyng of some woordes as also for the plainly openyng and learnedly amending of the sence whiche in the Freenche translacion was somewhat darkened and by me for lacke of knowlage in many places missed ¶ Thus whan the thing was perfected and I behelde the fame of the auctor the nature of the treatise and the clerenesse of his teachyng I coulde not iudge to whom I shoulde rather offre it than vnto your grace whom the freendelesse dayly find their defence and the helples repaire to as a refuge This did I not to teache you but to let you see in learnyng auncient that you haue by nature vsed nor to warne you of ought you lacked but to sette forth your perfection the proufe wherof the deade might witnesse and their ofspring hath iust cause to knowlage it as mo can record it then can requite it And suche your freendly stedfastnesse declared to the deade doth assertaine vs of your stedfast frendlinesse toward the liuyng whiche many haue felt and diuerse doe proue and few can want Of which numbre your grace hath made me one that neyther leaste nor seldomest haue tasted of your benefites both in my trouble and also libertee Wherfore your grace in my sight is of all other most worthy this smal fruite of my prisons labour as a fitte patronesse to the honour of such a worke and a trew example in whom it is fulfilled Thus the lord of trueth preserue you in freendship encrease your frendes and defend you from enemies Iohn Harryngton To the reder THe wise man ī his prou●rbes saieth A frende loueth at all tymes that is as well in the tyme of aduersitee as prosperitee And agayne he saith The man that is apt to amitee and that hath bent his herte to entreteyne freendship dooeth more loue faster sticke to his frēd than one brother to an other And it is writen in the Ecclesias●icus Doo● not b●ecome a foe of a frend For suche a mā obteyneth an ill name blame-worthy and reprochefull euen like as the double tonged is infamous And againe it is there writen A feithfull and a trus●y frende is a stronge garrison he that atteyneth suche one fyndeth a precious treasure To a sure and trus●y frend saith he no price is equall For an assured freende is the medicine of life Suche a one shall thei obteyne that reuerently honoure the lorde He that honoure●h the lorde dooeth stablishe and make sure this freendship● for euē as an other hym selfe shall his frende bee to hym Forsake not thyne olde freende for thy new shall not be equall vnto him A new frende is like vnto must or new wyne the whiche at lengthe thou shalt drynke with pleasure A frende he saith in prosper●tee can not bee iudged nor the ennemie in aduersites will bee hid In the tyme of mans prosperitee his ennemies are sory and in aduersitee his freende forsaketh hym Shew thy self trusty and sure to thy frende a poore mā that thou maiest with hym reioyce in prosperitee Obserue fidelitee to hym in tyme of calamitee that thou maiest together with hym come into his possession See saith he that thou loue thy frende and shew thy selfe sure and trusty vnto hym And if thou babble abrode his secretes thou losest hym Thus whan I remēbre in howe many places of holy scripture preceptes are geuen cōcernyng frendes and frendship I dooe not a littell muse and meruaile at the diuine gefte that the most noble and excellent lerned man the most worthy Romayne Mar. Tul. Cicero had who in this his booke of Amitee here after folowyng hath so eloquently so liuely so pithyly and so plainely descriued and set out what Amitee is how to choose a frende how muche is to bee doone for a frēde how frendes shuld ponder requestes what maner of menne are m●ete for frendship the propretee of true frendship the principall cause of freendship the chief poynct in frendship the commoditees of frēdship what thyng trieth frendes the bondes of loue in frendship the dissimulacion in frendship feigned freendship the profite of freendeship the fruite of frendship the waies to proue freendes what is to bee attributed to true frendes what a freende ought to eschew and so foorth the ende of freendeship that I thynke