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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14467	The schoole of beastes; intituled, the good housholder, or the oeconomickes. Made dialogue-wise, by M. Peter Viret, translated out of French into English, by I.R.; Metamorphose Chrestienne. Part 2. English	Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571.; I. B., fl. 1585.	1585 (1585)	STC 24783; ESTC S105385	24,536	72

nourishe and feede agreat many of poore people that fault is great yenough for to prouoke vpon them not the ire and wrath of Diana as it is written of Acteon but that of the liuing God And further-more there is yet another euill whiche is that the hunters al the while they bestow and loose in hunting cannot employ thē selues to their labour and tilling of their groundes or to woorke vpon any other their occupation For after that they are once geuen and addicted vnto it they despise their housholdes and their affayres and doings and are not so carefull as they ought to be Whereby it commeth to passe that afterwards they fal into pouerty neede Wherfore one may wel say that not onely their dogges but also their haukes horses haue eatē thē not onely because they haue bestowed al their substance and goods to nurrishe them but also because that thorowe the occasion of them they are become euil husbandes and haue lefte and foreslowed their chiefest affayres and busines Ierome That which thou speakest agreeth well with the exposition Palepha de fabul natra the which Palephatus geueth of the transformation of Acteon which we haue spoken of For first of al he saith that the poetes geue vs to vnderstande by this fable that men ought to take heede that they do nothing whiche may displease the gods and prouoke them to anger Afterwardes he saith that in times past all men labored with their hāds did not their busines by seruants strange people but by them selues And therfore al those whiche were diligent in labour were rich And the more they busied them selues the richer they waxed And on the other side those that were idle slothful the proud which shunned labour and were ashamed of it and which gaue thēselues vnto hunting vnto other pastimes became pore beggers as he said happened vnto Acteon for the causes before rehearsed And therefore he was made a commō prouerbe who afterwards did geue matter vnto the fables and faynings of the Poetes Theophrast There are yet at this day many houses not onely of rich Gentlemen but also of rich yeomen and husbandmen whiche haue been destroyed partely by such meanes Ierome We may see it before our eyes And therefore I am of the same aduise with Palephatus And I doe not think but that the poets haue fained this chaunging of Acteon that great hunter chaunged into an harte and deuoured by his dogges but for to signifie the follie of a great many of foolish hunters which destroy them selues by their hunting and feeding their dogges And if that be to be condemned in gentlemen whiche make it a daylie occupation it is yet more to be condemned in laborers and artificers when they leaue vndone their workes and busines for to geue them selues vnto such occupation whiche wil bring them to beggerie But let vs returne agayne vnto the Spider whom we talked of she is a better housholder then those are whom we spake of For fyrst she lyueth by her hunting as of her proper occupation and she leaueth not of her occupatiō by which she liueth for to vse any other whiche woulde make her dye with hunger Agayne she exercyseth her hunting all alone and without any cost at al. Moreouer she knoweth the times and the seasons fyt for to take her venison and the places where she must pytch her nettes Spiders are Astrologers Plini lib. 11 cap. 24. Arist hist animal lib. 9. cap. 38.39 For she is an Astrologer and knoweth when it wil rayne and the water encrease then she pytcheth her nettes higher Also they make their webbs in cloudie and darke wether not in cleare weather because that the cloudie wether is best for to take the beastes And therefore when you see a great multitude of them they signifie rayne We may adde vnto these beastes the silke wormes The silke wormes Plini lib. 11. cap. 22.23 Arist hist animal lib. 5. cap. 24. of whiche the Philosophers haue also written maruaylous thinges that is to say of the maner of making their nestes and of their wolles and webbs with which they do make men and women braue Theophrast What is he that will not greatly maruayle of the wisedome of God when he beholdeth the industrie the sence and vnderstanding which is in those litle beastes For if there be so much in one so litle abodie as is the same of the Ante or Emet that with much adoe one can scant perceiue with the eye let vs thinke what is the wysedome and prouidence of the Creator whiche hath created them Let vs also thinke whether saint Paul had not iust cause to say Rom. 1.20 that his eternal power and Godhead is knowen by the visible thinges Where are the Epicures whiche denie the prouidence of God The vvisedome and prouidence of God manifested in the little creatures against the epycures If there be so-much in those litle Ants and in those other litle creatures for to preserue and keepe their kinde what ought it to be in God for to Preserue his creatures and workes of his handes and cheefely mankinde whome he hath created to immortalitie Are these wicked epicures worthie to be compared vnto these beastes Haue not we iust occasion to sende them to their schoole to dispute with them and for to learne in the same for to knowe God and his prouidence What saiest thou to it Tobie Tobias I thinke that we haue as good an occasion as Salomon had to sende thither the sluggarde Theophrast Furthermore if we will compare the Ante and those other beastes which we speake of but now and also the order of their common wealth with al that which Plato Zenophon Aristotle and the other Philosophers haue written in their Oeconomickes and politickes of the lawes rule and gouernement of houses families common-welthes citties and kingdomes and also the most excellent Oeconomikes and politicks which euer haue beene among men men shal be found more beastes then they and more worthie to be sent vnto their schooles then vnto the scholes of the Philosophers For the philosophers are many tymes like vnto many preachers which preach very wel and speake very earnestly against the deedes of the fleshe but they worke but euilly and they are those whiche do the least of that which they teach others But these schoole-masters to whom the holy ghost sendeth vs by his holy scriptures are masters which teache their disciples and schollers not in vaine babling bookes and which tende al to Pleasure but in doing thē selues that which they teach for they teach by their owne example The whiche maner of teaching hath more authoritie and maiestie then the other and hath more vertue to moue and induce men to that whereunto they woulde induce and bring them And as touching that which hath ben sayde of gods prouidence the which manifesteth it selfe in the nature the which he gaue vnto the creatures it manifesteth it selfe yet better in