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A20018	The schoole of slovenrie: or, Cato turnd wrong side outward. Translated out of Latine into English verse, to the vse of all English Christendome, except court and cittie. By R.F. Gent; Grobianus. English	Dedekind, Friedrich, d. 1598.; R. F., Gent.	1605 (1605)	STC 6457; ESTC S109490	109,642	160

THE Schoole of Slovenrie Or Cato turnd wrong side outward Translated out of Latine into English verse to the vse of all English Christendome except Court and Cittie By R. F. Gent. LONDON Printed by Valentine Simmes dwelling on Adling hill neere Bainards castle at the signe of the white Swanne 1605. ¶ To all that can write and reade and cast accompt the Translator MAY it please you To bee a foole in Print is as ordinarie as a foole at an Ordinarie and therefore t' were no good fellowship to breake companie T is a Proverb The child that 's borne must be kept though 't be a bastard seeing t is murder by the law to make away even the vnlawfully begotten If the rugged cadence of this Verse and scurrile harshnesse of this subiect doe chance to escape a murdring censure Quod Dij prius omen in ipsum If then the Translator vowes to conclude that either Signior Malevole his sure of Gumme is fretted out at elbowes and hee put to the naked shift of keeping his chamber t is well he hath a chamber or at least the subiect of this Booke is entertained with such abiection that detraction like your breath-broaker in a Midsummer vacation can find no subiect to worke vpon Many a man may Petere sibi simile that intends not Procreare sibi simile may take a snatch and away that would be loth to be tied to racke and manger or passe billes of sope and candle T is my case Who though in the minority of my grammar-schollership I was induced by those whom dutie might not withstand to vnmaske these Roman manners and put them on an English face notwithstanding witnesse my native bashfull ignorance how distant it ever was from my desires nay how I ever feard to be pressed to death by the publike censure of those who as I have heard have it by Patent to scandalize whatsoever vndergoes the publike Presse The truth is this translation was halfe Printed ere I knew who had it So that Quo fata trahunt without prevention or correction the fooles bolt must needes be shot And this is it Those which mislike the verse in English let them reade it in Latine for I allowe no mislikers vnlesse at least they can reade Latin then perhaps thei 'le wonder that a man of such wisedome as my Author being neyther borne a Roman nor a Naso should with such confidence of a generall applause publish so elaborate a trifle from which admiration of yours I hope your curtesie will derive a miracle viz. my pardon especially considering that both Ovid and Virgill both Poets Laureat have beene metamorphosed into as indigest and breathlesse a kind of verse as this All that I can say for my Author is hee speakes broad English but by contraries all for myselfe is t is a Punies translation onely an orphane howsoever fathered vpon me because I taught him English yet begotten without my presence borne before my witte and published against my will vnlesse wee may be saide to will what we can not prevent So fare ye well and I pray picke as much matter out of this Epistle as may be Yours in print against his will R.F. Gent. and no more ¶ The Preface of Frederike Dedekind to maister Simon Bing Secretarie of Hassia SVch happinesse on you deere friend the heau'ns I pray bestow As you for your so vertuous minde most requisite doe know If that your matters of more weight did not your presence crave Your counsell and your ayde concerning this my booke I 'de have My Muse which whilome in two bookes did rusticke faults deride I have recalld and into three foorthwith will it divide And now againe through all the worlde I purpose it to send If fortune friends and you doe favour that which I intend Then marke I pray for vnto you I 'le open all the truth My minde my meaning and intent vnto well nurturde youth Those manners which vnseemely are in these decaying times And auntient rude simplicitie I checke in iesting rimes If this my Booke will profite yeeld to men of any kind And make them weed home-bred behavior quite out of their minde That 's all I want that 's all I crave that is the furthest scope Of all my paines of all my cares of all my furdest hope But out alas how dares my Muse such good successe exspect Since bad mens ill conditions do so the times infect I hope but other mens examples do me much dismay Which have in vaine whole ages spent in counselling that way What skill'st too late for to relate renowned Platoes Bookes And all those lights and guides whose losse poore Greece but hardly brookes Which tride indeede but all in vaine those vices to amend Which did mens mindes by follies meanes in beastly sort offend And for our later Latine writers did they aught prevaile Which did so long with such great paines gainst rusticke vices raile Did not sage Tully in his bookes mens dueties plainely tell And teach both yong and old the meanes to live and die right well Yet for all this what good what gaines procur'd that learned worke Since vntamde actions well doe shew what in mens minds doth lurke So did old learned Roterodam set foorth a booke of price From which for manners straitest rule all youth might take advise And yet what profite did he get by that most worthy booke Or who did on it as he ought for better counsell looke Too few do now God wot regard that jewell of such price Whenas whole multitudes of men runne headlong vnto vice I touch not heere small common faults of a disorderd life Although of these in every place the world is too too rife But let them passe as trifling faults and vertues in respect Of those great crimes and beastly deedes which I will heere detect For you shall finde if you vncloake mens manners base and rude Many which in Rusticitie farre passe the multitude Put case you finde them eating meate to stuffe them till they burst Or quaffing liquor pot by pot to quench their drunken thurst You 'le sweare they do no whit respect the end of their creation Nay which is more you 'le almost sweare they care for no salvation What though their souls were sent from heaven as things of peerelesse price Yet thei 'le love Reason worse then Follie. Vertue worse then Vice They square their actions by the rule of beasts of brutish kinde And to their bellies blinde desires they captivate their minde Their wide stretcht guts beyond the vse of Nature or of neede In every place at every time vnsatiately they feede Pots by the dozens filld to 'th brims into their guts they presse Whenas God knowes their greatest thirst might well be quench'd with lesse If after Gods gifts thus abus'd they heere at length would end T' were well but they exspect for faults that men should them commend And yet this fault this great offence which daily men live in By custome

let your favour these my lines with wonted love maintaine Be ready now to take tuition of my booke and me And let my verse be patroniz'd vnder the name of thee Gainst all the poisned tongues of those that would my booke defame Defend these trifling toyes of mine vnder thy worthie name In briefe this booke with all his faults I dedicate to thee That by thy hand from after-claps it may defended bee If aught I have as sure I have let passe in this my booke Supply the wants I you desire as over it you looke If any thing in this my worke be added more then should Correct it for its masters sake for so full faine I would And so I being well perswaded of your strength and might Commit this scepter to your hand which is your owne by right And furthermore vnto your lawes all such I do subiect Which this my perfect worke of old Simplicitie respect Behold your mightie empire stretcheth over sea and land And in all kingdomes of the earth your kingdome hath command For this great gift what benefit can you repay to mee Let me be thine and thou be mine that 's all I aske of thee Keepe me thy friend and with the favour which thou hast begunne Pursue me and my heart to thee for ever thou hast wonne Behold thy friend whom if thou lov'st as of him lov'd thou art Thou maist command to do thee good himselfe his goods his heart And if the gods respect my thoughts I hope ere long to send A greater matter than this trifle for thee to defend Meane time because thou of thy selfe deservest to live ever The gods preserve thee from all harme and grant thee to die never ❧ A Table of the contents of every Chapter in this Booke OF modesty to be observed in the morning in the apparell the haire and making cleane of the face and teeth folio 2 The breakfast and ordering the body and lookes 4 Of waiting at the table 9 Behaviour at the table before meate 13 Of manners in eating 16 Concerning manners after dinner 21 The adorning of the table before supper and other dueties 26 Of waiting at the table in supper time 30 Of the vsage of the guests after supper 35 Concerning the talking debating and wrangling of the guests 38 Of sending away the guests and what is requisite to be done before you go to bed 42 The second Booke HOW to prepare himselfe being invited of an other 47 Of behaviour in eating 52 Behaviour at the table after the first course 55 As concerning other precepts of modestie in eating and drinking 50 Of devouring laughing vomiting at the table and other such like civilities to be observed 63 Of washing the handes after supper second courses and how to behave your selfe in the company of maides 67 Concerning exclaiming after supper goeing out and bargaining for the next nights supper 71 How going drunke home you shoulde behave your selfe in the way homeward after sleepe and the day after 76 How to entertaine vse and send away your guests 89 The third Booke BEhaviour at an honest feast in eating brewesse and crab-fish 87 Of daintinesse of drinke and behaviour when you departe 91 Of scoffes farting hawking aunswering to a demaunde and looking into other mennes letters 95 Of behavior in other mens houses diverse-colored parted coates the adorning of the beard the vse of papers and bookes entertaining friends and other such like civilities 99 Examples of civilitie at the table 105 Of emptying the bladder vomiting and other such like elegancies of behaviour 112 Of belching holding his vrine and such like rudenesse 121 Grobiana concerning the behavior of maides 126 ¶ The Author to such as love Civilitie health Give place time-scourging Aristotle vice-controuling Plato Yeeld learned Tully deepe Erasmus and fault-finding Cato And you which by your tedious works though to your mickle paine Did teach behaviours perfect meanes and manners to attaine This Booke which from a new found Schoole of late time did arise Behaviours pure simplicitie within it doth comprise Then yong and olde that doe desire nurture and education Peruse this Booke each day and houre with great deliberation THE FIRST BOOKE OF antient Simplicitie of Behaviour Written by M. Fredericke Dedekinde IF thou desire an antient harmelesse simple life to lead And in old homely clownish plow-mens perfit steps to tread Come hither and vnto my verse lend thine attentive eare It may be for thy private vse some profit thou maist heare Pervse it through and it no doubt a way to thee will tell How to conforme thy manners so as thou maist live right well Doubt not a single simple man thou certainely shalt be If thou with good advise doost marke the things thou learn'st of me Too hard and intricate a thing it is and farre from ease So strictly to behave thy selfe as all men thou maist please Those I commend which scorne to suffer every paltry foole To weigh their words and iudge their deedes as Maister of a Schoole And those which scorn a masters check and think their own deeds good Are right true Troyans gallant souldiers brave men by the Rood Pine-girted Silvane country god thou art most welcome hither Concerning country customes let vs two conferre together The praise of rude simplicitie in country swaines wee 'le sing Of all my thoughts of all my words O Silvane thou art king You mountaine-treading gods in woods and fields I you request Declare to me for country-men the life that you thinke best Old Bacchus father god of wine best knowne to drunken crew The perfect way of quaffing right set downe before my view And thou which of the gut wert wont iolly governour to be Further me if I chance to handle all thy rights and thee And thou neate god Rusticitie the greatest of our time Be present heere and set thy hands to this my Rusticke rime T' is no small thing in perfect sort good manners thus to frame Great men good schollers have beene oft times troubled with the same Yet by the helpe of all those gods and goddesses I le try To passe the tedious laborinth of this simplicitie O helpe friend Bing judge of this cause your aide heerein I aske For trusting to your helpe and aide I vnder-go this taske If then my Muse with cheerefull lookes you kindely do revive My vaine will be more plentifull my verse will better thrive What modestie is to be observed each morning in the apparell and making the haire the face and the teeth cleane Chapter I. WHose're thou art that hat'st at heart a Masters crabbed charge Which reades a Lecture every day of gravitie at large Harke hither come and heare this man a man of quiet speech No thunder-thumping Catonist you neede him not beseech My speech is brode be rul'd and then I le do the best I can Be rudible and sure I thinke you 'le prove a learned man Be but a carefull and for and scholler vnto me And