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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09553	The philosopher of the court, written by Philbert of Vienne in Champaigne, and Englished by George North, gentlema[n].; Philosophe de court. English	Philibert, de Vienne, 16th cent.; North, George, gentleman.	1575 (1575)	STC 19832; ESTC S114638	55,136	134

will not mainteyne the same to bee in you For knowing your noble minde aboue others setled in so loftie a seate as seeing and vewing a farre off the small faultes errours and abuses wherin their Ignorance may bee wrapped your wisedome I nothing doubt is able well ynough to auoyde it beeing exempted from the common sorte and contrarie too suche waywarde conditions I will then perswade my felfe that suche reproche if it may so bee called commeth from a good minde and of good will beyng sure that you knowe mee otherwise towardes you And therefore by the waye haue sayd it rather to aduertise me thā that I should seeme suche to you or you account so of mee but rather bycause I should become such a one euen as it often fareth with those that being in feare commonly complayne before they feele any greefe Yet can I not content my selfe with this perswasion seeing that my affection seemes not to bee so entier lie knowen vnto you while ye make so little accompt of it Therfore to gyue you better testimonie of that you are so doubtfull to beleeue and to the end that by this argument you maye hope for better assurance hereafter of that whiche it may be yee suspect For I desire rather to satisfie you than my selfe thoughe I haue iuster cause too suspect you than you mee after my departure from Paris expelling and chasing from mee sundrie fantasies by the absent remembrance of your so good a will whiche ordinarie presence woulde not suffer I enterprised this trauell to write this little treatise vnto you packing vp in this so small a volume the delightfull instructions of Philosophie and manner how to lyue in the which we passed this melancholike tyme of winter where and in what cōpanie you knowe mingling our other cōmon pastimes with this Noble discourse I am not ignorāt of the feruētnesse of your desire to vnderstand the troth in all things for when as somtimes beeing with you betweene our selues I would assaye to be come a good Orator you by importunate meane haue cōstrained me to become a Philosopher And I pray you who are meeter to Philosophie that is to searche the knowledge of God of man to know who we are where we are wherefore wee are and howe wee shoulde gouerne and guyde oure lyues one with another than oure yonger people VVho by reason of greene yeares and small experience hauing not yet their iudgementes certaine or setled but wild and rash and till the scum filth of youthfull heate bee boyled oute of them are but little profitable to the cōmon wealthe O what a laudable custome were it and commodious to any coūtrie if the administration of common wealth were not committed and put on suche as are yong rude and of no experience and that such in no wise shoulde gouerne or giue counsell till they were throughly tried and approued Then the people should not endure so muche daunger and they in applying some payne to discretion should in the ende be most profitable to themselues For it would be a great contentment to their life after experience had and specially their olde age would not be so melancholy angrie impacient and waywarde in digesting all things euill For what made Cato the elder as Cicero in his booke de Senectute sayth to beare his yeares so paciently too bee so pleasant and well disposed an olde man and which is more marueylous to bee ioyfull and merie in yong and youthfull companie but the great knowledge and experience he had in all things I feele my selfe to stray from my first intent and by little and little to fall from my purpose It is then requisite for youth to vse and acquaint themselues to a solitarie and contemplate life not as Hermites in the wildernesse or lyke Monkes in the Cloysters but suche a sure and diligent meane as they may bee capable to informe and instruct themselues in time to all good things So that when the spirite is thus framed and taught and the furious flame of youth put out they may the sooner and better exercise the life actiue and then take vpon them to trauell for the common wealth of their Countrey If my head and bearde were somewhat gray in siluer shewe answerable to this cause I woulde make an inuectiue and declame agaynst this foolishe brutish and vnbridled youth which delightes not but in vnprofitable matters and voyde of reason neuer regarding nor following other guyde than Carelesnesse accounting it shame and reproch to be seene or thought to doe any thing for good purpose And if you will noble Ladie pardon me priuately to reproue you I cannot wonder ynough to see that among you worthie Damsels being as you are the iudges patrones and preseruers of the priuiledges of youth howe you can commonly approue and allow those vnprofitable actions in doltes and beasts of no courage somtime proceeding of an euill nature and yet they haue such place with you that being in your Court men lawded and glorious flatterers you reioyce with them and equally fauour them as pleasant and worthie seruaunts It woulde very well become as it seemeth vnto me yong men to employ this libertie and pleasant time of youthfull yeares in the knowledge of vertue and in other commendable exercises of the bodie as wrestling wherin is shewed both valure vertue To the end that being so experimented feeling their owne strength and comming too mans state they neede not any longer to learne how they ought to liue For so soone as a man commes either to serue the common wealth or to haue care of his housholde he should no more be a scholer but rather an instructer VVho if he will after breake his braynes about Philosophie neglecting his charge and regarding not his familie Plato willes he shoulde bee turned to play with nuttes among boyes and whipped wyth roddes among children And for this purpose I desire you noble Damsell to reade one peece in Plato of Gorgias beginning with this sentēce for there he teacheth why howe where and when Philosophie is to be vsed Philosophie sayth he is an excellent thing and very seemely so that it be vsed moderately soberly and in due time of yeares wherein if any plunge themselues too deepe it destroyeth them vtterly It may seeme by this that Plato reproues indifferently the perfit knowledge of Philosophie yet truly he neither despiseth nor disprayseth it but so far as it is vnprofitable and hindreth vs from our other needfull affayres For since that all sciences were inuented for the helpe of man and as much for the conseruation of the Soule the bodie and goodes as consequently to intertayne a societie companie and felowship among men To what purpose then doe anye breake their braynes in their studies if it be not for profite to themselues or benefite to some others Considering therefore that you haue your witte at libertie rouing at will and treading your pleasant steppes at randon where best