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A15754	A display of dutie dect vvith sage sayings, pythie sentences, and proper similies: pleasant to reade, delightfull to heare, and profitable to practise, By. L. Wright.	Wright, Leonard, b. 1555 or 6.	1589 (1589)	STC 26025; ESTC S102227	30,145	48

found one but amongest all women I haue found none The property of a good Seruant IT is required in a good seruant to haue the backe of an Asse to beare all things patiently the tongue of a shéepe to kéepe silence gently and the snout of a swyne to féede on all thinges heartily large eares light féet a trustie right hand loth to offend diligent to please willing to amende and sufferance disease Of the number of three A Burchen broome consisteth of thrée things fit for correction the twigs for the Scholemaster the staffe for the housholder and the wyth for the Magistrate Thrée properties required in a good Inkéeper to be patient as Iob prouident as Philemon and merry as Hector And other thrée in a good Chirurgian a Haukes eye a Lyons heart and a Ladies hand Of feare and loue AS the Lambe is more in dread of the Wolfe then of the 〈◊〉 and the Partredge more in feare of the Hauke then of the Eagle euen so the common people stand more in awe of the inferiour Magistrate whom they loue for feare then of the superiour Prince whom they feare for loue Of Lawe THe Lawe is a spurre to pricke forwards vnto vertue a fetter to restraine vice a rule to determine right frō wrong and is deuided into three parts ius naturale which nature teacheth lex condita which the Prince commandeth and mos antiquos which time hath brought in Of Phisicke MAn is taught to vse and not to dispise such ordinarie meanes as God hath appointed to heale his sickenesse The Lord hath created medicine of the earth sayth Iesus Syrach and he that is wise will not abhorre it Is there no Treacle nor Phisition at Giliad sayth God by the Prophet why then is not the health of my people recouered The Apostle exhorteth the Elders of the Church to annoynt the bodyes of the sicke with oyle the Samaritan powred oyle and wine into the hurts of the wounded man this was a kinde of oyle in Palestine much vsed as a thing very medicinable for many diseases In prayse of baldnesse SHedding of hayre is the end of nature insomuch as few men lyuing vntill full age becommeth not balde and the best natures sonest And like as fruites of trées come not to perfection till the leaues fall away no more is mans head stayde and setled with wisedome till it waxe bare according to the old prouerbe bush naturall more hayre than wit And as those nuts which in gathering time keepe still their huskes are knowen to be nought so those heads which in ancient eares kéepe still their hayre prooue s●eldome good And therefore amongst Painters Caruers it is an ordinarie custome to picter the Image of an euill disposed person with bushie haire and an honest man with a bald head for that the one sheweth a wanton lightnesse and the other an ancient sobernesse An olde man with a bushie head is much like an old shrub ouergrowen with mosse more brutish then humaine Of the climacterian yeares THe life of man is aptly compared to a long sicknesse wherein the 7. and 9. being creticall dayes the patient beginneth commonly eyther to amende or growe worse So from 7. to 7. and from 9. to 9. yeares most men do change their naturall complections and often their conditions but especially the 63. yeares of their age in which the 2. climats doe ioyne making 9. times 7. or 7. times 9 wherein very few do scape without eyther great danger or death Of time and place I Finde written in an old booke of what credite I knowe not that as vpon the 25. day of the moneth of March the sixt day of the wéeke and sixt houre of the day Adam was created brake the commandement the womans séed promised and he for disobedience banished out of Paradice So the same day of the moneth and houre of the day Caine slewe his brother Abell the promise was renued vnto Abraham Isaac was offered vp in sacrifice the massage by the Angell was shewed vnto the Uirgine Mary our Sauiour Christ was conceaued and suffered his passion in Galgatha the same place where Adam was buryed and that the crosse whereupon he dyed for our saluation was a plant of the same tree which bare the fruite of our condemnation And if all this were true it is worth the noting To know Easter day for euer AS the tenth day of the first moneth which is March at the coniunction of the Sunne and Moone next the Equinoctiall the Pascall Lambe was chosen out of the slocke and kept till the 14. day or full Moone so the tenth day of the first moneth being Palme sunday our Sauiour Christ entred into Ierusalem and the 14. day suffered his passion so as the next sonday after the 14. day of the Moone or full Moone in the moneth of March is alwayes Easter day Of Salutations OUr elders in times past were woont to salute young men with you are welcome those of middle age with God kéepe you and old men with God spéede you signifying that the first were comming the second remayning and the third departing Of a Lye A Lye in generall is to speake that is false with a will to deceaue and hath thrée partes a sportfull lye to delight a politike lie to profite and a pernitious lye to hurt The two first are not blamelesse but the 3. a sinne most horrible and greeuous Some doe thinke as good a lye that hurtes not as a true tale that profits not but no man may do euill that good may come thereof To helpe memorie THere is nothing better to nourish a weake memorie and sharpen a dull wit then continuall vse and exercise of reading writing and speaking Practise in althings toucheth the quicke and that makes womens tongues run so round and lawyers speake so thicke A poisie for a glasse penned merrily at the request of a Gentlewoman VEwing in this glasse the singular shape wherewith God hath garnished you aboue other creatures to his owne Image It shall be requisite with continuall trauell and labour least so excellent a worke be stayned by your negligence or misdemeanour that you be answerable as abilitie shall serue in working his will which is not in crisping and curling frisking and frounsing painting and proining to better your beauty with strange trim attyre as not content with his fashion in framing you but rather as you excell in giftes séeke to excell in grace remembring alwayes that as plainnesse putteth on so painting putteth out the Image of Christ which considered your attyre shall not be sluttish but sober not drabbish but decent not whoorish but honest not gawish but godly as beséemeth Christianitie FINIS Democritus did alwayes laugh and Heraclitus weepe at the follies of men Ruine is the end of voluptuous appetite Tim● past may soone● be repeated than recalled Prou. 10.32 Colos. 3.20 Ephe. 6.1 2. ● 1. Pet. 5.5 Prou. 6.13 Prou. 13.18.24 Eccle. 30.8.9 Deut.

sigh and mourne so is there a time to laugh sing and be merry When Salomon by his great wisedome experience and iudgement had prooued all things vnder the sunne to be nothing but vanitie miserie and vexation of minde He concludeth that the best thing for a man in this world all the dayes of his life is to eate drinke and be merry in his labour Behold sayth the Lord by the Prophet my seruants shall eat drinke reioyce and be merry He giueth bread and wine to strengthen and make glad the heart of man oyle to make him a chearefull countenance and swéet oyntment and incense to make his heart merry Reioyce in the Lord alwayes sayth the Apostle and againe I say reioyce S. Iames exhorteth Gods children to sing and be merry A light heart sayth the wiseman maketh a chearefull countenance and a flourishing age but sorrow and heauinesse dryeth vp the bones and shortneth the daies Heauinesse is called the graue of mans life and mother of foure daughters Idlenesse pouertie sicknesse and miserie It is the propertie of the distressed to complaine of the desperate to sigh of children to wéepe and of weake cowardly crauens to yéeld and shrinke downe in trouble and aduersity but of the valiant mind to plucke vp a good hart cast off solome pensiue dumps put on a chearefull countenance to the world and beare it out merrely with a good courage Knowing that though mischiefe and misery do come by pounds and go away by ounces yet a pound of sorrow will not pay an ounce of debt And as those euil humors which surfet the body are expelled by medicine so are such heauy pensiue dumps as infect the braine auoyded by mirth and merry company No better meane to preserue health therefore then morning and euening to receaue an ounce of merry conceits pounded with the pestle of pacience in the morter of quiet content applying oftentimes a plaster of hearts-ease to the left side These will purge the patient from coller melancholike and all gréeuous paines of the stomacke make him féede heartely sléepe soundly and walke chearefully To a merry heart sayth Iesus Syrach euery thing hath a pleasant aste Of exercises profitable for health and recreation THough all such gaming as depende vppon idlenesse chance and desire of money be vtterly condemned as a thing intollerable amongst Christians Notwithstanding such honest exercis● as being eyther marshall for seruice in the field phisicall for health of the body or morall for the recreation of the minde Moderately vsed in time and place conuenient is no lesse profitable and necessarie especially for gentlemen studients then meat drinke and sleepe Mindes that are wearied with serious affayres must sometimes be refreshed of necessity For as continuall bending doth weaken the stiffest bowe so long studie without recreation doth weaken the finest brayne Yet some more curious then wise hauing as it were a pride to be péeuish séeme rather to hate dispise and detest all mirth pastime and humaine societie as vnfit for such as professe Christianitie Whereas if any exercise be euill it is not of it selfe but through abuse of the wicked which is no sufficient condemnation to a thing ordeyned to be well vsed Though some haue béene burned with fire some drowned with water and some surf●cted with meate and drinke yet must we neither cast away the vse of fire and water nor cease from eating and drinking So though some dumpish natures can brooke nothing that is contrary to their owne stoicall disposition Yet no reason that therfore the better sort more pleasant sociable and familiar of condition should forgo their honest recreation to féede the humors of such To the cleane all things are cleane and if any offence be it is not giuen but rather taken without cause Iohn Baptist and the Pharisies liued a straight life and our Sauiour Christ vsing his libertie was more familiar like the common people yet Iohn Baptist and the Pharesies were not holier then Christ himselfe Wise Salomon maketh mention of times as well for pastime and sport to recreate and make merry as for serious affaires to fatigate and make wearie The Israelites in obseruing the feast of Tabernacles were commanded to gather boughes branches of palmes willowes and fruitfull trées reioysing and making merry before the Lord the space of 7. dayes When Dauid was returned from the slaughter of the Philistians the women came out of all Cities with instruments of Musicke playing singing and dauncing with great ioy When God sent the Prophet to comfort his people of Ierusalem amongst others his mercies he promised them this securitie that their boyes and damsels shoulde sport and play in the stréetes The taking away of mirth and melodie from the people was alwayes a token of Gods curse Take thy pastime at home and doe what thou will sayth Iesus Syrach so as thou do none euill The Apostle exhorteth men to loue and delight in brotherly fellowship Dauid Chytreus affirmeth playing and sporting amongst friends to be very good and necessary to auoyde wicked thoughts and dumpish fantasies Master Caluin sayth that God doth not only bestowe vpon men things sufficient for their necessarie vses but also procéedeth further in helping forwardes their pleasures and delights Cato calleth honest pastime a whetstone for the memorie Gallen preferreth tennisse play as an exercise most profitable for health because it mooueth euery part of the bodie and hath written a whole booke in cōmendation therof Shooting in the long bowe is greatly liked of many being a pastime of great antiquitie Marcillius Phicinus hath written in prayse of it M. Latimer doth greatly commend it And M. Ascam in his Toxophilus doth teach it as most profitable and commodious to preserue health It incourageth the minde strengthneth the synewes clenfeth the poures cleareth the senses maketh good disgestion and wrastleth against a number of diseases in the body Plato incourageth young men to practise the weapon commending it amongst the best exercises and not without good reason for if it be lawefull for a man to defend himselfe from violence it is both lawfull and conuenient not only to weare a weapon but also to learne how to vse it if néede shall require He that desireth peace sayth Ireneus let him prepare for warre For recreation of the mind Chesse play is much cōmended as a delectable pastime and pleasant study a princely exercise hauing in it a certaine Maiestie wherein is shewed a warlike order and politike gouernement It was first inuented by a wiseman called Xerxes to declare vnto a tyrannous Prince howe necessary his subiectes were to the safegarde of his person Plato séeming to commend table play compareth it vnto the life of man that like as an euill chance may bee holpen by cunning play So may a crooked nature bee made better by