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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16657	The English gentleman containing sundry excellent rules or exquisite observations, tending to direction of every gentleman, of selecter ranke and qualitie; how to demeane or accommodate himselfe in the manage of publike or private affaires. By Richard Brathwait Esq.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.	1630 (1630)	STC 3563; ESTC S104636	349,718	488

THE English Gentleman Containing Sundry excellent Rules or exquisite Observations tending to Direction of every Gentleman of selecter ranke and qualitie How to demeane or accommodate himselfe in the manage of publike or private affaires By RICHARD BRATHWAIT Esq. SENECA in Herc. furen Qui genus jactat suum Aliena laudat LONDON Printed by Iohn Haviland and are to be sold by ROBERT BOSTOCK at his shop at the signe of the Kings head in Pauls Church-yard 1630. TO THE NOBLY ACCOMPLISHED honoured and loved THOMAS Viscount WENTVVORTH Lord President of Yorke all correspondence to his prudent'st and prepared'st resolves Worthyly Honoured VErtue the greatest Signall and Symbol of Gentry is rather expressed by goodnesse of Person than greatnesse of Place For howsoever the bleere-ey'd vulgar honour the purple more than the person descent more than desert title than merit that adulterate Gentility which degenerats from the worth of her Ancestors derogates likewise from the birth of her Ancestors And these be such whose infant effeminacie youthfull delicacie or native libertie hath estranged them from the knowledge of morall or divine mysteries so as they may be well compared to the Ostrich who as the Naturall Historian reports hath the wings of an Eagle but never mounts so these have the Eagle-wings of contemplation being indued with â—he intellectuall faculties of a reasonable soule yet either intangled with the light chesses of vanity or trashed with the heavie poizes of selfe-conceit and singularitie they never mount above the verge of sensuall pleasure But I am here to tender unto your Honours judicious view a Gentleman quite of another garbe One whose Education hath made formall enough without apish formalitie and conceiving enough without selfe-admiring arrogancie A good Christian in devout practising no lesse than zealous professing yet none of the forward'st in discoursing on Religion For hee observes as long experience hath brought him to be a judicious observer that Discourse of Religion hath so occupied the world as it hath well-neere driven the practice thereof out of the world He esteemes such only happy who are of that number whom the World accounts fooles but God wise men Hee understands that whatsoever is sought besides God may so imploy the Minde as it may be occupied but never satisfied He observes the whole Fabricke of humane power and hee concludes with the Preacher Ecquid tam vanum He notes how the Flesh becomming obedient behaveth herselfe as a faithfull servant to the Soule This governeth the other is governed this commandeth the other obeyeth Finally he summes up all his Observations with this Hee that Sigheth not while hee is a Pilgrim shall never rejoyce when hee is a Citizen This is the Gentleman whom I have presumed to recommend to your protection and to you hee makes recourse not so much for shelter as honour for his Title it exempts him from servile bashfulnes being an English Gentleman Now if any of those corkie Censurers Qui Mercurium in lingua non in pectore gerunt shall chance to accoast my Gentleman I resolve me his Education hath made him so accomplish'd at all assayes and his conversing with the most piercing'st judgements hath brought him to that perfection as hee can discerne of what mould or temper these Criticks are concluding voces sunt praeterea nihil as is said of the Nightingall This only resteth if I limme him to the life in spite of censure he will merit the patronage of honour if I faile in my Art as I dare not presume of my strength it is in your Honour to impute the fault rather to the pen than the man whose intimate affection to your Lordship made him erre if he erre Your Honours in all devotion RICHARD BRATHVVAIT To the knowing Reader HE that provides not for his Family is worse than an Infidell yet he who prefers the care of his family before the advaÌ„cement of Gods glory may seeme to be of Cardinall Bourbons minde who would not lose his part in Paris for his part in Paradise Each mans private Oeconomie ought to be a certaine Academie wherein all sacred and morall knowledge is to be taught For that master of a family who only extends his care in providing how to get making the Object of his providence gaine will experimentally crie out when his mouth shall be filled with gravell O Death how bitter is the remembrance of thee to that man whose peace is in his substance To prevent which immoderate care and that every one may cloze with Cicero Virtute qui praediti sunt soli sunt divites I have proposed some especiall rules of direction right worthy if my judgement doe not deceive mee the observation of every publike or private family though principally tending to the making up of an Accomplish'd Gentleman For who knowes not if he know any thing how the Gentry of this age through a depraved effeminacie must be in custome with the fashion to purchase him the title of Gentleman Where he is to enter coÌ„merce with Taylor Haberdasher Millener Sempster and sundry other appertinences of a Gentleman which in time worke Gentility out of love with Hospitality engaging him so deeply to vanity as by a strange Catastrophe he ever ends with misery To rectifie these obliquities I have brought a Gentleman who professeth the true and new Art of Gentilizing yet not like your begging pedanticall Artist who by a mercenary Bill pasted on some frequented gate gives notice to the itching Passenger that if any one be minded to learne the rare and mysterious Art of Brachygraphie Stenographie Logarisme or any Art indeed whatsoever though he be a meere stranger to any upon resort to such a Signe in such a Lane he shall find a most illiterate Anacharsis ready to bray his braines in a Morter to give him content But this Gentleman as the Science which he professeth is free so doth he teach it freely craving no other reward for his fruitfull Observance than thy friendly acceptance Vpon the Volume and Title I Had purposed that this Worke should have beene digested into a portible Volume to the end it might be more familiar with a Gentlemans pocket not to picke it but that he might picksome good fâ—om it But since the Volume would not beare it you must with patience beare with it and with more trouble beare it by enlarging your pocket to containe it Now for the Title I am not wholly ignorant how a Subject intitled The Complete Gentleman was heretofore published which I can assure you Gentlemen consorts with this rather in Title than Tenour Name than Nature the proofe whereof I referre to the generous and judicious Reader The Subjects whereof this Booke principally treateth and insisteth Youth Disposition Education Vocation Recreation Acquaintance Moderation Perfection An exact Table or Directory leading to the principall points contained in this Booke YOVTH Observat. 1. OVR youthfull yeares our Climactericall yeares with the dangers that attend on youthfull yeares seconded by an

authenticke story out of Eusebius pag. 1.2 The vanity of Youth displayed in foure distinct Subjects 5 Two reasons why Young-men were not admitted to deliver their opinions in publike assemblies 11 Three violent passions incident to Youth 26 Two reasons why Youth is naturally subject to those illimited passions of Ambition Lust Revenge 27 Especiall motives or incendiaries tending to the increase of those passions 29 The proper postures of a complete Roarer 42 Physicke prescribed and Receits applied to cure these maladies in Youth 46 What choice imployments deserve entertainment from a Gentleman 47 DISPOSITION Observat. 2. THe diversitie of Dispositions pag. 51 A probable judgement of our Dispositions drawne from the delights we affect or company we frequent 53 Passion the best discoverer of our Disposition ibid. Discovery of Dispositions in distempers 54 Promotion held ever mans best Anatomy Lecture 55 The Disposition is not to be forced 57 What Disposition being distinguished by three infallible markes is most generous 61 The proper ayme or end whereto the actions of true resolution are directed with the prudent observation of Cortugal one of the Turkish Princes in his perswasive Oration for the besiege of Rhodes 70.72 EDVCATION Observat. 3. WHat Education is pag. 75 Education dilates it selfe to three subjects ibid. Our knowledge reflects upon two particulars 76 A profitable Exhortation to all such as are drawne away by strange doctrine 80 Two especiall errours incident to subjects of discourse Affectation Imitation whereof Gentlemen are seriously cautioned 82 Perswasion being the life and efficacie of Speech consisteth on three parts 83 Immoderate passion in arguments of Discourse and reasoning to be avoided 88 Education either improveth or depraveth 91 Education the best seasoner of Action aswell as of Speech or Knowledge no lesse prevalent in Arts Manuall than actions Martiall 91.99 Education the best seasoner of Youth 101 VOCATION Observat. 4. THe Definition necessitie and conveniencie of a Vocation without personall Exception or Exemption pag. 106 107.115 Vertue consists in Action time in revolution the maze of mans life in perpetuall motion pag. 107. lin 16 Three necessary considerations touching the conveniencie of a Vocation divided and applied 109 The Efficacy of Prayer in every Vocation and the exercise thereof seriously recommended 110 We are to resist vices by practising and doing acts of the contrary vertues 114 Men of place in respect of three distinct Objects are three wayes servants 115. lin 23 Men of place of all others least exempted from a Vocation 117. lin 18 The ground of all Novellisme 121 Vocation in generall 124 The first invention of Trades Arts or Sciences 127 The Antient Borough of Kendall upon serious discourse of Manufacture worthily commended for their industry in Wooll-worke the judicious Dutch-men of Keswick for their Copper-worke 125 126 A serious survey and judicious display of all the Liberall Sciences 127 The Vocation of a Gentleman in particular 133 The Vocation of a Gentleman hath imployment publike or private 136 How a Gentleman is to demeane himselfe in publike affaires of State 135 The life of man either Active or CoÌ„templative ib. lin 7 Directions of reservancie usefull to all Gentlemen in their keeping of company ib. lin 33. Credulity in two respects dangerous to persons imployed in affaires of State 137 Credulity In beleeving the relations of others In imparting his thoughts to the secrecie of others shewed in a conceited storie 137 138 139 Resolution in suffering neither price to draw him nor power to over-awe him 140 Disobedience punished in acts most successive 142 The holy war as a consequent action of honour recoÌ„mended to the undertaking of all young Gentlemen 146. lin 15 How a Gentleman is to imploy himselfe in publike affaires 143 How a Gentleman is to demeane himselfe in private affaires 147 Two perillous shelfes which endanger Iustice. 149 How Iustice is to be poized equally 151 Impunity the foster-mother of all impiety 152 How a Gentleman is to demeane himselfe in his owne family 154 Every family a private Common-wealth 155. marg A Gentleman is so to demeane himself in his family as he neither hord up niggardly nor lash out lavishly 157. lin 11 He is to keepe a Hanke of his bounty lest too much profusenesse bring him to misery ibid. lin 18 He is neither to be too remisse nor too severe in his family ibid. How a Gentleman is to imploy himselfe in spirituall affaires within his family 161 The Exercise of devotion commended a Blessing thereon pronounced if duly performed which Blessing is on a precept and a promise grounded 161.162 RECREATION Observat. 5. THe difference of Recreations pag. 165 Of the moderate and immoderate use of Recreat 171 The benefits redounding from moderate Recreat 173 The incoÌ„veniences arising froÌ„ immoderate Recreat 175 The yeare of Iubile defined and described 177 Objections against Stage-playes proposed and resolved 184 What honours antient and moderne times have conferred on Poets and what bounties for their poems 189.190 What especiall subjects are privileg'd from Iests 192 Who the first Comedian who the first Tragedian 193 A wofull example of a Gentlewoman who was a continuall frequenter of Stage-playes 195 Excesse of Gaming reproved 196 Cheaters displayed their humours experimentally decoloured their Habit garbe and formall insinuation discovered 197 Young Gamesters most subject to passion 225 A dolefull example of one that at gamoused imprecation ibid. Another Moderne example covertly shadowed of one who desperately surprized with distemper of losse poisoned himselfe ibid. An excellent morall discourse of Hunting 198 The story of the foole of Millan and his discourse with a Falconer 201 In exercises of Recreation those only are most approved by whom they are with least affectation performed and with most freedome of minde embraced 205. lin 3 An accurate discourse of valour and how in arguments of contest or challenge a Gentleman may come off with honour 209 The misery of Duello's 206 A collection and election of Histories 211 The knowledge of our owne Moderne Chronicles most beneficiall to Gentlemen 218 History the sweetest Recreation of the minde 220 The judgement of God inflicted upon the actors and authors of Treason Sacrilege c. 213 214 215 What good morall men have flourished in evil times 216 How a Gentleman is to bestow himselfe in Recreation 221 Prodigality condemned moderation in expence aswell as in the exercise it selfe commended 223 Distinction of times for Recreations necessarily injoyned 226 No expence more precious than the expence of time ib. Election of Games for Recreation which conduce most to memory or retention which to pregnancie of conceit or apprehension ibid. ACQVAINTANCE Observat. 6. OF the use of Acquaintance pag. 233 Mans security the Devils opportunity 235. lin 6 A display of some Monasticke professors ibid. Privacie no lesse perillous than societie 236. The particular benefits derived from Acquaintance extend to Discourse Advice Action ibid. Of the benefit we reape by Acquaintance in matters of Discourse ibid. Of the choice

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