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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29240	Times treasury, or, Academy for gentry laying downe excellent grounds, both divine and humane, in relation to sexes of both kindes : for their accomplishment in arguments of discourse, habit, fashion and happy progresse in their spirituall conversation : revised, corrected and inlarged with A ladies love-lecture : and a supplement entituled The turtles triumph : summing up all in an exquisite Character of honour / by R. Brathwait, Esq.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1652 (1652)	Wing B4276; ESTC R28531	608,024	537

you may bee ennobled in heaven after your descent to earth Laus Deo Totum hoc ut à te veniet totur● ad te redeat A Gentleman IS a Man of himselfe without the addition of either Taylor Millener Seamster or Haberdasher Actions of goodnesse he holds his supreme happinesse The fate of a yonger brother cannot depresse his thoughts below his elder Hee scornes basenesse more than want and holds Noblenesse his sole worth A Crest displayes his house but his owne actions expresse himselfe Hee scornes pride as a derogation to Gentry and walks with so pure a soule as hee makes uprightnesse the honour of his Family Hee wonders at a profuse foole that hee should spend when honest frugality bids him spare and no lesse at a miserable Crone who spares when reputation bids him spend Though heire of no great fortunes yet his extensive hand will not shew it Hee shapes his coat to his cloth and scornes as much to bee holden as to bee a Gally-slave Hee hath been youthfull but his maturer experience hath so ripened him as hee hates to become either Gull or Cheat. His disposition is so generous as others happinesse cannot make him repine nor any occurrent save sinne make him repent Hee admires nothing more than a constant spirit derides nothing more than a recreant condition embraceth nothing with more intimacie than a prepared resolution Amongst men hee hates no lesse to bee uncivill than in his feare to Godward to bee servile Education hee holds a second Nature which such innate seeds of goodnesse are sowne in him ever improves him seldome or never depraves him Learning hee holds not onely an additament but ornament to Gentry No complement gives more accomplishment Hee intends more the tillage of his minde than his ground yet suffers not that to grow wilde neither Hee walkes not in the clouds to his friend but to a stranger Hee eyes the Court with a vertuous and noble contemplation and dis-values him most whose sense consists in sent Hee viewes the City with a princely command of his affections No object can with-draw him from himselfe or so distract his desires as to covet ought unworthily or so intraunce his thoughts as to admire ought servilely Hee lives in the Countrey without thought of oppression makes every evening his dayes Ephemeris If his neighbours field flourish hee doth not envy it if it lie fit for him hee scornes to covet it There is not that place hee sees nor that pleasure hee enjoyes whereof he makes not some singular use to his owne good and Gods glory Vocation hee admits of walking in it with so generous and religious a care as hee makes Piety his Practice acts of Charity his Exercise and the benefit of others his sole solace Hee understands that neither health commeth from the clouds without seeking nor wealth from the clods without digging Hee recommends himselfe therefore in the morning to Gods protection and favour that all the day long hee may more prosperously succeed in his labour Hee holds idlenesse to bee the very moth of mans time Day by day therefore hath hee his taske imposed that the poison of idlenesse may bee better avoided Hee holds as Gods opportunity is mans extremity so mans security is the Divels opportunity Hoping therefore hee feares fearing hee takes heed and taking heed hee becomes safe Hospitality hee holds a relique of Gentry Hee harbours no passion but compassion Hee grieves no lesse at anothers losse than his owne nor joyes lesse in anothers successe than his owne peculiar Recreation hee useth to refresh him but not surprize him Delights cannot divert him from a more serious occasion neither can any houre-beguiling pastime divide him from an higher contemplation For honest pleasures hee is neither so Stoicall as wholly to contemne them nor so Epicureall as too sensually to affect them There is no delight on mountaine vale coppice or river whereof hee makes not an usefull and contemplative pleasure Recreation hee admits not to satisfie his sense but solace himselfe Hee fixeth his minde on some other subject when any pleasure begins too strongly to worke upon him Hee would take it but not bee taken by it Hee attempers his attractivest pastimes with a little Alloes to weane him all the sooner from their sweetnesse Hee scornes that a moment of content should deprive him of an eternity of comfort Hee corrects therefore his humour in the desire of pleasure that hee may come off with more honour Acquaintance hee entertaines with feare but retaines with fervor Hee consorts with none but where hee presumes hee may either better them or bee bettered by them Vertue is the sole motive of his choice Hee conceives how no true amity nor constant society can ever bee amongst evill men Hee holds it a blemish to the repute of a Gentleman and an aspersion to his discretion to make choice of those for his associates who make no more account of time than how to passe it over Conference hee affects and those hee admits onely into the list of his discourse whom hee findes more reall than verball more solid than complementall Hee will try him before hee rely on him but having found him touch they touch his honour that impeach him Moderation in his desires cares feares or in what this Theatre of Earth may afford hee expresseth so nobly as neither love of whatsoever hee enjoyes can so enthrall him nor the losse of what hee loves can any way appall him A true and generous Moderation of his affections hath begot in him an absolute command and conquest of himselfe Hee smiles yet compassionately grieves at the immoderation of poore worldlings in their cares and griefes at the indiscretion of ambitious and voluptuous Flies in their desires and feares Perfection he aspires to for no lower mound can confine him no inferiour bound impale him Vertue is the staire that raiseth to height of this Story His ascent is by degrees making Humility his directresse lest hee should faile or fall in his progresse His wings are holy desires his feet heavenly motions There is no sense which he offers not up as a sweet incense to expedite his course and refresh his conscience He holds it the sweetest life to be every day better till length of dayes reunite him to his Redeemer Hee hath plaid his part on this Stage of Earth with honour and now in his Exit makes heaven his harbour FINIS An exact TABLE or Directory leading to the Principall points contained in this BOOKE YOVTH Observat. 1. OVR youthfull yeares our Climactericall years with the dangers that attend on youthfull yeares seconded by an authentick story out of Eusebius p. 1.2 The vanity of Youth displayed in foure distinct Subjects 3 Two reasons why Young-men were not admitted to deliver their opinions in publike assemblies 6.7 Three violent passions incident to Youth 15 Two reasons why Youth is naturally subject to those illimited passions of Ambition Lust Revenge ibid. Especiall motives or

Imagine then if at any time you encounter with the Impression of any former Labour bearing this TITLE that'tis but the Embrio of his braine whose Mercenarie profession it is to divulge any Corkie Subject that may promise but the least hope of profit resembling that ancient Pantotipe of Amsterdam who publikely protested that hee could bee well contented that the Turkish Alcaron were Universally professed so the priviledge of it might bee to him and his Assignes solely granted For this Appendix it was occasionally writ upon the report of publishing a Subject bearing this Title which belike hearing of the coming forth of a more Deserving Consort hath beene discreetly silenced or by neglect of Time in obscure privacy retyred Now if any such Amphibium after so long diving shall appeare venting let it receive what it deserves to have timely suppression For such Readers as are rather taken with Titles than Substance and become miserably enamoured on a beauteous Frontispi●e I would request of them this favour to spare their labour of perusing more than the Title-Page which will serve well enough for their Classick discourse of Authors for these it is their highest honour to furnish their uselesse memories with Scholies and Catalogues of unread Authors and to taxe them too of some egregious errors although these Subjects mount farre above the pitch of their Critick Censures In a word let our Gentleman with this his incomparable Choice be compared and you shall find them equally matched affectionately mated and both for Ornament and Substance compleatly graced So I commend you to the Perusall and Parallel of these which if you truely imitate bee yee of what Sexe or state soever they will make you truely commendable and crowne your ripened age with honour EMBLEME SOme hold these Observations to bee long Some more judicious hold them to be short Thus are they censur'd bee they right or wrong What should wee then make Censure but a sport Since good or bad wee 're ne're the better for 't Which to attemper I should thinke it best Vertue were Censor in each Authors brest A Compendious Table wherein the Principall points contained in this Booke are with no lesse Brevity than Perspicuity Propriety than Facility couched APPARELL Observat. 1. OF the necessity of Apparell Pag. 271. Primitive purity exempted us from these necessities Originall impurity subjected us to these necessities pag. 273. Apparell keepes the body warme two wayes first by keeping in the naturall heate 2. By keeping out accidentall cold pag. 272. These benefits are inverted by phantasticke Fashions late introduc'd where attires are not made to keepe cold out but to bring cold in pag. 272. 273. Of the use of Apparell 273. To makes this use good Modesty must bee our guide Vertuous thoughts our guard so shall Heaven bëe our goale ibid. A me●●●rable instance of a Religious woman expressing what Divine use shee made in the eying of her Apparell ibid. The habite of the minde may bee best discerned by the carriage of the body the Disposition of the body by the habite pag. 274. The Constancy of the Heathen in reteining their ancient Countrey fashion and immutably observing the habite of their owne Nation ibid. Habite is to bee used as an Ornament of decencie without the least Border or Edging of Vanitie pag. 275. Directions how to dispose the Senses and that Reason must keepe Sentinell lest they become Sensuall ibid. The preciousnesse of time whereof a Moment is our portion nor hath the Commandingst Emperour a larger proportion ibid. How contemptible a thing is Man if hee erect not his thoughts above man ibid. Of the abuse of Apparell ibid. More time spent how to abuse time and corupt licentious youth then how to addresse employment to qualifie the distractions of the one or to rectifie the distempers of the other pag. 276. This illustrated by instances in three severall places Citty Court and Countrey And accommodated with Observations proper to every Subject ibid. The Taske of a vertuous Mirror and a true Lady of Honour expressed and to all Ladies as a President of goodnesse zealously recommended pag. 277. The life of a meere Libertine instanced and displayed with a relation of those desperate Conclusions to which shee adhered ibid. How the use of Apparell may bee inverted to abuse either by Delicacy or Superfinity pag. 277. Reproofe touching Apparell originally occasioned from foure respects 1. Sumptuousnesse And that confirmed by a memorable example 2. Softnesse And that confirmed by a memorable example 3. Strangenesse And that reproveable in these 3. particulars 4. Superfluousnesse And that reproveable in these 3. particulars Variety ibid. Immensity ibid. Vanity ibid. All which are interveined with sundry instances of various delight pag. 277. 278 c. A disswasion from Delicacy of Apparell by reflecting on the Embleme of humane frailty the modell of our mortality Which continuate Subject is stored with a select variety of divine and humane observations pag. 279. 280. Superfluity of Apparell condemned the Fashion-mongers answered clozing that Branch with a devout Admonition and personall application from divine BASILE extracted and usefully applyed pag. 281. 282. That Apparell most comely which conferres on the wearer most native beauty and most honour on her Countrey pag. 283. Habit is a custome yet it is our custome to change our Habit. ibid. Each Countrey reteines a fashion of her owne save our owne ibid. Ours an extraction or confection of all which makes us Ieered at by all ibid. Gregory the Great being highly taken with the comely feature of the English said It was great pitty that those Angles should not in disposition as well as proportion resemble Angels ibid. Phantasticke fashions are no motives of affection to discreet Lovers pag. 284. Discretion will bee more taken with Modesty than Vanity and Humility than Vaine-glory ibid. The World is our Stage our Life an Act The Tyring-house where wee bestow'd such care cost and curiosity must bee shut up when our Night approacheth and strips us of these robes of our mortality Without Vertue all humane glory is a vading beauty ibid. BEHAVIOUR Observat. 2. BEhaviour reflects on three particulars Action Pag. 286. Affection Pag. 286. Passion Pag. 286. Vertue is the life of Action Action the life of man ibid. In this Subject some are employed but remissely to the purpose Others are employed to no purpose Others sleepe out their mind in security Others creepe and cringe into an Apish formality None of these direct the bent of their actions to the Object of true Glory ibid. A womans honour is of higher esteeme than to bee thus disvalued Light occasions are many times grounds of deepe aspersions Actions are to be seasoned with discretion seconded by direction strengthened with instruction lest too much rashnesse bring the undertaker to destruction ibid. A briefe Commemoration of divers noble women who as they were honourable by descent so were they memorable for desert Parallels to the best men for conversation