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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04569	The pilgrimage of man, vvandering in a vvildernesse of vvoe wherein is shewed the calamities belonging to man being borne in this world, and how all the principall estates thereof are crossed with misery.	Johnson, Richard.	1635 (1635)	STC 14691.7; ESTC S2158	18,352	32

taxe and draw money from the poore people and generally all their study is imployed to bée wastfull and prodigall in the exactions and miseries of the poore commons The third and last sort are such that vnder the cloake of kindnes and honesty counterfayting good men haue alwayes their eyes vpon other mens liuings and make themselues reformers of vices They inuent wicked and false deuices not only how to get other mens goods but oftentimes their liues who before God are most innocent Behold here you may well sée the manifold miseries that compasse Scepters and states of Princes Here are the Thornes that they receiue in recompence of their brightnesse and royall Dignity which ought like a Lampe to giue light to all the world but when it is eclipsed or darkned with any vice it is more reprochfull in them than in any other priuate person whatsoeuer for they sin not only in the fault which they commit but also by the example that they giue The abundance of honours and pleasures that Princes enioy serueth as a baite to induce them to euill and are the very Matches to giue fire to Uice What was Saul before hée was made King whose life is shewed in the holy Scripture whom God did elect yet he made a sudden eclipse or changeing How wonderfull was the beginning of the Reigne of King Salomon the which being ouercome with Royall pleasures gaue himselfe as a prey to women Of two and twenty Kings of Iuda there is found but fiue or sixe that haue continued in their vertue If we consider the estate of the Assyrians Persians Grecians and Egyptians wee shall finde more of them wicked than good If wee consider what the Kings and Romane Emperours were which hath béene the most flourishing Common-wealth in the world we shall find them so ouercome with vices and all kind of cruelties that I do almost abhorrs to speake of their corrupt defiled liues What was the estate of their Common-wealth before that Scilla Marius did murmure against it before that Catiline and Catulla did perturbe it before that Caesar and Pompey did slander it before that Augustus and Marcus Antonius did destroy it before that Tiberius and Caligula did defame it before that Domitian and Nero did depraue it For although they made it rich with many Kingdomes and Lordships yet were the vices they brought with them more greater than the Kingdomes they gayned For their goods and riches are consumed yet their vices remaine vnto this day What memory remaineth of Romulus that founded the City of Rome Of Numa Pompilius that erected the Capitoll Of Ancus Martius that compassed it with walles Did not they shew what felicity remaineth in high estates who are more subiect to the assaults of Fortune than any other earthly creature For many times the thred of life breaketh when they thinke least of death and then the infamy of those that bée wicked remaineth written in Histories for a perpetuall memorie thereof The which thing all Estates ought more to regard a thousand times than the tongue that speaketh euill which can but shame the liuing but Bookes record a perpetuall infamy for euer Which thing being duely considered of by many Emperours and Kings in times past they forsooke their Scepters and royal Empires and betooke them to an obscure life resting better contented with a little in quiet than to enioy with full sayle the crooked honours of the world CHAP. V. Of the misery of vicious Courtiers and of their wicked liues WHat greater felicity can there bée in this world than to bée in a Princes fauour to bee at his elbow at all times to vse courtly manners and other offices of humanity of which number there be some so subtile crafty that they doe play as the Fisherman who as soone as he hath gotten any thing in his Net giueth ouer the Court and goeth his way Othersome there are that play all out and other that remaine vntill they become wonderous rich and in the end they are made to restore all backe againe There are also others that doe nothing but inuent meanes to enlarge their treasures and become wealthy with spoyling poore people Princes doe by them many times as we doe by our Hogs we let them fatten to the end we may eate them afterward so likewise are they suffered many times to enrich themselues to be disposed of afterward when they are fat and one that is new come oftentimes is preferred in their places By this you may see that Courtiers oftentimes do sell their libertie to become rich For they must obey all commandements they must frame themselues to laugh when the prince laugheth to wéepe when he weepeth approue that which he approueth and condemne that which he condemneth They must alter and change their natures to be seuere with those that are seuere sorrowfull with those that are sorrowfull and in a manner transforme themselues according to the nature of him whom they will please or els he shal get nothing To be briefe they must frame themselues to his manners and nature and yet many times one little offence staineth all the seruice they haue done in their life time before Many in Princes Courts put off their Cappes to them whom they would gladly see cut shorter by the head and often bow their knees to doe them reuerence whom they wish had broken their neckes Here you may sée the life of a great number of vicious Courtiers which is no life but rather a lingring death here you may sée wherein their youth is imployed which is no youth but a transitory death for when they come to age they bring nothing from thence but gray heads their feete full of Gouts their backes full of paine their hearts full of sorrow and their soules filled with sin CHAP. VJ. Of the misery of Magistrates that administer not true Iustice with a discourse against wicked Iudges NOw our discourse of Courtiers being past it is requisite that we speake of things done in the ciuill life and to how many miseries it is subiect For although it be at this day a degrée most Noble and necessary for the peace of mans life yet shall we find that it deserues to haue his part in this Pilgrimage as well as others and if there be any delectation pleasure or honour depending thereon yet it is transitory and vnconstant First knowing that all the actions of Magistrates passe before the eyes of the common people whose iudgements in matters of state be but simple yet haue they a certaine smell or sauour to know the good from euill wherefore those that be Iudges and Magistrates be subiect as in a Play to be hissed at and chased away with shame and confusion For the hare-brained people which is compared to a monster with many heads are mutable vncertaine fraudulent apt to wrath and mutiny ready to prayse or dispraise without wisedome or discretion variable in their talke vnlearned and obstinate Therefore it behooueth