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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 ●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 advācement 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 cōmerce 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 f●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

the first and faile ever for as the first onset terrifies the enemie so in actions of this nature the only meanes to gaine opinion is to come off bravely in the beginning Now perchance it may happen that he from whom you have received wrong will take no notice of your distaste but will doe as hee did who receiving a Challenge upon some personall touch whereby he apprehended the occasion for his best advantage of making choice as the Challenged may of time place weapon and second returned this answer to the Messenger For the time I know not when for the place when that time comes it shall be the Alpes for the weapon it shall be Guyes sword that slew the Cow on Dunmooth heath and for my Second it shall be your selfe that I may bring you within the compasse of Duelloes If with such your fortune be to deale as many there are more valiant in tongue than hand more apt to offer wrong than tender satisfaction know thus much that these Alpes which hee hath named and whereto he never meanes to come is what place soever you shall meet him the time whensoever you shall have fit opportunitie to encounter him the weapon though he chuse it you may refuse it because it is too closely kept to come to and make choice of your owne weapon lest by going to Warwicke Castle to procure a sword you forget your wrong before you come there and the Second your only selfe that as you are particularly wronged you may be particularly righted for as the wrong toucheth you and no Second so you are to right your selfe without a Second But the safest and surest course as I said before not to partake with men of this condition is to refraine their company and conversation for these firie Spirits who have Thersites tongue and Antaeus hand are dangerous to consort with for they seldome resort to any meeting but either they doe hurt or receive it So as even in these tolerable Recreations of Horse-races Cockings Bowlings c. you shall ever see these throw one bone or other to make differences amongst men of qualitie and ranke wherein they will be sure to be interested as Seconds if not as principall Agents My advice therefore is that you avoid their company as disturbers of the publike peace interrupters of all honest Recreations and profest enemies to all civill societie For as wee read of the Bird Curuca that she will rather hatch the egges of another than hatch none at all so these will rather engage themselves in others differences and like subtill Spiders spin the web of dissention than be without imployment but they hatch the Cockatrice egges reaping the fruit of their labours to their shame But wee have insisted too long upon them wherefore wee will returne to our former discourse As wee have briefly touched some Recreations well sorting with the qualitie of a Gentleman being such as tend especially to his accomplishment outwardly so are wee now to treat of such as may conferre no lesse benefit to the inward man by enabling him for matters of discourse Of which ranke Reading of History is to be accounted as one especially tending thereto and that not only in respect of discourse but in respect of discipline and civill societie being there taught how to demeane ●r behave our selves in all our actions how to moderate 〈◊〉 ●ffections how to gaine worthy esteeme both in our ma●nagements publike and private Cicero entring into the commendation of Histories honours them with this Rhetoricall definition Histories saith he are the witnesses of times the light of truth the life of memory the mistresse of life the messenger of antiquitie In which notable exemplification he shewes what excellent fruits may be gathered from the select flowers of Histories First how the passages and events of former times are there recorded Secondly how the truth of things by the light of Historie is discovered Thirdly our memory is revived Fourthly our life is directed Fiftly antiquities successively transscribed In Tacitus are three notes which are required in a perfect History First Truth in sincere relating without having any thing haustum ex vano Secondly explanation not only of the sequels of things but also the causes and reasons Thirdly judgement in distinguishing things by approving the best and disallowing the contrary Touching which three notes wee are to observe first that there is necessarily required in every Historie a sincere relation of truth foisting nothing in which may seeme either fabulous or impertinent Likewise it is not enough to lay downe or explaine the sequels or issues of things but the causes and reasons from whence those sequels issued Thirdly there is required judgement in distinguishing probabilities from improbabilities never setting ought downe for a grounded truth without approved authoritie Having thus proposed unto you the fruits redounding from Historie as also what is required therein to make it more generally affected it rests now that I shew my opinion to●ching your choice of Histories of which subject because I have heretofore copiously treated I will only speake a word and so descend to the last branch of this Observation Augustine in his fourth booke De Civit. Dei calls Salust A Noble and true Historian noble in respect of his descent true in respect of his discourse Neither doth he indeed deserve any lesser title for his phrase is elegant without affectation his discourse continuate without impertinent digression and the Series of his Historie stored with much sententious instruction From the depth of a princely judgement Caesars Commentaries have received most noble approbation But if you would take view of a flourishing State whose greatnesse never any attained to being raised from such beginnings be acquainted with Tacitus or Livie where you shall observe the courses and passages of many eminent Princes how they bare themselves in their height how in their hate Here you shall see Those men who as Cosmo saith carry their heart in their mouth are more to be pittied than feared for these judge men only by the outward appearance Whereas Tiberius gloried in nothing so much as in cunningly cloaking his purposes with faire pretences going invisible and deluding his subjects resolutions with a seeming good Here you shall likewise observe others so obsequiously seeming as they strove not onely to satisfie the mindes but eyes of the Citizens understanding well enough that the common sort of people were catcht sooner by a cheerfull countenance and a pleasing outward semblance than any other respect whatsoever Some you shall see note much yet will bee seene to note little therefore Agrippina in Tacitus knowing her life to bee attempted by Nero knew well that her onely remedy was to take no notice of the treason so is Scipio described by Cicero to be the most cunning searcher of m●ns minds and Sylla by Salust Others you shall observe so much dejected presently upon