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A09530	Phisicke against fortune, aswell prosperous, as aduerse conteyned in two bookes. Whereby men are instructed, with lyke indifferencie to remedie theyr affections, aswell in tyme of the bryght shynyng sunne of prosperitie, as also of the foule lowryng stormes of aduersitie. Expedient for all men, but most necessary for such as be subiect to any notable insult of eyther extremitie. Written in Latine by Frauncis Petrarch, a most famous poet, and oratour. And now first Englished by Thomas Twyne.; De remediis utriusque fortunae. English	Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.; Twyne, Thomas, 1543-1613.	1579 (1579)	STC 19809; ESTC S114602	539,184	716

writing without choise or discretion and they that destroy all haue assured rewardes And this is not so much the fault of the writers which accordyng to the common custome of men do seeke after gayne as of studentes and those that are put in trust with publique gouerment who neuer had any care of such matter hauing forgotten what Constantinus gaue in charge to Eusebius of Palestine to wit that none should write bookes but such as were of skill and wel seene in the studie of antiquitie and very expert in the Art wherin they wryte Ioy. I haue good store of bookes Reason What yf thy mynde be not capable Dooest thou remember Sabinus in Seneca howe he vaunteth in the skyll of his seruantes What difference is there betweene thee and hym but that thou art the more foole and both of you bragge of that whiche is anothers he of his seruantes which in deede were his owne and thou of the learnyng of thy bookes whiche apparteyneth nothyng vnto thee There be some that wyl seeme to knowe what so euer is wrytten in theyr bookes at home and when there is mention made of any matter of learnyng that booke sayth he is in my studie supposyng that that were as muche to say as it is here also in my breast and so with a proude looke they say no more A ridiculus kynde of people Ioy. I haue abundaunce of bookes Reason Howe much rather had I that thou dyddest abounde in wyt and eloquence and learnyng and specially in innocencie and vertue Howbeit these thynges are not to be solde for money as bookes are and yf they were I knowe not whether they shoulde fynde so many buyers as those bookes doo Those furnysh the walles these the mynd whiche forasmuche as they are not seene with the eyes men regard them not But truely yf store of bookes made men learned or good then they that are the rychest men myght be the best and learnedst men the contrary wherof we see commonly Ioy. I haue bookes whiche are meanes and helpes to learnyng Reason Take heede that they be not rather impedimentes For as great multitudes of souldyers haue been vnto some an hynderaunce of wynnyng so plentie of bookes haue ben a let vnto some of learnyng and of store as it chaunceth commeth scarcitie but yf it be so that a man haue them they are not to be cast away but layde asyde and the best are to be vsed and diligent heede to be taken least perhaps they whiche woulde profyte in tyme may hynder out of season Ioy. I haue many and sundry bookes Reason The diuersitie of wayes many tymes deceyueth the trauayler and he that want assuredly in one path was in doubt when he came to a crosse way and the incertentie of three or foure wayes meetyng togeather is farre more great and so it happeneth often tymes that he that hath read one booke with effect hath opened and turned ouer many without profyte There be many thynges burdensome to them that learne but to the learned few woordes do suffice to much is hurtful vnto both but with strong shoulders it is to be borne vp Ioy. I haue gotten togeather a great many of excellent bookes Reason There is no man that I can nowe cal to remembraunce that was famous for his multitude of bookes besides the Kyng of Egypt of whom I spake before which honourable name he wan not so much by the number of his bookes as by his worthie transtation of certayne of them Doubtlesse a marueylous woorke of so many wittes vnlesse the wyt of one that came afterwarde had been a greater wonder but yf thou seeke glory by bookes thou must take another course for thou must not haue them only but know them neyther are they to be committed to the Library but to memorie and not to be shut vp in the ful studie otherwise no man shal be more glorious then the publique librarie or his owne studie Ioy. I haue many notable bookes Reason Thou hast many tyed in chaines who if they could breake away and speake they woulde bring thee to the iudgment of a priuate prison then wyl they priuily weepe and that for sundry thynges but specially for this one thyng for that one couetous person many tymes hath plentie of those which many that are studious do want Of the fame of writers The .xliiii. Dialogue IOY YEA what say you vnto it that I write bookes my selfe Reason A publique disease contagious and incurable Euery man taketh vpon hym the office of writing which belongeth but to fewe and one that is sicke of this disease infecteth many It is an easie matter to enuie and harde to imitate so that the number of the sicke encreaseth dayly and the strength also of the sycknesse waxeth more myghtie euery day moe doo wryte euery day woorse by reason that it is an easyer matter to folow then to ouertake Very proper and approued and founde true by experience is the saying of the wyse man of the Hebrues There is no ende of wrytyng bookes Ioy. I doo write Reason I woulde wyshe that men coulde keepe them selues within their boundes and that an order amongst all thynges were obserued whiche by the rashnesse of men is confounded They should write that haue skyll and are able and other reade and heare But nowe is it no small pleasure to the minde to vnderstande vnlesse the proud hand make haste also to pen and paper and whosoeuer doth vnderstand or thynke that he vnderstandeth some smal peece of a booke thinketh he hym selfe meete by and by to write bookes I woulde that this one saying of our countrey man Cicero in the very beginning of his Tusculane questions were engrauen in your memories so that it myght be knowen vnto all that are in high degree and place of lyght and knowledge It may be sayth he that a man may meane well but yet is not able eloquently to vtter that whiche be meaneth It foloweth also But for a man to commit his meanyng and thought to writing that is not able well to dispose and set it foorth in comly order neyther by any meanes to delyght the Reader is the part of one rashly abusing both his leasure and learning These woordes of Cicero are most true but this abuse is nowe growen so common that euery man taketh that to be sayde to hymselfe whiche sometyme was to that most holy banished man who wrote suche matter as he had learned out of the verie fountayne of trueth and not out of the dryed puddles sayde and oftentimes repeated this woorde Write Whiche commaundement al contemners of al preceptes doo obey for all doo write And yf as I haue sayd there be so great danger in those that write other mens bookes what shall we thynke of them that write their owne and them that be newe Whereby they bring into the worlde doubtful and damnable artes and opinions or that which is the least mischiefe that they commit they weerie men with theyr rude

must endeuour to doo what we may vnto which purpose besides the industrie of a couragious minde to whom nothing is hard nothing inexpugnable it were most conuenient to adioyne the sundrie speeches of wyse men although this kinde be now also very rare and especially continual and diligent reading of the woorkes and monumentes of good auctours so that there want not in vs a willing minde to consent vnto their holsome instructions which I may boldly tearme in earth to be the only liuely fountaine of good and fruitfull aduice Wherfore since we know that meane writers somtime are commended for their bare affection or for that they haue seemed to haue broken the Ice vnto those that haue followed them howe greatly are we beholden vnto the great and famous writers who being conuersant many hundred yeeres before vs here vpon the earth in their diuine wittes and most godly ordinances doo yet lyue dwel and talke with vs And among the perpetuall surges of our mindes like so many bright shining Starres fixed in the firmament of Trueth like so many sweete and pleasant gales of winde like so many industrious and expert saylers do both point vs to the hauen and direct the flittering sayles of our barkes thither and guyde the sterne of our flitting minde vntyll such tyme as our consultations which haue ben tost and driuen to and fro by tempestes doo stay their course and qualifie their motions And this is the true Philosophie not which is lifted vp with deceiptfull winges and vainely casteth about most proudly boasting it selfe in vnprofitable disputations but that by assured and modest degrees leadeth the rediest way vnto safetie To exhort thee vnto this studie perhaps it were freendly done but truely it is not necessarie For Fortune hath made thee greedie to reade much and to knowe many thynges who as they say beareth a great stroke in the worlde exposing thee to be tossed in the troublesome and deepe sea of cares and troubles Howbeit as she hath taken from thee the leasure to reade so hath she not the desire to knowe but that beyng delighted alwayes in the frendshyppe and familiaritie of learned men and vpon the most busiest dayes as often as opportunitie shall serue to steale idle houres thou myghtest haue a wyll to be euery day better instructed and learned in most excellent matters wherein I am a witnesse that thou hast often vsed thy memorie wherein thou art inferiour to none in steede of bookes Wherevnto yf thou were prone enough in thyne youth thou art nowe to be deemed so muche the more proner as the wayfaryng man that settech foorth late may seeme to be fresher and redier to trauayle then he that set foorth in the mornyng forasmuche as this is a common complaint among them that the way waxeth longer and the day decreaseth the whiche thing hapneth vnto vs in this course of our lyfe whilest we trauayle towardes the euenyng and see that we haue yet a long way to walke I neede not therefore to exhorte thee to doo that whiche thou hast alwayes doone most greedily of thine owne accorde It shall suffice me to haue admonished thee that thou bende thy minde in such sort that no care of humane and worldly affayres remoue thee which in the very finishing of great and most excellent workes haue turned many away after their woorthie and commendable traueiles begun Adding this moreouer that seeing it is impossible for thee to reade or here or remember all thinges at once thou repose thy selfe vpon the most profitable and for that breuitie is freend to Memorie the most briefest of them Not that I perswade thee to neglect the more busie and great conclusions and resolutions of wisedome whereby thou mayst defende thy selfe in the ordinarie conflict with Fortune but that thou mightest be lightly furnished in the meane while with these short and precise sentences as it were with certaine light and continual armour against al assaultes and sudden inuasions hapning on any side whatsoeuer For we wage double war with Fortune and in both there is in a manner equal danger wherof there is but one part cōmonly knowē by that name to wit that which is called Aduersitie The Philosophers although they knew both yet they iudged this to be the harder And therfore the saying of Aristotle in his boke of Ethikes is receiued as true wherein he thus defineth concerning this matter saying That it is an harder matter to endure aduersitie then to abstaine from pleasures Whom Seneca following and writing to Lucillus It is a greater matter sayth he to passe ouer difficult matters then to moderate the prosperous What shall I say May I presume to gaggle among such woorthie men It is an hard matter breedeth no smal suspition of rashnes for a new man to medle wi●h olde matters And therfore on the one side I am moued by auctoritie on the other by antiquitie But there commeth vnto my mind the auctoritie of an other great auncient man For it cannot be otherwise but that euery man conceiue an opinion of a thing according as it appeareth vnto him They are the woordes of Marcus Brutus writing vnto Atticus which I suppose to be so true that nothyng can be more true For what can I iudge of any thyng otherwyse then I thynke vnlesse perhappes I be constrayned to iudge by other mennes iudgementes whiche who so dooeth he iudgeth not of hym selfe but reporteth the iudgementes of other I therefore thus with reuerence passing ouer the iudgementes of suche notable men beyng in suche manner affectioned if I woulde say any thyng concernyng myne owne iudgement I knowe wel that some haue diuersly disputed otherwyse of the vertues and that the preheminence is not alwayes geuen to the most difficult neyther that it hapned by chaunce that modestie or whether thou had rather cal it temperance possessed the last place But as touchyng our purpose whereof we entreate I suppose it an harder matter to gouerne prosperitie then aduersitie and I playnely professe that in mine opinion and also in mine experience flatteryng fortune is more to be feared and farre more perilous then threatnyng fortune vnto whiche opinion it is not the fame of writers nor the subtiltie of woords nor the false sillogismes of sophisters but true experience it selfe and the dayly examples of this lyfe and the scarcitie whiche is a great argument of the difficultie whiche enforceth me For why I haue seene many that haue indifferently susteyned losses pouertie exile imprisonment punyshment death and great sickenesses that are more greeuous then death but that could wel beare ryches honoures and power I neuer yet sawe any For oftentymes euen in my sight those that haue stoode inuincible agaynst al violence of aduerse fortune prosperous fortune hath ouerthrowen with smal force and her flatteries haue ouercome that valiencie of mans minde whiche her threatnynges could not subdue It commeth to passe I wot not how that so soone as fortune waxeth more milde the

and which the holsomer But nowe thou committest the iudgement of the sounde to a deaffe sense concernyng which perhaps hytherto may seeme vnto some to be a small matter notwithstandyng it hath troubled many excellent men Neyther was it without cause that Plato a man of a diuine wyt supposed that Musicke apperteyned to the state and corrections of manners in a common wealth Of Daunsing The .xxiiii. Dialogue IOY I Delyght in dauncing Reason I woulde haue marueyled the more yf the noise of Vyals and Recorders had not pricked thee foorth also to dauncing and after the auntient maner one vanitie had not folowed another howbeit a greater and much more deformed By singyng there is some sweetenesse conceyued which many tymes is profitable and holy by dauncing neuer any thyng but lasciuiousnesse and a vayne sight hateful to honest eyes and vnmeete for a man. Ioy. I desire much to be at dauncinges Reason The body couereth and discouereth the mynde the castyng of the handes the moouyng of the feete the rouling of the eies declare that there is some such lyke wantonnesse in the mynde whiche is not seene And therfore it behooueth suche as are louers of modestie to take heede that they do not speake any wanton thyng For the hydden affectes of the mynde and secretes of the hart are many tymes descried by small tokens moouyng syttyng lying gesture laughter going speache al these are bewrayers of the mynde Ioy. I receyue great pleasure in dauncing Reason Oh foolyshe pleasure Imagine that thy selfe leadest a daunce or beholdest other daunsing without hearyng any instrument and seest the foolysh women or men more effeminate then women without any noyse to turne about and to daunce forward and backward I pray thee dydst thou euer see any thyng more absurde or doatyng But now the sound of the instrument couereth the vncomely moouyng that is to say one madnesse hydeth an other Ioy. I am delyghted in dauncing Reason There is not in dauncyng so much a present delight as an hope of pleasure to come For it is the forerunner of Venus to leade about selly women that are astonished with the sounde of the instrumentes to court them to claspe them and vnder colour of curtesie to wynne them there the handes are free the eyes free and the speech free there is noyse of the feete the dissonant voyces of the singers the soundyng of the trumpets the meeting togeather the dust and that which is often added to playes and shewes mght it selfe enimie to honestie friend to vices these be the things which driue away feare shame fastnesse these are the prouocations of leacherie these are the laxations of libertie And that ye shall not thinke me to be easily deceiued this is that delight which simply and as it were innocently ye professe by the name of dauncinges vnder the couering of pastime ye clooke wickednesse And although many times this be done among men only or women only they doo then but seuerally exercise themselues learne what they shal do when they meete againe like as schollers do meditate while their maister is absent what they shal say when he returneth Plucke vp by the coote this craftie and wicked shewe take away lasciuiousnesse and thou shalt take away dauncinges Beleeue me no man wyll daunce before the Lord with King Dauid lest peraduenture his wife laugh him to skorne although no man be mocked for dauncing or wantonly demeaning himselfe before his Lady Ioy. Dauncing is delectable Reason Thou art iumpe of mine opinion If it delight it is in respect of some other matter for of it selfe it is an absurd thing and bringeth more weerinesse then pleasure For to turne round what is it other then to procure giddines of the head and to goe about without ende Among the local motions whiche Plato reckeneth to wit these forward backward on the right hand on the left vpward dounward and round about only the seuenth is infinite And therefore the thinges that are perpetual that is to say heauen and the planets doo continualy obserue the same and in earth the madnesse of men increase ably putteth it in practise almost in all their actions and deuises Neyther is there any Orpheus to stay the Isionian wheele but inuisible dauncinges where the volubilitie of the mindes carieth the bodies about with them And therefore when that which is written may be sayd of al then may it most properly be verified of these The wicked walke round about This sport hath been the cause of many shamefull deedes Many times an honest Matron hath by meanes hereof lost her long preserued honestie Oftentimes the vnfortunate young virgin hath hereby learned that vppon her wedding day which she had better neuer had knowen Ioy. I am willing to exercise my selfe in honest dauncing Reason I had rather thou haddest choosen some other kinde of exercise But I perceyue whereabout thou goest and what thou meanest Thou wouldest haue this generall restreinct taken away thou wouldest haue libertie to be geuen and an order therein to be prescribed Forasmuche as therefore thou art so minded and suche is thy maner and custome then whiche if it be naught there is nothing worse and if it be good there is nothing better let this be a rule vnto thee in al these thynges that suche as thou canst not altogether want thou vse them most modestly and seldome That thou behaue not thy selfe softly nor womanlyke in any matter but let thy manly rigour shewe it selfe yea somwhat beyonde it owne boundes and let thy dauncing or what other pastime soeuer thou frequent be a relaxation to the weeried spirites and an exercise to the body and not a pleasure to effeminate the minde I woulde gladly abstayne from examples for the imitation of excellent men is not safe for al to folowe Euery feathered foule is not able to folow the Eagle Of imitatours some imitate the contrary some one thyng and some another Fewe doo fully attaine to the perfection of that whiche they imitate The younger Cato when his minde was ouerpressed with cares of the Common wealth was wont to refreshe hym selfe with wine The lyke did Solon among the Greekes Now some man perhappes desirous to imitate these wyll alwayes doo one thyng onely whiche they dyd he wyll drynke and that whiche they vsed to doo seldome tymes and moderately this man wyll doo continually and immoderatly and that whiche they vsed for a remedie he wyll abuse vnto drunkennesse The lyke may be easily shewed in other thinges also but nowe thou vnderstandest as well as I what that is which I feare with thee Notwithstanding forasmuch as thou hast enforced me to vndertake the defence of a condemned matter I wyl set downe vnto thee the example of a notable personage whiche thou shalt not folowe or not chaunge whiche I wyll recite vnto thee in these woordes whiche Seneca vseth in that booke wherein he searcheth after the tranquillitie of the minde Scipio sayth he mooued that same his