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A40750 Advice to a young lord written by his father ... Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1657-1710. 1691 (1691) Wing F255A; ESTC R13706 24,090 146

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my opinion a greater Enemy to Peace and Charity than the Railer for as ordinary Claudius accusat Maechos so one Jeer seldom but returns with its equal which together produce a Quarrel besides to abuse Inferiours argues a mean and contemptible Spirit Superiours is dangerous To abuse a Friend is to lose him a Stranger to lose your self in the Worlds esteem Near of Kin to these are the Drolls who turn all to Ridiculousness but I think themselves most There is nothing so sacred and prudent which by the petulancy of Wit may not be made ridiculous and consequently contemptible The Holy Scriptures I have heard to have been Burlesqu'd by those who spare neither their Souls nor Reputation to prove themselves Buffoons and shew their Abilities an ingenious Folly And these whilst they think to fool others become themselves really what others are in their Imagination The most innocent graceful and universal Discourse is telling Stories and Modern rather than Ancient some I have known so very excellent in this as to parallel any case by some piece of History This if well done is a very great Perfection of Eloquence and Judgment and will render your Company grateful and desirable by Persons of Sense and Learning I shall now end only to the rest whose Correspondence and Society I would have you shun add the Flatterer who by observing the Actions and Discourses of their pretended Patron discover his Inclinations as Hunters do the haunts of wild Beasts the more easily to entrap them It is their interest he should be vicious careless irregular and extravagant for by that means they can more easily withdraw him from all vertuous Persons and ingross him to themselves who have no other way to ingratiate themselves but their ready compliance with all his desires This they endeavour should pass for Affection to his Person and they represent all other Advisers either as contemners of him or at best of morose ungentiel Humour Therefore they pretend to Idolize him to observe his Counsels and Commands as Oracles not to converse with those he suspects to inveigh against his Enemies to make him their Mouth and themselves even in their own Affairs ruled by him to take great content in serving him to praise him immoderately before those who will be sure to inform him of it to exaggerate every small Favour received from him and to dissemble the Injuries They are also careful to new-name all his Vices Debauchery they call Merriment Jealousie Circumspection Prodigality Generosity c. They feign also in themselves the like Inclinations Sympathy and Sentiments with their Patron and often undervalue themselves in respect to him They are also apt to praise him for what he hath not done or extravagantly for what he hath done glossing and putting a Varnish over all Miscarriages c. and few there are who escape this Bait. For who is he who values not himself above his deserts and thinks not all is his due which is given In reality the refusing or accepting of Praise rationally and discreetly is as great a Tryal of a Wise Man as the Cupel is of Silver My Concern for the Miscarriage of a late young Kinsman of ours who was ruined meerly by hearkening to the adulations of such Parasites and forsook the advises of his Friends and nearest Relations have made me be more punctual in describing the craft and subtilty of these wicked Men whose Conversation is not only Ignominious in the sight of this World but will make you Eternally Miserable in the next I have here my dear Son sent you my Advice for the management and Conduct of your self in the most important Affairs of this World They are not in such a method as I could wish they were and as I thought at first to have reduc'd them but my Employment in the Publick Affairs of the Nation would not permit me to place these my Admonitions in so accurate a method as I intended by diverting my Thoughts to look after my other Business Yet I believe I have omitted but little of what I should have said and dare promise my self that among these lines you may pick out what will be of use to you in your most especial Concerns As to your Behaviour in the University I have altogether left you to the Management of your Tutor whose Advices and Admonitions if you follow I 'm sure I need not despair of receiving such a return as all your Friends and my self expect from you This I charge you upon my Blessing not to neglect the Publick Prayers in your College from which nothing but sickness ought to give you a dispensation By this you will be an Example to all the other Gentlemen of your Society and oblige all good Men to be your Friends add joy to your Relations and be the greatest Comfort in this World to Your Affectionate and Loving FATHER A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS Worth the Perusing Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1. ADvice to a Daughter under these following Heads viz. Religion c. 2. The Works of Edmund Spencer Esq Containing his Fairy Queen c. 3. A Weeks Exercise preparatory towards a worthy Reception of the Lords Supper in Meditations Prayers and Ejaculations before at after the holy Communion also Rules and Exercises how to live well after it The second Edition 4. Sophonisba or Hanibals overthrow Written by Nat. Lee. 5. The State of Innocence or the Fall of Man an Opera written by Mr. John Dryden in Heroick Verse 6. Advice to a young Lord written by his Father under these following Heads viz. Religion Study and Exercises Travel Marriage Housekeeping and Hospitality of the Court of Friendship of Pleasure and Idleness and of Conversation 7. Milton's Paradise Lost in Twelve Books Fol. with Cutts 8. Love for Money or the Boarding-School shewing the Folly of those that put their Children therein and also exposing the subtilty of Jilts about London c. A Comedy written by T. D. Gent. 9. The Visions of Don Francisco de Quevedo Villegas Knight of the Order of St. James Made English by Sir R. L. 10. The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral of Sir Francis Bacon Lord Verulam Viscount St. Alban with a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil whereunto is added the Wisdom of the Ancients 11. Lively Oracles given to us or the Christians Birth-right and Duty in the Custody and Use of the Holy Scripture by the Author of the Whole Duty of Man 12. Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished by George Sandys The Eighth Edition 13. A Dialogue concerning Women being a Defence of the Sex Written to Eugenia 14. Plutarch's Morals Translated by several hands FINIS