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A00698	A vvoorke of Ioannes Ferrarius Montanus, touchynge the good orderynge of a common weale wherein aswell magistrates, as priuate persones, bee put in remembraunce of their dueties, not as the philosophers in their vaine tradicions haue deuised, but according to the godlie institutions and sounde doctrine of christianitie. Englished by william Bauande.; De republica bene instituenda, paraenesis. English	Ferrarius, Johannes, 1485 or 6-1558.; Bavand, William.	1559 (1559)	STC 10831; ESTC S102013	301,803	438

theim that were with him But when his companions were minded to returne into their countrey and asked him whether he would haue any thinge conueied home he willed theim to reporte this as Vitruuius rehearseth That they ought to prepare such possessions and such prouision for their children as if they suffered shippewrake might swimme to the shoore with them For they be the true staies of our life which neither the stormes of fortune neither the chaunge of common weales ne yet the iniquitie of warre can harme But how muche the studies of humanitie haue alwaye from the beginnynge holpen common weales hereby we maie perceiue because no manne can more perfitely reason and decide of the vertue and happines whiche we seke in the societie of menne then he that hath the knowledge of such thinges as belong to god and manne By the guidynge whereof he perceyueth what is right what conscionable what iuste what it is to helpe one another and what is required to aduaunce the common weale whereby not onely good gouernement is fortified but also lawes the whole frame of kepyng a ciuill order is established For no man euer well adourned any Citie that hath not had the knowledge of these thinges So that he semed to haue aunswered verye wiselye whiche saide that this was the principall praise of Philosophers that they coulde write lawes and builde cities Suche a manne was Zaleucus at Locrus Charondas among the Catinians Philolaus amonge the Thebanes Plato to the Magnesians Draco and Solon to the Athenians Pittacus to the Prienians Androdamas to the Tracians and other lawe makers in other places as Aristotle hath left in writynge Moreouer Horace testifieth that the Poetes were wonte to call menne into townes from their wilde and sauage life and to shew them a trade of good liuinge in these verses The sacred prophete of the Gods sometime that Orpheus hight The vgglie shapen vvilde vvoode men subdued and put to flight Thereof vppe spronge the fable first that he the Tygers tamde And rampyng Lyons had by notes of ciuill musicke framde Amphion ehe that Thebes builte by sounde of harpe vvas saied To haue removde the senselesse stones and vvhere he vvoulde them laied The former vvisedome taught from priuate publike thinges to deme And hovve vve shoulde before prophane the sacred thinges esteme From vvanderyng lust eke to abstaine and bridebed lavves to haue To builde vp tovvnes for our defence and Lavves in vvoode to graue Thus sprong vp honour first to men and high renouvmed name Thus first encreast the prophetes praise and eke the Póétes fame For this is the studie for the zeale whereof good men haue not onely forsaken their riches but also them selues sekyng that whiche was for the common profite and might lincke men together by lawe this doe they call Philosophie vnto whom Tullie dothe speake on this wise O Philosophie the leader of our life the emplantour of vertue the weeder out of vyces what shoulde either I or the whole life of man be withoute thee Thou hast brought foorthe Cities thou hast assembled menne before dispersed into a societie of life thou ioynest them firste in houses then in marriages last of all in the communitye of learnyng and languages Thou hast bene the founder of lawes thou the maistres of maners and discipline Hereupon sayeth Plato that that common weale is happy where either Philosophers raigne or the kinges and rulers be studious of Philosophie Moreouer vnlesse there be practised in the common weale the doctrine of true religion and Godlinesse the discipline of good behauioure and the balaunce of Iustice what shall it be els but a conuocacion of wicked men wherein riote licenciousnes filthinesse beastlinesse intemperancie vngodlines and all kinde of viciousnes for vertues take place and beare swaye whiche neuertheles men of excellent learnynge and cleannesse of life may by conueniente meanes rote out and by openynge the right waye of vertue bringe menne to ciuilitie and nurture As be the professours of diuinitie whose vocation is to sette forthe Goddes worde Lawyers whiche decide what is agreable to reason and cōscience which shew what is right and what wronge and foresee that menne be not more senselesse and sauage then brute Beastes For the waies of men in this poincte dooe differ from the dennes caues couertes filthines of other liuing Creatures because they ought to be strengthened by reason onely and so to passe foorthe vnto the degrees of humanitie But ymagine a citie to be well peopled fortified faire builded but yet geuen to ydolatrie and wickednesse as Cayrum and the more is the pitie Constantinople and many other kingdomes seigniories and subiect to the Turkes tyranny Such be preserued and for the moste parte dooe most flourishe not onely by the kinges power and sworde but more by the instinct of nature whiche reason frameth and moueth to the societie of life that is by ordinaunce of lawes whereby euerie man is commaunded to liue and to obey higher powers For the Turke althoughe he hath forbidden his subiects al other kinde of learning yet he suffreth as thei saie houses of lawe that thereby the people may be prouoked to ciuilitie and be kept in doing their duetie And surely vnlesse the zeale of furtheryng one another and the wealthe and worshippe of the common weale had bene by common consent of all men established through the settyng on of suche as be studious of wisedome iustice and humanitie neither Carthage neither Athenes ne yet Rome the Ladye of the whole worlde nor other notable common weales could haue common vnto so greate famousnesse To the whiche learned men did not only prescribe lawes and the rule of liuyng wel but also gouerned the same with great honour Neither were they therewith content but set forth bokes wherin thei wrote preceptes of liuing not onely to their owne Citezins but to the profitynge of all countreys and their whole posteritie enfourming them with like traines of learning men worthy to receiue the rewarde of their trauailes and writinges to be well spoken of amongest good men to be reported to haue farre passed all other For the learned saieth Daniel shal shine like the brightnes of the firmament and they that instruct manie to righteousnesse as starres for euer Moreouer wisedome wherewith the multitude of people is knit together and ruled is holpen by the experience of many thinges mēnes natures and worldly affaires whiche thei shall the readier attaine vnto who haue trauailed in readyng of histories and chronicles whiche God would haue to be set before vs as an ensample of life whereby wee might vnderstande his goodnesse his loue towarde mankinde some taste of vertue and order of gouernement to the entent we might learne to receiue soche thinges as doe prepare vs to blessednesse and to eschue soche thinges as bee dishonest and vnsemelie for a ciuill liuer But there be certaine Touneshippes and Villages where none