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The first set of madrigals and pastorals of 3. 4 and 5. parts. Newly composed by Francis Pilkington, Batchelor of Musicke and lutenist, and one of the Cathedrall Church of Christ and blessed Mary the Virgin in Chester; Madrigals and pastorals. Set 1
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Pilkington, Francis, d. 1638.
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than to labor a ground exceeding much and to ouer-til it L. Rarius Rufus a man of very base and low parentage descended yet aduanced to the Consular dignity for his prowesse in feats of arms was otherwise very thrifty and sparing after the maner of the old world insomuch as partly by his niggardise and partly through the liberality of Augustus Caesar he had gathered good together amounting to the sum of an hundred millions of Sesterces all which masse of money what with purchasing land to land in the Picene country and what with bestowing such a deale of husbandry vpon it more ywis of a vain glory and ostentation than for any profit that he reaped thereby he laid forth and spent euery whit of that stock insomuch as hardly he could finde any man that would take vpon him to be his executor or to accept simply of the inheritance What shall we say then or what good commeth of such houses or lands so chargeable as that they are like to cost a man his life and that by famine I hold therfore that in all things a mean is best and bringeth greatest profit in the end To till and husband ground well is necessary to ouer-do the same and to exceed turneth more to the damage than the profit of the lord vnlesse it were done by his own children or to maintain the charge of keeping such hinds as otherwise must be found if they sat still and did nothing for setting that cause aside it falleth out oftentimes that the gathering and inning of some haruest if a man count all the pains emploied and the mony of the purse is nothing beneficial to the master In like maner Oliues would not alwaies be tended and looked vnto ouermuch neither do some grounds require much diligence but are the worse for such attendance as may be seen by report in Sicily which is the cause that new commers thither for to be tenants and to occupy those lands are many times deceiued and put besides their reckoning After what manner then shall we proceed in the husbandry of our land to most benefit and behoofe Learn a rule out of the Oracle or sententious riddle which goeth in this forme Malis bonis i. Cheapest Best But herein me thinks good reason it is that our old great grandfathers should be defended and excused for holding these strange and obscure paradoxes they I say who by such rules and precepts tooke great care and paines to instruct vs how to liue Would you know then what they meant by this word Malis surely they vnderstood those that were cheapest and stood them in least The chiefe point of all their prouidence and forecast was to goe the nearest way to worke and to be at the smallest cost and no maruell for who were they that gaue out these thriftie precepts euen those who reproched a victorious General and one who triumphed ouer the enemy for hauing a cupboord of siluer plate weighing but ten pound those I say who if their bayliffes of husbandrie chanced to die whereby their lands in the countrey stood void would make suit to be gone themselues thither and to return to their own fermes leauing behind them the glory of all their victories by them atchieued and to conclude euen those who whiles they were imploied in the conduct of armies had their grounds looked vnto and tilled at the charges of the common-weale and had no other for their bayliffs than the noble Senators of Rome From their mouths came these other oracles and wise sentences following An ill husband is he who is forced to buy that which his ferme might affoord him As bad is that housholder master of a family who doth that in the day which might be don by night vnlesse vnseasonable weather driue him to it worse than either of these is he who doth that vpon work-daies which should haue bin done on play daies or idle holidaies but the worst of all other is he who when the weather is fair wil chuse to work rather within close house than abroad in the open field here I cannot hold and rule my selfe but I must needs alledge one example out of antient histories whereby it may be vnderstood How it was an ordinary matter to commense actions and to maintaine pleas in open court before the body of the people in the case of Husbandry as also in what sort those good Husbandmen of old time were wont to defend their owne cause when they were brought into question And this was the case There was one C. Furius Cresinus late a bond-slaue and newly infranchised who after that hee was set at liberty purchased a very little piece of ground out of which he gathered much more commodity than all his neighbors about him out of their great and large possessions whereupon he grew to be greatly enuied and hated insomuch as they charged him with indirect means as if he had vsed sorcery and by charmes and witch-craft drawne into his owne ground that increase of fruits which should otherwise haue growne in his neighbors fields Thus vpon complaint and information giuen he was presented and indited by Spurius Albinus an Aedile Curule for the time being and a day was set him down peremptorily for his personal appearance to answer the matter He therfore fearing the worst and doubting that he should be cast to pay some grieuous fine at what time as the Tribes were ready to giue their voices either to acquit or condemne him brought into the common place his plough with other instruments and furniture belonging to husbandry he presented likewise in the open face of the court his owne daughter a lusty strong lasse and big of bone yea and as Piso telleth the tale well fed and as well clad he shewed there I say his tooles and plough yrons of the best making and kept in as good order maine and heauy coulters strong and tough spades massie and weighty plough-shares and withall his draught Oxen ful and faire Now when his course came to plead his own cause before the people and to answer for himselfe thus he began and said My masters quoth he you that are citizens of Rome behold these are the sorceries charms and all the inchantments that I vse pointing to his daughter his oxen furniture abouenamed I might besides quoth he alledge mine owne trauell and toile that I take the early rising and late sitting vp so ordinary with me the carefull watching that I vsually abide and the painefull sweats which I daily indure but I am not able to represent these to your view nor to bring them hither with me into this assembly The people no sooner hard this plea of his but with one voice they all acquit him and declared him vnguilty without any contradiction By which example verily a man may soone see that good husbandrie goeth not all by much expence but it is pains taking and careful diligence that doth the deed And hereupon came the old sayd
loosenesse of the bellie And yet there is another singular remedie for the bloudy flix namely to put the meat of a raw egg in a little earthen pot that neuer was occupied and to add therto as much hony as may amount to the quantitie of the egg to the end that all be of equall proportion then within a while after to temper therewith the like measure of vinegre oile both and to beat them all together oftentimes that they may be well concorporat and vnited in one In which composition this is to be obserued That the better that euery one of these ingredients is that enter into this confection the more excellent operation and speedier remedy wil ensue therupon Others there are who in stead of oile and vinegre put in red rosin and wine according to the former rate and proportion how beit they temper the said medicine after another sort for they put in of oile only as much as the egg comes to adding thereto of the pine-tree barke two sixtie parts of a Romane denier and one sixtie part of Sumach which I called Rus and fiue oboli weight of hony with this charge That they be all boiled together and that the patient eat no other meat whatsoeuer for the space of foure hours after Many there be who to cure and ease the wringing gripes and torments of the belly taks two egs and foure cloues of Garlick which they pun and stamp together then they heat them ouer the fire in one hemine of wine and giue this mash vnto the patient to drinke To conclude because I would not willingly omit any thing that may commend egs and giue grace vnto them know thus much moreouer That the gleere or liquid white of an egg with quicke-lime maketh an excellent sement to souder or vnite any broken pieces of a glasse together besides of such strength and efficacie they are that neither a piece of wood no nor so much as any parcell of cloath wet or dipped in the white of an eg wil burn but check the violence of the fire Howbeit note that all which I haue spoken of egs is to be meant those that hens only do lay for as touching other birds egs I wil write in their due places for as much as they are not destitute of many peculier vertues and singular properties of their own Ouer besides I will not ouerpasse one kind of eggs besides which is in great name and request in France and whereof the Greeke authors haue not written a word and this is the serpents egg which the Latins call Anguinum For in Summer time yerely you shall see an infinit number of snakes gather round together into an hpape entangled and enwrapped one within another so artificially as I am not able to expresse the manner thereof by the means therfore of the froth or saliuation which they yeeld from their mouths and the humour that commeth from their bodies there is engendred the egg aforesaid The priests of France called Druidae are of opinion and so they deliuer it That these serpents when they haue thus engendred this egg do cast it vp on high into the aire by the force of their hissing which being obserued there must be one ready to latch and receiue it in the fall again before it touch the ground within the lappet of a coat of arms or soldiours cassocks They affirme also that the party who carrieth this egg away had need to be wel mounted vpon a good horse and to ride away vpon the spur for that the foresaid serpents will pursue him still and neuer giue ouer vntil they meet with some great riuer between him and them that may cut off and intercept their chase They ad moreouer and say that the onely marke to know this egg whether it be right or no is this That it will swim aloft aboue the water euen against the stream yea though it were bound and enchased with a plate of gold Ouer and besides these Druidae as all the sort of these magicians be passing cautelous and cunning to hide and couer their deceitfull fallacies do affirme That there must be a certaine speciall time of the Moones age espied when this businesse is to be gone about as if forsooth it were in the power and disposition of man to cause the moon and the serpents to accord together in this operation of engendring the egg aforesaid by their froth and saliuation I my selfe verily haue seen one of these egs and to my remembrance as big it was as an ordinary round apple the shell thereof was of a certaine gristly and cartilagineous substance and the same clasped all about as it were with many acetables or concauities representing those of the fish called a Pourcuttle which shee hath about her legs And it is the ensigne or badge that the Druidae doe carry for their armes And they hold it a soueraigne thing for to procure readie excesse vnto any princes and to win their grace and fauour as also to obtaine the vpper hand ouer an aduersarie in any sute and processe of law if one do carrie it about him But see how this vanitie and foolish persuasion hath possessed the minds of men for I am able vpon mine owne knwledge to auouch that the Emperor Claudius Caesar commanded a man of arms and gentleman of Rome descended from the Vocantians to be killed for no other reason in the whole world but because he carried one of these egs in his bosome at what time as he pleaded his cause before him in the court This winding and mutuall enfolding of these serpents one within another putting me in mind of one thing worth the obseruation That it was not for nought that forrein nations haue ordained that their Embassadors who had commission to treat of peace should carrie with them a certaine rod or mace wherein were pourtraied serpents winding and clasping round about it to signifie and shew that these creatures as sauage fell and venomous as they be otherwise and as it were made altogether of poison yet otherwhiles they accord and agree well enough together where it is furthermore to be noted that the manner was not to represent in these maces and ensignes of peace any furious serpents with crests vpon their heads As touching geese and their eggs how good and profitable they are before I enter into any discourse for my purpose is to treat of them also in this very booke I cannot chuse but for the honour due vnto the Comagenes in regard of an excellent composition by them made write first of it being of them called Comagenum for that also the principall and best of that kind was most vsed and in greatest request in Comagene which is a region belonging vnto Syria It consisteth of goose greace cinamon casia or canelle white pepper and an herbe called likewise Comagene Now for the better mixture and fermentation of these ingredients and the whole composition the vessell which containeth the same ought