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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01992	The wise vieillard, or old man. Translated out of French into English by an obscure Englishman, a friend and fauourer of all wise old-men; Sage vieillard. English	Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.; Williamson, Thomas, 1593-1639.; T. W., obscure Englishman.	1621 (1621)	STC 12136; ESTC S103357	144,385	222

which the imperfections of mad doting old men are bewrayed and discouered and wise old men are so much the more put in minde how they ought to beare and behaue themselues in the sight of God of his Church of their owne seruants and families of their friends which wish them well and of their enemies which wish them ill seeking to discredit disgrace and defame them It is lamentable to see some old men to idle out the time in potting tipling and swilling in drinke others to seeke after meats and provocatiue drugs to enflame and stirre vp their beastly lustes not regarding the commandement of the Apostle in the second Chapter of his Epistle to Titus second verse where he willeth auncient men to bee sober graue discreete and aduised Such persons doe yet lesse remember that which the Author of Ecclesiasticus sayth Chapter 25. verse 3. 4. There are three sorts of men whom my heart hateth and whose life I abhorre A poore man that is proud a rich man that is a lyer and an old adulterer which doteth or is without vnderstanding A wise man sayd that is an imputation to an old man to speake of vnchast courting and dalliance much more to be deuoted to it yea when it were fit to make him a comely withdrawing roome farre from the canopies of the world and the vncleane spirit then to wallow and bemyre himselfe in the perillous pleasures of the world is to neglect and dispise the wise admonitions of Salomons mother and little to consider the euils which happened to that wise Prince for not hauing considered it well when she left him this worthie instruction Giue not thy strength to women Pro. 31. 3. Our wise Vieillard will remember that if true wisedome lodge in his heart and the knowledge of truth delighteth his soule she will deliuer him from the strange woman which smootheth her words which forsaketh the guide of her youth and forgetteth the couenant of her God For her house leaneth vnto death and her pathes lead vnto the dead Not one of them which goe vnto her doe returne againe neither take they hold of the wayes of life Pro. 2. v. 10. 16. 17. c. Keepe thy way farre from her and come not neere the dore of her house least thou giue thine honour vnto others and thy yeares to the cruell least the stranger be filled with thy strength and thy labours be in the house of a stranger Pro. 5. v. 8. c. Salomon hauing in the same place propounded notable things to this purpose euen as a wise Father who with teares trickling a pace downe his cheekes would admonish his lewd stubborne sonne addeth why shouldest thou my sonne bee transported with the loue of a strange woman or embrace the bosome of a stranger seeing the wayes of man are before the eyes of the Lord and he pondereth all his pathes The same wise Salomon further sayth in the sixt Chapter The woman which lusteth hunteth after the precious life of a man Can a man put fire into his bosome and his cloathes not be burnt shall a man goe vpon hote coales and his feete not be burnt so he that goeth into his neighbours wife shall not bee innocent whosoeuer toucheth her Also he that committeth adulterie with a woman is destitute of vnderstanding hee that doth it destroyeth his owne soule In the chapter following hee describeth a shamelesse and impudent woman who by her crafts and subtile deuices brings those to destruction who for want of vnderstanding suffer themselues to be seduced by her enticing wordes comparing such idiots to Beastes that are led to the slaughter house to fooles that are layed and chayned vp in Prison to be corrected to Birds which willingly fall into pit-falles and snares Let our wise Vieillard remember that the author of all holinesse hath expressely condemned whoredome and adulterie not onely in the act but also in the affection In stead of beholding with an euill eye those women whose company he ought to shunne and avoyd let him read or cause to be read vnto him the places of holy Scripture which we goe about to quoate vnto him and which are the parts and points of the inditement according to which God will judge whore-mongers and adulterers Heb. 13. 4. The places are these Gen. 26. 3. Behold thou art dead because of the Woman which thou hast taken shee was onely taken and not defiled Gen. 26. 10. Abimelech sayd to Isaac who somewhat vnaduisedly behaued himselfe in the behalfe of his wife Rebecca it was a narrow hazzard that none of the people lay not with thy wife and that thou hast not beene the cause to haue the sin layd vnto vs. Exod. 20. 14. Thou shalt not commit adulterie Leuit. 18. 20. Thou shalt not lye with thy neighbours wife defiling thy selfe with her Leuit. 20. 10. Adulterers are condemned to death Deut. 22. 24. He that polluteth and defyleth a betrothed virgin is condemned to death with her if she hath consented to it Deut. 23. 17. There shall not be a whore among the daughters of Israell not a whore-keeper among the sonnes of Israel Our Lord Iesus condemneth him of adulterie in the heart which looketh vpon a woman to lust after her Saint Paul propoundeth diuers arguments against whore-mongers and adulterers Rom. 13. 13. and 1 Cor. 6. 15. 16. 18. and the 10. 8. and the 2 Cor. 12. 22. Galat. 5. 19. Ephes 5. 3. Coloss 3. 5. and the 2 Thes 4. 3. c. Heb. 13. 4. Which our wise Vieillard will examine then hee will ioyne thereunto the considerations of the terrible punishments of families defyled with such sinnes the fearefull judgements pronounced against sencelesse and obdurate consciences the lamentable changes and alterations in the familie of Dauid and Salomon and of many others since the strong and inuincible arguments of the Apostle 1 Cor. 6. Chapter to this effect briefely that whore-mongers and adulterers are shutt out of the kingdome of God Therefore that we may haue a part in the inheritance of the Saints who are sanctified and iustified in the name of the Lord Iesus and by the spirit of God we must remember first that our bodies are not for whoredome but for the Lord and the Lord for the bodie Secondly that seeing our bodies shall rise againe not to ignominie and pollution but to glory and holines it is reason we should keepe them pure and vnpolluted for so are they members of Christ and consequently it should be horrible sacriledge to make them members of a Harlot Thirdly that being members vnited vnto the Lord and made one spirit with him it is not meete in no sort to ioyne them to a Harlot with whom we are made one bodie Fourthly that whoredome ought to be detested aboue all other sinnes for whatsoeuer sinne a man committeth it is without the bodie but he which committeth adulterie sinneth against his owne bodie Fiftly that our bodies are temples of the holy Ghost which is in vs which

and stooping in the showlders and be still an able and practised man And that this is true Cicero giues vs some examples Neither the Kings counsell Table sayth he nor his Court of Common-pleas nor my Clients for whom I pleade at the barre nor my friends nor strangers can complaine that they lacke me or my helpe Zenophon reportes that Cyrus in a Discourse which he made a little before his death maintained that he neuer felt himselfe to haue a lesse able bodie in his age then he had when hee was young Cicero sayth further that when he was a childe he saw L. Metellus a very aged man so strong of body that he cared not to be young Masinissa king of Numidia could not be perswaded to goe couered with a Hatt on his head when he was fourescore and ten yeares old but in raine hayle frost and snow went bare headed Appius when he was very old blind gouerned a great familie had a spirit like a bow alwayes bent prepared and resolued to dare defye and wrastle with old age in such sort that he bore all the sway of Command in his house and kept all his family in so good awe and order that he was reuerenced of his children and beloued of his neighbors Some doe accuse old age in men that it makes them heauie headed and dull to haue no mirth nor musicke in them and to abandon and cast of all pleasures But if they account the follies fond iollities and gambolles of youth for true pleasures their accusation is false and they speake iniuriously of Old age which procures great good vnto vs blotting out quite whatsoeuer is most vicious and bad in young men to wit carnall pleasure a capitall enemies to vs all which headlong plungeth all those that are vassalls and slaues vnto her into gulfes of eternall perdition is the mother of gluttony drunkennesse whoredome adulterie of all dissolutenesse and debauched villanies and in fine is the cause of the ruines of Common weales and families Old men which are free from the coulp and guilt of these and the like vices and abominations haue lesse torture and torment of mind and haue the more reuerence and authoritie giuen them which is the Crowne of their age The approches of death seeme to strike a terror and astonishment into many old men But wretched is the man who all the time of his life hath not learned to make light account of death which he ought before hand to envre and frame himselfe to wish for and expect seeing death is his guide and conuoy to heauen and bringeth with him a dedimus potestatem to put him in possession of his euerlasting inheritance which the Sonne of God hath adiudged vnto him which iudgement is entred in despite of Sathan who continually in this world brings cauelling suites and actions against vs to molest and interrupt vs in our iust clayme thereunto More occasions and causes therebe of diseases in yong men by reason they are put to all hard labours and iourneyes whereby for the most part they do vntimely end their liues so that death doth as ordinarily seize vpon them as vpon old men Some doe reply that such yong men haue a hope to liue long but it is a foolish perswasion by reason that they take that which is doubtfull for sure and certaine and that which is false for true As the time of Autumne succeedes the spring time and Summer so there is nothing more naturall to old men then to die The death of young men resembles a great flaming fire which is not quenched but with much water but old men are like a dry chipp of wood or a small gloing fire which dyes and goes out of it selfe Why should wee mourne and lament for him who when he dies findes immortalitie and whose practise and studie hath beene from his tender youth to contemne death that his soule might be at rest in a place conuenient This is briefely the substance of that which Cicero in his Dialogue of old age doth handle more at large Christians haue more excellent remedies helpes and refuges against the miseries of old age and the assaults of death which hereafter in their order we will declare That old age hath his particular miseries in regard of the bodie and minde we are not now to dispute It is that which we are next to speake of CHAP. IX A more speciall Catalogue or numbring vp of some miseries in old men in regard of their bodies VErily that man which should take vpon him to maintaine that old age is exempt and priuiledged from all discommodities and miseries should reason against sence experience and nature it selfe which beares witnes against him For although the life of man from the beginning to the end hath no part of it free from diuers calamities which it is to resist and conflict and that man from his birth seemes to bee made to liue in paine and sorrow Yet wee must know and acknowledge that feeble and decrepit old age is incident to many particular miseries which are the causes that weake old men are commonly testie froward sad melancholy especially those who are cholerique fretfull and impatient by nature or are not armed and prepared before hand to vndergoe such assaults and to stoope to the miseries which the last age of their life shall lay vpon them It is a well worne saying That as lees and dregs doe sinke downe and lie at the bottome of vessels so the excrements noysome humours and all the miseries of our life doe settle in old age their last lodging place One compares very fitly the condition of old men to a little City halfe ruinous and decayed whose walles moulder away are almost all broken downe and is altogether vnprouided of munition and victualls to fortifie and succour it selfe if need require For wee see in all old men their eye sight by little and little to faile them that they are duller and deaffer of hearing their teeth to fall out their hands and feet to haue the palsie briefly this building of clay and spittle to haue many defects and decayes and daily to waste and impaire more and more expecting a totall ruine But the more these euills doe presse and molest vs the more we thinke vpon desire and expect to make an end of our painefull pilgrimage to hit the marke we ayme at to be quietly seated in our true dwelling place eternall habitation Those persons who from their youth haue learned to submit themselues to the diuine prouidence and to meditate and reuolue with themselues a better life doe with greater case sustaine and beare all the miseries of their long age And the weakenesse of body in old men doth not hinder them from doing that which is meete and behoouefull for them to doe But it is a great reproach and obliquie to old men if in the eye of good men without shame or feare of their great and soueraigne Iudge who is to bee feared