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A10647	A booke called the Foundacion of rhetorike because all other partes of rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde: made by Richard Rainolde Maister of Arte, of the Uniuersitie of Cambridge. 1563.; Foundacion of rhetorike	Rainolde, Richard, d. 1606.	1563 (1563)	STC 20925A.5; ESTC S104585	88,800	132

maintaine his state I commende not the idell life neither a life occupied to no vertuous ende Nature moueth euery manne to loue hymself and his so thy care and paine be to a godlie purpose It is commendable It is the duetie of euery man as his power witte and industrie is able to emploie thereto his cogitacion To laboure for thy wife whom thou loueste and deare children thy laboure is pleasure the ioye easeth thy labour To behold thyself in thy children thei beyng vertuouslie broughte vp it is a goodlie comfort to liue with a chaste woman sober and continente her vertues be a continuall pleasure a passyng ioye In mariage ought to be greate deliberacion whom thou chosest to thy continuall compainie or felowshippe her life paste well knowen her parentes and kindrede how honeste and vertuous her maners her fame how commendable her countinaunce sober a constaunt iye and with shamefastnes beautified a mouthe vttering fewe woordes discretlie She is not to be liked whō no vertuous qualitées in her educaciō beutifieth and adorneth the goodlie qualitees sheweth the well framed and nurtured mynde These thynges maie be sufficiente to shewe what excellencie is in mariage and how necessarie it is to the procreacion and preseruaciō of mankind ¶ Legislatio ¶ A Oracion either in the defence of a Lawe or againste a Lawe MAny learned menne are in this opinion that vpon a Lawe alledged a Oracion maie bee made in the defence of it or matter maie be suppeditated to inuaigh by force of argument againste it Although the lawe alleged be in maner the whole cause bicause it doeth cōtain al the matter included in the oracion In this Oracion the persone is induced to be spoken vppon vnknowne vncertaine wherefore it is to be placed rather in the state and forme of consultacion and to bée examined with iudgement The induccion of a Lawe is in twoo sortes A confirmacion of any olde Lawe or a confutacion As for example The Ciuill Lawe doeth well commende bondmen to be manumised that is to be made free The lawe is herein to be praised that willeth the coūsail of the parentes frendes to be knowne before the contracte Vpon a Lawe alledged worthelie matter maie rise waighyng the godlie ende whereunto the Lawe was firste inuented derreed and stablished what profite thereof ensueth and foloweth What it is to vertue a mainteiner otherwise if it be not profitable What moued any one to frame and ordain soche a Lawe as was to a common wealthe vnprofitable to vertue no aider if it were a profitable Lawe and godlie it is as Demosthenes safeth of God inuented though by famous wife and godlie menne stablished and decréed Good Lawes tempereth to all states equitee and iustice without fauour or frendship no more to the one then the other The order to make an Oracion by a lawe is in this sort First make a prohemiū or beginning to enter your matter In the seconde place adde a contrary to that whiche you will entreate vpon Then shewe it lawfull Iuste Profitable Possible You maie as in Thesis whiche was the Oracion before vse a contradiction or obiection and to that make an answere or solucion ¶ A confutacion of that Lawe whiche suffered adultrie to bee punished with death no iudgement giuen thereupon SOlon who was a famous Philosopher in the time of Cresus king of Lidia and a lawe giuer to the Athenians by whose Lawes and godlie meanes the Athenians were long and prosperouslie gouerned Emong many of his lawes this Solon set forthe againste adulterers Fas esse deprehendentimaechum in ipso adulterio interficere it shalbee lawfull saieth he who so taketh an adulterer in his beastlie facte to kill hym Solon beyng a wise man was more rigorous and cruell in this one Lawe then he ought to be A meruailous matter and almoste vncredible so wise so noble and worthy a Lawe giuer to bruste out with soche a cruell and bloodie lawe that without indgement or sentence giuen the matter neither proued nor examined adulterie to be death Wherefore reason forceth euery manne to Iudge and ponder with hymself that either adulterie is a moste horrible vice moste beastlie pestiferous and not mere to tary vpon the censure and sentence of a Iudge or Solon was not so wise discrete and a politike persone but a rashe and fonde lawe giuer that in soche a terrible voice he should burste out as adulterie so horrible as not worthie to be pondered examined and boulted of in Iudgemente The Athenians receiued that Lawe thei did also obaie his other lawes Their dominions thereby in felicitée was gouerned there was no populous nomber of adulterers to let that Lawe thei liued mosts godlie a straunge worlde a rare moderacion of that age and people Plato the godlie Philosopher who leste in his woorkes and monumentes of learnyng greate wisedome and also godlie Lawes in his bookes intiteled vpon Lawes and gouernement of a common wealth did not passe by in silence to giue and ordain a Lawe against adulterie Who also as it semed Iudged adulterie as moste horrible and detestable in his .ix. booke de Legibus This is the Lawe Adulteram deprehensam impune occidi a viro posse The adultrous woman saith he taken in the crime her housbande maie without daunger of death or feare of punishement slea her A straunge matter twoo so noble so famous for wisedome to make adulterie present death no Iudgement or sentence of Magistrate procedyng to examime and iudge vpon the state of the cause A man maie saie O goodlie age and tyme in vertue tempered eche state as seemeth brideled and kepte vnder and farre frō voluptuousnes remoued There was no stewes or Baudes houses where soche Lawes and Lawmakers were Sobrietée was in maides and chastitée harboured in matrones and wedded wiues a harte inuiolable to honeste conuersacion Where adulterie is cutte of there many detestable vsces and execrable purposes are remoued Cato the sage Peere of Rome indued with like seueritée did fauour that lawe and highlie extolled it Although adulterie bee a detestable vice horrible yea although it be worthie death better it were by iudgemente and the sentence of the Magistrate the faute to bee determined then at the will of euery manne as a Lawe by death to bee ended the common wealthe shalbee in more quiet state when the horrible factes of wicked menne by the Lawe made worthie of deathe are neuerthelesse by a liuelie Lawe whiche is the Iudge pronounced and condemned accordyng to the Lawe Els many mischiues might rise in all kyngdomes and common wealthes vnder a colour of lawe many a honeste persone murthered and many a murtherer by cloke of a Lawe from daunger saued In Rome somtime a Lawe there was ordained againste adulterie whiche was called Lex Iulia this Lawe Octauius Augustus set foorthe The Lawe was thus Gladio iussit animaduerti in adulteros The lawe commaunded adulterers to be hedded The chronicles of

there bee then in a vnitée of life the housebande to liue with his wife The beastes in their kinde doe condemne mannes brutishe affections herein there is no facte that sheweth a man or woman more like to beastes then whoredome ¶ The obieccion But you will saie many calamitées happeneth in mariage ¶ The solucion Fortunne herein is to bee blamed and not mariage if any misfortune happeneth to manne therein the felicitée and quiet state that any man enioieth thereby The discrete eleccion is therein approued in the state itself nothyng can bee founde worthie reprehension if a man will impute the bitter stormes of life to mariage whatseouer happeneth our owne reason maie iudge contrary Place before thy iyes all the affaires and occupacions of this life bee all tymes pleasaunte to the housebande man many a colde storme perceth his bodie and many a mightie tempeste dooeth moiest hym and greue hym Sommer is not the tyme to caste his seede in the grounde or implowyng to occupie hymself shall he therfore leaue his housebandrie or doeth he rather neclecte it his diligence therein is the more and labour more industrious From whence commeth the tempeste the stormes and bitter seasons From his house from his wife from his art and occupacion all those thynges by violence are expelled from the aire No state of life is able to giue riches healthe or securitée to his state There hath been princes and Emperours nedie full of infirmitées and sickenes in daungerous state oppressed with many calamitées was their dignitie and office the cause of their calamitées No God tempreth the state of euery one how and after what sorte to possesse the same Some are fulle fortunate in Mariage if Mariage were of necessitée the cause then all should be onely fortunate or onely vnfortunate then in mariage is not the cause if in marige the maners doe disagrée and loue is extinguished blame thyn own maners thy choise and thy eleccion The Mariner that passeth the daungerous Seas and by dreadfull tempestes and huffyng waues is alwaies in perille and many often tymes drouned The Marchaunt lesyng his marchaundise by shipwrack shall thei impute the daunger and losse to their wife at home Or doe the Mariners leaue for all these tempestes their arte of Nauigacion Or the owner breake his shippe Or the Marchaunt proue no aduentures because of his losse and many haue been of this sort drouned No. But more earnestlie thei dooe assaie theim selues thereto Because warre spoileth many a man of his life doe Princes therefore leaue to moue armour againste the enemie but because who so in the defence of his countrée dieth manfullie is worthelie aduaunced and in perpetuall memorie no daunger is refused because euill thynges happeneth in life is the state of good thynges to be auoided and eschued Were it not vnsemelie if housebande men for no storme or tempeste doe leaue their state their laborious and rough cōdition of life nor the shipman his arte of Nauigacion because he seeth many drouned venteryng thesame and he hymself often tymes in daunger nor the soldiour or capitain their perilous condicion of life doe leaue for daunger Should Mariage bée lesse sette by because alwaies riches and quietnes happeneth not ¶ The obieccion The losse of a good wife and children is a greate grefe to any man and a cause to blame mariage ¶ The aunswere You your self are borne to dye thei also by death obaye likewise Nature this is the Lawe of Nature ones to dye whiche you seeme to blame Thou the death of thy wife and childrē is not the blame in Mariage What is the cause that you dye Natures imbecillitie and weakenes then in theim Mariage is not the cause Nature in her firste molde hath so framed all wherefore doe you ascribe that to mariage that is founde faultée in Nature Thei die that marie not what infirmitie daunger or peril happeneth to any in mariage as sharpe and perilous doe molest and torment the other If any manne by death leaseth aright honeste wife clothed with all chastites demurenesse sobrietée and also with all singularitée of vertue adorned he hath losse a rare treasure a iewell of price not in all to bee sounde Did you loue your wife that was so goodlie so honeste and vertuous there was greate cause saie you for her vertuous sake God hath chosen her frō a mortall creature to immortalitée with her it can not bee better There is no cause why you should blame mariage for the losse of her or of thy children or for the losse of thee she to blame mariage If for thy owne sake this sorowe bee Estseipsum amantis non amici it is then of a self loue to thy self not for her cause for I muste aunswere as Lelius did to A●●ricanus Cumea optime esseactū quis neget quid est quod no assecuta est immortalitatem Who can deny saieth he but that with her it can not bee better What is it that she hath not attained Immortalitée She was vertuous chaiste sober descrete of behauiour womanlie for her vertues beloued Well now she hath immortalitée and blesse are you sorie thereat that were enuious Did you loue her liuyng loue her also departed her vertuous shewed vnto vs her immortalitee ¶ The obieccion There is a care for the wife and children if the housband dye before theim ¶ The aunswere If thou leaue them riches hope not that thy riches shal be a staie to theim though thei bee innumerable a wretched a miserable executour wasteth and destroieth oftentymes the fruictes of thy trauaile who reioyseth more of thy death then of thy life Or thy childrens father in Lawe shall spoile and spende with a merie harte that whiche thou haste long t●rauailed for Staie thy self and thyne vpon Gods prouidence for it hath been seen many a riche widowe with infinite treasure lefte to her children also like porcions descendyng afterwarde bothe wife and children haue been brought to miserie and beggerlie state Otherwise poore children committed to the prouidence of God and vertuouslie brought vp and the wife in like state yet thei haue so passed their daies that thei haue rose to a goodlie state See that thy richesse bée not iniuriouslie gotten by falshode by liyng by Vsurie if it so be then Male parta male dilabuntur That is this gooddes euill gotte euill spente soche riches neuer giue déepe roote to their ofspryng That is an euill care by a iniurious care to purchase thynges and gooddes wickedlie Also mariage taketh awaie widowhed and doeth repare with a newe freshe mariage the lacke and priuacion of the other She that was by death left a widowe mariage again hath coupled her to a newe housbande and doeth restore that whiche death tooke awaie That that death dissolueth and destroieth mariage increaseth augmēteth and multiplieth Bee it so but mariage is a painfull life it forceth euery one to trauaile to vpholde and

Democratia The thiefe The murtherer Houses Families Tounes Citees Obedience of Lawes did stablishe the mightie monarchies The life of the Magistrate a lawe The Epistle of Theodosiu●s Emperor of Rome Princes Lawe Theiues and all iniurious persones Demosthenes in Aristogiton The force of lawes wicked men burdeins of the yearth Maimed soldiours muste be prouided for The saiyng of a shuld our to Alexander the greate The drūkard The proude persone The prodigal The coueites is The robber The adulterer The hariot The homicide Thefte horrible amōg the Scitheans A sentence agenst thefte Horrible vices Vserers The sentence of Cato against vsurers Vsure is ●●●ther The sentence of Cato a discomfort 〈…〉 Vsure a dangerous gaue Princes and magistrates be as Gods on the earth The 〈◊〉 ▪ The Theue The Adulteror Whey the pictures of magistrates bee picturid with oute handes Princes and magistrates graue ●●●stante Lawes giue equitee to all states What briueth y e magistrate to horrible sentence against wicked persons Magistrate Subiect The begynnyng of vice is to be cutaf Wherein the praise of a citie consisteth The praise of London Brutus builded Londō in the. ● yeare of his raine Fraunce and Scotlande vpholdid by y e gouernors of this lande Cambridge Oxforde Obliuion Who liue in all ages Good fame chieflie routeth after death Tuilie Demostheues Iulius Cesar Ocrauius Augustus Vespasianus Theodosius Traianus Adrranus Good man good magistrate boothe a good man and a good magistrate The saiynge of the Philosophers Obliuion Cadmus Amphion Hercules Nobility rose by vertue Cesar Scipio Catilina Marcus Antonius Commodus Seuerus Marcus Antonius Caracalla Aiax Vlisses Nobilitee A beginnyng of nobilitee Galerius a Shepherds sonne Emperor of Rome Probus a Gardeiners sonne Emperour The dutie of good gouernors Nowe a kingdome riseth to all felicitie Couetousnes a great euill Beotia Thebes A valiant capitain to his countrie a pillar to his ●●●mie a occasiō to dexteritie Hector Achilles Numa Pompeius Adrianus Vertue Vice what is vertue Rome Carthage Destruction of Rome to ashes in tune Agrippina Seneca schol maister to Nero. The dreame of Agrippina mother to Nero in his concepcion Nero a viper Pontus Colchis Cappadocia Armenia Nero vnworthie to be chronicled Seneca ▪ The shamful life of Nero. Galba Caius Iulius The death of Nero. Nero. Caligula Domitianus Antoninus Plato Aristotle Tullie Thusidides The enuious manne The ignoraunte Darius Philip. Demostheues Antipater Demosthenes Archias Marcus Antonius Tullie Eidolopoeia Lucius Brutus Catiline Kyngdomes Okes. Cedars Fortune hath no staie Hector Priamus The armie of Xerxes Xerxes a cowarde Xerxes laste in battaile and first to runne awaie The pride of Xerxes Themistocles The saiyng of Vespasianus A sentence comfortable to al princes Kyngdomes continue by mariage and cōmon welth The dignitee of man sheweth the worthines of mariage Godlie procreacion A similitude The libertie in mariage A brutishe societie with harlottes Ehastitee in mariage The loue of a harlotte Hercules Omphala The harlottes lesson to her louers The life of the Amazones Thalestris The offer of a woman to Alexander The answer of Alexander to the offer The facte of the matrones of Rome Papirius The Oraciō of a matrone to the Senatours Eleccion in Mariage Emperours Mariage The Mariners The Marchauntes warre The lawe of Nature A chaste woman A wretched executour Gods prouidence Death Mariage The mariage of a chaste woman The choise of a wife Lawe The moste rigorous and moste cruell lawe of Solō Adulterie a horrible vice Plato againste adultrie made a lawe Catos sentence vpon adulterie Lawe The Iudge a liuely lawe A godly law The good manne Lawe Vice as a lawe by custome Adulterie The lawe vniuersall and equall to all menne Thefte The Iudge liuely lawe The will of a tyraunte his owne lawe Lawes were made for two causes The state of good lawes