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A06162	An alarum against vsurers Containing tryed experiences against worldly abuses. Wherein gentlemen may finde good counsells to confirme them, and pleasant histories to delight them: and euery thing so interlaced with varietie: as the curious may be satisfied with rarenesse, and the curteous with pleasure. Heereunto are annexed the delectable historie of Forbonius and Prisceria: with the lamentable complaint of truth ouer England. Written by Thomas Lodge, of Lincolnes Inne, Gentleman.	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1584 (1584)	STC 16653; ESTC S109563	53,394	94

y ● ouerseeing of his domestical preparatiō cōming to y ● stable among the hors kéepers of his new come guests reprehending one of th● for faulting in his office y ● felow impatient of reproofe measuring y ● gentleman by his plaine coat stroke him on the fa●e turned him out of y ● stable but afterward attending on his master perceiuing him whom he had stroken to be y ● Lord of y ● house he humbly craued pardō y ● gentleman as patient as pleasant not only forgaue him y e escape but pretely answered thus I blame not thée good fellow for thy outrage but this companion pointing to his coate which hath made thée mistake my person So at this instant estéeme I M. Gosson hath dealt with me who not mesuring me by my birth but by y e subiect I hādled like Will Summer striking him y ● stood next him hath vpbraided me in person whē he had no quarrell but to my cause therein pleaded his owne indiscretiō loded me with intollerable iniurie But if with Zoylus hée might kisse the gibet or with Patacion hop headlesse the world shoulde bee ridde of an iniurious slaunderer and that tongue laboured in suppositions might be nailed vp as Tullies was for his Philipicall declamations But good Stephen in like sorte will I deale with thée as Phillip of Macedon with Nicanor who not respecting the maiestie of the king but giuing himselfe ouer to the petulancie of his tongue vainly inueighed against him whom notwithstanding Philip so cunningly handeled that not onely he ceased the rumor of his report but also made him as lauish in commending as once he was profuse in discommending his attempt was thus performed he séeing Nicanor sorely pressed with pouerty reléeued him to his content Wherevpon altering his coppie and breaking out into singular commendation of Philip the king concluded thus Loe curtesie can make of bad good and of Nicanor an enimie Nicanor a friend Whose actions my reprouer I will now fit to thée who hauing slaundered me without cause I will no otherwise reuenge it but by this meanes that now in publike I confesse thou hast a good pen and if thou kéepe thy Methode in discourse and leaue thy slandering without cause there is no doubt but thou shalt bée commended for thy coppie and praised for thy stile And thus desiring thée to measure thy reportes with iustice and you good Gentlemen to answere in my behalfe if you heare me reproched I leaue you to your pleasures and for my selfe I will studie your profit Your louing friend Thomas Lodge BARNABE RICH Gentleman Souldier in praise of the Author IF that which warnes the young beware of vice And schooles the olde to shunne vnlawfull gaine If pleasant stile and method may suffice I thinke thy trauaile merits thanks for paine My simple doome is thus in tearmes as plaine That both the subiect and thy stile is good Thou needs not feare the scoffes of M●●mus brood If thus it be good Lodge continue still Thou needst not feare Goose sonne or Ganders hisse Whose rude reportes past from a slaundrous quill Will be determind but in reading this Of whom the wiser sort will thinke amis To slaunder him whose birth and life is such As ●alse report his fame can neuer tuch ¶ IOHN IONES GENtleman in praise of the AVTHOR THough not my praise yet let my wish preuaile Who so thou be that list to read this booke I neuer yet by flatterie did assaile To count that good that most did please my looke But alwaies wisht my friends such stile to vse As wise might like though foolish would refuse In opening vice my friend who spends his time May count by priuate good no profit lost What errors scape in young and lustie prime Experience badge of truth may quickly cost Who sets the marke that makes men shunne the sand Deserues good words his proofes for profit stand For common good to crosse a few mens vaines Who like to Midas would that all were golde I count not misse since there vnlawfull gaines Makes some men sink whom birth might well vphold I know the sore the scarre is seene to plaine A blessed state where no such wils doo raine In briefe I praise this booke for pretie stile For pithie matter Gentle be thou iudge O would my wish some fancies might beguile Then faire reuenewes should not fit a snudge A world to see how Asses daunce in golde By wanton wils when Gentles starue for colde Whose errors if it please succeeding age To see with sighs and shun with sad aduice Let him beholde this booke within whose page Experience leaues her chiefest proofes of price And thanke the youth that suffered all these toiles To warne thee shun that rocke which many spoiles FINIS GEntlemen since the presse cannot passe without escape and some things are so mistaken as without co●rrection they will be very grose May it please you when you read to correct especially such principall errours as these that followe Folio 30. b. Line 4. For woed Read wonne Folio eod Line 8. For colde Read cloudes Folio eod Line 15. For showde Read shoard Folio eod Line 30. For concluding Read concluded Foli 31. a. Lin. 34. For presents a secrets méete Read wth séemly secret gréete For the rest I referre them to your discretion who can distnguish coulours and either better or fit words to your fantasies Your friend Thomas Lodge AN ALARVM against Vsurers NO maruell though the wise man accompted all things vnder the sun vain since the chéefest creatures be mortall and no wonder though the world runne at randon since iniquitie in these later dayes hath the vpper hand The alteration of states if they be look into and the ouerthrow of houses if they be but easely laid in open viewe what eye would not shed teares to sée things so transitorie and what wisedome woulde not indeauour to dissolue the inconuenience There is a state within this our Common wealth which though it necessarily stand as a piller of defence in this royall Realme yet such are the abuses that are growen in it that not onely the name is become odious by somes errour but also if the thing be not narrowly lookt into the whole lande by that meanes will grow into great inconuenience I meane the state of Merchants who though to publyke commoditie they bring in store of wealth from forein Nations yet such are their domesticall practises that not only they inrich themselues mightelye by others misfortunes but also eate our English Gentrie out of house and hame The generall facultie in it selfe is both auncient and lawdable the professours honest and vertuous their actions full of daunger and therefore worthy gaine and so necessarye this sorte of men be as no well gouerned stat● may be without them But as among a trée of fruite there bée some withered fallings and as among wholesome hearbes there growes some bitter Colloquintida so it cannot be but

AN Alarum against Vsurers Containing tryed experiences against worldly abuses WHEREIN GENTLEMEN may finde good counsells to confirme them and pleasant Histories to delight them and euery thing so interlaced with varietie as the curious may be satisfied with rarenesse and 〈◊〉 curteous with pleasure HEEREUNTO AKE ANnexed the delectable historie of Forbonius and Prisceria with the lamentable Complaint of Truth ouer England Written by Thomas Lodge of Lincolnes Inne Gentleman O Vita misere longa foelice breuis ¶ Imprinted at London by T. Este for Sampson Clarke and are to be sold at his shop by Guyld Hall 1584. ¶ To The Right worshipfull Sir Philip Sidney Knight indued with all perfections of learning and titles of Nobilitie Thomas Lodge Gen. wisheth continuance of honour and the benefits of happie Studie IT is not noble Gentleman the titles of Honour that allureth me nor the nobilitie of your Parents that induceth me but the admiration of your vertues that perswadeth me to publish my pore trauailes vnder your vndoubted protection Whom I most humbly intreate not onely in so iust a cause to protect me but also in these Primordia of my studies after the accustomed prudence of the Philosophers to confirme with fauourable acceptaunce and continuaunce as the equitie of the cause requireth I haue set downe in these fewe lines in my opinion Right Worshipfull the image of a licentious Vsurer and the collusions of diuelish incrochers and herevnto was I led by two reasons First that the offender seeing his owne counterfaite in this Mirrour might amend it and those who are like by ouerlauish profusenesse to become meate for their mouths might be warned by this caueat to shunne the Scorpion ere she deuoureth May it please your Worshippe to fauour my trauailes and to accept my good will who incouraged by the successe of this my firstlings will heereafter in most humble signe of humanitie continue the purpose I haue begunne commending the cause and my seruice to your good liking who no doubt compassed with incomperable vertues will commend when you see occasion not condemne without a cause Your VVorships in all dutie to commaund Thomas Lodge ¶ To The Right worshipfull my cu●teous friends the Gentlemen of the Innes of Court Thomas Lodge of Lincolnes● Inne Gentleman wisheth prosperous successe in their studies and happie euent in their trauailes CUrteous Gentlemen let it not séeme straunge vnto you that hée which hath long time slept in silence now beginneth publikely to salute you since no doubt my reasons that induce me herevnto be such as both you may allowe of them since they be well meant and account of them since they tend to your profit I haue published héere of set purpose a tried experience of worldly abuses describing héerein not onely those monsters which were banished Athens I meane Usurers but also such de●ouring caterpillers who not onely haue fatted their fingers with many rich forfaitures but also spread their venim among some priuate Gentlemen of your profession which considered I thought good in opening the wound to preuent an vlcer and by counselling before escape forewarn before the mischiefe Led then by these perswasions I doubt not but as I haue alwayes found you fauourable so now you will not cease to be friendly both in protecting of this iust cause from vniust slander and my person from that reproch which about two yeares since an iniurious cauiller obiected against me You that knowe me Gentlemen can testifie that neyther my life hath bene so lewd as y ● my companie was edious nor my behauiour so light as that it shuld passe the limits of modestie this notwithstanding a licentious Hipponax neither regarding the asperitie of the lawes touching slaunderous Libellers nor the offyring from whence I came which is not contemptible attemted not only in publike reprochfull terms to condemn me in his writings but also so to slander me as neither iustice shuld wink at so hainous an offēce nor I pretermit a commodious reply About thrée yeres ago one Stephen Gosson published a booke intituled The schoole of Abuse in which hauing escaped in many sundry cōclusions I as the occasion thē fitted me shapt him such an answere as beséemed his discourse which by reason of the slendernes of y ● subiect because it was in defēce of plaies play makers y ● godly reuerent y ● had to deale in the cause misliking it forbad y ● publishing notwithstanding he comming by a priuate vnperfect coppye about two yeres since made a reply diuiding it into fiue sectiōs in his Epistle dedicatory to y ● right honorable sir Frances Walsingham he impugneth me with these reproches y ● I am become a vagarāt person visited by y ● heuy hand of God lighter then libertie looser thē vanitie At such time as I first came to y ● sight héerof iudge you gentlemen how hardly I could disgest it I bethought my selfe to frame an answere but considering y ● the labour was but lost I gaue way to my misfortune contenting my selfe to wait y ● opportunitie wherein I might not according to the impertinacie of the iniurye but as equitye might countenance mée cast a raine ouer the vntamed curtailes chaps wiping out the suspition of this slander from the remebrance of those y ● knew me not counsell this iniurious Asinius to become more conformable in his reportes and now Gentlemen hauing occasion to passe my trauailes in publike I thought it not amisse somewhat to touch the slaunder prouing it to be most wicked discommendable leaue the rest to the discretion of those in authoritie who if the Gentleman had not plaid bo péep thus long would haue taught him to haue counted his cards a little better and now Stephen Gosson let me but familiarly reason with thée thus Thinkest thou y ● in handling a good cause it is requisite to induce a fals propositiō although thou wilt say it is a part of Rethorike to argue A Persona yet is it a practise of small honestie to conclude without occasion if thy cause wer good I doubt not but in so large ample a discourse as thou hadst to handle thou mightest had left the honor of a gentleman inuiolate But thy base degrée subiect to seruile attempts measureth all things according to cauelling capacitie thinking because nature hath bestowed vpō thee a plausible discourse thou maist in thy swéet termes present the sowrest falsest reports y ● canst imagine but it may be y ● as it fortuned to y ● noble man of Italy it now fareth w t me who as Petarch reported giuē greatly to y ● intertainmēt of strangers pleasure of the chase respected not the braue gorgious garments of a courtier but delighted in such clothing as seemed y ● place where he soiourned this noble gentleman returning on a time frō his game found all his house furnished with strangers on whō bestowing his accustomed welcome he bent himself to

preacht with zealous hart Then learning was the Loadstone of the land Then husbandman was frée from shiftes of lawe Then faithfull promise stoode in stéed of band The Drones from busie Bée no Mel could drawe Then loue not feare did kéepe the state in awe 〈◊〉 then did flourish that renowmed time 〈◊〉 earth and ashes thrusted not to clime Foras the horse well mand abides the bit And 〈◊〉 his stop by raine in riders hand Where mountain calt that was not sadled yet 〈◊〉 headlong on amidst the fallowed land Whose fierce resist scarce bends with anie band So men reclainide by vertue tread aright Where led by follies mischiefes on them light Use masters all vse nurtereth mortall wayes Use vse of good continues happie state Use vse of mée made England then haue praise But since abuse hath banisht me of late Alasse the while there runnes another rate Which while by sad insight I looke into I sée the want of those that haue to doe And yet I sée not Sodome some are good Whose inward bowels dayly melt in mone To see how Britane now is raging wood Hard hearted flintie minded all in one Bent to abuse and leauing me alone Alonely lead with carelesse shew of peace Whereas secure regard doth sinne increase Some some there be whom zeale hath swallowed vp First blessed Prince of whom I finde reléefe Some noble péeres that tast errors cup Some godly Prelates in the Church are chéefe Same Lawiers lead by zeale lament my gréefe Some Merchants follow God not swallow golde Some countrie Swains loue truth you may be bolde Yet as great store of Darnell marres the séed Which else would spring within a fertile field And as the fruitfull bud is choakt by wéede Which otherwise a gladsome grape would yéeld So sometimes wicked men doe ouerwéeld And keepe in couert those who would direct The common state which error doth infect Yet Truth must neuer alter from his name Good Prince sayd I. ye good what of her selfe And that is good for Princes that doe frame Themselues to priuate good doo subiects good Yet that's not that same goodnesse I would name Good Prince good people that's the good I craue Of Princes goods that goodnesse would I haue For as the great commaunder of the tides God Neptune can allay the 〈…〉 And make the billowes mount on either sides When wandering kéeles his cholar would displease So Princes may starre vp and some appease The commons heart to doe and to destroy That which is god 〈◊〉 this which threates anoy For common state can neuer sway amisse When Princes liues doo leuell all a right Be it for Prince that England happie is Yet haplesse England if the fortune light That with the Prince the subiects sée●● not right Unhappie state vnluckie times they bée When Princes liues and subiects disagrée I know not I whence come these wayward woes Whóse sodaine showes portend this sodain change Yet dooth mis doubt such sodaine feares disclose As Truth this present doubts the sequell strange When stable head lets stailesse members range I feare me as the buildings trust to sand So euery blast will stroy with turne of hand When as in Court by proud contempt I sée A fashion feedes the fancies now a dayes When as in Court promotions passed be By selfe opinion oft the wise man sayes The turnes are strange and fauour soone decayes And those whom fortune windeth now a floate By change of fauour soone may change their coate When as election dooth but passe by sence Then must I deeme the world is fed by showes When garish beautie causeth vaine expence It 〈◊〉 the man should sée but little knowes Repentaunce is the fruite by louing growes So when in Court nought but such pleasures be Repentaunce must ensue we well may sée But leauing Court where though the bramble groes Yet zealous care there sēts her selfe I see I doo in Court but now complaine of those Who practise that that sits not their degrée Whose vaines by powre full oft corrected be But now such colours cloake each bad pretence That showes doo hold the wise in some suspence But I poore I though gréeud at courtlike scapes Lamenting there the lauish vaine expence Haue farther cause abroad to note escapes Where craft dooth kéepe true meaning in suspence And wily worldlings couer their pretence With holy shapes and in a holy coate Dooth flattry praise those men that swim a floate In Nobles traines who sées not strange mis déemes Where each dooth gape and catch at priuate gaine And fleece the Lord who though he blindfold séemes By oft attempts dooth barre them of their vaines The painfull wretch who toiles with often paines He hath faire words when flattrie sucks the sweete Thus showes take place and Troth 's trod vnder féete In England gistes can compasse each reproofe The bad for gold may soone be counted good The wicked gainer for the states behoofe The blindest buzzard to giue hea●enly food The faintest heart in warlikst place hath stood And who giues most hath now most store of farmes Rackt rents the Lord with golden fuell warmes And Iustice so I feare by power is led The poore may crie and gladly créepe to crosse The rich with wealth the wealthie now are fed The simple man now onely be●●●s the losse The Lawier he the golden crownes doth tosse And now hath fées at will with cap and knée And each man cries good sir come plead for me O swéete the time when neither folly might Mislead your hopes nor alter olde decrées O happie Truth when as with swéete delight She laboured still for conscience not for fees O blessed time when zeale with bended knées Gan blesse the heauens that bent their powres diuine The English hearts to wisedome to encline But now refusd disdaind and set at naught Inforst to séeke for rest in place vnknowne I wayle poore wretch that no redresse is sought But well I wot my gréefes are not mine owne Some beare a part and helpe to waite my mone But all in vaine such colours now are made That those would mend the misse doo daunce in shade This said be wetting all the place with teares And from her eyes expelling flouds of mone Her louely lockes bespred about her eares She waude her wings as willing to be gone And after pause she soard away anone And thus she said You Ilanders adieu You banisht me before I fled from you Lenuoy Beléeue me Countrimen this thing is true FINIS