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A68144	Foure letters, and certaine sonnets especially touching Robert Greene, and other parties, by him abused: but incidently of diuers excellent persons, and some matters of note. To all courteous mindes, that will voutchsafe the reading.	Harvey, Gabriel, 1550?-1631.	1592 (1592)	STC 12900.5; ESTC S103854	40,293	78

am importuned to resolue I neuer made account of any study meditation conference or Exercise that importeth not effectual vse that aymeth not altogether at action as the singuler marke whereat euery Arte euery vertue is to leuell I loue Method but honour Practise must I shew the difference Either Arte is obscure or the quickest capacity dull and needeth Methode as it were the bright Moone to illuminate the darkesome night but Practise is the bright Sun that shineth in the day the soueraigne Planet that gouerneth the world as else-where I haue copiously declared To excell ther is no way but one to marry studious Arte to diligent Exercise but where they must be vnmarried or diuorced geue me rather Exercise without Arte then Arte without Exercise Perfect vse worketh masteries and disgraceth vnexperienced Arte. Examples are infinite and dayly display themselues A world without a Sunne a Boddy without a Soule Nature without Arte Arte without Exercise sory creatures Singular practise the only singuler and admirable woorkeman of the world Must I dispatch the rest that is exacted It is no fit place and the least little wil seme too-much As in other thinges so in Artes formality doth well but materiality worketh the feat Were Artists as skillfull as Artes are powerfull wonders might be atchieued by Arte emprooued but they that vnderstand little write much and they that know much write little The vayne Peacocke with his gay coullours and the pratling Parrat with his ignorant discourses I am not to offend any but the Peacocke and the Parrat haue garishly disguised the worthiest Artes and deepely discredited the profoundest Artistes to the pitifull defacement of the one and the shamefull preiudice of the other Rodolph Agricola Philip Melancthon Ludouike Viues Peter Ramus and diuers excellent schollers haue earnestly complaned of Artes corrupted and notably reformed many absurdities but still corruption ingendreth one vermine or other and still that pretious Trainement is miserably abused which should be the fountaine of skill the roote of vertue the seminary of gouernment the foundation of all priuate and publike good The Methodist Discouser might be more materiall the Theorist and Practitioner more formall all fower more effectuall or how commeth it to passe that much more is profe ssed but much lesse perfourmed then in former ages especially in the Mathematikes and in naturall Magic which beeing cunningly and extensiuely imployed after the manner of Archimedes Archytas Apollonius Regiomontanus Bacon Cardan and such like industrious Philosophers the Secretaries of Art and Nature might wonderfully bestead the Commonwealth with many puissant engins and other commodious deuises for warre and peace In actuall Experimentes and Polymechany nothing too-profound a superficiall slightnesse may seeme fine for sheetes but proueth good for nothinge as in other businesse so in learninge as good neuer a whit according to the Prouerbe as neuer the better one perfect Mechanician worth ten vnperfect Philosophers an ignorant man lesse shameth himself lesse beguileth his frend lesse disableth the Common-wealth then a putatiue Artiste a whole naturall wit more seruiceable and more sufficient then a Demi-scholler who presuming on that which he hath not abateth the force of that which he hath He must not dreame of perfection that emproueth not the perfectest Art with most perfect industrie A snatch and away with Neoptolemus and the common sort of studentes may please a little but profiteth nothing It is the Body not the shadow that dispatcheth the businesse The flower delighteth to-day and fadeth to-morrow the fruite edifieth and endureth the visard the painted sheath and such terrible braueries can best report their owne entertainment the peacock and the parrat haue good leaue to prancke vppe themselues and leysure inough to reuiue and repolish their expired workes What can last allwayes quoth the neat Tayler when his sine seames began to cracke their credite at the first drawing-on I appeale to Poules Churchyard whether lines be like vnto seames and whether the Deft writer be as sure a workeman as the neat Taylor There may be a fault in the Reader aswell as in the weauer but euery manne contente himselfe to beare the burthen of his owne faultes and good sweete Autors infourme your selues before you vndertake to instruct other Excellent effectes must slow from the spring of excellent causes and nothing notable without notable Endeuour The Print is abused that abuseth and earnestly beseecheth flourishing writers not to trouble the Presse but in case of vrgent occasion or important vse Or if you conceiue extraordinarily of your owne pregnancy and will needes imploy your youthfull Tallent remember that corruptions in manners and absurdities in Arte haue too-lately ouerflowed the banckes of all good Modestly and discretion Hee that hath but halfe an Eie can see no lesse he that hath but halfe a Tonge may say more I onely note by the way that hindereth many a gallant wit in the way and without empeachment to any wish all rather to be excellent with Socrates then to seeme famous with the Philosopher of the Court My meaning is not to teach but to touch albeit I haue cursorily spoken somethinge for my selfe and something as it were against other yet the one little and the other lesse are both vttered with a mind that will rather excuse other then my selfe and rather accuse my selfe then other wheresoeuer I find the least reason for them or the least cause against my selfe and if in any thing I am any thing it is in nothing so much as in a zealous desire to see Learning flourish Vertue prosper the good proceede from better to better the bad amend the Body cherrish the members the Members tender the body all generally maintaine Concord with all euery one particularly nurrish accord with euery one Howbeit at this instant I must craue licence to stand vpon such tearmes not as I would most willingly choose but as the present occasion forcibly suggesteth No man loather to minister the least or to take the greatest occasion of publike contention or priuate discontentment choler is as soone inflamed as flaxe and small sparkles of dissention haue kindled horrible fires of faction there be wrangling quarreling hoat-spurres inough though I be none Ignis fatuus neuer so spritishly busy neuer so many threatning Comets neuer such a terrible sky of Blasing and falling stars neuer such lusty stirring of liuely coales and dead cinders euery Martin Iunior and Puny Pierce a monarch in the kingdome of his owne humour euery pert and crancke wit in one odd veine or other the onely man of the Vniuersity of the Citty of the Realme for a flourish or two who but he in the flush of his ouerweening conceit giue him his peremptory white rod in his hand and God-night all distinction of persons and all difference of estates his Pen is his mace his launce his two-edged sword his scepter his Hercules club and will beare a predominant sway in despight of vaineglorious

Gentlemen Lechery Oh but that M. Tarleton is not your part vpon the stage you are t oo-blame that dissemble with the world haue one part for your frends pleasure an other for your owne I am somewhat of Doctor Pernes religion quoth he and abruptlie tooke his leaue Surely it must needes bee current in matter and autentical in forme that had first such a learned president and is now pleasantlie interlaced with diuers new-founde phrases of the Tauerne and patheticallie intermixt with sundry dolefull pageantes of his own ruinous beggerlie experience For the poore Tennement of his Purse quoth himselfe gramercy good Tarlelon hath bene the Diuels Dauncing schoole a nie time this halfe yeare and I pray God quoth another the poore Tennement of his Heart hath not also beene the Diuels Fencing Schoole twise as long Particulars and Circumstances are tedious especially in sorrowfull and forlorne causes the summe of summes is He tost his imagination a thousand waies and I beleeue searched euery corner of his Grammer-schoole witte for his margine is as deepelie learned as Fauste precor gelida to see if he coulde finde anie meanes to relieue his estate but all his thoughtes and marginal notes consorted to his conclusion That the worlde was vncharitable and he ordained to be miserable It were cruelty to ad affliction to afflictiō what flintly Heart would not sigh or rather melt to heare the bewailefull moane of that sobbing and groning Muse the daughter of most-pregnant but most-wretched Niobe Why i st damnation to despaire and die When Life is my true happines disease And a little after Diuines and dying men may talke of Hell But in my Heart her seuerall tormentes dwell And so foorth most-hideouslie For the Text is much more dolefull then the Glosse and who woulde not be moued with more pittifull compunction to heare the lamentable Farewell England adieu the soile that brought me foorth Adieu vnkinde where Skill is nothing worth Then to read that profound Quotation He● mihi quam paucos haec mea dicta mouent Which was thought Patheticall out of crie Forgiue him God although he curse his Birth Since Miserie hath dawnted all his Mirth Now good sweete Muse I beseech thee by thy delicate witte and by all the queintest Inuentions of thy deuiseful braine cast not thy drearie selfe headlong into the horrible Gulph of Desperation but being a Creature of so singular and wonderfull hope as thy inspired courage diuinelie suggesteth and still reare-vp mountaines of highest Hope and either gallantlie aduance thy vertuous self maugre Fortune what impossible to aspiring industry or mightilie enchant some magnificent Mecoenas for thou canst doe it to honour himselfe in honouring thee and to blisse the eies of the gazing worlde with beholding those Miracles which some round liberality and thy super-thankfull minde would hugelie enable thee to worke Let it neuer be said that the Minion of the Muses should forfake himself or abandon them whose very shadowes he adoreth A braue Hart in extreamest distresse neuer languisheth no such affrig hting Death or gnashing Hell as the deuouring Abysse of dispaire Yet better a man without money then money without a man Pennilesse is not his purse but his minde not his reuenue but his resolution A mā is a man though he haue but a hose vpon his head for euerie curse there is a blessing for euerie malady a remedie for euerie winter a sommer for euerie night a day a dog hath a day Nocte pluit tota redeunt spectacula manè Right magnanimitie neuer droupeth sweet Musike requickeneth the heauiest spirites of dumpish Melancholy fine Poetry abhorreth the loathsome and vgly shape of forlorne pensiuenes what gentle minde detesteth not cursed and damnable desperation All abiect dolefulnes is woefully base and baselie woefull The die the ball the sponge the siue the wheele of Fortune Fortune hirselfe a trifle a iest a toy in Philosophy diuine resolution Be a Musitian Poet vnto thy self that art both and a Ring-leader of both vnto other be a Man be a Gentleman be a Philosopher be a Diuine be thy resolute selfe not the Slaue of Fortune that for euery fleabiting crieth out-alas for a few hungry meales like a Greeke Parasite misuseth the Tragedy of Hecuba but the friend of Vertue that is richest in pouerty freest in bondage brauest in ieopardie cheerefullest in calamitie be rather wise and vnfortunate with the siluer Swanne then fortunate vnwise with the golden Asse remember thine owne marginal Embleme Fortuna fauet fatuis Oh solace thy miraculous selfe and cheere the Muses in cheering thy daintie soule sweetelie drunken with their delitious Helicon and the restoratiue Nectar of the Gods What can I say more That cordial liquor and that heauenly restoratiue bee thy soueraigne comfort and scorne the basenes of euerie crased or fainting thought that may argue a degenerate minde And so much briefly touching thy deere selfe who me I hope neuer to finde so pathetically distressed or so Tragically disguised againe Now a word or two concerning him who in charitie kisseth thy hand and in pitie wisheth thee better lucke May it please gentle Pierce in the diuine fury of his rauished spirite to be graciouslie good vnto his poore friendes who would be somewhat loath to be silly sheepe for the wolfe or other sheepe-biter I dare vndertake the abused Autor of the Astrologicall discourse euerie page thereof vnder correction of inspired and supernaturall conceits discouereth more Arte and Iudgement thē the whole Supplicatiō of the Parturient Mountaine notwithstanding the notorious Diabolicall discourse of the saide Pierce a man better acquainted with the Diuels of Hell then with the Starres of Heauen shall vnfainedly pray for him and onely pray him to report the knowen truth of his approoued learning liuing without fauor Otherwise it were not greatlie amisse a little to consider that he which in the ruffe of his freshest ioility was faine to cry M. Churchyard a mercy in printe may be orderlie driuen to crie more peccauies then one I would thinke the Counter M Churchyard his bostisse Penia and such other sensible Lessons might sufficientlie haue taught him that Pennilesse is not Lawlesse and that a Poets or Painters Licence is a poore security to priuiledge debt or diffamacion I woulde wish the burned child not to forget the hot Element and would aduise ouer-weening youthes to remember themselues and the good auncient oracle of sage Apollo There is a certaine thing called Modestie if they could light vpon it and by my younge Masters leaue some pritty smacke of discretion would relish well The Athenians were noted for lauish amplifieng the Cretensians for craftie lying the Thessalians for subtle cogging the Carthaginians for deceitfull perfidie Hanniball Fabius Agathocles Iphicrates Vlisses and a thousand such for counterfeit pollicie but all their forgeries were seasoned with the salt of probabilitie onelie vsed at occasions of aduauntage and although the Grecians generallie were ouer-lightheaded and vaine-spoken yet

him to the Sancebell to trusse-vp his life with a trice nor so abiectly timorous as for extreme fearefulnes to wish with a professed deuotion So be it Pray Penne Incke and Paper on their knees that they may not bee troubled with him any more Good Lorde what fantasticall panges are these who euer endighted in such a stile but one diuine Aretine in Italy two heauenly Tarletons in England the sole platformers of odd Elocution and onely singularities of the plaine worlde Two of them that so wantonly played with the highest and deepest subiectes of spirituall contemplation Heauen and Hell Paradise and Purgatory know their locall repose and seriously admonish the third to be aduised how he lauish in such dalliance No variety or infinity so infinite as Inuention which hath a huge worlde and a maine Ocean of scope to disport and raunge it selfe though it arreare not vayne Hyperboles of the reuerende mysteries of God Good sweete Oratour be a deuine Poet indeede and vse heauenly Eloquence indeede and employ thy golden talent with amounting vsance indeede and with heroicall Cantoes honour right Vertue braue valour indeede as noble Sir Philip Sidney and gentle Maister Spencer haue done with immortall Fame and I will bestow more complements of rare amplifications vpon thee then euer any bestowed vppon them or this Tounge euer affoorded or any Aretinish mountaine of huge exaggerations can bring-foorth Right artificiality whereat I once aimed to the vttermost power of my slender capacity is not mad-brained or ridiculous or absurd or blasphemous or monstrous but deepe-conceited but pleasurable but delicate but exquisite but gratious but admirable not according to the fantasticall mould of Aretine or Rabelays but according to the fine modell of Orpheus Homer Pindarus the excellentest wittes of Greece and of the Lande that flowed with milke and hony For what Festiuall Hymnes so diuinely dainty as the sweete Psalmes of King Dauid royally translated by Buchanan or what sage Gnomes so profoundly pithy as the wise Prouerbes of King Salomon notably also translated but how few Buchanans Such liuely springes of streaming Eloquence such right-Olympicall hilles of amountinge witte I cordially recommend to the deere Louers of the Muses and namely to the professed Sonnes of the-same Edmond Spencer Richard Stanihurst Abraham France Thomas Watson Samuell Daniell Thomas Nash and the rest whome I affectionately thancke for their studious endeuours commendably employed in enriching polishing their natiue Tongue neuer so furnished or embellished as of-late For I dare not name the Honorabler Sonnes Nobler Daughters of the sweetest diuinest Muses that euer sang in English or other language for feare of suspition of that which I abhorre and their owne most delectable and delicious Exercises the fine handy-worke of excellent Nature and excellenter Arte combined speake incomparably more then I am able briefly to insinuate Gentle mindes and flourishing wittes were infinitely toblame if they should not also for curious imitation propose vnto themselues such faire Types of refined and engraced Eloquence The right Noouice of pregnante and aspiring conceit wil not ouer-skippe any precious gemme of Inuention or any beautifull floure of Elocution that may richly adorne or gallantly bedecke the trimme garland of his budding stile I speake generally to euery springing wit but more specially to a few and at this instante singularly to one whom I salute with a hundred blessings and entreate with as many prayers to loue them that loue all good wittes and hate none but the Diuell and his incarnate Impes notoriously professed I protest it was not thy person that I any-way disliked but thy rash and desperate proceeding against thy well-willers which in some had bene vnsufferable in an youth was more excusable in a reformed youth is pardonable and rather matter of concordance then of aggrieuance I persuade my selfe rather to hope the best then to feare the worst euer wish vnto other as I would wish other to wish vnto mee It is my earnest desire to begin and ende such friuolous altercations at once and were it not more for other then for my selfe assuredly I would be the first that should cancell this impertinent Pamflet and throw the other twoo Letters with the Sonnets annexed into the fire Let them haue their swinge that affect to be terribly singular I desire not to be a blacke Swanne or to leaue behind me any Period in the stile of the Diuels Oratour or any verse in the vaine of his Dammes Poet but rather couet to be nothing in printe then any thinge in the stampe of needelesse or fruitlesse Contention As I am ouer-ruled at this presente and as it standeth now I am not to be mine owne Iudge or Aduocate but am contente to bee sentenced by euery courteous or indifferente peruser that regardeth honesty in persons or trueth in testimonies or reason in causes Or seeing some matters of Fame are called in question I am not onely willing but desirous to vnderlye the verdicte euen of Fame her-selfe and to submit our whole credites to the voice of the people as to the voice of Equity and the Oracle of God to whose gratious fauours he recommendeth your Courtesy that neither flattereth the best nor slaundereth the woorst nor willfully wrongeth any but professeth duety to his superiours humanity to his equals fauour to his inferiours reason to all And by the same Rule oweth you amends for the premisses not spedily dispatched but hastily bungled-vp as you see London this 8. and 9. of September The frend of his frendes foe of none The Fourth Letter To the same fauourable or indifferent Reader HOnest Gentlemen for vnto such I especially write giue me leaue in this slender Pamflet onely to fulfill the importune requestes of a fewe with your small delighte and mine owne lesse contentmente and pardon mee though I no way affect to feede the dainty humour of curious conceites carried with an insatiable expectation of I wot not what imagined perfection which may easely display it selfe wher it is but cannot possibly appeere where it is not I presume I cannot lesse satisfie any then I haue satisfied my selfe who hauing wedded my selfe to priuate study and deuoted my mind to publike quietnesse tooke this troublesom penne in hand with such an alacrity of courage as the sorry Beare goeth to the stake now reioyce in that which with more hast then speede is dispatched as AEsops Hart with more affection then reason gloried in his Hornes till he found his fugitiue legges his surer friends For in many cases I take it a better Pollicy to vse the flying Legge then the cumbersome Horne and at this instant I should much more haue pleased my selfe if I had still practised my former resolution to scorne the stinginge of a pieuish waspe or the biting of an eluish gnat or the quipp of a mad companion and rather to pocket-vp a pelting iniury then to entangle my selfe with trifling businesse or any-way to accrew to