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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10867	A nevv yeeres gift The courte of ciuill courtesie: fitly furnished with a plesant porte of stately phrases and pithie precepts: assembled in the behalfe of all younge gentlemen, and others, that are desirous to frame their behauiour according to their estates, at all times, and in all companies: thereby to purchase worthy praise, of their inferiours: and estimation and credite amonge theyr betters. Out of Italian, by S.R. Gent.	S. R. (Simon Robson), d. 1617.; Mont. Prisacchi Retta, Bengalassa del, attributed name.	1582 (1582)	STC 21135; ESTC S110654	28,088	48

meate or bread while his mouth is full nor till he haue swallowed the last morsell Item that he fill not his mouthe so full of meate as he cannot holde his lippes together while he is chawing for other wise men shall looke into his mouthe and see the meate rowle vp and downe while he is eatinge which is a fowle sight and loathesome and for that cause a man must forbeare to speake with meate in his mouthe except he haue so little as he bee sure to hide it in his mouthe while he is speaking Item while his better telleth him any tale to cease eating bethe while he heareth and while he answereth him Item if he be prouoked to laughe in the presence of his betters to doo the same with as little noyse as may be and likewise in the company of straungers for too lowde a laughter specially for slender occasions doo make wisemen counted foolish of sutch as know them not Item when 〈◊〉 man will tell a mery tale let him 〈◊〉 it so a●●●●selfe be not the first that shall laughe at it 〈◊〉 smiling sound to make men know he speaketh but in sporte is good but a fained laughter is ill becomming A hartie laughter so the matter be worth it is allowable Item he must beware that while another tell a tale or make iestures that his wits be not caried away so as he gaze continually in his face and make the same countenances which he séeth the other doo for that will make a man counted doultish Item if he be constrained to yawne teache belche cough snéese clense the nose or spit either at the bourde or in the presence of his betters or straungers he must suppresse the sound and shadow the sight as muche as he may conuiently without making it to nice Item in caruing himselfe or others he must not embrew too many of his fingers nor his thombe nor wallow his meate vp and down to much in the sauce because in so dooing a man shall washe his fingers in the saufe which others will loathe specially straungers Now to conclude though a man either at home or among his fréends may vse what manner he list without obseruing all these ceremonies yet it shal be verye good somwhat to enure himselfe by dayly custome otherwise he shall in presence forgette bothe them and himselfe ¶ How a man shall pacifie his freeind his better or his equall if he haue giuen him vnwillinglye any cause of offence ¶ The .x. Chapter IF for a light cause then merely thus I am sure you take it not in earnest or thinke I meant otherwise then in the best part for if you doo you shall doo me great wronge Or thus By my trouthe I did or saide it to no such ende as you take it and therefore I pray you thinke of it as I meant it Or thus If I had thought it could haue bin so much mistaken I would haue bin more wary but let it suffice you that I ment but well and fréeindly for otherwise I did it not I assure you Or carnestly for some greater matter then thus My hap is ill that of so good a meaning should fall out so ill conceiuing or so ill successe for that I did or sayde was as I would haue doone to my very fréende or would haue had doone to my selfe it restes in your choice to beléeue me but if you doo not you shall wronge your selfe as well as me in mistrusting me without a cause Or thus I can but tell you and assure you on my faithe I meant thus Or thus If I haue giuen you any cause to thinke other wise or if it haue fallen out contrarie to mine expectation I am not only soarie for it but I will be readie to make any recompence I can Or to ones better thus Truly sir it was not my intent to doo herein anye thing that might offende but I will yéelde that it is fault mough that I vsed no more circumspection but that you may conceiue ill of it you néede not to giue me any penance for that my repentance is so murche Or thus If you knew my minde you would put me in trust for reuenging this faut for I shall be angrie with my selfe this good while for it ¶ How a man shall shift of reproches or tauntes offred betweene sporte and earnest by enuious and scornefull persons that will seeme to doo it so cunninglye as the other shall haue the taunt and yet at his owne pleasure will denie it The .xi. Chapter THe best way is if he can touche the same party as néere without séeming to be angrie but if he know nothing perticulerly to charge him or to mock him withall then to scorne him beetwéene sporte anger againe as thus Oh finely handled were you borne so Or thus Iesus who would haue thought you coulde haue throwen so harde to hit your selfe Or thus I dare say you weene you haue spoken very trimly now Or thus You haue made a great speake sir Or thus That is quoth you Or thus I thanke you of your cost Or thus It is but your good nature to take or expounde it so Or thus As I remember I desired you not to say that for me but yet you shall finde me too kinde harted to dye in your debt Or thus Did any bodye teache you to say so or comes it of your mother wit ¶ Now if they shall replie and go about to make it séeme they meane simply then thus I dare say you doo and therefore I thanke you as hartely Or thus Why I trust you thinke not that I doubte of that Or thus Why I take it so and therefore I commend you for it and so turne it to mirthe agayne if the other will needs haue it so But if the other will prosecute it with sharpe tauntes vnder a fléeryng or laughing countenance then thus Naye I am not skilled in iesters arte tell me your minde in earnest and you shall finde me ready to make you such sporte as I dare Or thus I will tell you if you will néedes become a Iester to make Gentlemen sporte It were best to call some other to helpe countenance you that is of your facultie for in faith I am nothing apt for you at this time FINIS Imprinted at London by Richard Ihones dwelling at the Signe of the Rose and Crowne neere Holborne Bridge

A NEVV YEERES GIFT THE COVRTE of ciuill Courtesie Fitly furnished with a plesant porte of stately phrases and pithie precepts assembled in the behalfe of all younge Gentlemen and others that are desirous to frame their behauiour according to their estates at all times and in all companies Thereby to purchase worthy praise of their inferiours and estimation and credite amonge theyr betters Out of Italian by S. R. Gent. Imprinted at London by Richard Ihones 1582. To the flourishing Youthes and Courteous young Gentlemen of England and to all others that are desirous and louers of Ciuile Courtesie R. I. the Printer hereof wisheth an happie New yeere present and many to the pleasure of God and their owne hartes desire MOst Courteous young Gentlemen presuming vpon your great Curtesie I haue been so bolde as to present your estate in token and wish of an happie new yeere with these the first fruites of my poore Presse finished since the cumming in of the same Surely the traueill of a Gentleman whom I know not no not so mutch as by name much lesse by person And concerning the copie as he that brought it vnto me made reporte that it was translated out of the Italian by a Gentleman a freende of his desiring me that it might be printed And I being alwaies desirous to farther the studie and procure the delites of all men by publishing bookes of semblable argument thought good to dedicate the same vnto you iudging it in this respect a present more meete for your moste flourishing degree for that I perceiue it to haue beene first written by a Noble and g●●●● personage of Italy and directed vnto his Nephew a young Gentlemā also of noble parentage for the better conforming of his behauiour at his entrace into the Court as it may appeare by his Epistle hereafter following Now for that this case is commō vnto most of you and aboue all other the studie of ciuell Curtesie most incident vnto your calling I am the bo●●er to craue your Courteous countenance and friendly fauour in accepting the same now in English at my hands as a testimonie of my seruiceable heart and good meaning towards you And that receiuing it now frō me as your owne you would vouchsafe of your great curtesie to take both me and it in to your assured protection and to defend both the present and him that offereth it from the spightfull toungues of malicious carpers And in so dooing you shall euermore binde me to emploie what traueill and seruice I can to the aduauncing and pleasuring of your most excellent degree Farewell in the Lord. The Censure of a friende concerning this worke OVr Parents well deserue the pricke of price Who giue vs life which we had not before The teachers care deserues great thanke likewise Who traines the childe and giues the learned lore Immortall praise we ought giue him therefore Some strife hath bin in respect of these things Who best deserues of these two Noble springs ¶ Though one giue life the other learning lendes Let reason rule let wit this matter scan And things are iudgde according to their endes And prouerbe olde sayes manners makes the man The vitall sprite must yeeld to learning than Wherfore you youthes sprunge vp from gentle line Vnto this Court your courteous eares incline ¶ This Court the which of Curtesie takes name Declares what port eche Gentill shall insue At all assayes how he himselfe shall frame To follow what and what for to eschue Thrice happie he whom God shall so indue A thing of weight and wun for simple price Reiect by fooles but purchast by the wise Bengalassa del Mont. Prisacchi Retta vnto Seig. Princisea Ganzar Moretta For his behauiour vz. To my Nephew Seig. Princisca Ganzar Morretta AT MY LAST BEING at Prisacchi vnderstanding by your fathers talke that he minded to haue you a while in the Court where hee hath spent the better part of his life and because it is frequented with all sortes of companies as any place in Italy is I haue directed this little booke which if you read and marke diligently shall be as it were a guide to leade you from a number of snates which you may be trapt withall also for your behauiour in all companies with many other things fit to be knowen of younge Gentlemen and especially for sutch as haue not beene conuersant in all companies Fare ye well ¶ The Contentes of the Booke HOw a younge Gentleman may behaue himselfe in all companies and be prepared for ordinary entertainements and to get a good opinion and credite among his bettars Chap. 1. ¶ How a man shall behaue himselfe in had companye and among sutch roisters as will offer familiaritye with him will he or no and first a guesse of sutch meanes as they will vse thereto Chap. 2. ¶ How a man shall answer to the prayse thankes curtesies seriously offred by his betters or equals 3. ¶ How a man shall acquite himselfe towardes noble persons that shall either for his fréendes sake or his owne offer him curtesies or assure him of friendship willing him in all chaunces to be bolde with him Chap. 4. ¶ Howe when the foresayde spéeches be offered by a Noble person pleasantly that is of acquaintaunce which must be also pleasantly answered Chap. 5. ¶ How to an equall or but little better béeing a friend and familiar Chap. 6. ¶ How a man shall take thankes of a noble person ca. 7 ¶ How a man may giue thankes to his betters and equals Chap. 8. ¶ What manners be requisitie of the Table and what to be shunned what is to be considered in the washing before Dinner and in the sitting downe is set foorth in the beginning of this Direction Chap. 9. ¶ How a man shall pacifie his friend his better or his equall if he haue giuen him vnwillingly any cause of offence Chap. 10. Now a man shall shift off reproches or tauntes offered betwéene sporte and earnest by enuious and scornefull persons that will séeme to doo it so cunningly as the other shall haue the taunt and yet at his owne pleasure will denie it Chap. 11. FINIS The Courte of ciuill Curtesie How a yonge Gentilman may behaue himselfe in all companies and be prepared for ordinary entertainments and to get a good oppinion and credit among his betters Chap. 1. FIrst hee hath to consider that the lacke of good behauiour which is a comely audacitie with out a sausie presumption which argueth discréete iudgement and wisedome maketh his inferiour to be his equal and maketh his equall his better till himselfe hath attayned not only the habit of béeing the like but the time to make himselfe know to be the like Therefore if he shall light in the company of any whose liuing and birth is worse then his owne and yet perceyueth the other for his wisedome and grauitie to be well esteemed of by others it becommeth the yonge Gentleman to giue him the place or at

the cause the right consideration is this If I offer the first reproche disdaine or dispite the quarell is the others his parte it is to chalenge and I néede not to my equall to make the chalenge But if the other giue me the first lie or like disgrcae it is not inough to say he lyeth againe but I must néeds offer a blow or chalenge the féeild But yet the villany may be such as he may straine good manner In the house of his fréend I meane in the dyning place at the bourde or where any assembly is a man may not offer a blowe but if he haue cause giuen him he shall doo well to make shewe in woords that he forbeareth the present occasion respecting the disturbance of the companie This is no place to growe in termes in if it were you would not be so braue Or thus These be too great villanies to be borne if it were not in mine owne house where thou knowest I am able to eate thée vp Or thus No into woords this matter shall be eased anon you shall sée Or thus I thanke you syr nay take your pleasure I could rayle too but then I should be like such a rascall as thy selfe tell me this soone if thou sée I forget it but if I doo take me for such a cowardly boye as I will take thée for till thou méete me in such a place Or thus If it were not for troubling this companie I would be your caruer of a péece of my Dagger but doubt not but I shall finde a time for you Or thus Away rascall with thy villanous words I heare by thy great boaste I shall passe my iourney quietly at such an hower in such a place I know I shall haue cause to report thée for a good quiet fellow I no more a doo you know my minde But to conclude in this I shall aduise the yonge Gentleman to enforme himselfe afore he haue neede by enquerie at their hands that the experienced in that trade that when he hath neede he may not only be prouided of courage but also of woordes phrase and manner to it curragiously and in the stoutest and séemliest manner for all that I haue written hithertoo of this matter hath bin rather to shew that in euery thing there is a meane to be vsed in one sorte to inferiours and in another sorte to superiours and equals to the ende to prouoke him to learne the right manner then of a meaning to shew any skill of mine in the same belonging nothing to my profession and therefore I will now say something how he shall take the iestings the praysyngs and the thankes of hia superiours and equals as things that are bothe fitter for me to write and shall of him be oftner and sooner put in practise First I will discriue some sundrie manner of iesting One is when a man will charge his famillier freinde a mans famillier may be either his equall or his better that list of curtesie to become his equall or one somewhat his inferiour to whom he list by like curtesie to make his equall with some ill matter that all the companie knoweth to be vntrue In that kinde there is no difficultie to answere but it is good to haue varitie of phrase and not to answer still after one manner to his mere equall thus You doo well to exercise your tongue in matters of no trouth you may hap els to be taken for a lie teller Or thus Go too you will haue euery bodie sée what a lauish tongued fellow you be that cannot so much as kéepe counsell of that he knoweth not what would he doo thinke you of that he knoweth Or thus Nay I dare say you would faine haue it beléeued for it gréeueth him that any man should be taken for honester man than himselfe Or thus Go too you were best leaue your tatling least I fall a telling of true tales Or thus Nay tell on for I am sure all is Gospell that commeth out of those lippes of yours Or thus This is nothing finely handled of you you should haue sayd sumthing that had caried some likelyhoode with it Or thus Go too I will make you no more of my counsell séeing you be such a blab Or thus Is this the trust you performe with your fréendes to tell all and more too Or thus Houlde thy peace foole for my honestie is so well knowen as no body here will beléeue thée ¶ Now in the like case to a mans better must be other phrases as thus You say truthe syr I haue béen taken for a sore fellow at that when I was a yongeman Or thus If my credit were not very good this were inough to disgrace me quite Or thus It may be true that you say but I warrant you I handle the matter so cunningly that there is no proofe to be had of it Or thus It were great pittie any body should doubt of that matter Or thus Thus a mans credit is put in daunger by you if the hearers be not the more fauourable Or thus Some measure other mens trades by theyr owne but I would be lothe any body should thinke I meane so by you ¶ An other kinde of iesting with a mans freind is when they charge him to haue sayd or donne something of a thirde person that onely himselfe and his freinde knoweth to be fayned but yet it may be tould with sutch a resemblance of truth as the hearers may doubt whether it be true or no. In this case also it is not good to make deniall but to vse some such phrase or rountenance as the hearers may perceiue he maketh so little accounte of it as it néedeth no escuse or denial as thus You haue lost mutch good labour now if you be not beléeued Or thus You may sell this good cheape séeing it is of your owne making Or thus I like you well for I sée you loue to make the best of any thing euer when you wote not how to make the woorst Or thus I pray you beléeue him in this and you shall sée he will take such a pride in it that he will quoyne you new stuffe euery day Or to a mans better Very well you may say that and more too if it please you Or thus You must looke with a sadder countenance when you wil be beléeued ¶ An other kinde is when they will touche one with something which is true and though it be no great infamie yet it may be somewhat that a man would bee loathe to confesse and yet as loathe to be taken for a denier of that which is knowen to be true In this case a man may answer thus You doo but dreame peraduentuoe when you wake you shall finde it otherwise Or thus Loe now you haue heard say so and béeing of a good faith you béeleeued it straight Or thus Naye no doubt but it must needes be true if you say it Or thus Did I you speake your