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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23383	A meruailous combat of contrarieties Malignantlie striuing in the me[m]bers of mans bodie, allegoricallie representing vnto vs the enuied state of our florishing common wealth: wherin dialogue-wise by the way, are touched the extreame vices of this present time. VVith an earnest and vehement exhortation to all true English harts, couragiously to be readie prepared against the enemie. by W.A.	Averell, W. (William)	1588 (1588)	STC 981; ESTC S104468	32,149	54

death The Foote Brethren the deceitfull tongue hath beguiled vs all and hath intended thereby nothing but our ouerthrow and that doe I too well féele in my feeble fainting ioynts that through want of strength are scant able to beare vp the bodie wherfore let vs renue our former friendship with the Bellie by whome we haue hetherto maintained our health and without whome we cannot continue let vs not hereafter be lead by the tongue but as Nature hath inclosed her in with a double wall and shut her vp as in a prison so let vs charge the téeth and lippes to lock her vp and according to their office set a bolt before her for walking at large and if these cannot containe her in dutie then will we make the handes helpers by violent force to holde her in not without cause doth it behoue vs so to do for by her meanes we sée through this contention the hands are weakned the head bedulled and the face apalled the heart panteth yea the Tongue her selfe is silent what will followe now but a finall ende of vs all if we doe not speedely minister to the Belly wherewith to féede vs and to the Backe to kéepe vs warme and therefore I promise for my part as fast as my fainting lims will serue to trudge for somewhat for their maintainance The Hande And as readie am I to reléeue them as I was before forward to pull from them being sorie that I lent anie eare to the dissentious Tongue wherby to displease natural friends promising hereafter not to forsake them for the perswasions of any craftie enimie The Bellie Then deare brethren bestirre ye prouide some thing with spéede and you shall finde how I will refreshe your fainting members for as Nature hath made me your seruant so wil I not faile in doing my dutie and let this your smart warne you hereafter to liue together in mutuall loue that as wee are all fellowes and members of one bodie so we may violently and voluntarily withstand all subtill entisementes of vnnaturall enimies that shal go about to disquiet our peace so shall our amitie in a natural harmonie be maintained our bodily health the longer preserued our quietnesse and peace still established and our hatefull enimies inwardly grieued to our continuall ioy and their vnspeakable griefe The application briefelie declaring the summe of this Dialogue THis excellent frame and most beautifull order of visible things in the worlde this position and placing of bodies the heauens the aire and the earth enuironed and spread about with the great Ocean this order of heauenlie mouings which maketh y e courses and change of times and seasons dayes and nights Summer and Winter to conclude the whole forme pertaining to the heauenly and elementarie nature is called among the Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a greater world or more excellent beautie and from thence haue the Latines named it Mundus of the neatnesse comelinesse of these visible creatures which frame beareth in his naturall harmonie an apt similitude of a politique magistracie and therefore they were sayde among the Lacedemonians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that bore a kind of office or authoritie in the common wealth In this order we knowe there is a continuall Sympathie no shew of contrarietie for if there were it could be no order but a disorder no Sympathie but an Antipathie so y t y e whole course of natural things should either be dissolued or vnnaturally be meruailously confounded and therefore as this order hath bene created of God so is it still conserued of him to teach man being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a lesser world in respect of the greater participating both of the heauenly and terrestriall matter and bearing also a simililtude of the heauens and elements likewise what a natural agréement there should be among the fellowships of men to the making vp of a politique bodie knit together in the vnitie of mindes A meruailous concord is there among the heauenlie bodies for as the writers of nature teach if our grose eares could heare their surpassing harmonie wrought by theyr equal and orderly motions we should finde their tunable melodie farre aboue the sweetnesse of anie mired musicke No lesse ought the vnitie of mens minds to be tuneable in amitie without anie iarre of dissonāt discord because they beare a liuely similitude of the heauens in their terrestrial bodies for as the heauen which they call Coelum Empireum contayneth and includeth within it the Angels Saintes of God so the bodie of man concludeth and shutteth in it the soule and heauenly vertues memorie vnderstanding and will Wherefore as in the heauenly creatures there is with men a plaine resēblance so ought there among earthly creatures to be a heauenly representation in agréement of minds and hearts As in the Firmament bee seuen Planettes and foure Elements so in the head of man be seuen holes or issues and and in the bodie foure principall members As the Sun Moone are two lights placed in the heauens so are there two eyes made for lights in the head The bodie carrieth a sumilitude of the elementarie matter for the heart hath a strie spericke likenesse beeing most excellent of the members and the seate of the liuing soule The breast of man is as the aire wherein the vapours of the stomack and bellie being congealed do cause coughs and yexings with such like The stomacke is like a great sea in which arise all grieuous diseases as it were flowing tempests and to which the humours of the whole bodie as all the riuers of the earth do eb and flow The féete as the centerie of the heauens and elementes beare vp the waight of the bodie and thus wee sée what a fit similitude there is betwéene the greater world and the lesser betweene the superiour creatures and mans earthlie members This consent hath God left in nature betwéene the heauens with their elements and our humane members that wee might learne what agréement ought to bee among our selues that are tied together in a politique state For looke what similitude is betweene these twaine the like may bée and is in most pointes betwéene the naturall bodie and a eiuill pollicie maintained in a well ordered Citie or wise gouernment of a common wealth For as the head is by nature placed in the top of the body so ought the Prince to haue the highest roome ouer all causes in her common wealth and Country being superior and supreame head of all others not excepting Popes or theyr authoritie and as nature hath garded the heade wish most of the senses s● doth she teach vs what defence we ought to yéelde to our Queene and howe to succour her in all extreamities The heart being the place of vnderstanding and onelie seate of wisedome is inclosed and fenced about with the bodie to instruct vs y ● in our politique gouernment wee ought stoutly also to countergard our nobles counsaylours and magistrates from whome we

for that which the Backe hath before most vainly spent Besides you make the Landlorde to maintain your brauery so stretch his poore Tenant in rent that to serue your turne the Belly must fast the Handes labour the féete to trudge and the other members toyle to their greate gréefe and sorrowe The Backe But thinke you that the Backe alone is cause of al this miserie no no the Belly hath héerein his portion and that the greater part how soeuer you would shift the matter vppon me for although as Plinius sayth Simplex cibus corpori vtilissimus the simplest meate is most profitable for the body yet the Belly béeing not herewith contented must haue dyuers and daintie sortes of fruites beasts of the earth foules of the ayre fishes of the Sea and those not cōmon but rare besides banquetting dyshes of sundry sortes made of swéete conceits to please your appetite Moreouer golde cullours to adorne them and swéete spices to sauour them then the fattest and fairest the yongest sweetest a cunning Cooke must be sought to dresse thē and daintilie to prepare them who turneth the substaunce into an accident and nature into arte that the full belly may become hungry and the stuffed stomack renew his appetite and while all these thinges must be prouided the stocke wastes the Landes are gaged and morgaged and rather then the Belly shall want his superfluities the Backe and members shall want their necessaries so shortly after followeth a topsituruey downefall of the whole state which must be layd vpon the Backe though wrought by the Belly and shifted to mée though chéefely effected by your selfe But beholde where they are who can giue equall iudgment whether of vs twaine doo most excéede or procure greatest wrong to the members Doe you not sée them The Belly Yes full well and better shoulde I thinke of their company were it not for the malicious tongue who hath contrary to nature made them enemies to me that am by nature a friend vnto them The Tongue We are espied wherefore to decide this controuersie we will goe to them as though we came but now within theyr hearing but it shall not neede for they approche to vs. The Bellie Deare Brethren and fellow members well met I cannot choose but meruaile what hellish furie worse than Megaera hath sturred you vp to be at enmitie with me that haue alwayes tenderly loued you and what shoulde moue you to withdrawe from me my nourishment that am a seruant to feede you all in ministring to euerie one so much as nature requireth The Tongue Because rather thou art a lawlesse Lord howsoeuer thou couer thy extortion with the colourable glose of a seruant alwayes crauing and euer commaunding still feeding and neuer leauing thou art a bottomlesse whirlepoole of all gluttonie an vnsatiable sea of ceaselesse gourmandie a rauenous cormorant that greedely deuoureth an idle creature that neuer laboureth thou settest the whole world vpon vntemperaunce making the rich a Nabuzardan that rather bestowe more vpon Cookes to fill the belly than on the learned to instruct the mind Thou teachest the poore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to liue after their lust not according to vertue cōsuming without care not onely what shoulde maintaine their family but that also that might otherwise paie their debtes O bellie most beastial thou causest all vncleannesse O monster most vnreasonable that workest all filthinesse through thee come murthers robbing and théeuerie through thée come contentions treasons and villany through thée Kings reach at others crownes to increase their treasure and Popes at Princes rule to inlarge their honour through thée comes pride warre and deceit enuie hatred and slaunder to conclude thou art the chaser awaie of all vertues and the haler in of all vices and in thée as in a Troiane horse is included not the ouerthrowe of one Citie but the ruine of infinite Countries and innumerable people thou art the bellows to kindle all lust and the sacke that containeth all filth the plague of vs the members and the vtter ouerthrowe of the soule it selfe The backe She hath nipt you verie neere and méetelie well painted out your gluttonie The Tongue And as much may I saie to thée thou proude pecocke the porter of pride the baite of bauderie the lure of lecherie thou roote of all riot and beginning of all iniquitie thou art the sturrer of strife to maintaine thy pride and the nource of warre and all sedition through thée Countries fall at iarre and kingdomes are turned topsituruie for thy brauerie false subiects forsake their Prince and vilanous traitours betray their Countrie thy leaprosie infecteth all the world corrupteth euery age and defileth euery sexe thy pride maketh the rich loath the poore the child disdaine the Father the neighbour contemne his neighbors the wife despise her husband and the seruant to make no account of his maister all which being trickt vp in thy ornaments thinke that Vestis virum facit Apparell makes a man but they forget Simia est simia etiamsi aurea gestet insignia that an Ape is an Ape though hée be clothed in golde to conclude what vice is it whereof thou art not cause nay what sinne whereof thou art not the beginning the midst and the end The bellie As well hath she decyphered your pride but what should I saie vnto the tongue as I haue patientlie hearde her so déere brethren and fellowe members giue me leaue to aunswere her agayne You knowe deare brethren that the tong is but a little member but it is nimble and quickly slideth yea hardly may it be restrained therefore hath it no measure in talking for of a spark it will make a flame and of one coale kindle a great fire her wordes are but light because they lightlie flie and although they flie swiftlie yet they wound deeplie sting grieuously pearce inwardly she may well be called Lingua for she can Lingere adulando smoothlie flatter as she hath done you but she hath bitterly bitten and slaunderouslie belied me she perswadeth you that I am your Lord and she telleth you that I am your enimy but I know I am your seruant and entirely loue you as a friende the great creator of all things when he framed the world of one lumpe made both you and me one substance and ioyned vs together in one bodie knitting vs in mutuall league to the end we should be linked in friendly loue he woulde haue all things common amongst vs that none should challenge any thing proper to himselfe so far as concerneth the vse of these naturall things hee hath giuen vs euerie one our proper office to be helpers and ayders one to another hee hath made me your seruaunt and ordayned me your cooke to dresse for you that should serue for your nourishment for as the Cooke by his arte doth make the meate méete for the mouth so doe I by my naturall heate boyle the same méete for the