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A01402 The rich cabinet furnished with varietie of excellent discriptions, exquisite charracters, witty discourses, and delightfull histories, deuine and morrall. Together with inuectiues against many abuses of the time: digested alphabetically into common places. Wherevnto is annexed the epitome of good manners, exttracted from Mr. Iohn de la Casa, Arch-bishop of Beneuenta. T. G., fl. 1616.; Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?; Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556. Galateo. 1616 (1616) STC 11522; ESTC S102804 122,087 364

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THE RICH CABINET Furnished with varietie OF Excellent discriptions exquisite Charracters witty discourses and delightfull Histories Deuine and Morrall TOGETHER WITH INuectiues against many abuses of the time digested Alphabetically into common places WHEREVNTO IS ANNEXED the Epitome of good manners exttracted from M r. Iohn de la Casa Arch-bishop of Beneuenta LONDON Printed by I. B. for Roger Iackson and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet Conduit 1616. THE PRINTER To the courteous Readers GENTLEMEN HAuing had the good happe among other aduentures of Presse to Print not long since sundry small fragments full both of honest reuelation for Wit and vseful obseruation for Wisedome fit to please and profit the wel-disposed And perceiuing the same accordingly to haue found generall approbation and applause howbeit I must ingeniously confesse neither so orderly disgested by the P●nne nor so exactly corrected at the Presse by reason of some vnseasonable hast as both the Author and my selfe haue since seriously wished Now therefore at better leasure for your greater delight in reading and ease in finding I haue here with the helpe of a skilfull and industridustrious friend Methodically reduced all into this Rich Cabinet doubly furnished with ample Addition of newe Treasures of diuers kinds which 〈◊〉 you accept no worse then the former I shall bee the more encouraged to endeauour your further content to the vttermost of my facultie So fare you well R. I. ¶ An Alphabeticall Table containing the heades of all the principall matters in this Booke AEfinitie fol. 1 Anger 3 Atheisme 6 Beautie 7 Birth 10 Benefits 11 Couetousnesse 13 Crueltie 15 Courtesie 18 Courtier 19 Clergy 21 Citizen 27 Countrey life 29 Cuckold 31 Death 32 Diseases 35 Drunkennesse 37 Effeminatenesse 39 Elloquence 40 Enuy. 41 Folly 44 Fortune 47 Friends 48 Gentrey 51 God 58 Grauety 61 Honour 63 Humility 65 Hypocrisie 67 Inuection 68 Ignominy 70 Idlenesse 72 Kings 74 Knowledge 76 Knauery 79 Lawes 81 Lechery 83 Loue. 85 Liberty 88 Merchant 89 Man 91 Modestie 9● Money 94 Negligence 97 No-body 98 Nurture 100 Oeconomick 101 Office 105 Order 107 Oathes 109 Pleasure 111 Poetry 112 Pouer●y 113 Player 116 Pride 118 Profit 121 Quietnesse 122 Reason 124 Religion 126 Remembrance 129 Resolution 130 Statesman 132 Scholler 134 Souldier 135 Shifting 137 Singularitie 139 Sinne. 140 Sorrow 141 Temperance 144 Time 146 Traueller 147 Troubles 149 Vanitie 151 Vallour 154 Vertue 855 Warres 157 Wilfulnesse 159 World 160 Woman Whore A Treatise of Manners and behauiors THE RICH CABINET Containing Descriptions Characters Discourses and Histories Diuine and Morall Affinitie This wel may be the weake ones strong defence And strōg ones weaknes may proceed frō hence AFfinitie cannot haue greater glory then when the father is wise the children vertuous the brothers kinde the cosins louing and the kinred conformable Affinity is happy where cosins nephewes are well bred and kinde consorts sisters are modest and gracious maidens brothers are naturall and indiuiduall friends children obedient and pleasing to their parents wiues are vertuous and submisse to their husbands and wise and careful to gouerne their housholds Aff●nity degenerating in honesty is like foule scabs in a faire skinne such Affines brings as much credit comfort to their friends as do lyce in their clothes they are much like of a lousie condition they will cleaue close vnto you while you haue bloud to feede them but if you begin to die or decay they goe from them that breed them Affinity doth sometimes shew a catalogue of kinsmen but a blank of friends For it is not the similitude of titles or names but the resemblance of like true and tender affection and harts wherein the reality of right and naturall affinity consists Affinity of faire words and false hearts are like Tantalus his apples they are euer hanging round about him but he may die for hunger before he shall taste them Or they are like the apples of Sodom that are faire without and dust within Good for nothing but to deceiue hungry passengers who would but cannot feed vpon them Affinity is pleased when the children and childrens children prooue the Parents delight but if vngracious they are more charge then comfort Affinity with needy and penurious friends is like a stemme that hath many suckers or vnder-plants which are still drawing the iuyce away from the great and maine root but themselues neuer bring forth a handful of fruit Affinity hath that priuiledge that in lordly houses and of inheritors there ought to be the haunts of brothers cosins nephews vnckles and all other of his kin bearing good will to their affaires supporting their necessities in such wi●e that to them is no houre forbidden or dore shut neuerthelesse there are some brothers cosins and nephewes so tedious in speech so importunate in visiting and so without measure in crauing that they make a man angry and also abhorre them and the remedy to such is to appart their conuersations and succour their necess●ties Affinity makes men presume in offences but heere lies the danger when kinsmen fall out indeed they are at deadly food and commonly irreconcileable therefore a care must be had of the occasion and a cunning to contriue a pacification Affinity setteth whole families many times at variance euen to the drawing of strangers to take part but when an attonement is contriued the rest are not only condemned but pay for the mischiefe when a mans bloud returnes and feare of ouerthrowing the whole family keepes malice in restraint Anger Ire's good and bad if good it still doth swell At ill if b●d it frets at dooing well ANger is the heat of bloud as feare the defect of nature but in both temperance bringeth men to perfection Anger and Enuy makes the body leane and ma●erates the minde when it had need of rest●u●ation by rest Anger is sometimes manly as griefe vvith reason is naturall but to be outragious is beastly and to cry childish Anger without discretion turneth into furie and continuing without restraint endeth in sorow Anger vpon good cause is wis●dome and against sinne honesty and without sinne holinesse but to braule and swagger is vnciuell Anger without force is like a lustfull Eunuch willing but weak or like a mocked old man that holds vp his staffe but cannot strike in both a man shall show folly in willingnes to hurt and inability to execute Anger bringeth hastie spirits in danger of hurt and when the passion is cooled by consideration repentance followes but if it be too late it is subiect to derision Anger and excesse of meates are great enemies to health For meats doe corrupt the humors and anger consumeth the bones so that if men did not eate ouermuch and would not be ouer-angry there should be little cause to be sick and much lesse of whom to complaine For the whips that do most scourge our miserable life are ordinary excesse and deepe anger Anger made great Alexander like the least part
ended is birth to eternity and a true faith purchaseth felicitie Death is not to be feared when it deliuers from misery 〈◊〉 be refused when it leads to endlesse fel●●ity Death of a good 〈◊〉 is the mis●ry of a good seruant 〈◊〉 of a good father the ioy and reioycing of a reprobate childe but hee is not worthy to liue that is sick of the father Death both vntimely and shamefull is commonly the end of theeues and lechers For thé one furnisheth the hatefull gallowes and the other is commonly finished by lothsome surgery Death vndesired of age sheweth little feeling of grace as youth doth little signe of good nature or breeding that doth not loue and reuerence his elders and betters Death endeth the sorrowes of the righteous and beginneth the miseries of the wicked Deaths musick is sounded when wee beginne the song with sighs end it vvith sobs and keepe time with teares Death belongeth to him that killeth his enemie but hell to him that killeth himselfe Death is one and the same to all how-euer diuerse Nations differd in their seuerall burialls and sepulchers Death amōgst the Salamines Agarens had an extreame enmity for they were buried with their backs turned one against another so that if in life they were enemies after death they scarce remained friends Death amongst diuerse Nations had as diuerse entertainements For the Hircanes washed their dead friends bodies vvith wine and afterward annointed them with oyle which they kept to eate and drinke The Massagetes drew forth the bloud and did drinke it burying the bodies The Caspians burnt the bodies to ashes which they did afterwards drinke in wine so that the entrailes of the liuing was the sepulcher of the dead The Schithes buried no man without one aliue were ioyned with him which if any friend denied a slaue was bought to maintaine the custome And so in many other Nations according to the seuerall conditions of life they had as many deuises of buriall Yet death is but the priuation of life in all Death of good children woundeth the Parents harts but the life of a wicked wife is the woe and misery of marriage so that in such a case it were better to be honestly dead and worshipfully buried then liue to be continually tormented Death eternall and life abreuiated is the reward of the wicked and damned Death makes an end of all liuing creatures whereas derth destroieth but some kingdomes warres depopulateth but some countries fire cōsumes but some cities Death is so much the more grieuous to the rich by how much they made more account of long life For when a man shall bid his soule to liue at rest what a terror is it to haue it taken from him that night But life is irksome to the miserable because they cannot liue as they should nor die when they would Death of sutes proceeds from denialls and they commonly come by corruption of bribes and delayes are the mi●eries of hope vnkindnes the scourge of loue and combersomnes the breach of friendship Death and murther are wrought by vnskilfull Physitians and ignorant idle or ill-liuing Ministers the one receiues money to kill the body the other benefices to destroy soules either for want of good Sermons or by corrupt examples of their loose and lewd liues Death is often wrought by meere conceit of a faint heart as the fight of a drawn sword is formidable to a coward Death is sweet to a quiet conscience when life is irkesome to a distempred minde Death that is honorable is farre to be preferred before an ignominious life and life that is vntainted cannot but end with a glorious death in both necessity must preuent disquiet and hope of heereafter good extinguisheth the griefe of present bad Death is no way hurtfull in it selfe but the manner and the cause makes it most irkesome and odious Diseases The minde and body subiect are to sin And so to sicknesse but the worst's within DIseases amongst the Greeks were preuented without physick when they did gather sweet herbes in May were let bloud once a yeere did bathe once euery moneth and also did eate but once a day Diseases torment the flesh as sinne woundeth the soule patience applyed to the one and repentance to the other if applyed in time will preuent destruction Diseases vnfelt of the patient are like sinnes vnthought of by the reprobate Diseases at Ephesus were cured vvithout money or other instruction then their own experience and reading for the tables of medicines were hanged in the temple of Diana for euery man to read and such as had iudgement to practice Diseases are a bridle to the flesh and pull down the pride of lust yet sinnes that infect the soule are farre more dangerous Diseases are not easily and lightly cured when the patient is either inordinate or vnrulie the Physitian ignorant or vnfortunate and the medicine ill compounded or vntimely Diseases that continue are grieuous to nature as wants vnsupplied are wofull to reason Diseases are not cured in one body so soone as in another nor are the same medicines to be applyed to all constitutions alike at all times and vpon the same occasions Diseases most times are bred by gluttonie except such as growe from infirmity and when the appetite is choaked the stomack is made sick whereas hunger beeing orderly fed and nature moderatly supplied preuenteth that distemprature which shall tend to sicknes Diseases of cruelty are the gowt collick toothach stone and strangury but of senselesnesse loue and the lethargie Diseases haue had new names with new times and although in truth they haue been one the same yet are men so subiect to varietie that they must still say It is the new disease haue new physick and entertaine new Doctors Diseases are bred by infectious aire as a venomous tongue may procure death Diseases of the minde are bred by opinion which beguiles vs with a false taste of true happinesse for false opinion leads vs into vaine delight which is indeed the superfluitie of desire and enemy of nature Diseases are not cured without medicine nor fooles made wise without instruction which neglected the one may die in his griefe the other run mad in his folly Diseases are most dangerous that are not preuented betimes for if the bodie be corrupt they pull on still diuerse infirmities so that it many times chanceth that when a Physitian hath healed that disease which he was sent for yet the rest remaining bred by the former procure the ruine of the body Diseases and wounds are of one nature both resemble the conditions of sin for if diseases continue long putrifie they cannot be healed without corasiues and sharp burnings no more can a long sinner and corrupted heart come to heauen without true contrition or repentance troublesome afflictions Diseases weaken the body but sin ruines the soule Diseases of the body may be sometimes cured if the causes be apparant but the torment of a guilty and desperate conscience is incurable though wee knowe that sin hath infected it Diseases are
sildome cured with vvords without mature medicines vvhich while the Physitian museth on but misseth the true cause or royall cures the patient hits the way to heauen before he can agree vpon his ingredients Drunkennesse Who hath to friend a Drunkard hath a foe That with his friend can neither stand nor go DRunkennesse makes men worse then beasts for they doe neuer exceed the measure prescribed by nature but man will not be measured by the rule of his owne reason Drunkennesse and pride are hardly hidden whē other wicked actions are many times couered and most times excused Drunkennesse dimmeth the braine dulleth the heart spills the stomack and spoyles the whole body I could say inflameth the stomack burneth the liuer infecteth the breath dazeleth the eyes loosneth the teeth encreaseth the palsy weakneth the ioynts swelleth the flesh and ouerthroweth the perfect temper and sound constitution of man Drunkennesse loues to open the follies of men the shames of women the gates of cities the secrets of Common-wealths the weaknesse of Princes the discoueries of treasons the burnings of incontinencie and the errors of all ages and sexes Drunkennesse is many times cause of madnesse but most times occasions of infirmities for when the interior senses and parts are brought into distemper the exterior are weake in working or worke in disorder Drunkennesse is contrary to all other vices for eyther they leaue vs or we leaue them through wants or age onely drunkennes is made worse with continuance and the older we growe the more beastly we are Drunkennesse bringeth forth shame impudencie and it fareth with men in this vice as with improuident sinners vvho are so farre from repenting themselues that they are sory they haue done no more Which makes me remember a certaine Father who hauing a Sonne giuen ouer to this beastlinesse brought him into the streets to see a drunkard wallowing in the durt and wondred at by many standers by supposing that the lothsomnesse of the sight would haue wrought vpon him the odiousnesse of the example diuerted him from offending But he was so farre from both that hee asked his father where that good wine was vvhich made the man so drunke that hee might goe and take his part Drunkennesse misconstrueth kindnes mistaketh friendship mistearmeth good felowship misuseth Gods creatures despiseth good counsell scorneth assistance forsweareth his owne senses Drunkards sinne against God who forbids the abuse of his good creatures against the poore that want them for their nenessary vses against their owne bodies which they fill with manifold diseases against their own soules which they defile with their swinish sinnes against their whole persons which they turne out of men into beasts and against their eternal saluation if they repent not and forsake not that beastly abhominable custome Drunkennesse makes a wet surfet a full stomack a sodden liuer a drownd soule Drunkennesse puts a Carpenter by his rule a Fencer from his ward a Poet out of his vaine and a Player out of his part Drunkennesse makes the vict●er rich the rich man poore the poore man a begger the begger a roge a theefe and a murtherer and so the end is a halter Drunkennes as it is beastly so it is remedilesse and maketh the father ashamed of his child and the child carelesse of his father Which brings to my mind a story of a wise man who sending a son to trauell and enformed of his wanton courses resident in a lasciuious citie yet excused the same and hoped of reformation of all till it came to drunkennesse For when he was told of he was fallen into this filthie vice and abominable beazeling O saith hee youth may be wanton and heerafter stayednes may reduce him puft vp with pride that may be moderated by conuersation or religious aduise giuen to gaming either wants or the discouery of falshood may make him leaue it delighted with lechery either age wil tame coole him or an honest wife diuert him he may be carried away with ambition it shewd a noble spirit and some-thing must be gotten by men of worth but when hee is drawen to drunkennes he is to be lamented as vtterly lost without all hope but worse worie Effeminatenesse A man that is a woman ne're considers He is a Peacock all fowle but the feathers EFfeminatnesse hateth exercise is an enemy both to strength and wit when labour perfecteth the vnderstanding and raiseth manhood to a full height Effeminatnesse maketh happinesse but an imagination and then hope is a vveake hold but when vertue and valour builde the house the frame standeth on a good foundation and the workmanship must needs be honourable Effeminatenesse is ridiculous in a Courtier when a young man weares furred bootes dares scarce tread on the ground smelleth of perfumes holds a fanne in his hand to keepe the winde from his face rideth too softly in the streets must alwaies tread on a matted floer Effeminatenes is contemptible in a Knight when hee rideth on a slowe-paced Mule like an old Iudge painteth his face boasteth of wrought night-caps and buskins keepeth his bed because it is cold dares not stirre out of doores because it is durtie and will ca●e no meat but tender and minced Effeminatenesse is lamentable in a souldier when hee must needs haue a downe-bed to lie vpon a warme wastcoat an oiled gauntlet a sweet shirt a perfumed armor lined greeues and a quilted burgonet Effeminatenesse is vnseemely for a Mariner when he cannot endure a storme girdeth his gowne to worke in is afraid to foule his hands and findeth fault with the smel of the pitch Effeminatenesse is an enemy to good huswiferie when either the man dares not plow because it mizells nor the wife rise for that it is a cold morning Effeminatenesse is a fault of all mothers when their children may not goe to bed without warming the same nor rise till the curtaines be all close nor stirre out of dores till their girdle be aired by the fire nor goe to schoole till they haue their breakfasts Effeminatenesse is the aduersary of health when a young man will not walke without a candle nor stirre but in faire vveather nor ride without a foot-cloth nor daunce without a Mistris nor do or weare any thing but tending to curiosity Eloquence Did I not make the wrong right now then I were an ornament to law-full men ELoquence is the beauty of learning if it proceed from wisedome and in the eare of vertue truth is the best Orator Eloquence that ouerthroweth the speaker is as bad as an ill perfume that poisons the braine Eloquence with beauty maketh nature gracious and wit honourable Eloquence of heathen men hath corrupted the heart of christians but venomous is that breath that poisoneth men in their soules Eloquence of liuely words cannot be expressed in dead lines letters for he that giues
the best liuers and sutes in lawe are a meere laborinth to an honest man and quiet minde Troubles cannot ouerthrowe godly resolutions nor wise men bee ouercome with trifels Troubles of the spirit grow by the infirmity of the flesh and the infirmity of the spirit is the flesh ruined so that they are both wayes cause of each others calamities Vanitie The world though Heau'n is but meere vanity Compar'd with God no with Saints piety VAnitie in words cloathes and actions wherein men doe so much glory sheweth them voide of wisedome and pietie which if it infused no other infection to the speaker or hearer actour or beholder yet were it herein a great sinne that it is a lauish profuser of pretious time Vanitie and des●re of glory doe commonly keepe company for gorgeous buildings sumptuous tombes large hospitalles outward pompe delicate banqueting houses delightfull orchards and all such fabricks and sumptuous workes of purpose to bee talked of and adde to our fame are all but vanitie wanting the substance of good deedes and true humilitie Vanitie is often vented with litle vnderstanding and yet great study while the hand of wisedome quickly discouereth the folly of idle inuention Vanities are herein venemous that they so blast the forward wits of youth in the blossome or budde that they seeldome come to substantiall and mature frute Vanitie maketh wit a foolish wanton for he that delighteth in toyes to neglect weighty affaires hath litle vnderstanding Vanitie soothed corrupts wit and reason but the correction of vice commendeth and causeth wisedome Vanitie transporteth to vnprofitable pleasures when wisedome delighteth in necessary imployments Vanitie of the world is like a smoake in the ayre which seemeth to ascend vnto heaheauen but it goeth and vanisheth to nothing and letteth fall the followers thereof to the pitte of perdition Vanitie is seene in certaine things whereto no trust is to be giuen The chance of the dice the continuance of prosperitie the faire wether in winter or sun-shine in Aprill the teares of a Crocadile the playing of Dolphins the elloquence of a flatterer the preferment of a tyrant and the constancy of a woman Vanitie is soone seene in vaunting brauadoes as appeares by this story The Duke of Calabria going to make warre vpon the Florentines in a brauery saide hee would not pull off his bootes before hee had entred the citie to whom a merry fellow standing by saide oh my Lord you will I feare fret out a number of shooes then for it must needes bee a longer businesse then you imagine Vanitie is a great reproach to true vnderstanding when we either speak more then our cau●e in hand requires or liue aboue our abilitie and estates making a greater shewe and pompe then we can maintaine by our meanes or attempt any enterprise which we are not able to finish Vanitie sheweth it selfe much in idle actions and ridiculous iests as in this tale may appeare A Gentleman of Naples whose spirit was too high for his fortune liued farre exceeding his maintenance and yet had the fortune by secrete supportation to hold vp his head in the sea of the world in despight of enuious eyes Thus one night he lodged in the house of a baron a friend of his where waking somewhat early he fell to make his prayers vnto God for the remission of sinnes and worldly meanes which a certaine i●ster ouerhearing and lying in the next chamber answered with a lowde voyce oh thou prodigall childe thou art borne a yonger brother and to keepe but one man and a boy art stil begging but if thou wilt maintaine a number of idle followers whereof thou art ambitious learne to be thrifty spare in time or thy prayers will not be heard whereat the Gentleman seeing his vanitie and perceiuing he had cōmitted some error replied Indeed I spake too lowde to let thee heare me and haue committed a greater folly to suffer thee to liue vpon me Vanitie of apparell sheweth the pride of heart the weaknesse of wit the fantasticknesse of will the defect of vnderstanding or vnrulinesse of affection the superfluitie of prodigalitie and a prognosticate of pouertie Vanitie of discourse and foolish table-talke maketh men often ridiculous as appeareth by this A Gentleman sitting at the table of a great friend being his fauorite the table fully furnished and the company wel prepared to their viands the maister of the house began to rouse his shoulders in a rich chaire and himselfe as richly attired spake to a kinseman of his somewhat abruptly and then leauing him he also spake to the former Gentleman and then againe to his cousin whereat all the company amazed expected to heare some matter worthy to be vttered but he gaue onely a hemme and with a spit saide no more but cousin what is that pye before you whereat a iester cha●ing that he had stayed his teeth to giue time to his eares replyed suddenly better eate of a calues head then heare an owle speake whereat the ghuests held laughter so hard that they were ready to breake and thus is idle ignorant vanity worthely made ridiculous by hier owne folly Valour Vnlesse I make a man base feare subdue He 's but a beast to God and man vntrue VAlour aduanceth to honour and thrusteth misery aside from pressing vs down in the durt Valour proceeding by wisedomes direction perfecteth such actions as otherwise would faile in the execution Valour may be accompanied with folly and and then is it meere foole-hardinesse or temeritie so that now in the schoole of the wisest it is disputable whether a wise coward or a valiant foole is the better man Valour maketh a Captaine with a few souldiers ouercome many enemies but he that ouercommeth himselfe is valiant indeede but he which is his owne enemy whether shall he flie for succour or securitie Valour differeth from foolish hardinesse as a wise feare may be farre from cowardice in bo●● extremities turne to vice Valour scorneth to moue the impotent to impatiency to betray the innocent to villany or to vexe the simple with impetuositie Valour wil not insult ouer a weake hearted nor picke a quarrell with one that cannot answer him either for impotency some defect of nature disabilitie of person inequalitie of condition or imperfection of sense Valour in a good cause doth not feare death as true diuines in Gods cause are not terrified with the diuell Valour is often ouerthrowne by rashnesse and had I wist is the worst part of vnderstanding for rashnesse without reason may breed sorrow without compassion Valour is glorious in mercy but a cowheard is tyrannous in victorie Vallour must not attempt impossibilities nor run into with absurdities but carry an equalhead both in the practise of attempts and relation of actions neither bosting of its owne worth or extenuate anothers merit Valour of the Captaines is a maine meanes of victorie to the whole armie whereuppon the Numantines being great souldiers thus commended the Romans when once in a