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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01953	The schoole of abuse conteining a plesaunt [sic] inuectiue against poets, pipers, plaiers, iesters, and such like caterpillers of a co[m]monwelth; setting vp the hagge of defiance to their mischieuous exercise, [and] ouerthrowing their bulwarkes, by prophane writers, naturall reason, and common experience: a discourse as pleasaunt for gentlemen that fauour learning, as profitable for all that wyll follow virtue. By Stephan Gosson. Stud. Oxon.	Gosson, Stephen, 1554-1624.	1579 (1579)	STC 12097.5; ESTC S103345	29,663	88

nature ouer throwē The meane must labor to serue the mightie the mightie must studye to defende the meane The subiects must sweat in obedience to their Prince the Prince must haue a care ouer his poore vassals If it be the dutie of euery man in a common wealth one way or other to bestirre his stumpes I cānot but blame those lither cōtemplators very much which sit concluding of Sillogismes in a corner which in a close study in the Uniuersity coope themselues vp fortie yeres togither studying all thinges and professe nothing The Bell is knowen by his sounde the Byrde by her voyce the Lyon by his rore the Tree by the fruite a man by his woorkes To continue so long without moouing to reade so much without teaching what differeth it from a dumbe Picture or a deade body No man is borne to seeke priuate profite parte for his countrie parte for his friendes parte for himselfe The foole that comes into a fayre Garden likes the beawtie of flowers and stickes them in his Cap the Phisition considereth their nature and puttes them in the potte in the one they wither without profite in the other they serue to the health of the bodie He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowers for his owne nose is lyke a foole hee that preferreth their vertue before their sweet smel is a good Phisition When Anacharsis traueled ouer all Greece to seek out wise men hee founde none in Athens though no doubt there were many good scholers there But comming to Chenas a blind village in comparison of Athens a Paltockes Time he found one Miso well gouerning his house looking to his grounde instructing his children teaching his family making of marriages among his acquayntance exhorting his neighbours to loue friendeship preaching in life whō the Philosopher for his scarcitie of woordes plenty of workes accompted the onelye wise man that euer he saw I speak not this to preferr Botley before Oxeford a cottage of clownes before a Colledge of Muses Pans pipe before Apollos harp But to shew you that poore Miso can reade you such a lecture of Philosophie as Aristotle neuer dreamed on You must not thruste your heades in a tubbe say Benè vixit qui benè latuit Hee hath liued well that hath loitred well stāding streames geather filth flowing riuers are euer sweet Come foorth with your sicles the Haruest is greate the laborers few pul vp the sluces let out your springs geue vs drink of your water light of your torches season vs a little with the Salt of your knowledge Let Phaenix and Achilles Demosthenes Phocion Pericles Cimon Laelius Scipio Nigidius and Cicero the word and the sword be knit togither Set your talents a worke lay not vp your tresure for takingrust teach earely late in time out of time sing with the swan to the last houre Folowe the dauncing Chaplens of Gradiuus Mars which chaunt the praises of their god with voyces and treade out the time with their feete Play the good captaines exhort your souldiers with your tonges to fight bring the first ladder to the wall your selues Soūd like bels and shine like Lanternes Thunder in words and glister in works so shall you please God profite your country honor yourprince discharge your duetie giue vp a good account of your stewardship and leaue no sinne vntouched no abuse unrebuked no fault vnpunished Sundry are the abuses aswell of Uniuersityes as of other places but they are such as neither become me to touch nor euery idle hed to vnderstand The Thurines made a Lawe that no common finde fault should meddle with any abuse but Adulterie Pythagoras bounde all his Schollers to fiue yeeres silence that assoone as euer they crept from the shel they might not aspire to the house top It is not good for euery man too trauell to Corinth nor lawfull for all to talke what they liste or write what they please least their tongues run before their wites or their pennes make hauock of their Paper And so wading too farre in other mens manners whilst they fill their Bookes with other mens faultes they make their volumes no bettern then an Apothecarics Shop of pestilent Drugges a quackesaluers Budget of filthy receites and a huge Chaos of foule disorder Cookes did neuer long more for great markets nor Fishers for large Pondes nor greedy Dogges for store of game nor soaring hawkes for plentie of fowle then Carpers doe nowe for copye of abuses that they might euer be snarling and haue some Flyes or other in the way to snatch at As I woulde that offences should not be hid for going vnpunished nor escape without scourge for ill example So I wish that euery rebuker shoulde place a hatch before the doore keep his quil within compas He that holds not him self contented with the light of the Sun but liftes vp his eyes to measure the bignesse is made blinde he that bites euery weed to search out his nature may light vpon poyson and so kill himselfe he that loues to be lifting of euery cloude may be strooke with a thunderbolte if it chaunce to rent he that taketh vpon him to shew men their faules may wound his owne credite if he goe too farre We are not angry with the Clarke of the market if he come to our stall and reprooue our ballance when they are faultie or forfaite our weights when they are false neuerthelesse if he presume to enter our house and rig euery corner searching wore then belongs to his office we lay holde on his locks tnrne him away with his backe full of stripes and his hands loden with his owne amendes Therefore I will content my selfe to shew you no more abuses in my Schoole then my selfe haue seene nor so many by hundreds as I haue heard off Lyons folde vp their natles when they are in their dennes for wearing them in the earth and neede not Eagles draw in their tallants as they sit in their nestes for blunting thē there amonge drosse And I will caste Ancor in these abuses rest my Barke in the simple roade for grating my wits vpon needelesse shelues And because I accuse other for treading awry which since I was borne neuer went right bet cause I finde so many faultes abroade which haue at home more spots in my body then the Leopard morestaines on my coate then the wicked Nessus more holes in my life then the open Siue more sinnes in my soule than heares on my bed If I haue beene tedious in my Lecture or your selues be weary of your lessou harken no longet for the Clock shut vp the Schoole aud get you home FINIS Tusc 1. 2. A desperate conflict Poets banished by Plato Poetes and Cookes compared togither Poetrie in Scythia without vice as the Phoenix in Arabia without a fellow Qualities allowed in women Salust Poets thiefe Maistees in Greece Poets banished frō Rome Dion in vita