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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57532	Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh ...; Selections. 1657	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Vaughan, Robert.	1657 (1657)	Wing R180; Wing R176_PARTIAL; ESTC R20762	121,357	368

believe the poor and thy honest Friends and give means to thy posterity to live and defend themselves and thine own fame where it is said in the Proverbs That he shall be sore vexed that is surety for a stranger and he that hateth suretiship is sure It is further said The poor is hated even of his own neighbour but the rich have many friends Lend not to him that is mightier than thy self for if thou lendest him count it but lost be not surety above thy power for if thou be surety think to pay it CHAP. VI. What sort of Servants are fittest to be entertained LEt thy servants be such as thou mayest command and entertain none about thee but Yeomen to whom thou givest wages for those that will serve thee without thy hire will cost thee treble as much as they that know thy fare if thou trust any Servant with thy purse be sure thou take his account ere thou sleep for if thou put it off thou wilt then afterwards for tediousness neglect it I my self have thereby lost more than I am worth And whatsoever thy servant gaineth thereby he will never thank thee but laugh thy simplicity to scorn and besides t is the way to make thy servants thieves which else would be honest CHAP. VII Brave Rags wear soonest out of Fashion EXceed not in the humour of rags and braverie for these will soon wear out of Fashion but money in thy Purse will ever be in Fashion and no man is esteemed for gay Garments but by Fools and Women CHAP. VIII Riches not to be sought by evil means ON the other side take heed that thou seek not Riches basely nor attain them by evil means destroy no man for his wealth nor take any thing from the Poor for the crie and complaint thereof will pierce the Heavens And it is most detestable before God and most dishonourable before worthy men to wrest any thing from the needy and labouring Soul God will never prosper thee in ought if thou offend therein But use thy poor neighbours and Tenants well pine not them and their children to adde superfluity and needlesse expences to thy self He that hath pitie on another mans sorrow shall be free from it himself and he that delighteth ●n and scorneth the misery of another shall one time or other fall into it himself Remember this Precept He that hath mercy on the poor tenact unto the Lord and the Lord will recom 〈…〉 wh●●● he h●●h given I do not understand those for poor which are vagabonds and beggers but those that labour to live such as are old and cannot travell such poor widows and fatherlesse children as are ordered to be relieved and the poor Tenants that travell to pay their Rents and are driven to poverty by mischance and not by riot or carelesse expences on such have thou compassion and God will blesse thee for it Make not the hungry soul sorrowfull defer not thy gift to the needy for if he curse thee in the bitternesse of his soul his prayer shall be heard of him that made him CHAP. IX What Inconveniences happen to such as delight in Wine TAke especiall care that thou delight not in Wine for there never was any man that came to honour or preferment that loved it for it transformeth a man into a beast decayeth health poisoneth the breath destroyeth naturall heat brings a mans stomach to an artificiall heat deformeth the face rotteth the teeth and to conclude maketh a man contemptible soon old and despised of all wise and worthy men hated in thy servants in thy self and companions for it is a bewitching and infectious vice And remember my words that it were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to it for all other vanities and sins are recovered but a Drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastlinesse for the longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it and the elder he groweth the more he shall be subject to it for it dulleth the spirits and destroyeth the body as Ivie doth the old Tree or as the worm that engendereth in the kernel of the Nut. Take heed therefore that such a curelesse Canker possesse not thy youth nor such a beastly infection thy old age for then shall all thy life be but as the life of a beast and after thy death thou shalt only leave a shamefull infamy to thy posterity who shall study to forget that such a one was their Father Anacharsis saith The first draught serveth for health the second for pleasure the third for shame the sourth for madnesse but in youth there is not so much as one draught permitted for it putteth fire to fire and wasteth the naturall heat and seed of generation And therefore except thou desire to hasten thine end take this for a generall rule That thou never add any artificiall heat to thy body by Wine or Spice untill thou find that time hath decayed thy naturall heat and the sooner thou beginne ● to help nature the sooner she will forsake thee and trust altogether to Art Who have misfortune saith Solomon who have sorrow and grief who have trouble wihout fighting stripes without cause and faintness of ey●● even they that sit or wine and drain themselves to empty Ca●s Plines saith wine maketh the hand quivering the eyes waterie the night unquiet lewd dreams a stinking breath in the morning and an utter forgetfulness of all things Whosoever loveth Wine shall not be trusted of any man for he cannot keep a secret Wine maketh a man not onely a beast but a mad man and if thou love it thy own Wife thy Children and thy friends will despise thee In drink men care not what they say what offence they give they forget comliness commit disorders and to conclude offend all virtuous and honest company and God most of all to whom we daily pray for health and a life free from pain and yer by drunkenness and gluttony which is the drunkenness of feeding we draw on saith Hesiod a swift hasty untimely cruel and an infamous old age And S. Augustine describeth Drunkenness in this manner Ebrietas est blandus Doemon dulce venenum suave peccatum quam qui habet seipsum non habet quam qui facit peccatum non facit sed ipsi est peccatum Drunkenness is a flattering Devil a sweet poison a plea an t sin which whosoever hath hath not himself which whosoever doth commit doth not commit sin but he himself is wholly sin Innocentius saith Quid turpius ebrioso cut sator in ore tremor in corpore qui promit stulta promit occul●a cui mens alienatur facies transformatur nullum secretum ubi regnat ebrie●as quid non aliud designat malum foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum What is filthier than a drunken man to whom there is stink in the mouth trembling in the bodie which uttereth foolish things and revealeth secret things whose

Justice and good order being more learned in the Law than in doing right and that he had by far more knowledge than conscience Certainly the unjust Magistrate that fancieth to himself a solid and untransparable bodie of Gold every ordinarie wit can vitrifie and make transparent pierce and discern their corruptions howsoever because not daring they cover their knowledge but in the mean while it is also true That constrained dissimulation either in the proud heart or in the oppressed either in publick estates or in private persons where the fear of God is not prevalent doth in all the leisure of her lurking but sharpen her teeth the voluntarie being no less base than the forced malitious Thus it fared between the Barons of England and their Kings between the Lords of Switzerland their people between the Sicilians and the French between the Dolphin and John of Burgoign between Charl the Ninth and the French Protestants and between Henry the third his successor and the Lords of Guise hereof in place of more particulars the whole world may serve for examples It is a difficult piece of Geographie to delinate and lay out the bounds of Authority but it is easie enough cōceive the best use of it and by which it hath maintained it self in lasting happiness t hath ever acquired more honour by perswading than by beating for as the bonds of Reason and Love are immortal so do all other chains or cords both rust●e rot Noble parts of their own Royal and Politick bodies But we will forbear for a while to stretch this first string of Civil Justice for in respect of the first sort of Men to wit of those that live by their own labour they have never been displeased where they have been suffered to enjoy the fruit of their own travels Meum Tuum Mine Thine is all wherein they seek their certaintie protection True it is that they are the Fruit-Trees of the Land which God in Deuteronomie commanded to be spared they gather honey and hardly enjoy the wax and break the ground with great labour giving the best of their grain to the easefull idle For the second sort which are the Merchants as the first feed the Kingdome so do these enrich it yea their trades especially those which are forcible are not the least part of our Martiall Policie as hereafter proved and to do them right they have in all ages and times assisted the Kings of this Land not onely with great sums of money but with great Fleets of Ships in all their enterprises beyond the seas The second have seldome or never offended their Princes to enjoy their trades at home upon tolerable conditions hath ever contented them for the injuries received from other Nations give them but the Commission of Reprisal they will either Right themselves or sit down with their own losse without complaint 3. The third sort which are the Gentrie of England these being neither seated in the lowest grounds and thereby subject to the biting of every beast nor in the highest Mountains thereby in danger to be torn with tempest but the Valleys between both have their parts in the inferiour Iustice being spread over all are the Garrisons of good order throughout the Realm Sir WALTER RALEIGH'S LETTERS Sir Walter Raleigh's Letter to Mr Secretary Winwood before his Iourney to Guiana Honourable SIR I Was lately perswaded by two Gentlemen my ancient Friends to acquaint your Honour with some offers of mine made heretofore for a Journey to Guiana who were of opinion That it would be better understood now than when it was first propounded which advice having surmounted my dispair I have presumed to send unto your Honour the Copies of those Letters which I then wrote both to his Majestie and to the Treasurer Ceuill wherein as well the reasons that first moved me are remembered as the objections by him made are briefly answered What I know of the riches of that place not by hear say but what mine eyes hath seen I have said it often but it was then to no end Because those that had the greatest trust were resolved not to believe it not because they doubted the Truth but because they doubted my Disposition towards themselves where if God had blessed me in the enterprise I had recovered his Majesties favour and good opinion Other cause than this or other suspition they never had any Our late worthy Prince of Wales was extream curious in searching out the Nature of my offences The Queens Majestie hath informed her self from the beginning The King of Denmark at both times of his being here was throughly satisfied of my innocencie they would otherwise never have moved his Majestie on my behalf The Wife the Brother and the Son of a King do not use to sue for men suspect but Sir since they all have done it out of their charitie and but with references to me alone Your Honour whose respect hath onely relation to his Majesties service strengthened by the example of those Princes may with the more hardnesse do the like being Princes to whom his Majesties good estate is not lesse dear and all men that shall oppugne it no lesse hatefull then to the King himself It is true Sir That his Majestie hath sometimes answered That his Councel knew me better than he did meaning some two or three of them And it was indeed my infelicitie for had his Majestie known me I had never been here where I now am or had I known his Majestie they had never been so long there where they now are His Majestie not knowing of me hath been my ruine and his Majestie misknowing of them hath been the ruine of a goodly part of his estate but they are all of them now some living and some dying come to his Majesties knowledge But Sir how little soever his Majestie knew me and how much soever he believed them yet have I been bound to his Majestie both for my Life and all that remains of which but for his Majestie nor Life nor ought else had remained In this respect Sir I am bound to yield up the same life and all I have for his Majesties service to die for the King and not by the King is all the ambition I have in the world Walter Raleigh Sir Raleigh's Letter to his Wife from Guiana Sweet Heart I Can yet write unto you but with a weak hand for I have suffered the most violent Calenture for fifteen days that ever man did and lived but God that gave me a strong heart in all my adversities hath also now strengthened it in the hell fire of heat We have had two most grievous sicknesses in our Ship of which fourtie two have died and there are yet many sick but having recovered the land of Guiana this 12 of November I hope we shall recover them We are yet two hundred men and the rest of our Fleet are reasonable strong strong enough I