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A02775 Pierces supererogation or A new prayse of the old asse A preparatiue to certaine larger discourses, intituled Nashes s. fame. Gabriell Haruey. Harvey, Gabriel, 1550?-1631. 1593 (1593) STC 12903; ESTC S103899 142,548 254

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Bayard in the stable and Legem pone were substantiall points of Law that many thinges are hypothetically to be practised which may not Categorically be reuealed that two frendes or bretheren may keepe counsell when one of the two is away that Vnum necessarium and so forth For Vincit qui patitur would go nigh-hand to open the whole packe and tell wonderfull Tales out-off Schoole Pap-hatchet talketh of publishing a hundred merry Tales of certaine poore Martinists but I could here dismaske such a rich mummer record such a hūdredwise Tales of memorable note with such a smart Morall as would vndoubtedly make this Pamflet the vendiblest booke in London and the Register one of the famousest Autors in England But I am none of those that vtter all their learning attonce and the close man that was nomans frend but from the teeth ontward nomans foe but from the hart inward may percase haue some secret frendes or respectiue acquaintance that in regarde of his calling or some priuate consideration would be loth to haue his coate blased or his satchell ransacked Beside what methodicall Artist would allow the Encomium of the Fox in the prayse of the Asse vnlesse I would prooue by irrefragable demonstration that the false Fox was a true Asse as I once heard a learned Phisicion affirme if a goose were a Fox he was a Fox Yet suerly by his fauour who could sharply iudge and durst freely speake He was a Fox and a halfe in his whole body and in euery part of his soule albeit I will not deny but he mought in some respectes be a Goose and after a sort as it were an Asse especially for defeating one without cause and troubling thesame without effect that for ought he knew might possibly haue it in him to requite him aliue and dead Let the wronged party not be iniuried and I dare avowe he neuer did nor euer will iniury or preiudice any in deede word or intention but if any whosoeuer will needes be offering abuse in fact or snip-snapping in termes sith other remedy shrinketh he may peraduenture not altogither passe vnaunswered He thinketh not now on the booted foole that alwaies ietteth in his startups with his Stilliard hatt in his drousie eyes but of an other good auncient Gentleman that mought haue bene his father for age his tutour for learning his counsellour for wisedome his creditour for siluer his Catechist for Religion and his Ghostly father for deuotion He once in a scoldes pollicy called me Foxe betweene iest and earnest it was at the funerall of the honorable Sir Thomas Smith where he preached and where it pleased my Lady Smith and the coexecutours to bestow certaine rare manuscript bookes vpō me which he desired I aunswered him betweene earnest iest I might haply be a Cubb as I might be vsed but was ouer-yoūg to be a Fox especially in his presence He smiled and replyed after his manner with a Chameleons gape and a very emphaticall nodd of the head Whosoeuer or whatsoeuer he was certes my old backfrend of Peter-house was the locke of cunning conueyance but such a lock as could not possibly be 〈◊〉 any key but the key of opportunity and the hand of aduantage If Opportunity were abroad Iodocus was not at home where Occasion presented Aduantage Pollicy wanted no dexterity and the light-footed Fox was not so swift of foote as nimble of witt and quicke of hand Some tht called him the lukewarme Doctour and likened him to milke from the Cowe founde him at such a fitt ouerwarme for their feruentest zeale and I remember a time when One of the hottest furnace shewing himselfe little better then a Cowe He a in quauering voyce and a lightning spirite taught the wild roe his lesson Hast was not so forward to runne to a commodity but Speede was swifter to fly to an aduantage and where Hast somwhat grosely bewrayed his forwardnesse Speede very finely marched in a cloude and founde the goddesse Hypocrisie as sly a Conductrisse as euer was fayre Venus to Aeneas or wise Minerua to Vlysses in their queint passages We may discourse of naturall Magique and supernaturall Cabale whereof the learnedest and crediblest antiquity hath recorded wonderfull Histories but it is the rod of Mercury and the ring of Gyges that worke miracles and no Mathematician Magitian or Cabalist may counteruaile him that in his heroicall expeditions can walke in a cloude like a Vapour or in his diuine practises go inuisible like a Spirite Braue Mindes and Ventrous Harts thanke him for this inualuable Note that could teach you to atcheiue more with the little finger of Pollicy then you can possibly compasse with the mighty arme of Prowesse Os else in my curious obseruation of infinite Histories Hypocrisie had neuer bene the great Tyrāt of the world the huge Antichrist of the Church The weapon of the Fier and Aier is Lightening the weapon of the Earth Water Cunning. Was not he shrewdly encountred that was prestigiously besieged and inuisi bly vndermined with that weapon of weapons What other supply could haue seconded or rescued him but Death that had often bene the death of his Life in his worthiest Frendes and was eftsoones the death of his Death in his wyliest enemy Whose Spite was intricate but detected and whose Subtility maruelous but disuailed and he that disclosed thesame is perhaps to leaue an immortall Testimoniall of his Indian Discoouery In the meane time as the admirable Geometrician Archimedes would haue the figure of a Cylinder or roller engraued vpon his Toombe so it were reason the thrise-famous Deuine should haue the three-sided figure or equilater Triāgle imprinted vpon his Sepulchre with this or some worthier Epitaph deuised according to the current Method of Tria sequuntur Tria The Coffin speaketh Aske not what Newes that come to visite wood My Treasure is Three Faces in One Hood A chaungling Triangle a Turnecoate rood A lukewarme Trigon a Three-edgedtoole A three-oard galley a three-footed stoole A three-wing'd weathercock a three-tongu'd Schoole Three-hedded Cerberus wo be vnto thee Here lyes the Onely Trey and Rule of Three Of all Triplicities the A. B. C. Some-body oweth the three-shapen Geryon a greater duty in recognisance of his often-promised curtesies and will not be founde Vngratefull at occasion He were very simple that would feare a coniuring Hatchet a rayling Greene or a threatening Nash but the old dreamer like the old dogge biteth sore and no foe to the flattering Perne or pleasing Titius that haue sugar in their lippes gall in their stomackes water in the one hand fier in the other peace in their sayings warre in their doings sweetnes in their exhortatiōs bitternesse in their canuasses reuerēce in their titles coouē in their actions notable men in their kinde but pitch-branded with notorious dissimulation large promisers compendious performers shallow in charity profounde in malice superficiall in theory deepe in practise masters of Sophistry Doctors of Hypocrisie formall frends deadly Enemies
embrace not that sacred societie What aile Religious handes that they stay from buildingvpp the Cittie of God Can Platos Republique and Mores Vtopia winne hartes and cannot the heauenly Hierusalem conquer soules Can there be a greater impietie then to hinder the rearing-vp of those celestiall walles why forgetteth the grose Church that it ought to be the pure kingdome of heauen To zeale euen speede is delay and a yeare an age But how maturely and iudiciously some busie motions haue bene considered-vpon by their hoat sollicitours it would not passe vnexamined A strong Discipline standeth not vpon feeble feete and a weake foundation will neuer beare the weight of a mightie Hierusalem The great shoulders of Atlas oftentimes shrinke and saint vnder the great burden of heauen The Tabernacle of Moses the Temple of Salomon the Golden Age of the Primitiue Church and the siluer regiment of Constantine would be looked-into with a sharper and cleerer eye The difference of Commonwealthes or regiments requireth a difference oflawes and orders and those lawes and orders are most souerain that are most agreable to the regiment and best proportioned to the Commonwealth The matter of Elections and offices is a principall matter in question and how many not onely ignorant or curious but learned and considerate wits haue lost themselues and founde errour in the discourse of that subiect But how compendiously might it be concluded that is so infinitly argued or how quietly decided that is so tumultuously debated I relye not vpon the vncertaintie of disputable rules or the subtilitie of intricate arguments or the ambiguitie of doubtfull allegations or the casualtie of fallible experiments but grounde my resolution vpon the assurance of such politique and Ecclesiasticall Principles as in my opinion can neither be deceiued grosely nor deceiue dangerously Popular Elections and offices aswell in Churches as in Commonwealthes are for popular states Monarchies and Aristocraties are to celebrate their elections and offices according to their forme of gouernement and the best correspondence of their states Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall and may iustifie their good proceeding by good diuinitie As they grauely and religiously prooued that in the florishing propagation and mightie encrease of the Catholique Church vnder Princes before in and after the Empire of Constātine were driuen to varie from some primitiue Exāples not by vnlawfull corruptiō as is ignorātly surmised but by lawfull prouisiō according to the exigence of occasions necessitie of alteration in those ouerruling cases as appeareth by pregnant euidence of Ecclesiasticall histories and Canons wherewith they are to consult that affect a deepe insight in the decisiō of such controuersies not to leape at all aduentures before they haue looked about thē aswell backward as forward aswell of the one side as of the other Consideration is a good Counsellour Reading no badd Remēbrancer especially in the most essentiall Common-places of Doctrine and the most important matters of Gouernement Ignorance may someway be the father ofZeale as it was wont to be termed the moother of Deuotion but blind men swallow-downe many flyes and none more then many of them that imagin they know all and conceit an absolute omnisufficiencie in their owne platformes with an vniuersall contempt of whatsoeuer contradiction speciall or generall moderne or auncient when vndoubtedly they are to seeke in a thousand points of requisite and necessarie consideration Lord that men should so please and flatter themselues in their owne deuises as if none had eyes but they God neuer bestowed his diuine giftes in vayne they are not so lightly to be reiected that so grauely demeaned themselues instructed their brethren reclaimed infidels conuerted countryes planted Churches confounded Heretiques and incessantly trauailed in Gods causes with the whole deuotion of their soules howsoeuer some can be content to thinke that since the Apostles none euer had the spirit of Vnderstanding or the mindes of sincerity but themselues Pardon me pure intelligences and incorruptible mindes The auncient Fathers and Doctors of the Church wanted neither learning nor iudgement nor conscience nor zeale as some of their Greeke and Latine woorkes very notably declare if they were blinde happy men that see and what wiser Senates or hollyer Congregations or any way more reuerend assemblies then some Generall and some Prouinciall Councels Where they to a superficiall opinion seeme to sett-vp a Glosse against or beside the Text it would bee considered what their considerations were and whether it can appeare that they directly or indirectly proceeded without a respectiue regard of the Commō-wealth or a tender care of the Church or a reuerend examination of that Text. For I pray God we loue the Text no worse from the bottome of our hartes then some of them did They are not the simplest or dissolutest men that thinke Discretion might haue leaue to cutt his coate according to his cloth and commend their humility patience wisdome and whole conformity that were ready to accept any requisite order not vnlawfull and to admitt any decent or seemely rites of indifferent nature Put the case iust as it was then and in those countries and what if some suppose that euen M. Caluin M. Beza M. Meluin or M. Cartwright notwithstanding their new deseignementes being in the same estate wherein they were then and in those countries would haue resolued no otherwise in effect then they determined Or if they did not so perfectly well I pray God we may Howbeit none so fitt to reconcile contradictions or to accord differences as hee that distinguisheth Times Places Occasions and other swaying Circumstances high pointes in gouernement either Ciuill or Ecclesiasticall As in the doubtfull Paragraphs and Canons of the Law of man so in the mysticall oracles of the Law of God Qui benè distinguit benè docet in the one when hee vseth no distinction but of the Law or some reason equipollent to the Law in the other when he interpreteth the scripture by the scripture either expresly by conference of Text with Text or collectiuely by the rule of Analogy In cases indifferent or arbitrary what so equall in generall as Indifferency or so requisite in speciall as conformity to the positiue I awe to the custome of the Countrey or to the present occasion To be peruerse or obstinate without necessary cause is a peeuish folly when by such a duetyfull and iustifiable order of proceeding as by a sacred League so infinite Variances and contentions may be compounded To the cleane all thinges are cleane S. Paule that layed his foundation like a wise architect and was a singular frame of diuinity omnisufficiently furnished to be a Doctour of the Nations a Conuertour of People became all vnto all and as it were a Christian Mercury to winne some Oh that his Knowledge or Zeale were as rife as his Name and I would to God some could learne to behaue themselues toward Princes and Magistrates as Paul demeaned himselfe not onely before the King Agrippa but also