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A07590	The mirrour of friendship both hovv to knovve a perfect friend, and how to choose him. With a briefe treatise, or caueat, not to trust in worldly properitie. Translated out of Italian into English by Thomas Breme Gentleman.	Breme, Thomas.; I. B., fl. 1584.	1584 (1584)	STC 17979.7; ESTC S110017	15,331	52

a man be when he considereth and remembreth his wicked doings and thinkes what he hath béene what he he is It is a wicked thing to dissemble and what may happen to him for dissembling with his friends and other his euill doings that if any sparke of grace or any goodnesse remaine in him he will repent him of his former euil it bringeth heauinesse to him when he hath done wickedly for so say truly we neuer receyue so much pleasure and contentment in doing euill as we shall finde displeasure griefe vengeance and punishment after euil doing Certaine counsells and good aduertisments I will giue all men Note these councels neuer discouer nor declare to any person all that thou thinkest nether make any priuy how much treasure or valure in goods thou haste for if thou canst not haue all thou desirest doe not say all thou knoweste nether doe hurte to any that thou maiest and is in thy power to doe for commonly greate hurte doeth a man procure to himselfe in following his owne will without resting vpon the rocke of good consideration and reason The second is to be wary carefull neuer to put to the hazzard of variant fortune those things that concerne thy person thy estate and goods for the wise will neuer repose or put themselues in perrill vppon hope where daunger and perrill is likely to ensue neither thinke that all seruices and proffers that shal be made them in words and friendly protestations shal be performed for commonly those that most liberally offer their friendships are slack in performing ye a sometime redyest if they sée a man hath néede of him or that fortune frowne vpon him to whome he professeth great good wil none shall be found a greater enimie then he neuer be thou a medler in other mens businesse or matters that touth thée not neither be slacke in following thyne owne for a time lost in doing thy businesse the like oportunitye thou shalt neuer finde or recouer againe if thou stand in daunger and that there be hope of helpe the duties of a perfect friend spéedily preuent thy mishappe least by detracting the time all hope of helpe may faile thée choose them for thy friends assured and faithfull that will haue care of thée hold thée vp frō falling not them do not opresse or hurte the poore that after thou art fallen will proffer thée their hand to helpe thée vp againe hurt not those that thou hast power to hurt for the cryes and cursses of the poore and sometimes of other being wronged commeth before the presence of God demaunding iustice and vengeance in that thou art of abilitie to do good help thy friends parentes and kindred and also the poore In counsell that that thou shalt giue be not affectionate be not presumptuous or seuere against them you may commaund nether doe any thinge without good consideration kéepe company with them that will speake the trueth and flée from them that be lyars flatterers and dissemblers for more account is to be made of them that will forewarne thée of euill that may follow to thée then to those that will giue counsell after thou hast receyued the hurte For a wise man is to thinke that although euils commonly happen not to the prouident man yet to thinke possible they may come is wisdome for it happeneth the shippe soddainely by tempest to wracke when the Sea is a litle before very calme quiet A wise consideration and the more fauourable thou findest fortune so much the more haue thou feare that she will be cruell and despitefull against the make no small accounte of this little worke and briefe aduertisment for experience teacheth vs that a little diamond is of more estimation then a great ballays Consider also how the time flyeth away and all things come to an ende A notable coūcell and that thou must depart from thy riches be forsaken of friendes and thy person to dye and those that should succéede and follow thée shall vtterly forget thée and thou shalt not knowe to whome thy goods and succession shall come and lesse how thy children and heires shall gouerne themselues nor whether they should proue good and vertuous or not Chilon the philosopher being asked what thing he did finde in this worlde vpon which fortune had no power he answered there be two thinges onely in this worlde which time cannot consume Fame and verity will neuer be couered nor fortune destroy that is fame and good reputation of a man that is written in bookes and veritie hidde for that veritye and trueth may be hidde and clowded for a time but in the ende it will manifeste it selfe if thou wilt sometime for the recreation and contentment of thy spirites To peruse these councels here sette downe thou shalt haue cause to think it a good trauaile and woorke and time bestowed well As Suetonius Tranquillus doth write of Iulius Caesar Time spente vertuously that among all the warres and continuall following them he did not ceasse to reade and write some thing yea being in the campe and in his tente commonly in one hande he held his speare and in the other his penne to write his commentaries Man is to make great accounte of the time loste more then to haue care to kéepe his treasures and riches for the time being well emploied shall bring him to saluation and treasures euill gotten shall be the cause of eternall damnation ouer and besides a great trauaile and wearynesse to the body of man and greater perrill to his soule when he occupies all his dayes and all his life in the affaires of this world and cannot separate his mind from these worldly affaires till he be called to the place where he must make accounte of all his wretched doings and leaue his body in the earth a foode for woormes And finally I assure you all that shall reade this shorte aduertisemente and councell that of all the treasures ritches prosperities seruices authorities and powers that you haue and possesse in this your mortal life you shall carrie nothing with you but only the time that you haue well employed and spente vertuously during the course and time of this your mortall life FINIS An excellent aduertisement and councell to be by the readers well remembred not to trust prosperous fortune neither the felicities of this worldly life With diuers histories and antiquities approouing the same by examples Collected out of sundry tongues by I. B. AT LONDON Printed for Abell Ieffes dwelling in Sermon lane neere Paules chaine A godly aduertisement to the Reader Among al the Romains the great Cato the Censor was had in singular reputation which in all the progresse of his life was so honest and in gouernement of the common wealth was so rightwise a Iusticiar that by good righte there was written vpon the Gate of of his house these Epitaphes O most fortunate Cato the reputation of whome is such

vs occasion to be merry trayterous ●orlde and by and by makest vs heauy and sad now thou doest aduaunce vs and shortly after abace vs inchant vs vnder the guise of troubles doth so trauell and weary vs and makest vs so fast in thy toyles troublous laborinthes that we can not escape thy engines for the world the more knowing a man hawty and glorius the more doth prouide for him honors and riches deinty fare bewtifull women other worldly pleasures and restes which is to no other end but after all these wished pleasures and deintines ministered vnto vs euen as a baite is to the fishes we are sodainly more easily taken in the nettes snares of our owne wickednes but as for our first tēptations that by the world be presented vnto vs wée thinke it vnpossible that we should be so often assayled with aduerse fortune and our power that is smal to resist is cause to vs of great hardynesse but I would haue one that is most affectionate to the world or loueth it most should tell me what hope or recompence he or they can recouer after they be deceiued of the world and their trust they haue of the continuance of their brittle pleasures by trusting whereof they after endure so many incūbrances of fortune If we should euer hope they would continue with vs that were a great folly and mockery Death mo neare whē lif is most desire considering that the time when our life is moste swéete and agréeable to vs then is death most neare vs euen moste sodainly to intrap vs for when we thinke to haue peace and truce with fortune at the same instant she rayses a camp and stirs vp a new war against vs. And I certainly beléeue that which I haue written and sayd shal be red of many and remembred and beléeued of few that is that I haue knowen great dolors and lamentations to haue bene in the houses of many where before hath bene great ioye laughing and reioycing in this world which is a giuer of euill ●he world des●●ibed a ruine of good things a heape of wickednes a tirant of vertue an enimy of peace a friend of wars a mayntayner of errors a riuer of vices a persecutor of vertues an inuēter of nouelties a graue of ignorance a forrest of mischefe a burning desire of the fleshly delightes insatiable delicacy in féeding gourmandise and finally a Charibdis or most dangerous gulfe in which doth perish many noble harts and a very Scilla where also doth perish al our desires good thoughts for the people doe not accompt them happy that deserue well ●he Peoples ●ccompt but those that posses the riches and treasures which vpon the suddaine some times they sée fortune vtterly despoyle them of that thē possesse but of that minde were not the Philosophers Sages neither at this day those that be wise and vertuous we sée some lose their riches and some their liues and treasures togither that haue bene long in gathering getting for where is greate riches enuy followeth as the shadow the body Ewsenides was in great fauour with King Ptholome of Egipt thereby very rich Note this reioycing in this prosperity of fortune said to another his great familiar the king can giue me no more then the rule of all that he hath his friend answered him yet aduerse fortune may take it all from thée then it will be a gréeuous day to thée to descend the degrées of good hap The cruelty of a king in respect of this liuer shortly after it followed that king Ptholome found Ewsenides talking secretly with a womā that king Ptholome loued greatly wherefore the king taking high displeasure againste them both commaunded the woman to drink poyson and caused the man to be hanged before his gate Plaucian was so greatly estéemed of the Emperor Seuerus that al that Plaucian preferred the Emperour thought well of Plaucian slayn by the Emperours sonne willingly accomplished his requests yet was he sodainly slain in the kings chamber by the hands of Basian the Emperours eldest sonne the Emperour Commodus sonne of the good Emperour Marcus Aurelius loued one seruāt that he had called Cleander The ende of extreame couetousnesse a mā very wise olde but yet couetous which man being asked pay by the souldiers of Rome shewing the emperours warrant vnder his hand Princes commaundements are dangerous to be broken yet would not Cleander make pay wherefore the Emperour séeing his disobedience the small respect he had to doe the emperours commaundment commaunded imediatly that Cleander should be put to a shameful death and all his goodes confiscate Alcimenides a famous king in Gréece had one that serued him named Pannonian one that the king held in singular fauour and account in so much that the king plaied at tennis with this his seruant in playing a contentiō grew betwéene them where the chace was marked It is daunger to contend with princes the king said in one place Pannonion in another the king being in a great fury commanded his garde to take him in the same place that Pannonian affirmed the chace to be the king caused Panonians head to be cut of the Emperour Constance fauoured greatly one Hortensius in so much that all matters in the common wealth the wars and houshould affaires were done by Hortensius his direction the emperour hauing cause to signe letters very hastely Hortenslus brought the Emperour a pen that was euill made or else some faulte in the ynke that the Emperour could not readily write with it the Emperour being very angry caused Hortensius head to be cut of with out any stay A cruel punishmēt for a light fault Many other examples might here be brought in How great Alexander slew in his anger Craterus King Pirrhus caused his scretary Alphabot to be slain The emperour Bittalio Cincinatus his deare friend Domician his chamberlen Rufus by which examples may be seene the sodainnesse of the alteration of prospetity and riches for light occasions also death King Demetrius asked the Philosopher Euripides what he thought of the weaknesse of man of the vncertainty of this life he answered O king there is nothing certaine in this life but that suddaine eclipses and incumberances chanceth King Demetrius answered you might well say they change daily and almost from houre to houre So that there may be inferred by the words of this good king that changes of perrill daunger come in the twinkling of an eye but to say the truth the man that would liue content Many mishaps might be preuented by wisdome and foresée these euill happes might well auoid most mischances but aboundance prosperity of fortime doth so blind vs that coueting still to inrich our selues and to commaund brings vs in the end to infelicity and torments of the minde Finally I conclude that all men ought to liue sagely and wisely to foresée the directions of their liues and dayly affayres For most true it is that none liue in any prosperous estate that hath no enimies noting their doings wherefore let all men direct a vertuous course in their liuing in this worlde by meanes whereof their owne quietnesse may followe in their life time and be a good example for their posterity to follow after their deathes FINIS Imprinted at London by Abel Ieffes and William Dickenson