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cause_n	court_n	justice_n	law_n	3,065	5	4.7299	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20850	A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body with other precepts of the same arte, practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in phisicke & chirurgery: and translated into English by Iohn Read, chirurgion. Whereunto is added the exact cure of the caruncle, neuer before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Iohannes Ardern. And also the description of the emplaister called dia chalciteos, with his vse and vertues. With an apt table for the better finding of the perticular matters, contayned in this present worke.; De recta curandorum vulnerum ratione. English	Arcaeus, Franciscus, 1493-1573?; Read, John, surgeon.; Arderne, John, fl. 1307-1370.; Galen.	1588 (1588)	STC 723; ESTC S100216	164,574	268

others of the kinde of young Cuckoose or as nuseled Snakes which flie with Isops Crowe which haing pluct the winges would faine deuoure the bird But leauing them to their blindnesses and praying vnto God for their amendment my purpose is heere to do them good that haue neede that is to distribute in english to them that are vnlearned parte of the treasure that is in other languages to prouoke them that are of better learning to vtter their knowledge in such like attemptes finally to declare that to the vse of many which ought not to be secret for lucre of a few and to communicate the fruite of my labours to them that will gentlly and thankefullie receiue them which if any be so proud or supercilious that they immediatlie will despise I shall friendlie desire them with the wordes of Horace Quod si meliora nouisti candide imperti si non his vtere mecum If they know better let vs haue part If they doe not why repine they at those which meane well why condemne they the thinges that they cannot amend Or if they can why dissemble they their cunning How long would they haue people ignorant Why grutch they Chirurgerie should come foorth in English would they haue no man to know but onely they or what make they themselues for if Galen the Prince of this arte being a Grecian wrote in the Greeke King Auicene of Arabia in the speech of the Arayans If Plinius Celsus Serenus other of the Latines wrote to the people in the Latin tongue Mercellus Ficinus who all men assent to be singulerly learned disdained not to write in the Italian tongue generally if the intent of all that euer set foorth any noble studie haue beene to be read of as many as woulde what reason is it that we should huther muther heere among a few the thing that was made common to all Christ sayeth no man lighteth a Candell to couer it with a Bushell but setteth it to serue euery mans turne and these goe about not onelie to couer it when it is lighted but to quench it afore it bee kindled if they might by mallice which verie well veryfieth the sayings of Maister William CLOWES in his last edicion De Morbo Gallico whose wordes are these No man can lead so iust a lyfe No worke be writ so true That can escape their sqinting eyes Or passe their ●luish view which as it is a detestable thing in any godly science so me thinketh in this so necessarie an arte it is exceeding damnable and diuelish to debarre the fruition of so inestimable benefites which our heauenly father hath prepared for our comfort and innumerable vses wherewith he hath armed our impotent nature against the assaultes of so many sickenesses whereby his infinite mercy and abundant goodnesse is no thing els more apparantly confessed by the which benefites as it were with most sencible argumentes spoken out of heauen he constraineth vs to thinke vpon our owne weakenesse and to knowledge that in all flesh is nothing but miserie sickenesse sorrowes sinne affliction and death no not so much strength as by our owne power to relieue one member of our bodies diseased As for the knowledge of medicines comfort of hearbes mayntenance of health prosperitie and life they be his benefites and proceed of him to the ende that wee should in common helpe one another and so liue together in his lawes and commaundements in the which doing we shall declare our selues to haue worthelie employed them and as fruitefull seruaunts be liberally rewarded Otherwise vndoubtedly the talent which we haue hidden shall be digged vp and distributed to them that shal be more diligent a terrible confusion before so high a Iustice and at such a court where no wager of lawe shall be taken no proctour limited to defend the cause none exception allowed to reproue the witnesse no councell admitted to quallifie the gloses the verie bare text shall bee there alleadged Cur non posuisti talentum in fenus Why hast thou not bestowed my talent to the vauntage These and such other examples haue enforced me being oftentimes exercised in the studie and practise of Chirurgerie to follow the good endeuours of other good men who haue tasted of the same cuppe of enuie as their predecessours haue done And shall I perswade my selfe to escape the same No for as I am credibly enformed by my verie good friends that my booke was not so soone at the presse as enuie euen readie to repine at the same But being warned I will be the better armed with my friends and predecessours stande to the brunt of their brutish and malitious tongues And nothing bee discouraged at them for I know those that are godly and well disposed will curteously except of euerie good and laudable attempt And for the malitious small regard is to bee giuen for I doe perceaue that now in our time no good enterprise can be gone about but false detraction and enuie is readie to ouerthrow the same For what are they that haue written both in auncient and later times but they haue tasted of this beastly broode and enuious sect Yea and of such men that haue as it were dandled them in their lappes For I cannot onely speake by experience of my selfe but also by certaine knowledge of some others that breding vp vnder our selues such impes who we did not onely giue sufficient maintenance vnto but also did impart vnto them those things which we by long studie and chargeable labour had found out But when as they thought there was no more to be gotten and them selues sufficiently furnished being gone from their Maisters were presently puffed vp in pride and being better perswaded of them selues then of their carefull teachers forgetting from whence they sucked their milke goe about by all meanes as much as in them lieth to the aduauncement of their owne glorie to seeke the ouerthrow of their Maisters credits But vnhappie are those men which nusell such whelpes or hath such fire brands but surely they doe but kindle coles to burne them selues for their rewarde shal be to haue the like seruaunts to serue their owne turnes For as our Sauiour Christ saith such bread as we breake shal be broken to vs againe But no douht as we hatched euill seruaunts so some haue bred good And as in reproouing the euill I wish not the good to bee offended contrariewise in praysing the good I wish the euill no parte thereof For if good menne in times past haue beeue mooued with good concience for knowledge sake and for the better maintenance of their common wealth in setting foorth this Arte in our vulger tounge for the reliefe comfort succour helpe and health of such as are sicke deseased or otherwise wounded and hurt in the warres or by some mischaunce why should they be so enuied at yea euen of those which haue pluckt fetherse from their winges and hath not been ashamed to vse them among their owne But