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A18093	The present state of England expressed in this paradox, our fathers were very rich with little, and wee poore with much. Written by Walter Cary.	Cary, Walter.	1626 (1626)	STC 4734; ESTC S118633	10,283	24

Fleet to the Counters and like places where you shall finde many that in golden glittering brauery haue shined like the Sunne but now their patrimonies and all being spent and they in debt their Sun is eclipsed and they rest there in very miserable case be wailing their vaine and more than childish course of life and some of them call to minde how they haue heard that their fore-fathers on that liuing which they haue in lewd sort spent and disinherited their family of for euer liued bountifully quietly pleasantly and as I may truly say like Kings in their little kingdomes They seldome or neuer went to London they did not striue for greatnesse they did not long for their neighbours land neither sold of their owne but keeping good hospitalitie and plainely euer attired were very rich Well if the hat alone and in so short a time hath put England to that charge by change of fashion onely what hath Lawnes Cambrickes Silkes Sattins Veluets and the rest done and change of fashion in them I will deliuer you my opinion out of my loue to my Countrey and desire of reformation and leaue it to the correction of the wiser The money which is most superfluously bestowed in apparrell in this little Iland is thought able to maintaine a Nauy to command the sea-forces of all our neighbours bordering on the narrow seas of Spain of the Pirats all others in the mediterranean sea How far they further may shew their force in the sea leading to Constantinople I will not take vpon me to iudge Yet one other effect these Peacockes feathers in this guilded not golden age worketh The most part of the Gentry of this kingdome are so farre in the Vsurers bookes by their ouerreaching heads to climb to greatnesse and they and their wiues to exceed their neighbours in brauery and place that they liue in continuall care and like fishes in nets the more they striue to get out the faster they hang. I could bring manie sentences of the wise learned against these vaine peeuish childish thriftlesse and painted fooles as I did against drunkards but I will only tell you an old tale and so conclude this part A Kinght named Young a man of an excellent mother wit verie pleasant and full of delightfull and merry speech was commended to our late Soueraign Queen Elizabeth who caused him to be brought to her tooke great pleasure to talke with him and amongst other things she asked him how he liked a company of braue Ladies that were in her presence He answered as I like my siluer haired conies at home the cases are farre better than the bodies These our named Gallants are well compared to such conies and are deceiued much to thinke they better their reputation by their brauery for many euen ordinary Tailors in London are in their Silkes Sattins Veluets as well as they And in Italy euery base ordinary black-smith doth exceed on the Sabbath day and other holy daies or equall the brauest of them I wish them therefore to compare the sweet Country with the vnsauoury London wherein they are most resident which is the cause of great expence in brauery in gaming drinking resorting to plaies brothell houses and many other great follies and I dare say they shall finde more true pleasure in one yeare liuing like their fore-fathers in the Countrey than in twenty liuing in London Touching suits in Law HErein I must beare an euen hand and speake nothing that shall giue iust cause of offence yet verit as non culpanda In our law proceedings I finde in my simple iudgement euer subiect to the correction of the wiser sundry inconueniences The first is that although they haue in their law a Maxime De minimis non curat lex yet they admit euery trifling action for gaine euen of such poore clients also as haue scarcely bread to giue their children wherein oftentimes is more spent than thrice the value of that they striue for I heard of two men who fell at variance about an hiue of bees and went to law vntill he that had spent least had spent 500. li. I heard also of two brethren who contended in Chancery for a chaine of gold worth 60. li. The elder being Executor kept the chaine the yonguer had proofe that his father said often in his life time that the chaine should be his The suit proceeded vntill they had spent aboue an 100. li. And on a day being both at the Chancerie barre they touched one another and the elder brother desired to speak with the yonguer and said Brother you see how these men feed on vs and wee are as neere an end of our cause as when wee first began come and dine with mee and I will giue you the one halfe of the chaine and keep the other and so end this endlesse cause And I pray you let vs both make much of this wit so dearly bought Thus was this cause ended There was a Widow and a Gentleman that contended for a seate in the Church at the ciuill Law and this Gentleman talking of his suit for his seate protested that it had cost him so great a summe as that for the credit of these Courts I am loth to name One wondering thereat hee said it was most true and said further They haue spun mee at length like a twine thread and named the number of Courts he had beene twisted in and the strange number of chargeable commissions which passed between them Thus you see the old saying true If you goe to law for a nut the Lawyers will cracke it giue each of you halfe the shell and chop vp the kernell themselues There is a thing which long since happened in France very memorable touching the endlesse causes in the ciuill law A stranger hauing sold great store of Marchandise there and not paied entred suit against his debtors wherein he spent more than his debts came vnto and thereupon greatly perplexed especially seeing no likelihood of an end of his suits or obtaining his debts hee went to the King and said I haue a great complaint against one in your kingdome and I humbly desire you to heare mee patiently The King said tell me against whom I will very patiently and willingly heare thee My Lord said he it is against your selfe Against me said the King how so whatsoeuer it be speake it freely and feare nothing Whereupon the Merchant told him that he did suffer most intolerable costly and tedious courses in the proceedings of Law in his kingdome which is there onely the ciuill Law and such as I thinke will neuer haue end as long as the Clients haue money to giue the Lawyers and told him withall of all his proceedings Well said the wise King I will first see thee fully satisfied and then reforme this foule abuse And presently thereupon did take such excellent order for the quicke and iust end of causes that his subiects did name him Pater patriae and he

THE PRESENT STATE OF ENGLAND EXPRESSED IN THIS PARADOX Our Fathers were very rich with little And Wee poore with much Written by WALTER CARY LONDON Printed by R. Young for William Sheffard in Popes-head-Alley Anno Dom. 1626. THE PRESENT STATE OF ENGLAND WHereas I intended to shew the present state of England by the exposition of this Paradox yet would I haue none to thinke that I intend to meddle or speake of any matter of gouernment thereof Quia Iouem tangere periculosum but onely to expresse the manners and conditions of the people and to shew the difference of this present time and of that which was 60. yeares since when I was as it were but a springing Cima of sixteene yeares old Neyther will I therein vse any long discourse but with all possible breuitie deliuer onely this Pamphlet as a glasse wherein men of this present age may see their monstrous deformities or as a Theame for wiser wits to play vpon setting aside in effect whatsoeuer I shall write more than the words of the very Paradox it selfe for Verbum sapienti sat est The duty also which by the law of God and the law of Nature I owe vnto my natiue Soile and the great heart-sorrow I haue to see the follies misdemeanours and ill behauiour of many of this time hath moued mee now in my withered age to leaue these few lines as tokens of my loue with great hope that if the same perhaps shall come to the hands of our wise religious vertuous learned and most gracious Soueraigne King the blessed peace of England hee will thereby be put in minde Scabra haec nostra dolare that is to make these our rugged waies plaine The exposition of the Paradox AS in all others so in this Paradox the words carry a strange sense and seeme to import a meere contrariety and vntruth For according to the word how can it bee that one hauing little should be rich and another much should be poore Wherefore wee must seeke another and more secret meaning knowing that euery Paradox hath both an outward and inward sense The one as I may terme it superficicall the other essentiall the one left to the gazing of fools with admiration the other to the wise with deepe consideration The one to the eye and outward appearance onely the other to the inward sense and iudgement For my promised breuities sake omitting many I will speake only of three things with their appurtenances wherein our then wise Fathers did greatly differ from vs now fooles These three which haue turned things vpside down and strangely altered our estate are suits of law suits of apparell and drunkennesse which being well considered with matters subsequent it will appeare that these three foule staines in our faire common-wealth doe plainely lay open and proue the inward truth of my Paradox for to speake first in generall Our Fathers in apparell were very plaine drunkennesse was abhorred as it is a most base trade so vsed onely of the most base and some few of the very abiect sort They did not ambitiously striue to get that which they could not compasse to borrow that which they could not repay neither to contend for euerie trifle in law which at this day are causes of infinite suits but liuing quietly and neighbourly with that they had they were euer rich able to giue and lend freely But now on the contrary our rents being generally fiue times as much as our Fathers receiued for the same land the idle and senselesse expences of senselesse drunkards the outragious charge of suits in law the monstrous prodigality in apparell maketh vs seeming great and rich in outward shew to be full of care trouble euer needie and very beggarly For by these three meanes wee striue to seeme kings but contend indeed who shall be first beggars so that the old Prouerbe is in this age most truly verified Stultorum plena sunt omnia The world is full of fooles Now of these three particularly and first Of Drunkennesse THis most monstrous vice is thus defined Ebrietas est priuatio motus recti intellectus Drunkennesse is the priuation of orderly motion and vnderstanding This definition agreeth in part with that which Galen hath lib. 30. de locis affectis of naturall folly which is Stultitia est amissio intellectus Folly is the losse of vnderstanding and another saith it is absentia intellectus the absence or want of vnderstanding But I neede not stand much about the definition of drunkennesse or to shew what it is For with griefe I speake it the Tauernes Alehoufes and the verie streetes are so full of drunkards in all parts of this kingdome that by the sight of them it is better knowne what this detestable and odious vice is than by anie definition whatsoeuer God hath made all things for man hath made him ruler and gouernour ouer all which office that he may the better performe hee hath giuen him reason a most diuine thing and precious iewell to gouerne his actions whereby he farre excelleth all other creatures This is well compared to a Carpenters Rule for without a Rule the Carpenter can neuer orderly compose his worke but euery part will bee out of frame so these drunkards hauing expelled reason that most excellent rule are in farre worse case than bruite beasts for they haue neither reason nor nature to direct them but shew themselues either fooles or mad men as they are formerly defined I would to God they would consider how many murders haue been and daily are committed by drunkards so that some of them are killed and taken away in the middest of their wickednesse others hanged loosing lands and goods to the ouerthrow of their houses This sinne is in a word in it selfe damnable and the very path-way leading to all other wickednesse whatsoeuer Inter alia hoc me mirificè excruciat quòd Academiae nostrae morbo hoc pernicioso laborare dicuntur nam fontes si inficiantur riui omnes non nisi aquam putidam praebere poterint But still mindfull of my promised breuitie I will onely set downe notes as it were or short speeches of drunkards drunkennesse and so take my leaue of that wherewith I was neuer acquainted I reade of one brought vp from his infancy in a wildernesse at last comming to a citie and seeing a drunken man going vp downe the streets vse clamorous and outragious words farre from reason in his gate staggering and in all his actions foolish and rude asked what creature that was being so like in shape to a man and no man Another seeing one come drunke out of a Tauerne falling downe in the streete and vomiting vp in great abundance the wine with which hee had ouercharged his stomacke said Look look I will shew you a strange sight This man hath in this sort vomited many goodly Lordships and great treasure left him by his father and now he hath neither wealth nor wit but is a