then will idle stand Peasants may beare but kings must needs requite Who would all mastring maiestie defeat Of her best grace that is to make men great A princes wrath is messenger of death What els is pompe rule raigne but earth and dust Kings must haue some be hated worse than they On whome they may their weight of enuie lay Pride is no ornament for diademes Selfe-loue doth very ill beseeme a prince Blest is that league where citties further Kings And kings doe further them in other things Kings that would haue lawes kept must rule themselues Graue heads are meetest Councellors for kings Looke what a King doth most of all embrace To that his subiects will encline as fast The strength of princes is their subiects loue Kings ought be free from partialitie Sleeplesse suspition pale distrust cold feare Alwaies with princes company doth beare Kings should be fathers to their common-ââaleâ Kings should preferre them most that ãâ¦ã least A Prince not fear'd hath oft his death ãâ¦ã And dreaded Princes haue their deathâ deâââââ Maiestie scornes to looke on cowardise Kings reasons should be more than their opiâââââ What else are kings when regiment is gânâ But like to shadowes in a Sun shine day In âââiâcts wrongs princes sustaine abuse It'ââââater care to keepe than get a crowne Kings fauours in their eye-lids vse to hang. Ready with euery winke to be wip'te out He is no king that is affections slaue No fall like his that falleth from a crowne Kings are not tearmed Gods for wearing crownes But for o're fame and fortune they are Lords Misgouern'd kings are cause of common wracke Kings chaunging customes euer feare a chaunge Iest not with Princes if that thou be wise For in vnequall iest great daunger lyes Kings are their subiects ioy their countries hope True subiects hearts are princes chiefest stay In Princes these two qualities well sit For strength a Lyon and a Foxe for wit Great perils are compriz'd within a crowne Beggers make maiestie a gazing marke True iustice is the chiefe and onely thing That is reâuir'd and lookt for in a king Mislikes are sillie lets where kings resolue Iust soueraigntie can neuer be displac'd A king hereft of all his trustie friends Is dead aliue for fame and honour ends All lawfull princes first or last preuaile A princes safetie is his peoples loue Who hath been kneel'd vnto can hardly kneele Or begge for that which once hath been his owne Kings greatnes stands on the great king of heauen No maiestie where vertue is despis'd Similies on the same subiect AS princes wills are commonly held lawes So life or death dependeth on their lookes As often burials is Physicians shame So many deaths argue a kings hard raigne As beasts obey the Lordly lyons looke So meane estate must mightie princeâ brooke As the Sun-beames doe lighten all the world So princes liues are lânternes to their lands As Princes wanting wealth learne tyrannie So too much treasure makes them vicious As biggest winds enkindle greatest flames So much submission makes a king most mild Examples likewise on the same THe Kings of Persia alwaies shewed themselues More subiect to the law than to their Lords Antiochus told his sonne Demâtrius That kingly rule was noble slauerie Bâlus the sonne of Nemrod was first king That in this world had title of that name The Romane kings did vse to weare no crownes But alwaies bare their scepters in their hands Tully saith then 't is best to checke a prince When he forgets himselfe to be a prince Sâââates wil'd good kings preferre their friends And shewe some kindnesse to their enemies Of Kingdomes c. The Kingdome Countrey and the Common-weale Are things that subiects loue doe most reueale KIngdomes are Fortunes slattering gifts soone lost Kingdomes are burd'nous to the wiâest men Conâârd doth keepe a Realme in stable stay When discord brings all kingdomes to decay Wretched the state where men desire to die Who striues to alter lawes disturbes the state Kingdomes are commonly much sooner lost Than kept desir'd than had with mightie cost Kingdomes are Fortunes âatall tenise balls A wicked king makes a more wicked land A man that takes delight in doing all To trouble all the State deuiâeth ââiâl In a well-gouern'd state one head is best Some men vnwilling benefit their land Fooles set in office doe their spleâes âeâeâle And meaning well mâst hâât the common-weale Some vnawares their countries good proâerre All earthly kingdomes euen as men mâst perish Kingdomes are rul'd but badly where the base Will checke the chiefe that sit in highest place No state stands sure but on the grounds of right Realmes neuer get by chaunge but paine and losse When lawes are maâe they ought to be obey'd And rulers willes with reuerânce to be weigh'd Wisdome and care are kingdomes chiefest propâ Rude multitudes are kingdomes ouerthrow By nature man vnto the woâst iâ bent If wholsome statutes stay not his intenâ Innocent men are common-wealeâ bâst treasure Innocence makes kingdoms florish more than arms That kingdome ought of right to be destroy'd Which once was vertues âlower now vices weed Wise princes are their kingdomes conââoâters Vniust exâââons killes a common-weale No greater da ânger to a common-wealth Than when vnskilfâll ãâã âide her powers Kingdomes are nothing elâe but common care Where tools bâare râle the common wealth decaies In â calmeâ a many see how ãâã ââgin But few respect the enâ and emââlie Where wiââ mân are neglected kingdomes perish No nâarâr kinred can be than our countrey Theâe âââ no common-weales more loose and bad Tâaâ wâeâe the câmâânâââue most libertie Our countrey parents kin claime part in vs. Our countries loue ought be most deare to vs. And ââties of common-weales dââay âââââ bâilâingâââââ and carelâsse heads beare sway Where any may liâe well that is his countrey Remembrance of ouâ countrey is most sweet In common-weales such should be honour'd most As shew their care both insterne warre and peace âââ countrey first by nature claimeth vs. ââââât is the death in cause of common-weale The gouernment of common weales and state Will without wiâdome soone he ruinate Reward and punishment are kingdomes keyes Peace in a common-wealth is mellodie There 's nothing cân impresse so deare constraint As countries cause and common foes disclaine Men of desert their countrey least esteemes Discretion best doth rule a common-weale That kingdome may be counted fortunate Where no man liueth by anothers sweat Seditious heads disturbe the common good Vnruly members soone should be lopt of Similies on the same subiect AS spring and Autumne hazard health by chaunge So ânnouations harme a common-wealth Looke how the body void of members is Euen so are kingdomes dispossest of lawes As ships in tempests need all helping hands So in a kingdome none must idlely stand As many Elements one temper frame So diuers mens endeauours helpe the state As from the heart all members haue their life So from the common-wealth
should be taught Tyrants tread lawes and honour vnder foot Subiects in âyrantâ eyes are held as slaues Tyrants by armes the iâst referre their cause To due arbiârement of right and lawes A tyrants reigne hath seldome permanence Tyrants doe neuer die an honest death Similies on the same subiect AS kings doe rule by counsell and aduise So tyrants by their will and not by law As want of riches makes a tyrant prince So great abundance heapes vp wickednes As boistrous winds doe shake the highest towers So blood and death cuts off proud tyrannie As enuie shooteth at the fairest markes So tyrants leuell at trâââ princes liues As forest tempests are in largest seas So greatest euill ensues on tyrannie As trees are alwaies weakest toward the top So falleth Tyrants in their chiefest height Examples likewise on the same THâasillus teaching meanes of tyrannie Was first enforst to tast thereof himselfe Scyron threw others headlong in the sea Till Theseus did the like by him at length Caligula wisht Rome had but one head That at one stroke himselfe might smite it off Cyrus that neuer had enough of blood Had afterward his head all drown'd in blood The soules of tyrants Plutarch doth affirme To be compos'd of crueltie and pride A tyrant seekes his priuate benefit And no mans else as Seneca maintaines Of Treason c. Treason is hated both of God and men As such a sinne as none can greater be TReason hath no place where obedience is Rebellion doth bewray corrupted nature There is no treason woundeth halfe so deepe As that which doth in princeâ bosoms sleepe Rebellion springs of too much head strong will The rebell shrinkes where rule and order swayes Kings pallaces stand open to let in The âoothing traitour and the guide to sinne In darknesse dwels the blind rebellious mind Traitours are loath'd and yet their treason lou'd They that gainst sâates and kingdomes doe coniure Their head-long ruine none can well recure Treason first workes ere traitors are eâpied Most bitter-sower doth foule rebellion taste Bet me 'tis good to let the traitour die âo sparing âustice fee âs iniquitie All filthie floods flow from rebellions brinks No vertue merits praise with treason toucht No worthy mind by treason will assaile When as he knowes hâ valour can preuaile A factious Lord sâld benefits him-selfe Who builds in blood and treason builds vnsure A troubled streame of puddle mixt with miâe Doth quench the thirst of rebels hâe desire Men in seditions nourâ'd in factions liue Shame is the rightfull end of treacheââe It 's madnesse to giue way to treacherie Without due vengeance to such iniurie In carelesse trust is treason soonest found Reuolted subiects of them-selues will quaile No greater spight than basely be betraâed By such a one whome thou before hast made Reuolt's a mischiefe euer-more pernitious Who nill be subiects shall be slaues at length Conuerse with treachers looke for treacheriâ Who deales with bad man must haue iniurie Conflict with traitors is most perillous A traitor once ne're trusted afterward They that doe couet deadly to betray By sweetest meanes first practise to entrap No place is âase enough for any traitour Time is the touch that treacherous minds doth try Nothing auailes strong bulwaâkes sence or towers When treacherous foes all inward strength deâou âs Traitours are subiect to continuall feare Traitours like vipers gnaw their countries bones Similies on the same subiect AS Iuie kills the tree embracing it âo traitours murder with their smoothest lookes As euill sauours doe corrupt the aire So treachers doe pollute a common-weale As in faire weather greatest stormes arise So in mild seasons treason is most bold As braunches too much loden quickly breake So traitors too farre trusted doe most harme As too much rankenesse bends the stalkes of corne So too much mildnesse whets the traitor on As hawkes are lost by soaring ouer-high So traitours perish in their chiefest hopes Examples likewise on the same THey that slew Caesar in the Senate-house Perisht like traitours neuer prospered The traitours that great âompey did betray With death did Caesar iustly guerdon them Sylla to her owne father proou'd vntrue And therefore felt desert accordingly Lyciscus rotted aliue aboue the ground For his vile treason to th'Orcmenians Th'Athenians would let none be buried That had been traitours to the countrey Tullie saith Wise men not at any time Will trust a traitour or a faithlesse man Of Enuie Enuie is nothing els but griefe of mind Conceiu'd at sight of others happinesse ENuie is hand maid to prosperitie Enuie let in doth in more mischiefe let Enuie doth cease wanting to feed vpon Enuious is he that grieues his neighbors good Enuie hath oft times eloquence in stââe To serue his turne than which he craues no more Ill will too soone regardeth enuies cryes Hee 's most enuied that most exceeds the rest Promotions chaung'd glorie is enuies marke No sooner excellent but enuied straight Enuie doth vertue in such sort disgrace It makes men foes to them they should embrace Enuie to honour is a secret foe The fruits of enuie is despight and hate It 's hate which enuiâs vertue in a friend Anger and enuie are lifes enemies âââie liues with vs while our selues suruiue And when we die it is no more aliue Let enuie with misfortune be contented Honours is still a moare in ennies eye Enuie cannot offend but such as liue On dead mens vertues enuie hath no power Enuie in this point may be knowne from hate The one is euident the other hid All poysoned thoughts are enuies daily food Enuie is friendships secret enemie Enuie at other shoots but wounds her selfe It's bette be enuied than pitied Enuie doth make the body ill dispos'd And kills the colour of the countenance Men enuiâus by their manners are best knowne Enuie doth often brag but drawes no blood Enuie like lightning in the darke is seene Enuie is blind and vertues mortall foe Enuie doth scorne to cast her eye below As proud ambition alwayes gazeth vp As rust the iron so enuie frets the heart At good mens fatnesse enuie waxeth leane Enuie spots beauties colours with disdaine Enuie will reach at them are farthest off The enuiâus man is sed with daintie fare For his owne heart is his continuall food Enuie is mightie mens companion Enuies disease proceeds from others good Enuie at vertues elbow alwaies waits The enuious man thinkes others losse his gaine It 's better be a beggers mate in loue Than in base enuie fellow with a king Enuie teares vp the dead buries the quicke Enuie speakes alwaies what comes next in mind Glorie erects what enuie casteth downe Enuie is like a shaft shot from a bow Which flies a while aloft but lighteth low The enuious â an ne're spares to persecute Hid enuie is more daungerous than knowne When enuie winkes then waiteth he most harme If any man be good he is enuied If euill then himselfe is enuious Patience endures what euer enuie dare An enuious
are remembred while the scarres remaine A lawlesse peere by law deserues to die Iustice is vertues badge and staffe of peace Maintaining honour in her rich increase True iustice payes the bloodie home their hire Blood spilt by wrong calls vengeance scourge by right Seldome aduantage is in wrongs debar'd Who soweth wrong is sure to reape the same All runnes to wracke and ruine where selfe-kind From selfe-same kind with-holdeth mutuall right Delay in punishment no pardon is A publicke fault craues open punishment Who flyeth iudgement shewes his guiltinesse Equitie iudgeth mildly law seuerely Wrongs done vs we are sparing to forgiue Not minding we by mercie onely liue Wrong is the triall of true patience Law with extremitie is extreame wrong Similies on the same subiect AS hardest mettals in the fire is melt So greatest sinnes by iustice soone are felt As sinne at first is sweet but after sower So Law lookes sterne yet shewes not all her power As from worst maladies best med'cines come So are best lawes from lewdest manners form'd As citties with their walles are fenced round So are good minds with right and equitie As he that wanteth reason is no man So who liues lawlesse may be tearm'd a beast As thirstie soules doe seeke some long lookt spring So wrongs receiu'd with right doe comfort bring Examples likewise on the same PHilip when any made complaint to him Stopt one eare till the other part were heard Aristides so loued Equitie That he of all men was sir named IVST Iunius the Consull so respected right As his owne sonnes he did condemne to death Cato Censorius was so iust and firme As none durst mooue him in a naughtie cause Iustice saith Seneca is the law of God And bond of all humane societie Deuotion and good will Lactantius saith Ioynes vs to God as iustice doth to men Of Pollicie Pollicie is a wise and discreet care For King for countrey and for common good POllicie oft religions habit weares What wants in strength is holpe by pollicie Small pollicie hath prowesse learn'd to spill Much blood abroad to cut her owne with skill Small harme pretending good is pollicie Oft times hath reaching pollicie deuisde A cunning clause which hath himselfe surpriz'd A wrastlers slâights oft counter-checketh force Strength wanting wit and pollicie to rule Is soone cast downe and prooues himselfe a foole 'T is pollicie to feare a powerfull hate Counsell in any kingdome pollicied More worthie is than warre more dignified No pollicie where lambes doe lyons lead It is the summe of perfect pollicie To worke securely with vulgaritie Who builds on strength by pollicie is stript More worthie 't is by wit and pollicie To compasse honour than by progenie Pollicie is to prowesse chiefest friend Where power and pollicie doe often faile Respect of gold both conquers and commaunds The very poorest hath his pollicie Men may in conquest benefit themselues As much by pollicie as power and might All pollicie is soone destroy'd by pride Pollicie oft subdues where valour failes Courage that hath nor wit nor pollicie Flyes like a slaue before his enemie A well-establisht pollicie is best Societie must be preseru'd by pollicie Similies on the same subiect AS dull neglect is follies chiefest badge So quicke conceit is signe of pollicie As carelesse heads doe soonest harme a state So pollicie fore-sees before too late As cunning crafts-men are commended most So Realmes of polliticke aduisers boast As subtiltie is slye to helpe it selfe So pollicie is wise to shield it selfe As daungers felt are worse than others fear'd So pollicies not executed most offend As counsell is some comfort in distresse So pollicie employ ãâ¦ã lls wretchednesse Examples likewise on the same Lâcurgus by his polliticke aduise âeform'd the Lacedae âon mangled state Numa Pompilius discreete pollicie Made Rome to flourish in her royaltie Deucalions pollicie beâriended Greece And brought the people to religious awe Scâpâoes Lieutenânâ nam'd Polâââus Was highly praised for his pollicie Byas did much commend the gouernment Where the chiefe heads were wiâe and polliticke Plutarch thought cities could as ably stând Without foundationâ as no pollicie Of Peace Concord Peace is the ground of kingdoms happinesse Nource of true concord loue and all encrease PEace is great riches in the poorest state Men know not peace nor rightly how to deeme it That first by warre haue not been taught â'esteems it Peace hath best biding in a setled mind Peace brings in pleasure pleasure breeds excesse Excesse procureth want want workes distresse Peace doth depend on reason warre on force You whose faire calme make neighbors storms seeme sore Try you your tydes before you trust the shore Peace all extreames concludeth with remorse Sourges may rise on suddaine ere we thinke And whiles we swimme secure compell vs sinke Mild calm'd fac't peace exceeds blood-thirsting war Warre is ordain'd for nothing else but peace And perfect peace is end of bloudie warre Peace flourisheth where reason beareth sway Peace still is honest humane and vpright When warre is brutish fosteâed by despight Concord of many makes an vnitie Concord makes small things mightily encrease Where discord makes great things as fast decrease True peace is peace with vertue warre with vice In peace for warre let vs so well prouide As in each state no harme doe vs betide Peace from a Tyrants mouth is treacherie Deare and vnprofitable is the peace That 's purchast with expence of guiltlesse bloud The weight of peace is easie to be borne They iustly doe deserue the sword of warre That wilfully withstand faire offered peace To flye from peace is seeking selfe-decay Peace asketh no lesse wisdome to preserue is Than valour was bestowed in getting it Peace still succeeds what euer drifts withstand That 's more esteem'd obtain'd by peace-full words Than any thing atchieu'd by violence State-stabling peace brings froward minds in fashion Similies on the same subiect AS members knit in one doe maintaine life So states combin'd in peace doe nourish loue As desolation dwelles where discord is So where is concord liues all happinesse As Laurell euer crownes the Conquerour So peace becommeth any Emperour As they that seeke their harme deserue to haue it So they which flie from peace should neuer feele it As warre cuts deepe and maketh mightie wounds So peace like soueraigne balme doth cure them all As griefe is cognisance of falling states So peace is glorie of faire shining sway Examples likewise on the same FOrtie yeeres keeping Ianus temple shut Gaue testimonie of the Romanes peace Numa the second king of Rome so loued peace That all his reigne was neither warre nor strife Archidamus wrote to the Elians Nothing but this Peace is a goodly thing The cause why Cato did oppose himselfe Against great Caesar was For breach of peace Tullie saith Let vs so begin our warre That afterward we may be sure of peace Phocion being askt What fitted kingdomes best Replyed A little warre to win long peace Of Warre Warre is most
young men so âââ old men wiâe Dâllâââ ãâã learninâ dâe desire Buâ ãâ¦ã e wise To vnlââââââuill hat'hest learning is Opinion without lâârning is not good Some men so ãâ¦ã That oââ ther âârre the worke before was well Knowledge continues when all wealth else wastâ Knowledge in all things is âight prositable The mind withdrawne ârom studie for supplies Is learnings wracke where want doth tyrannize To know and want performance is mishap Best knowledge is âor men to know themselues Coy readers deeme that dull conceits proceed From ignorance the cause being onely need Poets are borne but Oratours are made Poetrie quickeneth wit sweetens discourse Poets scant sweetly write except they meet With sound rewards for serâoning so sweet Learning and knowledge good minds most desire Knowledge before all else should be preferd True learning hath a bodie absolute That in apparant sence it selfe can suâe Breuitie is great praise of eloquence Silence in wise men is sweet eloquence The man that scorneth all the Artes of schoole Lackes but a long coat to be natures foole Eloquence is the ornament of speech Eloquence makes bad matters oft seeme good They which doe like all Artes which can be thought Doe comprehend not any as they ought Experience is the mistresse of old age Men rich in knowledge hate all other wealth Arts which right hard doe seeme at our first sight By triall are âade easie quicke and light Experience times characters racâth out Knowledge distinguisheth twixt âen and beasts Learning will liue and vertue still shall shine When follie dyes and ignorance doth pine Learning with courage make a man complete Let Guns serue gownes and bucklers yeeld to books Arts want may stop our tongues but not our teares Similies on the same subiect AS learning helpe to purchase all men fame So truly leâân'd doth more renowme their name As ground vntil'd can neuer bring âoâth gâaine So vnlearn'd valour ãâã taketh paine As men by folly ââââââââ the Gods Euen so by ãâ¦ã they neerest them As Bees sucke honey out of diâers flâweâs So out of Scienceâ men knowlâdââ learne As seales iâpâinâââââââly âoââe in waâe So Poets in dull mindâââââââhouâhts ââpresse As Musque quicâânâ ãâ¦ã heaâtâ So drowsie soules are cââââ'd wâth eloquence Examples likewise on the same ALexander honoured Aristotle And made his pillow Homers ââades In campe or else-where ââsar alwaies bare His Commentaries as hiâ bosome friend Robert king of Sciâill vs'd to say Kingdome and all goe ââââ I learning loose Ptolomie Philadelpâââ lâââiâgs friend Fiue hundred thousand bookes had in his studiâ Man as saith Aristotlâ was create To vnderstand and afterward to doe Oh Science said graue Plato how would men Loue and esteeme thee if they knew thee right Of Kings and Princes Kings are the images of Gods on earth And therefore they are cal'd Gods of the earth KIngs like to Gods should gouerne euery thing Monarchs misdeeds cannot be hid in clay Vnhappie kings that neâer may be âaught To know themselues or to discerâe their saulââ Princes are glasses to their subiects eyes The liues of princes are their subiects bookes To whome should suâiects for true iustiâââsââe When Kings themselues doe reigâe by ãâã The greatest scandale waiâs on greatâ sâsâaâe Poore groomes are sightlesse night Kings glorious day A king should euer priuiledge his pleasââe And make his peeres esteeme it as tââir treasure The cares of kings wast liââ and hasten age Within one laâd one single sway iâ best Princes like Sunnes are euââââre in sight All see the clouds that doe ecclipse their ligât Diuided kingdomes make diuided hearts Good deeds from kings must not be drawne perforce A Princes wealth in spending still doth spread Like to a poole with many fountaines fed Minions too great argue a king too weake Kings sleeping see with eyes of other men Whereas proud conquest keepeth all in awe Kings oft are forc'd in seruice âokes to draw A kings great arme doth reach from shore to shore Kings vse their loues as garments they haue worne Princes haue but their titles for their glorie And outward honour for an inward toyle Kings pardon death but can not pardon shame Kings want no means t' accomplish what they would Princes for meere vnseli imaginations Do often feele a world of resilesse caâeâ It shames a Prince to say IF THAT I COVLD Kings liues reputed are their subiâcts lights Betweene kings titles and their lowly name There 's nothing differ but the outward fââme No common fortunes can once blemish kings A begging prince what begger pitties not Where Angele in the cause of Kings doe sight VVeake men must fall for beaâân regards the right A king woes slaue must kingly woe obey Kings may winne kingdoms but not conquer hearts Not all the water in the rough rule sea Can wash the balme from an annoiâted king The linkes of princes loue are blood and warre Poore priuat men âound not their princes hearts This fault is euer incident to kings Too much to credit ouer pleasing things Princes respect their honour more than blood To be a Prince is more than be a man The man that at a subiects use doth anne To the princes bodie giues a priuie maime Princes like Lyons neuer will be tam'd Kings will be onely competirors must downe Gnats are vnnoted where-soe're they flie But Eagles gaz'd vpon with euery eye A kings great name makes not his fault the lesse Desire of soueraigntie respects no faith Foolish the begger that to touch a crowne VVould with the scepter strait be smitten downe The threats of kings are like the thunders noise Kings haue long armes and rulers reach at large Princes are as the glasse the schoole the booke VVhere subiects eyes doe learne doe read doe looke Maiestie shines like lightning from the East A princes will ought not exceed his law Mildnesse doth better sute with maiestie Than rash reuenge and rough seueritie Princes desires are many times corrupt Princes oft fauour flatterers more than friends Kings doe approach the nearest vnto God By giuing life and safetie to their people Vnworthie mens preferment shames the prince Kings Courts are held as vniuersall schooles Succeeding heapes of plagues doe teach too late To learne the mischiefes of misgnided state Kings by example sinne more than by act Kings seates for soules distrest are sanctuaries The youth of Princes haue no bounds for sinne Vnlesse them-selues doe make them bounds within Princes oft purchase quiet with price of wrong Wish for good princes but endure the ill Subiects may well complaine but not correct A princes faults they beare more high respect No ruler yet could euer all content The face of kings makes faultie subiects feare Kings Lords of times and of occasions May take aduantage when and how they list It 's hard to rule and please both good and bad New kings doe feare when old Courts furder straine Poore maiestie that other men must guide Whose discontent can neuer looke aright When princes worke who
please So gentle minds are easily ouer-rul'd As heauines fore-tels some harme at hand So minds disturb'd presage ensuing ills As sickly bodies brooke not heat nor cold So crazed minds dislike of euery thing As working vessels are by vent kept sound So troubled minds by conference find ease As fennie grounds send forth vnsauorie sents So bad minds blânder out distempered thoughts Examples likewise on the same SCeuola in the greatnesse of his mind Entred Porsennaes Tent to murder him Queene Tomiris to shew her dauntlesse mind With Cyrus blood reueng'd her deare sonnes death Zenobia told Aurelian in the field He was not able to subdue her mind Lucius Dentatus neuer matcht for mind Came eighteene times a conquerour from field Cicero saith the goodnesse of the mând Is most discern'd in pardoning iniuries Socrates said His quietnes in mind Was cause he neuer sickned till his death Of Affection c. Affection and sweet fancies secret fire Kindle the coales that quicken vp desire WHere we affect we seldome find defect Of things vnknowne we can haue no desire Men ost affect them that doe loue them least And least doe loue them whome they should like best That one desires another doth disdaine Affection by the countenance is descried Full easily the fault may be redrest Where kind affection onely hath transgrest Kindly affection youth to liue with youth Truest affection doth no bounds retaine Affection is a âierce yet holy fire Free of him-selfe and chain'd to strong desire Desire with small encouraging growes bold It 's easie to desire but hard to chuse Affections speech that easily can dissolue Doth moisten Flint yet Steele in stiffe attire The sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none In darkest nights desire sees best of all Sweet are the kisses the embracements sweet When like desires with like affections meet Affections slaue regards no oathes nor lawes Luke-warme desires best fit with crazed loue Affection is a coale that must be coold Else suffered it will set the heart on fire Entire affection hateth nice coy hands Affection will like fire him-selfe betray Affection faints not like a pale fac'd coward But then wooes best when most his choise is froward The coales are quicke where fancie blowes the fire Desire can make a Doctor in a day Where loue doth reigne disturbing iealousie Doth call him selfe affections Sentinell Fauour and grace are tearmed fancies fuell An equall age doth equall like desires Bad mens affections turne to feare and hate And hate to daunger and deserued death That 's hardly kept which is desir'd of many The most maid-seeming is not without affection That needs must issue to the full perfection Hath grounded-being by the minds affection There 's nothing can affections force controll Drunken desire doth vomit his receit Affections gawdie banner once displayed The coward fights and will not be dismayed Things much restrain'd make vs the more desire them In meanest shewe the most affection dwells Small drops doe oft-times quench a mightie fire But hugest Seas not qualifie desire All qualifide affections loue doth hate Beautie strikes fancie blind vaine shewes deceiue Sad perâurâations that affections guide Should not giue iudgement till their cause be tride Desire is life of loue and death of feare Death is the finall end of all desires Nothing can quench an infinite desire Once kindled through the first conceiued fire Sad sighes doe shew the heat of hearts desire Desire controld doth aggrauate desire Desire being fierce is spring of sighes and teares Men once degenerate and growne deprest Are pleasd to share affections with a beast Desire doth spring from that we wish and want Fancie is blind deafe and incredulous Fancie is watchfull and doth seldome sleepe Fancie compeld to Lute strings is compar'd Which ouer stretcht doe cracke before they sound Lawfull desires are honesties best notes Affection's rest lesse yet being perfect end-lesse Delay is preiudiciall to desire The greater part leane to example so That what they fancie they will sâant forgoe Fancies best cure is mutuall affection Fancie soone âires but long before it quench When loue leads lookes no compasse keepes desire A hot desire on present heat doth dote When cold repentance will it not fore-note Low fortunes often times haue high desires Like fortunes globe euen so is fancies seat Appetites flame with wisdome best is quencht There neuer did all circumstances meet With those desires which were conceiu'd before Affection brooketh no diuision Sleepe hath no priuiledge ouer desire Similies on the same subiect AS poyson sweetly mixt is sooner ta'ne So fancie close conceal'd is soonest fier'd As Chrysolites are prooued in the fire So is affection in enforc'd restraint As cities wanting Magistrates decay Euen so desire vngouern'd hurts it selfe As all the world were darke but for the Sunne So life but for affection were vnsure As steele brings fire from the hardest flint So fancie mollisies the stearnest mind As Almond trees in age doe beare most fruit So yeares doth best approoue affections Examples likewise on the same ZAleucus to the Locrians made a law To loose their eyes that sinn'd in foule desires Appius was banished the cittie Rome For leud affection to Virginia Marke Anthonie disgrac'd his former fame By not restraining his affections King Alexander hated to the death In men or women loose and leud desires Fancie saith Aristotle often makes A frenzie in their soules are led thereby Desire saith Socrates no limits holds And therefore hardly can be mastred Of Disdaine c. Contempt and Scorne are Wits infirmitie Wherwith Disdaine and Scoffes keepe company FLint frost disdaine weares melts and yeelds we see Things long in getting quickly are disdain'd Present disdaine oft after-loue diuines Prayers preuaile not where is coy disdaine Better to die a thousand deaths and more Than liue contemn'd that honour'd was before Disdaine deliuers a depraued mind Griefe often-times giues place to nice disdaine Too much precisenesse sauours of selfe-loue Gibing demaunds deserue scornefull replyes Neither can wit or Art take any place Where aduerse scorne with feare strikes boldnesse dead Presumption giues no guerdon but disdaine Despised men on earth must liue in heauen There must be some contempt ere plagues ensue Disdaine attends where greatest honour haunts In high disdaine loue is a base desire And Cupids flames doe seeme but watrie fire Disdaine repines at all good things it sees They others vertues scorne that doubt their owne Mocke none in need beware thine owne mishap Scoffes without feare from follâe doe proceed The choice ââhard wheâe silence kills with griefe Oâ speech reapes no reward but base contempâ To mocke a friend is held no manly part Scorne can haue no reward but like contempt Ieasting is tollerable but scorne most vile Disdaine declares a proud presuming heart Loues passions quenched by vnkind disdaine Doth often times encrease the more desire Scorning is artificiall iniurie Who scorneth most shall be but paid with scoffes Scorne not thy wife least scorn'd she do thee
when gray haires are seene As coâne consum'd eâpence is âued too late So snow-white heads in vaine wish youth againe As physicke âoots not for a bodie dead So counsell helpes not ages way ward head As fairest Sunnie dayes must haue their nights So goodliest youth old age at length affrights Examples likewise on the same Câââââachuâ of Carthage in good yeares Went to be scholler to Carnâades Mââcus Aurââus told to ââcius He went to learâe what âet he did not know Terenâiââ Varâo and Mârcus Poâtiuâ Cato Went to learâe Greeke when they were verie old Alphoâsus king of Arragon at fiftie yeares Translated âââie into the Spanish tongue When men saââh ââllie looke on their white haires They must doe nothing âââ becomes those yeares Old men whose soulâs arâ sâd with heauenly light Grieue not their age but ioy it so saith Sophocles Of Life Life is a frost of cold felicitie And death a thaw of all our miserie LIfe is a wandering course to doubtfull rest Life is but losse where death is counted gaine When vertues dayes doe end they are not done But liue two liues where others haue but one The death of sinne is life vnto the soule Mans life still endeth with the end of life In vanitie of lifâ and wandring wayes The wicked rân and weare out all their dayes Better not be than being soone to die Life is most loath'd where loue may not preuaile Death is most louely sweet and amiable But captiu'd life for foulnesse admirable The longer life the greater is our guilt Life must with life and blood with blood be paid Hate not thy life but loath captiuitie Where rests no hope to purchase victorie He that giues life best knowes the date thereof Mans life may less'ned not enlarged be Who will not bide the burden of aâstresse Must not here liue for life iâ wretâheânesse True loue despiseth shame when life is fear'd Life warres with loue and loue contends with life Too long they lâue that liue till they be naught Life sau'd by sinne base purchase dearelâ bought Moâe are mens ends markt than their liues before As death is fee to life so hate to loue Euen then when we of obscure life doe boast It often prooues that then we are knowne most Men must haue griefe so long as life remaines Life is not that which should be much desir'd We often see who on a âing relyes Finâs death aliue while liuing yet he dyes So some men liue they care not how they liue Life suffers wrong when death would end her woes Ill compassing sit opportunitie Or killes his life or else lifes qualitie That dead things can giue life we seldome find Contrition doth reformed life begin To liue or dye which of the twaine is better When life is sham'd and death reproches debter First doe we bud then blow next seed last âall We aske deaths aâd to end liâes wretchednesse God guides mans life and when he list to haue it Wit wealth nor any thing beside can saue it Our life is death if we doe liue in sinne A dying life all kind of deaths exceeds Contented meane estate true life doth giue Resting secure not rising vp to grieue This life affoords no sweet without some sowre To liue and loue not is no life at all Fond blinded gâeatnesse with his busie toyle Seeking for happie life doth life despoyle Life neuer is too short where death is wisht There is no force so great as life enforc'd What kind of life alas liue those men in That cannot liue without nor with their kinne Life is ill spar'd that 's spar'd to spill more blood To liue in death is but a dying life Long vse of life is as a lingering foe And gentle death the onely end of woe Sweet is the life that is maintain'd by loue Redeeme thy life although with all thou hast The good doe liue as if they liâed not And die as if their death were but a dreame That life is death where men doe liue alone A good life doth beget as good a death No wise man likes in such a âife to dwell Whose wayes âre strait to heauen but wide to hell Mans life may not be destitute of office A good life is next way to winne good fame The life coââupt with vnexpected shame And âimelesse death is buried with defame They liue but ill who alwayes thinke to liue To men in miserie life seemes too long Long life hath commonly long cares annext The breath that maintaines life doth finish life Similies on the same subiect AS falls the tree so prostrate still it lyes So speedeth life in liuing as it dyes As men by life in bondage soone are brought Euen so by death is freedome soonest wrought As siâe burnes fiercely being still supplyed So life postes swiftly when it least is spyed As sharpe frosts easily nip forward springs So life to end it hath too many things As Easterne winds doth towardly blossoms blast So inward cares makes life to finish fast As life is onely by the gift of grace So death by nature taketh time and place THere is hardly any one Chapter in this Booke but it deliuereth plentie of examples for this argument of life the whole summe indeed but containing the course of our actions euen from our entrance into life vnto the verie houre of our death therefore there shall need no speciall collection vpon this head Of Death Death is the keye which vnlocks miserie And lets the soule to blessed libertie DEath is the end of woe and wretchednesie When deaths houre comes let none aske reason why He ought to die that not deserues to liue Who dyes the death with honour in the field Both his lifes woeâ and sorrowes ârieââ eââs With sharpe asâliction death first grounds his cause The fairest blossome deaths sterne winter niââ Death hath no dart to slay deserued same The ãâã Seene where death âer plây begins Are aâtâ of âight and dâââââ of ââgiy darke To wretched men death is the welcomâst friend Death neuer comes when need doth most require Life is but losse and death felicitie Who dyes the vtmost anguish doth abide But âe that liues is left to wâââe his losse Sad life is much more worse than gladsome death Our life is day but death is ougly night Faire death it is to shun more shame to die Death to sharpe sorrow quickely ease doth send For death doth griefe and sorrow soonest end Death to the wretched is both grace and gaine In death aduise for daunger comes too late It 's worse than death to linger on reliefe Death is the gulfe of all and then I say Thou are as good as Caesar in the clay A sicke man best sets downe the pangs of death Deaths name is much more mightie than his deeds To die is all as common as to liue It is not death that which the world calls dying But that is death which is all ioyes denying The shade pursues the bodie so death vs.
Death is the driery Dad and dust the Dame Death is misfortunes monarchizing foe Thy fatall end why doest thou so begin Locking death out yeâ keep'st destruction in None moane his death whose life hath all annoy'd We haue one life and so our death is one Death lends vs sight while he doth spare vs breath It 's treble death a freezing death to feele For him on whome the Sunne hath euer shone Long liues the man that dies in lustie yeares Death is the lowest step a man can fall Death is not shunn'd of them that dutie yeeld Death which eâds care yet carelesse of our death Doth steale our ioyes but stealeth not our breath Parting breeds mourning absence cruell death To good and bad death is an equall doome Though death be poore it ends a world of woe Death is to some a fierce vnbidden guest But those that craue his aid be beloeth least There 's nothing we can call our owne but death Death 's the deuourer of all worlds delight It 's sweet to dye when we are forc'd to liue When heapes of treasure is the meed preposed Though death âe adiunct there 's no death supposed Neere death he stands that stands too neere a crowne It 's double death to drowne in ken of shoare Death is too good for base dishonest life There 's nothing else remaines for vs beside But teaâes and coââins onely to prouide All things are subiect to deaths tyrannie What thing soeuer liues is sure to die All killing death by Christ is kill'd him-selfe Oh Sicknesse thou art many times belyde When death hath many wâyes to come beside The sharpest sting of death hurts not but helpes Carrion corruption is the food of death The day of death excels our day of birth Oft times their gaines whome greatnesse fauoureth When chiefe preserr'd stand as preferr'd to death Raise vp no liuing blame against the dead A present death exceeds a lingring life Life leads to care death to the scale of heauen The dying man whose eyes are sunke and dimme Thinkes euery passing bell rings out for him To die in life is but a liuing death Good death not loftie life is most renowme In countries cause to die is noble death Death doth no time no age no reason measure Similies on the same subiect AS the hearb Rew is bitter in our taste âo deaths remembrance fearefull is to many As sleepe depriues the memorie of paines So sleepe of death ends all our wretchednes As all small currents runne into the sea So all mens toiles are swallowed vp in death As borrowed money must be paid againe So what life owes must be by death discharg'd As we are merrie at our childrens birth So should we not grieue vainly at their death As darknesse doth obscure the fairest day So death laies hold vpon the forward'st life Examples likewise on the same HEctor said to his wife Andromache Grieue not my death all men are borne to die Gorgias askt in sicknesse how he far'd Said Sleepe now yeelds me to his brother death Pindarus sleeping on a young lads breast Neuer awaked but in that sort dyed Vespasian stood vp at the point of death And said An Emperour should standing dye Plato thankt Nature that she let him liue In such a time as taught him well to die Thales will'd euery man amend his life Else he could haue no honour in his death The Conclusion THis worke which cost no meane paines and labour to reduce into this forme and method is thus at the length happily concluded commended to the kind acceptation of all gentle and well-disposed minds If some carping Sycophant readier alway to cauill and find fault than correct and amend shall mislike of the course obserued in this booke and imagine the heads not aptly or properly placed according as in his nice opinion perhaps hee would haue them let me thus plainely answere him That they were neuer meant for the pleasing of his vaine appetite and therefore hee hath more loue to looke off than be prying into matters aboue his capacitie Onely to the iudiciall and affable iudgements of this age both the paines and pleasure of this labour is published not doubting but they will measure it by the iust desert and censure thereof as their owne kind natures haue euer beene accustomed In this first Impression are omitted the Sentences of Chaucer Gower Lidgate and other auncient Poets because it was not knowne how their forme would agree with these of ten syllables onely and that sometimes they exceed the compasse herein obserued hauing none but lineall and couplet sentences aboue and beyond which course the Gentleman who was the cause of this collection taking therin no meane paines him-selfe besides his friends labour could not be perswaded but determinately aimed at this obseruation Neuerthelesse if this may enioy but the fauour hee hopes it will and the good intent thereof be no way misconstrued at the next impression it shall be largely supplyed with things that at this present could not be obtained both in respect of some vrgent occasion beeing the hinderance thereof as also because there wanted apt meanes to furnish further purpose then intended All which shall then be answered effectually and any thing els may be thought auaileable to this worke and the good liking of the wise FINIS An Alphabeticall Table of the seuerall things handled in this Booke A ABoundance vide Riches Absence vide Loue and Friendship Abstinence vide Gluttonie Accusation vide Iustice. Actions 1 17 19 50 67 c. Admiration vide Loue. 40 Admonition vide Counsell Aduise c. Aduersitie vide Pouertie 12 Aduise 73 Adulterie vide Lust. Affection 161 Affliction 12 20 74 Age. 222 Ambition 108 Amitie vide Friendship Angels vide Heauen 58 Anger 132 Armes vide Warre Arrogancie vide Pride Art vide Learning Aspiring vide Ambition Auarice 127 Auncestors vide Kings Authoritie 194 B BAbbling vide Words Beautie 40 Beleefe 30 Benefits 63 Blasphemie vide God and Heauen Blessednes 2 11 16 24 Blood 58 71 77 79 82 84 c. Boasting vide Pride Body vide Mind Bountie 22 211 Bragging vide Pride Brauerie vide Pride C CAre vide Greefe Charitie vide Loue. Chastitie 37 38 39 40 Chaunce vide Fortune Chaunge 11 24 29 34 37 c. Children 36 97 Choyce 46 Choller vide Anger Ciuilitie vide Anger Clemencie vide Pittie Comfort 20 24 54 64 80 c. Common-wealth vide Kingdomes Compassion vide Pittie Concord 81 Concupiscence vide Lust. Confidence 18 32 Conquest vide Warre Conscience 8 9 10 Consideration vide Counsell Conspiracie vide Treason Constancie vide Women Contemplation vide Religion Contempt vide Disdaine Content vide Peace 6 49 67 71 Contention vide Anger Concord c. Couetousnes 127 Counsell 73 Countrey vide Common-wealth Courage 197 Courtesie vide Kindnesse 75 Cowardise 33 48 60 66 86 Craft 97 Credit 22 68 Credulitie 30 51 58 Crueltie vide Tyrannie 33 41 51 Curiositie vide Pride Custome 61 70 79