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cause_n	effect_n	evil_a	good_a	4,841	5	4.5571	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00384	The praise of folie. = Moriæ encomium a booke made in latine by that great clerke Erasmus Roterodame. Englisshed by sir Thomas Chaloner knight.; Moriae encomium. English	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Chaloner, Thomas, Sir, 1521-1565.	1549 (1549)	STC 10500; ESTC S101685	94,709	162

with the residue of the plages of mans lyfe and founde out by the verie same authours who lykewise are authours of all mischiefe that is to saie by diuelles wherupon also they haue their name grounded for Daemon signifieth cunnyng or a knower But the good simple people of the olde golden worlde without any disciplines at all liued onely as Nature taught and instincted theim For what neded thei any grammer whan all the world vsed but one speche whiche made also to none other purpose saue that one myght vnderstande an other Or wherto serued Logike whan no controuersie of woordes myght make a double meanyng Or what place had Rhetorike whan none contended with others Or to what effect stode Law seeyng as yet euill maners reigned not wherupon good lawes no doubt were fyrst grounded Further they were more religious and godly than with an vngodly curiositee to ensearche the secretꝭ of Nature the ●uantitee of the sterres theyr courses or influences or the hydden causes of thyngꝭ supposyng it against goddꝭ forbode that they beyng mortall and erthly men shoulde struggle to know beyonde theyr degrees Muche lesse that euer any suche madnesse came in theyr braines as ones to thynke vpon the inquirey of thyngꝭ set aboue the sterres But whan by little and little the purenesse of the golden age decaced than were sciencꝭ inuented as I saied by wicked sprites but right fewe as yet and practised by as few Than afterwardꝭ the supersticion of the Chaldees and idle newfanglednesse of the Grekes added I wene more than six hundred others beyng mere vexacions of mens braines in so muche as Grammer alone is hable to kepe a man taske whiles he liueth And yet loe euin amongꝭ suche sciences those we see had in most price than draw nearest to the commen sence and capacitee of all men that is to saie to Folie For as for Diuines they maie well enough walke an hungred Mathematicall professours blowe theyr nayles Astronomers are laught to scorne Sophistrers are naught set by Onely a Phisicion as Homer saieth is more woorth than twentie of the rest Yea and commenly the rassher the vncunnynger lesse circumspect the vndertaker of any of those vsuall sciencꝭ is the more yet is he regarded allowed euin amonges great men also Lyke as Phisike accordyng as many now a daies dooe wrest it is naught els than a membre of Adulacion as well as Rhetorike Next place wherunto is geuin to Ciuilians and Lawiers but I am in doubt whether it be the seconde or the fyrst by the rules and ●statutes of the vniuerfitee of whose profession as I will saie nothyng so other men are went with one consent to haue it in derision as a certaine kynde of Asselyke philosophie but yet these Asseheades be they that rule all the rost and enlarge their possessions wheras a Diuine in the meane while lookyng ouer all his bookes of diuinitee can hardly pyke hym out a radisshe roote for his diner doyng battaile continually with gnattꝭ and lyse And therfore lyke as sciences are the more happie and auailable the nearer affinitee they haue with Folie So are those men most happie who altogethers maie abstaine from medlyng with any sciences and folow Nature onely for theyr guide and maistres who in no parte of hir is lame or insufficient as longe as it suffiseth vs to kepe our selues within hir bandꝭ For Nature abhorreth counterfeityng and farre more towardly doeth it flourisshe that with least arte and cure is tended to For see you not how amongꝭ brute beastes and burdes also those lyue most wealthily that haue least to dooe with disciplines nor are subiect to any others gouernment sauyng Natures The verie Bees trow ye how happy and merueilous is theyr propretee and yet pardic they haue not all theyr senses What house-wright by Geometrie founde euer out suche maner buildyng as theyr commes are of What Philosopher did euer fourme suche a commen weale as theyrs is Contrary an horse because he draweth nerest to mans sense and is conuersant amongꝭ men is therfore pertaker also of suche miseries as men are subiecte to As who not seeldome whiles he is ashamed to be ouer ronne for the belle dooeth ryre hym selfe and in battaile whiles he seketh victorie dooeth oftentymes draw his guttꝭ after hym Besydes the snafles and bittꝭ he is broken with the spurres he is gyrded with the stables enprisonment he is hampred with the whippes he is lasshed with the cogillꝭ he is ●asted with the halters he is tyed with the ryders he is laden with and briefly all that tragedie of his bondage whiche willingly in a maner he toke vpon him if we geue credite to Aesopes fables whiles as these valiaunt men dooe his desyre was to be wroken on the hart his enemie Now bow muche leefer is the life of these prettie small burdꝭ who onely as Nature pricketh theim lyue from hande to mouthe in depe quietnesse as long as men will let theim alone That and if they fortune to be taken and made to syng in a cage yet lord how muche they want than of theyr natiue grace and properuesse So farre more liuely ye shall fynde it that rather nature induceth than that arte constreigneth I can neuer therfore fully commende Pythagoras who whan vnder diuerse bodies and likenesses he had ben all thinges a Philosopher a man a woman a kynge a priuate person a fisshe an horse a frogge yea I wene a sponge also iudged yet no kynde of creature more miserable than man because all the reste were content to liue as Nature had limitted theim Onely man woulde preasse to passe his bandꝭ Yea and therfore amongꝭ men he preferred also the Ideote and simple vulgars before other learned and reputed persons So Grillus I thynke was better aduised than Vlisses for all his deepe witte in that he had rather grunt still in the stie beyng cha●nged into a hogge through Circes sorceries than waifaryng with hym to suffre so many wretched and greenous chaunces In whiche poinct I take it that Homer also the father of fables dooeth consent with me that where in many places he calleth all mortall men bothe wofull and wretched and than againe speakyng of Vlisses the exemple as he makes hym of a perfite wyseman geueth hym the addicion of sighyng or pensiue whiche in no place ye fynde attributed to Paris or Aiax or Achilles But wherfore trow ye dooeth he so Saue for that Vlisses beyng double and craftie vsed Pallas aduyse in all his procedyngꝭ and was ouerwyse as he that toke the fa●dest drifte he myght from Natures course Wherfore lyke as amongꝭ mortall men they are fardest remoued from blisfulnesse that geue theim selues to the studie of wysedome yea twyse foolishe in this that beyng borne men they woulde possiblie if they could vsurpe the state of the immortall Gods and as poetes feigne the Geantes did with theyr engins of sciences moue warre against Nature So thei on the other syde seeme least miserable