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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02775	Pierces supererogation or A new prayse of the old asse A preparatiue to certaine larger discourses, intituled Nashes s. fame. Gabriell Haruey.	Harvey, Gabriel, 1550?-1631.	1593 (1593)	STC 12903; ESTC S103899	142,548	254

curiositie can deuise were not the wisest on your side most-simplie simple in weying the Consequents of such antecedents they would neuer so inconsideratly labour their owne shame the miserie of their brethren the desolatiō of the Ministery the destructiō of the Church Good Martin be good to the Church to the Ministery to the state to thy country to thy patrons to thy frends to thy brethren to thiselfe and as thou loouest thiselfe take heede of old Puritanisme new Anabaptisme finall Barbarisme Thou art young in yeares I suppose but younger in enterprise I am assured Thy age in some sort pleadeth thy pardon and couldest thou with any reasonable temperance aduise thiselfe in time as it is high time to assuage thy stomachous and ouerlashing outrage there be fewe wise men of qualitie but would pittie thy rash proceeding and impute thy wanton seurrilous Veine to want of Experience and Iudgement which is seldome ripe in the Spring I will not stand to examine the Spirite that speaketh or endighteth in such a phrase but if that were the tenour of a godly or zealous stile methinkes some other Sainct or godly man should someway haue vsed the like elocution before vnlesse you meant to be as singular in your forme of writing as in your manner of censuring to publish as graue an Innouation in wordes as in other matters Some spirituall motion it was that caused you so sensiblie to applie your rufling speach and whole method to the feeding and tickling of that humour that is none of the greatest studentes of Diuinitie vnlesse it be your Diuinitie nor any of the likelyest creatures to aduaunce Reformation vnlesse it be your Reformation But whatsoeuer your motion were or howsoeuer you perfuaded yourselfe that a plausible and roisterly course would winne the harts of good fellowes and make ruffians become Precisians in hope to mount higher then Highgate by the fall of Bishopfgate some of your well willers hold a certaine charitable opiniō that to reforme yourselfe were your best Reformatiō Good Discipline would doe many good and doe Martin no harme had he leysure from trainyng of other to trayne himselfe and as one termed it to trimme his owne beard Howbeit in my Method Knowledge would go before Practise and Doctrine before Discipline I challenge 〈◊〉 or none for learning which I rather looue as my 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 as my Patron then professe as my Facultie but some approoued good Schollars of both Vniuersities and some honorable wisemen of a higher 〈◊〉 take 〈◊〉 to be none of the greatest Clarkes in England and 〈◊〉 how he should presume to be a Doctour of Discipline that hath much-adoe to shewe himselfe a Master of Doctrine For mine owne part I hope he is a better Doctrinist then Disciplinist or else I must needes 〈◊〉 Pride is a busie man and a deepet Counsellour of 〈◊〉 then of himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 become publique persons and may doe well in some other being well employed but 〈◊〉 persons and the common erewes of Platformers might haue most vse of priuate designements appropriat to their owne Vocation Profession or qualitie When I finde Martin as neat a reformer of his owne life as of other mens act●… it shal go hard but I wil in 〈◊〉 measure proportion my cōmendation to the singularitie of his desert which I would be glad to crowne with a garland of present and a diademe of future prayse For I long to see a 〈◊〉 without a creast and would 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without a fault or onely with such a fault as for the 〈◊〉 should deserue or for the strangenesse might challenge to be Chronicled like the Eclipse of the Sunne The State Demonstratiue not ouerlaboured at 〈◊〉 would 〈◊〉 be employed in blasoning a creature of such perfections and the very soule of Charitie 〈◊〉 to drinke of that cleere Aqua Vitae It is not the first time that I haue preferred a Gentleman of deedes before a Lord of wordes and what if I once by way of familiar discourse sayd I was a Protestant in the Antecedent but a Papist in the Consequent for I liked Faith in the Premisses butwished works in the Conclusion as S. Paul beginneth with Iustification but endeth with Sanctification the Schoolemen reconcile many Confutations in one distinction We are iustified by Faith apprehensiuely by Workes declaratiuely by the bloud of Christ effectiuely I hope it is no euillsigne for the flower to floorish for the tree to fructifie for the fier to warme for the Sunne to shine for Truth to embrace Vertue for the Intellectuall good to practise the Morall good for the cause to effect He meant honestly that said merrily He tooke S. Austins S. Gregories by Pauls to be the good frendes of S. Faithes vnder Paules What needeth more If your Reformation be such a restoratiue as you pretende what letteth but the world should presently behold a Visible difference betweene the fruites of the pure and the corrupt diet Why ceaseth the heauenly Discipline to perme her owne Apologie not in one or two scribled Pamflets of counterfait Complements but in a thousand liuing Volumes of heauenly Vertues Diuine Causes were euer wont to fortifie themselues and weaken their aduersaries with diuine Effectes as conspicuous as the brightest Sunne-shine The Apostles and Primitiue founders of Churches were no railers or scoffers but painfull trauailers but Zelous Preachers but holly liuers but fayre-spoken mild and loouing men euen like Moses like Dauid like the sonne of Dauid the three gentlest 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 walked vpon Earth Wheresoeuer they became it appeared by the whole manner of their meeke and sweet proceeding that they had bene the seruants of a 〈◊〉 Lord and the Disciples of a sweet Master in 〈◊〉 that many 〈◊〉 which knew not God 〈◊〉 them as the 〈◊〉 or Oratours of some God and were 〈◊〉 persuaded to conceiue a diuine opinion of him whom they so diuinely Preached euen to beleeue that he could be no lesse then the sonne of the great God Their miracles got the harts of 〈◊〉 but then Sermons and 〈◊〉 were greater won ders then their miracles and woon more raulshed soules to heauen Then Doctrine was full of power their Discipline full of Charitie their Eloquence celestiall their Zeale 〈◊〉 their Life 〈◊〉 their Conuersation 〈◊〉 their Profession Humilitie their Practise 〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 Humilitie Read the sweet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 replenished with many cordiall narrations of their 〈◊〉 Vertues and peruse the most rigorous Censures of their professed enemies Plinie 〈◊〉 Tacitus Antoninus Symachus Lucian Libanius Philostratus Eunapius or any like Latinist or Grecian I except not Porphyrie Hierocles or Iulian himselfe and what Christian or heathen iudgement with any indifferencie can denie but they alwayes demeaned themselues like well-affected faire-conditioned innocent and kinde persons many wayes gratious and somewayes admirable Peace was them warre Vnitie their multiplication good wordes and good deedes their edifying instruments a generall humanitie toward all wheresoever they trauailed and

the Presse the most-honorable Presse the most-villanous Presse Who smileth not at those and those trim-trammes of gawdie wittes how floorishing Wittes how fading witts Who laugheth not at I l'e I l'e I l'e or gibeth not at some hundred Pibalde fooleryes in that harebraind Declamation They whom it neerelyest pincheth cannot silence their iust disdaine and I am forcibly vrged to intimate my whole Censure though without hatred to the person or derogation from any his commendable gift yet not without speciall dislike of the bad matter and generall condemnation of the vile forme The whole Worke a bald Toy full of stale and woodden Iestes and one of the most paltry thinges that euer was published by graduate of either Vniuersitie good for nothing but to stop mustard pottes or rub gridirons or feather rattes neastes or such like homely vse For Stationers are already too-full of such Realmes and Commonwealthes of Wast-paper and finde more gaine in the lilly pot blanke then in the lilly pot Euphued a day or two fine for sheetes and afterward good for grosers Vanitas vanitatum the fome of grudge the froth of leuitie the scum of corruption and the very scurfe of rascallitie nothing worthy a Schollar or a Ciuill Gentleman altogether phantasticall and fonde without ryme or reason so odly hudled and bungled togither in so madbraine sort and with so brainesicke stuffe that in an Ouerflowe of so many friuolous and ridiculous Pamflets I scarsely know any One in all points so incomparably vayne and absurde whereunto I may resemble that most toyishe and piperly trifle the fruite of an addle and lewd wit long-since dedicated to a dissolute and desperate Licentiousnesse Oh what a Magnifico would he be were his purse as heauie as his head is light and his hart franke Euen thatsame Very Mirrour of Madnesse hangeth togither with some more coherence of reason and smelleth not so rankly of the Tauerne the Alehouse the Stewes the Cuckingstoole or other such honest places as that drunkē and shamelesse Declamation Vnbeseeming any but an Oratour of Bedlam a Rhetorician of Bridewell or Discourser of Primerose hill And although thatsame Frēch Mirrour be ex Professo deuised in a mad garish Veyne and stuffed with geere homely enough fit for a Libertine frantique Theame yet doth it no so basely borrow of the Ruffians bagge the Tapsters spigot the Pedlars pack the Tinkars bugget the Knaues trusse and the Roges fardle vnto all which and other Autors of like reputation but chiefly to the Hangmans apron that that is the biggin of his wit this worthy Autour is deeply beholding for great part of his fine conceits and dainty learning precious ware for Euphued creatures and phantasticall colrs whose wild and mad-braine humour nothing fitteth so iust as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum that they or their mates can inuent in odd and awke speaches disguisedly shapen after the antick fashion monstrously shorne like old Captaine Listers spānel They that affect such ruffianish braueryes and deuide their roisterdoistring Iestes into Cuttes slashes and foines may bestow the reading for any other of whatsoeuer qualitie or calling it will do them asmuch good as dirt in their shooes or draffe in their bellyes and in good sooth there is all the vse Ciuill or Ecclesiasticall that I can finde of this Babees papp whom for his sweet interteinement with papp figg and nut I officiously recommende to the Ship of Fooles and the Galeasse of knaues When he vseth himselfe with more modestie and his friendes with more discretion I may alter my stile let him chaunge and I am chaunged or if already he be ashamed of that coniuring leafe foisted-in like a Bumcarde I haue sayd nothing Till he disclaimeth his iniurie in Print or confesseth his ouersight in writing or signifieth his Penitence in speach the abused partie that had reason to set-downe the Premisses without fauour hath cause to iustifie his owne hand without feare and is aswell in equitie to auowe Truth as in charitie to disauowe Malice At Trinitie hall this fift of Nouember 1589. SO then of Pappadocio whom neuerthelesse I esteeme a hundred times learneder and a thousand times honester then this other Braggadocio that hath more learning then honestie and more money then learning although he truly intitle himselfe Pierce Penniles and be elsewhere stiled the Gentleman Raggamuffin Nash the Ape of Greene Greene the Ape of Euphues Euphues the Ape of Enuie the three famous mammets of the presse and my three notorious feudists drawe all in a yoke but some Schollars excell their masters and some lustie bloud will do more at a deadly pull then two or three of his yokefellowes It must go hard but he wil emprooue himselfe the incompatable darling of immortall Vanitie Howbeit his frendes could haue wished he had not showen himselfe to the world such a ridiculous Suffenus or Shakerly to himselfe by aduauncing the triumphall garland vpon his owne head before the least skermish for the victorie which if he euer obtaine by any valiancie or bravure as he weeneth himselfe the valiantest and brauest Actour that euer managed penne I am his bondman in fetters and refuse not the humblest vassalage to the sole of his boote Much may be done by close confederacie in all sortes of coosenage and legierdemane Monsieur Pontalais in French or Messer Vnico in Italian neuer deuised such a nipping Comedie as might be made in English of some leagers in the queint practiques of the Crosbiting Art but I haue seene many Bearwardes and Butchers in my time and haue heard of the one what belongeth to Apes and haue learned of the other not to be affrayde of a doosen horned beastes albeit some one of them should seeme as dreadfull as the furious dun Cowe of Dunsmore heath the terriblest foman of Sir Guy Aesops Oxe though he be a suer ploughman is but a slowe workeman and Greenes Ape though he be a nimble Iuggler is no suer executioner Yet well-worth the Master-Ape and Captaine-mammet that had a hatcher aswell as Papp a Country cuffe aswell as a figge a crabtree cudgell aswell as a nutt something of a mans-face with more of an Apes-face Had his pen bene muzled at the first as his mouth hath bene bunged since these fresh Euphuistes would neuer haue aduentured vpon the whip or the bobb but Silence is a slaue in a chaine and Patience the common Pack-horse of the world Euen this brat of an Apesclogge that can but mowgh with his mouth gnash with his teeth quauer with his ten bones and brandish his goose-quill presuming of my former sufferance layeth about him with the said quill as if it were possessed with the sprite of Orlando Furioso or would teach the clubb of Gargantua to speake English For the flaile of Aiax distrawght or the clubb of Hercules enraged were but hedge-stakes of the old world and vnworth the naming in an age of puissance emprooued horriblie The newest Legendes of most hideous exploits may