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A16767 An olde mans lesson, and a young mans loue. By Nicholas Breton Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626? 1605 (1605) STC 3674; ESTC S104769 26,174 52

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growes to perfection in the heart and shall not money bee a seruant then of necessitie to attend the commaundement of Loue fie on this Market-matches where mariages are made without affections and obedience is performed by a grieued patience no let money be vsed as a Seruant to reason and not a Maister of Loue. Chre. Oh fine boy I almost finde where you are but let me tell you though your wordes hang well together yet me thinkes money lies better together for if a Wench that hath money Loue thee spend of her purse or els thou wantest wit if thou haue money and loue her that hath none her wit hath made a foole of thee for tell me a tale of a Tub of eyes eares and hearts obiect and subiect and wisdome and reason without money t is not worth a whiffe for Aurum potabile is a strange quintescence it will make age young againe it will giue the heart a life beyond all the phisicke of the world why Gold is halfe a God on the earth it hath such power among people Let a wench be wealthy and set out in her brauerie though she bee painted for her beautie and scarce gentill for her parentage yet if she catch the name of a Lady she must bee honoured like Queene Guineuer if she be but neere a Princesse she shal bee almost worshipped like a Goddesse Why goe no further but to our owne neighbours what a slut will haue a husband if shee haue but a little money and what fine Wenches match with Clownes but onely for their Farmes and their stockes Pam. Yea but Father what followes Iealouzie and Cuckoldry and Bastardry Rogery she cannot Loue him nor he her youth cannot loue age age will be Iealous of youth and loue wil haue his working and therfore as I said before the cause is couetousnes and the roote of all euill Chre. Well said againe boy but yet t will not serue your turne for I wil haue an other bowte with you for money is a matter of more moment then you make account of why money makes the medicine for the sicke pleades the Clients cause maintaines the Marchants Trade makes the Soldiers fight and the Craftsman worke the Trauailer treade lightly and the olde Mare trot and the young Tit Amble it doth I knowe not what nor almost what can on earth be done without it It frameth the instrumēt tuneth the strings playeth the lessō singeth the song it furnisheth the court graceth the citty maintaineth the coūtry In summe let me tel thee it is a matter of such moment as there is neither youth nor Beauty Valour nor Learning wit nor wisdome but if it want money to grace it it shall haue little grace in the world and therefore let him be first counted wise that gets it then wise that keepes it and last wise that knowes how to vse it and whatsoeuer opinions are of it holde you with me this assurance of it that he is wise who hath it and so contrarie to all them that say against it say you he is wise that is rich Pam. Oh Father I am sorry to heare you speake so feelingly of your loue to money which you haue bene long in getting carefull in keeping and will be sorrowfull in leauing Oh let it not haue such power ouer you to make you a slaue to your Seruant it is but a drosse trodden on by the feete of Beastes serueth the begger as a greater person the wicked as the vertuous the Iewe as the Christian embrodereth the Horses cloathes as the Lords cloake and the Maides kertell as her Ladies petticoate it begetteth Pride breedeth warres procureth Treasons and ruynes countries and yet let me say this of it the fault is not in it selfe but in the vse of it and for the good that is done by it is not of it selfe but in the wisedome of him or her that hath the vse of it and therefore let it bee left indifferent good or euill or neither of both but fit for either as it is vsed and count him rather wise that knowes how to vse it then how to get it for many get it by a wicked Father which being wise will not leaue it to a wicked Sonne many get it by Dice and Cardes which being wise will imploy it in better courses many get it by an olde blinde widow that haue wit to spend it with sweeter creature many get it by piracie at Sea that employ it in a better course at Land In briefe the getting of it sometime is so grieuous to a good conscience as can approue no wisedome in it and the employing of it may be to so good an ende as prooueth great wisdome in the mannaging of it and therefore in my iudgement knowing no man wise through riches but many rich through wisdome I holde him rich that is wise not him wise that is rich Chre. So then you would haue me that haue been carefull to get money which I haue lying by me for necessarie vses bestowe it vpon you that knowe as you thinke how to prooue more wisdome in the imploying of it it may bee I will doe so with parte of it in hope that you that can speake so well of it will knowe as well what to doe with it but before we come to that point let mee talke a little further with you touching your trauaile what haue you chiefely noted for your benefit Pam. The natures of the Soiles the inhabitants of the Countries the dispositions of the people and the wisdome of the Gouernours To the first I noted according to the climat of wihat heate or coldenes drie or moystnes what fruite what store and in what season what Riuers fresh or salt what Cattell and Fowle and Fish what Mineralles and what Mines Chre And for Fish you could bring none home aliue nor sweete and haue not our Seas and fresh-waters as good Fish as other And for Cattell there can bee no better Beefe nor Mutton then ours Now for Fowle both Land and water Fowle there are in our heathes woodes and fens I thinke as good and as great varietie with vs as any where but it may be far fetcht and deere bought is good for Ladies and if you haue hit on a little monster as a Camelion or an Indian Flie it may bee if you can vse the matter hansomely fooles may giue you money for the sight of it now for Mineralls how much money soeuer you found in the country I feare you haue brought but a little out of it and therfore for these notes I think for any profit you made of your trauaile you had bin as good a taried at home Nowfor the people I thinke they are as we are in shape though by some of those outlandish they mishape thēselues in their apparel I know not what to say to them but if the mē be rich it is like they will keepe their mony and if poore they will either begge cheat or
steale and so liue as long as they can and for the women if they bee faire they knowe what to make of their beautie and if Fowle how to make of their money Olde Folkes can tell howe to gouerne Children and youthes will play the wagges if it bee with their owne Fathers for Boyes God send them Grace had neuer more witte then they haue now a daies Now for the Gouernours where there are manye it is strange if there bee not one wise and if the rest will obserue good notes their wittes may prooue nere the worse now if there bee manie wise it will trouble one wit too much to take notice of them all and therefore Sonne though a little expence of money haue bought thee a little experience and the varietie of knowledge haue giuen thee a little contentment yet let no Idoll corrupt thy conscience no vanitie corrupt thy wit nor folly bee Maister of thy will thy natiue soyle is naturall thy Countriemen nearer to thee then strangers thy kindred then vnknowne people and thy Fathers house will giue a kinder welcome then the Pallace of a Princesse Let not the alteration of the Ayre alter thy nature the obiect of thine eye the Iudgement of thy minde nor the sound of the eare the sence of thy heart If thou bee returned home as thou wentest out I shall bee glad of it but if eyther France haue taught thee fancies Italye wantonnesse Flaunders drunkennesse or any place wickednesse I shall bee sorrie for thy Trauaile and wish thou hadst neuer gone Oh let not wars make thee bloudy Courts make thee prodigal trade make thee couetous lawe make thee partiall women make thee wanton nor flatterie make thee proude for as Trauaile is the life of youth and varietie the loue of knowledge so yet after all thy Trauaile learne this nay by thy varietie of thy knowledge learne this Lesson couldest thou see all the worlde thou shouldest see nothing but a worlde and in the ende of all finde all haue an ende Riches must eyther be spent or lefte beauty must decay honour must be transported nature must growe weake sences loose their sence and life must ende and then when all is gone then vanitie vanitie and all is vanitie in the graue there is no beautie no honour no wealth no sence no life thither you must as well as I and who knoweth who first now whether it bee in the Sea or in the lād in a Fishes belly or a Leaden Coffin all is one a graue there must be of whosoeuer it be and therefore before thou commest to that last Inne of thy worldes Iourney let me wish thee wheresoeuer thou goest and whatsoeuer thou seest be still one man remēber one thing serue but one God loue but one thine owne coūtry haue but one wife trust but one friēd for many Gods breedeth heathens miseries many countries trauailers humors many wiues mēs purgatories and many friends trustes ruine first God gaue thee life loue him for it yea hee loueth thee liue to him for it your Countrey gaue you foode vnder God loue it for it your Countrey gaue you knowledge first vnder God liue in it for it your wife giues you Issue loue her for it she easeth your house cares liue with her for it and your friend conceales your secrets loue him for it and is an other your selfe liue neere to him for it and leauing the vaine desire of varietie liue to the onely loue of vertue spend your thoughts in contemplation of Deuine comfort your substance in the seruice of God and benefit of your countrey wagge not wanton with the wandring eyes nor trifle out time in vnprofitable toies couer not your balde head with Periwigs of borowed hayre curle not your beard with hot Irons leere not aside like a Beare-whelpe nor looke vnder the browes like a Bull Dogge march not in a towne of peace like a Souldiour nor runne out of your wits in an humor carry not a picke-tooth in your mouth a flower in your eare nor a Gloue in your Hat for it is apish and foolish deuised by idle heads and worne by shallowe wits binde not your inuention to Poetry nor make an Oration of an Epistle Learne but two partes of speeche to speake good wordes and to good purpose goe cleanely but not gaiely and gaine honestly and spend thriftilie feede sparingly drinke moderately sleepe soundly but rise earely so passing thy time merrily thou shalt liue happily and die blessedlie this lesson hath been taught me at home and I doubt you will scarce finde a better abroad but least I growe teadious to thee thus to take thee to Schoole as soone as thou commest home I pray thee tell me thy opinion of contentment whether it can be so well had abroade as at home Pam. Truely Father I knowe not the minde of euerie man nor how fullye to define content but when wit hath found out reason hath Iudged and nature hath receiued the pleasure of the Spirit in the delight of the sences I thinke if in the world there bee any content it is there Now be it at home or abroad all is one for there is an olde sentence which is oftentimes newly in effect Omne Solum fortis patria euery house is home all Countries are one to a resolute minde a friend is a friēdabroad an ennimie is an ennimie at home vertue is limited to no place but honoured in al persons loue hath a worlde to walke in to take the pleasure of his fortune where varietie of choise tries the wisdome of judgement my father if I beholde him but as a man I can loue him but as a man but when I thinke of his loue I loue him as a Father now loue being bound to no place cannot forget his owne nature any where nay absence of place strengthens the memorie of Loue and therefore if I beholde my selfe in being a sonne I remember my Father if I behold your bounty I remember your blessing and honour your Loue so that still I say it is not the place that perfecteth affection no not in nature and sometime absence is the cause of the more Ioy in loue as in the Souldiour who after Conquest returneth with more honour then he had at home the Marchant after a voyage pleaseth his mistris with better wares then she had at home the Courtier after trauaile tels his Lady a better tale then of a Foxe and a Goose and the Scholler after Trauaile makes a better verse then at home why the Clowne after trauaile can learne to kisse his hand maide Maulkin after trauaile can make new countenances new complexions oh father this home humor wil soone be worne so threed-bare that if it were not shifted with some trauaile euen with lazy wit would grow louzy for in place of accoūt where knowledge is to be enquired there is more matter then for the Market and of more judgement then maister constables were the wise