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A10867	A nevv yeeres gift The courte of ciuill courtesie: fitly furnished with a plesant porte of stately phrases and pithie precepts: assembled in the behalfe of all younge gentlemen, and others, that are desirous to frame their behauiour according to their estates, at all times, and in all companies: thereby to purchase worthy praise, of their inferiours: and estimation and credite amonge theyr betters. Out of Italian, by S.R. Gent.	S. R. (Simon Robson), d. 1617.; Mont. Prisacchi Retta, Bengalassa del, attributed name.	1582 (1582)	STC 21135; ESTC S110654	28,088	48

meate or bread while his mouth is full nor till he haue swallowed the last morsell Item that he fill not his mouthe so full of meate as he cannot holde his lippes together while he is chawing for other wise men shall looke into his mouthe and see the meate rowle vp and downe while he is eatinge which is a fowle sight and loathesome and for that cause a man must forbeare to speake with meate in his mouthe except he haue so little as he bee sure to hide it in his mouthe while he is speaking Item while his better telleth him any tale to cease eating bethe while he heareth and while he answereth him Item if he be prouoked to laughe in the presence of his betters to doo the same with as little noyse as may be and likewise in the company of straungers for too lowde a laughter specially for slender occasions doo make wisemen counted foolish of sutch as know them not Item when 〈◊〉 man will tell a mery tale let him 〈◊〉 it so a●●●●selfe be not the first that shall laughe at it 〈◊〉 smiling sound to make men know he speaketh but in sporte is good but a fained laughter is ill becomming A hartie laughter so the matter be worth it is allowable Item he must beware that while another tell a tale or make iestures that his wits be not caried away so as he gaze continually in his face and make the same countenances which he séeth the other doo for that will make a man counted doultish Item if he be constrained to yawne teache belche cough snéese clense the nose or spit either at the bourde or in the presence of his betters or straungers he must suppresse the sound and shadow the sight as muche as he may conuiently without making it to nice Item in caruing himselfe or others he must not embrew too many of his fingers nor his thombe nor wallow his meate vp and down to much in the sauce because in so dooing a man shall washe his fingers in the saufe which others will loathe specially straungers Now to conclude though a man either at home or among his fréends may vse what manner he list without obseruing all these ceremonies yet it shal be verye good somwhat to enure himselfe by dayly custome otherwise he shall in presence forgette bothe them and himselfe ¶ How a man shall pacifie his freeind his better or his equall if he haue giuen him vnwillinglye any cause of offence ¶ The .x. Chapter IF for a light cause then merely thus I am sure you take it not in earnest or thinke I meant otherwise then in the best part for if you doo you shall doo me great wronge Or thus By my trouthe I did or saide it to no such ende as you take it and therefore I pray you thinke of it as I meant it Or thus If I had thought it could haue bin so much mistaken I would haue bin more wary but let it suffice you that I ment but well and fréeindly for otherwise I did it not I assure you Or carnestly for some greater matter then thus My hap is ill that of so good a meaning should fall out so ill conceiuing or so ill successe for that I did or sayde was as I would haue doone to my very fréende or would haue had doone to my selfe it restes in your choice to beléeue me but if you doo not you shall wronge your selfe as well as me in mistrusting me without a cause Or thus I can but tell you and assure you on my faithe I meant thus Or thus If I haue giuen you any cause to thinke other wise or if it haue fallen out contrarie to mine expectation I am not only soarie for it but I will be readie to make any recompence I can Or to ones better thus Truly sir it was not my intent to doo herein anye thing that might offende but I will yéelde that it is fault mough that I vsed no more circumspection but that you may conceiue ill of it you néede not to giue me any penance for that my repentance is so murche Or thus If you knew my minde you would put me in trust for reuenging this faut for I shall be angrie with my selfe this good while for it ¶ How a man shall shift of reproches or tauntes offred betweene sporte and earnest by enuious and scornefull persons that will seeme to doo it so cunninglye as the other shall haue the taunt and yet at his owne pleasure will denie it The .xi. Chapter THe best way is if he can touche the same party as néere without séeming to be angrie but if he know nothing perticulerly to charge him or to mock him withall then to scorne him beetwéene sporte anger againe as thus Oh finely handled were you borne so Or thus Iesus who would haue thought you coulde haue throwen so harde to hit your selfe Or thus I dare say you weene you haue spoken very trimly now Or thus You haue made a great speake sir Or thus That is quoth you Or thus I thanke you of your cost Or thus It is but your good nature to take or expounde it so Or thus As I remember I desired you not to say that for me but yet you shall finde me too kinde harted to dye in your debt Or thus Did any bodye teache you to say so or comes it of your mother wit ¶ Now if they shall replie and go about to make it séeme they meane simply then thus I dare say you doo and therefore I thanke you as hartely Or thus Why I trust you thinke not that I doubte of that Or thus Why I take it so and therefore I commend you for it and so turne it to mirthe agayne if the other will needs haue it so But if the other will prosecute it with sharpe tauntes vnder a fléeryng or laughing countenance then thus Naye I am not skilled in iesters arte tell me your minde in earnest and you shall finde me ready to make you such sporte as I dare Or thus I will tell you if you will néedes become a Iester to make Gentlemen sporte It were best to call some other to helpe countenance you that is of your facultie for in faith I am nothing apt for you at this time FINIS Imprinted at London by Richard Ihones dwelling at the Signe of the Rose and Crowne neere Holborne Bridge

the companie of his very assured freinds and that for this respect A yonge man must euer thinke that it is vnpossible for him to be so compleat in all perfections of béehauour but that some thing remains in him worthy the laughing at if men should not forbeare him in respect of time which brings experience to the wisest and peraduenture too euen some of the same defects which he seeth scoff at in an other may be in himselfe vnknowen to himselfe or at least others as ill And therefore the wisest way is if his better séeme to deride any for his béehauour to appeare by a smiling countenaunce to be of the same opinion but in woords to escuse it if hee may as if the dooings of him that is mocked shew simplicitie thus It may be that bashfulnes is the cause if they shew rudenes then thus Want of experience makes men erre But if they be his equals or inferiours that so scof then merelye thus Go too syrs many a one going about to mocke on be cares not for dooth often touche himselfe or his néere fréende or by a similitude thus On on saw yée neuer any or this that litfe vp a Weapon to stryke another and hyt himselfe Or thus Take your pleasure my masters I warrant you therebe that doo as mutche for vs as we doo for them And in déede there cannot any greater praise be giuen to any man then this that one shall neuer heere him speake yll of anye and hearyng yll wyll make the best of it Howbéeit it is bothe within the limmittes of honestye wysoome and fréendship any man to discourse plainelie with his freind either of the misbehauiour or vnhonest dealynges of any that on the one side he may shew himselfe a misliker of ill persons and also make his freinde ware of them And by the way it is to be noted that there be thrée sorts of people which whosoeuer shall scoffe skornel at or els iest with them further then the compas of curtesy shall permit shall receiue more disgrace by dooing it then the other shall by suffering it The fyrst is women or simple milde sprited men for women must neuer be iesters nor scoffers further then the bounds of modestie and curtesie to make the time passe away the more pleasantly so that a man to iest so farre with them as they may not for shame answere nor for insufficiencie quarrell for wil be accompted a dishonorable battell wherin the vanquished hath more 〈◊〉 them the vanquisher This is ment by sharpe and taunting iestes when a man will seeke to disgrace or put one out of countenance by iestes for it is better to yéelde with silence then to contend for the masterie in vnfytting termes and to offer the milde spréeted man the like that fynding himselfe agréeued hath neither the wit to shift of it in words neither the courrage to reuenge i● in déede● is 〈◊〉 the same predicament that the woman is And all noble mindes doo of their curtesies forbeare to offend and offer to defend all those that either cannot as féeble persons or ought not as the feminine sexe reuenge or defend themselues The second sorte that may not be mocked or scoffed at ●●e age● persons and such as be deformed for want either of bewtie fanour or other blemishes in their shape stature or linunes because none of these things be faults of their owne making neither lieth it in their power to amend them So as we ought rather to bee mooued thereby too thanke the maker or vs all for dealing so much better with vs then with them then to scorne or depraue them for that they cannot helpt And if withall we will consider that the deformities of the minde be so much fowler then those of the body as the soule is of more value and ought to be more vniforme it wil be a good meane to make the outwarde defects of others very small in respect of our owne which cannot but he greater and many moe and consequently rather to escuse them then despise them The thyrd sorte that cannot beare neither ought to be offred scoffing mocking or lesting be those that be in miscrie either by sorrow imprisonment or any aduersitie by losse of fréen●s substance or credit For these be things sent from God to put vs in remembrance that we hauing deserued as ill may fall into the like when it pleaseth him and in the meane times be obiects for vs to practise our compassion and charitie vpon But there may rise this question séeing that publique enterteinments specially among younge folkes are continued more often with spéeche of little importance then with matters of waight How a man finding himselfe in such companie as are neither fit to discourse of matters of wisdome nor yet to be imparted with of his owne priuate affaires shall finde matter suffici●nt to passe the time in companie For answer héereunto let this be remembred that where as I haue sayd that men must take heede in their open talke how they be to busy in bringing in the sayings and dooings of noble persons least the hearers should thinke that he arrogateth to himselfe greater acquaintance with such then in déede he hath or els least comming to theyr eares they should mislike that their inferiours should make them their talking stockes Yet if he that shall so introduce by way of confirmation ensample or similitude the saying of his betters be sure that it she●●●●s wisdom praise or at the least some pleasantnesse with but any harme or disgrace to any other he may well vse it in his talke Prouided that he speake it as by heresay ercept he haue it in deede by his owne knowledge Also women and deformed persons may be pleasanted and iested with if their wit be sutch as they delight in the like and can in good sporse enterchaunge in the same manner Prouided that the boundes of curtesie be obserued that is that there be no cause of blushing giuen Also all men in sickenes prisonment or pouertie be not miserable for they be only such that haue an afflicted minde for some can iest and scoffe at their owne disgraces thinking thereby to make them seeme the lesse in other mens eyes while they appeare no heuier then sutche as themselues can pleasantly beare And sutch had rather be rested with then pittied The fault therefore that can be committed in these persons is the mocking them behinde their backes or despising them which no man ought to shew to any except it be to them that be knowen to be impudent and shamelesse persons or else such as be knowen to be ouerwenyng fooles in their owne conceyte and be suche as doo the like by others Of these a man may talke his pleasure as well of them as with them without any disgrace to himselfe Prouided that if any quarrell rise thereby he be as readies of courage to maintaine it with his hand as of speeche to vtter it with his tongue

the cause the right consideration is this If I offer the first reproche disdaine or dispite the quarell is the others his parte it is to chalenge and I néede not to my equall to make the chalenge But if the other giue me the first lie or like disgrcae it is not inough to say he lyeth againe but I must néeds offer a blow or chalenge the féeild But yet the villany may be such as he may straine good manner In the house of his fréend I meane in the dyning place at the bourde or where any assembly is a man may not offer a blowe but if he haue cause giuen him he shall doo well to make shewe in woords that he forbeareth the present occasion respecting the disturbance of the companie This is no place to growe in termes in if it were you would not be so braue Or thus These be too great villanies to be borne if it were not in mine owne house where thou knowest I am able to eate thée vp Or thus No into woords this matter shall be eased anon you shall sée Or thus I thanke you syr nay take your pleasure I could rayle too but then I should be like such a rascall as thy selfe tell me this soone if thou sée I forget it but if I doo take me for such a cowardly boye as I will take thée for till thou méete me in such a place Or thus If it were not for troubling this companie I would be your caruer of a péece of my Dagger but doubt not but I shall finde a time for you Or thus Away rascall with thy villanous words I heare by thy great boaste I shall passe my iourney quietly at such an hower in such a place I know I shall haue cause to report thée for a good quiet fellow I no more a doo you know my minde But to conclude in this I shall aduise the yonge Gentleman to enforme himselfe afore he haue neede by enquerie at their hands that the experienced in that trade that when he hath neede he may not only be prouided of courage but also of woordes phrase and manner to it curragiously and in the stoutest and séemliest manner for all that I haue written hithertoo of this matter hath bin rather to shew that in euery thing there is a meane to be vsed in one sorte to inferiours and in another sorte to superiours and equals to the ende to prouoke him to learne the right manner then of a meaning to shew any skill of mine in the same belonging nothing to my profession and therefore I will now say something how he shall take the iestings the praysyngs and the thankes of hia superiours and equals as things that are bothe fitter for me to write and shall of him be oftner and sooner put in practise First I will discriue some sundrie manner of iesting One is when a man will charge his famillier freinde a mans famillier may be either his equall or his better that list of curtesie to become his equall or one somewhat his inferiour to whom he list by like curtesie to make his equall with some ill matter that all the companie knoweth to be vntrue In that kinde there is no difficultie to answere but it is good to haue varitie of phrase and not to answer still after one manner to his mere equall thus You doo well to exercise your tongue in matters of no trouth you may hap els to be taken for a lie teller Or thus Go too you will haue euery bodie sée what a lauish tongued fellow you be that cannot so much as kéepe counsell of that he knoweth not what would he doo thinke you of that he knoweth Or thus Nay I dare say you would faine haue it beléeued for it gréeueth him that any man should be taken for honester man than himselfe Or thus Go too you were best leaue your tatling least I fall a telling of true tales Or thus Nay tell on for I am sure all is Gospell that commeth out of those lippes of yours Or thus This is nothing finely handled of you you should haue sayd sumthing that had caried some likelyhoode with it Or thus Go too I will make you no more of my counsell séeing you be such a blab Or thus Is this the trust you performe with your fréendes to tell all and more too Or thus Houlde thy peace foole for my honestie is so well knowen as no body here will beléeue thée ¶ Now in the like case to a mans better must be other phrases as thus You say truthe syr I haue béen taken for a sore fellow at that when I was a yongeman Or thus If my credit were not very good this were inough to disgrace me quite Or thus It may be true that you say but I warrant you I handle the matter so cunningly that there is no proofe to be had of it Or thus It were great pittie any body should doubt of that matter Or thus Thus a mans credit is put in daunger by you if the hearers be not the more fauourable Or thus Some measure other mens trades by theyr owne but I would be lothe any body should thinke I meane so by you ¶ An other kinde of iesting with a mans freind is when they charge him to haue sayd or donne something of a thirde person that onely himselfe and his freinde knoweth to be fayned but yet it may be tould with sutch a resemblance of truth as the hearers may doubt whether it be true or no. In this case also it is not good to make deniall but to vse some such phrase or rountenance as the hearers may perceiue he maketh so little accounte of it as it néedeth no escuse or denial as thus You haue lost mutch good labour now if you be not beléeued Or thus You may sell this good cheape séeing it is of your owne making Or thus I like you well for I sée you loue to make the best of any thing euer when you wote not how to make the woorst Or thus I pray you beléeue him in this and you shall sée he will take such a pride in it that he will quoyne you new stuffe euery day Or to a mans better Very well you may say that and more too if it please you Or thus You must looke with a sadder countenance when you wil be beléeued ¶ An other kinde is when they will touche one with something which is true and though it be no great infamie yet it may be somewhat that a man would bee loathe to confesse and yet as loathe to be taken for a denier of that which is knowen to be true In this case a man may answer thus You doo but dreame peraduentuoe when you wake you shall finde it otherwise Or thus Loe now you haue heard say so and béeing of a good faith you béeleeued it straight Or thus Naye no doubt but it must needes be true if you say it Or thus Did I you speake your

behinde his backe as they terme it Prouided that hée picke them out according to the distinction of persons beefore described and withal as it is to bee consydered that all thinges spoken in a showe of mirth though it seeme to the hearer somwhat sharpe and peraduenture anger him is yet to bée dissembled and answered merely In all other entertainements spoken seriously a gladsome looke is a better grace then a flatteting smile So whensoeuer a man in any thing that hee may atribute truly to himselfe is praised to his face though it bee spoken earnestly and of good meaning hée ought also in his foresaide manner of answeres to shew sutche a smilynge grace as it may appeare hée taketh it as spoken rather of their curtesie then for any cause he finds in himselfe why they should so say in speeche for the most parte the countenance the grace and sounde in the pronunciation is able with one selfe sentence without altring woorde or sillable to please or displease others to shew himselfe wise or make him for so mutche to séeme foolish Salomon affirmeth that there is nothing that more trieth the wit of man then the hearing of his owne praise for saith he the wise man is put too his triall when he is praised to his face And therefore for this matter I conclude that forasmuch as many times it is harde to finde who speaketh of flatterie contrarie to his thought who by way of mockerie though he knowe he say true to trie him and who of good zeale to shew affection and to encourage him The surest way in this doubt is except to those whose fréendship by other meanes he hath experience of to vse his answers so as he may make them earnest or sporte at his pleasure as he perceiueth their asseueracion to prouoke him ¶ How a man shall acquite himselfe towards noble persons that shall either for his freendes sake or his owne offer him curtesies or assure him of freeindship willing him in all chaunces to be bolde with him ¶ The .iiii. Chapter IN this case as in all other of intertainments the inferiour must note in what manner whether seriouslye or familliarly such curtesie or intertainment be offred him and thereafter to chuse out and shape out answers agréeable to eche kinde for the first if he be a straunger to him but not to his freends thus I knowe sutche or sutch of my fréendes so mutche béeholding to you too as hath bin sufficient to binde me to honour and loue you and séeing it pleaseth you to extend your curtesie also towards me I can but wish my seruice as sufficient as my good will is to assure you too of my thankefull minde Or thus My Lorde I can but acknowledge that debte for my selfe which before I thought to owe for others of my fréends that haue tasted of your curtesie but I am glad that I may by this meanes shew it which your Lordship shall finde me ready to doo wherein soeuer I shall thinke my seruice may be acceptable Or thus As this your Lordships goodnes riseth of your curtesie without any desertes so must I confesse my selfe euer vnable to counterpeyse it I can but acknowledge my selfe too mutch bound to you for it and double boūd if it shall please you to commaund me to the vttermost of my power Or thus I humbly thanke your Lordship I can but requite it with my seruice and that I beséech you commaund Or thus My humble thankes are but an vnequall recompence and therefore I shall desire your L. to put my gratefull minde in triall by commaunding my seruice Or shortly thus If my seruice may any way be ought woorth if I may but vnderstande it it shall not néede to be commaunded Or thus I humbly thanke your L. and I beséech you commaund me as your seruant Or thus I humbly thanke your L. and I beséeche you thinke that you voutchsafe this curtesie on him that will be as readie to requite it with the vttermost of his seruice as he that is better stored of woords The vse of long or short sentences must be imployed according as he séeth the hearer at leasure ¶ How when the foresayde speeches bee offered by a noble person plesantly that is of acquaintance which must be also pleasantly answered The .v. Chapter MY Lorde you know I haue no store of eloquence but what mayme so euer you finde in my vtterance I can assure you shall finde none in my good will whensoeuer I may doo you anye seruice Or thus I humbly thanke your Lordship I warrant you I make so sure reckoning thereof as I am more like to be boulde of your curtesie then to request it but I must pray your Lordship to thinke that shall be rather for want of power then of good will Or thus Your Lordship must be content with my humble thankes for this time but I would be very sorie to thinke your Lordship made not accompt of me as of him whom you may most commaund Or thus My Lord I haue had so good experience of your former curtesies bothe towards me and other my fréends as I had néede with my seruice to goe about to recompence some parte of that before I come in debt for any more But the lesse we can requite the more we muste stand bounde ¶ How to an equall or but little better beeing a freend and familliar ¶ The .vi. Chapter TO our fréend thus I am in your debt for so mutch alreadie as if you lende me any more you will make me bankroute and agrée with you for the tenthe parte Or thus You offer me so mutche and I can requite so little as I see you meane to make me an ill debter still Or thus You know I haue no curious woords in stoare but in plaine termes I thanke you and will requite it if I can Or seriously thus I praye you thinke that though I vse not manye woordes with you I thinke my selfe so much beholding to you as wherein I may pleasure you if you commaunde me not I shall thinke you loue me not Or to a straunger thus Syr I thanke you of this curtesie if it shall lie in me to requite it I pray you be as boulde with me Or thus Sir I must be your debter for this curtesie till time and place serue to requite it but in the meane time I thanke you I pray you make the like accompt of me ¶ How a man shall take thankes of a noble person The .vii. Chapter IF thankes be offered in serious manner and for any waightie matter thus My Lorde it was my goodwill as well as my dutie to haue done it to your best contentation but if there be any defect in it I pray your Lordship impute it to mine vnskilfulnesse Or thus My Lord it is no reason that you thanke him whom you ought to commaund and specially me that am vnable to satisfie for the tenthe parte of that dewtie or goodwill I owe you