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A07129	Youths instruction. Composed and written by William Martyn Esquire. Recorder of the honourable citie of Exeter	Martyn, William, 1562-1617.	1612 (1612)	STC 17530; ESTC S102312	67,049	142

conclude thereby that not only such high and imperious Monarchs but inferior persons also in their seuerall places will quickly be corrupted and endangered by the vngodly and wicked qualities of their wicked companions with whom too familiarly they do conuerse Beware therefore of euill company for like as a bad bird by nature cannot bring foorth a good egge so an euill companion cannot by his example or by his counsell produce in his friend any commendable action whatsoeuer It is farre better therefore to be solitary and alone then to be sorted with wicked company For as a red rose being smothered in the smoke of sulphur looseth her faire colour Eerch Reduct Moral 16. and doth assume another which is a counterfet and a false white So a vertuous man frequenting the society of bad companions looseth his former vertues and blemisheth himselfe with the vnperfit die of impiety and sinne It is impossible to touch pitch and not to be defiled therewith A man cannot lie among dogs but he shall be stung and bitten and troubled with many fleas Neither can a man haunt or vsually frequent the company of such as are euill and himselfe remaine vertuous and good It is more safe for an Asse loaden with gold to lodge among theeues then it is for a vertuous man to engage himselfe as a familiar companion to liue among such as are Godles and vniust For like as the Sunne is of himselfe cleare beutifull and pure and comforteth all liuing cratures with the nourishing and fruitfull influence of his glorious beames but hurteth often times if it be in coniunction with a planet which is malignant vnfortunate so though a man be of himselfe vertuous wel disposed yet if he be tied and bound if he be linked and locked fast to the loathsome Societie of a lewd and of a badde companiō he shal together with him runne into many mischiefes and into many dangers as Partridges doe vnwisly follow one another into the fowlers net to their owne perdition and destruction It is the nature and property of sicke men to loue them best who doe giue vnto them and bring to them such things as most greedily they doe desire though they doe much augment and encrease their sicknes and their griefe thereby And so it is the qualitie of many men who are not vertuously and well enclined to affect most of all such men as are of all others worst disposed and doe sooth them in their vanities and in their grosse and palpable follies Though indeede such glozing and such hatefull flattery doe daily with their sinne augment their shame But contrariwise Idem 61. a prudent man maketh his companion to bee wise as a pleasant spring moistneth and fructifieth those grounds which doe next adioyne vnto her And like as that part of all kindes of flesh tasteth most delicately which lieth next vnto the bones by reason of the sweetnesse of the marrow that is in them so the dearer and the neerer we be vnto honest and vnto religious and good companions the more commendable and praise worthy will our actions be by reason of their choicest qualities and vertues A faire morning commonly betokeneth a faire and a pleasant day and the good companie which a man frequenteth is a strong argument that he is disposed well It is for painters to deuise for their pictures such visages and such faces as they please but you may not chuse whom you list for your familiar consorts and companions But like as good wine is to be chosen by the smell and by the colour and by the taste so must you chuse your companions by their Religion by their Wisedome and by their vertue And though perhaps you may iustly find some fault in thē Rule Nam nemo est qui omnibus horis sapit yet may you not againe forsake your companion if in his chiefest parts in his generall disposition he be vertuous and good no more thē you can truly condemne the right and the good vse of a knife or of a needle because peraduenture the one by a mischaunce hath cut your hand and the other prickt your finger Let this suffice my Sonne for the best rules and for the chiefest instructions which I am able to giue and to prescribe vnto you concerning the electing and the chusing of your familiar companions with whom you do intend familiarly to spend your time Now as it is exceeding necessarie that you be right well aduised in the choise of such companions Friendship as by their wisedome and good example may make you a happy partner of their vertues so is it as needfull that some of them be reputed nay rather that some few of them be indeede your inward friends for in the fruition of the loue of such will consist a great part of your contentednesse in this life For your true friend oftentimes will preuent the causes of your misfortunes or else by his good aduice and counsell hee will either expell or at least mitigate the vehemencie of your sorrowes His mutuall exchange of loue for loue will augment your ioyes and plentifully powre into your bosome those comforts which most of all you want and do desire The presence of a faithfull friend will make you in some measure to smile at your aduerse fortunes and wil so qualifie their bitternes that therby they seeme to be lesse then indeede they be Multa quae nos non possumus animo amico superamus mala A friend will teach with patience to endure calamities which otherwise you shall not be able to disgest If your estate be small by friendship it will encrease and though it be very splendent and eminent aboue others yet the want of faithfull friends will soone impaire it and make it heauie and burdensome vnto vs. The longest iourney will seeme to be but a common walke if you be fellowshiped with a faithfull friend and if you seeke for a matchlesse treasure you shall surely find it if you find a constant friend and of all other men you shall be most miserable if you haue not such a one An ordinarie companion if he doe but slightly fancie you will assist and aide you in your aduersities if they be but ordinarie and common but a sure friend is tried both in matters of choisest consequence of greatest danger In euerie societie some there are that will aduenture some part of their substance and of their superfluity and store to doe their distressed companion some little good But a true a faithful friend reckeneth not of al his possessions nor of al his goods no he esteemeth not his owne libertie nor his life if by the losse of them he may preserue and keepe his friend whom he inwardly loueth from like important harme it therefore behooueth you much My Sonne that in the choise of those you entertaine to be your friends you doe obserue aboue other principally these rules First of all Rules touching friendship that

your friends nature and his qualities may in some proportion haue a similitude and a resemblance with your owne for in those two respects so neere should your friend be like vnto your selfe that when you looke on him you must suppose and thinke that his picture is your owne his will must agree with yours One minde betwixt friends and yours must consent with his what he doth loath you must refuse and what he delighteth in you must especially embrace except reason doe perswade you otherwise and that thereby you can reclaime him from his error for in all precepts and in all rules concerning the choosing and the vsing of a faithfull friend all things must be seasoned with Religion with wisedome and with vertue for without them there must bee no friendship nor any yeelding to the affections inclinations or motions of your friend Secondly your friend may not conueniently be your superior Equalitie among friends except he being so will be contented and pleased for friendships sake to make you his companion and will repute you to be his equall Amicitia enim aut pares facit vel quaerit Except it be among equals either indeede or else by mutuall acceptation there is no true and faithfull friendship Thirdly when you haue gotten a faithfull friend which is as rare a noueltie No Ielousie in frendship as a blacke swan you must together with him haue but one heart in two bodies and you may not suspect him to be vnconstant faithles or vntrue for such hateful ielousie destroyeth friēdship Et solem videtur è Mundo tollere qui tollit Amicitiam He seemes of Sunne the heauens to depriue That from the world true friendship seekes to driue Fourthly you must not suffer your friend to flatter you Nam nulla est in Amicitia pestis grauior quam adulatio There is not a greater enemie vnto friendship No flatterie in friendship then base and seruile flatterie For a flatterer seemeth to faune vpon his friend when for his priuate commoditie and gaine he could bee contented to spoile him if he might Flatterie As a Bee hath hony in his mouth but stingeth with his taile So a flatterer speaketh smoothly when mischief is lurking in his double heart He beareth water in one hand and carrieth fire in the other he hath roses in his mouth and thornes and prickles in his breast He frameth his glozing speeches to serue his owne turne without regard whether his wordes bee true or false He maketh an Elephant of a Flie and his tongue waiteth vpon vntrueth as a Noble mans horse doth for his maister at the Court gates His flatterie hurteth more then a mad dog which biteth cruelly and when he speaketh fairest then is there greatest cause of feare Saepe latet molli coluber sub graminis vmbra In greenest grasse Mischiefe to worke Mantuan 138. A stinging Serpent oft doth lurke Kings by such Traitors are sooner supplanted then subdued by their open enemies and inferior persons are more often beguiled by sweete then by bitter wordes A flattering frend will salute you with his hat Theatrum Mundi when his hart deuiseth how he may depriue you of your head Such a flatterer Sledan de quatuor Imper 32. and such a fained friend was Cicero who whilst he followed Pompey in his succesful warres disdainfully depraued Caesar to magnifie and to extoll Pompeyes honor But when Caesar had subdued Pompey and compelled him by flight to meete his owne death in Egypt he thē exalted Caesars name aboue the moone But assoone as Caesar was murdred by Brutus and Cassius in the Senate house he publikely scoffed at him and reuiled him as the capitall enemie and arch-traitor both to the people and to Rome it selfe As it is an vnworthy thing that a man should liue onely to please himselfe so is it hatefull vnto honest men that any man should liue to be pleasing by his flatterie vnto others Such flattering friends Alphonsus King of Aragon could not endure who being asked qui fuerunt sibi consiliarij fidelissimi who were his most faithfull friends and counsellers made this answer Mortui scilicet libri qui non adulantur Such as are Dead quoth he meaning thereby his bookes who would not flatter him Tiberius would not permit a knowne flatterer to call him King or Emperour And Caligula not as a Tyrant though he were a hatefull one but as an Emperour regardfull to preserue his state and person from ruine and from destruction commanded that all his courtiers and attendants which were addicted to seruile flatterie should be put to death By daily experience we are taught that Adulatores fiunt ex lingua et ventre flatterers are composed onely of a tongue to speake smoothly and of a belly which must be pampered and stuffed vp with such viands and costly dainties as may be catered and prouided by the labor of the tongue Now as you may not admit him to be your friend No dissimulation in frendship that flattereth you so must you be carefull to foresee that your selfe do not dissemble with your friend For a dissembler offendeth not through Ignorance against his will but with a resolued purpose to cozen Luther super Galath 190. and to deceiue and vnder a false pretence of honestie and of trueth he shadoweth grosse hypocrisie Whereby hee winneth oportunitie to put in practise without suspition or ielousie such villanies as haue beene contriued in his double heart Such a dissembler was Lysander who purposing to make hauocke of the Gracians Plutarch in vita Lysandri 453. willed them to preserue their liues within the Cittie of Athens for that he intended to waste the Countries abroade and would destroy all such as he found in them by meanes whereof multitudes of credulous people beleeuing that he purposed to shew fauour vnto that Cittie and vnto all such as should be therein repaired thither But forthwith he gyrded them round about with his Lacedemonian armie and with a mercilesse Siege suffering none to issue forth by reason whereof greater numbers of the Athenians were more quickly wasted and consumed by Mortalitie and Famine then all his forces could in a longer time haue deuoured with their swords pag. 449. whereat he boasted scoffingly and said That when a Lions skinne would not serue the turne a Foxes must such a fained and such a dissembling friend is worse then an open enemie for as Iosephus doth affirme Antiq. Judaeorum lib. 6. in the professed maliciousnesse of an enemie a man findeth the one halfe of his comfort but the secret enuie of a dissembling friend cannot be quickly discouered or auoided Such a fained friend holding with the haire Bercho Reduct Moral 123. yet running with the hound is fitly compared to a comet which by her lucid light seemeth to bee a planet but being none is soone extinguished and vanished quite away Such a friend like to the summers swallow affordeth his helping