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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19735	A svvete and deuoute sermon of holy saynt Ciprian of mortalitie of man. The rules of a christian lyfe made by Picus erle of Mirandula, bothe translated into englyshe by syr Thomas Elyot knyghte; De mortalitate. English	Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage.; Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494, Regulae duodecim portim excitantes portim dirigentes hominem in pugna spirituali. aut; Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.	1534 (1534)	STC 6157; ESTC S108816	34,919	120

And pitie i● were that suche a flatterar as thou art shulde longe be vnhanged But passe on a goddis name GNA. I wiste well that in suche a frowarde piece of tymbre I shuld lose moche laboure yet will I proue if good counsayle may warke any thinge in the. Nowe here Pasquill what I say By thy longe rayling thy wit is well knowen Now tourne the lefe And whan thou hereste any thynge purposed by them whom thou haste offended what so euer it be affirme it to be well and therwith auaunce the wytte and intent of the persone that spake it whiche thou mayste do excellently wel For he that can dispise spitfully can if he liste prayse and commend also incomparably And if thou canst not refrain from rebukinge and tauntynge practyse thy naturall fury and woodnesse agayne them that repugne agayne the sayde purpose And where thou dyddest wonder to see me haue in my hande the Newe testament if thou woldist do the same and now in thine age laye aparte the lesson of gentyles called humanitie sens thou mayste haue good leysour beinge not yet called to counsaile picke out here and there sentences out of holy scripture to fournyshe thy reason with authoritie I make god auow thou shalt be within thre monethes able to confounde the greattest diuine in all Italy And whan thy conuersation and good opinion is knowen than shalte thou be called for But than alwaye remembre how so euer the tenoure bel ringeth he ringethe alway in tune and thoughe he iarre somwhat yet thou canste not here it his so●ne is so great and thine eares be so lytell And if other men fynde it saye that it is no faulte but a quauer in musicke and became the bell if they had the wytte to perceiue it I teach the in parables for this crafte wolde not be opened to euery man for it sholde not be for my profyte but thy subtill wyt comprehendeth al that I mene thou art so acquainted with all oure experience PAS Nowe on my feyth wel sayd I coude not haue founden a craftier knaue to lerne of betwene this and Hierusalem But who comethe here He semethe a reuerende personage he is none of thy sorte I trowe GNA. By god we be right cosens I by the mother syde and he by the father And that caused me to speake soo moche as I doo and him so lyttle and yet is there smal diuersite betwene oure condicions PAS What meaneste thou therby GNA. For we bothe haue one maister And whan he spekethe or doethe any thinge for his pleasure I study with wordes to commende it If my couseyn stande by he speketh littell or nothing but forminge his visage in to a grauitie with sylence lokethe as if he affirmed all thing that is spoken PAS what is his name GNA. Harpocrates PAS That is a harde name by Iesus But why holdethe he his finger at his mouthe GNA. For he hathe espied me talkynge and bycause he ●enethe that I speke to moche he makethe a sygne that I shulde cesse but I am gladde that I haue met with hym Cosin Harpocrates I haue sought for you this two houres PAS why speketh he not GNA. O that is his grauitie to pause a while or he speke he lerned it whan he was student at Bonony HAR. What is the matter Gnato GN My maister whan he hath dined wyll syt in counsail aboute waightie causes HAR. And whan I haue din●d I wil giue attendaunce PAS Lo is it not as I sayd a wonder to se this world In olde time men vsed to occupy the mornynge in deepe and subtile studies and in counsailes concerninge the cōmune weal and other matters of great importaunce In lyke wyse than to here controuersies and gyue iudgementes And if they had any causes of theyr owne than to treate of them and that didde they not without a greate consyderation procedynge bothe of naturall rayson and also counsayle of ph●yke And after diner they refreshed theyr wittes eyther with instrumentes of musyke or withe redinge or heringe some pleasant story or beholdinge some thinge delectable and hones●e And after theyr diner was digested than eyther they exercysed them selfes in rydinge runnynge on fote shotynge or other lyke pastyme or went with their haukes to se a f●ight at the ryuer or wold se their grehoundes course the hare for the dere whiche they didde as well to recreate theyr wittes as also to gette them good appetite But lo nowe all this is tourned in to a newe fascion god helpe vs the worlde is almoste at an ende For after noone is tourned to fore noone● vertue into vyce vice into vertu deuocion into hypocresie and in some places menne say fayth is tourned to herisye Dyd I not now say well at the beginninge That it is a wonder to see this worlde HAR. H●m Pasquillus PAS wel ye thinke as moche as I speke for al your poynting and wynkyng HAR. But in silence is surety PA. Per●haunce naye If I perceyued one at thy backe with a sworde drawen redy to strike the woldest thou that I shuld hold my peace or els tel the HA. Naye silence were than oute of season PAS Now wel fare you for your bald reson a manne may see what wisedome there is in youre compendiouse speaking ye wyll season silence Mary I wene my lorde shuld haue a better cooke of you than a counsayllour Not withstanding for youre silence ye mought be a confessour But yet I doute me for I remembre Gnato what thou say deste whyle ere that whan ye were present both with your mayster if thou commendest his sayenges or doinges this man wolde approue it with sylence and coūtenance whiche mought do more harme than all thy flatery than what mischiefe mought folow of his damnable sylence if in secrete tyme of confession wherein confessours haue aboue al men moste largest lyberte to blame and reproue he shulde eyther dissemble the vyces that he knoweth in him whom he hathe in confession or els forbeare to declare to hym the enormity of suche capytall synnes as he hath confessed GNA. By my trouthe thou arte a busy felowe doest thou remembre what thou saydeste whan thou dydest espie that I had a boke of the Newe Testament PAS what said I GNA. Mary this thou saydeste that some wolde be in the bowels of diuinite or they knowe what belongethe to good humanite Nowe thou takest thy selfe by the nose for without hauing regarde to whom thou spekest thou presumest to teche this worshipful man what he shal do in confession PAS It is well raysoned of you by swete saynt Ronion ye define teachynge as well as he dyd season his sylence Dydest thou here me teache hym what he shulde do Nay if thou haste so moch wit to remembre vpō the wordes that thou thy selfe speakest I declare what inconuenience inought happen by the flaterynge silence of ● confessour wenest thou that I was neuer confessed Yes I haue tolde a tale to a frier

ye happen to be made priuie to the tyme whan and the place where that your maister shulde stand in such ieopardy but els ye mought knowe of suche a thinge purposed and ye be not suer of the tyme whan it shulde be executed Than if ye forbere to warn your mayster vntyll the peryll mought be more euident and as ye say moughte not be denyed before that tyme it mought be more than imminent and in the seconde instant that is to say in the selfe doing or to speke it more clenly in execucion HARPO But than were I out of daunger PAS Ye that is all that ye care for yet moughte ye happen to be deceiued and your sylence in stede of suertie tourne you to trouble For seldome is the maister in ieopardie and the seruantes at libertie specially they whiche be next about hym Or if ye happen to escape ennemies if it may be perceyued that ye knewe of the perile and wold not discouer it ye shuld perchaūce escape hardly the halter though ye had shakē of al youre longe robes and were but in a ierkynne Ye● if ye warned youre mayster at the be●ynninge thoughe he toke it not thankfully yet did you your duetie and can not lacke rewarde of god who louethe truth for youre fydellite And though he whom ye disapoynted or his affynitie shall seke howe to be auenged on you eyther god wyll defende you or if there fall to you therby any aduersytie fynally falsehode longe kepte in wyll braste out at the laste and than shal repentan●e cause youre simplicite to be had in renome and perpetual memory whiche parte of honour to euery honest man passeth all other reward that may be gyuen in this life that is transitory But bycause we speake while ere of coniecture If by signes and liklihodes d●pely consydered without malice or other vicious affection ye do coniect that youre mayster is in peryll Althoughe ye be not so moche bounden to tel him as if ye knew it yet if ye tel it hym with your coniecture ye fulfil more the partes of a good seruant than he that hath the same coniecture and spekethe nothynge For if that thynge happen not that ye mistrusted the cause is to be referred to god but the sygnes lykelyhoodes oughte not for al that to be an other tyme dispised and your care and loue toward your maister are to be highly commended If it do happen than your dilygence and study are to be extolled HA. By the faithe of my body thou hast raisoned cunnyngly PAS That cunning I neuer lerned in scoles but by longe obseruacion and markynge of other mennes foly HAR. But Pasquil thoughe in perylles concerninge mans lyfe speche may be preferred somtime before silēce It cōcludeth not that it shall be so in all other thynges PAS To bringe the to this point haue I made all this long babbling Estemest thou lyfe more than good renome or the welthe of thy countraye For the whiche soo many puissant and noble princis so manye wise and excellent philosophers haue left theyr lyues willingely Who gladly wyll leue a better thyng ●or a warse Except for wantōnesse or for the newe facion Is any dethe so moche to be drad as perpetual infamye the subuercyon of the common weale vniuersall distruction of all the hole countrey Whiche to escape or resist many valyante knyghtes honorable matrones● and chaste damoyselles haue offred them selfes to the d●th And who refusethe the lasse peyn to cast hym selfe in to the gra●tter tourment Or doste thou esteme the deth of the soule to be of lasse importance than the deathe of the body What sayeste thou that iudgement belongethe to thy facultie HARPOCRATES In dede there ye touche me PASQVILL Lyke wise a knocke on the heed thoughe it be to the scul is not so daungerous to be healed as an yuell affection thrast in to thy maysters braynes by false opinion Nor a wipe ouer his face with a sworde shall not blemmishe so moch his visage as vice shall deforme his soule and deface his renome wherby he is further knowen than by his phisonomy Is there any poyson can make hym to be so abhorred of man as auarice tyranny or bestly lyuynge shall cause hym be hated of god and of man vnyuersally HAR. No in good faythe I thinke thou sayest truly PAS Than conferre all this togither with that which we before raysoned and se where in any thinge that thy maister speakethe or dothe if there be any of the perilles imminent which I late rehersed whether it were better to speke or kepe sylence and in whiche of them were moste surety And consider also that bytwene these two perylles that I haue rehersed is no lyttel diuersyte besydes that the one is moche more than the other For in the bodily peril in the time of the stroke perchaunce your mayster wold here you and therby escape or ye mought defende him but the other peryll of soule or mynd the lenger that he contynueth therin the more gladly he receyueth the stroke and the more he wyll disdayne to be warned by you and than ye put your selfe in more danger of that which we spake of before but for all that neyther in tyme of daunger thou oughtest to leaue thy maister vnwarned whiche thou hast all redy graunted nor yet whan thy maister is striken or poisoned speche is vnprofytable as thou hast supposed HARPOCRA Howe proue you that For if ye be a surgeon ye knowe it muste be your dedes and not your wordis that must helpe him PASQVILL Nowe it is wel remembred ye shall haue goddes blessinge I neuer herd a more fole by my holydome doeth a surgeon all his cure with plaisters and instrumentes somtyme he spekethe also or if he be domme one speakethe for hym and telleth his pacient what metes drynkes be vnholsome whiche be leuitiues and helpeth his medicine Also whan he perceyueth hym to be faynte or discomforted than with swete wordes and faire promisys he reuiueth his courage If he be disobedient or riottouse he rebuketh hym do aggrauate the danger to make the syckenes more greuous The same is the office of a good confessor where he perceiueth mannes soule to be wounded with viciouse affections sins that a conffessour serueth for none other pourpose but to cure mannes soule of deadly synnes whiche be her mortal diseases but can he do that without speaking Also ye sayd where mought be no longer resistēce speche nothinge auaylled I wene ye saide truer than ye were ware For whan Gnatho with his flatery ye with your silence haue ones rootid in youre maysters harte false opinions and vicious affecti● whiche is the poyson that we so moche speake of thoughe ye perceue the daunger and than sore repent you yet shall it perchance be impossible with speche to remoue those opinions and cure those affectis except ye lou●d so well your mayster that for his helthe ye wolde confesse youre owne errours GN Nay