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A02306
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A maruelous hystory intitulede, beware the cat Conteyning diuers wounderfull and incredible matters. Very pleasant and mery to read.; Beware the cat.
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Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?
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1570
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A MARVELOVS Hystory intitulede Beware the Cat. Conteynyng diuerse wounderfull and incredible matters Uery pleasant and mery to read GEVE GOD THE GLORYE NOWE AND EVER MORE ¶ IMPRINTED AT LONDON IN Fléetestrete at the signe of the Faulcon by Wylliam Gryffith and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstons Churchyarde Anno. 1570. ¶ Loue and Liue. ¶ To the Right worshipfull Esquier maister Iohn Yong Grace and health I Haue penned for your masterships pleasure one of the stories which maister Streamer tolde the last Christmas and which you so faine wold haue heard reported by master Feres him selfe And although I be vnable to penne or speake it so pleasantly as he could yet haue I so nerely vsed both the order and wordes of him that spake them which is not the least vertue of a reporter that I doubt not but that he and maister VVillot shal in the reading thinke they heare master Streamer speake and he him selfe in the like action shall doubt whether he speaketh or readeth I haue deuided his oration into three partes and put the argument before them and an instruction after them with such notes as might be gathered therof so making it booke like and intituled Be ware the Cat. But because I doubt whether master Streamer wil be contented that other men plowe with his oxen I meane penne such thinges as he speaketh which perhaps hee would rather do him selfe to haue as he deserueth the glory of both therfore I besech you to learne his mind herein And if he agree it passe in such sorte yet that he peruse it before the Printing and amend it if in any poynt I haue mistaken him I pray you likewise to aske master Ferres his iudgement herein and shewe him that the cure of the great plague of master Sreamers translation out of the Arabicke which hee sent me from Margets shal be Imprinted assone as I may conueniently And it I shall perceaue by your tryall that master Streamer allowe my endeuours in this kinde I will hereafter as Plato did by Socrates penne such things out of the rest of our Christmas communications as shal be to his great glorie and no lesse pleasure to all them that desire such kinds of knowledge In the meane while I besech you accept my good will and learne to beware the Cat. So shal you not only performe that I seke but also please the Almightie who alwayes pres you Amen Yours to his power â— B. The Argument IT chaunced that at Christmas last I was at the Court with master Ferres then master of the Kyngs maiesties pastimes about the setting forth of certaine enterludes which for the kynges recreation we had deuised and were in learning In which time among many other exercises among our selues we vsed nightly at our lodging to talke of sundry thinges for the furtheraunce of such offices wherin ech man as than serued For which purpose it pleased master Ferres to make me his bedfellowe and vpon a pallet cast vpon the rushes in his owne chamber to lodge master willot and. M. Streamer the one his Astronimor the other his diuine And among many other thinges to long to reherse it hapned on a night which I thinke was the. xxviij of December after that M. Ferres was come from the court and in bead there fell a controuersie betwene M. Streamer who with M. willot had already slept his first slepe and I that was newly come to bead the effect wherof was whether birdes and beastes had reason the occasion wherof was this I had heard that the kings players were learning a play of Esops Crow wherin the most parte of the actors were birdes the deuice wherof I discommended saying it was not commicall to make eyther spechles things to speake or brutish things to common reasonably And although in a tale it were suffreable to Imagine and tel of somthing by them spoken or reasonably done which kind Esop laudably vsed yet it was vncomly sayd I and without example of any author to bring them in liuly peirsonages to speake do reason and alaege auâ—â—orities out of authours M. Streamer my Loâ—â—â—â—uine being more diuine in this poynt than I was ware of held the contrary parte affirming that beastes and foules had reason and that as much as men yea and in some poyntes more master Ferres him selfe and his Astronimer wakened with our talke harkened to vs but would take parte on neither side And whan M. Streamer had for profe of his assercion declared many thinges of Oliphants that walked vppon cordes Hedgehogges that knewe alwayes what weather would come Fores and Dogges that after thoy had bene all night abrode killing Geese and Sheepe would come home in the morning put their neckes into their collers Parates that bewayled their kepers death Swallowes that with Selandine open their young ones eyes and an hundred things more which I denied to come of reason and to be but naturall kindly actions alleging for my profe authority of most graue and learned Philosophers well quod master Streamer I know what I know and I speake not onely what by hearsay of some Philosophers I knowe but what I my selfe haue proued why quod I then haue you profe of beastes and fowles reason yea quod he I haue heard them vnderstand them both speake and reason aswel as I here vnderstand you at this M. Ferres laughed But I remembring what I had read in Albertes workes thought there might be somwhat more than I knew wherfore I asked him what beastes or fowles he had heard and where and whan At this he pawsed a while at last sayd If I thought you could be content to heare me and without any interruption till I haue done to marke what I say I would tel you such a story of one piece of my ownâ— experimenting as should both make you wonder put you out of doubt câ—â— this matter But this I promise you aforet I do tell it that as sone as any man curiously interrupteth me I will leaue of and not speake one word more When we had promised quietly to heare he turning him selfe so in his bead as we might best heare him sayd ¶ FINIS ¶ The first parte of master Streamers oracion BEing lodged as I thanke him I haue bene often at a frends house of mine which more rowmish within than garish without standeth at Sainct Martins lane end and hangeth partly vpon the towne Wal that is called Aldersgate eyther of one Aldricke or els of Elders that is to say auncient men of the Citie which among them builded it as Bishops did Bishopsgate or els of Eldern trees which perchaunce as they do in the gardens now ther about so while the coÌ„mon there was vacaunt grue aboundantly in the same place where the gate was after builded and called therof Elderngate as Moregate toke the name of the feeld without it which hath bene a very Moore Or els because it is the most auncient gate of the Citie was therof in respect of the other as Newgate called the â—â—â—ergate Or els as Ludgate taketh the name of Lud who builded it so moste parte of Haroldes I know will sonest assent that Aluredus builded this But they are decesued For he and his wife Algay builded Algate which therof taketh the name as Criplegate doth of a Criple who begged so much money in his life as put to the siluer Wethercocke which he stole from Poules steple after his death builded it But wherof so euer this gate Aldergate tooke the name which longeth chiefly to Historyes to know at my frendes houss which as I sayd standeth so nere it that it is ouer it I lay often times and that for sundry causes Somtime for lacke of other lodging sometime as while my Gréeks Alphabets were in printing to se that they might be truly corrected And sure it is a shame for all young men that they be no more studious in the tounges but the world is now come to that passe that if he can prate a litle Latine handle a Racket and a payre of fire square bowles he shall soner obteine any liuing than the best learned in a whole Citie which is cause that learning is dispised and bagagical things so much aduaunced While I lay at the forsayd house for the causes aforesayd I was lodged in a Chamber harde by the Printing house which had a fayre Bay window opening Why Aldeâ—â—gate was so named Bishâ—â— builded â—â—â—shopsgate Why moregate Why Newgate Why Lâ—â—â—gate Why Algate Why Cryple gate Powles weather cocke was siluer Agaynst yong mens negligence Agaynst vnlawefull games