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A02643	The hunting of the fox: or, Flattery displayed The flatterers devise; a water-man looking one way, and rowing another, with this motto mel in ore, fel in corde. By H. H. Grayens.; Hunting of the fox.	Harflete, Henry, fl. 1653.	1632 (1632)	STC 12771; ESTC S117317	25,874	94

flattering hornes and I thinke his children have them by succession therefore it is good for the honest plaine-dealing man to take heede lest hee be gored with the hornes of the flatterer for let him looke how hee can yet fronti nulla fides I will not trust his countenance It was Seneca's pride and he boasted much Vbicunque ago Demetrium circumfero But the best thing the flatterer can boast of is this Vbicunque ago Diabolum circumfero wheresoever he goes he carries the devill about him to vvhom I leave him and proceede to the 2. Materiall cause of flattery It is composed of faire and glozing words A faire tongue is the flatterers Hawkes hood whereby hee carries his mistrustlesse friend quietly into perdition without ever bayting at the Inne of repentance His smooth tongue is but a lying tongue they be words of seeming amity but sildome words of any verity for which hee is accounted the father of a monster for hee is the common father of vntruthes and vntruthes are vnnaturall monsters for oratio is oris ratio the soule is the mother and the tongue should be the midwife of truth now for the soule to conceive a truth and the tongue to bring forth a lye is vvonderfully vnnaturall such a monstrous tongue ownes our flatterer It seemes by his faire sweet and pleasing vvords that hee is a sweet friend but Non acerba sea blanda verba timendasunt saith Seneca for all his sweetnesse lies in ore non corde in his lips not heart The Bees goe forth and returne home in Virgils phrase crura thymo plena their thighes full of hony but this sweet friend goes out and returnes home Ora thymo plena hony-tongued By this it seemes their mouthes drop hony combes l 't is true but their end is as bitter as vvormewood for sweet meate relishes best with sower sauce saith our proverbe Would you now know what his faire vvords are Consider vvhat they are in regard of the 1 sound 2 sense or triall 3 his ayme They are in 1 the sound deligtfull 2 the sense bitter 3 his ayme deceitfull 1. In regard of the sound wee may speake of them as it is spoken of the Nightingales voyce Voces sunt praeterea nihil They seeme for the present sweet and delightfull in the eares of the Auditour or else I may say of them as S. Ambrose lib. 2. 〈◊〉 7. said of Calanus answer to Alexander Praeclara verba sed verba eloquent words but no more 2. Would you know what they are in the Auditors sense or triall T●…y are 1. Viseus merus birdlime 2. Venenum mellitum poyson 3. Mulsum lethale deadly wine 4. Melle litus gladius a killing sword 5. Laqueus a net 1. They are birdlime but entangling according to Plautus Viscus saith hee Now it is the nature of birdlime after the poore bird hath touched it so to entangle her and clog her that it hinders her slight againe into the ayre such are the words of the flatterer which being alwayes dedited by the Auditour will so clogge him that at last hee shall not bee able to raise vp his flight to heaven 2. They are poyson but as sweet as honey saith Pliny who would be so mad for a little sweetnesse to kill himself such is the nature of the flatterers vvords they are to the Auditour sweet in the conception but deadly in the operation for Impia sub dulci melle venena latent saith Ovid and saith Minus Habet suum venenum blanda oratio a sweet tongue but deadly 3. They are wine but death is in the cup Mors in olla he that beleeves the words of the flatterer is like him that is drunke with wine bereft of his senses 4. They are a sword but it is melle litus besmear'd with honey thus are the flatterers words like this honyed-sword sweet in the apprehension deadly in the application yea it is more hurtfull then the sword Plus nocet lingua adulatoris quam gladius persecu da toris The tongue of a flatterer hurts more then the sword of a persecuter saith a Father 5. They are laqueus a nett but entrapping They entrap a man saith Diogenes Malus homo blande loquens cuique laqueus agnoscendus est The tongue of a flatterer is a net to the hearer 3. Would you know vvhat the flatterers vvords are in his owne ayme or end they are deceitfull they are like vnto a faire rotten staffe vvhosoever trusts to them shall be sure to have a fall His smooth words are but oscula inimici the kisses of an enemie Prou. 27. 6. Better are the wounds of a friend then kisses of an enemy We read in the Scripture of five kisses Osculum 1 amicitiae 2 lasciviae 3 amoris 4 proditionis 5 adulationis The first is of friendship so Ionathan kissed David The second of lust So the harlot kissed the young man Brou 7. 13. The third is of true love betwixt Christ and his members The fourth of treachery so Iudas kissed Christ. The fifth of flattery so Absolom kissed the people in the gates Two of these are good the other three naught and bad and are much vsed by the flatterer they are the kisses of a false friend whose kisses are odious Amici vulnera quam inimici oscula sunt vtiliora saith Saint Ambrose His words are kisses and they be not verba but verbera not words but wounds and if a man doe but observe his words hee shall finde that the composition of them is an opposition to his heart and therefore you shall finde them spoken with a humble complementall tongue Hee hath a tongue of humility and a tongue full of complements First an humble tongue a formall hypocriticall humility you shall have him shew himselfe affable courteous and officious even to admiration lay his hands even vnder your feete when his heart picks but matter of some worldly and by-good out of this his abasement Vt vipera curvando sic iste humiliando ingreditur As the viper enters his cranny by bowing so he enters your heart by crowching And secondly hee hath likewise a complementall tongue hee will tell you that he will be your servants servant to command and be at your service to wayte vpon you but what his tongue vtters his heart meanes not for demand of him the least kindnesse and he will be ready to forbeare your company but command his best service and he will vtterly forsweare your acquaintance You know now the flatterers language hee can imitate Pertinax of vvhom it is storied that hee could speake exceeding well but doe exceeding ill you see his tongue is full of faire words but his heart is full of hypocrisie that is 3. The formall cause or formality of flattery Hypocrisie or dissimulation The Greekes say that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the tongue is so called quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to know signifying thereby that the tongue should speake nothing but

THE HVNTING OF THE FOX OR FLATTERY DISPLAYED The Flatterers devise A Water-man looking one way and rowing another with this Motto Mel in ore fel in corde By H. H. Grayens LONDON Printed by A. M. for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith at the signe of the Golden Lyon in Paules Churchyard 1632. TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull Sir CHRISTOPHER HARFLETE Knight of the I le of Thanet SIR THe Hunting of harmefull beasts is commended for recreation and the Metaphoricall hunting of wickednesse is commanded for reformation It was part of my recreation being somtimes wearied with the study of the Law to vnkennell to put vp and hunt the Fox for so S. Bernard calls the Flatterer which may bee called My sparehoure-meditations I know your VVorship to bee free from this vice which made mee bold to flye to your Worship to shelter it vnder the wings of your Protection hoping for no exception but your acceptation wishing you with your vertuous Lady all health and happines in this world and all blessednesse in the world to come Thus prayeth Your Worships affectionate friend and Kinsman HEN. HARFLETE To the Reader GEntle Reader I have written nothing but the truth but I know Truth brings forth a bad daughter Hatred Veritas odium but I wish that she might be an abortive I hope none through hatred will give too hard a censure of mee for writing the truth I have writ the truth in love and charity I have covered naked truth with her sister Charity I hope gentle Reader that Hatred the daughter of Truth will passe by her Mother and not know her in that attire the●… judge favourably of mee and quo animo legis obserua quo observas serua Reade it that th●… mayst remember it and remembring practise not flattery but true amity hoping for no lesse and praying to God for this I leave thee to God Thy friend no flatterer HEN. HARFLETE The Contents Of Flattery consider 1. THe Definition page 4. Which consists of the 1. Genus 2. Differences The Genus Vice Flattery is a vice 5 It is the worst of vices Because it counterfeits all vertues 6 Because it is hated of God 7 Because it is hated of Man 8 Because it is the nourisher and preseruer of vices 11 It is an infectious vice 12 It is an hurtfull vice 14 It is a scoffing vice 15 It is a fawning vice 16 The Differences in which obserue foure things First Flatteries neere affinity with friendship 'T is hardly discerned from friendship from which note that flattery is like friendship 18 That a man can hardly know it from friendship 21 That a flatterer is a secret enemy 23 Secondly the meanes whereby a flatterer doth deceive viz. by soft and smooth speeches 24 Thirdly his ends which are taken from his 1. Policy 2. Inten●… 1. Of his Policy see the 1. Object 2. Extent The Obiect is favour To get favour pag. 26 The Extent For some worldly respect 27 2. Intent To deceive 29 Fourthly his hypocrisie pretending what he intends not 31 II. Distributiō which demonstrats the Causes Obiect Signes of Flattery The Causes are foure 1. Efficient The Devill 32 2. Materiall faire and glozing words pag. 34 Which are in regard of the 〈◊〉 ●…lightfull pag. ●…6 In regard of the Auditors 〈◊〉 or triall bitter because they are Birdlime 31 Because they are sweet poyson 37 Because they are wine but deadly 38 Because they are swords 38 Because they are netts 38 In regard of the flatterers ayme deceitfull 39 3. Formall Dissimulation or hypocrisie 42 〈◊〉 Finall Deceit 44 The Object is to be considered 1. Generally 2. Specially Generally that flatter for some outward good such are found in Church Court Citie Country In the Church 48 The Minister flatters in his Instruction when hee preaches for Favour Profit Credit 50. 51 And that in regard of the Matter 55 Intention 58. Manner of speaking 58 In the Court you shall finde the flatterer Ambitious 60 Selfe-conceited and politick 63 Affecting popularity 63 In the Citie there flattery is betweene the Citizen and his Wife 64 Betweene the Citizen and Country-man 65 Betweene the Cheater and Stranger pag. 69 In the Country 70 Specially who ayme at a mans Life 73 Goods 75. Good name 76 The signes are to praise a man though absent beyond his deserts 77 To praise a man to his face 78 Vpon small distasts to slacke acquaintance 78 He is a tale-bearer 78. 79 THE HVNTING OF THE FOX OR THE FLATTERER DISPLAYED SAint Gregory compares the world to a rotten nut which being opened with the knife of verity you shall finde nothing within but rottennesse and vanity vanity indeed so saith the wisest of Kings vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas Vanity of vanities and all is vanity There is nothing found in the Macrocosme or great world but vanity you shall finde the same in the Microcosme or little world Man Homo vanitas man himselfe is vanity so saith the Psalmist but man is most vaine respect●… vitiorum in respect of his vices as Solomon in his booke of Ecclesiastes witnesseth wherein he hath hunted out the vanities and sins which men most haunt The wicked like Esau are cunning hunters of goodnes and good men they hunt both 1 vi 2 fraude By force and fraud by hand and head Micah 2. 2. They covet fields and take them by violence Here they hunt vvith hands by force Anaxagoras thought man the vvisest of all creatures quia manuatus because he hath hands whereby to expresse all signes but hee might better have concluded him the worst of all creatures because he hath hands whereby to oppresse his neighbour Mal. 7. 2. They hunt with a nett Here they hunt with their crafty head by fraud As they are hunters so they are cunning hunters By their crafty head they have devised politique gins to catch good men They seeke not the Golden Fleece by Iasons merit or honesty but by Medeas subtilty But as S. Augustine saith Their trickes may be approved of in iure fori but they shall be reproved for them in jure poli Earth may connive at them but heaven will never receive them I vvish that all vvicked hunters might bee hunted by good men that are in authority The hunting of harmfull beasts is commended for recreation The metaphoricall hunting of wickednesse is commanded for reformation There are many beasts that may bee hunted for wicked men in the Scripture are compared to divers sorts of beasts some to wilde Boares some to Horses some to Mules some to Dogges some to the Fox and to others and that respectu vitiorum because they are so deformed by their sinnes and through them transformed into savage natures I insist not vpon many particulars but onely vpon one and that is the Fox whom 〈◊〉 hunt not with sword but pen Cant. 2. 15. Take vs the little Foxes vpon this place S. Bern. saith Duo sunt vulpium genera There are two