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A01402	The rich cabinet furnished with varietie of excellent discriptions, exquisite charracters, witty discourses, and delightfull histories, deuine and morrall. Together with inuectiues against many abuses of the time: digested alphabetically into common places. Wherevnto is annexed the epitome of good manners, exttracted from Mr. Iohn de la Casa, Arch-bishop of Beneuenta.	T. G., fl. 1616.; Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?; Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556. Galateo.	1616 (1616)	STC 11522; ESTC S102804	122,087	364

the vndoing of the countrey Knauery sometimes gains credit by chance as cunning without learning but yet the seed that is sowen by knauery for the most part makes an vnhappy haruest Knauery makes the heart false and a face of brasse to blush at nothing and outface any thing Knaues are impudent as fooles be importunate both a griefe to the honest and trouble to the wise Knauery boasteth of shifting wit and yet endeth with beggary while a vertuous heart is sull of grace and either obtaineth temporall blessings or is contented with that which it hath Knauery is meer fraud mockery of friendship when vnder colour of loue and kindnesse a man either discouers his friends secrets or worketh vpon his estate or makes way to entise and obtaine his wife or deceiueth the trust committed vnto him or leaueth him in misfortunes or indeed maketh a dissimuled shew of loue and falleth backe when there is a triall to be made Knaues in their knaueries are like swine that are wallowing in foule and filthy places who not onely bedurty themselues but raise a stinke to trouble others Knauery makes the Officer take bribes the Lawyer pleade in a wrong matter the wife to cuckold her husband the Merchant to play h●r querout when he need not the citizen vse false measures and weights and euery tradesman to vse his peculiar deceits the Mercer to mingle mice turds with his pepper the Artifice● to loiter the countryman to water his corne to make it weigh heauy the plow-man to make his furrowes too shallow and all men to abuse themselues and cosen other in their calling Knauery is an ouercunning of wit and craft which hath twenty tricks to cosen others but at the last of all others coseneth the author most Yet an ideot is a disgrace to nature and is neither profitable to himselfe or any other Knauery of one man troubleth a whole towne For as the windes doe make the seas to worke which now doe tosse now sinke the boat so when knaues practice their intended plot the trouble or mischiefe lights on some mans pate Knauery is an instrument out of the diuells budget and serueth for as many purposes as his workman will apply it vnto It is neuer idle and yet not wel imployed it is euer busie but deserueth little thanks for his labour Knauery still tendeth to deceit and yet is sometimes caught in its owne craft for a fox seeing a cock sitting vpon a tree called to him with these words Good morrow cosin 〈◊〉 tell you good newes There is a great peace made amongst all the liuing creatures of the world so that none may offend another therefore I prethe● come downe and let vs talke a little merily together of this world Indeed said the cock these are good newes but what 〈◊〉 those two dogs that come with open mouth toward thee Whereat the foxe in a feare starting and looking behind him stayed a little Why how now quoth the cock if the newes be true why feare you the dogges O quoth the fox I beleeue the dogges haue not heard of it c. But by this meanes his knauery was detected and he went without his prey Knauery makes a villaine laugh euen going to hanging and as we say breake a iest of the gallowes but an honest heart findes matter of griefe and displeasure at euery offence of God and his neighbour Knaues can doe great euil out of a little wit when honest men can do little good wanting wealth Knauery is commonly either in wicked words or villanous actions yet sometimes sullen silence dissembles when most mischiefe is a working Knauery is the cause why the wicked are flattered and the good depraued The diuell sets both on worke and hee will pay them their wages Lawes All Nations liue in order peace and right When lawes do rule sway an arme of might LAwes make treason like the eyes of a Cockatrice which kill if they espy vs first with their venom but are killed if we discouer it in his poyson Lawes make a sword the seruant of iustice and a scepter the instrument of mercy as iustice must be shewed to the reprobate so must mercy extend to the penitent Lawes in misgouernd Common-wealths are compared to cobwebbes through which the great flies breake well enough escape when the little ones are caught and entangled ●awes were first made for want of loue so that a Realme without iustice is the harbour of vnright●ousnes Lawes or if you will going to law require both charge and trauaile but miserable is that breath which is sold to iniustice for mony and terrible is that trauaile that vndoes the Master Lawes are broken by scorne and custome as for the fooles excuse ignorance howeuer it may goe currant when fauour admits it it is no plea against the fault or the penaltie Lawes that are commaunded by God are to be obeyed before such as are commanded by men and thou shall finde it better to goe to prison then to hell Lawes are like a paire of tarriers and hee that enters into them is like the treading in a Maze who goeth in with ease out with labour Or if you will the fellow in the horne who leapeth lustily into the great end but is squeezed at the going out of the small Lawes are made to terrifie offenders as Surgeons vse burning irons to festred 〈◊〉 and although a sharpe knife cuts quickly off yet now and then the violenc● is flayed when it meets 〈…〉 ●awes are ridiculous without execution but an vpright conscience fear●s neithe● one nor other no more then a sound man feares the Surgeon Lawes that are quickly dispatcht are the suters lubilee as a fortunate voiage makes the Merchants holiday Lawes of all Nations and Kingdomes are reduced from three lawes the law of Nature which is gouerned by reason when a man doth that to another which hee would ha●e done vnto himselfe the law of Nations which are sometimes framed by opinion when Kings and Common-wealths make ordinances for themselues people and the law of Custome when an vse or rite by little and little is brought in amongst the people which ●ependeth vpon the well or euill obseruing the same c. Lawes are infinite but they vnite the people in peace and concord which otherwise would soone fa●l a 〈…〉 sheafe of arrowes is quickly broken one by one when the bundle is vntied 〈…〉 the people of Common-wealths kingdoms not vnited in loue and obedience to their lawes Lechery When lust doth master reason man 's a beast Raging in sin most loathsome at the least LEchery is loue abused in carnal delight and as scoffes are the superfluity of wit scabs of humours so is lust of desires Lechery is a filthinesse belonging onely to men for they against kinde and times abuse both themselues and others without any respect whereas beasts are limited by nature and how-euer they rage in their seasons yet are they moderate when the heat is past

to the disgrace of nature Beauty that breedeth loue is the forgetfulnesse of reason and their wits are troubled with the studie of idlenes Beauty in a strumpet is a faire ripened fruit to please the eye but if it be rotten at the hart it cannot relish the taste Beauty of women ouercomes the weaknes of husbands whereupon Themistocles son merily vpon a day brake out into this pretie speech touching his mothers power in the state What I will my mother will what my mother will Themistocles vvill and what Themistocles will the people of Athens will Beauty is one of the three things that alters the condition and nature of man for Aristotle obserued that pride women and wine ouercame all the world Beauty of Apame in Esdras ouerawed Darius greatnes For as hee tooke her in his armes to gaze vpon shee would take the crown off his head to play withall sometimes putting it on her owne and then againe on his Beauty is held a diuine grace and of the ancient Phylosophers much esteemed For Socrates named it the tyrant of short time Plato a priuiledge of nature Theophrastus a silent deceit Theocrites a delightful hurt Carneades a solitarie kingdom Domitius said nothing was more gratefull Aristotle a tongue-tied eloquence Homer the glory of nature and Ouid a grace of God Beauty of the world pleaseth the eye of nature but the contemplation of heauen rauisheth the soules of the Elect so that there is great difference in outward and spirituall beauty Beauty and comlinesse euen make beasts proud for when a horse is young vvell shaped perfectly managed and richly adorned he is as proud of his own beauty as his master that hath him to serue his turne Beauty of a new house may consist in outward building faile in seruiceable continuance when an old Castell is stronger for defence and will endure to the owners profit Beauty of the proudest is momentary for age sicknes are her enemies that many times they preuent her ostentation with vntimely accidents Beauty sooner ouercommeth old men then enflameth youth for old wood doth sooner burne then greene sticks But then it is strange how ridiculous they make their grauity which should rather be imploied to study in bookes for wisedome then looke on babies for recreation Beauty of a curtisan is a meere trap to deceiue one and a worse danger for the one peraduenture catcheth but our goods or bodies but the other rauisheth both our senses and harts Beauty is a very Lamia of wit for Samocratius Nigidius and Ouid writ many bookes of the remidies of loue and vsed none themselues So they all three died persecuted and banished not for those offences they committed in Rome but for the loues they attempted in Capua Beauty of curtizans cannot be auoided but by flying the conuersation and eschewing the occasion for in causes of loue wee doe see many escape that absent themselues but very few that tary abide it Birth Birth to the bodyes life doth entrance giue And Death vnto the soules then die to liue BIrth bringeth life into light a good life is better then a learned for hee knoweth enough that from his birth keepeth an vnspotted conscience Birth is like a messenger of gladsome tydings for how euer the night may be full of sorow yet ioy commeth in the morning that a man-child is brought into the world Birth life enioy the vse of sence but the soule hath the vse of reason and therfore as the reasonable soule is more precious then life so ought the life to bee spent to prouide and regard for the soule Birth bringeth vs into a laborinth of sorowes and therefore not to bee loued when death is but a short paine and therfore not to be feared Birth and life full of offences make men miserable but to die vnfaithfull is vnpardonable 〈…〉 to be borne to destruction and 〈◊〉 to die 〈◊〉 then liue without 〈◊〉 but when a happy life and godlie end conclude our time then is the soule at rest Birth is the cause of life in this 〈…〉 cannot warrant how long For 〈…〉 life is but a span and the continuance but a shadow so that nothing is so vncertaine as life nor so sure as death Birth setteth the loome of life 〈…〉 whereon we 〈…〉 many daies and many dangers Birth is the cause of 〈…〉 of many fathers yet 〈…〉 who is the 〈…〉 answered the 〈…〉 lies of which 〈…〉 the world Birth and 〈…〉 thinke of any 〈…〉 remember 〈…〉 is a meere birth 〈…〉 Birth of friendship 〈…〉 kindnes so that 〈…〉 dies loue and 〈…〉 Benefits Vnthankefull men hurt others for they let The hand of Grace to pay kind Natures debt BEnefits without all exaction require all thankfulnesse we must therefore blesse God for his bounty be ioyfull in his mercie and faithfull in our loue toward him for both Benefits haue sometimes a taste of bribery and there is a fault both in the giuer receiuer if honour be thereby purchased Benefits of magnificence are not measured by the smal desert of the receiuer but the noble bounty and disposition of the rewarder so Alexander giuing a citie to an inferior person who thought it ouermuch for his merit answered him that though it was too much for him to receiue it was not too much for Alexander to giue Benefits growe weary euen in common passages when men bee ingratefull but to make comparisons for good turnes breedeth an euerlasting hatred Benefits that are weake make a mans trauaile greeuous and when they seem wrested perforce they lose a grace in their acceptation whereas a timely reward is like raine to a barren land or a pleasant shewer in a distempered drought Benefits haue an excellent sound in their signification Etimologie for being deriued of bene-faciens or doing well they must needs do well that bestow good turnes as they doe not amisse that deserue them Benefits makes beasts remember their benefactors For in the story of Andronicus the slaue when he was to be cast into the Lions denne at Rome the principall and strongest amongst them not onely abstained from hurting him himselfe but kept others apart from any outrage against him And this was the cause this Lion he had healed long before in Affrica when he ran from his M r. and hid himselfe in his caue which now remembred him in requital in Rome when he was there to be deuoured The story is in Aulus Gelius and enlarged by Gueuara in his Epistles Benefits bestowd without desert shew some want of iudgement but receiued without requitall or thankfulnesse absolutely conclude an vnmannerly and ill conditioned man Benefits in time are the true blessings of friendship otherwise they may come when wee need them not and so lose the grace of acceptation or too too late and so lose the life of their effects thus an early frost is ill for fruit and great raine noysome in haruest Benefits from God are blessednesse in this life and eternitie hereafter

with sloth quickly vvitlesse as ielousie increaseth madnesse Idlenesse is the ground of ignorance and a foole is the scorne of reason but exercise maketh the fallow field fruitful and a good wit pleasant and plentiful Idlenesse againe is the sister of doltishnesse both enemies to Art vvhereas exercise conference experience make both arte and wit to yeeld forth fruit exornation Idlenes is cause of lazines diseases corruption of bloud dulls the spirit which peraduenture by nature would produce commendable effects but wearines may come of weakenesse and great labour and then rest and idlenesse is a refreshing to nature and recouery of strength Idlenesse worketh contraries against kinde for commonly idle men sleepe a daies and walke a nights but woe be vnto them that make day nigh● and night day for questionlesse they cannot preuent pouerty Idlenesse is called the graue of the liuing was so odious amongst the Persians that to auoid idlenes they would whittle sticks or rip the seames of their coats to ●end and sow them againe Idlenesse is a priuation of goodnesse and it is ill to doe nothing worse to doe bad and worst of all neuer to repent and amend Idlenesse maketh a foole miserable when trauell maketh a wise man honourable Idle men amongst the Philosophers were banished the couetous hated the traitors hanged aliue the vicious were buried and the lasciuious were whipped Idle Bees gather no hony and so become drones to rob the hiue thus are pampered iades vnapt to trauell and lasie rogues vnwilling to worke Idlenes is to bee hated as vnprofitable and wickednes to be abhorred as damnable Idlenesse causeth sleepe out of season which must be auoided for sleepe is a kinde of death and therefore so much as you take from sleepe you adde vnto your life Idlenesse is the mother of pouerty the rust of reason the enemy of health the spring of malice and the fountaine of vices whereas labour is the improuer of wealth the preseruer of health the andidote of vice the seed of vertue the mistresse of experience as experience is of art and art of wit and delight Idlenesse may be excusable in grosse and fat men yet Ioseph Bet●ssi being asked what a fat man did who stood sweating in the sun answered that he was either trying of suet or warming of water Idle shepheards makes the Woolfe shi●e wooll Idlenes knowes not where to bestow itself nor how to imploy the time but when wakefull working villany makes a cloke of honesty God is dishonoured and Gods nature abused Idlenes neuer preferreth to honour wit is not challenged by inheritance wisdome commeth not from ances●ors nor can wee leaue vertue to our posterity except by example and imitation Idlenesse boasteth of sleepe as if it were a praise to liue at ease but a great sleeper shall goe in a ragged coat Idlenes many times begets frenzy and then the lunaticke and franticke are full of mischiefe which cannot be auoided but by industry and good endeuors Idlenes sleepes out the morning to the losse of the whole day but the night watches are the bodies weakenes and immoderate sloath the poison of health Idlenes is hatefull yet better lie still then goe about an ill busines and better be asleepe then awake to doe villany Idlenes is casie to a corrupt minde yet willing labor makes the taske more pleasing and when all is done no goodnes can come by the ease of lasines whereas great matters are compassed by industrious indeauors Idlenes makes men nasty slouens loathsome and vnholsome as weomen out of coiues pride and folly become ridiculously fine Kings We Gods on earth are still enstil'd what then We should fly pride sith we must die like men KIngs as they be gracious and worthy of their scepters are Gods Lieuetenants and so they make Nobles vertuous Officers iust Iudges vpright Lawyers perfect Preachers zealous Merchants industrious the Citizen honest the Countrey-man laborious the Scholler studious the Souldier vigilant all estates orderly dutifull and the whole land peaceable and plentifull Kings haue glory through wisdome and encrease of happinesse by the loialty of the subiect and the confederacy of forren Princes Kings crownes seeme glorious but the burthen of them is heauy for they bring more cares then their heads haue haires Kings confederate themselues by diuine wisdome and counsell but ciuill discord is a worke of the diuell Kings maintaine not their maiestly by bigge lookes but by wise counsels and reserued cariages nor magnanimity consis●eth in high words but in bountifull and roiall deeds Kings that are gracious make the state beautifull and sure as castels well fortified the indwellers secure Kings loue high flying Hawkes but if they stoope to the Lure they are the better manned Kings weare rich Diamonds as Iewels in their hats but a gracious Queene is a iewell in his heart and wise counsell a iem at his eare Kings that are good are called gods but those that are wicked goe to the diuell for all their titles Kings are Gods Lieuetenants vpon Earth where if the Officers be not Saints the Diuell will creepe into their companies Kings hearts are in the hands of God how euer the heart of the Kingdome is in the hand of the King Kings courts are best for fauourites yet such as bee young and vnexperienced may suppose it a pleasure as the warres are a brauery to those that are ignorant Kings must take heed of violence or outragious actions for Dionisius hearing that his sonne had deflowred a virgin of honor caused him to be brought before him and in great anger rebuked him asking if euer his father did the like to which his sonne answered No For you had not a King to your Father nor quoth he shalt thou haue a King to thy sonne if thou vse these vild actions Kings after Alexander the Great his opinion and answere to one which demanded how he came by his Monarchy maintaine their estates by counsell elloquence martiall discipline and curteous liberality Kings are more glorious in their wise and vertuous gouernment then in their sumptuous pallaces but aboue all their mercy shewes a diuine spirit Kings are blessed when God chooseth them for his seruants and the Kingdomes are blessed when such a King is chosen ouer them Kings can neither endure comparisons though the subiect should excell in some enriching quallity nor contestings though they are in the wrong themselues Kings haue scepters swords the one their subiects the other for enemies and both for the honor of iudgement and ornament of maiesty Kings fighting for kingdomes make a valiant conquest but he that fighteth for his conscience makes a heauenly victory Kings come to ruine by priuat profit inward hatred and ciuill warre Kings keepe their Crownes by armes and preserue their kingdomes by gouernment in both labour and art must make a league Kings that get their Crownes by the sword enamell them in blood but possessed with peace they are brighter then a Diamond Kings

from the conuersation of the lasciuious and auoideth the occasion of incontinencie so that though men doe amisse yet in the sildomnes and ciuel demeanour a pardon before hand is granted and no man can iudge by the outward show Modestie apparrelleth in comlinesse howeuer the hart is wrapped in wantonnesse Money To make or mar men I will vnder●abe For as they vse me them I le marre or make MOney or if you will riches for so remember that this word shall stand for both yea for all augmenteth the pleasures of life but the ioy of the godly is in such obiects and pleasures as cause contempt of all worldly wealth Money maketh a man a ●laue if hee make not a slaue of it and when it hath done it will be gone wee knowe not when nor to whom Money imployed to necessary vses good purposes brings comfort to our consciences but hoorded vp is infectious will witnesse against vs. Money breeds not so many inconueniences in the want as in the bad imployment euen as there is lesse hurt in the want of wit then in the ill imploying of it But the want of honestie and grace which is the only true treasure that cannot be abused but makes men immortall if it be well imployed is a greater want and more lamentable losse then either of both Money and wit doth many wonders in the world but the vertuous and faithfull are gracious with God and shall be glorious with him in the world to come Money is the Monarch of the world the maintenance of pride the nurse of couetousnesse the steward of Lechery the sower of ●edition the cause of warre the sinnewes of warre and the ouer-throwe both of Citie and Country Money is the gluttonous purueyor the drunkards cupbearer the theefes tempter and the hangmans master Money is the misguider of wit the corrupter of conscience the blinder of reason the ouerthrower of honour the Vsurers God the poore mans oppression the Lawyers hope and the labourers hire Money doth good to few hurt to many pulls downe Churches buildes faire houses makes the prodigall an ape and the miser a dogge makes furrowes in the Ocean and fire in mens braines fetcheth the beasts from the wildernesse and the birds out of the ayre drawes fancies out of fine wits and eloquence from learned mouthes makes friends foes enemies friends and serues all professions qualities and conditions from the King to the begger Money is the reliefe of the poore and the ruine of the rich because the one dooth lacke it and the other abuse it Money is good so it be well got better if it be well imployed and not ill if it bee honestly left Money makes men to commit idolatry but hee is of a strange religion that thinketh gold a God Money for want of grace maketh man finde means to get riches wit to increase them will to keepe them and power to possesse them but teacheth not the owner the true vse of them nor yeelds him any perfect pleasure in enioying them but makes them that might be Lords of other mens to be slaues to their owne proper goods Money causeth cursed auarice which is far worse then honest pouertie because the poore man is contented with his little the rich man with his aboundance seemeth to himselfe to be in necessity Money is the grand witch of the world which infects all minds and worketh mischiefe where euer it comes no Coniurer can allay the euill that is raised by this deuill Money in the best increase breedeth care and the proudest confidence maketh our chiefest footing a changeable sleeting Money was not made to be kept but well imployed better are the vessels that poure out mercy then hoord vp mettals Money makes the passage in all Countries how-euer learning is good for iudgement and language for trauaile Money in the want causeth much woe but the want of grace is the soules misery Money is a blessing if the rich relieue the needy and knowledge a true comfort if the learned instruct the ignorant Money wanting to supply necessity puts a wise man to his wits as a tired horse in a foule way to his patience Money is dangerous for surfet in the sweetnesse but vnsauorie and very sower when it hath once bred the soules distemper nay then it is tyrannous in power and terrible to the troubled minde of the owner drawing out the life in the length of cares and shutting it vp in the misery of repentance Money makes the couetous man want that which he possesseth and the whole life of the niggard is spent in penance Money maketh a wretched niggard seeke carefulnes for himselfe enuy for his neighbours spurres vnto his enemies a prey for theeues perill for his person damnation for his soule malediction for his heires law for his children Money and the loue thereof maketh a wretched man dwell in a house whose chambers are full of cobwebbes the dores vnhindged the windowes cleft the locks decaied the floers vneuen ful of holes the chaires broken the chimneyes fallen downe that it is rather a house for hogs or horse or kyne then for men Negligence Much blame I àoe procure and reason too Best doe I liue when I doe men vndoe NEgligence keepeth preferment backe for many a man looseth the office due vnto him of course for want of diligence to aetend the same thus is the tide lost for not taking the time and the day lost when a man angles wiihout fitte implements he shall neither catch fish nor frogs Negligence is the cause that water as weake as it is throwes downe whole cities if it bee not preuented and the Sea in her ouerflowings drowneth whole countreys Negligence dares not plough the ground because the earth seems duskey and so hee supposeth it cannot bring forth daintie colours Negligence is the only enemie to good huswiuery and the onely ouerthrowe of good house-keeping for as diligence is the foundation of hospitalitie so is negligence of pe●urie and beggerie Negligence is the cause that the horse is ill dressed the cattle vnfed the husbandrie backward the vineyard barren the season ill sowen the corne as ill gathered as ill growne the meale mustie the bread moldie the mault full of mice-turdes and greene for want of turning the drink dead as soone as it is made the creame thin the butter nastie or none the cheese full of eyes and as hard as a horne in a word that no worke is well done no foode wholesome no life long Negligence cares not how much is spent how little is reserued who eates the best meat first nor when prouision is prepared Negligence of a sleeping sentinell of the watch in a campe the court of guard in a citie causeth the ouerthrowe of the Army the surprising of the citie and the spoyle of a whole countrey Negligence amongst Mariners runneth the shippe on shelfes and sandes leaueth the leakes vnstopped entangleth the tackling letteth the rudder loose suffereth the ship to

the best liuers and sutes in lawe are a meere laborinth to an honest man and quiet minde Troubles cannot ouerthrowe godly resolutions nor wise men bee ouercome with trifels Troubles of the spirit grow by the infirmity of the flesh and the infirmity of the spirit is the flesh ruined so that they are both wayes cause of each others calamities Vanitie The world though Heau'n is but meere vanity Compar'd with God no with Saints piety VAnitie in words cloathes and actions wherein men doe so much glory sheweth them voide of wisedome and pietie which if it infused no other infection to the speaker or hearer actour or beholder yet were it herein a great sinne that it is a lauish profuser of pretious time Vanitie and des●re of glory doe commonly keepe company for gorgeous buildings sumptuous tombes large hospitalles outward pompe delicate banqueting houses delightfull orchards and all such fabricks and sumptuous workes of purpose to bee talked of and adde to our fame are all but vanitie wanting the substance of good deedes and true humilitie Vanitie is often vented with litle vnderstanding and yet great study while the hand of wisedome quickly discouereth the folly of idle inuention Vanities are herein venemous that they so blast the forward wits of youth in the blossome or budde that they seeldome come to substantiall and mature frute Vanitie maketh wit a foolish wanton for he that delighteth in toyes to neglect weighty affaires hath litle vnderstanding Vanitie soothed corrupts wit and reason but the correction of vice commendeth and causeth wisedome Vanitie transporteth to vnprofitable pleasures when wisedome delighteth in necessary imployments Vanitie of the world is like a smoake in the ayre which seemeth to ascend vnto heaheauen but it goeth and vanisheth to nothing and letteth fall the followers thereof to the pitte of perdition Vanitie is seene in certaine things whereto no trust is to be giuen The chance of the dice the continuance of prosperitie the faire wether in winter or sun-shine in Aprill the teares of a Crocadile the playing of Dolphins the elloquence of a flatterer the preferment of a tyrant and the constancy of a woman Vanitie is soone seene in vaunting brauadoes as appeares by this story The Duke of Calabria going to make warre vpon the Florentines in a brauery saide hee would not pull off his bootes before hee had entred the citie to whom a merry fellow standing by saide oh my Lord you will I feare fret out a number of shooes then for it must needes bee a longer businesse then you imagine Vanitie is a great reproach to true vnderstanding when we either speak more then our cau●e in hand requires or liue aboue our abilitie and estates making a greater shewe and pompe then we can maintaine by our meanes or attempt any enterprise which we are not able to finish Vanitie sheweth it selfe much in idle actions and ridiculous iests as in this tale may appeare A Gentleman of Naples whose spirit was too high for his fortune liued farre exceeding his maintenance and yet had the fortune by secrete supportation to hold vp his head in the sea of the world in despight of enuious eyes Thus one night he lodged in the house of a baron a friend of his where waking somewhat early he fell to make his prayers vnto God for the remission of sinnes and worldly meanes which a certaine i●ster ouerhearing and lying in the next chamber answered with a lowde voyce oh thou prodigall childe thou art borne a yonger brother and to keepe but one man and a boy art stil begging but if thou wilt maintaine a number of idle followers whereof thou art ambitious learne to be thrifty spare in time or thy prayers will not be heard whereat the Gentleman seeing his vanitie and perceiuing he had cōmitted some error replied Indeed I spake too lowde to let thee heare me and haue committed a greater folly to suffer thee to liue vpon me Vanitie of apparell sheweth the pride of heart the weaknesse of wit the fantasticknesse of will the defect of vnderstanding or vnrulinesse of affection the superfluitie of prodigalitie and a prognosticate of pouertie Vanitie of discourse and foolish table-talke maketh men often ridiculous as appeareth by this A Gentleman sitting at the table of a great friend being his fauorite the table fully furnished and the company wel prepared to their viands the maister of the house began to rouse his shoulders in a rich chaire and himselfe as richly attired spake to a kinseman of his somewhat abruptly and then leauing him he also spake to the former Gentleman and then againe to his cousin whereat all the company amazed expected to heare some matter worthy to be vttered but he gaue onely a hemme and with a spit saide no more but cousin what is that pye before you whereat a iester cha●ing that he had stayed his teeth to giue time to his eares replyed suddenly better eate of a calues head then heare an owle speake whereat the ghuests held laughter so hard that they were ready to breake and thus is idle ignorant vanity worthely made ridiculous by hier owne folly Valour Vnlesse I make a man base feare subdue He 's but a beast to God and man vntrue VAlour aduanceth to honour and thrusteth misery aside from pressing vs down in the durt Valour proceeding by wisedomes direction perfecteth such actions as otherwise would faile in the execution Valour may be accompanied with folly and and then is it meere foole-hardinesse or temeritie so that now in the schoole of the wisest it is disputable whether a wise coward or a valiant foole is the better man Valour maketh a Captaine with a few souldiers ouercome many enemies but he that ouercommeth himselfe is valiant indeede but he which is his owne enemy whether shall he flie for succour or securitie Valour differeth from foolish hardinesse as a wise feare may be farre from cowardice in bo●● extremities turne to vice Valour scorneth to moue the impotent to impatiency to betray the innocent to villany or to vexe the simple with impetuositie Valour wil not insult ouer a weake hearted nor picke a quarrell with one that cannot answer him either for impotency some defect of nature disabilitie of person inequalitie of condition or imperfection of sense Valour in a good cause doth not feare death as true diuines in Gods cause are not terrified with the diuell Valour is often ouerthrowne by rashnesse and had I wist is the worst part of vnderstanding for rashnesse without reason may breed sorrow without compassion Valour is glorious in mercy but a cowheard is tyrannous in victorie Vallour must not attempt impossibilities nor run into with absurdities but carry an equalhead both in the practise of attempts and relation of actions neither bosting of its owne worth or extenuate anothers merit Valour of the Captaines is a maine meanes of victorie to the whole armie whereuppon the Numantines being great souldiers thus commended the Romans when once in a