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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04569	The pilgrimage of man, vvandering in a vvildernesse of vvoe wherein is shewed the calamities belonging to man being borne in this world, and how all the principall estates thereof are crossed with misery.	Johnson, Richard.	1635 (1635)	STC 14691.7; ESTC S2158	18,352	32

Doce me Domine viam tuam ut ingrediar in veritate tuâ Teach me thy WAY O Lord I will walk in thy TRUTH Ps. 86.11 THE PILGRIMAGE OF MAN WANDERING IN A WILDERNESSE OF VVOE Wherein is shewed the Calamities belonging to man being borne in this World and how all the principall Estates thereof are crossed with Misery A gorgeous Iemme for Gentility That liue in golden Felicite LONDON Printed by I.B. 1635. The Contents of this Booke Chap. 1. Of the miseries of man in his birth and of his first calamities Chap. 2. Of the miserie of Man entring into his youth and yeeres of discretion Chap. 3. Of the Misery of Man being come to his full strength Chap. 4. Of the Miserie of wicked Kings Princes and Monarches Chap. 5. Of the Misery of vicious courtiers and of their wicked liues Chap. 6. Of the misery of Magistrates that administer not true Iustice with a Discourse against wicked Iudges Chap. 7. Of the praise of Marriage and likewise the miseries that ensue thereon Chap. 8. Of the worlds generall Misery and the vices of all sorts in the Communalty Chap. 9. Of the misery of Age and mans Death with his resurrection and the terrible iudgement of God at the latter day THE PILGRIMAGE OF MAN WANDERING in a wildernesse of Woe CHAP. 1. Of the miserable birth of Man and of his first calamities MAN being the Image of God and the chiefe worke of Nature of all other creatures is most miserable in his birth For both beasts and birds are brought into the world either couered with haire feathers or wooll not so much as the séeds and corne of the ground but Nature hath clothed them with eares and huske man onely excepted for he being once come from the prison of his mothers wombe séemeth no other thing but the similitude of a poore worme that commeth creeping out of the earth With what clothing is he couered making his entry into the Palace of this world but only with bloud where in he is bathed and couered the which signifieth no other thing but the image and figure of sin What is the first song that he singeth at his comming into the world but only wéepings waylings which are as messengers and foreshewers of his calamities to come the which because he cannot expresse in words he witnesseth by tears Likewise pittifull cryes in the beginning of Monarchs Emperours and Kings and others that cause so many Tragedies to happen in the world But now contrariwise the worme be he neuer so little as soone as Nature hath brought him out of the earth beginneth to craull and creepe and to séeke for food The little chicken so soone as he is out of the shell is found cleane and needeth not to be washed like vnto man but runneth after the Hen and knoweth when he is called he picketh and eateth hee feareth the Kite without proouing before her malice he flyeth danger only guided by Nature But behold Man so soone as he is come into the world is like vnto a little monster and a lumpe of flesh which will let himselfe to be eaten of other beasts if he be not séen vnto and die for hunger before he can find his mothers breast and will as soone eat poyson as good meat and handle hot fron before he can discerne the good from the euill yet for all this he nameth himselfe the Prince of all other creatures Thus man being brought into this miserable world and plunged in the gulfe of miseries he then requireth to haue norishment and clothing to comfort the infirmity of his nature The office of which is appointed to mothers in consideration whereof nature hath giuen them breasts which are like two little bottles very proper and necessary for their sustenance But now to speake of the misery of Man in his nurriture how many mothers are there at this day in the world nay rather we may truly call them cruell stepmothers who hauing according to Nature brought their Children forth into the world because they will not take a little paines to nourish them themselues they send them to sorry villages to be nursed of strange vnknowne nurses which oftentimes do change their children bring home others in their stead Yet for all this they wil not be ashamed to hold a litle dog in their armes rather than the fruit that was ingendred in their wombes This inhumane practise is not vsed amongst beasts be they neuer so brutish for their natures are such that they neuer put their yong ones in the kéeping of others though nature giue them neuer so many but they nourish them themselues and are such zealous protectors of their young ones that they kéepe them almost alwayes in their presence till such time as they can auoid danger And that which is more to be marueiled at there riseth a certaine strife betweene the male and the female which of them shall be the kéeper And for that intent they many times quarrell and fight one with another the which may be séene not only in Apes but also in Beares which in nature are fierce and cruell yet they haue so great affection to their young ones that they are not onely content to nourish them with their milke but as soone as they are brought forth hauing almost no forme or fashion they licke them and pollish them to make them more perfect Likewise the little Birds couering fiue or sixe vnder their wings hauing neither graine nor other seed for their sustenance notwithstanding they spare neither art nor diligence wherewith nature hath endued them for their nourishment It is therefore a true witnesse of humane Misery in that Children are forced against Nature to sucke the milke of a strange woman and many times of such a one as may bée found best cheape what corruption or deformity soeuer she haue the which many times is so contagious to their Children that it were better for them to be nourished by some bruit Beast in the wildernes than to be put into the custody of such a Nurse as for example The cruelty and infamous life of Caligula the fourth Emperour of Rome was not imputed to Father or Mother but to the Nurse that gaue him sucke which woman was so cruell and barbarous of her selfe that she rubbed the Nipples of her Breasts with blood causing the child to whom she gaue milke to sucke them the which thing was so well practised of him that he did not onely commit an infinite number of Murvers but many time licked his sword and dagger being bathed and stayned in blood and wished that all the world had but one head to the end that with one blow he might behead them and then reign alone vpon the earth Séeing then that the Child hath not felt or suffered sorrow enough in his Mothers wombe but as soone as he is borne there is prepared a new sorrow for him by the ingratitude of such mothers which are so delicate and tender of

swéet showers of Raine we shall find that there falleth much Haile But with reuerence now I craue pardon of all vertuous Women that with patience I may discouer my intent and that my presumption may not gaine the least frowne from their chast browes for to the vicious I speake and not to them whose breasts harbours the liberall Fountaine of vertue and wisdome The Athenians being a people much cōmended for their prudence and wisedome séeing that Husbands and Wiues could not agrée because of an infinite number of dissensions that chanced betweene them were constrained to ordaine certaine Magistrates in their Countrey whom they called Reconcilers of married ones the office of whom was to set agreement betweene the husband and the wife The Spartanes and Romanes had also such like Lawes and orders amongst them so great was the insolence and rashnes of some women towards their husbands In this age there are but few I thinke can beare patiently the charges of marriage or can endure the vnbridled rage of some women and to speake truth without flattery if thou takest her rich thou makest thy selfe a bondslaue for thinking to marry thine equall thou marriest a commanding Mistresse If thou takest her foule thou canst not loue her If thou takest her faire it is an Image at thy gate to bring thée company Beauty is a Tower that is assayled of all the world therefore it is a hard thing to kéep that where euery one séeketh to haue the key Then this is the conclusion Riches causes a woman to be proud Beauty maketh her suspected and hard fauour causeth her to be hated Therefore Hyponactes hauing tasted the martyrdomes of marriage sayed that there was but two good dayes in all the life of marriage Whereof the one was the wedding day vpon which is made good chéere the Bride fresh and faire and of all pleasures the beginning is most delectable The other good day is when the woman dieth for then the husband is out of bondage and thraldome Yet for all this a woman is to man a necessary euill and one whom he cannot well liue without Seeing that there is nothing more harder to find in this world than a good Woman a good Mule and a good Goate who are three vnhappy Beasts And to conclude there is nothing more lighter than a womans tongue vnbridled more piercing than her outragious words more to be feared than her boldnesse more cruell than her malice nor more dangerous than her fury Besides many other hurtfull discommodities of their huswiferie which for this time I passe ouer and so returne to our former discourse CHHP. VIIJ. Of the worlds generall misery and the vices of all sorts in the Communalty OF all the miseries that hapneth to man in this Pilgrimage of woe these hereafter following are the greatest Of which Nature her selfe hath complained vnto God who saith that man for euery Uice hath a cloake of Uertue to couer it as for example those that wound and kill one another we call them hardy and strong and we say that they haue a regard to honour and therefore deserue commendation They that violate Women and rauish Uirgins we call that bearing of loue Those that are proud and seeke by all vnlawfull meanes to climbe vp to high Dignities we call them honourable graue and men of ripe iudgement Those that are couetous and beguile their neighbours by crafty subtilties and inuentions and so in short time become rich those they call good husbands and men that will séeke to liue besides many other vices which are shadowed vnder the mantle of Uertue the which is one principall cause that so many miseries do fal vpon the world and to speake truth the whole earth is drowned in sinne that it séemeth to be the sinke wherein all the wickednesse of the former age hath béen emptied Who euer saw the sin of Couetousnesse more déeper rooted in the world than at this present day for all the Cities Prouinces and Kingdomes of the earth be very shops and storehouses of Couetousnesse and Auarice this is the world which the Prophets did foreshew that men ioyne house to house and land to land as though themselues would alone dwell vpon the earth Couetousnes is the wel spring of miseries for from thence procéedes warre and destruction and the great effusion of blood with the which the earth is ouerflowne from Couetousnes procéed Murders Treasons Thefts Usuries Forswearings the corruption of Witnesses and peruerting of Iudgements From Couetousnesse the tedious delayes in Law and lingering of sutes do procéed and to be short from thence commeth all wickednesse This grieuous sinne is growne so familiar amongst men that many liue without mercy in such sort that now we may see the stréetes full of poore Beggars naked and clad with pouerty with an infinite number of banished women driuen out of their Countries bearing their children in their armes wanting that which couetous men hoord vp with such cares that they make it their God and will rather let a poore body dye at their gates than refresh him with food Therefore let vs now leaue these wicked men Idolaters of their treasures with the couetous rich man mentioned in the holy Scripture and speake of an other vice which is called Enuy the malady wherewith many mindes in this new world is grieuously afflicted The time is now come that the whole earth is nothing but a very place of the Enuious a vice which is the oldest of all vices hath bin vsed in the worlds infancy the experience thereof was approued in the first age of Adam and the Serpent in Abel and Cain in Iacob and Esau in Ioseph and his brethren in Saul and Dauid in Hammon and Mardocheus the which pursued not one another for their riches but for the enuy that the one bore to the other But all this is nothing to the Enuy which is vsed amongst men at this day which wicked Uice not only reigneth amongst the common sort but also amongst the higher for when they are mounted to the top of Fortunes whéele and thinke peaceably to enioy the fauour of Princes behold sodainely the Enuy of some other conspires against them and causeth them to be disdained cast out of fauor Therefore I thinke there is no other meanes for to auoid Enuy but to auoid dignity and rule the reason is that we are the children of enuy and he that leaueth most goods leaueth most Enuy. For this cause the Elders counselled the Rich that they should not dwell neare the Poore nor the Poore neare the Rich for the one are enuied for their Wealth and the other for their Pouerty Here will we now leaue this grieuous sin of Enuy and a little glaunce at the ambitious Pride that reigneth amongst vs. Who euer saw such excessiue Pride in all estates as we sée at this present whereby we may well name this world a world of glistering Gold of Siluer and Ueluet of Purple of Silke with the