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A15046	The rocke of regard diuided into foure parts. The first, the castle of delight: wherin is reported, the wretched end of wanton and dissolute liuing. The second, the garden of vnthriftinesse: wherein are many swéete flowers, (or rather fancies) of honest loue. The thirde, the arbour of vertue: wherein slaunder is highly punished, and vertuous ladies nad gentlewomen, worthily commended. The fourth, the ortchard of repentance: wherein are discoursed, the miseries that followe dicing, the mischiefes of quareling, the fall of prodigalitie: and the souden ouerthrowe of foure notable cousners, with diuers other morall, natural, & tragical discourses: documents and admonitions: being all the inuention, collection and translation of George Whetstons Gent.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1576 (1576)	STC 25348; ESTC S111731	150,826	258

their turnes stricke not to play the Bée Scorne not for gaine in age to holde the doore They once were yong that were your bandes before 101 And now my larges giuen farewel foule guile Farewel O world no wile shal make me rich My mynd abhorres welth won by falshoodes vyle To mount by fraud I loth such loftie pitch I can not scratch the harmelesse ere they itch If due desart proude Flatterie pyneth still I list not fawne play hypocrite that will. 102 Fare wel fare wel O world farewel againe Thou now God wot frō wonted course doest réele The clergie once in preaching tooke great paine Whose words in works bare witnes of their zeale Most now in words but few in workes reueale They teach with toung when thought on tything is O wicked world thy wealth is cause of this 103 O world accurst in court thou settest pryde Whose mynions are fraude flatterie and disdaine They pyne desart before his truth be tryde They forge offened well meaning mindes to staine They cast at al yet sildome lose amaine Wo worth the world thy brauerie works the wracke Of such in court as well deserue and lacke 104 The souldier stout foreséeing small reliefe For seruice doone if spoyled honre he comes As forst to play no souldier but the théefe When fortune fits to gather vp his crumbes For once at home poore store of pence he thumbes O world thy wealth with rulers worketh so As what they haue they hardly will forgo 105 The lawe first made to wéede out wrongs for right To yeald amends vnto the poore opprest ●s wrested nowe for fauour or for spight Nowe monie so corrupts the Lawyers breast That daying is for poore mens suits the best Yea such effects in worldly muche doth lurke As iudges harme where helpe they ought to worke 106 Fine fare and slouth discases strange do bréede And grieued wights will spare no cost for ease But golden fées so doth Physicians féede As séelde or nere they rich mens paines appease With drinks and drugs they still do them displease O wicked world thy welth first wrought their grief Thy wealth againe doth hinder their reliefe 107 Desire of gaine make offices so heape As solde they be not giuen who best deserues Who buyeth deare séelde thriues by selling cheape Who wrongeth yet from honest getting swerues No force for that fewe nowe such course obserues Thus pelfe O world first makes the Doner foule To leauie mendes the Done néedes must poule 108 Each pleasant paine each swéete inticing sowre O world thou workst our wanton yeres to witch And not content we should our selues deuour But churles thou sett'st to clawe vs ere we itch Thou burnst the byrde and bastes the bacon stitch O spiteful world thou hap frank harts dost grutch And grieuest churles by giuing of too much 109 The merchant once bent all his care to seas In forreine soyle he sought desired gaine Then was his toyle to common wealth an ease And he deseru'd his wish in lye of paine But nowe at home he findes a swéeter vaine Sance venter nowe he will in wealth abound Foule fall the wight this second trade that found 110 The reachlesse héede youthes haue in large expence To flaunt it out their cost no care to thriue Inticeth churles with shewe of good pretence In prime of pride their maintnance to depriue For lymed once small bootes the wrong'd to striue Right Cousners haue such helps friends at néede As struange it is to sée how ●leare they spéede 111 Thy pryde O world doth bréede such wanton thought As most men nowe receiue dame Venus hyre To stoupe faire dames such sharp assaults are sought Such proffers large such wiles to winne desire As wonder t' is what fortes are set on fire Who sinneth not is such a gnawing bone To raise this siege that fewe will throwe a stone 112 Fye on the world fye on thy soule deceites Fye on thy fraude thy flatterie and thy pryde Fye on thy shifts thy subtilties and sleites Fye on thy cloakes thy filthy crimes to hyde Adieu adieu I can thée not abyde And thee O God for euermore I laude For kéeping me vntainted so with fraude 113 For though I haue consumd my dayes in thral Now death drawes néere my coūt is quickly made And well I wot death doth all sorts appall The prince the poore yea men of euery trade Who lewdly liues with recknings huge is lade Thus worldlings griefe where mine doth eb doth flowe A sorrie swéete to end with sowre woe 114 Through conscience I féele no thought of hell I conquer'd haue of dreadful death the feare Where is thy sting where doth thy furie dwell Where is thy force O Death wher is thy speare Assault say I that with my Christe I were I ready am both euening noone and morne The diuell the world and all their works I scorne Lenuoy 115 YOu worldlings chiefe to you this tale I tell God graunt my words be to your woundes a leache The fruites of fraude vntold you knowe too well Yea better then my naked Muse can teach But to this end this dririe plaintes I preach That hencefoorth you to getting haue such eye As you may liue as though you dayly dye 116 And least the lewde should wrest my worde amis I do exempt the good of euery trade The which I trust will not repine at this To shew thy praise this checking verse was made The Clergie first at whome a glaunce I had Of them there be great store of preachers good To shewe the truth that will not spare their blood 117 There are in court that liue in worthy fame And well deserue renoune and credite both Some officers will take no bribes for shame Some laweyers are to sowe dissention loth And citizens with whome I séemde so wroth I néedes must graunt how so my Muse did square Of euery trade a number honest are 118 The souldier now whom I do honour much How so I toucht their faults that do offend I graunt we haue of noble souldiers such As maimes to fame that will those vices shend I blame none such the rest I wish amend Physicians good as many sure there be Will not repine the lewde reprou'd to sée 119 How so I toucht some scriueners faults at quicke There are of those I knowe of honest fame Such haue no cause against my Muse to kicke Nor yet the lewde that wisely weyes the same I blase abuse yet touch no creatures name Yea to be shore ●●ypt no foot of men That truly can w●th malice charge my pen. Veritas non querit angulos G.W. opinion of trades as touching gaine written to his especiall friend maister R.C. MIne owne good friend ▪ since thou so faine wouldst know What kynde of trade doth yeald the surest gaine My iudgement now of some I meane to showe And after toyle which quiteth best thy paine The merchant he which cuts the mounting seas With

yet will I to satisfie your request supply my inabilitie of skill with the abilitie of good will and to execute the same he called for pen ynke and paper in the presence of a number writing as followeth WHen Sommers force is past and Winter sets in foote The hart and strength of hearbs and trées is nourisht by the roote The frostes and froward blasts doth nip the naked spray The Sommer liuerie of the bowes with colde is worne away Yet liues such rootes in hope that Phoebus glimering beames Will once dissolue syr Hiems force his frostes and ysie streames And lend reliefe at length when he their lacke should sée With coates of leaues to cloth their armes fit garments for a trée Euen so both hope and dread doth wage continuall fight Deare dame in me whose Sommers ioy you raisde with friendly sight But loue vnlookt God wot to yoke my wanton yeares Straight vsde his force and base desart consumd my ioy with feares It raysed frostes of scorne my fire to ouerthrowe This chaungd the Sommer of your sight to Winter of my woe Yet fled my heart to hope who faintly féedeth me Your pittie passeth poore estate where faythfull loue you sée He shewes by secrete signes your vertues euery one And sayes your beautie bréedes no pride that brueth all my m●ne But maugre friendly hope base hap with me doth striue Who weares my flesh with withered feare how so my hart doth thriue Which is the very cause why I these colours weare The ground of hope bewrayes my heart the gards my desperate feare But if with graunt of grace my griefes you meane to quite Both hope and dread shall soone be chaungd to colours of delight Roberto Rinaldo These verses were reasonably liked both for that they were done of the souden and that they somewhat answered the demaunde and yet this proffered loue to Giletta bred no suspicion for that euery one thought Rinaldo on so good occasion could not otherwise choose but proffer some shewe of louing seruice After many had thus cōmended the redinesse of Rinaldos wit by profe of this inuention at the length quoth Giletta halfe smyling maister Rinaldo you haue clearkly answered my question and nowe knowing your cunning I may haply set you a worke in matters of more importance Rinaldo glad of this commendation made answere her causes could neuer wearie him for that he had both left his own and al other businesse of purpose to do her seruice The musicke now a while commaunded them from prattle and the gallants addressed thē selues to dauncing where Rinaldo to make amendes for his other nights negligence requested to leade maistresse Giletta the measures Giletta although at the first made the matter coy yet won by importancie accepted his courtesie Rinaldo somewhat incouraged by hope bestowed him selfe to the best liking he could and to report the truth with the perfection of Arte he made full satisfaction for his former disorder The dauncers nowe wearied with heate applied thēselues vnto more cooler pastimes and Rinaldo and Giletta went to take the ayre at a medowe where Giletta to bewray her knowledge of his verses vsed these speaches In good fayth although against my will I sée it is my fortune to be acquainted with your secretes so that before mistrusting that I am most assured of by your passionate verses which by fortune I perceiue that the late mistaking of your loue inraged you yet for that they appertaine not vnto me and that ye shall remoue your anger from me if you wil stay my returne I will fetch them and make restitution assuring you that I neyther haue nor will reueale the knowledge of them to any aliue To stay her departure quoth Rinaldo softly distrayning her hand since my fortunes were so euill to lose them for that séeing an inpossibilitie of hap I would haue concealed my harme I am glad my fortune is so good that they light into her handes to whome in right they belong vnto whose power with vowe of continuall seruice I subiect my life liuing libertie Maistresse Giletta raking vp her conceiued loue in the ashes of secrecie thus answered If I were so simple to be bewitcht with shadowes your intising words might no doubt worke spoyle of myne honour In the chiefest hope of my wel doing quoth Rinaldo disturbing her tale you haue truly described my present condition for being reft of heart the only stay of life and dying through despaire I am in no better state then a shadow Well quoth Giletta since your wit serues you to flourish on euery worde figuratiuely spoken I will deliuer the rest of my minde in more plaine speaches First I must confesse my inabilitie and vnworthinesse to entertaine such a seruant then graunt your wisdome to be such that you will not bestowe your able seruice but where you sée sufficient abilitie for your well deseruing zeale to haue deserued hyre Nowe to your verses I thus muche conceiue that to colour that your owne colour bewrayes I meane your loue else where bestowed for that I vnhappily ministred some speaches of mistrust to dymme mine eyes with a vaine flourish til time fits your better fortunes you vse this fonde profession of loue Thus much I gather both by your wordes and workes and thus much I had thought to haue deliuered in in embassage vnto this teltale paper making shew of the letter she had written but knowing quoth she letters to be very blabs I am glad opportunitie so serues that I may deliuer in wordes both what I thinke of you and your suite with this she put vp her letter againe I thinke for that she woulde not discomfort Rinaldo with the sharpnesse thereof who faine would haue fingered the same onely to haue bestowed his skill in answere but to shew his able force to incounter her in wordes in déed quoth he letters are but to be vsed in necessitie yet where griefs can not otherwise be vttered necessarie instruments But I find this benefit in my bondage that if I were both bard of tong and pen my flaming sighes my frosen teares my wan lookes and withered fleshe would witnesse with what deuotion I serued which zeale through my chaunging colour by you noted I not a litle ioyed and I no lesse sorrowed you would not take notice to what Saint I vsed this deuotion when as Rinaldo calleth heauen and earth to witnesse that neyther beautie brauerie or any other inticement ioyned with the credite of the greatest Lady in all Italie coulde subiect his libertie til Gilettas vertue matcht with matchlesse beautie reacht the pitch that stoupt his moūting thoughts to whom and for whom he vseth this suite and suffreth these sorowes Giletta séeing the continuance of his vehemencie was pretily well persuaded of his loyaltie in so muche as after a number of other proffers and defences in hope quoth she of your readie dutie I admit you my seruant with promise to measure your rewarde beyond desart

fast your lawlesse loue to tame And further to allay your heate vnlesse you daily spinne This distaffe laden full of flaxe your fare will be but thinne This sayd the distaffe in she throwes and bad him thus adieu My tale is tolde you knowe your taske nowe worke as pleaseth you Alberto at these sorrie newes straight to this choller waxe Shall I from martiall exercise fall nowe a spinning flaxe Shall I that liu'd at libertie in prison thus be pend Shall I be sys'd of meate and drinke that late so much did spend And shall a Ladie foyle me thus whose hart the stoutest quaild There with he stroue to breake the doores but small his force auaild His griefe but gréene with termes of hate he blam'd this Ladie oft And supperlesse so went to bed which was not very soft But in respect of other plagues he thought the hardnesse small Who tyred with tormenting thoughts a sléepe did quickly fall When he had sleapt the night away and cares digested well Sharpe hunger so assayld this Lord as he to spinning fell His goutie and yll shapen thredes so moued him to smyle That well he likt the exercise his sorrowes to beguile At dinner time dame Barbaras mayde was to Alberto sent To share his lowance like his worke to whome this courtoll went And rudely calles to sée the yarne he had that morning sponne Alberto eger of his meate deliuerd what was donne By Saint Marie quoth this queane your buswiuerie is good And after she had frumpt him well she fetcht his sorrie foode A wéeke or more these hungrie meales in worth Alberto tooke In hope of grace which came so slowe as he his hope forsooke Sée yet desire of libertie sée nowe the fruites of néede Sée here how théeues their fellowes peche sée sée how hope doth féede Alberto for dame Barbara sendes to whom he shewes at large The wanton wager words and workes as I haue giuen in charge And how that Vdislao would ere long attempt the like Which straunge discourse the Ladie did into a wonder strike Oh God quoth she what cause giue I men should suspect my life I neuer clim'd beyonde my reach I am a louing wife And comes there yet another Lord that would my vertues staine Well let him come he shall abide hard penance for his paine This sayde she wild the gaylor sée Alberto spinne apace His newes thus recompenced were whome nowe I leaue a space To shewe what rumor in the court in euery corner roung Some say Albertos ioyes were such as loth to part he soung Vlrico oft his image viewd to sée what hue it bare And all the while it yealowe séemd he liu'd in perilous feare But when it turnd to white againe what so the courtiers say He knewe Alberto had the foyle and he had won the lay The other competitor thought his fellowes ioyes too great So that to haue a share with him he posted till he sweate And posting thus he at the length Vlricos castle spyde And making then more haste then spéede post haste he thether hyde Who safe arriu'd where he did wish to make his welcome more He had an errant readie stampt yea two or thrée in store He first commended to this dame her husbande 's happie health His speciall credite with his prince his fame and heapes of wealth And how on causes of his owne into these coastes he came And how he heard in happie time his friend Vlricos name And also how not farre from thence did dwell his Ladie faire And howe he bounde by courtesie to sée her did repaire The Ladie smiled in her mynde to heare this currant scuse And yet dissembling what she thought she friendly did him vse Yea courteously she crau'd he would his causes yet adiourne And at his friend Vlricos house with her awhile soiourne Her gentle offer to accept this Lord was nothing nice And yet ere longe her courtesse he bought at too hie price Well both contented as it séemd into the castle goe Where as faire Barbara glads her friend with welcomes great in shoe She talkt she walkt shee satt she stoode as likt this gallant best Yea many a straunge discourse did passe betwéene her and her guest In sinc to towle this lord in loue a sighing shée began And asked how Alberto farde as if shée lou'de the man The lord Vdislao did take this motion in good part Who smyld and said in secrete thought Alberto had her heart And for to strike her in a mase quoth hée I wott not well Since last he vew'd these countrye costes where as my frend doth dwel Faire Barbara as though she feard this lords welfare did faine And is hée not quoth shée returnde vnto your court againe This lure thus throwne to worke some hope in Vdislaos breast The Lady broke the prattle off and fell to feast her guest The lusty Hungarian lord likt well her kindnes showne Yet still he for aduauntage stayde to make his passions knowne Whose subtiltie when shée espide t'imbolden him the more Against her will her eyes d●d séeme more wanton then of yore And trained thus to treate of loue at length his tongue found scope She made it nice yet not so straunge but he might féede on hope Hée féeding still on showe of grace was loth to leaue the féeld She faring as shée likt his talke by péece meales gan to yéeld In fine she fainde how that his sute had wonne her to agrée And how shée would sometime that night her louers lodging sée Untill which time this frolicke lord committed her a Dio A fainde good night shée likewise gaue and wild her seruannts shoe Him where he should that night be lodgde whose lodging was prepard Next chamber to the prison where Alberto hardly farde Well Vdislao went to bedde full fraught with secrete ioy And still he lookt when his faire dame would kepe her promist foy But all in vaine he gapt for grace she glad he had him catcht Yet sée the fond conceites in loue in hope the night he watcht He hard no noyse no mouse could steare but streight in thought he smild O welcome Lady quoth his heart but when he was beguild He Sopor blamd for charging her with to much drowsie sléepe But of his faultes and wager fond at all he tooke no kéepe Wel al this night with fancies tost no sléepe lodgde in his breast When morning came this comfort came to set his heart at rest Dame Barbaras mayde brought him a réele and yearne Alberto made She tould him he should reele the same for that he had assaide To robbe her Lady of good fame to her then life more deare If he refusde to doe his taske he should haue sorrie cheare Loke you for neither meate nor drinke before your worke be donne And syr quoth shée t' incourage you the thread Alberto sponne Hée is your neighbour fare you well I can no longer stay These sorrie newes Vdislao nie out of his wittes did fray

might These following rules if you imprint in minde Your enuious foes shall pine away with spite First choose a friend whose wordes in workes you finde With courtesie a straunger intertaine But louing sutes cutt off with chaste disdaine Thinke s●gred wordes as Syrens songes do wound All is not gold in sight that sémeth gay In carelesse trust is euer treason sound Then shunne the baites that philed tongues do lay With proude reuenge racke not your yéelding foe Lest nettels doe amonge swéete flowers groe Mount with your minde by Uertue to the skies Uaile yet your eares the mysers mone to heare From all extreames in spite of enuies spies In calme delight your dayes so shal you weare Thus souereigne ends your sausie pesaunts songe Accept it well or else you do him wronge Epilogus LOe Ladies heare if you can vse it well An Arbour fenst from burning fire and frost A place it is where pride shall neuer dwell Nor fortune worke a mase doe shée her worst A place wherein the worthie dame should liue Whom no extreame may change from vertuous thought Euen such a place my Muse faire dames doth giue To you the which with double toile is wrought Here may you sée by lampes of others liues A president to liue in worthie name Here may you sée when death your dayes depriues In spight of death remembraunce of your fame Virescit vulnere virtus The Ortchard of repentance Wherein is reported the miseries of dice the mischiefes of quarelling and the fall of prodigalitie Wherein is discouered the deceits of all sortes of people Wherein is reported the souden endes of foure notable Cousiners With diuers other discourses necessarie for all sortes of men The whole worke the inuention and collection of George Whetstons Gent. Formae nulla fides am nothing dismayde with such nyce findfaultes misliking Suffiseth me if the learned and wel disposed take my paines in worth among the which I chiefly seeke to please your worship the authoritie of whose patronage will both defende and commend my trauell desiring you to take it as a testimonie of the faithfull zeale I beare towardes you and being incouraged with your fauourable acceptancu I will not faile God willing to enterprise some worke that shall better deserue your countenance content the reader and commend my paines From my longing in Holborne where I dayly pray for the prosperous health and hap both of you and your good Lady The 15. of October 1576. Your worships most bounden G. Whetstons The honest minded mans aduentures his largesse and his farewell to the world A worke discouering the subtilties of all sortes of men REpyne not friends to view the forme of scorne Skew not to sée a figure fresh of ruth A crooked péece with withered age for worne In drouping dayes whome begg●ri● pursuth A sorrie crop for séede of all his youth Who moylde who toyld who gaped after gaine When losse ensude a poore reward for paine 2 Though straunge at first my tale may séeme in sight Yet wisely wayde the cause appeareth playne Why backward hap my foreward hope did quite Why losse I found where I did looke for gayne Why pouertie I reapt in lue of paine For trye who list and he by proofe shall sée With honest myndes the world will hardly grée 3 Which of it selfe a kingdome is of sinne The deuill is prince whose pomp doth neuer fade Deceite and Craft his chiefest counsellers bin Extortion foule his treasurer is made Couetousnesse is merchant of his trade Uile Usurie his racking rents doth rake As auditour account doth Briberie take 4 Within his court these vipers beareth sway First false suspect high chamberlain they call Who raps thē down which mount by honest way Disdaine controuls the wightes which be in thral Then grudge the garde doth place them in the hal Mistrust and spight doth dayly watch and ward And malice is the captaine of the garde 5 Enuie and Hate the presence doore doth kéepe Which eluish elfes dame Uertue still deryde Or if she knocke the sottes will be a sléepe Next to the diuel the court doth Lecherie guyde On whom attends dame Pleasure Lust Pryde What office beares the Glutton with the rest Or drunken sot to shewe it were a iest 6 Debate and strife the coastes doth dayly scowre Well meaning mynds to sée they do repyne Though Fortune laugh the world on thē doth lowre Her subiects sléepe and snore like fatted swyne When hunger sterude with want the vertuous pyne No wonder though they leade this lothsome life For worldly rule with vertue is at strife 7 But I too long do tyre you with this tale To wray the rule the worldly wretches haue Who bath in blisse when others boyle in bale Who do commaund when others gladly craue Yet shame and all they leaue to fill their graue I ment and meane to shewe his ouerthrowe Whose honest mynd became his chiefest foe 8 I first by cost did séeke in court to mount A néedefull helpe in court to purchase grace But fowly short I fell vpon account I quite forgot to flatter and to face The thrall to scorne the best for to imbrace I su'● I seru'd I did attendance daunce And still I thought desart would me aduaunce 9 I lookt aloft and brau'd it with the best The charge mine owne no countnance did I lacke Whilest pence were ryfe I was a welcome guest I ayded those whom spitefull scorne did sacke Which one aduaunst were first that threwe me backe With conges kynde the gallants would me gréefe With cap and knée the meaner did me méete 10 The sneaking curres by bryberie layd a traine A myle to catch before they fell the crumbes I thought desart perforce would fasten gaine On me which gape but gained nought but plumbes For former graunts still nickt me oore the thumbes The drawlatch thriu'd my selfe who helpt to grace As well as he which bare the proudest face 11 Ne enuide I of either part the thrift Since Fortune smylde vpon the silly sot I thought aloft no doubt she would me lift So spent in hope for feare I spared not By cost I sayd that worship still was got But I so long did spende vpon the store That all was gone then could I spend no more 12 Then countnance straight with sower face did frowne And credite next began to slip aside Disdaine and spight with spéede then threwe me downe In this distresse whom earst I helpt I tryde Who gaue good words but no reliefe applyde Thus quight forsooke I in the briers stucke And cryde perforce a vengance of yll lucke 13 I thought mishap my fortune did withstand And méere good hap to others gaine assignde I little thought that Item in the hand Remembrance was a friend in court to finde Or some for some could leade a stately mynde Ne flatterie I did feare should be prefarde Ere seruice true had reapt his full rewarde 14 I could not thinke the