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A15038	The enemie to vnthryftinesse publishing, by lawes, documents and disciplines. A right rule, for reformation of pride, and other prodigall and riotous disorders, in a common wealth: for the worthines of directions, a perfect mirrour for all maiestrates: (especially) of cities. And for sound counsels, and admonitions, a carde to compasse, or euery yong gentleman, honorablie and profitably to gouerne his actions. Partely, drawne out of the sage gouernme[n]t, of the most worthie emperour, Alexander Seuerus: and (generallye) discoueringe the vnsufferable abuses now raigning in our happie English co[m]mon wealth. By George Whetstons gent.; Mirour for magestrates of cyties	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?; Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587? Addition: or touchstone for the time. aut; Severus Alexander, Emperor of Rome, 208-235.	1586 (1586)	STC 25341.5; ESTC S103652	40,485	80

Hereafter such vnprofitable members shal be bridled Liue vertuous Emperour and what lack ye finde in vs refourme it and we wyll obey you and he that doth resist let him be slaine and buried in Tyber Your vertue hath restored vs to lyfe that weare dead vnto Lybertie that were in thraldom vnto Honour that were dishonoured In Gouernaunce you be our Father whome we well reuerence by free election our Emperour whom we wil obay in wisdome our soundest Iudge whose com maūdemēts coūsels we wil execute as generall Lawes ¶ Hereat the Emperour relented and with much paine retayned the teares of his eyes and in the ende comforted thē with this Conclusion The Conclusion of AlexANDERS Oration to the Cittizyns I Am right glad that your Protestation declareth that you yet hold some portion of Vertue which giueth vs hope that the renown of this Noble Realme begunne by Romulus shall not ende in you And if you be constant in this affection we trust right shortly to make the Fame therof equall in estimation with the Raignes of any of our Progenitours And now I haue fownd agayne your old name wherby I wyll call you Ye Children and Successours of the vertuous Romaynes I say you victorious people braunches of Romulus subduers of Realmes patternes of vertue and prowesse to all the world mittigate your couetous appetites abandon excessiue Vsurie exceede not the boundes of your popular state be charitable and mercifull vnto your owne Countrey-men where their necessitie may be relieued with your abundance Be you ashamed that labourers and rude people should condemne you of crueltie for destroying of your Gentlemen the chiefe ornament and defence of this noble Cittie Remember that if the state of Senators do decaye the most vertuous of the Gentlemen are elected in their places So you that shall equall them in vertue for your substance onely cannot make you gentle shall be aduaunced vnto the state of Gentlemen according to your deme●…its Nowe haue we nomore to say vnto you but applye your selues to the auncient and most laudable orders as we shal indeuour our selues by example diligence to bring this Citie againe vnto perfection VVHen the good Emperor had thus ended his Oration he caused diuers of the grauest Citizyns to attend hym at his Pallace where he cōmanded that by secrete inquirie they should learne how many 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 or other corrupte 〈◊〉 had absolute possession or Morguage of the Gentlemens ●…andes and to certifye bothe the names of the Vserers and the Gentlemen so distressed Vppon whose certificate he dealed with the Creditors of the Gentlemē 〈◊〉 a great ●…tion of money out of his owne Crea●…e towardes a generall agreement As in the end he concluded that the Creditors shuld rece●…e the res●…ue of their Debtes by a yearely pention oute of the Gentlemens Landes By whiche ●…ewes their 〈◊〉 tie might recouer what their 〈◊〉 had ●…asted The Noble Emperour ha●…ynge brought to passe this hye hone●…te for the Gentlemen a Rome with the possession therof in this louyng Oration he instructed them in the Dueties of Gentlemen and ●…dely reprehended the Dishonours of their Reputation The Emperour Alexander his Oration to the Gentlemen of Rome GEntlemen of Rome by the name of Gentlemen I salute you as Hereditorie Title of your Auncestours vertues which I hope will alwayes remayne in your hearts How-be-it too excessiue prodigalitie hath much wasted your liuings and impayred your credit But with the blame of your lauiciousnes I am bound by the woorking of pittie to shew the cause thereof Which although it bee no excuse in Iustice yet it iustly ●…oueth commiseration The examples of our predecessors wickednesse is more liuelye expressed in your workes then may be showen by my wordes and I hope his worthie confusion will be cause of your speedy amendment Yet I hold it not amisse to laie before your eyes the monstrous e●…illes which you have learned of your late Emperour Heliogabalus that comparing his wretched ende with his wicked raigne feare may reforme what our louing affection wisheth to be amended in you This vessel of abhominatio so exceeded in pride that frō top to toe he was ●…ired in cloth of golde pearle pretious-stones neuer wore any garment more thē once from his bed chamber vnto the place where hee mounted vnto his Coch the walles were decked wyth tapestrie full of greate pearles and pretious stones The waie as he went was strewed with golde and siluer as one disdayning to ●…reade vppon earth lyke other men His Charyot was sometyme drawen with tame Lions sometimes with Elephantes and sometimes with marueilous faire Women The Ringes which he drewe off his fingers hee neuer put on againe The vessels of golde and siluer wherein he was serued was euermore the fees of his seruitors Suche huge prodigalitie was ioined with his incomparable pride His gluttonie voluptuousnes was so great as neere the Sea his whole houshold was fed with most daintie fowles and beeing farre within lande they were all serued with all maner of fishes by Poste brought alyue from the Sea Sometime he had for a generall seruice pasti●…s of Peacockes toonges otherwhyle Partridges egges the heades of Popiniayes Fesauntes and the most daintiest Byrdes Neither was this superfluitie alone vpon the Tables in his owne Pallace but in selfe same manner his Lyons Gray-hounds and other Dogs of pleasure were fed He so much esteemed of thinges that were deare and rare that hearing there was but one Phaenix in the worlde hee offered twoo thowsand Markes to haue it to hys Dinner His lecherie was so vnsatiable and withal so vnclean as common ciuilitie forbiddeth the report His Pusalanimitie was such as he studied how to become a woman and of moste notorious Strumpets and Bawdes hee erected a Senate and in a Capitoll for the nonce hee made vnto them manie Orations and called them his Companions and fellowe Souldiers That vi●…e might haue no staye nor vertue anie passage he gaue free Charters to all men to vse all manner of villanie And Sabinus Vlpianus and other learned and reuerent Iudges hee banished from the administration of Iustice. He cruelly put to death many worthie personages amongst the people many times let loose Lions Beares and other cruell Beastes In fine when his monstrous pryde prodigallitie and lecherie had consumed all his own treasure necessitie a naughtie disposition made him to sell the offices of Iustice. But his owne familiar Seruantes and Souldiers wearie of his abhominations slew him drawing his horrible Carren with hooks through the Cittie they tyed him to a stone of greate waight and threw him into Tyber to the end so vile a bodie should neuer be buried Yet your owne eies are Iudges that I say the truth His death and funerals was as vile and filthie as what I haue saide of his life was sumptuous and rich I haue laide the miserie of his death before your eyes that you should expell the vices of his

and bodie lyes naked to euery peryl I meane the good Maiestrates are neither reuerenced feared nor obayed Wherethe handes are bownde to the knees in token that the Gentlemen are thrawle to the Marchantes Where on the knees is fastened a Cap and a feather and about the legges a Swoord and a Target buckled in signe that the Cittizyns desire the honour they can not gouerne and leaue their ●…rauayles whiche woulde inritch the Common-wealth And where the feete which should trudge for euery necessary should be fettred in a payre of Stockes as witnesse of the poore Laborers bondage and oppression who for their necessarie trauelles ought too bee cheerised I say as a man thus deformed buckled and bownd on a heape would soone perysh for want of sustenance euen-so a Common-wealth thus confused would soone be confownded for lacke of good Order What Prince that is Head and Soueraigne of such a sauadge and brute people that wyll not rather wysh a Royall Tombe then a Princely Pallace for in the one he is priuyleaged against the outrage of enemies in the other he is not sa●…e from the Treasons of his own Subiects And therfore you Vipers which destroy one another if our louyng perswasions may not alter your lewde dispositions take the aduauntage of tyme my nakednes giue me an vntimely death rather thē a dishonorable raign for truely I had rather die while the walles of Roome doe stande then liue to see her sumptuous Buildynges on ●…ite whose ruine is at hand vnlesse out of hand you amend your corrupt cōsciences the multitude their naughtie maners AT these wordes with teares in their eyes as Pleadges of sorowful heartes the people shouted ●…oorth with a lowde crye their duti●…ull A●…ons saying O noble ALEXANDER let the Torture of ten dearhes be too easie a payne for the man whiche but ymagyneth thy Death Lyue and lyue long O most noble Emperour the lyse of vs all and the light of the Romaynes glorye ¶ Here Sorrow stopped their mouthes but their dismayed countenaunces gaue full knowledge of their inwarde Repentance so that the Emperour both in wordes lookes and gesture more mildely continued his Dration as followeth Continuance of Alexander his Oration to the Cittizyns YOV wish him the vengeance of ten deaths that should but imagine our death And certainly Conscience perswadeth vs your tonges do truely publysh the consents of your heartes but small is the difference when death and desolation is the ende whyther you lay violent hands vpon vs or murder vs with your horryble vices The body that is in a Consumption bringeth the head to the graue euen so the ruine of the kingdom endeth the raign of the king he whose head groweth out of his shyn whose eyes are set in his knees whose seere are ioyned to his shoulders 〈◊〉 other members semblably disordred wold you 〈◊〉 ●…ther take him for a Mōs●…er then a man ye●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doubtles such a creature wold perys●… tie ware he not by others ●…ered for this preposterous shape in euery estate liueth out of order wyl soone come to con fusion people of the best fortune but liue as the bōdmen of their enemies The first Erector of the Romayn walles was ROMVLVS yet Roome was nothyng so much bound vnto him for the envyronyng of her fayre buildynges with strong Bulwarkes as in appoinctyng offices orders and lawes among the people to gouerne them in peace and prosperytie This Romulus that Roome might prosper hastened the death of his Brother REMVS an Act simply considered by Nature very impious and the vengeance of detestable crueltie but the seditious disposition of Remus well pōdred necessytie approoued the seuerytie of ROMVLVS to be perfect Iustice. The loue we owe to our Parents ought to be very reuerent and great because thei gaue vs lyfe to our brethren naturall because of preuytie in blood to our frends affectionat because vertue or benefit is the foundation But the loue we owe vnto our Countrey cōmaundeth vs to breake all these bandes of affection in presentyng the deerest frends offending against the Weale-publique yea in the seruice therof to make it appeare that the prodigall spoylles of our liues giueth contempt vnto Death That Examples of Kynges and Capital Maiestrates in this duetie may be Samplers of Vertue vnto the inferiour Subiectes of Roome I giue you to vnderstād how Kyng LYCVRGVS went into voluntary exile that his good Lawes might haue long continuance among the Lacedemonians Kyng CODRVS wilfully ran vpon his owne Daughter only vpon a Prophesie that the same should deliuer his Countrey from inuasion AVCVRVS Kyng MYDAS Son of PHRIGIA hauing knowledge that the yre of the Goddes would not be pacified vntil a liuing mā leapt into a great gaping gulph of the earth which ouerthrew many houses and dyd much hurt in the Countrey The Kyngs Sonne ANCVRVS I say least some should preuent him hastely kyssed the King his father his wife and frends and couragiously leaped into this Gulph What need we further search then the Monumentes of Noble Romaynes CVRTIVS dyd the like valiant deed of Anoun●…s MVTIVS SCEVOLE in disguised Haby●… entred alone the Hetruryan Camp to ●…ay their kyng who daungerously assaulted Rome GAIVSMARIVS to ouercome the 〈◊〉 Cymbrians ●…crificed his deerely beloued 〈◊〉 CALPHVRNIA Death was the certaine ende of al these en●…pises but th●… Noble personages w●…re wondrous vncertaine whither their Deathes should 〈◊〉 their Countreyes from daungers or no But Louers of their Countreyes prosperitie maketh neither doubts nor delayes where great petyll asketh present succour But you wyll p●…ure saye that you are redy to spende your ly●… yo●… landes and Goods to with-stande forreigne 〈◊〉 or Domesticall ●…nnemies If you so say and doo so 〈◊〉 challengeth al this and wisdome wylleth a 〈◊〉 foresight It is a work of more thank to 〈◊〉 health then to cure Sicknesse for payn and gri●… onely commendeth Medicine euen-so effusion of innocent bloode burnyng of Cy●…ies and rauishment of Virgins are the ●…es of most glorious conque●… And truely he that will giue cause of sedition though hee after dooth his vttermost to suppresse the same is lyke vnto hym that doth wilfully surfet that Phisicke may heale hym Your excessiue Coueitousnesse is example of the lyke mischiefe yea this double daunger dependeth thereon By the same you vndoe the Gentlemen whiche are the Beautie of Rome and the strength of the Empyre For al-be-it Iawe-lesse Wolues wyll scarre Sheepe yet maymed men incourage Cowardes Your aboundaunce can not defende Forreigne Inuasion when the Gentlemens hartes are nipped with want nay it is to be feared that Enuie and Necessytie will make them to ioyne with the Enemie to be reuenged of your Cruelties or too be relieued of your superfluyties HEREWITH the Multitude cried out alowde Accursed be he and vnworthie the name of a Citizyn of Rome that by vnsatiable Coueitousnes and Vsurie seeketh this publique desolution whatsoeuer is thus vnlawfully gotten shal be restored backe

so he both auoydeth the controulement of superiours and the checkemate of inferiours Would our English gentlemen did the like they would like very well of the change By this frugallitie the Napolitane liueth Caueliero like with a 100. crownes a yeare and our ryot maketh no showe of so much a moneth But you will say they starue themselues but did euer any see a man to die of hunger where meate was to be sold if he had gaie clothes to his backe it seemeth he contenteth nature which is plentie ynough we for our glutonie are euerie where called English bellies Very few of our gentlemē die old men by inordinate feading our memorie wit and minde which is immortall is daylie dulled weakened and almost slaine by surfets Let vs excuse the matter as we please wee receiue no better remedie by our excuse than Mahomet had for the fawling sicknesse by coloring his disease in giuing out that his passion proceeded of the brightnesse of an Angell which in those fittes reuealed heauenly matters vnto him But if men will deceiue them selues by deluding others they shall finde had I wist a bitter pill to digest I neede shewe no other examples than the daylie falles of young Gentlemen that trust to the fortune of these intising dicing houses where vertue is shut in the cole seller and vice and all cosoning villanies set in the chiefe places of the hall And therefore happie is he that is either aduised by good counsell or warned by other mens harmes A care to continue the prosperitie of this famous Citie will no doubt cause her Capitall magistrates shortly to looke into the behauiours of riotous Citizens their vnthriftinesse consumeth more than their owne goods and vndoeth many that trauaile painefully for their liuing The example of monethly iustice sufficeth to dismay the third sort of vnthriftie liuers There are more executed from Newgate and the Marshalsies than in three of the greatest Cities of Fraunce and yet I truely say that more offenders are fauourably quitted and pardoned in London in one moneth than in Paris in a whole yere so exceeding great is the mercie of our most good Queene Elizabeth the remembraunce whereof may not passe without zealous thankes vnto God for her thrise excellent Maiestie least straungers condemne her naturall subiects of ingratitude who to eternize this pretious vertue of mercie rooted in the magnanimous heart of her excellencie in commemoration thereof haue written many learned bookes Others haue raised disputationn whether it be a vertue more holy in her Maiestie or daungerous for her true subiects for feare least her clemencie extend vnto persons of the disposition of the frosen snake which the pitifull husbandman cherished by the fire vntill she offered to sting his children and truely whether presumption or necessitie were the cause I leaue to iudge but I craue Gods wrath as iustice if I speake not the trueth In Rome euen in that Rome where the Pope and her woorst enemie raigneth among English fugitiues not woorthie of the benefite of her good subiects plentie peace and prosperitie There was which with mine owne eares I heard that wished imprisonment in the Fleete at the Queenes mercie rather than libertie in Rome It is apparant that her Highnesse mildenes exceedeth and it seemeth that the Popes bountie is not verie plentiful saue vnto such as rather carrie sedition than zeale in their countenance When such as cannot be contented to be good subiects affie more in her clemencie if shame held thē not backe than in the Popes holinesse for all his golden showes In my booke entituled The blessings of Peace this digression shall be liuely set foorth In the meane space many happy yeres after I humbly beseech Almightie God to forget our vnworthinesse by remembrance of her worthinesse that she may in al felicitie still raigne among vs as the image of his glorie and the comfort of all true Christians Amen Againe to my purpose Though there cannot be too much good spoken of her Maiesties gratious sweet mercie yet seueritie may no wayes be termed crueltie so that no more than Lawe be ministred to notable malefactors London is so plentifull of notorious couseners cheters and dishonest liuers and withall so blemished with heynous cousenages and deceites as a young man vnlesse he haue an olde mans experience can hardly auoide their snares Many newe kinde of shiftes which none but the Deuill could inuent and verie Atheistes execute by the wisedome of graue Maiestrates haue beene syfted foorth wherein reuerent personages were in danger of dishonour and innocentes in hazarde of death It is a matter offresh memorie The publicke mischiefe that of late yeares was hatched in these wicked houses and growento the great losse hinderance and halfe vndoing of more than two hundred Gentlemen honest citizens and yeomen yet God which is iust hath rewarded many of the deceiuers according to their euill deseruings No man was euer assaulted with a more daungerous strategeme of cosonage than my selfe with which my life liuing was hardly beset No man hath more cause to thanke God for a free deliuery than my selfe nor anie man euer sawe more suddaine vengeance inflicted vpon his aduersaries than I my selfe of mine as liuely appeareth in the ende of my booke intituled The rocke of regarde imprinted many yeares past And although to cure the extremitie I then fared as a man sore scalded with fire which in hope of ease leapeth into colde water which presently stripeth off his skin So I that had experience of strangers huge deceite thought that the pleasing perswasion of neare friendes would turne to a comfortable remedie but I finde the olde Larkes song true There is no trust in faire words nor assurance in natures obligations But after three yeares more of costly sute my greeuous oppression God be therfore praysed hath pearsed the inclining ear●…s of the right Honorable and Gracious Iudge the L. Chauncelor of Englande by whose wisedom graue iudgement I constantly beleeue to be releued released of the toile of Law vpon whose commaundement with all humilitie reuerence and dutie I attend beseeching Almighty God to preserue the blessed estate of the Queenes most excellent maiestie here vpon earth the lieuetenant of his diuine graces the right honorable Lordes of the priuie Counsell the true images of wisedome and all other Capitall and good Magistrates the strong pillers of this happie gouernement And to the friendly readers of this booke I wish the benefit of my trauels and to the reprehenders amendment of life FINIS Pryde and want cause of Sedition The euer●… of a K●…me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Me●… 〈◊〉 more bound to the common-wealth then 〈◊〉 Par●… Vyces off●…yogabaius 〈◊〉 apparell 〈◊〉 for sage players Dronkennes and glotney greatly disgraceth a gentleman The vengeance of Prodigalitie The 〈◊〉 of Di●…g worthye examPls of continencie Tauern●… stewes anb dicing houses Open bothes in Tauernes Gentlemen for bidden Tauernes Glottony and Dronkenes Limitation of Apparell Dycers made bond sl●… Lymitation for vsurie Mony lent to dice players without hope to be recouered Assinement of Creditors for distressed persones Idle persons set a worke For Corrup●…f v●…s N●…ysome occupations Sweete keeping of baynes Hospitals for poore people Cure for deseased Vacabondes Prou●…ision of Corne. A lawe for The setting of Poore people a worke Vitayling and bordell-houses Cyttizyns for ●…ydden Tauernes Corrupt and deceatfull Bargayners punished as Petty theaucs vnequall compryso●… Playes abolyshed Diceplayers ¶ In Englysh thus ¶ Loue Hate and priuate gayne From vpright trueth the Iudge doth alwayes straine Conseruators and their chardge Ed●…tion of children Education of maydens Riotous house holders Presentation twice by the weeke Prouost of al the Citty Pretores and Questors Puruiours of grayne Cersors and their office A wise pollicie of Alexander King Henry the seuenth Imitator of Alexanders gouernment Inclynation of Common Informers The lewde affections of Common people The woundes of a Comon wealth Negligence in Maistrates causeth bouldenes in ●…ll lyuers Invaying against stage playes Playing at dice invented by the deuill Ordinarie Tables Nurses of Iniquitie Difference of ordinarie Tables This worke is not made particulerly to blame any person but generally to blason abuse Innes of the Court places of much reuerence qi●…ng houses a●… a hinder●… to the st●…d 〈◊〉 of the lawe One seabbed sheepe in feeteth a hole flocke Dy●…ing houses causes o●… pride Three dangerous gwestes belonging to ordinarie tables Description of braue shyfters Braue shiffters lyue vp on the cosenage of ph●… Brokers of Bawdry haunters of Dycing houses Cossonage of Bawdes I wealthie was of late though naked now you see Thrée things haue chaunged mine estate Dice Wine and Lecherie Brokers for mony and their Cossonage A good lesson for younge Gentlemen Prodigalitie a passion vncurable Lib. de liberalit Vale. Max. li 3. Cha. 5. A P●…tifogger a most daungerous broker Exercyse of ordi●…arie Table petysoggers Couetous Citizens hunt 〈◊〉 tables to vndoe Gentlemen The extreme dealing o●… couetou Citizens haue setled a deadly 〈◊〉 betweene Gentlemen and merchaunts Tim. 1. cap. 6. The 〈◊〉 of couetousnesse Foure wheeles of the chariot o●… couetousn●…sse The two h●…es The waggoner The two whippes Pertinax Emperour Pope Martin Cardinall Angell Couetousnes a dangerous enemie to the common wealth A probleme pit●…ly 〈◊〉 ●…y a 〈◊〉 Gentilman Socrates common wealth poore Ordinaries for Citizens and the inconuenience Keepers of these houses old bankro●…tes A dicers opinion of the fi●…st making of dice cards Iudge Chomleys aunswere to the●…ues that sued for 〈◊〉 Citizens forbidden to purchase lande Ordinaries for masterles mē shifters c. Brokers called cherish-theeues Learne this Cardinals name The honorable disposition of the Napolitan gentleman The exceeding mercie of the Queenes Maiestie eternized by straungers