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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16748	The good and the badde, or Descriptions of the vvorthies, and vnworthies of this age Where the best may see their graces, and the worst discerne their basenesse.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1616 (1616)	STC 3656; ESTC S104792	20,529	48

THE GOOD AND THE BADDE OR Descriptions of the Worthies and Vnworthies of this Age. WHERE The Best may see their Graces and the Worst discerne their Basenesse LONDON Printed by George Purslowe for Iohn Budge and are to be sold at the great South-dore of Paules and at Brittaines Bursse 1616. TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVLL and VVorthy Sir Gilbert Houghton of Houghton Knight the Noble fauourer of all vertuous spirits the highest power of heauen grant the blessing of all happinesse to his worthy hearts desire VVorthy Knight THe worthinesse of this subiect in which is set downe the difference of light and darkenesse in the nature of Honour and disgrace to the deseruers of either hath made me vpon the note of the Noblenesse of your spirit like the Eagle still looking towards the Sunne to present to your patience the Patronage of this little Treatise of the VVorthies and Vnworthies of this Age Wherein I hope you will finde some things to your content nothing to the contrary which leauing to the acceptance of your good fauour with my further seruice to your command I humbly rest Your VVorships deuoted to be commanded Nicholas Breton TO THE READER I Am sure that if you read thorough this Booke you will finde your description in one place or other if among the Worthies holde you where you are and change not your Carde for a worse If among the other mend that is amisse and all will be well I name you not for I know you not but I will wish the best because the worst is too bad I hope there will no body be angry except it be with himselfe for some-what that hee findes out of order if it bee so the hope is the greater the bad will be no worse yet the world being at such a passe that liuing Creatures are scarcely knowne from pictures till they moue nor Wise-men from fooles till they speake nor Arteists from Bunglers till they worke I will onely wish the Worthy their worth and the contrary what may mend their Condition and for my selfe but pardon for my presumption in writing vpon the natures of more worth then I am worthy to write of and fauourable acceptation of no worthy intention of reprehension by the least thought of malicious disposition So leauing my booke to your best like with my better labours to the like effect In hope to finde you among the Worthies I rest At your command if worthy N. B. THE GOOD AND THE BADDE OR Descriptions of the Worthies and Vnworthies of this Age. A Worthy KING A Worthy King is a figure of God in the nature of gouernment he is the chiefe of men and the Churches Champion Natures honour and Earths maiesty is the director of Law and the strength of the same the Sword of Iustice and the Scepter of Mercy the Glasse of Grace and the Eye of Honour the Terror of Treason and the Life of Loyalty His commaund is general and his power absolute his frowne a death and his fauour a life his charge is his subiects his care their safety his pleasure their peace and his ioy their loue he is not to be paraleld because he is without equalitie and the prerogatiue of his Crowne must not be contradicted hee is the Lords Anointed and therefore must not be touched and the Head of a publique body and therefore must be preserued he is a scourge of sinne and a blessing of Grace Gods Vicegerent ouer his people and vnder him supreme Gouernour his safety must bee his Councels care his health his Subiects prayer his pleasure his Peeres comfort and his content his Kingdomes gladnesse his presence must be reuerenced his Person attended his Court adorned and his State maintained his bosome must not be searched his will not disobeyed his wants not vnsupplied nor his place vnregarded In summe he is more then a man though not a God and next vnder God to be honoured aboue man An Vnworthy King AN Vnworthy King is the vsurper of Power where tyranny in authority loseth the glory of maiesty while the feare of terror frighteth loue from obedience For when the Lyon plaies the Wolfe the Lambe dies with the Ewe Hee is a messenger of Worth to be the scourge of sinne or the triall of patience in the hearts of the religious he is a warrant of woe in the execution of his fury and in his best temper a doubt of Grace hee is a dispeopler of his Kingdome and a prey to his enemies an vndelightfull friend and a tormentor of himselfe he knowes no God but makes an Idoll of Nature and vseth Reason but to the ruine of sense his care is but his will his pleasure but his ease his exercise but sinne and his delight but vnhumane his heauen is his pleasure and his golde is his God his presence is terrible his countenance horrible his words vncomfortable and his actions intolerable In summe he is the foyle of a Crowne the disgrace of a Court the trouble of a Councell and the plague of a Kingdome A Worthy Queene A Worthy Queene is the figure of a King who vnder God in his Grace hath a great power ouer his people She is the chiefe of women the beauty of her Court and the grace of her Sexe in the royalty of her spirit She is like the moone that giueth light among the starres and but vnto the Sunne giues none place in her brightnesse She is the pure Diamond vpon the Kings finger and the Orient Pearle vnprizeable in his eye the ioy of the Court in the comfort of the King and the wealth of the kingdome in the fruit of her loue Shee is Reasons honour in Natures grace and Wisedomes loue in Vertues beautie In summe she is the Handmaid of God and the Kings second selfe and in his Grace the beauty of a Kingdome A Worthy Prince A Worthy Prince is the hope of a kingdom the richest Iewell in a Kings Crowne and the fairest flowre in the Queenes garden hee is the ioy of Nature in the hope of Honour and the loue of Wisedome in the life of Worthinesse In the secret carriage of his hearts intention til his dissignes come to action he is a dumbe shew to the Worlds imagination in his wisedome hee startles the spirits of expectation in his valour he subiects the hearts of Ambition in his Vertue hee winnes the loue of the Noblest and in his bounty bindes the seruice of the most sufficient he is the Crystall glasse where Nature may see her comfort and the booke of Reason where Vertue may reade her honour Hee is the Morning-starre that hath light from the Sunne and the blessed fruit of the Tree of Earths Paradise hee is the studie of the wise in the state of Honour and in the subiect of Learning the history of admiration In summe he is in the note of wisdome the aime of Honour and in the honour of Vertue the hope of a Kingdome An Vnworthy Prince AN Vnworthy Prince is the feare of a