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A13401	The second booke of the Garden of wysedome wherin are conteyned wytty, pleasaunt, and nette sayenges of renowmed personages collected by Rycharde Tauerner anno. M.D.XXXIX. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.; Garden of wysdom. Book 2	Taverner, Richard, 1505?-1575.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. Apophthegmata.	1542 (1542)	STC 23713; ESTC S111350	25,134	97

wolde take exemple of hys Maiestye to purchase vnto them thys renowne Plotinus PLotinus a philosopher was desyred by a certaine paynter named Amelius y t he wolde suffre hym to porture draw out the forme pycture of his body The philosopher wold in no wyse suffre hym sayenge Is it not ynough for men to carye aboute wyth them these ymages pointynge to theyr bodyes but they muste also leaue behynde them to theyr ofsprynge and posteritie the ymages of theyr ymages to be loked and gased vpon Thys panym philosopher iuged with Pithagoras that mans bodye is but a sheathe or case as it were of the mynde whych after a maner it expresseth and resembleth and that he seeth y e least part of man whych seeth and marketh nothynge els but the bodye Assuredlye though pyctures as wel of the lyuynge as of the deade do offentymes sturre and moue the dulle mynde of man yet it can not be denyed but that pyctures or ymages of the bodye wythout recordes and monumētes of the mynd to put men in remembraunce of the noble vertues of suche as be represented by y e ymages be much more hurtfull then profytable Images of sayn tes be lay mēs bokes I graūt so that laye men be taught and instructed what great fayth in Christe what exemple of good lyuyng what patience what bearing of Christes crosse they had that be resembled by those ymages whyle they were conuersaunts here in earth ¶ Cyrus the elder CYrus kynge of Persia was wont to say y t no man ought to take vpō him to rule other onles he were better thē those whom he toke vpon hym to gouerne Meanynge that thys is the principall offyce and function of a prince to forse for others and to counsell for the publyke profytes and cōmodities but thys can not be done oneles he surmount excell the rest of men in wyse dome in vigilauncie in honestye holy nes of mynde in godlynes Now it is not the byrth of man that bryngeth thys to passe but ryght institution good letters experience of thynges When y e Persians bycause theyr countrie was hylly and rough coueted to chaunge it wyth a champyon more gentle soyle theyr kyng wold not suffre them sayeng that euen as graftes sedes be so be the maners of men chaūged accordyng to the nature of the coūtrey Meanyng hereby that he wolde haue hard men paynfull and suche as shulde be gyuen to laboure For a delicate and fyrtyle region gendreth delicate and slouthfull persones Cyrus absteyned hys eyes frō beholdinge of the fayre ladye Panthea And when Araspus sayd vnto hym that the woman was of an excellente bewtye and worthy for the eye syght of a prince the kinge aūswered Euen for thys selfe cause O Araspus we ought the rather to abstayne from lokynge vpon her For yf now I obeyeng thy counsayle shulde resorte vnto her whyle I am as yet at leyser perchaūce she mought so persuade me y t I shulde repare oftē vnto her yea euē when I shulde haue no leyser and so be fayne to sytte styll by her syde my seriouse busynes and affayres neglected Featly he shyfted awaye the argumente that semed lasciuiouslye to entise a kyng or ruler to loue a bewtyfull woman from louyng suche Let Chrystiane magistrates and rulers take here an holsom document and lesson of a pamym prynce sensualitie set a part ernestly to remembre theyr functiō and offyce wherunto they be called of god almyghty vnto whō for the same they shall rendre iust accomptes be they now neuer so hault and careles ¶ Artoxerxes ARtoxerxes Kynge of Persia surnamed the mindful when a certayne pore mā presented hym wyth a verye greate apple he receyued it excedynge thankfully and sayde Nowe in faythe this felowe semeth to me to be such a person that yf a man wolde commytte a citye to hys kepynge he coulde make it of a lytle a greate one At an other tyme a certayne other vplandyshe man perceyuing that diuerse men brought diuerse presentes vnto the kyng hauynge none other thyng to present hym wyth he toke out of y e next ryuer bothe his handes full of water with a cherefull countenaunce offered it vnto the Kynge The kyng herwith being delyted cōmaunded a potte of gold to be gyuen hym rewarded hym furthermore with a greate summe of money Let other nacions wonder at this Artoxerxes English men which haue kyng Henry theygt to theyr Soueraigne Lord thynke thys but a tryfle to his incomparable humanitie When Adides Japson had rayled all at large very despitefully vpon the kyng wyth vnfyttyng and opprobriouse wordes y e king thus farforth reuenged hym he pronounced by the Capitayne of his garde that it was lefull for Japson to speake vpon the kyng what he wolde but agayne it was lefull for the kyng vpon Japson bothe to speake and to do what he wolde Truely we are very straytly charged by gods cōmaundemēt in no wise to rayle nor gest vpō our rulers forasmoch as they represent vnto vs the parson euen of god him self Yea he adourneth them wyth the honora ble title of hys own name callyng the Goddes Whē Artoxerxes beyng on a tyme put to flyghte all hys prouision of vittayles taken awey was fayne to eate drye fygges barley breade O Lord ꝙ he frō howe great pleasure haue I hytherto been kepte backe Here y e kyng proued it true that Socrates the wytty Philosopher was wont to saye Optimum condimentum fames that is to saye hungre is the best sawce Assuredly nothyng better sauoureth meates drynkes than hungre and thrust besyde that it is bothe moste holsom to the bodye and most profitable to the sowle For surfette and dronkenes not onlye cast the bodye in to sundry maladyes and sickenesses but also do distempere the mynd make man no man but worse then a brute beast and that is worst of all bryng gods most terrible curse and displeasure vpon hym The same Artoxerxes beyng on a tyme very sore pressed wyth thurst in maner lost for lacke of drynke Peribarzenes his chamberlayne sekyng about for drynk and not fynding any other brought at last frō a shepeherd a greasye botel of water not all of the clearest Thys water when the kyng had dronke quyte and cleane vp beynge asked whether that drynke lyked hym well he called God to wytnesse y t he neuer drancke wyne more pleasaunt then was thys water nor neuer water were it neuer so pure more swete then thys semed And afterwarde the kynge espyenge the sheparde in hys courte whiche hadde gyuen hym this water made hym of a pore sheparde a ryche gentylman Suche a thynge it is to gyue a benefyte in tyme. ¶ Orontes ORontes sonne in lawe to kynge Artaxerxes whē the kyng was greuously displeased angry agaīst him he was not only vtterly reiected thrust out of y e court but also condēned Which excedyng vnkyndnes dyd not a lytle vexe hym At laste consyderynge the mutabilitie

wherwyth in the myddes of the dalyaunce they shulde kyll the Persians whych thynge was done in dede For of these yonge men the Persiās were slayne euery one and by this meanes was theyr knauerye greuously punyshed Chys Alexander is nombred amonge the auncestours of Alexander the great ¶ Of kynge Scilurus SCilurus kyng of the Scythiās hauyng foure score sonnes when he laye on hys deadebed called them all afore hym A 〈…〉 ended a bounche of roddes to be brought vnto hym whych forthwyth he delyuered fyrste to one and then to an other to breake When euery one of them refused it bycause it semed impossyble hymselfe toke in hys owne hande rod by rod and so easely brake them al monyshynge hys sonnes wyth these wordes Yf ye shall continue together in loue concorde so shall ye remayne stronge and inuincible but contrarie wyse yf ye dysseuer your selues by debate sedition so shall you be weake and easye to be vaynqueshed Gelo. GElo kynge of Sicile at a certayne banket when accordynge to y e guyse of the countrey the lute was caryed aboute and al the rest dyd synge at the lute in order for that was amonge 〈…〉 es counted a thyng of greate comendacion and honestye whē it came to the Kynges course to playe vpon the lute he commaunded hys horse to be brought into the bankettynge house and forthwith he easely and lyghtelye lepte vpon hym Signifyenge by thys hys doynge that chyualrye is muche more princely and mete for a kynge then to synge at the lute albeit in very dede lutynge is an honest pastyme and mete for gētylmen so that it be moderately vsed and be no impediment to thexercyses of chyualrye Thys kynge on a tyme exacted money of hys comons whom when he perceyued in a hurly turly for the same and ready to make an insurrection he thus sodaynly appeased he sente them worde that he wolde but borowe the money that he requyred of them for he wold restore it them agayne wythin a certayne tyme. Thā they wyllyngly gaue theyr money By thys gentle sufferaunce and pollecie he brought about that he wanted not money necessarie to hys warres and neuertheles he had hys comons hartes fast vnto him Whych thinge brought to passe y t he anone had the victorye ouer hys ennemyes where as peraduenture yf in that sodeyne tumulte and rore he had continued to exacted of hys obstinate comons vnexpedyētly the thynge y t had bene neuerthelesse leful he myght haue chaūced soner in y t rage furye of the people to haue bene destroyed of hys owne comōs then by hys comens to haue vaynquyshed hys ennemyes Suche a thinge it is otherwhyles to gyue place to a multytude by wyse dome to compasse that thinge which by dyrecte meanes coulde not elles be brought aboute Albeit in dede thys kynge when the warres were fynysshed consyderynge the grea 〈…〉 ueryshynge of hys subiectes 〈◊〉 by contynuall warres and gre 〈…〉 e exactiōs they had susteyned he repayed them theyr lone Paule wylleth vs to rendre vnto all men that is due to whome tribute tribute to whom custome custome to whome feare feare to whom honour honoure He byddeth vs be subiecte to oure prynce not onelye for feare of the prynces indignacion but euen for conscience And for thys cause he sayeth we paye trybutes Thys I wryte to thintent we shuld paye our dueties wyllyngly to our prynce and obey hym as gods ministre for so Paule calleth hym to the terrible damnacion of the moost cursed Anabaptystes whych at thys daye go aboute to plucke men frome theyr allegiaunce and due obedience vnto theyr prince ¶ Of Hieron HIeron which succeaded the for sayde Gelon in the kyngdome of Sicile sayd that noman that freelye spake hys mynde vnto hym was eyther importune or greuouse But suche as blabbed out mens secretes those he thoughte hurted them also vnto whome they blabbed them for asmuch as we hate not only thē that dysclose our coūsayles but also them that haue herde suche thynges as we wolde not haue knowen One vbrayded hym y t hys breath dyd stynke He conuneth home and chydeth hys wyfe bycause she neuer shewed hym that his mouth sauered Uerely ꝙ she I thought that al men had sauered in lyke wyse These wordes declared an exceadynge great chastitie of the woman whyche neuer in all her lyfe had approched so nere vnto any man that she 〈…〉 de feale the breath of hys mouthe saue only her husbande Thys kynge also bycause in the quene hys wyfes presence the poete Epicharmus spake certayne rybawdouse wordes set a fyne on the poetes head Yf hethen princes thus punyshe knauery and wanton wordes what ought christians do whych be expressely by Christes mouth threate ned to yelde accomptes for euery ydle worde that procedeth forth of theyr mouthes ¶ Demetrius the sonne of Antigonus KYnge demetrius was of such excedynge clemēcie that whē he had reconquered the Athe nians whych sediciously had shrunke from hym and perceyued they were welnere famyshed for default of corn he callyng them togyther in an open assemble graunted them frely a great quantitie of grayne And when in hys spekyng of these thynges to the people he chaunced to cōmit a barbarysme pronouncyng a certayneword otherwyse then it ought to haue ben pronounced and one of thassemble interrupted hym in hys speakynge and shewed hym howe to pronounce that worde ryghtly Truly ꝙ he for thys correction I graunte you other fyftye thousande busihelles I doubt in thys facte whether we maye meruayle at the greath benignitie of thys prynce towardes them which alytle tofore were hys ennemyes or rather at hys excedynge courtesye and ciuylitie whyche not onely toke in good parte that one of hys subiectes corrected hym in hys wordes but also estemed the same worthie of so great a rewarde When this kyng Demetrius had wonne the citie of Megara and hys men of warre had dispoyled made hauocke of all togither accordynge to theyr maner it was shewed hym that an excellent philosopher named Stiibon was amonges them The kynge whyche euer had lernynge in hyghe pryce and admiracion badde that y e philosopher shulde be brought forthe vnto hym He came the kynge him louingly receiued after he had awhile wyth gentle communication interteyned him he asked hym yf hys souldiours had taken anye of hys goodes from hym Nomā ꝙ the philosopher hath takē awey our goodes For I could espye nomā that dispoyled vs of our lernyng and knowlege Meanynge that only the goodes of the mynd which be the true goodes be not subiect to y e violēce of warres ¶ Demosthenes DEmosthenes y e moste famouse and excellent Dratour amonges the Atheniās of whō in my former boke I haue made mention on a certayne tyme whyle he was makynge an oration in the parlyament house amonges the commons of Athens of moste weyghtye thynges belongyng to the common welth perceyued that the people gaue no eare vnto him but rather murmured ayenst him to make him hold

Cato also sayde that he forgaue al mē that offended saue him selfe Nowe that man doth pardon and forgyue himselfe whych repēteth not him selfe of that he hath mysdone And agayne he taketh punyshmente of him selfe which wyth diligence redresseth the thynge that by negligēce was commytted Adhortyng offycers and rulers to punysh offendours malefactours he sayde suche as myghte restrayne wycked doers and wolle not ought to be stoned to death He sayde he hated that souldyour which in walkyng moued his hādes and in fyghtynge hys fete and which louder routed in tente then cryed in felde And that Capitayne or Ruler was starke naught whych could not rule hym selfe He sayde he loued rather those yongmen that blusshed then y t waxed pale bycause blusshynge is token of an honest nature but palenes not so He sayde that euerye man ought most to stande in awe of himselfe bycause no man can at any tyme depart from hymselfe So shulde it come to passe that what so euer we durst not do in presence of other we wolde be abashed to do the same when we be alone When he sawe other Senatours and lordes of Rome set vp gorgiouse ymages in memorie of them selues I hadde leuer sayeth he that men shuld aske and maruayle at me why Cato hathe no ymage set vp for hys memorialle then why he hath one Sygnifyenge that he had rather do worthy actes to thyntent in tyme cōmynge men knowynge that he deserued an ymage to be erected in memorie of hym mought wonder why he hath none set vp in hys commendacion and memorie He admonyshed such as be of great power to vse skantly theyr power that they may vse it euer Meanynge that power by clemeneye and gentylnesse is made longe by roughnes shorte Suche as defrauded vertue of her due honoure he sayde take away vertue from youthe Meanynge by rewards and promocion yonge mēs mindes be kindled vnto vertue which yf ye plucke awaye anon vertue wol ware faynt and quale He sayde a Magistrate or iudge oughte neyther to be prayed for good men nor intreated for euell men By thyshe meant that it is a greate lacke in the iudges yf they muste be prayed to be indyfferente vnto good men sythe they ought of theyr owne mere mocion fauour honest persones Nowe for vnryghteous persones a man to be a suter it is a token perchaunce of humanitie but a iudge to be intreated for suche surely is a part of a shrynker of iustice He sayde that iniurye althoughe it bryngeth no daūger to the worker of it yet is it daungerous vniuersaily to all men Meanynge that thexemple of iniurye vnpunyshed threatneth iniurie to euery man For yf it were lawfull to do hurt without punyshement there shulde be no man sure frō the violence of the wycked and deuelyshe personnes He sayde an angrye bodye dothe nothynge dyffer from a mad mā but in the tariaunce of tyme. Signifyeng that wrathe is as Horace the poete sayeth a short frensye Suche he sayde as moderately soberly coulde vse the auauncemente of fortune be nothynge at all assaulted wyth the grudge or enuye of the people For he sayde mē enuye not vs but our godes wherwyth they se vs adourned and flowynge Outwarde goodes be out of mā but the vyce of vsynge them proudly is wythin mā Suche as accustome them selues to be ernest in tryfles he sayde shalbe in ernest matiers trifelynge He blamed the cytizens bycause they committed theyr offyces euer to all one personnes For me thynke sayde Cato ye eyther lytle esteme the offycies of your citye or els ye iuge few worthy to haue thē Wherof the one was to iuge amisse of the publike power the other to haue an euyl opinyon of the citizens He exhorted yong men that those whych were come vp to dignitie and promotion by indifferencie good demenours prowesse vertue shulde not now fowly growe out of kynd degedre vnto worse but if they were come to worshyp by ambition and extorcions they shulde nowe yet frame them selfes to a better kynde of lyfe For so sayd he shuld it come to passe that bothe they shulde increase theyr glorie these abolishe and weare out theyr blottes w t theyr well doynges Thys prudent Senatour Cato the more he studyed and traueled for the weale of the citye of Rome the more the vnthanfull Romanes hated and spyted hym Whyche thynge when he espyed he sayde openlye to the people that of hys ennemyes he was therfore enuyed bycause he continually rysynge euerye nyghte and settyng asyde hys own priuate affaires traueled in the maters of the common weale notyng the ingratitude and vnthankfullnes of the people Assuredlye thys is the nature of that beast af manye heddes I meane of the people for so the Poete Horace calleth them not without cause England hathe at thys daye a Prynce incomparable Henry the eyght she hath vpō his maiestye Counsailours attendant not a fewe euen the moste prudent and graue parsonagies that could be pyked out of the realme to gyue holsom counsaile she hathe bysshops she hathe teachers a greate manye both lerned and godly yet her ingrate chyldern haue not refrayned from treasons from sedicions from both preuie and aperte grudges and furies frō sklaunderouse reapportes from blowyng abrode and brutynge of moste shamefull and detestable lesynges thynges neuer doon spokē nor yet ones thought vpon as they were ymagined to haue been O ingrate England O eroked paruerse generacyon But I retourne to my purpose This Cato very wyttyly also said that fooles bryng more vtilitie profette vnto wyse men than wyse men to fooles For the prudent and wyse personnes whyle they sone espye the errours and misedemenors of fooles and eschue the same they become the warer but fooles not so for the thynges that they se wel doon of wisemē they haue not the witte to folowe A certayne person whych studyed for nothyng elles but to fare wel coueted moch to be familiare wyth Cato But Cato refused hym vtterlye sayinge he could not lyue wyth hym that sauered better in hys palate thē in hys hart A louers mynd he sayde lyued in an others bodye agreynge to the eōmō prouerbe that sayeth Anima illie potius est vbi amat quā vbi animat The soule or mynd of man is rather there where it loueth then where it lyueth Of thre thynges doon in all hys lyef he sayde he repented hym fyrst yf he committed any hys secreates to a woman second yf to onye place he were caryed by water whyther he moughte haue goon by lande The thyrd if any day had eskaped him by negligence without frute Thys Cato for all he was one of the chiefest lordes of Rome yet hys chief delite and pleasure was in husbandrye in so moch that he wrote also bokes of husbandrye For he sayde that of husbande men be engendred most stronge men most hardy souldiours parsonnes least replete wyth gyle malice And when he was demaūded what gaynes was most certayne best he aunswered to grease or pasture wel what next to pasture metely wel what thyrd to clothe wel what fourth tyllage Why ꝙ one that stode by what is it to gayne by vsaunce or lone of money what is it ꝙ Cato to kyll a man A certayne person which rose erly in the mormynge and found his hose knawn and eaten of the rattes being troubled with this syght thinkyng it a pronosticatiō tokē of some misfortune He cōmeth to Cato to aske his coūsaile to know of hym what euyl thys thyng portended and sygnified Cato maketh hym thys aunswere Certes my frend it is no mōstruouse syght to se rattes eate mēs hoses but yf thy hose had eaten the rattes that had been a monstrucuse syght ¶ The Table of the fyrst boke of the gardeyn of wisedome Agasicles Fo. ij Ageselaus Fo. iij Agis Fo. iiij Lycurgus Fo. v Socrates Fo. ix Aristippus Fo. xvij Philip kynge of Macedonie Fo. xix Aleaudre the greate Fo. xxij Antigonus Fo. xxiij Augustus Lesar Fo. xxv Phocion Fo. xxviij Demosthenes Fo. xxix Dionysius Fo. xxx Agathocles Fo. xxxij Archclaus Fo. xxxiij Themistocles Fo. xxxiij Aristides Fo. xxxiij Diogenes Fo. xxxviij Aristotle Fo. xli Thales Fo. xlij Solon Fo. xliij Pittacus Fo. xliiij Antistherres Fo. xliiij Anacharsis Fo. xlv Seno Fo. xlvi Cleanthes Fo. xlvij Isocrates Fo. xlvij Philoxenus Fo. xlviij ¶ The Table of the seconde boke Achilles Fo. ij Alphonsus kyng of Aragone Fo. iij Athanasius Fo. vi Sigismuno Temperour Fo. viij Plotinus Fo. x Cyrus the elder Fo. xi Artoxerxes Fo. xiij Orontes Fo. xv Duke Memnon Fo. xv The Egyptians Fo. xvi Cambyses Fo. xvij Darius Kynge of the Persians Fo. xxi Semiramis Fo. xxvi Serxes Fo. xxvi Artoxerxes with the long hand Fo. xxix Cyrus the yonger Fo. xxix Cresus Fo. xxx Amyntas Alexander hys son Fo. xxxij Scilurus Fo. xxxiij Belo Fo. xxxiiij Dieron Fo. xxxv Demetrius the son of Antigonꝰ Fo. xxxvi Demosthenes Fo. xxxviij Cato Fo. xlij FINIS ¶ Prynted at London by Richard Bankes ¶ Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum