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A15039	A mirour for magestrates of cyties Representing the ordinaunces, policies, and diligence, of the noble emperour, Alexander (surnamed) Seuerus, to suppresse and chastise the notorious vices noorished in Rome, by the superfluous nomber of dicing-houses, tauarns, and common stewes: suffred and cheerished, by his beastlye predecessour, Helyogabalus, vvith sundrie graue orations: by the said noble emperor, co[n]cerning reformation. And hereunto, is added, A touchstone for the time: containyng: many perillous mischiefes, bred in the bowels of the citie of London: by the infection of some of thease sanctuaries of iniquitie. By George Whetstones. Gent.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?; Severus Alexander, Emperor of Rome, 208-235.	1584 (1584)	STC 25341; ESTC S119730	41,603	88

this Myrrour neede neither Machauils Pollycies nor new Sessions of Parliament The Remedies are alredie established and Administration will soone worke amendment Reformation belongeth to the Magistrate although the benefite be generall I onely of Zeale discouer vnsufferable faultes but deale not with faultie men whom I referre to publique Iustice And too your Censures I present my Trauayle and at Commaundement my selfe Vowinge in Actions of a true Subiect to seeke the Honour of this famous Citie to showe my selfe worthy of my deceased father who liued longe in good Credit amonge you and beyng dead is registred for a good man no more but accomplishment of perfect desires To your Honour and Worships George Whetstones To the 〈…〉 the yong Gentlemen of the Innes of Court RIght VVorshipfull and Worthie Gentlemen of the Innes of Court vnto you as vnto one of the fairest Ornaments of this happy Realme I commende the benefite of this small Treatise And I am wel perswaded in this Dedication that I salute the best parte of all the yong Gentlemen of Englande For what Course so-euer they afterwardes sollowe there are very fewe Gentlemen but either are or haue ben of your Societie It is verie wel knowen that these famous Houses are the first intertayners of your Lybertie For notwithstandyng in your Gouernments there are many good and peaceable Orders yet your chiefest Discipline is by the Purse Those that are disposed studdie the Lawes who so liketh without checke maye follow Dalliance And certainly the wanton Alectiues which you continuallie behold are not vnlike the Sirenes Inchauntments were Poets faynings true you cōtinuallie walke by the Adamant Rockes whiche drawe Siluer and Gold as fast as Iron and Stéele you must be armed with more experience then the capacytie of yong yeares or els assure your selues that Repentance wyll vnlose your Fetters there is an olde Prouerb Euil Companie corrupteth good maners And truely I cannot see how yong men of the best education should escape vnpoysoned when vice is so conuersant with Elder yeares O how happie were it for your Posterytie if the Innes of the Court were farre from Dieyng-houses or Dicing-houses with their Originall the Deuill But if you can not be thus seperated this little Booke wyll with regarde guide you as safe as the Clue of threede did Theseus in the Laberinth These Houses outwardly are of the substance of other Buildinges but within are the Botches and Byles of Abhomynation they are lyke vnto déepe Pittes couered with smoothe Grasse of which men must be warned or els they can hardly auoide that their eye can not discouer You can haue nofairer warnings then the steppes of your Companions falles nor I a more fortunate Rewarde for my trauaile then to see you worthie Gentlemen to floorish I beseeche you to be aduised It is a more precious matter to shun a Mischiefe by other mennes harmes then to learne the goodnes of a thing by the losse therof This sharp Discouerie will make your fléering Deceiuers my open Enemies but I shal be well strengthned if my true Affection breede in you a disdaine of their fellowshyp let them spurne their woorste they hurt them selues that are angrie with good Admonition I dedicate this Booke to the Magestrates to whome appertaineth the chastisment of euyll liuers your woorst enemies I dedicate to you courteous Gentlemen the Fruits of Noble Alexanders Counselles as beseeming your worthinesse I am but his Trouch-man and your trustie frend And truely your wisdomes may make his graue Counselles more profitable then their seuere Discipline for the Medicine is of more value that preserueth Health then that which cureth Sicknesse The health of a Gentlemā is Honour actions of vertue in which Alexander liberally instructeth you The Maladie nay death of a Gentlemā is an vndoyng to the posterytie which is hastened by the sucking of Shifters Of whome I constantly hope the good Maiestrates will ease you I leaue further Ceremonies in my Preface leaste I seeme to iudge your Wisdomes who are for Learninge a faire Beautie of the Common-wealth my plaine Methode in writing showeth you a large hole to sée Daye which is ynouffe with an Aduauntage who retayne the vertue to drayne Honie from a Weede I ende to trouble you at this time but in no time will leaue to bée Your assured Frende George Whetstones Ad candidum Lectorem IN LAVDEM OPERIS SI te cura iuvat sanctarum Candide Legum Aut inculpatae praecepta salubria vitae Hinc Exempla petas Morum sit norma tuorum Hic Liber et SPECVLO te contempleris in isto Nam fugienda tibi quae sint industrius Author Quaeqae sequenda docet Liber et labor illius omnis Huc spectant Aleas vites nec Tessera curae Nec Gula nec Luxus nec desidis Otia vitae Sint tibi sed Mores compti castissima vita Et Labor et rebus virtus exercita duris Quae Patriam iustis defen dere possit in Armis Haec Summa est Operis nostriqae hîc meta laboris IOANNES BOTREVICVS ¶ Faultes escaped the Author being absent Leafe Side Lyne Fault Correction 1. 1. 16. no cōmon wealth in no cōmon wealth 7. 1. 9. an Absurditie no Absurditie 8. 2. 30 his own Daughter his owne Death 9. 1. 13. Gaius Caius 10. 1. 18. Laborers barbarous 15. 2. 19. knights of the land knightes of the Band. 21. 1. 2. attempting attempt 21. 1 2. innoia muoia 28. 1. 11. forgetteth geueth 26. 2. 22. done due In the next Line folowing for reuerenced reade reserued A Mirrour for Maiestrates of Citties AFTER THAT THE GOOD Emperour Alexander surnamed Seuerus for his sharp correcting of vice had restored the authoritie of the Senate and had giuen breathe vnto their good Lawes of whom the one sate without reuerence and the other were read and not regarded through the inordinate lyberties and Priueleadges giuen vnto vice by that vncleane Monster Heliogabalus his Predecessor Of the suddaine Rome was brightned with the vertues of Iustice as the world with the beames of the Sunne after a horrible and darke tempest But as there is no assurance of faire weather vntill the skie be cleare from clowdes so which well forsaw this good Emperour there can be no common wealth a grounded peace and prosperitie where there are not Informers to fynde out offenders as well as Iudges to chasten offences In so much in the prime of his Gouernment accompanied with many graue Senators as this good Emperour went vnto the Senat in his passage hee might see the Cittyzins busielye exercised in their seuerall trades he incountred the Gentlemen in ciuil attire and of euerie estate found both himselfe and his Senators saluted with much honour reuerence and dutie And being in the Senate house mounted in the iudiciall Throne he sate long and was litle occupyed with crimynall causes The Senators no little gloried that appealing vnto the iudgement of Alexander they might lawfully boast that Rome which was late

A MIROVR For Magestrates OF CYTIES Representing the Ordinaunces Policies and Diligence of the Noble Emperour ALEXANDER surnamed SEVERVS to suppresse and hastise the notorious Vices noorished in Rome by the superfluous nomber of Dicing-houses Tauarns and common Stewes Suffred and cheerished by his beastlye Predecessour HELYOGABALVS vvith sundrie graue Orations by the said noble Emperor cōcerning Reformation AND HEREVNTO IS ADDED A Touchstone for the Time Containyng many perillous Mischiefes bred in the Bowels of the Citie of LONDON By the Infection of some of thease Sanctuaries of Iniquitie By GEORGE WHETSTONES Gent. ✿ VIRTVTE NON VI. ¶ Printed at London by Richarde Iones 1584 ¶ Author ●●d and allowed To the Right Honorable Sir Edward Osburne Knight Lord MAIOR of the famous Cittie of LONDON To the Right Worshipfull his Assistantes the Aldermen And to their learned Counseller M. Seriant Fleetwood Recorder of the same CITIE his approoued good Frende and Kinsman RIght Honorable and worthie Maiestrates Among the Learned ther is a by Prouerb ORPHEVS can describe Hell better then ARISTOTLE raised vpon a Fable that he fetched his Wife from thence which is none other then a confirmation of the sound Reason of PLAVTVS That Of more validitie is the sight of one eye then the attention of ten eares for in that a man seeth is Assurance and in that he heareth may be Error Right Honorable and Reuerent I vse this EXORDIVM to take away the Contempt which the plain Discouerie of my MIROVR may breede that make so sharp a Declaration of Vices as if they raigned without Chastisement And do I with the Deformytie of Rome reformed by Addition entreate of Abuses or more of daingerous Mischiefes incloased in the Bowelles of this famous Cittie I doo and do acknowledg withall that you are Iudges of offenders within your limittes and with the Scourdge of Lawe you chasten them or with the Swoorde of Iustice do cutte them short as you finde them as you finde them I saye E●●al-be-it by the testimonie of Holy writ both you and all principal Magestrates haue on Earth the names and places of Goddes yet with your fauours in your and their Iudgementes are often showen the Infyrmyties of men your sightes are not invisible and therfore necessarie that you haue visible Lightes in obscure Corners A Physition can not see euery secrete griefe but vpon Reuealement may applie a curable Medicine for a hidden Discease Euen-so many can discouer the Mischiefe the Magestrate seeth not but the Magestrate alone must remedie the same And where say you haue I knowledge of these concealed Abuses Forsoothe In Hell where al sinne and Iniquitie is as apparant as Godlinesse Vertue is in Heauen cōmon Mee seemeth I here you answer That smale is the Maruaile if you come not there to harken after Offenders when the sayng is In Hel there is no Redemption In very trueth If Custom haue not made you bold ye could no sooner enter into the Common Dicinge Houses or Hell in and about London So I maye name them by the Aucthoritie of CORNELIVS AGRIPPA who saith that the Art was first deuised by the Deuil But you wold imagin the Assemblye dampned and you your selues in daunger to bee presently destroyed Gods vengeance is so greuouslye tempted For the Deuill can breathe out Iniquitie no faster then his Angelles there assembled outrage God with the horriblest blasphemies that may be imagined and too damnable to be reported What followeth there wher this despight is done vnto the eternal God Mary no villanie may be vnthought nor vnwrough to preiudice men It is euery mannes Case that hath care of his Posterytie to be Suters for Reformation the euill is of the Nature of the Oyle of Ieat that consumeth the Marrow perisheth not the Bone The Marow strēgth of this happy Realme I mean the Abilitie of the Gentlemen is much weakned and almost wasted by haunting of these vngratious Houses Yet for that the Mischiefes be not reprooued the Remedies ar not applied Not so fewe as three hundred Gentlemen of liuing are at this Day more then halfe vndone by the daungerous frequenting of Dicing-houses how many here tofore haue ben cleane suncke would mooue pittie to nomber And for the welfare of such as shall followe it is highe time the Corruption were purged And as the nombers of Gentlemen by this meanes decayed are great so the nombers of those that liue like Gentlemen vpon their spoyles are greater For if the Shifters in within the leuel of Lōdon were truely mustered I dare boldly say they would amaze a Pettie Armye I pray god an easie incouragemēt arme thē not to a ciuil Mischiefe for if their forfeats were wel knowē I fere thei do acts as vētrus but my meaning is not to suspect or acuse any in particuler although ther be mani that too boldly offēd I wish that their Couerts wer discouered thē iustice wold soon find their faults or repētāce shew their amēdmēt My Discouerie being by your wisdomes read the lothsomnes of this Mischief can not but distemper your sences and for your safeties the Infection I trust shal be speedely purged And in this comon benefite this glorious Monument shall remain of your godly Trauayles London as she is the Honor of her Countrey So is she become the liuely Example of vertue If this Saiynge bee written vppon her Gates and A Whyp and a Halter the Signe of a Dicinghouse Vnthriftes and their Familiars would quickly liue in other Corners It is almost incredible what beastly estate HELIOGABALVS left Rome as great a wonder how soone his good Successor ALEXANDER repayred her Ruines A Briefe of bothe whose Gouernments I haue set down in the beginning of this Treatise to showe how mightie sinne will grow with a little lybertie and how soone it is quailed with seuere Correction We haue the Image of Vertue too our Soueraigne Queene ELIZABETH the Sages of ATHENS to her most Honorable priuie Counsell graue Iudges in iuditiall places and worthie Maiestrates to examine Offences by Gods and whose prouidence our Prosperytie is so famous as all the worlde enuie and feare vs. How great a foile weare it then that we shuld deuoure one another when of our superfluytie many a hungry Nation is satisfied The prudent Maiestrates haue alredie looked into our lasciuious inclinatiō haue enacted Medicineable Lawes for these Infirmyties But the seuerest Lawes are not other then written threatninges without Execution of whose vengeance all men may heare and no man doth feele In times past a Proclamation would keepe men in awe and nowe an Example of Iustice scarse makes the wicked to chaunge countenaunce but althouge a Braynsicke Iade wyll ronne with a Snaffle a sharpe Bitte wyll bridle him though an Offender do iest to here a Penall Statute proclaymed and say tush the effect of this will be soone forgotten yet in the meanewile scowrge him with the paine and hee will crie Peccaui To reforme the inconueniences Embleamed in