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A02315	A looking glasse for the court. Composed in the Castilian tongue by the Lorde Anthony of Gueuarra Bishop of Mondouent, and chronicler to the Emperour Charles. And out of Castilian drawne into Frenche by Anthony Alaygre. And out of the French tongue into Englishe by Sir Fraunces Briant Knight one of the priuy Chamber, in the raygne of K. Henry the eyght; Menosprecio de corte. English	Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545?; Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.; Bryan, Francis, Sir, d. 1550.	1575 (1575)	STC 12448; ESTC S103507	62,967	162

hard to bring to passe to make rich men to be subiect to the rigour of the lawe To conclude Plato not willing to abyde longer the clamor and cry of the court went and dwelt in a litle village two miles from Athens called Academia where the good old man after he had taryed there .xiiij. yeres teaching and writing many notable doctrines ended there his moste happy dayes After the memory of him the auncients called the village Academia which is to say in English a schole The conclusion is that all these honourable sage princes wise men left Monarchies kingdomes Cities and great riches and went into the vyllages there to serche a poore an honest and a peaceable lyfe Not that I will say that some of these lefte the court to be there poore and banished and rebuked but of their frée wil and frée libertie minding to liue a quiet and honest life or they dyed The xviij Chapiter ¶ The aucthor complayneth with great reason of the yeares that he lost in the court I Will demaunde of mine owne self mine owne life and make accoumpt of the same to the entent that I wil cōferre my yeares to my trauailes and my trauailes to my yeares that it may appeare how long I left of to liue and beganne to dye My life gentle reader hath not béen a life but a long death my dayes a play new for to begyn my yeares a verye tedious dreame The authors lyfe past my pleasures Scorpions my youth a transitorie fantasye My prosperitie hath béen no prosperitye but properly to speake a painted Castell and a treasure of Alcumyn I came to the court very yong where I sawe diuers maners of offices and chaunges euen among the princes that I serued And I haue assayed to trauail by sea and by land and my recompence was much more then I deserued and that was this that sometyme I was in fauor and sometyme out of fauor I haue had experience of the somer santes of destines I haue had in the courte frendes and enemyes I haue had false reports Inconstant fortune I haue béen euen now glad and mery and forthwith sadde and sory to day rich to morowe poore now mounted vpwarde straite throwen dounewarde This hath been to me a masking where I haue lost boeth money and tyme. And now I say to thee my soule what hast thou gottē of this great iorney The recompence is this A Couriers recompence that I haue gotten there a graye heade féete full of goute mouth without téeth raynes full of grauel my goodes layde to pledge my body charged with thought and my soule litle clēsed from sinne And yet is there more seyng that I must néedes speake that is that I haue returned my body so wery my iudgement so dull my tyme so lost the best of my age so passed that is worst of all I found no tast in any thing that is in the world so that to conclude I am of my selfe all werye of my selfe What should I more tell or say of the alteracion of my lyfe and of the chaunges of fortune I came to the court innocent and come from it malicious I went thither true and meaning truth The alteration that commeth by the court and returned a lyar I went thither humble and returned presumptuous I went thither sober returned a gurmand and glutton I went thither gentle and humayne and returned cleane contrary Finally in goyng thither I marde my self in al points And I haue no cause to laye the faulte in my maisters for the vices bée soone learned without a maister cannot be forgottē without a corrector O miserable that I am I kept in the court an accompt of my goodes to knowe howe they were wasted not for to distribute them to the poore I tooke héede of my honor for to encrease it not for to better my selfe by the tyme I tooke care of them that should paye mee to knowe what was owyng mée and not that I might gette to profite the poore withall but to profite in riches and not in vertue I held an accoumpt with my seruauntes to none other purpose then to know how long they had béen with me and serued mée and not to enquire what lyfe they led Finally I held a coumpt of my life but it was more to conserue it then to correct it Lo beholde this was my accoumpt this was my calculacion this was the Arsmetrique that I learned in the court Let vs yet go a litle further and sée myne exercises I neuer was yet in the court but I founde to whom I bare malice or els that enuied mée I was neuer yet in the palaice but I founde a window open and a courtier murmur I neuer yet spake to princes The misliking of courtiers of their state but I wēt from them not contented in my mind with some parte of their answere I neuer yet went to bed without complaynt nor neuer did ryse without a sigh If I went about to doe anye good thing my great affaires hindered mee If I wold study my felowes letted me If I went to take any honest and quiet pastyme mine affayres would not permit mée If I kept my selfe solitary and from company my thoughtes martyred mée The lacke of mony a great misery Finally there was neuer any thing that so vexed my heart as the lack of money in my purse And yet all this is nothing remembring that I was euer enuious to suche as were myne equalles a flatterer to my superiors and without pitie to mine inferiors wher I phansied one I bare hate almost to all other I found euery man worthy of reproofe but against my selfe I could not suffer a worde to be spoken O how forgetfull haue I béen which shoulde forget or a morsell of meate had béen put in my mouth haue talked aloude to my self alone as it had béen one that had béen mad O how often hath chaūced me that in comming from the counsail wery or from the palaice thoughtfull I would not heare mine owne seruauntes speake nor dispatch such as I had to doe withall O how many times haue I béen so drowned in busines that I could not moderate my pensiuenes although my frendes did counsail mee to the cōtrary O alas how many times hath my mynde pressed me to leaue the court and the worlde and to yelde my selfe to some solitary desert as an Heremite because I saw the king auaūce him and him and I put backe as a person halfe desperate Moreouer to fulfill my trauailes alwaies I went asking serching newes of the affayres of the court alwayes harkening what one said of another alwayes spying and watching and all this considered I founde by myne accompt that I liued in heauynes captiuitie and state of damnacion Let vs yet go farther If I were rich one or other serched some meane to deuour mée If I were poore I found none to succour mée my frendes cryed

in thy palayce promyses are made and neuer kepte men serue and haue no reward the world promiseth and performeth not they are inuited to be deceyued they labour to be troubled trauaile to take payn they laugh and are beaten thou fainest to staye vs to make vs fal thou lendest to pull away straight agayne thou honorest vs to defame vs and correctest without mercy Farewell world thou sclaundereste them that are in credite The world doth vniustly and doest auaunce the infamed thou letteste the traytors passe frée and puttest true mē to their raunsoms thou persecutest the peceable and fauorest the sedicious thou robbest the pore and geuest to the rich deliuerest the malicious and condemnest innocentes geuest licence to depart to the wise and retainest fooles The peruerse and blind iudgement of the wo●ld and to be short the most part do what they list but not what they shold Fare wel world forasmuch as in thy palaice no man is caled by his right name for why they call the rashe valiaunt the proude cold harted the importune dilligent the sad peaceable the prodigall magnificall the couetous a good husband the babler eloquent the ignorant a litle speaker the wanton amorous the quiet man a foole the forbearer a courtier the tyraunt noble And thus thou world callest the counterfeat the true substaunce and the truth the counterfeat The world deceiueth Farewell worlde for thou deceiuest all that be in thée promising to the ambicious honors to the greedy to come forward to the brokers offices to the couetous riches to the gluttons bankettes to the enemies vengeaunce to the theues secretnes to the vicious rest to the yong time and to all thing that is false assurance Farewell worlde for in thy house fidelity is neuer kept nor truth maintained and also we may see in thy house one glad and another afrayd some ouercharged some out of the right way some voyde of comfort desperate sad heauy ouerburdened and charged and more then lost and sometime both Farewell world forasmuch as in thy company he that wenes himself moste assured is most vncertaine and hée that followes thée goeth out of the way and he that serues thée is euell payed and he that loues thée is euel entreted and he that contents thée contenteth an euell maister and he that haunteth thée is abused Farewell world forasmuch as thou hast such mishap that seruices done presents offered to thée profit nothing nor the lies that is told thée nor the bankettes made to thée nor the faithfulnes we geue to thée nor the loue we beare to thée Farewell world forasmuch as thou deceiuest all backbytest all and slaunderest al chastisest al thretest vs al achiuest al in the end forgettest al. Farewell world sithens in thy company all men complayn al cry out al wepe and all men dye liuing Farewell world sithens by thée wée hate eache one the other to the death To speke till we lye to loue till wee dispayre to eate till we spue to drinke till we be dronken to vse brokage to robbery and to sin till we dye Farewell worlde for being in thée we forget our infancy and our greene age without experience our youth in vices our middle age in turmoyling and busines our olde age in lamentacions and all our time counted together in vayn hopes Farewell world for in thy scoole we are led till the heire be white the eyes blered the eares defe the nostrels droppyng the forehed wrinckled the feete goutie the raynes ful of grauel the stomack full of euell humors the head ful of migram the body full of sorowe the minde full of passions Farewel world for none of thy louers come to good profit witnes those that daily we sée are not false knaues marked in the face theues hanged māquellers headed robbers by the hye wayes sette vpon wheles heretikes brent false money makers boyled killers of their parentes torn in pieces and other diuers punishmentes of such as are great in fauour with thee Farewell world forasmuch as thy seruauntes haue no more pastyme but to trot by the streates to mock one another to seke out wēches to sende presentes to beguile yonge girles write amorous letters speke to bandes play at the dice plede agaynste their neighbour tel newes inuent lies and study new vyces Farewel world for in thy pallayce none wil doe good to other for the bore fightes agaynste the Lyon the Vnycorne agaynst the Cocodryl the Eagle agaynst the Vultur the Elephant agaynst the Mynotaure the Sacre agaynst ehe Kyte the mastyf agaynst the Bull One man agaynste another and al together against death Farewell worlde All fighte against deth because thou haste nothing but to our ruin For often the yearh openeth afore our feete the water drounes vs the fire burnes vs the ayre mistempers vs the Wynter doth kil vs the Sommer doth chafe vs the dogges doth byte vs the Cattes doth scrat vs the Serpents doth poysō vs the flyes doth prick vs the Flees doeth eate vs and aboue all worldlye busines deuoures vs Farwel world seing no mā can pas thi domynyon in suertie for in euery path we finde stones to stumble at bridges that breakes vnder vs Snow that letteth vs Mountaynes that wery vs Thunders that feares vs Theues that robbe vs encounters that hurts vs and euil fortune that killes vs. Farewell worlde forasmuch as in thy country there is litle health for some be lippers some haue the french pockes some the Canker and some the goute and some haue the foule euell some the Sciatica and some the stone and some Quotidian feuers some wādring feuers some tercian and quarten feuers spasmes palsies and the moste parte sicke of fayre folly Farewell world forasmuch as there is not a mā in thy house but hee is noted with some defaute in his person For if there be any talle manne the reste is lubberlyke If he haue a faire face his eye shall be too blacke If he haue a good forehead it shal be wrinckeled If he haue a welfauored mouth he shal lacke téeth If he haue fayre handes he shall lacke faire heire And if hee haue fayre heire hee shall haue a foule skinne Farewell worlde forasmuch as the inhabitauntes in thee are so variable of maners and condicions that some will folow the court some wil sayle on the sea if one would be a marchaunt the other will be a husbandman If the one will be a hunter the other will be a fisher If one wil gouerne a Monarchy the other vnder pretence of that will pyll and poll the poore people Farewell worlde forasmuch as in thy house there are none that prepare themselues to liue much lesse to dye And yet we see some dye young some in middle age some in olde age some dye by hanging some by drowning some dye for hunger some in eating sleping and resting and some or they beware and for the most parte or they looke for death Farewell worlde forasmuch as we can neither knowe thy disposicion nor condiciō For if one be wise another is a foole If one be fyne another is of a grosse witte If one be valiant another is a coward If one be geuen to peace another is sedicious And if one be of a gētle spirit another is very froward Farewell world seyng no man can liue with thée for if a man eate to litle he becommes weake if to muche he waxeth sicke if a man labour strait he is wery if he be idle he liueth beastly if he geue litle he is called a nigard if he geue much he is called prodigall if a man visite his frendes often he is called importune if to seldome full of disdayne If a man suffer wrong he is called false hearted And if he doo reuenge then is he wilfull If hee haue frendes he is praysed If enemyes he is pursued If one tary to lōg in a place he waxeth wery and if he chaunge to ofte he is grudged at Finally I say that such thinges as displease me I am forced to folowe and that which I would I cannot come by O world vncleane I coniure thée thou filthy world I pray O thou world and protest against thee thou worlde that thou neuer haue parte in mee for I demaund nor desire nothing that is in thée neyther hope of any thing in thee for I haue determined with my self that posui finem curis spes et fortuna valete I haue finished worldly cares therfore hope and fortune farewell FINIS nor w ¶ Printed by VVilliam NORTON