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A18296	The table of Cebes the philosopher. How one may take profite of his enemies, translated out of Plutarche. A treatise perswadyng a man paciently to suffer the death of his freend; Pinax. English.	Plutarch. De capienda ex inimicis utilitate. aut; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. De morte declamatio. aut; Poyntz, Francis, Sir, d. 1528.; Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546, attributed name.; Cebes, of Thebes, attributed name.	1545 (1545)	STC 4891; ESTC S109138	35,783	158

ye ought so to settel your self that if ye can not as yet put awaie cleane the sorowe of your herte for no man can denie but that ye haue right good cause to bee heauy yet at the least wise some what suppresse and moderate the same dolour And for what cause should ye not cleane forgeat it Seeyng that the space of a fewe daies wyll cause ideottes so to do me thinketh reason should perswade an excellent wyse man For what seelie mother dooeth so extremely bewaile the death of hir child but that in shorte space of tyme hir sorow somwhat asslaketh and at length is cleane forgotten To haue alway a stedfast mind is a token of a perfecte wyse man But for those chaunces vnto the whiche we all equally both more and lesse be subiect to sorow out of measure me thinketh it extreme foolyshnes For who is not ware except he that myndeth nothyng that he is borne vnder suche a condicion that whan so euer god wyll call hym he must foorth with nedes depart hence So than what other thyng I pray you dooeth he that bewayleth ones death than lamentably complayne that he is mortall Or why shoulde we rather sorow the departyng hence than the entryng into this worlde consyderyng that bothe ar equally naturall Euen in like case as though one shoulde geue great thanckes for to bee called to a great feast or dyner and would lamente and demeane great sorowe whan he should departe awaie thence ¶ If that a manne as it were from an high lookyng place wold aduise well the condicion and life of all mankind might he not well recken hym selfe a nyce felow if he among so manyfolde exaumples of priuacion and among so thicke burials of yonge and old would be greuousely vexed in his mynde as though vnto him onely were chaunced some newe and great euyll and as though he onely beyng happie aboue other wold desire and looke to stand without the common lot For whithe consideracion the excellent wise men that found and made lawes in old tyme to the entent that they wolde some what inclyne to the affections of parentes and to the ende they woulde not be seene to exclude euery body from that passion beyng also condemned of some of the stoicke philosophers they lymytted vnto theim a certayne tyme to mourne the whiche endured not very longe Eyther because that they well vnderstoode and knew that in those maner of chaunces the whiche are both commune to al folkes and also dooe not hap through any iniurie of Fortune but are induced by the very course and ordynance of Nature shorte mournyng should suffice yea vnto theim that were not able to moderate all affections consideryng that Natures selfe by littell and littell soupleth the wound that she made and weareth awaie the scarre Or elles because they diligently marked that mournyng was not onely vnprofytable vnto theim that were bemoned but also hurtful to theim that made suche mone and greuouse and vnquiette to their freendes acquaintaunce and companie ¶ But nowe yf a man would consider the matter a right doeth it not seme a poinct of madnesse willyngly of one harme to make twayne and whan ye can not by no maner reason recouer your predestinate losse yet wilfully to annoy and hurte your owne selfe In lyke maner as though a man that his enemies hath spoyled of part of his goodes wolde in his anger throw all that euer remayned into the see and than wold saie how he by that meane dyd bewayle his losse ¶ If we wyll regarde the noble Mimus whose saiyng may beseeme any Phylosophier to speake Thou must paciently suffre and grutch not at it that can not be amended Let vs cal to mynde the muche goodly exaumple of the ryght excellent kyng Dauid the which so sone as tidynges was brought hym that his sonne that he so tenderly loued was dead he foorthwith rose vp from the grounde and shaked and brusshed of the duste he threwe awaie his shert of heare and so whan he had wasshed and annoincted with a glad countenaunce and a mery chere he wente to dyner And because his freendes marueyled thereat he saied to theim For what entent should I kyll my selfe with wo and sorowe For vnto this tyme some hope I had that god being moued with my lamentacion would haue saued my childe a liue but now all our weepyng teares can not restore hym againe to vs alyue we shall shortely spede vs hence after hym Who is so fonde to crouche and pray him whom he knoweth wel wyll incline to no praiers There in nothyng more vntreatable than death nothyng is more deffe nor nothyng more rigorous By craftie handling the sauage beastes yea the most wyld of theim all are made tame There is a waie to breake the harde Marbull stone and a meane to mollifie the diamante but there is nothyng wherwith death wyll be appeased or ouercome It neither spareth beautie riches age nor dignitee And therefore it ought to greue vs muche the lesse eyther because it can not be eschewed or els because it is equally commune to vs all ¶ What needeth me to goe aboute to reherse to you here the manifolde examples of the gentyles the whiche with a noble and a constaunt courage toke well in worth the death of their dere frendes In whiche constauntnes of mynde is it not a great rebuke for vs that be christiens to be of theim ouer commen Call nowe to your remembraunce thilke saiyng well woorthy to be enrolled in writyng of Telamon and Anaxagoras I wist well I begotte a mortall creature ¶ Thynke vpon Pericles the Duke of Athenes the whiche is no lesse renowmed for his eloquence than he is for his force and manlynes all be it that he within .iiii. daies space lost his ii sonnes that were endewed with right noble qualitees he not onely neuer chaunged his chere but also he beyng crowned as was the guyse than spake and reasoned among the people of mattiers concernyng their common wealth ¶ Haue in mynde also Xenophon the worthie scoler of Socrates to whom tidynges was brought as he was doyng sacrifice that his sonne was deade he made no more to doe but put of his crowne and foorthwith dyd put it on againe as soone as he vnderstode that his sonne was manly slayne in battayle ¶ Remembre Dion of Syracuse the whiche on a tyme as he was secretely talkyng with his freendes sodainely heard a great noise and rumbling in his house And whan he had enquered what the mattier ment and was enfourmed that his sonne had fallen from on hygh and was deade he beyng therwith nothyng amoued commaunded the corps as the maner was to be deliuered to women to bury For he saied he wold not leaue of his pretensed pourpose for that mattier ¶ Whom Demosthenes folowing the .vii. daie after the deth of his onely and moste entierly beloued daughter beyng crowned and araied in a fayre white garment he came foorth abrode amonge the people Of

whiche deede the accusacion of his foe Aeschynes both confirmeth the trouth setteth out the glorie ¶ Thinke also vpon the kyng Antigonus the whiche when he heard tidynges that his owne sonne was slain in a disordred skyrmisshe pausyng a littell and beholdyng theim well that brought him the tidynges with a stoute and a constante mynde he saied O Alcynonen that was his sons name all to late thou perishest that wouldest so foolishely caste thy selfe awaie among thy fooes nothyng regardyng thine owne health nor my monicions and woordes ¶ If ye delite more to heare the examples of Romains beholde Puluillꝰ Horace to whom as he was dedicatyng the capitol tidynges was broughte that his sonne was dead he neyther drew away his hande from the poste nor tourned not his chere from religion to priuate sorow ¶ Consydre how Paulus Aemilius whan he had within the space of .vii. daies lost his .ii. sonnes he came foorth abrode amonge the people of Rome and there shewed theim that he was very glad that by the lamentacion of his householde whiche was but a priuate sorow he had redeemed the enuie of Fortune bent toward thē al. ¶ Thinke also how Q. Fabius Maximus whan he was consull and had lost his sonne that was than a man in hygh rowme and dignitee and greatly renowned for his noble actes he came foorth abroade among the people gathered together and there to theim he recited the commendacion of his sonne ¶ Thinke on also whan Cato Censorius his eldest sonne died the whiche was a yonge manne of singular witte and high prowesse and therto elect and chosen to be Mayer yet was he nothyng so amoued with that chaunce that he would in any thyng more slackely endeuour hym selfe about the needes and businesse of the common welth ¶ Ye should remembre Marcius whose surname wasking whan his sonne of right noble disposicion and that stode highly in the fauour and good opinion of the people and therto beyng his onely son was dead he toke the losse of hym with so constaunt a minde that foorthwith euen from the buryall of hym he caused the Senatours to assemble together to ordeyne lawes concernyng theyr common welth ¶ Ye should not forget Lucius Sylla whose valiant and most fierce courage toward his enemies the death of his son could nothyng abate nor cause that he should seeme falsely to haue vsurped or taken vpon hym to be called by this surname felix that is to saie lucky or welthy ¶ Whan Caius Caesar that was Sylla his felow in rowmeth had inuaded Britaine and hadde tidynges that his daughter was dead yet er thre daies were fully ended he went about his impery all buisinesse ¶ Whan Marcus Crassus in the warre that he made against the Parthiens behelde his sonnes head the whiche his ennemies in skorne and derision had set vpon a morispykes end and the more to exasperate and augment his calamitee thei approached neere to his armie and with woordes of reproche and blame they shewed it vp he tooke in woorth all that doyng with so constant a mynde that sodainely he rode forby all his battailes and said to them with a lowde voyce that that was his own priuate harm but the health and saluacion of the common weale stode in the sauegard of them his men of warre ¶ But nowe to ouerpasse the manifolde examples of Galba Pyso Scaeuola Metellus Scaurus Marcellus and Aufidius remembre whan Claudius Caesar had lost him whom he bothe begotte and moste entierly loued yet for all that he his owne selfe in the common pulpit lauded and praysed his sonne the corps beyng present all onely couered with a littell veyle and whan all the people of Rome wepte and bewayled his sonnes death he his father wept not a teare ¶ And suerly lyke as it is a right goodly thyng to folowe and dooe as these men dyd euen so were it a right shamefull thyng if menne should not be found as stedfast and as stoutly minded as women haue been in suche case ¶ Cornelia sawe and hehelde hir two sonnes Titus Graccꝰ and Caius Graccus slain and vnburied and whan hir freendes comforted hir and saied she had a wretched chaunce I will neuer saie quoth she that I am vnluckie or vnfortunate that haue borne suche two children ¶ But whereto dooe we nowe repete these examples out of ancient chronicles as though we sawe not daiely before our face sufficient exaumples Beholde your neighbours beholde your kynsfolke and alies howe many yea seely women shall ye finde the whiche veraie moderately take in good woorth the death of their children This mattier is so plaine that there nedeth no great helpe of philosophie therto For he that wold consider well in his minde how wretched on all sydes this our lyfe is to howe many perils to howe many sickenesses to how many chaunces to howe many cares to howe many incommoditees to how many vices and to howe many iniuries it is endangered how littell and how small a porcion therof we passe foorth I will not saie in pleasure that is not attached with some maner griefe and displeasure and than further to consider howe swiftly it vanisheth and rolleth awaie that we maie in maner reioyce and be glad of them that been departed out of this world in their youth ¶ The shortnes of our life Euripides sadly expresseth whiche calleth the lyfe of mortall creatures one littell daie But Phalereus Demetrius doeth better whiche correctyng the saiyng of Euripides saieth that the lyfe of man should rather be called the Minute of an howre But Pyndarus sayeth best of all whiche calleth the lyfe of man the dreame of a shaddowe He ioigneth twoo speciall thynges of nothyng together to the entent that he would declare how vaine a thyng this lyfe is Now how wretched and miserable the same life is on euery behalfe the auncient poetes semed to perceiue it passyng well the whiche deemed that a man coude not more truely nor more better name mortall creatures than surname theim veraie myserable wretches For the first age or formoste parte of mans lyfe the whiche is reckened the best is ignorant The middell parte of the life is assailed with trouble and care of manyfolde businesses and yet al this while I speake but of theim that bee moste luckie and fortunate Therfore who is he whiche of veraie right will not approue the saiyng of Silenus the best is neuer to be borne the next is most swiftly to be clene extinct ¶ Who will not allow the ordinaunce of the Thraciens the which customably vse to receiue theim that bee borne in to this worlde with lamentacion and mournyng and againe whan they depart hence they be very glad and demeane great ioye And he that by hym selfe considereth inwardly those thynges that Hegesias was wont to declare to his hearers he woulde rather desyre his owne death than abhorre it and wolde far more indifferently take inworth the death of his freendes But now your fatherly sorow commeth

forth and saieth He died ere his daie he died in his childhode he died so passyng a good childe ye and so towardly disposed vnto vertue that he was worthy to haue lyued many yeres your fatherly sorowe complaineth that the course of nature is subuerted seing that you his father an olde man should ouer lyue your sonne a younge man But I praie you for the loue of god tell me what ye call before his daie as though euery daie of a mans life could not be his laste daie One before he come into this worlde and whan vnneth it hath any shape of a creature reasonable is strangled and dieth euen vnder the handes of nature workyng and formyng of it An other dyeth in the byrth An other criyng in the cradell is snatched awaie by death An other in the flowryng youth dieth whan scarsely as yet it hath any tast of the lyfe Of so many thousandes of people to how few is it geuen as Horace nameth it to steppe vpon the gryce of olde age Without doubt god hath vnder suche a law constituted the soule in the garrison of this littell body that what so euer moment he wyll commaunde it to depart thence it must by and by nedes goe Nor there is none that can of ryght thynke hym selfe to be called foorth before his daie consideryng that there is no man that hath a daie certaine to hym appoyncted but that onely is his lawfull daie whiche so euer he our soueraine capitaine wolde shoulde be his last daie If we will worke wisely we should so abide euery day as it were our very last I praie you what maketh it matter seyng the life is so short and fugitiue whether we die betimes or tary somwhat longer For it skilleth no more than it dooeth whan many be brought to execucion whiche of theim shoulde bee fyrst heeded or hanged It is all one whiche is the firste the third or the eyght And what other thing els is the lyfe it selfe but a certaine perpetuall course vnto death Sauing that their chaunce is more commodiouse the whiche from so laborious an exercyse of the lyfe are dispatched betymes But as it is a touch of a brainles felow to depart awaie from the armie and breake the arraie without the Capitaynes commandement So it is a foolishe poincte and great ingratitude whan leaue is quickly geuen of the capitain not gladly to take it And most specially if he that hath nowe lycence to goe maie departe his waie home with laude and praise and to him no rebuke nor shame Nor it is not conuenient that one should sit and recken howe many yeares he hath lyued The age should be estemed accordyng to the noble deedes And he as Homere saieth is not reputed to haue lyued that hath poystered the earth and made a noumbre but he the whiche sadde and sobrely passyng foorth his lyfe leaueth behynde hym an honest remembrance to them that come after ¶ Doe ye complayne that god sent you foorthewith suche a chylde as ye woulde desyre to haue had many yeres to come What pardie your sonne died not so soone he was now come to the age of twentie yeres at the which age after myne opinion it is best for to die for so muche as than lyfe is mooste sweete Now was he to his countrey verie bountifull now was he to his father verie lowly and gentyll now was he amonge his felowes a verie mery compaignion and nowe had he a good and a perfecte mynde to godward He decessed ignorant of vices and whan he had not tasted but littell of the calamitees and miseries of this worlde But what he should haue knowen and haue felte if he had lyued longer it is vncertaine No doubte we see veraie often tymes that the latter age dooeth bothe infecte the cleane conuersacion of yong age with more greuous vyces and spotteth and defileth the felicitee of youth with manifolde miserable grefes From all these euyls and perils death quickely withdrewe hym Nowe maie you safe and surely reioyce and be gladde that you haue had so good and so vertuous a sonne ye or rather haue But be it as you doe suppose that you had hym and that now ye be depriued and haue loste hym Whether of veraie right oughte you rather to tourment and vexe your selfe for that ye haue forgone hym orels reioyce and be glad that ye had suche a sonne Take you heede that it be not a poincte of vnkindnesse that ye should remembre the request of the gefte to be restored againe and nothyng to minde the geft No doubte a chylde of a good disposicion is a great geft but yet he is so geuen that ye should take and haue pleasure with hym for a tyme and not that he should be yours for euer You that be a perfect wyse man consider this by your selfe yea let vs bothe together consider on this wyse ¶ If a great prince should lend vs a table of an excedyng great price and of an excellent workmanshippe to passe our tyme with whether ought we whan so euer pleaseth him to demand or call for it with a glad chere ye and moreouer gentilly thankyng hym to deliuer it agayne orels with heuie and sorowfull countenance shall we complain to hym on this wyse O cruell prince of how precious a gefte haste thou spoyled vs Howe great a pleasure hast thou beraft and taken from vs How soone hast thou taken from vs contrary to our opinion this so excellent a thyng Might not he of veraie right to our so vnkynde complaintes answere on this wise Haue I this reward for my gentyll and courteyse deede Remembre ye nothyng saue onely that that ye haue forgone the moste fayre table Haue ye forgot that I of myne owne good wyll and freely lent it you And that ye haue nowe so long while of my gentilnesse and sufferaunce fedde your eies and delyted your mynde It was of my liberalitee and freedome that I lente it you and now whan I require it againe I doe but right pardie ye haue had by me some aduauntage ye lost nothyng saue that through your folie ye feigned that thyng to be your owne that was but lent you And so ye esteme it to be loste that is restored to the owner againe But the more precious and delectable that the thyng was that I lent and leat you haue at your pleasure the more a great deale ye oughte to haue thanked me Nor ye ought not to thincke it to bee to soone required again the whiche with out any iniurie or wrong might haue been kept from you ¶ If this reason can not bee proued false by no meane of argumentacion then thinke how much more iustly Nature with suche maner woordes might reproue bothe our lamentacion and sorowfull complainynges And vndoubted by these maner of reasons our sorow ought to bee swaged yea if it were so that a man were vtterly extinct by death and there remained nothyng of vs after the buriall ¶ Now