Death is the driery Dad and dust the Dame Death is misfortunes monarchizing foe Thy fatall end why doest thou so begin Locking death out yeâ— keep'st destruction in None moane his death whose life hath all annoy'd We haue one life and so our death is one Death lends vs sight while he doth spare vs breath It 's treble death a freezing death to feele For him on whome the Sunne hath euer shone Long liues the man that dies in lustie yeares Death is the lowest step a man can fall Death is not shunn'd of them that dutie yeeld Death which eâ—ds care yet carelesse of our death Doth steale our ioyes but stealeth not our breath Parting breeds mourning absence cruell death To good and bad death is an equall doome Though death be poore it ends a world of woe Death is to some a fierce vnbidden guest But those that craue his aid be beloeth least There 's nothing we can call our owne but death Death 's the deuourer of all worlds delight It 's sweet to dye when we are forc'd to liue When heapes of treasure is the meed preposed Though death â—e adiunct there 's no death supposed Neere death he stands that stands too neere a crowne It 's double death to drowne in ken of shoare Death is too good for base dishonest life There 's nothing else remaines for vs beside But teaâ—es and coâ—â—ins onely to prouide All things are subiect to deaths tyrannie What thing soeuer liues is sure to die All killing death by Christ is kill'd him-selfe Oh Sicknesse thou art many times belyde When death hath many wâ—yes to come beside The sharpest sting of death hurts not but helpes Carrion corruption is the food of death The day of death excels our day of birth Oft times their gaines whome greatnesse fauoureth When chiefe preserr'd stand as preferr'd to death Raise vp no liuing blame against the dead A present death exceeds a lingring life Life leads to care death to the scale of heauen The dying man whose eyes are sunke and dimme Thinkes euery passing bell rings out for him To die in life is but a liuing death Good death not loftie life is most renowme In countries cause to die is noble death Death doth no time no age no reason measure Similies on the same subiect AS the hearb Rew is bitter in our taste â—o deaths remembrance fearefull is to many As sleepe depriues the memorie of paines So sleepe of death ends all our wretchednes As all small currents runne into the sea So all mens toiles are swallowed vp in death As borrowed money must be paid againe So what life owes must be by death discharg'd As we are merrie at our childrens birth So should we not grieue vainly at their death As darknesse doth obscure the fairest day So death laies hold vpon the forward'st life Examples likewise on the same HEctor said to his wife Andromache Grieue not my death all men are borne to die Gorgias askt in sicknesse how he far'd Said Sleepe now yeelds me to his brother death Pindarus sleeping on a young lads breast Neuer awaked but in that sort dyed Vespasian stood vp at the point of death And said An Emperour should standing dye Plato thankt Nature that she let him liue In such a time as taught him well to die Thales will'd euery man amend his life Else he could haue no honour in his death The Conclusion THis worke which cost no meane paines and labour to reduce into this forme and method is thus at the length happily concluded commended to the kind acceptation of all gentle and well-disposed minds If some carping Sycophant readier alway to cauill and find fault than correct and amend shall mislike of the course obserued in this booke and imagine the heads not aptly or properly placed according as in his nice opinion perhaps hee would haue them let me thus plainely answere him That they were neuer meant for the pleasing of his vaine appetite and therefore hee hath more loue to looke off than be prying into matters aboue his capacitie Onely to the iudiciall and affable iudgements of this age both the paines and pleasure of this labour is published not doubting but they will measure it by the iust desert and censure thereof as their owne kind natures haue euer beene accustomed In this first Impression are omitted the Sentences of Chaucer Gower Lidgate and other auncient Poets because it was not knowne how their forme would agree with these of ten syllables onely and that sometimes they exceed the compasse herein obserued hauing none but lineall and couplet sentences aboue and beyond which course the Gentleman who was the cause of this collection taking therin no meane paines him-selfe besides his friends labour could not be perswaded but determinately aimed at this obseruation Neuerthelesse if this may enioy but the fauour hee hopes it will and the good intent thereof be no way misconstrued at the next impression it shall be largely supplyed with things that at this present could not be obtained both in respect of some vrgent occasion beeing the hinderance thereof as also because there wanted apt meanes to furnish further purpose then intended All which shall then be answered effectually and any thing els may be thought auaileable to this worke and the good liking of the wise FINIS An Alphabeticall Table of the seuerall things handled in this Booke A ABoundance vide Riches Absence vide Loue and Friendship Abstinence vide Gluttonie Accusation vide Iustice. Actions 1 17 19 50 67 c. Admiration vide Loue. 40 Admonition vide Counsell Aduise c. Aduersitie vide Pouertie 12 Aduise 73 Adulterie vide Lust. Affection 161 Affliction 12 20 74 Age. 222 Ambition 108 Amitie vide Friendship Angels vide Heauen 58 Anger 132 Armes vide Warre Arrogancie vide Pride Art vide Learning Aspiring vide Ambition Auarice 127 Auncestors vide Kings Authoritie 194 B BAbbling vide Words Beautie 40 Beleefe 30 Benefits 63 Blasphemie vide God and Heauen Blessednes 2 11 16 24 Blood 58 71 77 79 82 84 c. Boasting vide Pride Body vide Mind Bountie 22 211 Bragging vide Pride Brauerie vide Pride C CAre vide Greefe Charitie vide Loue. Chastitie 37 38 39 40 Chaunce vide Fortune Chaunge 11 24 29 34 37 c. Children 36 97 Choyce 46 Choller vide Anger Ciuilitie vide Anger Clemencie vide Pittie Comfort 20 24 54 64 80 c. Common-wealth vide Kingdomes Compassion vide Pittie Concord 81 Concupiscence vide Lust. Confidence 18 32 Conquest vide Warre Conscience 8 9 10 Consideration vide Counsell Conspiracie vide Treason Constancie vide Women Contemplation vide Religion Contempt vide Disdaine Content vide Peace 6 49 67 71 Contention vide Anger Concord c. Couetousnes 127 Counsell 73 Countrey vide Common-wealth Courage 197 Courtesie vide Kindnesse 75 Cowardise 33 48 60 66 86 Craft 97 Credit 22 68 Credulitie 30 51 58 Crueltie vide Tyrannie 33 41 51 Curiositie vide Pride Custome 61 70 79
at last Truth hateth most to here a feigned tale Innocence smile before the Iudge by truth And falshood found before he was suspect Reprooue not rashly neither hide the truth Truth is a blab and will no treasons hide Truth is a text that troubles many minds Truth still hath certaine bounds but falshood none Similies on the same subiect AS the best steeled glasse bewraies the face So truth best shineth in an honest soule As purest Emeralds without foyles shine best So truth most pleaseth in her plainest clothes As wormwood fitteth not a lickerish taste So truth doth neuer please a lyars tongue As clouds oft threaten raine and yet shed none So stormes oft menace truth yet hurt her not As darkenesse is an enemie to light So falshood is continuall foe to truth As meane attire impaires not beauties face So poorest ragges to truth giue no disgrace Examples likewise on the same IVlian Apostat â—the foe to Tâ—uâ—h Cried out at length that Truth had conquerd him Nâ—sâ—â—riuâ— who contended with the truth His tongue was eaten in his life with wormes The Perâ—â—aâ—s in the honour of the truth Ordainâ—d death to such as did denie it Popiel king of Poland for vntruth Was as he late aliue deuouâ—â—d with Rats Câ—to was so râ—nowmed for the truth That he was onely said to speake the truth Vntruth saith Seâ—eca are meetest Armes For any coward or base minded man Of Vertue Vertue is Queene of labour Nource of loue The minds true grace and blessing from aboue ALl things decay but vertue cannot die Vertue makes beautie more angelicall Vertue is free from time and fortunes power Men cannot leaue their vertues to their heires Faire vertues seat is deepe within the mind And not by shewes but inward thoughts defin'd Vices are noted vertues soone forgot Vertues best store by giuing doth augment There is no vertue that is borne with vs. No vertue springs where wanteth due regard Vertues obscurde yeeld small and sorie gaines But actiuely employd true worth-retaines Winne fame by vertue let opinion goe Vertue is in the mind not the attire Vertue and fortune neuer could agree Vertue is loath'd of fooles lou'd of the wise Vertue is much more amiable and sweet When therewithall true maiestie doth meet Vice careth not if vertue sinke or swimme Wit shines in vertue vertue shines in wit Sweetest temptations most make vertue knowne Vertue it selfe turnes vice being misapplyed And vice sometimes by action dignified The field of honour vertue neuer looseth Vertue will beare what can on vertue fall True happinesse on vertue taketh ground The more vice reignes the lesse doth vertue thriue To vertues goods we onely ought to cleane The rest are good in semblancâ— but deceaue Vertue will liue when villanie shall die Vertue may be disturb'd but ne're disgrac'd No beautie like the vertue of the mind Vertue through darkest shades doth light her selfe Vertue in greatest daungers being best showne May be opprest but neuer ouerthrowne Vertue oft lyes where life is in disgrace If sinne were dead vertue could not be knowne Sweet is the gaine which vertuous trauaile brings All vertuous minds doe vertuous deeds declare Our vices nor our vertues neuer die Though vnder ground a thousand yeares we lye Vertue doth mortall things immortall make The bond of vertue alwaies surest binds Than vertue there can be no greater dower 'T is vertues selfe that her rewards doth pay Enuies black cloud would dim bright vertues rayes All sorrowes in the world are farre more lesse Than vertues might and valours confidence Sinne counted solace vertue is despisde Vaine praise is shame but honour vertues due Without defence of vertue nothing lasts Onely faire vertue scales eternitie Aboue earths all-abating tyrannie All Orators are dumbe when vertue pleads Vertue but stampt in Lead is rich enough That growes apace which vertue helpes to raise Vertue curbes in the most vnbridled will With goodnesse men doe sâ—one grow discontent Where states are ripe to fall and vertue spent True vertue is rich dower for chastitie In vertuous deeds all stratagems are good Vertue is beautie of the inward man Exclude discretion vertue turnes to vice Like to the Sunne so vertue lights the world Such as leaue off faire vertueâ— to esteeme Doe greatly erre that take things as they seeme Vertue will shine though ne're so much obscur'd Vertue depressed is expressed more Vertue makes women seeme to be diuine With honours eyes let vertues plaints be scand Vertue doth raise by very small degrees Where in a moment Fortune casteth downe While vertue suffers still it vanquisheth Need clad with vertue is aboundant rich Vertue is better and more sure than Artes. Vertue is not to get things but to keepe them Vertue on earth doth soonest bring vs fame Makes our graues glorious writes our names in heauen Vertue most grieueth at her owne disgrace A vertuous act seemes straunge in some mens sight A vertuous mind cannot be miserable Death is true life to euery vertuous man Though vertue many times wants due reward Yet seldome vice escapes deserued blame Vertue doth neuer enuie good desert Loue maketh vertue liue and vice to die Reports can neuer harme the vertuous He is not vertuous that 's too timerous Ech cunning sinne being clad in vertues shape Flyes much reproofe and many stormes doth scape Vertues are many times by faults disgrac'd Honours defects by vertues are supplyed Vertue still doteth on perfection Vertue in beauteous bodies shineth best All the gay pleasures that the world can prooue Are but sicke sorrowes to pure vertues loue Vertue is most renowm'd in honors eyes Vertue still smiles when vaine conceit doth crie Immortall vertue liues an endlesse datâ— Wisdome on Vertue as her handmaid waits The worldâ— opinion so doth vertue smoother Aâ— one beares that belongs vnto another Vertue makes euery where a straungers home Vertue doth conquer dissolute desires Vertue in Princes is most glorious Vertue deserueth more than wealth can doe The blasts of Fortune neuer can preuaile In the maîne sea where vertue â—oisetâ— saile All pompe is vile where vertue hath no place Vertue doth vanquish Fortune Time and Death Similies on the same subiect AS feare of torment holds the wicked in So vertues loue mâ—ke good men loath their sin Looke how one vice begets another sinne Euen so one vertue drawes another in As Musicke proâ—its nothing but by sound So vertue helpes not if it saile in life Like as the Sunne obscures all lesser lights So vertues lustre damps all enuies sleights As spices in their bâ—uising sauor most So vertue in affliction best is seene As wine refresheth sad dismayed minds So vertue comforts poore distressed soules Examples likewise on the same KIng Alexander got the name of Great By vertuous cariage of himselfe in warre Spurina chose to manglâ— his faire face Rather than be seduc'de from vertuous thoughts Hercules bad vaine pleasure get her gone And made faire vertue his companion Xerxes for beastlines was not so blam'd As
comes each mans good As Captaines are the eyes to lead their men So kings are Load-starres to their common-weales Examples likewise on the same VLysses lou'd so deare his natiue land As for it he refus'd to be immortall Aglaurus to redeeme his countries peace From Athens walls himselfe threw headlong downe Faire Iphigenia for her kingdomes good Made willing sacrifice of her owne blood King Codrus rather than his realme should perish Gladly did runne vpon his foe-mens swords Xenophon did thinke them vnworthie life That made no conscience of the common-wealth He that denyes to die in countries cause Deserues saith Tullie hate of all good men Of Nobilitie Nobilitie is a sir-name or praise Which to our selues by vertue we doe raise A Noble nature no mishap can daunt Vertue feeds scorne and noblest honour shame A noble mind doth neuer dread mischaunce That which in meâ—ne men we call patience In noble breasts is pale cold cowardise Noblenes neuer stoupes to seruile feare A noble heart doth still contemne despaire Oft noble deeds by falshood are desac'd Good gisâ—â—are sometimâ—s giuen to men past good And noblesse stoopâ—s oâ—t times beneath his blood Our vertues make vs noble nothing else Nobilitie from kinred is but borâ—owed It is thine owne desâ—â—ts â—nnobles thee He is not noble but most basely â—â—ed That ransacks tombes and doth dâ—â—ace the dead A noble nature is to all men kind Nobilitie contâ—â—neth â—latterie A noble resolution makes men iust Nobilitie is best continued â—â— those conuâ—nient meanes that made it rise In boldest actions noblesse shines most cleare He is not noble beares a niggaâ—ds mind True noblâ—sse is a signe of happie life In chaunge of streames â—ch fish makes shifâ— to liue And euery place a noble mind contentâ— Nobilitie to bad men is reproch To vertuous men nobilitie brings glorie Nothing are noblâ— tiâ—â—es worth if life be bad If noblenesse geâ—â— bâ—t a minutes slaâ—â—e An hundred yeares sâ—ant makes it well againe Truth is the title of true noblenesse 'T is vertue only giues nobilitie In vertues loue no noble mind dismayes Faire speech with vsage affable and kind Wipes malice out of any noble mind Much babbling doth offend a noble â—â—re A noble nature is religious Pouerties best friend is the noble mind Noble discents make vertue more diuine Similies on the same subiect AS none but Eagles gaze against the Sunne So none but vertuous eyes discerne nobilitie As credit from opinion often comes So from desert ensues nobilitie As bricks from clay haue their originall So noblesse first rose from meane parentage As grosse thicke clouds obscure the Suns faire light So muddie crimes disgrace nobilitie As bitter roots may yet yeeld pleasant fruit So meane discent may bring forth noble minds As in the barren grounds best gold doth grow So poorest race sâ—aines not true noblesse Examples likewise on the same CAmillus did expresse a noble mind In safe returning tâ—e â—alâ—riâ—n youthes Pyâ—â—â—us well found â—â—bâ—itiâ—s noble nature When his Physicion would haue poyson'd him Lysander in his famous viâ—toâ—ies Euer declar'd his minds trâ—â— noblenesse Catilines wicked life disgraced him And quite obscur'd his former noble race The name of Noblenes saith Cicero Must giue them place that by their vertue claime it Plato affirmeth that a noble heart Will not by base attempts once wrong it selfe Of Honor dishonor Honour is that the mind doth couet most And no dishonour like that honour lost HOnour once lost can neuer bâ— repair'd Honor ambitious womens sexe doth please It is no honour to be Princes heires When we can boaâ—t but only birth is theirs Their fall is great that from high honour slide Honour is least where oddes appeareth most Honour was first ordained for no cause But to see right maintained by the laweâ— To honour beautie is a due by right Die rather then doe ought dishonour yeelds True loue doth alwaies bring forth bourteous deeds And in good minds desire of honour â—reeds It is more honour to preserue than sâ—ill Who cheapneth honour must not stand on price Fie on the fawe for which good same is sold Or honour with indignitie embaâ—'d Honour is grounded on the tickle Ice No kingly vaile can couer villanie An honourable graue is more esteem'd Than the polluted closeâ— of a king No scepter serues dishonour to excuse No subtill plea reuokes dishonours error Prâ—fiâ—e with honour still must be commixt Or else our actions are but scandalous Honour and enuie are companions Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we doe To frustrate them that but expect their due Doth ill beseeme an honourable mind On generall bruit honour doth most depend With painfull â—oyle is honour soonest found Honour will hardly fellowship endure Nor neuer Crowne corriuall could abide Some honour liues in honourable spoile 'T is honour to forgiue a yeelding foe The mightier man the mightier is the thing That makes him honour'd or begets him hate Daunger hath honour great dessignes their fame Honour 's a thing without vs not our owne It 's honour to depriue dishonour'd liâ—e The one will liue the other being deâ—d Honour by oath ought right poore Ladies wrongs Honours are smoakes and dignities haue câ—â—es Honour and beautie in the owners armes Are weakely fortrest from a world of â—armes Honour relieues a foe as well as friend It is no honour to be swolâ—e with pride Honour doth scorne dishonourable thoughts The vâ—â—tor can no honour iustly claime To loose the meanes that should aduance the same Where hate beares soueraigntie there honour diâ—s He that regards his honour will not wrong it Disquiet honour hurteth more than helpes Honour and wealth oft times too dearely cost The death of all so altogither lost Honour doth euer iudge with lenitie No greater honour than a quiet mind Honour 's no priuiledge against defame Alwaies doth great employment for the great Quicken the blood and honour still beget Honour to many is more sweet than life Honour is fruit of vertue and faire truth Honour once gone bids farewell to all hope The inward touch that wounded honour beares Findeth no helpe till death cure the disease Honour and glorie labours in mistrust Honour is first step to disquietnesse How hard is princely honour to attaine High honour not long life the treasure is Which noble mindes without respect defend Dishonest deeds no honour can attaine The praise of honour is not alwaies blood Neuer retire with shame bright honour saith The worst that can befall thee is but death Honour doth scorne the height of Fortunes pride Great honours youth may loose it selfe in age Report that seld to honour is true friend May many lies against true meaning mint No honour comes by spilling aged blood Who seekes for honour lingers not his time Vilde is that honour and the title vaine The which true worth and honour did not gaine Honour doth hate with base delights to dwell Honour helpes nothing where contentment wants He that contends with th' inferiour sort May
silence Women in mischiefe are more wise then men A womans tongue wounds deeper than her eye Constant in loue who tryes a womans mind Wealth beautie wit and all in her doth find Women are Natures wonder louing Nature Women doe couet most what 's most denyed them Extreame are womens sorrowes past redresse Or so dissembled not to be beleeu'd A woman of good life feares no ill tongue Silence in women is a speciall grace Similies on the same subiect AS none can tell a griefe but he that feeles it So none knowes womens wrongs but they that find them As women most despise what 's offered them So to denie their minds is worse than death As a sharpe bridle fits a froward horse So a curst woman must be roughly vs'd As the best mettal'd blade hath iron commixt So the best women are not free from faults As readines of speech becomes a man â—â— silence doâ—h a woman best beseeme As goodliest gardens are not void of weeds So fairest women may haue some defect Examples likewise on the same ISâ—rina sometimes Queene of Scithia With her sweet voice made calme the rough swolne seas Romane Cornelia was so eloquent That to her they did daily sacrifice Lachis of Athens to her country-men Appointed lawes for ciuill gouernment Queene Parisatis caus'd the Persian kings To haue their buriall in rich tombes of gold Plato held women in a familie As needfull as a kingdomes gouernour If nature doe desire her selfe to see Saith Plutarch women then her glasse may be Of Ambition Ambition is a humour that aspires And slayes it selfe in seeking high desires AMbition with the Eagle loues to build Ambition being once inur'd to raigne Can neuer brooke a priuat state againe Ambitious fauorites alwaies mischiefe bring Th' aspirer once attain'd vnto the toâ— Cuts off those meanes whereâ—y himselfe got vp Ambition yet tooke neuer lasting root High aimes young spirits birth of loyall line Make men play false where kingdomes are the sâ—aâ—es Th' ambitious will find right or else make â—ight It is ambitions sicknes hauing much To vexe vs with defect of that we haue Might makes a title where he hath no right Those men that commonly o're-looke too much Doe ouer-see themselues theâ—r staâ—e is such Ambitious minds a world of wealth would haue Ambitious minds to get a princeâ— traine Would afterward of beggers life be faine Ambition paine and loue brookes no delay Lyons doe neuer cast a gentle looke On any beast that would vsurpe their den Who climbes too soone oft time repents too late Bloud and alliance nothing doe preuaile To coole the thirst of hot ambitious breasts Aspiring things are readie still to fall Bruises are sooner caught by reaching high Than when the mind is willing to sloope low Many vsurpe but most in mischiefe end Fortune doth neuer grudge at them that fall But enuie stings and biteth them that climbe Aspiring thoughts led Phaeâ—on awry Reware ambition 't is a sugred ill That fortune layes presuming minds to kill Ambitious Icarus did climbe too high Ambitions bold and true begotten sonne Is quite spent in desire ere hope be wonne Gazeâ—s on starres oft stumble at small stones Seldome can proud presumption be enthroan'd To liue esteemd or die to be bemoan'd Ambition no corriuall will admit The man that doth presume aboue his state In stead of loue incurres but deadly hate Highest attempts to low disgraces fall Craft giues ambition leaue to lay his plot And crosse his friend because he sounds him not Competitors the subiects dearely buy Presuming will counts it high preiudice To be reproou'd although by sound aduise Beware ambition in felicitie Such reaching heads as neuer thinke them well After their fall their owne mishaps may tell High mounting Eagles soone are smitten blind Ambitions dying is great glorie wonne Similies on the same subiect AS breath on steele as soone is off as on So climbers are as quickly downe as vp As nothing in substance is more light than aire So nothing can out-goe ambitious thoughts As winds being vp doe blow more violent So proud vsurpers tyrannise in height As bad men grieue at good mens happinesse So high aspirers grudge at lowlines As powder fier'd is but a suddaine flash Euen so ambition is no more than smoke As Bâ—ts doe flutter not directly flie So climbers aime at much and misse of all Examples likewise on the same Fâ—edericâ—e the third was by his bastard sonne Ambitious Manfâ—oâ— dispossest of life Geta murdered Antoniâ—s his brother Through his ambitious mind to rule alone Crassus procur'd himselfe a shamefull death Through his ambitious spight at Caesars fame Marius not satisfied with former praise Through his ambition soone abridg'd his dayes Plato would haue good men exalted still But none that sauour'd of ambition Saith Aristotle kingdomes soone decay Where pride or else ambition beareth sway Of Tyrants c. Tirants are kingdoms plagues and good mens woe Their owne destroyers and soone ouerthrow A Tyrants lookes breed terror after death Oft in the childrens slaughters fathers die The man that once is strong in equitie Will scorne th' austerest lookes of tyrannie Tyrannie still strikes terror to it selfe Death is the vtmost end of tyrannie Those that in blood a violent pleasure haue Seldome descend but â—leeding to the graue Birth is no shadow to sterne tyrannie Ladies and tyrants doe respect no lawes When tyrannie is with strong aid supported All iustice from â—ood minds is quite extorted No tyrannie can force true fortitude Tyrants are leaders to a many ills A tyrant that hath tasted once of bloud Doth hardly thrine by any other food Tyrants will brooke no tearmes or list dispute Tyrants are torturers of honest soules Words not preuaile neither can fighes aduise To mooue the heart that 's bent to tyrannise No fame consists in deeds of tyrannie Tyrants are alwaies traitours to them-selues To punish many for th'amisse of one Most properly to tyrants appertaine Where tyrants reigne God help the land that while It 's worse than death to liue a tyrants slaue Tyrants being suffred and not quail'd in time VVill cut their throats that gaue them leaue to climbe The smallest worme will turne being trode vpon The Doues will pecke in rescue of their brood The sauage Beare will neuer liâ—ke his hand That spoiles her of her young before her face By vniust deeds a true prince growes a Tyrant Nothing more abiect than a tyrant iâ— He that in bountie doth exceed himselfe Becomes a tyrant â—fterward to others Tyrants subdue by strength maintaine in hate Tyrants are Nobles scourge the commons plague King as they ought Tyrants rule as they list The one to profit all the other few No peace no hope no rest hath tyrannie One iniurie makes not a tyraâ—nie Princes ouâ—ht iuâ—tly to defend their owne Rather than tâ—rant-like to conquer others Who kings refuse deserue a tyrant Lord. Vsurping rule is held by tyrannie Tyrannie in a teacher is most vile For â—oâ—â—â— with loue not rigour
solace like a vapour flyes And hath no power repining hearts to mooue Solace and sorrow haue their certaine times While pleasure withers paine more ripe doth grow When pleasures â—bbe then griefes begin to flow To vaine delights a man may easily goe But safely to returne may much be fear'd Best musicke breeds delight in loathing cares The strong through pleasure falls â—he weak by smart Pleasures doe neuer feed but â—n excâ—sse He that in pleasures vaine doth time bestow Treads but the path to his owâ—e ouerthrâ—w In things without vs no delight is sure Pleasure is felt opinion but conceiu'd Pleasure is short and glory lasts not long The sweets we wish for tuâ—ne to â—â—atâ—ed son eâ—s Euen in the moment that we call them ours That pleaseth most is â—arthest from the eye Low is the stalke whereon best pleasures grow Pleasure asleepe then soâ—â—ow will awake Maids are not wonne by brutish force or might But speeches full of pleasure and delight Pleasure maintain'd by care is quickly lost After long sicknesse health brings most delight Vncertaine pleasures bring a certaine paine Maâ—des doe take more delight when they prepare And thinke of wiues state than when wiues they are Shortest delights doe bring a long repent Pleasures them-selues are but imaginations Things soone obtain'd doe least of all delight This woâ—ld is but the pleasure of an houre And yet the sorrow of a thousand daâ—es Oft pleasures past doe way to woe prepare In worldly miâ—th lurketh much miserie All sweet delights are drown'd in dulled minds Pleasures liâ—e posting guests make but small stay Where griefes â—ide long and leaue a score to pay It 's true delight to know the cause of griefe Miâ—th â—oundeth harsh to melancholly men Mirth makes the longest iournies to seeme short What more apparant signe can be of madnesse Than haue anothers pleasure cause thy sadnesse Who buyes a minutes mirth may waile a weeke Mirth searcheth out the bottome of annoy Vnlawfull pleasures haste destruction Potions if pleasant though insectious Are sooner taâ—ne than holesome pillâ— for health Sorrow fore-going pleasure graceth it Gladnesse with griefe continually is mixt Banke-rupts in pleasure can but pay with woe We are right docible to imitate Depraued pleasures though degenerate Short pleasures many times haue large repents Pleasures are still inductions to our griefes Oft hath a tragicke entrance pleasant end Similies on the same subiect AS no estate can stable stand for aye So euery pleasure hath his ending day As small brookes swell and are enrag'd with raine So sight of pleasure trebleth euery paine As weeds expeld the corne doth better thriue So care being kild pleasure bides long aliue As greatest griefes doe make the least not seene So huge delights cause meane ones vanish cleane As greatest light is in the largest skie So that delights is furthest from the eye As sad minds brooke no merrie companie So sorrow is to pleasure enemie Examples likewise on the same SArdanapalus was so giuen to pleasure That of a man he made him-selfe a beast Xerxes bestowed gifts on none but such As daily could inuent new kinds of pleasures In King Latinus Court the â—royans In choise of all delights did spend their time Demetrius being to all vaine pleasures giuen Was by the Macedonians quite expulst Cineas told Fabritius that vaine pleasure Did like a moath consume the life of man Demosthenes in his Orations Alwayes forbad voluptuous vaine delights Of Paine Paine as companion doth on Pleasure wait And Daunger is the hand-maid to Delight SHort paine may be endur'd that brings long ease He neuer findeth helpe that hides his paine Farre harder is it to learne continence In ioyfull pleasures than in grieuous paine They lesser paines can beare that hide the great Paine profit reapes if seeds be wisely sowne Where words be scarse th' are seldome spent in vaine For they speake truth that breath their words with paine Soone-dying mirth begets long-liuing paine Who bears the wound perforâ—e must feele the paine The man that needs will seeke for vnknowne gaine Oft liues by losse and leaues with mickle paine The greater paine the greater miserie Paine payes the in-come of each precious thing It easeth some though none it euer cur'd To thinke that others haue their paines endur'd It 's paine to keepe the things we would expresse All labours haue their end but paine hath none No paine or sicknesse doth so swiftly breed As euill humours grow the griefe to feed To get and keepe not is not losse but paine Paine breedeth honour vertue getteth fame Better in prison euer to remaine Than being â—orth to suffer greater paine With ease a sparke with paine is quencht a flame Pleasure doth follow paine and blisse annoy It 's paine and griefe to beare and suffer wrong But shame and sinne to him that causeth it An inward sore strikes the Phisition blind Salues seldome helpe ouer-long festred sores How mightie is the soueraigne power of loue Which paine thirst hunger no nor death can mooâ—â— Sad musicke to sad passions addes more paine One paine is lessened by anothers anguish Let him for euer liue in woe and griefe That feeleth paine and will not haue reliefe Paine is the entrance to eternall ioy How fraile is that which men atchieue with paine They that must either serue or pine in want Ought scorne no paines that â—ay relieuâ— their scaâ—â—â— The cause and not the paine the martyr makes Remembrance of ioyes past breeds greater paine He that with ease may paine and harme eschew Is vaine if he his proper death pursue Patience doth put all toyle-some paine to flight He best doth beare his paine that hides it most â—ew linke for loue but all for greedie gaine Though in the end it turnes them most to paine An vnknowne paine is greatest miserie He cannot iudge of pleasure ne're felt paine Similies on the same subiect AS daunger waiteth at the heeles of pride So euery pleasure hath a following paine As where mishaps doe flow there loue doth ebbe So where friends faile the heart feeles no like paine As sicke men with least anguish are disturb'd So to vexe troubled minds augments their paine As Sun-shine daies of fortune getteth friends So paine or perill looseth them as soone As miserie a med'cine hardly finds So inward paines are not with pratinge cur'd As he beares sorrow best that hides it most So who knowes patience stands prepar'd for paine Examples likewise on the same PHilostrates endured all his paines To th'admiration of his enemies Marius the Romane said he felt no paine In all his hurts if but one friend were by Sextus Pompeius could abide no paine No not so much as feele his head to ake The Spartanes for their pleasures made strict lawes Shewing what paine to each one did belong Cicero said No paine could touch the mind That was but rampierd in with â—usterance And Aristotle held the same opinion Firme resolution could subdue all paine Of Pouertie c. Pouertie is
when gray haires are seene As coâ—ne consum'd eâ—pence is â—ued too late So snow-white heads in vaine wish youth againe As physicke â—oots not for a bodie dead So counsell helpes not ages way ward head As fairest Sunnie dayes must haue their nights So goodliest youth old age at length affrights Examples likewise on the same Câ—â—â—â—â—achuâ— of Carthage in good yeares Went to be scholler to Carnâ—ades Mâ—â—cus Aurâ—â—us told to â—â—cius He went to learâ—e what â—et he did not know Terenâ—iâ—â— Varâ—o and Mâ—rcus Poâ—tiuâ— Cato Went to learâ—e Greeke when they were verie old Alphoâ—sus king of Arragon at fiftie yeares Translated â—â—â—ie into the Spanish tongue When men saâ—â—h â—â—llie looke on their white haires They must doe nothing â—â—â— becomes those yeares Old men whose soulâ—s arâ— sâ—d with heauenly light Grieue not their age but ioy it so saith Sophocles Of Life Life is a frost of cold felicitie And death a thaw of all our miserie LIfe is a wandering course to doubtfull rest Life is but losse where death is counted gaine When vertues dayes doe end they are not done But liue two liues where others haue but one The death of sinne is life vnto the soule Mans life still endeth with the end of life In vanitie of lifâ— and wandring wayes The wicked râ—n and weare out all their dayes Better not be than being soone to die Life is most loath'd where loue may not preuaile Death is most louely sweet and amiable But captiu'd life for foulnesse admirable The longer life the greater is our guilt Life must with life and blood with blood be paid Hate not thy life but loath captiuitie Where rests no hope to purchase victorie He that giues life best knowes the date thereof Mans life may less'ned not enlarged be Who will not bide the burden of aâ—stresse Must not here liue for life iâ— wretâ—heâ—nesse True loue despiseth shame when life is fear'd Life warres with loue and loue contends with life Too long they lâ—ue that liue till they be naught Life sau'd by sinne base purchase dearelâ— bought Moâ—e are mens ends markt than their liues before As death is fee to life so hate to loue Euen then when we of obscure life doe boast It often prooues that then we are knowne most Men must haue griefe so long as life remaines Life is not that which should be much desir'd We often see who on a â—ing relyes Finâ—s death aliue while liuing yet he dyes So some men liue they care not how they liue Life suffers wrong when death would end her woes Ill compassing sit opportunitie Or killes his life or else lifes qualitie That dead things can giue life we seldome find Contrition doth reformed life begin To liue or dye which of the twaine is better When life is sham'd and death reproches debter First doe we bud then blow next seed last â—all We aske deaths aâ—d to end liâ—es wretchednesse God guides mans life and when he list to haue it Wit wealth nor any thing beside can saue it Our life is death if we doe liue in sinne A dying life all kind of deaths exceeds Contented meane estate true life doth giue Resting secure not rising vp to grieue This life affoords no sweet without some sowre To liue and loue not is no life at all Fond blinded gâ—eatnesse with his busie toyle Seeking for happie life doth life despoyle Life neuer is too short where death is wisht There is no force so great as life enforc'd What kind of life alas liue those men in That cannot liue without nor with their kinne Life is ill spar'd that 's spar'd to spill more blood To liue in death is but a dying life Long vse of life is as a lingering foe And gentle death the onely end of woe Sweet is the life that is maintain'd by loue Redeeme thy life although with all thou hast The good doe liue as if they liâ—ed not And die as if their death were but a dreame That life is death where men doe liue alone A good life doth beget as good a death No wise man likes in such a â—ife to dwell Whose wayes â—re strait to heauen but wide to hell Mans life may not be destitute of office A good life is next way to winne good fame The life coâ—â—upt with vnexpected shame And â—imelesse death is buried with defame They liue but ill who alwayes thinke to liue To men in miserie life seemes too long Long life hath commonly long cares annext The breath that maintaines life doth finish life Similies on the same subiect AS falls the tree so prostrate still it lyes So speedeth life in liuing as it dyes As men by life in bondage soone are brought Euen so by death is freedome soonest wrought As siâ—e burnes fiercely being still supplyed So life postes swiftly when it least is spyed As sharpe frosts easily nip forward springs So life to end it hath too many things As Easterne winds doth towardly blossoms blast So inward cares makes life to finish fast As life is onely by the gift of grace So death by nature taketh time and place THere is hardly any one Chapter in this Booke but it deliuereth plentie of examples for this argument of life the whole summe indeed but containing the course of our actions euen from our entrance into life vnto the verie houre of our death therefore there shall need no speciall collection vpon this head Of Death Death is the keye which vnlocks miserie And lets the soule to blessed libertie DEath is the end of woe and wretchednesie When deaths houre comes let none aske reason why He ought to die that not deserues to liue Who dyes the death with honour in the field Both his lifes woeâ— and sorrowes â—rieâ—â— eâ—â—s With sharpe asâ—liction death first grounds his cause The fairest blossome deaths sterne winter niâ—â— Death hath no dart to slay deserued same The 〈◊〉 Seene where death â—er plâ—y begins Are aâ—tâ— of â—ight and dâ—â—â—â—â— of â—â—giy darke To wretched men death is the welcomâ—st friend Death neuer comes when need doth most require Life is but losse and death felicitie Who dyes the vtmost anguish doth abide But â—e that liues is left to wâ—â—â—e his losse Sad life is much more worse than gladsome death Our life is day but death is ougly night Faire death it is to shun more shame to die Death to sharpe sorrow quickely ease doth send For death doth griefe and sorrow soonest end Death to the wretched is both grace and gaine In death aduise for daunger comes too late It 's worse than death to linger on reliefe Death is the gulfe of all and then I say Thou are as good as Caesar in the clay A sicke man best sets downe the pangs of death Deaths name is much more mightie than his deeds To die is all as common as to liue It is not death that which the world calls dying But that is death which is all ioyes denying The shade pursues the bodie so death vs.
men ere they conceiued be God out of season neuer yet doth trie His children new conuerted by and by Man made of earth sounds not the seas profound Of Gods deepe iudgements where there is no ground The Lord law-maker iust and righteous Doth frame his lawes not for himselfe but vs. Gods wisdome guides this worlds societie With equall power and equall pietie Gods word which made the world and guides it still To diuers enâ—s conducts both good and ill He that preferres not God fore all his race Amongst the sonnes of God deserues no place He that the furrowes ploweth of Gods field May not turne backe his fainting face nor yeeld Sathan suggesteth ill God mooues to grace God can doe all saue that he will not doe Our mightie God alwaies for his elect Of wicked things can draw a good effect God keepes his watch aboue the starrie skies For his elect who neuer idle lyes Similies on the same subiect AS one poore drop is nothing to the sea So all we can is nothing in Gods sight As the bright Sunne defaceth candle-light So Gods great power controlleth all the world As Princes are to be both lou'd and fear'd So God the Prince of princes must haue more As with great care a Pilot guides the ship So with great grace doth God direct the world As when the soule departs the body dies So where God blesseth not all things decay As mothers hugge their children in their armes So God enfolds his chosen with his grace Examples likewise on the same PHerecides for his contemning God Was eate with lice and dyed miserably Lucian an Atheist and denying God Was afterward in pieces torne with dogs Iustinian for his light regard of God Became a foole and so in follie dyde Th' Athenians banished Protagoras Because his bookes question'd the deitie Socrates did confesse one onely God And tearnâ—'d the heathen Gods but vanitiâ— Plato when he wrote any serious thing Began still In the name of one sole God Of Heauen Heauen is Gods seat the throne of endles grace The Soules true home and Hopes desired place ALl powers are subiect to the power of Heauen Nothing but Heauen is perfect happinesse What heauen will haue that needs must come to passe The Soule is heauenly and from heauen relieu'd Heauen is as neere to sea as to the land Heauen sings for ioy when sinners truly pray The waking heauens will plague all sleeping ill When as the heauens are to iustice bent All things are turn'd to our iust punishment None can attaine what heauen and earth withstands Earth must come in when awfull heauen commaunds When heauen yeelds meanes they must not be neglect Though men reuenge not yet the heauens will Heauen is the habitation of th'elect Heauen is the iust mans true inheritance It 's hard to liue well easie to dye ill Hard to winne heauen easie to keepe from thence In vaine do men contend against the starres Heauen workes our fall but yet the fault is ours All men ought know they haue the Heauens aboue them No walles can hide vs from the eye of heauen Repentance carries heauens eternall keyes When heauens lampe shines all other lights are lost We neuer know what 't is in heauen to dwell Till wee haue had some feeling of grim hell Heauen is our home we are but straungers here All earthly things are darke to them diuine What heauen decrees sollie may notwithstand Earths admirations are the heauens delights Heauens deepe dessignes are hid from mortall eyes We are at heauens dispose and not our owne Heauen sets our time wherwith can nought dispence High heauens hand restraineâ— our wilfull powers Whose will must rule aboue this will of ours Heauen doth repaire what fortune hath destroid Things that are heauenly no corruption tast Whome heauen doth spight the earth disdaines to hate Heauens couers him that hath no buâ—iall Earth feeds on earth heauen giues the spirit food Prouiâ—ence heauenly passeth humane thought And doth for wretched mens reliefe make way Earth giues vs gold but heauen the wealth of grace The Sunne which shines in heauen doth light the earth Hell cannot hurt whome heauen doth preserue The care of heauen doth seeke the soules content It is the doome of heauen which can and will Conâ—ound the braunch whose root was planted ill Sinne is earths Sun the Sun of heauen sinnes death Thoughts sixt on heauen contemne all earthly things Mortals may feele heauens doome but not remooue All men are subiect to the powers aboue Heauens secrets are conceald from mortall sight By mortall lawes a bond may be diuorst But heauens decree by no meanes can be forst From heauen our soules receiue their sustenance Hell is the place of horror heauen of rest Good death is true inheritance in heauen The way to heauen is not so wide as hell Men looke vp to the starres thereby to know That as they progresse heauen they earth should so Heauen often winkes at mortall mens amisse Heauens Sun doth shine both on the good and bad All humane wishes neuer haue the power To hast or hold the course of heauen one hower Similies on the same subiect AS hell was made to punish sinnes proud guilt Euen so was heauen for comfort of the iust As base clothes ill become a princes court So none can enter heauen but purely clad As trauailers desire their natiue homes So should all soules long for their heauenly home As hells obscuritie excells all darke So nothing with heauens brightnesse may compare As Iacob for his Rachell thought sower sweet So we for heauen ought deeme all else but vile As all ioyes in this life are fraile and vaine So none but heauens ioyes are perfect gaine Of Conscience Conscience is that accuseth and condemnes Needing no other witnesse than it selfe FAults long vnfelt the conscience will bewray The feare of conscience entreth iron walls Where coyne preuailes conscience beares little sway Kings but the conscience all things can defend Death but an acted passion doth appeare Where truth giues courage and a conscience cleare Conscience owne doome doth halfe condemne a man No armour proofe against the conscience terror Weake consciences are with vaine questions wounded Sound conscience well is cald a wall of brasse Corrupted fit compar'd to broken glasse In conscience booke our faults are daily writ There conscience failes where faith beares no account A guiltie conscience neuer is secure The conscience stain'd with blood of innocents Is alwayes subiect to appeaching guilt Repentance brings the keyes of conscience After minds guilt doth inward griefe begin Runne where thou wilt into all lands betake thee Yet will a wâ—unded conscience nere forsake thee A stained conscience finds no ioy at all They dread no shame that vâ—e no conscience If thou but find thy conscience be vpright No matter for the worlds rebuke or spight Conscience will neuer suffer wicked thoughts Conscience needs no tormenter but it selfe Conscience sees that which no eye else can doe
Galba for his vertue was renowmd Thales affirmes that nothing in the world For man was meet but vertuous actions Cicero saith That vertue of it selfe Is the solâ— cause of happie life and death Vertue was neuer â—ireling of the mind But still will liue though fame had ne're a tongue What sute of grace hath vertue to put on If vice shall weare as good and doe as well Of Faith and Zeale Faith shewes a good mans fruits preserues the soule And zeale doth best giue euidence of faith FAithes best is triall then it shineth most The faithfull stands the faultie man will flye Zeale is but cold where louelesse law restraines T is hastie rashnes where true faith doth flye In deepe distresse true faith doth best auaile When once mans faith is spotted and defamd The bodie had been better neuer framd Zeale and good courage best become a Prince Faith bides no perfit triall but by time Shipwracke of faith is made where conscience dyes Friends haue no priuiledge to breake their faith The gift deserueth most is giuen in zeale False fainting zeale shadowed with good pretence Can find a cloake to couer each offence Fâ—lse faith is ouer-poisâ—le with weâ—lâ—â—st weighâ— The ballancâ— yeelds vnto the lightest feather An easie yeelding zeale is quickly quaild Faith violate is most detestable Faith once resolu'd treads fortune vnder foot The man that holds no faith shall find no trust Where faith doth fearelesse dwell in brazen tower There spotlesse pleasure builds her sacred bower A zealous heart is alwaies bountifull The faith of Knighthood is by vertue tryed Euery occasion quailes a hireling faith The gift deserueth much is giuen in zeale A princes greatest fault is breach of faith The faith of Pagans ought not be belieu'd Faith is a fortresse gainst all fainting feare And Zeale the walles doth euermore vp-reare Take faith from iustice all things runne to spoile Authoritie is strengthened best by zeale Who binds himselfe by faith had need beware Faith to rash oathes no credit giues at all The greater faith the greater sufferance Faith is the true foundation of the soule And soonest doth redeeme the same from sinne Zeale makes opinion stand inuincible A good mans wish is substance faith and fame Selfe-will doth frown when earnest zeale reprooues Faith mounteth to the clouds on golden wings Faith brings forth workes and workes declare our faith No faith too firme no trust can be too strong Similies on the same subiect AS raine makes euery ground bring forth encrease So faith of euery soule doth shew the fruits As honours fire doth kindle high desires So zealous faith lifts vp the lowest soule As night doth best the diamonds glory show So sharpe affliction best makes faith to grow As wisdome is the only way to weale So true discretion best directeth zeale As loue and hate cannot agree in one So without zeale faith thinkes her selfe alone Examples likewise on the same PArmenio wild his king to breake his faith I would quoth he were I Parmenio Lysander made no reckoning of his faith And therefore was by euery one reproou'd Attilius sent to Rome vpon his faith Boldly return'd although it cost his life Rastrix the Duke of Cleueland breaking faith Was therefore dispossest of both his eyes Let none speake ill of vs said Pittacus To whome we stand obliged by our faith Keepe faith saith Cicero with enemies What ere mishap doe follow thereupon Of Hope Hope is the sad hearts help the sick thoughts friend And what distrust impaires Hope doth amend ALl hope is vaine without the feare of God Hope on each least occasion taketh hold Hope doth forbid vs sorrow to beleeue When loue growes sickely hope then daily sterues Things out of hope by ventring oft are woon Hope many times on blessed hap doth light When hope is lost in care then comfort bleeds Vnworthy he of grace whome once deniall Excludes from fairest hope without more triall All foolish hopes haue euermore bad speed Councell doth come too late when hope is past Men well may hope to rise but feare to fall It s good to hope the best but feare the worst Chaunging the aire hopes time will alter chance Despaire and hope doe still attend on loue It s good to feare yet let our feare be so That to our hope it prooue no ouerthrow Oft present hap makes future hope to yeeld No hap so hard but hope doth much amend Hope to enioy is little lesse than ioy Honour once lost giues farewell to all hope Vnhappie men are subiect to no hope Fortune may take our goods but not our hope The heart that 's inly hurt is greatly easd With hope of that may make griefe best appeasd Hopes are vnsure when certaine is the paine We often fall when most we hope to clime As wee waxe hopelesse violence still growes Hope well in loue what euer be thy hap Hope is the daily dreame of waking men This life is but the hope of endlesse life Vnworthie is he of one happie day That will not take the offer of good hope There is no trust in youth nor hope in age The hope of things vnseene beares greatest price Good conscience alwaie hath a perfect hope Hope is a pleasing passion of the mind To hope against all hope is high resolue True hope is swift and flyes with swallowes wings Kings it makes Gods and meaner creatures Kings Inconstant hope is drowned oft in feares In midst of griefe hope alway hath some part Hope being deluded makes the torment more Who cannot feare to loose ne're hopes to haue All greedie hope vaine vicious humour feeds Hope is companion euermore to loue No one without great hopes will follow such Whose power and honour doth not promise much No hope of rest where hap true hope delayes Hope still perswading hope expecteth good Hope is the God of miserable men In vaine he hopes who here his hope doth ground From fruitlesse hopes but sillie fauours spring The euenings hope may comfort mornings care Hope built vpon the world doth neuer thriue But grounded once on God at no time failes Hope is the bread and food of wretched men Bad haps are holpe with hope and good beliefe No greater griefe in loue than fruitlesse hope Hope waits on great mens tongues and oft beguilâ—â— Hopes aboue Fortune doe fore-point deepe falls Who thinkes to thriue by hope oft haps to begge To hope too much is boldly to presume To hope too little â—asely to despaire Small is his gaine that hopes for golden griefe Meane mens preferments eleuates their hopes Sad hopes seeme ouer long and burdenous Grace to thy hope is alwaies safest guide When hope and hap when health and wealth is highest Then woe and wracke disease and need is nighest Hope of all passions is the pleasantest Vaine hopes are like a Vane turn'd with the wind To haue no hope is held most miserable To liue in hope of that men meane to giue Is to deceiue our selues and not
young men so â—â—â— old men wiâ—e Dâ—llâ—â—◠〈◊〉 learninâ— dâ—e desire Bu◠〈…〉 e wise To vnlâ—â—â—â—â—â—uill hat'hest learning is Opinion without lâ—â—rning is not good Some men so 〈…〉 That oâ—â— ther â—â—rre the worke before was well Knowledge continues when all wealth else wastâ— Knowledge in all things is â—ight prositable The mind withdrawne â—rom studie for supplies Is learnings wracke where want doth tyrannize To know and want performance is mishap Best knowledge is â—or men to know themselues Coy readers deeme that dull conceits proceed From ignorance the cause being onely need Poets are borne but Oratours are made Poetrie quickeneth wit sweetens discourse Poets scant sweetly write except they meet With sound rewards for serâ—oning so sweet Learning and knowledge good minds most desire Knowledge before all else should be preferd True learning hath a bodie absolute That in apparant sence it selfe can suâ—e Breuitie is great praise of eloquence Silence in wise men is sweet eloquence The man that scorneth all the Artes of schoole Lackes but a long coat to be natures foole Eloquence is the ornament of speech Eloquence makes bad matters oft seeme good They which doe like all Artes which can be thought Doe comprehend not any as they ought Experience is the mistresse of old age Men rich in knowledge hate all other wealth Arts which right hard doe seeme at our first sight By triall are â—ade easie quicke and light Experience times characters racâ—th out Knowledge distinguisheth twixt â—en and beasts Learning will liue and vertue still shall shine When follie dyes and ignorance doth pine Learning with courage make a man complete Let Guns serue gownes and bucklers yeeld to books Arts want may stop our tongues but not our teares Similies on the same subiect AS learning helpe to purchase all men fame So truly leâ—â—n'd doth more renowme their name As ground vntil'd can neuer bring â—oâ—th gâ—aine So vnlearn'd valour 〈◊〉 taketh paine As men by folly â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— the Gods Euen so by 〈…〉 they neerest them As Bees sucke honey out of diâ—ers flâ—weâ—s So out of Scienceâ— men knowlâ—dâ—â— learne As seales iâ—pâ—inâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—ly â—oâ—â—e in waâ—e So Poets in dull mindâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—houâ—hts â—â—presse As Musque quicâ—â—n◠〈…〉 heaâ—tâ— So drowsie soules are câ—â—â—â—'d wâ—th eloquence Examples likewise on the same ALexander honoured Aristotle And made his pillow Homers â—â—ades In campe or else-where â—â—sar alwaies bare His Commentaries as hiâ— bosome friend Robert king of Sciâ—ill vs'd to say Kingdome and all goe â—â—â—â— I learning loose Ptolomie Philadelpâ—â—â— lâ—â—â—iâ—gs friend Fiue hundred thousand bookes had in his studiâ— Man as saith Aristotlâ— was create To vnderstand and afterward to doe Oh Science said graue Plato how would men Loue and esteeme thee if they knew thee right Of Kings and Princes Kings are the images of Gods on earth And therefore they are cal'd Gods of the earth KIngs like to Gods should gouerne euery thing Monarchs misdeeds cannot be hid in clay Vnhappie kings that neâ—er may be â—aught To know themselues or to discerâ—e their saulâ—â— Princes are glasses to their subiects eyes The liues of princes are their subiects bookes To whome should suâ—iects for true iustiâ—â—â—sâ—â—e When Kings themselues doe reigâ—e by 〈◊〉 The greatest scandale waiâ—s on greatâ— sâ—sâ—aâ—e Poore groomes are sightlesse night Kings glorious day A king should euer priuiledge his pleasâ—â—e And make his peeres esteeme it as tâ—â—ir treasure The cares of kings wast liâ—â— and hasten age Within one laâ—d one single sway iâ— best Princes like Sunnes are euâ—â—â—â—re in sight All see the clouds that doe ecclipse their ligâ—t Diuided kingdomes make diuided hearts Good deeds from kings must not be drawne perforce A Princes wealth in spending still doth spread Like to a poole with many fountaines fed Minions too great argue a king too weake Kings sleeping see with eyes of other men Whereas proud conquest keepeth all in awe Kings oft are forc'd in seruice â—okes to draw A kings great arme doth reach from shore to shore Kings vse their loues as garments they haue worne Princes haue but their titles for their glorie And outward honour for an inward toyle Kings pardon death but can not pardon shame Kings want no means t' accomplish what they would Princes for meere vnseli imaginations Do often feele a world of resilesse caâ—eâ— It shames a Prince to say IF THAT I COVLD Kings liues reputed are their subiâ—cts lights Betweene kings titles and their lowly name There 's nothing differ but the outward fâ—â—me No common fortunes can once blemish kings A begging prince what begger pitties not Where Angele in the cause of Kings doe sight VVeake men must fall for beaâ—â—n regards the right A king woes slaue must kingly woe obey Kings may winne kingdoms but not conquer hearts Not all the water in the rough rule sea Can wash the balme from an annoiâ—ted king The linkes of princes loue are blood and warre Poore priuat men â—ound not their princes hearts This fault is euer incident to kings Too much to credit ouer pleasing things Princes respect their honour more than blood To be a Prince is more than be a man The man that at a subiects use doth anne To the princes bodie giues a priuie maime Princes like Lyons neuer will be tam'd Kings will be onely competirors must downe Gnats are vnnoted where-soe're they flie But Eagles gaz'd vpon with euery eye A kings great name makes not his fault the lesse Desire of soueraigntie respects no faith Foolish the begger that to touch a crowne VVould with the scepter strait be smitten downe The threats of kings are like the thunders noise Kings haue long armes and rulers reach at large Princes are as the glasse the schoole the booke VVhere subiects eyes doe learne doe read doe looke Maiestie shines like lightning from the East A princes will ought not exceed his law Mildnesse doth better sute with maiestie Than rash reuenge and rough seueritie Princes desires are many times corrupt Princes oft fauour flatterers more than friends Kings doe approach the nearest vnto God By giuing life and safetie to their people Vnworthie mens preferment shames the prince Kings Courts are held as vniuersall schooles Succeeding heapes of plagues doe teach too late To learne the mischiefes of misgnided state Kings by example sinne more than by act Kings seates for soules distrest are sanctuaries The youth of Princes haue no bounds for sinne Vnlesse them-selues doe make them bounds within Princes oft purchase quiet with price of wrong Wish for good princes but endure the ill Subiects may well complaine but not correct A princes faults they beare more high respect No ruler yet could euer all content The face of kings makes faultie subiects feare Kings Lords of times and of occasions May take aduantage when and how they list It 's hard to rule and please both good and bad New kings doe feare when old Courts furder straine Poore maiestie that other men must guide Whose discontent can neuer looke aright When princes worke who
then will idle stand Peasants may beare but kings must needs requite Who would all mastring maiestie defeat Of her best grace that is to make men great A princes wrath is messenger of death What els is pompe rule raigne but earth and dust Kings must haue some be hated worse than they On whome they may their weight of enuie lay Pride is no ornament for diademes Selfe-loue doth very ill beseeme a prince Blest is that league where citties further Kings And kings doe further them in other things Kings that would haue lawes kept must rule themselues Graue heads are meetest Councellors for kings Looke what a King doth most of all embrace To that his subiects will encline as fast The strength of princes is their subiects loue Kings ought be free from partialitie Sleeplesse suspition pale distrust cold feare Alwaies with princes company doth beare Kings should be fathers to their common-â—â—aleâ— Kings should preferre them most that 〈…〉 least A Prince not fear'd hath oft his death 〈…〉 And dreaded Princes haue their deathâ— deâ—â—â—â—â— Maiestie scornes to looke on cowardise Kings reasons should be more than their opiâ—â—â—â—â— What else are kings when regiment is gâ—nâ— But like to shadowes in a Sun shine day In â—â—â—iâ—cts wrongs princes sustaine abuse It'â—â—â—â—ater care to keepe than get a crowne Kings fauours in their eye-lids vse to hang. Ready with euery winke to be wip'te out He is no king that is affections slaue No fall like his that falleth from a crowne Kings are not tearmed Gods for wearing crownes But for o're fame and fortune they are Lords Misgouern'd kings are cause of common wracke Kings chaunging customes euer feare a chaunge Iest not with Princes if that thou be wise For in vnequall iest great daunger lyes Kings are their subiects ioy their countries hope True subiects hearts are princes chiefest stay In Princes these two qualities well sit For strength a Lyon and a Foxe for wit Great perils are compriz'd within a crowne Beggers make maiestie a gazing marke True iustice is the chiefe and onely thing That is reâ—uir'd and lookt for in a king Mislikes are sillie lets where kings resolue Iust soueraigntie can neuer be displac'd A king hereft of all his trustie friends Is dead aliue for fame and honour ends All lawfull princes first or last preuaile A princes safetie is his peoples loue Who hath been kneel'd vnto can hardly kneele Or begge for that which once hath been his owne Kings greatnes stands on the great king of heauen No maiestie where vertue is despis'd Similies on the same subiect AS princes wills are commonly held lawes So life or death dependeth on their lookes As often burials is Physicians shame So many deaths argue a kings hard raigne As beasts obey the Lordly lyons looke So meane estate must mightie princeâ— brooke As the Sun-beames doe lighten all the world So princes liues are lâ—nternes to their lands As Princes wanting wealth learne tyrannie So too much treasure makes them vicious As biggest winds enkindle greatest flames So much submission makes a king most mild Examples likewise on the same THe Kings of Persia alwaies shewed themselues More subiect to the law than to their Lords Antiochus told his sonne Demâ—trius That kingly rule was noble slauerie Bâ—lus the sonne of Nemrod was first king That in this world had title of that name The Romane kings did vse to weare no crownes But alwaies bare their scepters in their hands Tully saith then 't is best to checke a prince When he forgets himselfe to be a prince Sâ—â—â—ates wil'd good kings preferre their friends And shewe some kindnesse to their enemies Of Kingdomes c. The Kingdome Countrey and the Common-weale Are things that subiects loue doe most reueale KIngdomes are Fortunes slattering gifts soone lost Kingdomes are burd'nous to the wiâ—est men Conâ—â—rd doth keepe a Realme in stable stay When discord brings all kingdomes to decay Wretched the state where men desire to die Who striues to alter lawes disturbes the state Kingdomes are commonly much sooner lost Than kept desir'd than had with mightie cost Kingdomes are Fortunes â—atall tenise balls A wicked king makes a more wicked land A man that takes delight in doing all To trouble all the State deuiâ—eth â—â—iâ—l In a well-gouern'd state one head is best Some men vnwilling benefit their land Fooles set in office doe their spleâ—es â—eâ—eâ—le And meaning well mâ—st hâ—â—t the common-weale Some vnawares their countries good proâ—erre All earthly kingdomes euen as men mâ—st perish Kingdomes are rul'd but badly where the base Will checke the chiefe that sit in highest place No state stands sure but on the grounds of right Realmes neuer get by chaunge but paine and losse When lawes are maâ—e they ought to be obey'd And rulers willes with reuerâ—nce to be weigh'd Wisdome and care are kingdomes chiefest propâ— Rude multitudes are kingdomes ouerthrow By nature man vnto the woâ—st iâ— bent If wholsome statutes stay not his intenâ— Innocent men are common-wealeâ— bâ—st treasure Innocence makes kingdoms florish more than arms That kingdome ought of right to be destroy'd Which once was vertues â—lower now vices weed Wise princes are their kingdomes conâ—â—oâ—ters Vniust exâ—â—â—ons killes a common-weale No greater da â—nger to a common-wealth Than when vnskilfâ—ll 〈◊〉 â—ide her powers Kingdomes are nothing elâ—e but common care Where tools bâ—are râ—le the common wealth decaies In â— calmeâ— a many see how 〈◊〉 â—â—gin But few respect the enâ— and emâ—â—lie Where wiâ—â— mâ—n are neglected kingdomes perish No nâ—arâ—r kinred can be than our countrey Theâ—e â—â—â— no common-weales more loose and bad Tâ—aâ— wâ—eâ—e the câ—mâ—â—nâ—â—â—ue most libertie Our countrey parents kin claime part in vs. Our countries loue ought be most deare to vs. And â—â—ties of common-weales dâ—â—ay â—â—â—â—â— bâ—ilâ—ingâ—â—â—â—â— and carelâ—sse heads beare sway Where any may liâ—e well that is his countrey Remembrance of ouâ— countrey is most sweet In common-weales such should be honour'd most As shew their care both insterne warre and peace â—â—â— countrey first by nature claimeth vs. â—â—â—â—â—t is the death in cause of common-weale The gouernment of common weales and state Will without wiâ—dome soone he ruinate Reward and punishment are kingdomes keyes Peace in a common-wealth is mellodie There 's nothing câ—n impresse so deare constraint As countries cause and common foes disclaine Men of desert their countrey least esteemes Discretion best doth rule a common-weale That kingdome may be counted fortunate Where no man liueth by anothers sweat Seditious heads disturbe the common good Vnruly members soone should be lopt of Similies on the same subiect AS spring and Autumne hazard health by chaunge So â—nnouations harme a common-wealth Looke how the body void of members is Euen so are kingdomes dispossest of lawes As ships in tempests need all helping hands So in a kingdome none must idlely stand As many Elements one temper frame So diuers mens endeauours helpe the state As from the heart all members haue their life So from the common-wealth
Sorrow best speakes by signes of heauie eyes On greatest charge the greatest care attends Dombe is the message of a hidden griefe Sorrow breakes seasons and reposing houres Makes the night morning and the noon-tyde night Our inward cares are most pent in with griefe Sad cares mens eyes doth alwayes open keepe Short walkes seeme long when sorrow metes the way Sorrow hath onely this poore bare reliefe To be bemoand of such as wofull are Wounds helpe not wounds nor griefe ease grieuous deeds Excesse of sorrow listneth no reliefe Passions encreasing multiply complaints To moane ones care yet cannot helpe his thrall It kills his heart but comforts not at all No griefe like to the bondage of the mind No outward vtterance can commaund conceit Similies on the same subiect AS fire supprest is much more forcible So griefes conceal'd vrge greater passions As streames restrain'd breake through or ouer-flow So sorrow smoother'd growes to greater woe As tendrest wood is most annoyed of wormes So feeblest minds doth sorrow most afflict As clouds doe rob vs of faire heauens beautie So care bereaues vs of our speeches libertie As the sweet rose doth grow among the bryars So oft in sorrowes some content is found As discreete Pylots doe for stormes prepare So in our ioy let vs prouide for care Examples likewise on the same COriolanus finding his offence For warring gainst his country dyde with griefe Torquatus banisht from his fathers house For griefe thereof did rashly slay him selfe The Romane matrons for a whole yeares space Sighed and sorrowed for Bâ—â—tâ—â— death Lepidus grieuing long his wiues abuse Shortned his owne dayes with conceit of griefe The Pythagorians alwaies had thâ—s poesie The heart ought not be â—aten with sad griefe Cicero thought the minds chiefe enemies Were melancholly griefes and pensiues Of Feare c. Feare is defect of manly fortitude Continually by dread and doubt pursude A Hell-tormenting feare no faith can mooue Safetie most safe when she is fenc'd with feare Better first fâ—are than after still to feare Daunger deuiâ—eth shifts wit waits on feare Abhorre sinne past preuent what iâ— to come These two are things feare not the day of doome The bait in sight the hooke much lesse is fear'd Who euer feares is better neuer feare To loue for feare is secretly to hate Feare is companion of a guilâ—ie â—ind Faint feare and doubâ— still taketh their delight In â—erile which exceed all perill might Fâ—delitie doth flye where feare is hatcht Feares vrge despaires ruth breeds a hopelesse rage By needlesse feare none euer vantage got The benefit of feare is to be wise Whâ— would not die to kill all murdering griefes Or who would liue in neuer-dying feares Feare giueth wings and need doth courage teach Fond is the feare that finds no remedie The dâ—ead of dying payes death seruile breath Who liueâ—â— câ—ntent need feare no fâ—owning fate To feare the foe when feare oppresseth strength Giues in our weaknesse strengthning to the foe Feare finds out shiâ—ts timiditie is sâ—bâ—ill No greater hell than be a slaue to feare Birds feare no bushes that were neuer lim'd The guilt being great the feare doth more exceed Feare and be slaine no worse can come to fight And fight and dye is death destroying death Loue thriues not in the heart that shadowes feare Against loues fire feares frost can haue no power The Lyons roaring lesser beasts doe feare Doubt takes sure footing oft in slipperie wayes Huge rockes high windes strong pyrats shelues and sands The â—erchant feares ere rich at home he lands Delay breeds doubt and doubt brings on dismay A fearefull thing to tumble from a crowne Giue no beginning to a doubtfull end It 's fearefull sleeping in a serpents bed Extreamest feare can neither fight nor flye But coward-like with trembling terrour die Our owne examples makes vs feare the more Feare that is wiser than the truth doth ill Greatnesse that standeth high stands still in feare Feare casts too deepe and euer is too wise Who feares a sentence or an old mans saw May by a painted cloth be kept in awe The doubtfull can no vsuall plots endure A moderate feare fore-casts the worst of ill It 's vaine to feare the thing we cannot shun Better to feare thy choice than rue thy chaunce He rightly may be tearm'd a valâ—ant man Whome honest death doth not affright with feare Distracted terrour knowes not what is best No feare of death should force vs to doe ill Dread of vnknowne things breeds a greater dread Feare not the things must come be thinke faults past In vaine with terrour is he sortifide That is not guarded with â—iâ—me loue beside The loue vnseene is neuer knowne to feare A seruâ—le feare doth make a drooping mind Least we presume we must goe backe with feare Delay doth much torment a doubtfull mind It much offendeth to be old with feares When youth saith thereof thou want'st many yeeres Hardly we credit what imports our ill Men feare not them whose feeble strength they know Feare commonly doth breed and nourish hate Small ease hath he that feared is of all Cold doubt cauills with honour scorneth fame And in the end feare weighes downe faith with shame Dissention euer more breeds greater doubt We soone beleeue the case we would haue so A fearefull looke bewrayes a guiltie heart Death is farre sweeter than the feare of death It 's better much to suffer that we feare Than still by feare to liue in martyrdome Continuall griefe is feare beyond all feare Basenesse aduanced purchaseth but feare Who walke in feare suspect the pathes they tread Death being assur'd to come deserues no feare Whiles timerous knowledge stands considering Audacious ignorance performes the deed He that knowes most the more he hath to doubt Better mistrust too soone than rue too late We deeme things doubtfull breed not contentation Where men least feare there harme they soonest find Wicked men commonly are void of feare And therefore daunger alwaies with them beare Loue neuer was without both feare and teares Feare lendeth wings for aged folke to flie Similies on the same subiect AS suddaine bleeding argues ill ensuing So suddaine ceasing is fell feares renewing As leaking vessels cannot long endure So fearefull minds haue slender permanence As nettles haue no prickes and yet doe sting So feares haue little motion yet oft kill As salt ta'ne moderately doth â—ellish meat So discreet feares doe often benefite As in calamitie good friends auaile So sound aduise aduantageth in feare As wrong suspitions are but mens disgrace So needlesse feares declare but want of wit Examples likewise on the same CLaudius being giuen to feare his mother said Nature begun but had not finisht him Midas grew desperate by his fearefull dreames That to be rid of them he slew him-selfe Aristodemus fear'd with howling dogges Tooke such conceit that soone he ended life Nicias th' Athenian through cowardly feare Lost many famous opportunities Tully saith Much more euill is in feare Than in
lyeâ— not in our pâ—wer to loue or hate For will in vs is ouer-rul'd by â—ate There 's none by warning can auoid his fate Ouâ— haps doe chaunge as chaunces on the dyce In vainâ— we â—ize that at so high a rate Whose best assurance but depends on fate What â—â—te imposeth we perforce must beare All mens estates alike vnsteadfast are Things which presage both good and bad there be Which fate fore-shewes but will not let vs see Our frailties doome is written in the flowers Fate cannot be preuented though fore-knowne VValles may a while hold out an enemie But neuer castle kept out destinie Errours are neuer errours but by fate No prouidence preuenteth destinie Those fates that one while plague poore men with crosses Another time prouide to mend their losses The fairest things are subiect still to fate No man is sure what finall fruits to reape Men attribute their follies vnto fate And lay on heauen the guilt of their owne crimes What happens me this day may you the next He thriueth best that hath a blessed fate Fatall is that ascent vnto a crowne From whence men come not but are hurled downe What fate intends follie cannot fore-stall Whome fate casts downe hardly againe recouers The breach once made vpon a battered state Downe goes distresse no shelter shrouds their fate Force cannot winne what fate doth contradict Men are but men and may not know their lot VVhen â—â—en doe wish for death fates haue no force But they when men would liue haue no remorse It fatall is to be seduc'd with shewes To alter course may bring men more astray Similies on the same subiect LIke as the day cannot preuent the night So vaine it is against the fates to fight As with the worst fate spareth not the best So faults are easier lookt in than redrest Euen as the starres and sands haue wondrous date So are our liues subiect to nought but fate As cities are o're-come by batterie So all on earth must yeeld to destinie As lookes of loue oft shadow inward hate So times faire hope is shortned soone by fate As flowers in morning fresh oft fade ere night So fate cuts off what goodliest seemes in sight Examples likewise on the same AS Bibulus in triumph rode through Rome His fate was with a tyle-stone to be slaine Aurelius sister Lucia by her needle But prickt her breast and dyde immediatly Cneius Rufferius combing of his head One of the teeth bereft him of his life Methridates suppos'd mens destinies Consisted in the power of hearbs and stones Chilo of Lacedaemon did maintaine That men might comprehend what was to come Plato affirmed That a good mans fate Neuer to euill could be destinate Of the Mind The Mind is that bright eye which guides the soule And gouernes men in all their actions THe mind is free what euer man afflicts Libertie is the minds best liuing fame Hope of long life is balefull to the mind O're-many thoughts maze-like the mind enclose Confusedly till order them dispose Patience doth giue a troubled heart delight Patience is the true touch-stone of the mind The griefes of troubled minds exceed beliefe When roomes of charge are giuen to minds of praise Then maiestie doth shewe her brightest rayes The gentle mind by gentle deeds is knowne The noblest mind the best contentment hath No deuilish thoughts dismay a constant mind Fame cherisher of honour-breathing hearts Is valours friend and nource of sacred Artes. By outward lookes the mind is oft discern'd The mind discernes where eyes could neuer see A yeelding mind doth argue cowardise The action and affection of the heart Two wayes whereby a christian playes his part The vertuous mind beares patiently all wrongs Ill may a sad mind forge a merrie face The highest lookes haue not the highest minds The carelesse man with vnaduised mind Doth blindly follow euery puffe of wind Free is the heart the temple of the mind Mens bodies may be ours their minds their owne The mind of man doth many times behold That which fraile sight can neuer reach vnto Great hearts will breake before they yeeld to bend A priuat mind may yeeld yet cares not how Mans mind a mirrour is of heauenly sights A briefe wherein all maruailes summed lye No man can slay the mind resolu'd to die Our seeming each man sees God knowes the heart The mind a creature it yet can create And adde to natures patternes higher skill None hath enough for euery greedie mind Mens minds oft times are tainted by their eares Bad mind so much to mind anothers ill At to become vnmindfull of his owne Men haue rude maâ—ble women soft waxe minds Theeues cares and troubled minds are long awake There 's none can tell the ease the mind doth gaine VVhen eyes can weepe heart groane or griefe complaine The mind corrupted takes the worser part A gentle mind will alwaies iudge the best Oh what a balme is made to cheare the heart If pearle and gold and spices beare a part Where minds are knit what helps if not enioyed What the tongue dares not oft the mind doth say The gentle mind doth plainly represent The glorious splendour of the firmament The mind stoopes to no dread though flesh be fraile Little perswasion mooues a wicked mind It 's pittie gold should sunder vertuous minds He doth but pine among his delicates VVhose troubled mind is stuft with discontent The heart oft suffers for the eyes offence Much promiseth the mind if fate as much Great is the will but greater farre the mind In case of iarre when as one man espyes Anothers mind liâ—e his then ill breedâ— worse Hire of a hireling mind is earned shame The guiltie mind hath neuer quiet liâ—e The bodies rest is quiet of the mind Agrieued minds seldome weigh the intent But alwaies iudge according to th' intent The mind well bent is safe from any harme Cares cruell scourge doth greatly whip the mind No plague is greater than the griefe of mind The feeble mind through weaknesse coines new feares VVhen stronger hearts their griefes more wisely beares Ignorance is the deadly night of mind Mens faces glister when their minds are blacke The face is held the Herald of the mind VVhereas the mind is willing and addict Examples are more forcible and strict The greatest minds doe aime at greatest things Pithie demaunds are whetstones to the mind The fairest face may haue the foulest mind All impious minds though their fore-casts be great They cannot hide them from the greatest great The minds old habit hardly will be chaung'd Pure is the mind that neuer meant amisse Where mind consents not faults deserue excuse When many tunes doe sweetly symphonize It conquers hearts and kindly them compounds Dombe plaints in feeling minds make greatest noise The mind by wrong is made a male-content Similies on the same subiect AS Scales by poise are mounted vp and downe So too and fro conceits doe vrge the mind As tender trees bend euery way we
please So gentle minds are easily ouer-rul'd As heauines fore-tels some harme at hand So minds disturb'd presage ensuing ills As sickly bodies brooke not heat nor cold So crazed minds dislike of euery thing As working vessels are by vent kept sound So troubled minds by conference find ease As fennie grounds send forth vnsauorie sents So bad minds blâ—nder out distempered thoughts Examples likewise on the same SCeuola in the greatnesse of his mind Entred Porsennaes Tent to murder him Queene Tomiris to shew her dauntlesse mind With Cyrus blood reueng'd her deare sonnes death Zenobia told Aurelian in the field He was not able to subdue her mind Lucius Dentatus neuer matcht for mind Came eighteene times a conquerour from field Cicero saith the goodnesse of the mâ—nd Is most discern'd in pardoning iniuries Socrates said His quietnes in mind Was cause he neuer sickned till his death Of Affection c. Affection and sweet fancies secret fire Kindle the coales that quicken vp desire WHere we affect we seldome find defect Of things vnknowne we can haue no desire Men ost affect them that doe loue them least And least doe loue them whome they should like best That one desires another doth disdaine Affection by the countenance is descried Full easily the fault may be redrest Where kind affection onely hath transgrest Kindly affection youth to liue with youth Truest affection doth no bounds retaine Affection is a â—ierce yet holy fire Free of him-selfe and chain'd to strong desire Desire with small encouraging growes bold It 's easie to desire but hard to chuse Affections speech that easily can dissolue Doth moisten Flint yet Steele in stiffe attire The sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none In darkest nights desire sees best of all Sweet are the kisses the embracements sweet When like desires with like affections meet Affections slaue regards no oathes nor lawes Luke-warme desires best fit with crazed loue Affection is a coale that must be coold Else suffered it will set the heart on fire Entire affection hateth nice coy hands Affection will like fire him-selfe betray Affection faints not like a pale fac'd coward But then wooes best when most his choise is froward The coales are quicke where fancie blowes the fire Desire can make a Doctor in a day Where loue doth reigne disturbing iealousie Doth call him selfe affections Sentinell Fauour and grace are tearmed fancies fuell An equall age doth equall like desires Bad mens affections turne to feare and hate And hate to daunger and deserued death That 's hardly kept which is desir'd of many The most maid-seeming is not without affection That needs must issue to the full perfection Hath grounded-being by the minds affection There 's nothing can affections force controll Drunken desire doth vomit his receit Affections gawdie banner once displayed The coward fights and will not be dismayed Things much restrain'd make vs the more desire them In meanest shewe the most affection dwells Small drops doe oft-times quench a mightie fire But hugest Seas not qualifie desire All qualifide affections loue doth hate Beautie strikes fancie blind vaine shewes deceiue Sad perâ—urâ—ations that affections guide Should not giue iudgement till their cause be tride Desire is life of loue and death of feare Death is the finall end of all desires Nothing can quench an infinite desire Once kindled through the first conceiued fire Sad sighes doe shew the heat of hearts desire Desire controld doth aggrauate desire Desire being fierce is spring of sighes and teares Men once degenerate and growne deprest Are pleasd to share affections with a beast Desire doth spring from that we wish and want Fancie is blind deafe and incredulous Fancie is watchfull and doth seldome sleepe Fancie compeld to Lute strings is compar'd Which ouer stretcht doe cracke before they sound Lawfull desires are honesties best notes Affection's rest lesse yet being perfect end-lesse Delay is preiudiciall to desire The greater part leane to example so That what they fancie they will sâ—ant forgoe Fancies best cure is mutuall affection Fancie soone â—ires but long before it quench When loue leads lookes no compasse keepes desire A hot desire on present heat doth dote When cold repentance will it not fore-note Low fortunes often times haue high desires Like fortunes globe euen so is fancies seat Appetites flame with wisdome best is quencht There neuer did all circumstances meet With those desires which were conceiu'd before Affection brooketh no diuision Sleepe hath no priuiledge ouer desire Similies on the same subiect AS poyson sweetly mixt is sooner ta'ne So fancie close conceal'd is soonest fier'd As Chrysolites are prooued in the fire So is affection in enforc'd restraint As cities wanting Magistrates decay Euen so desire vngouern'd hurts it selfe As all the world were darke but for the Sunne So life but for affection were vnsure As steele brings fire from the hardest flint So fancie mollisies the stearnest mind As Almond trees in age doe beare most fruit So yeares doth best approoue affections Examples likewise on the same ZAleucus to the Locrians made a law To loose their eyes that sinn'd in foule desires Appius was banished the cittie Rome For leud affection to Virginia Marke Anthonie disgrac'd his former fame By not restraining his affections King Alexander hated to the death In men or women loose and leud desires Fancie saith Aristotle often makes A frenzie in their soules are led thereby Desire saith Socrates no limits holds And therefore hardly can be mastred Of Disdaine c. Contempt and Scorne are Wits infirmitie Wherwith Disdaine and Scoffes keepe company FLint frost disdaine weares melts and yeelds we see Things long in getting quickly are disdain'd Present disdaine oft after-loue diuines Prayers preuaile not where is coy disdaine Better to die a thousand deaths and more Than liue contemn'd that honour'd was before Disdaine deliuers a depraued mind Griefe often-times giues place to nice disdaine Too much precisenesse sauours of selfe-loue Gibing demaunds deserue scornefull replyes Neither can wit or Art take any place Where aduerse scorne with feare strikes boldnesse dead Presumption giues no guerdon but disdaine Despised men on earth must liue in heauen There must be some contempt ere plagues ensue Disdaine attends where greatest honour haunts In high disdaine loue is a base desire And Cupids flames doe seeme but watrie fire Disdaine repines at all good things it sees They others vertues scorne that doubt their owne Mocke none in need beware thine owne mishap Scoffes without feare from follâ—e doe proceed The choice â—â—hard wheâ—e silence kills with griefe Oâ— speech reapes no reward but base contempâ— To mocke a friend is held no manly part Scorne can haue no reward but like contempt Ieasting is tollerable but scorne most vile Disdaine declares a proud presuming heart Loues passions quenched by vnkind disdaine Doth often times encrease the more desire Scorning is artificiall iniurie Who scorneth most shall be but paid with scoffes Scorne not thy wife least scorn'd she do thee
they gree in one Arme not vnskilfulnes with mightie power He who his owâ—e cause makes doth still deuise To make too â—â—â—ch to haue is more than sure Great is the daunger of vnmastred might Too many great one kingdome cannot hold Where power hath decreed â—o find offence Thâ— cause is better still than the defence Might makes a title where he hath no right Mâ—n count that wrong is compassed by might He onely trâ—â—ds the sure and perfect path To greatnesse who loue and opinion hath Vncertaine power cannot it selfe retaine Custome hath power to kill with weakest might Who falls buâ—â—ow may quickely rise againe Who falls â—rom hâ—ight is mercilessely slaine Loue is not alwaâ—es dignâ—â—ies companion The tallest trees are shaken most with winds When one selfe-power is common made to two Their duties they nor suffer nor will doe Preferment is the first step to disquiet In equall play-fellowes no perill lyes The man that giues a weapon to his stronger Is like himselfe to carrie rule no longer Ech little spot appeares most in the face Great might is like a fortified tower No man can manage great affaires of state And yet content a wayward multitude Where many lead they lead to many blowes Let Gods with Gods and men with men contend What ere he be with his superiour playes Stands in the mouth of daunger many wayes He hardly will entreat that may commaund All dignitie on tickle stayes doth stand With mightie men 't is better ceasing strife Than an vnequall quarrell to maintaine There is no hell like to declining pompe He sits not safest that is mounted high In high degree small faulâ—s are quickely spyde But low estate a many errours hyde No high estate can yeeld a quiet life The power of vertue euer-more preuailes What though our sinnes goe braue and better clad They are in ragges as base and all as bad Might breakes the law the sacred Senat makes The more our greatnesse makes our faulâ—s the more Similies on the same subiect AS in fine cloth the brightest staines we see So faults are most discern'd in high degree As â—â—stie clâ—mbers oft catch suddaine falls So might mis-vsde doth kindle nought but braules Aâ— he that stands on high stands still in feare So they that manage states doe want no care As Rasors are not fit for childrens hands So fooles no way beseeme authoritie As presidents are aptest meanes for youth So rulers goodnesse giues example best As the great Elme supports the spreading vine So might ought still support humilitie Examples hereof are generally through the booke as in Kings Princes Kingdomes Magistrates c. and therefore no need of other collections Of Courage c. Courage is foe to faint-heart cowardise And man-hood teacheth valour to be wise COurage emboldneth wit wit courage armes Without experience valour wants his armes Daunger and feare like cowards turnes aside Whâ—n man-hood is by resolution tryde Skill valour guides and valour armeth skill Who hopes a conquest leaues no means vnsought The inward thoughts that haughtie courage bearâ—s Griâ—ucs moâ—â— at words than deaths pale-faced fâ—arâ—s Courage with cowardise will not be matcht The valiant man doth most in warre delight Seldome shall any liuing creature seâ— That courtesie and manhood disagree The coward seekes to liue at home in ease Valour is neuer knowne till it be tryed They that attempt high daâ—ngers â—uident Vpon no reason are not valiant Actions doe kill imaginations sway Vnequall warres t'vnequall shame is sold. The man that dares not caring how he darâ—s Sells vertues name to purchase foolish skarres Rebellious natures must be roughly vs'd Repining courage yeelds no foe a foot Cowards doe onely wish and call for death While valiant hearts in silence banish breath Vaine words cannot bewitch a valiant mind Measure not manhood by the outward shewe The noble courage neuer weeneth ought That may vnworthie of it selfe be thought Chaffer no words high courage to prouoke Courage may lend a cloake to cowardise Nothing the praise of manhood more doth marre Than foule reuenge and base contentious iarre Action is fierie valours soueraigne good True valour lodgeth in the lowliest hearts High courage with true wisdome alwayes backe Winnes perfect fame and shunneth each mishap Weakenesse is false and faith in cowards rare Gloriâ— doth follow courage goes before The man that couples courage with desire Runnes freely through his daunger and preuailes True valour aimes at honour euermore A cowards heart keepes words and deeds asunder A iewell in a ten-times bard-vp chest Iâ— a bold spirit in a loyall breast Courage and industriâ— can neuer want In conquering will true courage most is shewen In vainâ— hee seeketh others to suppresse Who hath not learn'd first to subdue him-selfe All strength is fraile and full of ficklenesse No fortunes frowne can daunt true valors heart Beggers but â—eigning brauerie are the proudest And cowards bragging boldnesse wrangle loudest A valiant mind disdaines to hide his head It 's cowardise vnworthie wrongs to beare Where wronged valour reignâ—s it 's hard to find Such pittis as may honours pride controll True valour feeles nor griefe nor miserie Resolute courage makes loue fortunate Cowards in pâ—ace doe dread the weapons sight But vrg'd by need will venture then the pikes Courage to die exceeds a captiu'd life Courage despiseth dread and conquers death Similies on the same subiect AS courage addeth wings to braue desire So bloodie shewes doth quench incensedire As it is valour to be conquerour So wisdome maketh vse of victorie As courage keepes the mind from base assaults So cowardise infects it with all faults As courage is esteem'd a wise mans coat So cowardise is follies cognisance As Faulconers doe in Faulcons most delight So mightie men reioyceth in their might Examples likewise on the same THe Romanâ— Sergius loosing his right hand Slew with his left hand foure in single fight Scaeuola entred king Porsennaes Tent Either to kill him or be slaine by him Agis disswaded from the fight replyed No man wonne shame that with true courage dyde Stout Alâ—ibiades cheerd vp his followers By his couragious leadâ—ng them to field Courage saith Seneca is of such power As it can conquer any miserie Plato saith Courage eleuates the mind To all things that are laudable and iust Of Pleasure c. Pleasure and sweet Delights doe much beguile Expecting ioy griefe happens oft meane-while PLeasures are poore and our delights soone dye Where pleasure is displac'd care keepes his â—arte Where care killes pleasure life not long endures Who tries shall find that pleasures long restrain'd Be farre more pleasant when they once are gain'd Where strife is stirr'd there pleasure hath no part Worlds pleasure lasts not long but griefe abides Farewell delight when graueld is all grace Neuer haue vniust pleasures been compleat In ioyes entire but feare still keepes the doore The sweetest pleasure hath the shortest date Long wished things a sweet delight doe beare Pleasure and penaunce still are mortall foes Enforced