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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22011	Toxophilus the schole of shootinge contayned in tvvo bookes. To all gentlemen and yomen of Englande, pleasaunte for theyr pastyme to rede, and profitable for theyr use to folow, both in war and peace ...	Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568.	1545 (1545)	STC 837; ESTC S104391	106,118	194

on so farre In supp●● that he can neuer retourne backe vntyl he be so lyght that he nede feare no theues by the waye Nowe if a simple man happen onse in his lyfe to win of suche players than will they eyther entreate him to kepe them company whyles he hath lost all agayne or els they will vse the moste dyuelyshe fashion of all For one of the players that standeth nexte him shall haue a payre of false dise and cast them out vpon the bourde the honest man shall take them cast them as he did the other the thirde shall espye them to be false dise and shall crye oute har●e wyth all the othes vnder God that he hath falselye wonne theyr moneye and than there is nothynge but houlde thy throte from my dagger than euery man layeth hande on the simple man and taketh all theyr moneye from him and his owne also thinking him selfe wel that he scapeth with his lyfe Cursed sweryng blasphemie of Christe These halfe verses Chaucer in an other place more at large doth well set out and verye liuely expresse sayinge Ey by goddes precious hert and his nayles And by the blood of Christe that is in Hales Seuen is my chaunce and thine is sinke and treye Ey goddes armes if thou falsly playe This dagger shall thorough thine herte go This frute commeth of the ●eched boones two● Fors●eringe Ire falsnes and Homicide c Thoughe these verses be very ernestlie 〈…〉 yet they do not halfe so grisely sette out the hor●blenes of blasphemy which suche gamne●s vse as it is in dede and as I haue hearde my selfe For no man can wryte a thing so earnestlye as whan it is spokē wyth ●esture as learned men you knowe do saye Howe will you thinke that suche furiousenes wyth woode countenaunces and brenning eyes with staringe and bragging with heart redie to leape out of the ●elly for dwelling can be expressed y● tenth part to the vttermost Two men I herd my selfe whose sayinges be far more grisely than Chaucers verses One whan he had lost his moneye sware me God from top to toe with one breath that he had lost al his money for lacke of sweringe The other losyng his money and heaping othes vpon othes one in a nothers necke moost horrible not spekeable was rebuked of an honest man whiche stode by for so do doynge he by and by starynge him in the face and clappyng his fiste with all his moneye he had vpon the boorde sware me by the flesshe of God that yf sweryng woulde helpe him but one ace he woulde not leue one pece of god vnsworne neyther wythin nor without The remembraūce of this blasphemy Philologe doth make me quake at the hart therefore I wyll speake no more of it And so to conclude wyth suche gamnyng I thynke there is no vngraciousenes in all thys worlde that carieth a man so far from god as thys faulte doth And yf there were anye so desperate a persone that woulde begynne his hell here in earth I trowe he shoulde not fynde hell more lyke hell it selfe then the lyfe of those men is which dayly haunt and vse suche vngracious games PHIL. You handle this gere in dede And I suppose if ye had ben a prentice at suche games you coulde not haue sayd more of them then you haue done and by lyke you haue had somwhat to do with them TOX. In dede you may honestlye gather that I hate them greatly in that I speake agaynst them not that I haue vsed them greatlye in that I speake of them For thynges be knowen dyuerse wayes as Socrates you knowe doeth proue in Alcibiades And if euery man shulde be that that he speaketh or wryteth vpō then shulde Homer haue bene the best capitayne moost cowarde hardye hasty wyse and woode sage and simple And Terence an ouldeman a yong an honest man and a bawde with suche lyke Surelye euerye man ought to praye to God dayly to kepe them frō suche vnthriftynesse and speciallye all the youth of Englande for what youth doth begynne a man wyll folowe cōmonlye euen to his dyinge daye whiche thinge Adrastus in Euripides pretelye doth expresse Euripides in suppl● sayinge VVhat thing a man in tender age hath moost in vre That same to death alwayes to kepe he shal be sure Therfore in age who greatly longes good frute to mowe In youth he must him selfe aplye good seede to sowe For the foundation of youth well sette as Plato doth saye the whole bodye of the commune wealth shal floryshe therafter If the yonge tree grow● croked when it is oulde a man shal rather breake it thā streyght it And I thinke there is no one thinge y● crokes youth more then suche vnlefull games Nor let no mā say if they be honestly vsed they do no harme For how can that pastyme whiche neither exerciseth the bodye with any honest labour nor yet the minde with any honest thinking haue any honestie ioyned with it Nor let noman assure hym selfe that he can vse it honestlye for if he stande therein he maye fortune haue a faule the thing is more slipperye then he knoweth of A man maye I graunt syt on a brante hyll syde but if he gyue neuer so lytle forwarde he can not stoppe though he woulde neuer so fayne but he must nedes runne heedling he knoweth not how farre What honest pretences vayne pleasure layeth dayly as it were entisemētes or baytes to pull men forwarde withall Homer doeth well shewe by the Sirenes and Circes And amonges all in that shyp there was but one Ulysses and yet he hadde done to as the other dyd yf a goddesse had not taught hym And so lykewyse I thinke they be easye to numbre whiche passe by playing honestlye excepte the grace of God saue and kepe them Therfore they that wyll not go to farre in playing let them folowe this coūsell of the Poete ❧ Stoppe the begynninges PHILOLO Well or you go any further I pray you tell me this one thing Doo ye speake agaynste meane mennes playinge onelye or agaynste greate mennes playinge to or put you anye difference betwixte them TOXOPHI If I shulde excuse my selfe herein and saye that I spake of the one and not of the other I feare leaste I shoulde as fondlye excuse my selfe as a certayne preacher dyd whome I hearde vpon a tyme speake agaynste manye abuses as he sayde and at last he spake agaynst candelles and then he fearynge least some men woulde haue bene angrye and offended with him naye sayeth he you must take me as I meane I speake not agaynst greate candelles but agaynst lytle candels for they be not all one ꝙ he I promyse you And so euerye man laughed him to scorne In dede as for greate men and greate mennes matters I lyft not greatlye to meddle Yet this I woulde wysshe that all great men in Englande had red ouer diligentlye the Pardoners tale in Chaucer and there they shoulde perceyue and se

reason of theyr artillerie regarded neuer one whitte and thus with the Romaynes I maye conclude that the borders of theyr empyre were not at the sunne rysinge and sunne settynge as Tullye sayeth but so farre they went as artillarie woulde gyue them leaue For I thinke all the grounde that they had eyther northewarde farther than the borders of Scythia or Eastewarde farther than the borders of Parthia a man myght haue boughte with a small deale of money of whiche thynge surely sho tyng was the cause From the same contrie of Scythia the Gothians Hunues 〈…〉 Dia● and Wandalians came wyth the same we pons of artillarie as Paulus Diaconus doth saye so berafte Rome of her empyre wyth fyre spoyle waste so y● in suche a learned citie was lefte scarce one man behynde that had learnynge or leysoure to leue in writinge to them whiche shoulde come after howe so noble an Empyre in so shorte a whyle by a rable of banyshed bondemen wythoute all order and pollicie saue onelye theyr naturalle and daylye excercise in artillarye was broughte to suche thraldome and ruine After them the ●urkes hauing an other name but yet the same people P. Mela. ● borne in Scythia brought bp onely in artillarie by the same weapon haue subdued and beraft from the Christen men all Asia and Aphrike to speake vpon and the moost noble countries of Europe to the greate diminishing of Christe his religion to the great reproche of cowardyse of al christianitie a manifest token of gods high wrath displeasure ouer the synne of the worlde but speciallye amonges Christen men which be on slepe made drunke with the frutes of the flesh as infidelitie disobedience to Goddes worde and heresie grudge euel wyll stryfe contention and priuie enuye coueytousnesse oppression vnmercifulnesse with innumerable sortes of vnspeakeable daylye bawdrye which thinges surely yf God hold not his holy hande ouer vs and plucke vs from them wyl bryng vs to a more Turkishnesse and more beastlye blynde barbarousnesse as callyng ill thinges good and good thynges ill contemnyng of knowledge learnynge settynge at nought and hauyng for a fable God and his high prouidence wyll bring vs I say to a more vngracious Turkishnesse if more Turkishnesse can be then this thā if the Turkes had sworne to bring al Turkye agaynst vs. For these frutes surelye must neades sprynge of suche seede and suche effect nedes folowe of suche a cause if reason truthe and God be not altered but as they are wont to be For surely no Turkyshe power can ouerthrowe vs if Turkysshe lyfe do not cast vs downe before If god were wyth vs it buted ●ot the turke to be agaynst vs but our vnfaythful sinfull lyuyng which is the Turkes moder and hath brought hym vp hitherto muste nedes turne god from vs because syn and he hath no felowshyp togither If we banished ill liuyng out of christendome I am sure the Turke shulde not onelye not ouercome vs but scarce haue an hole to runne in to in his owne countrye But Christendome nowe I may tell you Philologe is muche lyke a man that hath an ytche on him and lyeth drōke also in his bed and though a thefe come to the dore and heaueth at it to come in and sleye hym yet he lyeth in his bed hauinge more pleasure to lye in a slumber and scratche him selfe wher it ytcheth euen to the harde bone than he hath redynes to ryse vp lustelye dryue him awaye that woulde robbe hym and sleye hym But I truste Christe wyl so lyghten and lyfte vp Christen mennes eyes that they shall not slepe to death nor that the turke Christes open enemy shall euer boste that he hath quyte ouerthrowen vs. But as I began to tell you shootynge is the chefe thinge wherewith God suffereth the turke to punysh our noughtie liuinge wyth all 〈…〉 The youthe there is brought vp in shotyng his priuie garde for his own person is bowmen the might of theyr shootynge is wel knowen of the Spanyardes whiche at the towne called Newecastell in Illirica were quyte slayne vp of the turkes arrowes whan the Spanyardes had no vse of theyr gunnes by reason of the rayne I●d nowe last of all the emperour his maiestie him selfe at the Citie of Argier in Aphricke had 〈…〉 hooste sore handeled wyth the Turkes arrowes when his gonnes were quite dispatched and stode him in no seruice bycause of the raine that fell where as in suche a chaune of raine yf he had had bowmen surelye there shoote myghte peraduenture haue bene a litle hindred but quite dispatched and marde it coulde neuer haue bene But as for the Turkes I am werie to talke of them partlye because I hate them and partlye bycause I am now affectioned euen as it were a man that had bene longe wanderyng in straūge contries would fayne be at home to se howe well his owne frendes prosper and leade theyr lyfe and surely me thincke I am verie merye at my harte to remember how I shal finde at home in Englande amonges Englysh men partlye by hystories of them that haue gone afore vs agayne by experience of thē whych we knowe lyue with vs as greate noble feates of warre doone by Artillarye as euer was done at any tyme in any other common welthe And here I must nedes remēber a certaine Frēchman called Textor that writeth a boke which he nameth Officina Te●to● wherin he weueth vp many brokenended matters and settes out much rifraffe pelfery trumpery baggage beggerie ware clamparde vp of one that would seme to be fitter for a shop in dede than to write any boke And amonges all other yll packed vp matters he thrustes vp in a hepe togyther all the good shoters that euer hathe bene in the worlde as he saythe hymselfe and yet I trow Philologe that of all the examples whiche I now by chaūce haue rehersed out of the best Authors both in greke and latin Textor 〈…〉 but .ii. of them which .ii. surely yf they were to rekē agayne I wold not ones name thē partly bycause they were noughtie persons and shoting somoche the worse bycause they loued it as Domitian and Commodus the emperours partelye bycause Textor hath them in his boke on whome I loked on bychaunce in the booke-bynders shoppe thinkynge of no suche matter And one thing I wyl say to you Philologe that if I were disposed to do it and you hadde leysure to heare it I coulde soone do as Textor doth and reken vp suche a rable of shoters that be named here and there in poetes as wolde holde vs talkyng whyles tomorowe but my purpose was not to make mention of those which were feyned of Poetes for theyr pleasure but of suche as were proued in histories for a truthe but why I bringe in Textor was this At laste when he hath rekened all shoters that he can 〈…〉 he sayeth thus Petrus Crinitus wryteth that the Scottes whiche dwell beyonde