fieri philosophuÌ„ Plut. in apo but superiour by learning in his exile being asked what he had learned by Plato answered that by Philosophy he had learned to vndergoe equally the estate of a Prince and beggar Gellius l. 2. Eightly a learned Prince doth willingly enolyne to wisdome and vertue Gellius l. 2. he followeth the one shunneth the other not for feare but for loue of themselues The Cubiculars of the Persian Kings were enioyned euery morning to put their master in minde of his kingly office by these wordes Arise O King and goe about the publike affaires Heron. ad Heliod A learned Prince needeth no such aduertisement Philosophi ponuâ—t â—uatuor species perturbationum dolorem metuÌ„ spem Letitiam quibus hominum vulgus vt procellosuÌ„ mare fluctibus inquietatur Arist pol. before hee goeth to bed hee premeditates the next dayes worke in his bed hee consults vpon it and at his arising hee executes his setled designes hee is neither ouercome with sorrow feare hope ioy and other vulgar violent perturbations but willingly followes those wholesome lawes he doth enact for others Aristotle being demanded what hee had profited by Philosophy answered That hee had learned to doe those things willingly that others did for feare of the Law Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore Oderunt peccare mali formidine poenae Ninthly giuing of answers Eloquentia principibus magno ornamento est Cic. 4. de finib vsing perswasions resoluing of questions discoursing of lawes conferring of honours defence of things proposed or done are inseparably annexed to the office of a King vnto all which hee must bee by learning inabled lest hee expose himselfe to the censure of ignorance or become the subiect of smothered laughter and future contempt The words of a Prince are like the oracles of Apollo no sooner spoken Plato de rep but taken holde of by all men therfore great care is to be taken that his wordes his orations his answeres and demandes be consonant to the to the dignity of a Prince Plato did pronounce the state happy where a wise and learned King did raigne for said hee learning is the only and chiefe happinesse and ignorance the greatest ill vpon the first depends all humane felicity Isocrates ad Demoniac vpon the last assured misery Aristippus made choyse rather to bee a begger then vnlearned because by the one hee wanted onely externall and temporall riches but by the other humanity knowledge and endlesse wealth Sola omnium possessionum immortalis scientia Wherefore to conclude this point learning keepes states from returning to their former Chaos of confusion Cic. pro Arch. Aug. super psal 101. it is the sun that enlightens the minde of Princes and being remooued gouernment by disorder turnes into tyranny and is obscured with the darke cloudes of ignorance Alphonsus Aragonum Rex cum audisset quendam dixisse non decere principem scire literas fertur exclamasse eam vocem bouis esse non hominis cum a rationis iuditio non profecta sed insulso belluinae ruditatis instinctu fuisset effusa SECTIO III. Of the vertuous life of Princes of the election of their Councellors officers and seruants THere be three inseparable companions that ought to accompany Princes Impera tibi impera seruis impera subditis Sociad First the care of themselues Secondly the care of their subiects Thirdly the care and iudicious choyce of Councellours Virtutes Principis per omniuÌ„ imperiorum corpora diffunduntur Senec. de Clement officers and seruants The first is the rule whereby the second and third are squared the good life of a Prince is the fountaine from whence the waters of life of countrey city and court flow The Prince is the head they the members he is of no lesse force in their politicke body then the head in a naturall which being crasie or diseased imparts sicknesse or death to the weaker parts Princes are of star-like influence vpon inferiour bodies If the ayre bee infected with an epidemicall quality they that dwell therein cannot be very sound If Princes bee giuen to goodnesse and vertue the subiects and seruants like apes imitate them if vicious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epist Ex Plut. they exceed in all licenciousnesse and insolency This exemplary life of Princes was the ground-stone whereon Platoes Republicke was builded Fla. vopisc in aurel old Solons faithfull counsell to Princes was to goe before their people in vertue and goodnes which precedency is the maintainer of piety honesty and obedience Secundum iudicem populi sic ministri eius Eccles 10.2 saith the Wiseman Philostrat lib. 9. The Annals of all nations demonstrate that whatsoeuer vertues or vices Princes haue followed such were the patternes from whence the life of subiectes and seruants were drawne Ex dione cassio lib. 9. Efficacissimum est exhortationis genus Principem hoc facere quod ab alijs fieri velit As this personall care is the first royall wisedome and the frame of good gouernment Opera danda vt Princeps suos mores integros incorruptos praestet reipublicae quoad licet omnes subditos proceres aulicos ac ministros sui similes habeat Eras in stit prin so is the wise election and making choyce of counsell and helpes for supporting the heauy burthen of a diadem the next neighbouring vertue Certum est Principem non posse sua scientia cuncta complecti itaque conciliari eorum quae inter homines sunt diuinissimum est Princes then are first to consult with that supreme King by whom they raigne hee is Magni consilij Angelus admirabilis consiliarius Esa 9.6 Humana consilia castigantur quaÌ„do Coelestibus praeferuÌ„tur Max. lib. 1. without this counsell all other is erronious and full of danger Dauid consulebat dominum antequam facta ardua agrediretur Next vnto diuine consultation the helpe of counsellours and fit persons for seconding so weightie a charge offereth it selfe to the iudicious view of Princes and wherein the following cognizances are to be obserued First that such as are admitted to so honourable a place bee religious fearing God Ambros 3. de offic and of vpright life Consiliorum gubernaculum lex diuina in consilijs acquirendis plurimum adiungit vitae probitas Secondly Principi coÌ„sule non dulciora sed optima Solon apud Laert. that they be fidi rerum hominumque periti faithfull in counsell skilful in affayres and conditions of people Thirdly that they be free of flattery tantum nocet adulatio in consilijs quantum veritas consilij Fourthly that they may bee wise graue well affected and seene in matters of State of good experience and such as by their various fortunes haue learned the art of counselling Ioan. Pall. par 1. ca. 9. Mihi fortuna multis rebus ereptis vsum dedit bene suadendi saith Mithridates Fifthly counsellours must bee
his ensuing sorrow life is blinde doubtfull and full of troubles honors swelleth it sorrow extenuates it heate exsicates it surfets oppresse it sadnesse consumes it solitude imprisons it security duls it yong age exalts it youth profuseth it old age makes it feeble and death ruines it what a foolish frailty is it then to feare death when in each or most of these calamities of life we wish death should cease vpon vs. Wherefore seeing the body of man is but the ruinous cottage wherein the soule of man is imprisoned and dayly assaulted with neuer ceasing enemies the best way to auoyd a more glorious sure dwelling place for so heauenly a guest is timely to teach the soule to despise the body that she hath no interest in it is a stranger a pilgrime and a wearied guest trauelling towards her long wished home and vnwillingly detained within the dungeon of corrupt flesh that because death is the way wherby she must arriue at her long wished heauen shee must willingly acquaint her selfe with death to discouer the dangerous ambuscadoes and ensnaring traps that are hidden vnder the ouershadowing groues of greatnesse and prosperitie This serious meditation of death the familiar conuersing with death and timely disiunction of the soule from the body is the right preparation to dye and when death comes boldly with a kingly courage triumphantly demand him in the face Death where is thy sting Maximilian the Emperour caused his tombe fiue yeares before his death be carried whersoeuer hee did goe Ex orat funeb Sueu that by the remeÌ„brance of death he might dislodge ambitious foolish deceitfull wordly affections and be ready with old Swan-singing Simeon to receiue his safe conduct Luc. 2.25.26.27.28.29.30 and say Now Lord lettest thou thy seruant depart im peace for mine eyes haue seene my saluation Secondly death is carefully to be premeditated because the forgetfulnesse of death increaseth the horror and augments the feare of vnexspected death Aug. de mort Omnia repentina grauiora sunt sed premeditatio futurorum malorum lenit eorum aduentum This consideration of the vncertainety and vnexspected comming of death and carefull prouision for his coÌ„ming is able to withstand the furious assaults of fearefull rebellious flesh Petrar dial 28. ambition and down throwing pride of the most powerfull Princes Luc. 21.29 Thess 1.5 Reuel 3.3 is a carefull seruant for the comming of the master a neuer sleeping watch attending the theefe a prouident Oeconomus for laying vp of true store Remember O king sayde Agapetus to Iustinian that death feares not the spenldor of honour or greatnesse Eccl. 12.7 but impartially dâ—uoures Kings and Beggers therefore before his comming lay vp prouision in heauen where no corruption shall haue entry but shall returne to dust ashes from whence it did come Iob. 1.21.7.5 and man borne naked shall goe hence naked death shall finde him as life leaues him and iudgement shall finde him as death leaues him Aâ—g de doct thist Lact. lib. 3. â— 19. Non potest male mori qui bene vixit plerunque mala mors est quam mala vita praecessit nam sicut vita ipsa bonum est cum virtute viuitur malum si cum scelere Ita mors ex praeteritis vitae actibus ponderanda est SECTIO XXV Of mourning for the dead and of Christian and Princely burials LEt such Critickes who condemne mourning sermons Christianorum iustoruÌ„ defunctoruÌ„ corpora quibus taÌ„quam organis ad bona opera vsus est spiritus sanctus officiosa pietate curanda exequtae caelebrand aeâ— sunt Aug. in Pat. and funeral honours to the praise of the faithfull departed consider that ignorance or singularity is the mother of their errour and as it is true that Christians translated from this life Non sunt omissi sed praemissi so is it as true fidelibus defunctis debito honore ac funebri oratione parentare nulla vnquam pietas aut religio vetuit The redoubled groanes of our Sauiour at the death of Lazarus demonstrate that mourning for the dead is a true signe of the pietie of the liuing Iohn 11.33 38. Stephani Martyrium maximis Christianorum planctibus gemitibus fuit coronatum Act. 8.2 Ieremias did bewayle the death of king Icsâ—â—s in the assembly of the people Abraham his wife Sarah Gen. 23.2 the whole house of Israel did mourne for Moses and Aaron thirty dayes Deut. 29.8 King Dauid did lament for the death of Absolon his sonne Sam. 2.19.18 and for the death of Saul his enemy The holy fathers did bemone the death of their Princes and others their friends Ambrose did most richly garnish the hearse of Theodosius with a learned Sermon and eloquent oration Gregorius Nazianzenus mortuum fratreÌ„ CaesariuÌ„ laudauit eiusque memoriam posteris funebri oratione commendauit Greg. de Sepul Hier. in pan Ierome Damascen and all the ancient pillars of the Church did honourably regard the funerall and last honors done to the Christians deceased I cease to speake of honors done to Princes after their death by the Phylosophers and ancient heathen it is dolefully registred that at the tragicall funerals of Achilles Patroclus killed by the Troians Homer Illi Lachrimis non solum arma lugentium rigarentur sed arenae quoque madescerent Old Solon did delight to bee beloued in his life time that at his death the sorrowfull complaints of his friends might accompany him to his graue Ex dic Phil â— â— Iulius Caesar questor Iuliam Amitam vx remque Corneliam pro rostris laudauit All lawes doe warrant such offices as are done at the funerals of such as haue beene profitable to the commonwealth wherein they did liue to be iusta iure acta Iust and the least defacing of sepulchers of the dead or touch of reproach hath beene holden an offence of higher quality then the ruinating of the houses of the liuing or spoken against their persons in their life time In iuris prudentia quotiescunque leges viuentium pugnant cum legibus po-sthumilijs semper preualent posthumiae omniaque iuris priuilegia fulta fauore publico cedunt vincuntur ab vna sola actione funeraria The ancient Christians did accompt it the extremity of persecution that they were compelled sine supremo honore canticorum himnorum to burie their dead in silence Dion apud Stob. I should exceede the limited breuity that I haue enioyned to my selfe if I should recount the various and superstitious funerall rites obserued amongst the heathen or the sumptuous and vnprofitable charges bestowed amongst some Christians Egyptij condiebant Persae cera circum linitos condebant mortuos eosque domi seruabant vt quam maxime permanerent diuturna corpora MagoruÌ„ mos erat non humare corpora nisi a feris antea fuisseÌ„tlaniata Messagetae cognatos propinquos mortuos deuorant ducentes honestius ac rectius a se quam a vermibus commedantur I leaue the funerall fiers wherein anciently Sepulturae Pompa magis est Solarium vinoquam mortuorum praesidium Aug. de cura promort and yet the bodies of the dead haue beene and are consumed to ashes neither will I speake of the precious iewells rich clothes gold siluer seruants horse other conceited fooleries Ioan Boem de morib omn. gen wherewith in diuers Nations Princes are interred I doe onely allow of such honourable buriall of Princes as is obserued amongst Christians which is rather accompanied and condoled with the presence and teares of al good subiects sermons funerall orations and charitable almes thereby in citing the succeeding posterity to imitate the vertues of the deceased prince theÌ„ defaced by superstitious rites or prodigall profusion of superfluous and vnprofitable charge Ecclesia fulgeat in parietibus sed ne egeat in pauperibus lapides auro induantur non vt Ecclesiae filij nudi deserantur FINIS Faults escaped in the Printing Page 2. marge capitum persuasum p. 11. line 16. r. l. 20. r. their p. 21. l. 15. r. sapiunt p. 23. l. 7. r. atergo p. 25. l. 14. r. establisheth 26. l. 17. r. melancholius p. 37. l. 20. 21. semper it p. 45. l. 8. r. 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doe attend warre That they truly inform themselues of the causes which moue them of their abilitie to vphold so sumptuous a charge they are seriously to meditate with themselues and debate with their Councell vpon the irrecouerable losses the chaos of confusion the multitude of miseries the inhumane cruelties the shipwracke of conscience the spoyles rapes tyrannies murthers cares dangers losses cryes of fatherlesse and widdowes and vpon the Ocean of euils that do accompany al-deuouring warre they are wisely to consider the endlesse charges that vpholds it the encrease and multiplying of it the easie beginning the difficult and vncertayne issue of bloody warre and that they must not seeke to obtayn that with blood and shame Quam calamitosa res scelerata belluÌ„ hinc malorum omnium quasi mare quoddam exundat semelque cuncta quamcunque peruaserit calamitatum fluctibus operit bellum Erasm inpaneg ad phil which they can neither get nor keepe without sin These and the like euils are able to check the inordinate desires of ambitious enlarging of dominions of vayn glory or tyrannous reuenge Princes are to call to mind that innocent blood is botled in heauens treasure that there is a strict account for the least drop of humane blood spent in their default To this they may add the fraylty of the life of man the millions of diseases hourely accidents and fatal blowes that dayly besides war assaults the ruinous Cottage wherein the life of man is enclosed Secondly let them descend to the true causes of warre from which are to bee excluded the ambition of Alexander the confidence in the number of Xerxes Bella suscipienda vt iniquitatis causa tollatur propter pacis necessitatem Aug. contra Faust the couetousnes of Crâ—sus and priuate ends of Caesar Gods glory the defence of kingdomes from forrayne iniury and enioying of peace are the true causes that ought to sound the trumpet in Sion and vnsheath the regall sword Ex Plut. these moued Dauid to put his hand to the sling Iudas Machabeus boldly goe against Gods enemies many braue Princes to contemne death in his face for the honour of their supreame King and safety of their Countreys Augustus Caesar did say that warre ought to bee commanded by the Gods iustified by Phylosophers maintayned by Princes and executed by wise Captaynes and couragious Souldiers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 2. fol. 55. Princes then for the aboue named causes after they haue lawfully denounced warre in publicke and honourable forme may lawfully take armes wherein they must bee religious prouident iudicious iust politike vigilant skilfull strict obseruers of discipline and mercifull So long as Moses lifted vp his hands so long had the people victory Prouident Scipio did scorne to say non putarem I did not thinke it should fall out thus Iudicious Alexander made rather choyce of few skillfull In alijs rebus si quid erratum est potest post modum corrigi praeâ—orum delicta emendationem non re 〈◊〉 Veget. lib. â— then of confused multitudes Iust Seleucus did rather share in one Eye with his sonne then to bee taynted with iniustice Politicke Sertorius was more confident in counsel then strength Pescennius did watch when his souldiers did sleepe Skillfull Hannibal did range his battels to disaduantage his enemies Val. Max. Alexander Seuerus did so strictly obserue Military discipline that he did punish the least contempt thereof Mercifull Mithridates did not insultingly triumph ouer his vanquished enemies Next in the hazards of war Princes are to be neither carelessely nor timerously suspitious of the euent which may sinisterly succeed Optimus locus inbello est medius quia fortes tenent locum medium inter timidos audaces Arist polit but iealous head-full in dangers stretching and tentering their wit vpon the racke of inuention till their setled and steele-armed resolutions may boldly aduenture the chance of Dice attempt their fortune The Emperour Lucullus vsed to say se malle vnum militem suume manibus hostiuÌ„ eripere quam vniuersas hostiuÌ„ copias sibi vendicare Hannibal to this same purpose sayth Se magis cunctantem acquiescentem Fabium quam pugnantem Marcellum formidare It hath euer beene the wisedome of greatest Captains rather by pollicies stratagems Ael Spart and wisedome to ouerthrow the enemy then by hazards vncertain battle Eutrop. lib. 3. Caes de bell Isoc ad Nicocl Reg. and rather by councell then by force Lacones si quando stratagemmate hoc est Callido consilio hostem superassent Marti bouem immolabant sin aperto praelio gallum hoc pacto consue facientes belli duces vt non solum fortes essent ad praelium verum vt callidis potius consilijs aduersus hostem instructi victoriam incruentam consequerentur In warre also magnanimity and courage in most eminent dangers is requisit because the quality of warre is such that the fearefulnes of one discourageth others Wherefore base feare the badge and terror of peasants doth not beseeme coÌ„manding Princes Plut. in Pol. for certainly where feare is there can bee small hope of victorie Iudas Machabeus enuironed by the multitude of enemies was aduised to turne backe 1. Mac. c. 9. â—0 God forbid sayd he that we should do this thing to fly from them if our time become let vs dye manfully for our brethren and let vs not stain our honor Alexandrias captaine of the Spartans being demaunded why his people did make choyce Suet. lib. 5. rather of death then to yeeld to the enemy because sayd he it is a law obserued amongst them rather to offer theyr bodies to death then to captiuitie Bias hauing warre with Iphicrates King of the Athenians being surprized by an vnexspected ambush Val. Max and seeing his people abandon him did thus encourage or rather checke their cowardise Trog Pom. tell you said he to the liuing that I your Captaine do die fighting and I shall tell to the dead that you did leaue me like cowards The strength of the Assirians was in the courage of their commander Belus of the Persians in Cirus of the Thebans in Hercules of the Hebrewes in Iudas Macchabeus of the Grecians in Alcibiades of the Troians in Hector of the Egyptians in Ogiges of the Epirotes in Pirrhus of the Romans in Scipio of the Carthaginians in Hannibal By these the like it is cleere that moe famous victories more prosperous successe hath happened by the wisedome dexterity and courage of Princes and Commanders then by the strength of souldiers arms Lastly because warre as all humane actions must haue an end the seuerall issues of warre present a three-fold consideration First if Princes attaine to the most fortunate succes that can bee wished they are modestly to curbe their immoderate ioyes insulting pride and inhumane cruelty remembring Ezechiels wheeles counterfeited by the Poets in rota fortunâ—e whereby is denoted the volubility of worldly
innobedientiae By exercise soldiers becom skilfull in their armes strong in their bodyes and couragious in their mindes Demet. In omni praelio non tam multitudo virtus indocta quam ars exercitium solent praestare victoriam Oft-times skill and exercise effect more in warre then multitude or vertue without skill On the contrary Socra apud Stob. Zenon apud Diog. lib. 7. Pith. in suis praecept idlenesse as it doth to all men doth infect the bodyes and minds of souldiers with a senslesse securitie and dulnesse to doe good and stirres them vp to all such vices as may offend others and are the staines of reputation and breach of good lawes therefore great Captaines can neuer bee assured of exspected successe without keeping of souldiers in dayly exercise Although Asia had no vse of ships yet lest the souldiers might be dulled or corrupted by idlenesse order was giuen to build ships for one wittily sayth homo sanus otiosus quam febricitans multo miserior est a man that is in health idle is in a more dangerous estate then he that is in an ague Secondly luxury of souldiers makes them become senselesse of reputation effeminate and soft and is to be choaked in the birth lest enchanting Circes change Vlisses followers into swine or luxurious Campania blemish the famous victories of Hannibal and in the end deliuer him vp as a subiect to adorne the Trophes of his most contemned enemies Thirdly by discipline souldiers are to be restrained from rapes ryots and disorders Marcus Cato did enact that the hand of him that committed theft should be cut off Lycias that whosoeuer did offer iniury ryots or abandon his place without cōmand should be seuerely punished Manlius Torquatus filium quod ipso ignorante ad dimicandum discenderat Val. Max. mactari iussit satius iudicans patrem forte filio quam patria militari disciplina carere This great Captaine did preferre the care of discipline to his victorious sonne but as in all other rigorous execution of Iustice so in military discipline seuerity is to be inflicted first Emendandi causa that the party punished may be therby bettred for sometimes seuerity cutteth off many that thereafter might proue profitable members in the body of an army Veget. lib. 5 Plat. Epist Secondly seuerity is to bee vsed cum dignitas eius in quem peccatur tuenda est ne pretermissa animaduersio contemptum pariat When neglect of punishment begetteth contempt against the person of commanders and good lawes Thirdly Salust ad Caes de rem ord punishment must haue its force vt metu penae ceteri terreantur that examplary punishment vpon corrupt and vncurable members may terrefie others The necessitie of military discipline is demonstrate Pub. Mim by the benefite that commeth to Princes by it and by the losses that idlenesse confusion the neglect thereof doe beget Alexander Macedo exiguam manum militarem a patre suscepit Val. Max. Quin. Curt sed doctam qua asuefacta militiae orbem terrarum aggressus innumeras hostium strages fudit the small but skilfull force that Alexander did receiue from his father did challenge the whole world and subdue infinite number of enemies The Romane Empire was begun augmented and continued by military discipline and obseruation of good lawes Polib lib. 6. cap. 7. vtterly euerted by luxury idlenesse and the like consuming plagues The fearefull name of Xerxes by foolish confidence was ecclipsed by two shamefull ouerthrowes giuen him at Thermopilas Salamine where too late hee did complaine Se habere multos homines raro autem disciplina tenaces SECTIO XXIIII Of the meditation and preparation of Princes against the day of death AS there is nothing more certain thē deaths neuer failing arrest neither more irreconciliable terrible dāgerous enemy to the corrupt sons of Adam then death Greg. Mor. 18. So is there no more heauē pleasing care then the watchful attendance for death no truer badge of fortitude then the couragious defiance of death no such glorious victory as in the triumph ouer death This due meditation preparation against the cōming of death is the Anuill whereon the armes that must conquer him are forged Bernard Moral 18. The victorious ouercomming of death is the crowne of a good life here Aug. de mort and the earnest of assured happinesse hereafter and ought to be common to all men and proper to Princes First least greatnesse honours riches power or other deceitfull vanities transport them make them forgetfull of human condition inuegle the eyes of their soules with security of long life or make the remēbrance of death bitter O mors quam amara est memoria tua homini pacem habenti in sulstantijs suis Prouerb 8.31 Eclles Solomon who had long enioyed honor riches and whatsoeuer else might dignifie and exalt him did in end draw the short conclusion that all things vnder heauen are vanitas vanitatis that the onely true comfort in this earthly kingdome is in exspectation of a better hereafter and that the soule staruing-pleasures after which he had formerly hungred were but vanities and vexation of spirit When sickenesse or old age the harbengers of inexorable death such Princes to yeelde nature her due they may thus meditate and reason with thēselues Aegritudo senectus mortis nuncij sunt Chrys hom 5. death is not to be feared where a good life hath prepared the way to heare of death is no nouelty that they with al men are borne to dye that all their auncestors are by death dissolued what numbers of Monarchs are before them that all shall follow them that death is the end of miseries entry to true happinesse in heauen where incorrupt treasure abides them that the mercie-Master the true Samaritan and great Physition of soules hath a salue for euery sore that hee did cure the woman whose faith was great saued his Apostles whose faith was little and hath promised by the similitude of the Mustard seed to receiue in his kingdome the widdowes mite Math. 8.25.26.13.31 Si possemus super talem ascendere speculum de quo vniuersam terram sub pedibus cerneremus iam tibi ostenderem mundi ruinas gētes gētibus reges regibus regna regnis collisa alios torqueri alios necari alios absorberi fluctibus alios in seruitutem trahi hic nuptias illi planctum illos nasci istos mori Hieron ad Heled or the least dram of sauing faith To these meditations may be added the weakenesse shortnes and frailtie of the life of man subiect to sicknesse pouerty iniuries violence and millions of downe-throwing miseries yea miserable man is dayly tormented with the chief pleasures of life Delicacy of meates begetteth cruditie indigestion strong drinke palsie and trembling lust stupidity weakning of the body riches enuy in possessing of them and sorrow in leauing of thē in one word euery Ioy hath