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A01949	The ephemerides of Phialo deuided into three bookes. The first, a method which he ought to follow that desireth to rebuke his freend, when he seeth him swarue: without kindling his choler, or hurting himselfe. The second, a canuazado to courtiers in foure pointes. The third, the defence of a curtezan ouerthrowen. And a short apologie of the Schoole of abuse, against poets, pipers, players, [et] their excusers. By Steph. Gosson, stud. Oxon.	Gosson, Stephen, 1554-1624.	1579 (1579)	STC 12093; ESTC S105684	72,417	199

reelinge nor gather vp our feet without falling Take heed signoria how you stande and whether you walke There are but twoo pathes layde open before vs the one smooth and broade ouerspred with the beautie of many flowres watred with the deawe of sundry springes sounding delight with varietie of byrds glimmering with the bright beames of the sunne and this is pleasure which we ought not too followe for ambling to the Diuel the other narrowe and craggie harde and lothsome darke and terrible and this is trouble whom we should not feare bicause he driues vs too heauen on a trotting horse Demetrius contrary to your opinion thought none in the world so miserable as those that had neuer fasted of any 〈◊〉 A good father neuer suffereth his sonne to bee idle but exercyseth his body in labour his mind in 〈…〉 layeth the greatest waight vpon those wits that hee lyketh best because hee is sure they are able too beare it God is a father and a Schoolemaister vnto vs if hee haue not traueled your bodie too make you sweate nor reade you long Lectures to busie your wittes It is a playne case and a stronge argumente that hee neither loues you as a Father nor lykes you as a Mayster nor accountes you his childe nor makes you his Scholer Non est molle virtutis documentum Vertue can sleepe without a pillowe Scaeuola soughte for his ioy by fire Fabritius by pouertie Rutilius by exile Regulus by torments Socrates by poyson Cato by death They whiche inhabite the colde Countryes finde delight in the frozen Snowe pursue the wilde beastes for foode in the Mountaynes and chalke vppe their lodging in that place where nighte compels them They regarde no pouertie for they liue no barer then they were borne they force no sorrowe for if it bee longe custome in them hath made it lighte if it he shorte they soone forget it they flye no death for either in that they end their toyle or enter into a better life they despise Fortune for she cannot robbe them that haue naught too loose and no weapon she hath can wounde the mind If you thinke these people in misery because they rowse not their bodyes in Beddes of Downe they surfeite not with our daintyes of Italy but with Hippolytus followe Dianas chase you are out of your wittes Ouid in the person of Phoebus to Phaeton appointeth away for vs to trace before we can bring our selues to rest in which I reade of no pleasure at all The first is steepe vvhich scarse vvith freshest 〈◊〉 My steedes doe climbe the middle standes aloft From whence vvhen I both seats and land beholde I shake and tremble in my troubled brest The last doth fal and needes a straighter bit And such as in my vva●rie couch beneath Lost bedlong dovvne I come dame Thetis dreedes Such is the path that we are willed to treade so bolte vpright that the hottest youth findeth his hands full inough too scale it the top so high when we are vp that we shiuer to see what dāger we haue past and our heads are gyddie with looking downe The laste so deepe that if we slip we breake our neckes and neuer leaue rolling till we drop in to the graue In youth we had neede of props because we mount in middle age when we are aloft our pleasure is dasht with a great feare ▪ perceiuing so many dangers behinde vs which we haue escaped so many before vs which are to come In gray heares we beginne to drop and euery foote wee stirre is a steepe too death Beside the steepe rise tickle hight perillous downfall of our passage there are many monsters in our way Thy feete shall treade vpon the horned Bul. The Tropikes and the ghostly Lyons head Thus finde wee not in any parte of our life one spare place too wring in a little pleasure Howe happy is the life of them that ouercome The beste Sayler is knowne in sorest stormes the brauest Souldier in greatest perill the purest Golde in hottest fire the blessedst people in deepest trouble The house is not builte til the Timber be hewed nor happynesse woonne till we be hackt Flatter not your selfe in the ioyes of this worlde which are Fancyes hookes to catche fooles Vlisses bounde himselfe too the mast that he might sayle beyonde them you muste girde vp your loynes or wrastle til you sweate before you can carry the prize away Rich Coblers haue blacke Thumbes good Carpenters harde handes Thriftie Playsterers dirtie clothes profounde Studentes pale faces fatte Schollers thinne cheekes Difficilia quae pulchra wee obtayne no true pleasures without paine They that will haue the Nut must breake the shell that will eate the Apple must climb the tree that wil come too the Myne must dig the Earth that will trauell the Sea muste passe the sand that wil conquer their foes must fight the fielde that will gett the goale muste runne the race that will weare a Crowne muste wynne the same The seede of the Lorde and the Corne of his Haruest suffereth all weathers in open fielde and when it is growne too perfect rypenesse it is cut with the Syth beaten with the Flayle tostt with the Fanne brused with the Stone parcht with the heate of a Fiery Ouen Thousandes are the pikes that must be passed before wee can enter the gates of rest Isaack was dearely beloued of GOD yet many tymes vexed driuen out of Chanaan with hunger troubled with his neighbours barde of his water greeued with the discorde of his sonnes and the violence offered vnto his wife The children of GOD hung vp theyr Harpes on the VVillow trees sate downe and wepte at the waters of Babylon Many are the examples that I might alleadge out of the Scripture too shewe you that GOD bryngeth none vntoo hym by pleasure but whips them with sorrowe tyll theyr heartes grone that when they haue rensed their couche with teares the smoke of theyr sighes might arise vppe lyke Frankensence into his nostthriles Consider Signiora that you were not made sodaynly by the running attil● of little Moates in the ayre but fashioned out with the handes of god By which you may knowe as I haue tolde you already that you are not your owne but his that framed you yf you be not your owne deny your selfe yf you be Gods flie vnto him cast of the wanton desires of this life seeke for no pleasure in these dayes if you wish to auoid torment in the worlde too come Lasie people pine to death rewarde is theirs that labour harde Yf you striue with this body and maister sinne encounter the Deuill and win the fielde charge your foe stoutly and holde vp your swoorde to the later gaspe you shall finde suche grace suche mercy such pleasure such ioy as neither eye hath seene nor eare hath hearde nor fleshe hathe felte nor thought conceiued nor Phialoes tongue is able too rehearse When Phialo had thus ended his talke and beheld Polyphile to

maister to be seruāts to pleasure that shoulde be our slaue too make that our blisse which Cooks which Phisitions which women may geue and which fortune at witch may take away Aristippus was iump of your opiniō seeking onely sweete meat for his belly a Saint for his bed wherein if we followe the print of his feete I finde that we differ not from sauage beastes They knowe eche other as well as we they vnderstād themselues likewise as well as wee they seeme too talke they seeme too laughe when pricking vp their eares lowing neying and fawning they expresse their ioy they seeke to their sexe for some encrease which is a token of mutuall loue they followe that which they knowe will profite them they flie from the thing that they finde to hurt them whereby they do shewe some sparks of reason making a difference betweene good and euill So suttle are they that wee finde them many times too craftie for vs so wise that they gather in Sommer too serue them in VVinter so cunning that the Spider in her webbe the birde in her nest may seeme too geue vs instruction of building so ciuill so obedient that we are no more diligent to serue one prince then euery hearde is readie too followe one leader euery swarme of bees to honour one king Elephantes are reported to be so curteous that they bring strayed passengers into theyr way so witty that they vnderstand the speach of those people with whom they liue so skillful in the moouing of the heauenly bodies that by bathing them selues in running waters they bewray the approch of the new Moone so mercifull that one of them in Rome catching a boy that had pricked his nose with abodkin tooke him vp presētly with his snowee shoke him aloft to put him feare laide him downe softly againe with out hurt last of al they seeme so attached with knowledge of God that eighteene of them beeing ●●ine at a triumph in the Theater of Rome the rest by running aboute the place with a pittifull rore mournfully tossed their snoutes vpp too Heauen as though they accused the crueltie of man or cryed for reuenge of their fellowes blood By what Cognisance then shall wee be knowen from beastes Plato did not think a man to be a reasonable creature consisting of a soule and a body but a reasonable soule vsing the body as his bondslaue Aske Aristippus why we are borne he will say for pleasure Demand Anaxagoras his answer shal be that we might looke vppon heauen the one followes that which is common to vs with bruite beastes the other robbeth blinde-men of their commodity because they are not able to see the starres Therefore taking the opinion of Plato That euery mans selfe is but his soule let vs acknowledge from whence we came that is from God the giuer of life And sath we haue receiued this benefit at his hāds it is our duetie to shew our selues thankefull by seruing him He hath made vs hee hath redeemed vs hee hath sanctified vs to his owne selfe whatsoeuer we are wee are the woorke of his hands the image of himselfe wee are altogeather his and not our own This is the marke we must beare in our forheades to be knowne from blockishe and brute creatures they seeke for nothing but that with is earthly wee must desire the thing that is heauenly they are sensible bodies we reasonable soules they serue their bellies we our god O Poliphile where is the life which you require what is become of Sabina which neuer dreaming of this but drowned in wantonnesse vsually bathed her selfe in the milke of fiue hundred shee Asses to preserue her beautie How is Galeriaes sight daseled with the pompe of this worlde which scorned the golden palace of Nero as not curious enoughe too shrowde her carkase Beware you seeke not so much to pranke vp your selfe that you forget god Cleopatra was thought of some writers not to bee slayne with venemous snakes but with the same bodkin that curled her heare Bridle the wantonnesse of your speech the ouerlashing of youthfull dayes Posthumia was accused of lewdenesse because she was seene but to be merrie in companie and although she had very wel cleared her selfe Minutius returned her home with this clause that her tongue shoulde neuer be woorse then her thought her gesture no wantonner then her life The women of Calcedon neuer shewed vnto strāgers any more then one cheeke the wife of Hieron was acquaynted with no bodies breath but her husbandes the women of Egypt did weare no shoes because they shoulde neuer bee gadders abroade the Damselles of Beotia that day they were married had the Axeltree of their coaches burnte at their doores that wanting the meane to carrye them out they might learne by the same too abide at home Lysander refused the riche Garmentes that were sente out of Sicilie to his daughters because hee feared suche a present wold be a greater spott to their minds thē an ornament to their bodyes disfigure them sooner than become them Beholde the sweete cuppes that haue made you drunke are kepte from their lippes that intend to be modest You vse your Glasse to turne vp your locks that you mighte please the gazers eye other stand tooting in them to this ende that if they be faire they blemish no iotte of the same with vice if they bee foule they amend it with vertue You like the moone shine brightest of all when the Sunne is away they glister most in their husbāds presence you are a glasse for euery Gallant smiling with them mourning with them frowning with them and what cheere soeuer you perceiue in their face representing the same in your hollowe lookes they only reioyce and weepe with them with whome they are growne into one fle she you are a shadowe to euery louer mouing with them from place too place and cleauing to no particular body they like true geometricall lynes are neuer pulde from their bodyes but by death neuer seene abrode without their stay neuer founde in the streetes without their husbandes You make your belly your God your luste your heauen your pleasure your blisse and hunt greedilie for suche delightes as though they bee drawn with a twine threed cānot be kept with a Cable rope for they houer like fethers in the wind are blown away like chaff with euery blast So dāgerous a sea is our delight that in euery calme we feare a storme in euery storme wee are swallowed quick in euery case wee looke for paine in euery paine we pine to death in euery peace we dout a broyle in euery broyle we goe to the potte Philip winning the garland at the games of Olimpia when tyding was brought him too encrease his ioy that the same day Parmenio his Captaine had foyled his enemies his Queene was deliuered of a young prince cast vp his hands vnto heauen desiring God to dash those pleasures but