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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07590	The mirrour of friendship both hovv to knovve a perfect friend, and how to choose him. With a briefe treatise, or caueat, not to trust in worldly properitie. Translated out of Italian into English by Thomas Breme Gentleman.	Breme, Thomas.; I. B., fl. 1584.	1584 (1584)	STC 17979.7; ESTC S110017	15,331	52

vs occasion to be merry trayterous ●orlde and by and by makest vs heauy and sad now thou doest aduaunce vs and shortly after abace vs inchant vs vnder the guise of troubles doth so trauell and weary vs and makest vs so fast in thy toyles troublous laborinthes that we can not escape thy engines for the world the more knowing a man hawty and glorius the more doth prouide for him honors and riches deinty fare bewtifull women other worldly pleasures and restes which is to no other end but after all these wished pleasures and deintines ministered vnto vs euen as a baite is to the fishes we are sodainly more easily taken in the nettes snares of our owne wickednes but as for our first tēptations that by the world be presented vnto vs wée thinke it vnpossible that we should be so often assayled with aduerse fortune and our power that is smal to resist is cause to vs of great hardynesse but I would haue one that is most affectionate to the world or loueth it most should tell me what hope or recompence he or they can recouer after they be deceiued of the world and their trust they haue of the continuance of their brittle pleasures by trusting whereof they after endure so many incūbrances of fortune If we should euer hope they would continue with vs that were a great folly and mockery Death mo neare whē lif is most desire considering that the time when our life is moste swéete and agréeable to vs then is death most neare vs euen moste sodainly to intrap vs for when we thinke to haue peace and truce with fortune at the same instant she rayses a camp and stirs vp a new war against vs. And I certainly beléeue that which I haue written and sayd shal be red of many and remembred and beléeued of few that is that I haue knowen great dolors and lamentations to haue bene in the houses of many where before hath bene great ioye laughing and reioycing in this world which is a giuer of euill ●he world des●●ibed a ruine of good things a heape of wickednes a tirant of vertue an enimy of peace a friend of wars a mayntayner of errors a riuer of vices a persecutor of vertues an inuēter of nouelties a graue of ignorance a forrest of mischefe a burning desire of the fleshly delightes insatiable delicacy in féeding gourmandise and finally a Charibdis or most dangerous gulfe in which doth perish many noble harts and a very Scilla where also doth perish al our desires good thoughts for the people doe not accompt them happy that deserue well ●he Peoples ●ccompt but those that posses the riches and treasures which vpon the suddaine some times they sée fortune vtterly despoyle them of that thē possesse but of that minde were not the Philosophers Sages neither at this day those that be wise and vertuous we sée some lose their riches and some their liues and treasures togither that haue bene long in gathering getting for where is greate riches enuy followeth as the shadow the body Ewsenides was in great fauour with King Ptholome of Egipt thereby very rich Note this reioycing in this prosperity of fortune said to another his great familiar the king can giue me no more then the rule of all that he hath his friend answered him yet aduerse fortune may take it all from thée then it will be a gréeuous day to thée to descend the degrées of good hap The cruelty of a king in respect of this liuer shortly after it followed that king Ptholome found Ewsenides talking secretly with a womā that king Ptholome loued greatly wherefore the king taking high displeasure againste them both commaunded the woman to drink poyson and caused the man to be hanged before his gate Plaucian was so greatly estéemed of the Emperor Seuerus that al that Plaucian preferred the Emperour thought well of Plaucian slayn by the Emperours sonne willingly accomplished his requests yet was he sodainly slain in the kings chamber by the hands of Basian the Emperours eldest sonne the Emperour Commodus sonne of the good Emperour Marcus Aurelius loued one seruāt that he had called Cleander The ende of extreame couetousnesse a mā very wise olde but yet couetous which man being asked pay by the souldiers of Rome shewing the emperours warrant vnder his hand Princes commaundements are dangerous to be broken yet would not Cleander make pay wherefore the Emperour séeing his disobedience the small respect he had to doe the emperours commaundment commaunded imediatly that Cleander should be put to a shameful death and all his goodes confiscate Alcimenides a famous king in Gréece had one that serued him named Pannonian one that the king held in singular fauour and account in so much that the king plaied at tennis with this his seruant in playing a contentiō grew betwéene them where the chace was marked It is daunger to contend with princes the king said in one place Pannonion in another the king being in a great fury commanded his garde to take him in the same place that Pannonian affirmed the chace to be the king caused Panonians head to be cut of the Emperour Constance fauoured greatly one Hortensius in so much that all matters in the common wealth the wars and houshould affaires were done by Hortensius his direction the emperour hauing cause to signe letters very hastely Hortenslus brought the Emperour a pen that was euill made or else some faulte in the ynke that the Emperour could not readily write with it the Emperour being very angry caused Hortensius head to be cut of with out any stay A cruel punishmēt for a light fault Many other examples might here be brought in How great Alexander slew in his anger Craterus King Pirrhus caused his scretary Alphabot to be slain The emperour Bittalio Cincinatus his deare friend Domician his chamberlen Rufus by which examples may be seene the sodainnesse of the alteration of prospetity and riches for light occasions also death King Demetrius asked the Philosopher Euripides what he thought of the weaknesse of man of the vncertainty of this life he answered O king there is nothing certaine in this life but that suddaine eclipses and incumberances chanceth King Demetrius answered you might well say they change daily and almost from houre to houre So that there may be inferred by the words of this good king that changes of perrill daunger come in the twinkling of an eye but to say the truth the man that would liue content Many mishaps might be preuented by wisdome and foresée these euill happes might well auoid most mischances but aboundance prosperity of fortime doth so blind vs that coueting still to inrich our selues and to commaund brings vs in the end to infelicity and torments of the minde Finally I conclude that all men ought to liue sagely and wisely to foresée the directions of their liues and dayly affayres For most true it is that none liue in any prosperous estate that hath no enimies noting their doings wherefore let all men direct a vertuous course in their liuing in this worlde by meanes whereof their owne quietnesse may followe in their life time and be a good example for their posterity to follow 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