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A13086	The anatomie of abuses contayning a discouerie, or briefe summarie of such notable vices and imperfections, as now raigne in many Christian countreyes of the worlde: but (especiallie) in a verie famous ilande called Ailgna: together, with most fearefull examples of Gods iudgementes, executed vpon the wicked for the same, aswell in Ailgna of late, as in other places, elsewhere. Verie godly, to be read of all true Christians, euerie where: but most needefull, to be regarded in Englande. Made dialogue-wise, by Phillip Stubbes. Seene and allowed, according to order.; Anatomie of abuses. Part 1	Stubbes, Phillip.	1583 (1583)	STC 23376; ESTC S117966	128,152	256

liue and soiourne in this vaste wildernes of the worlde but not that they should be instruments of destuction to vs bothe of body and soule And truely they are no lesse when they are takē immoderatly without the feare of God And dooth not the impletion and sacietie of meates and drinks prouoke lust as Hiero saith Venter Mero estuans spumat in libidinem the belly enflamed with wine bursteth foorth into lust Doth not lust bring foorth sinne and sin bring foorth death The Childre● of Isr●el giuing them selues to delicat 〈◊〉 gluttony fel to Idolatrie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 worshipping stocks stones and deuils in-sted of the liuing God The ●onnes of 〈◊〉 the Priest giuing themselues to daintie 〈◊〉 belly-chéere fell into such 〈◊〉 as the Lord sl●w them all their father also for that he chastised them not for the same The Children of blessed Iob in midst of all their banquetings ryot were slain by the lord the whole house falling vpon them and destroying them most piti●ully Bal●hasar king of the Chaldeans in midst of all his good chéer saw a hand writing vpon the wall these woords mene techel upha●sin signifiing y ● his kingdōe should be taken from him and so it was and he slain the same night by the hand of y ● lord The rich glutton in the Gospel for his riotous feastings proposterous liuing was cōdemned to y e fire of hel Our Father Adam with all his of-spring to the end or y e world was cōdemned to hel-fire for taking one apple to satisfie his glotonus desire withall Gluttony was one of the chiefest canons wherwith the deuil assa●led Christe thinking therby to batter his kingdome to win the féeld for euer yet not withstanding y e greeuousnes héerof the same is thought to be a coutenāce a great credit to a mā in Ailg But true hospitality consisteth not in many dishes nor in sundry sorts of meats the substance wherof is chaunged almoste into accidents thorow their curious cookries which doo help to rot y ● bodies shorten their daies but rather in giuing liberally to the poor and indigent members of Iesus Christe helping them to meat drink lodging clothing such other necessaries wherof they stand in néed But such is their hospitality y ● the poor haue y e least part of it you shal haue 20. 40. 60 yea a C.li. spent in some one house in bāqueting festing yet y ● poor shall haue litle or nothing if they haue any thing it is but y e refuge meat scraps patrings such as a dog would scarse eat sōtimes wel if they can get y ● too insted wherof not a few haue whipping chéerto feed thē withall it is coūted but a smal matter for a man that can scarslie dispend fortie pound by the yéer to bestow against one time ten or twentie pound therof in spices And truely so long so gréeuously hath this excesse of gluttonie and daintie fare su●ffeted in Ailgna as I feare mée it will sp●e out many of his Maisters ou● of dores before it be long But as some be ouer largeous so other some are spare enough for when any meat is stirring then lock they vp their gates that no man may come in An-other sorte haue so many houses that they visit them once in vij yeer many Chimnies but little smoke faire houses but small hospitalitie And to be plaine there are three cankers which in proc●sse of time wil eat vp the whole common Welth if spéedy reformatiō be not had namely daintie Fare gorgious Buildings and sumptuous Apparel which thrée Abuses especially yet not without their cosin germanes doo florish there God remooue them thence for his Christes sake Spud. I had thought that dainty fare good chéer had both noorished y e body perfectly and also prolōged life dooth it not so think you Philo. Experience as my former intimations you may gather teacheth clean contrary for who is sicklier thē they that fare deliciously euery day who is corrupter who bel●heth more who looketh wursse who is weaker and féebler then they who hath more filthie colour flegme and putrifaction repleat with grosse humors then they and to be bréef who dyeth sooner then they Doo wée not see the poor man that eateth brown bread wherof some is made of Rye barlie peason beans oates and such other grosse graines drinketh small drink yea sometimes water feedeth vpon milk butter and chéese I say doo wee not see such a one helthfuller stronger and longer liuing then the other that fare daintily euery day And how should it be otherwise for wil not the eating of diuers and sundry kindes of meats of diuers operations and qualities at one meale engender distemperance in the body And the body distempered wil it not fall into sundry deseases one meat is of hard disgesture another of light whilst the meate of hard disgesture is in concocti●g the other meat of light disgesture dooth putrifie and stink this is the very mother of all diseases one is of this qualitie another of y ● one of this operatiō another of that one kind of meat is good for this thing another is naught for that Then how can all these contrarieties discripancies agrée togither in one body at one the same time wil not one c●ntrary impugne his contrary one enemy resist an other Then what wiseman is he that wil receiue allthese enemies into the castle of his body at one time Doo we not se by experiēc● that they y ● giue thēselues to dainty fare and swéet meats are neuer in helth dooth not their sight wax dim their eares hard of hering their teeth rot fall out dooth not their breth stink their stomack belch foorth filthy humors and their memory decay doo not their spirits and sences becōe heuie dul by reason of exhalations impure vapors which rise vp in their gingered brests spiced stomacks sumyng vp to y e hed they mortifie y e vitall spirits intellectiue powers dooth not y e whole body become pursie corpulent yea somtimes decrepit therwith ful of all filthy corruptiō The Lord keep his chosen from the tasting therof Sp. You spake of dr●kēnes what say you of y ● Phi. I say y e it is a horrible vice too too much vsed in Ail Euery cūtrey citie towne villaged other hath abundāce of alehouses taue●ns I●nes which are so fraughted with mault-wormes night day that you would wunder to se them You shal●haue them there sitting at y e wine and goodale all the day long yea all the night too peraduenture a whole wéek togither so long as any money is left swilling gulling carowsing from one to an other til neuer a one can speak a redy woord Then when w t the spirit of the buttery they are thus possess●d a world it is to

creatures and by the heathen people who are ignorant of the deuine goodnes God be merciful vnto vs. Spud. I pray you rehearse some places out of the woord of God wherin this cursed vice of whordome is forbidden for my better instruction Philo. Our Sauiour Christe in the eight of Iohn speaking to the woman whom the malicion●● Iewes had apprehended in adulterie bad her go her way and sin no more If it had not béen a moste greeuous sin he would neuer haue bid her to sin therin no more In the fift of Mathew he saith who so lusteth after a woman in his hart hath committed the fact alredy and therfore is guiltie of death for the same To the Pharises asking him whether a man might not put away his wife for any occasion Christe answered for no cause saue for whordome onely inferring that whordome is so hainous a sinne as for the perpetration therof it shalbe lawful for a man to sequester him self from his owne wife and the wife from her owne husband The Apostle Paul sayth know you not that your bodyes are the members of Christe shall I then take the members of Christe saith he and make them the members of an whore God forbid knowe yée not that he who coupleth him self with a harlot is become one body w t her flée fornication saith he therfore for euery sinne that a man committeth is without the body but who committeth fornication sinneth against his owne body And in an●other place knowe you not that your Bodyes are the temples of the holy ghost which dwelleth within you And who so destroyeth the Temple of God him shall God destory In an other place he saith be not deceiued for neither Whoremonger Adulterer Fornicator incestuous person nor such like shall euer enter into the kingdome of heauen Again Coni●gium honorabile est inter omnes Mariage is honorable amongst all men and the bed vndefiled but whooremongers and adulterers God shall iudge In the Reuelation of Saint Iohn it is said that they who were not defiled with women doo waite vpon the Lamb whether soeuer he goeth The Apostle Paul willeth vs to be so far from fornication that it be not once named amongst vs as becommeth Saints with infinit such places which for bréefnes I omit re●erring you in the olde Testament to these and such like places namely the 20. of Exodus 20. of Leuiticus De●tronomie 22. Deutro 27. 2. Reg. 11. Leuit. 18. Exodus 22. Num 5. Eccle. 9. Pro. 33. Pro. 7. verse 24. Spud. As you haue now prooued by inuincible testimonies of holy Scripture that whordome is forbidden by the Lord so I pray you shew mée the gréeuousnes thereof by some seuere rare examples of Gods iust iudgement executed vppon the same from the begining Philo. The whole world was destroyed w t water not any liuing thing left vpon the erth saue in y e Ark of Noath for the sin of whordō incest brothelry vsed in those daies Sodoma and Gomorra two famous Cities were consumed with fire and brimstone from heauen for the like sin of whordom adulterie and fornication The citie of y e Sichemits man woman and childe weare put to the edge of the swoord for the rauishing of Dina the daughter of Iacob The Lord also tolde Abimelech that if he did not let go vntouched Sara Abraham his wife bothe he and all his housholde should dye the death notwithstanding he did it ignorauntly The very same hapned to Isaac also Iudas vnderstanding that his daughter in law was impregnate and great with childe and not knowing by whom comm●nded that she should be burned without any further delay Was not Absalon king Dauid his sonne plagued all his life for going into his Fathers Concubines And did not Achitophel who gaue councel so to do hang himself Was not Ruben the first borne sonne of Iacob accursed for going vp to his Fathers bed and lost he not his birth-right his dignitie and primacie ouer his Bretheren for the same Were there not abooue thréescore and fiue thousand men slain for the adulterie doon with one Leuits wife Was not king Dauid punished all y ● daies of his life for his adultery doon with Bersabe Vrias his wife Was not his sōne Amon for lying with Thamar slain Was not Salomon béeing peruerted with hethen women cast out of the fauour of GOD notwithstanding being otherwise the wisest Prince in all the world Did not Achab at the perswasions of Iesabel his cursed wife falling to Idolatrie and woorshiping of Idolles and deuils suffer moste cruel punishment in this life all his dayes besides what he suffereth now God onely knoweth Were not the Israelite and Madianitish woman both slain by that woorthy man Phinees who ran them both thorow the priuy members with his Iauelin or swoord Was not Sampson brought to a miserable end his eyes beeing bothe put out and he made to be a laughing stock to all men thorow his too much fauouring of wantō women Was not king Pharao wunderfully plagued for but intending euil in his hart towards Sara Abraham his wife Did not the Lord slay with a moste gréeuous mortalitie foure twentie thousand of y e Israelites in one day for whordome and adulterie with the women of the Moabites and Madianits By these and such like fearful Examples of the iustice of God powred vpon these whoremongers adultrers we may learn to know the gréeuousnes of the same and the punishment due to all whoremongers and fornicatours either in this life or in the World to come or els in both for if the Lord deferre the punishment of whordome in this life hée reseruet● it for the world to come suffering the wicked to wallow in their sinne and to fil vp the measure of iniquitie that their damnation may be iust And if the Lord l●ft not sin vnpunished no not in his most déer Saints what he wil doo in them who dayly crucifie him a new let the world iudge Spud. Now am I fully perswaded by your inuincible reasons that there is no sin greater before the face of God then whordome wherfore God graūt that all his may auoid it Philo. You haue said true for there is no sinne almost comparable vnto it for besides that it bringeth euerlasting damnation to all that liue therin to the end without repentāce it also bringeth these inconueniences with many mo vidilicet it dimmeth the sight it impaireth the hearing it infirmeth y e sinewes it weakneth the ioynts it exhausteth the marow consumeth the moisture and supplemēt of the body it riueleth the face appalleth the coūtenance it dulleth y e spirits it hurteth the memorie it weakneth y ● whole body it bringeth it into a consūption it bringeth vlcerations scab scurf blain botch pocks biles it maketh hoare haires bald pates it induceth olde age in fin● bringeth death before nature

vrge it malady enforce it or age require it Sp. Séeing y ● whordome bringeth such soure sauce with it namely death euerlasting after this life and so many discōmodities besides in this life I wunder that men dare cōmit the same so securely as they doo now a dayes Philo. It is so little feared in Ailgna that vntill euery one hath two or thrée Bastardes a péece they estéeme him no man for that they call a mans déede insomuch as euery s●uruie boy of twelue sixtéen or twenty yéeres of age wil make no conscience of it to haue two or thrée peraduenture half a dosen seuerall women with childe at once and this exploite béeing doon he showes them a faire pair of héeles and away goeth he Euro volociu● as quick as a B●e as they say into some strange place where he is not knowen where how he liueth let the wise iudge for coelum non animum mut 〈◊〉 qui trans mare currunt though they ch●u●ge their place of abode yet their naughtie dispositions they retaine stil. Then hauing estraunged them selues thus for a small space they returne againe not to their pristine cursed life I dare say but vnto their cuntrey and then no man may say black is their eye but all is wel they as good christians as those that suffer them vnpunished Spud. The state and condition of that Cuntrey is most miserable if it be true you report it weare much better that euerye one had his lawful wife and euery woman her lawful husband as the Apostle commaundeth then thus to bedrowned in the filthie sin of whordome Philo. That is the only salue and soueraine remedy which the lord ordained against whordome that those who haue not the gift of continencis might mary and so kéep their vessels vndefiled to the Lord. But notwithstāding in Ailgna there is ouer great libertye permitted therin for litle infants in swadling clowts are often maried by their ambicious Parents and frends when they know neither good nor ●uill and this is the origene of much wickednesse directlie against the word of God and examples of the primityue age And besydes this you shall haue euery sawcy boy of x. xiiij xvi or xx yeres of age to catch vp a woman marie her without any feare of God at all or respect had either to her religion wisdom integritie of lyfe or any other vertue or which is more without any respecte how they maye lyue together with sufficient maintenance for their callings and estat No no it maketh no matter for these things so he haue his pretie pussie to huggle withall it forceth not for that is the only thing he desireth Than build they vp a cotage though but of elder poals in euery lane end almost wher they lyue as beggers al their life This filleth the land with such store of poore people that in short tyme except some caution be prouided to preuent the same it is like to growe to great pouertie and scarsnes which GOD forbid Sp. I cānot sée how this geare shold be holpē Ph. What if a restraint were made y ● none except vppon speciall and vrgente causes should marie before they come to xx or xxiiij yéeres or at y e least before they be .xiiij. or xviij yeeres old would not this make fewer beggers than now there are Sp. But if this were established thā should we haue moe Bastards and of the two I had rather we had many legittimats than many illegittimates Philo. The occasion of begetting of many● Bastards were soone cut of if the punishment which either God his lawe doth allowe or els which good pollicy doth constitute were aggrauated and executed vppon the Offenders For the punishment appointed for whordom now is so light that they estéeme not of it thei feare it not they make but a iest of it For what great thing is it to go ij or thrée dayes in a white shéete before the congregation and that somtymes not past an howre or two in a day hauing their vsnall garmēts vnderneth as commonly they haue This impunitie i● respecte of condigne punishement which that vice requireth doth rather animate and imbolden them to the acte than feare them from it In so much as I haue heard so●e miscreants impudently say that he is but a ●east that for such white lyuered punishment would abstaine from suche gallant pastyme but certen it is that they who thinke it suche sweet meate here shall find the sawce sowre and stiptick enough in Hell Spud. What punishment would you haue inflicted vppon such as commit this horrible kinde of sinne Philo. I would wish that the Man or Woman who are certenlye knowen without all scruple or doubte to haue committed the horryble fact of whordome adulterie incest or fornication eyther should drinke a full draught of Moyses cuppe that is ●ast of present death or els if y ● be thought too seuere for in euill men will be more mercifull than the Author of mercie him selfe but in goodnesse fare well mercy than wold GOD they might be cauterized and seared with a hote yron on the chéeke forehead or some other parte of their bodye that might be séene to the end the honest and chast Christians might be discerned from the adulterous Children of Sathan But alas this vice with the rest wanteth such due punishement as GOD his Word doth commaunde to be executed ther vppon The Magistrates wincke at it or els as looking thorowe their fingers they see it and will not sée it And therfore the Lorde is forced too take the sword into his owne hands and to execute punishment him selfe because the Magistrates will not For better proof wherof marke this strange fearful iudgment of god shewed vpon two adulterous persōs there euen y e last day in effect y ● remēbrāce wherof is yet gréen in their heds There was a man whose name was W. Ratsurb being certenly knowen to be a notorious vserer and yet pretending alway a singular zeale to religion so that he wold seldom tymes go without a byble about him but sée the iudgements of God vpon them that will take his word in their mouthes and yet lyue cleane contrarie making the word of God a cloke to couer their sinne and naughtynesse withall who vppon occasion of busines visiting Lewedirb a place appointed for the correctiō of such that be wicked lyuers saw there a famous whore but a very proper Woman whō as is said he knew not but whether he did or not certē it is that he procured her delyuery from thence bayled her hauing put away his owne wife before kept her in his chamber vsing her at his pleasure Whylest these two mēbers of y e deuil were playing the vile Sodomits together in his chamber hauing a litle pan of coles before them wherin was a very litle fire it pleased GOD euen in his wrath to strike these two persons dead in

and clothing to be centent for they that will be rich saith he fall into diuerse temptations and snares of the Deuill which drowne Men in perditiō Dauid saith Man disquieteth him selfe in vaine heaping vp riches cannot tell who shall possesse them Salom. cōpareth a couetous man to him y e murthereth sheadeth innocent bloud Againe Hell and destruction are neuer ful so the eyes of Men can neuer be satisfied The Apostle S. Paule saith neither Whormōgers Adulterers nor couetous persons nor Extortioners shal euer enter into the Kingdom of Heauen And saith further y ● the loue of monie is y e root of al euil Christ biddeth vs be liberal lend to them that haue néed not looking for any restitutiō again neuer to turn our face away frō any poore mā thā y e face of the Lord shall not be turned away frō vs. By these few places it is manifest how farre frō al couetousnes y e lord wold haue al cristiās to be Spud. Be their any examples in scriptures to shew foorth the punishmentes of the same inflicted vpon the Offenders therin Philo. The Scripture is full of such fearful examples of the iust iudgements of God powred vpon thē that haue offended herein Wherof I will recite three or four for the satisfying of your Godly mind Adam was cast out of Paradice for coueting that fruit which was inhibited him to eat Giese the Seruant of Elizeus y e Prophet was smitten with an incurable leprosie for y ● he to satisfie his couetous desire exacted gold siluer riche garments of Naamā y e K. of Siria his seruant Balaam was reproued of his asse for his couetousnes in going to curse y e Children of Israel at the request of K. Balac who promised him aboundance of gold siluer so to doo Achab y ● K. for couetousnes to haue pore Naboth his viniard slew him and dyed after himselfe with all his progeny a shameful death The Sōnes of Samuel were for their infaciable couetousnes deteined frō euer inioying their Fathers kingdome Iudas for couetousnes of mony sould the Sauiour of the world and betrayed him to the Iewes but afterward dyed a miserable death his bellye bursting his bowels gushing out Ananias Saphira his wi●e for couetousnes in cōcealing part of y ● price of ther lāds frō y ● apostles were both slain died a fearful death Achā was stoned to death by y ● lord his cōmandemēt for his couetousnes in stealing gold siluer Iewels at the sacking of Iericho al his goods were burned presently Thus you sée how for couetousnes of mony in all ages Men haue made shipwrack of their consciences and in the end by the iust iudgemēt of God haue dyed fearful deaths whose iudgmente I leaue to the Lord. Spud. S●eing that couetousnes is so wicked a sin so offensiue both to God Man pernicious to the soule I marueile what moueth Men to followe the same as they doo Ph. Two things moue mē to affect mony so so much as they do y ● one for feare least they shold fal into pouertie beggery oh ridiculous infidelitie y e other to be aduanced promoted to high dignities honors vpō earth And thei see y e world is such y e he who hath moni enough shalbe rabbied maistered at euery word and the vaine title of worshipfull and right worshipfull though notwithstanding he be a dunghill Gentleman or a Gentleman of the first head as they vse to terme them And to such outrage is it growne that now adayes euery Butcher Shooemaker Tailer Cobler Husband-man and other yea euery Tinker pedler and swinherd euery Artificer and other gregarii ordinis of the vilest sorte of Men that be must be called by y e vain name of Maisters at euery word But it is certen that no wyse Man will intitle them with any of these names worshipfull and maister for they are names and titles of dignitie proper to y e Godly wyse for some speciall vertue inherent either els in respect of their birth or calling due vnto thē but such Titiuillers flattering Parasits and glosing Gnatoes as flatter them expecting some pleasure or benefit at their hāds which thing if they were not blowen vp with the bellowes of pride and puffed vp with the wind of vainglori they might easily perceiue For certen it is they do but mocke and flatter them with these titles knowing that they deserue nothing lesse Wherfore like good Recusants of that thing which is euill they should refuse those vainglorious Names remembring the words of our sauiour Christ saying be not called Maister in token there is but one onely true Maister and Lord in Heauen which only true Maister Lord God graunt all other may followe bothe in life and name vntil they cōe to perfect men in Iesus Christ. Spud. The people béeing so let vpon couetousnes as I gather by your speeches they be is it possible that they wil lend mo●ey without vsurie or without some hostage guage or pawn for vsurie followeth couetousnes as the shadowe dooth the bodie Great Vsurie in Ailgna Philo. IT is as impossible for any to borrowe money there for the most part without vsurie loane or with out some good hostage guage or pledge as it is for a dead man to speak with audible voice Spud. I haue heard say that the positiue and statute lawes there doo permit them to take vsurye limitting them how much to take for euery pound Philo. Although the ciuile lawes for the auoiding of further inconueniences doo permit certain sommes of money to be giuen ouerplus beyond or abooue the principall for the loane of mony lent yet are y ● vsurers no more discharged from the gilt of vsurie before God therby then the adulterous Iewes were from whordome because Moyses gaue them a permissiue law for euery man to put away their wiues that would for euery light trifle And yet the lawes there giue no libertie to commit vsurie but seeing how much it rageth lest it should excéed rage further and ouer flowe the banks of all reason and godlynes As couetousnes is a raging sea and a bottōlesse pit and neuer satified nor cōtented they haue limited them within certain méeres and banks to bridle the insatiable desires of couetous men beyond the which it is not lawful for any to go but this permissiō of y e lawes argueth not that it is lawful to take vsury no more I say then y ● permission of Moyses argued that whordome adulterie is lawfull good because Moyses permitted them to put a way their wiues for y e auo●ding of greater euil for as christ said to y ● Iewes frō y e begīning it was not so so sa● I to these vsurers frō the begīning it was not so nor yet ought so to be Spud. If no interest were permitted then no