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A16241	Theatrum mundi the theatre or rule of the world, wherein may be sene the running race and course of euerye mans life, as touching miserie and felicity, wherin be contained wonderfull examples, learned deuises, to the ouerthrowe of vice, and exalting of vertue. wherevnto is added a learned, and maruellous worke of the excellencie of mankinde. Written in the Frenche & Latin tongues by Peter Boaystuau, and translated into English by Iohn Alday.; Theatre du monde. English	Boaistuau, Pierre, d. 1566.; Alday, John.	1566 (1566)	STC 3168; ESTC S102736	106,769	288

precept that they giue them how to liue well is to blaspheme crie exercise gluttony and drunkennes to dispise the substance of their innocency to be a fornicator and to kisse women and maidens in their presence And manye mothers there are this daye in the worlde which doe as Herodias did that learne theyr daughters to daunce Rethoricke termes to haunt companies scoffe flout to paint and plaister their faces to deck their fingers with rings their neckes with Iuels as though they were Iuell sellers pretending to kéepe a shop But in the ende it will chaunce to them as it chaunced to the Prophet Dauid whose sinne was punished by his children which were so wicked that one of them named Aman did deflowre his owne sister Thamar and the other called Absalon did kill hys brother Aman. Afterwarde he sought the death of hys owne father and chased him out of hys kingdome The rule of the auncient Philosophers hath alwayes bene found true that many committe manye grieuous crimes in this world y ● punishing wherof God kepeth in the other worlde except the sinne that man committeth in the bringing vp of his children for the whiche customablye he beareth the paine and punishment in this worlde For the father can giue to the child but fraile and mortall fleshe by the corruption whereof the life taketh end but by good learning and knowledge the eternall praise and memorie redoundeth Therefore to conclude if that the children haue hene in great perill and misery being nourished with spotted milk for the most part of straūge nurses yet the perill doubleth to those that shoulde cause them to be instructed for that the foode of the bodie is more vile than the foode of the soule But for bicause that we haue not yet spoken of Plato who hath more deuinelye philosophied vpon humaine calamities than all the rest of the heathen the whiche he hath so well gathered together and set forth that many reading his booke of the immortalitie of the soule did cast them selues from the hie rockes and mountains into the flouds and raging waues to the ende that ending the thréede of their spitefull life they might haue the fruitiō and ioye of the seconde life which is the true and assured place of rest This greate Philosopher Plato in a Dialogue that he hath made of death and discourse of this wicked world writeth to a certaine Philosopher named Socrates and sheweth by a maruellous eloquence the miseries of our life as followeth Knowest thou not sayth he that this humayne lyfe is as a pilgrimage the whiche the good and wise men performe in ioye singing with gladnes when that of necessitie they drawe to their last end Doest thou not know that man consisteth of the soule the which is shut vp within as in a tabernacle with the which nature hath inclosed vs not wythout great troubles and vexations and yet in the meane time if she destribute vnto vs any part of hir goods they are hidden from vs and are of a shorte time ioyned with sorrowe and bitternesse at the occasion whereof the soule féeling dolor and griefe desireth the celestiall habitation and wisheth for the benefites thereof Consider that the departure out of this worlde is no other thing than a chaunging from euill to good But harken sayth he from thy natiuitie vnto thy graue what kinde of misterie is there but that thou hast tasted eyther penurie colde heate stripes c. yea before that man can shewe his cogitations and thoughtes What other messenger or more certaine token can he haue of his miseries than his wéepings wailings and complaintes after that he hath tasted so many euils that he is come to the seauenth yeare of his age then it behoueth him to haue tutors and scholemaisters for to instruct him in good learning growing further in yeares and comming into his adolescency it behoueth him to haue more rigorous reformers for to tame his wilde youth and to breake him to labor This being done his beard beginneth to grow and then he becommeth man and yet notwithstanding it is then the time that he entreth into déeper cogitations and trauaile in the spirite it is requisite then that he frequent publike places that he haunt the company of those that are as touchstones for to knowe the good from the euill If he be come of a greate and noble stocke he must make many enterprises of warre to put himselfe in infinite perils hazarde his life to shed hys bloud for to die in the bed of honor or els he shall be reputed a dastardlye coward and despised of all men If he be of base estate and that he be called to the knowledge of Artes for all that he leaueth not to runne into a thousand daūgers trauailes paines and lettings aswel of the bodie as of the soule He trauaileth daye and night and sweateth water and bloude for to get againe that which shall maintaine his estate during his life and oftentimes it is séene what paine so euer man doth take for his liuing he can scant get to serue his necessitie It is not therefore without a cause that Marcus Aurelius the xvij Emperour of Rome considering the miserable condition of oure humanitie was wont to saye I haue thought in my selfe whether there myght be founde any estate anye age any kingdome or any worlde wherin might be founde anye one man that dare vaunt not to haue tasted in hys lyfe time aduersitie and if there might be founde one it shoulde be suche a fearfull monster on the earth that bothe the deade the liuing woulde be amased to behold him then he concludeth after this sort saying And in the ende I founde mine owne account true that he that was yesterdaye riche was to day poore he that was yesterday in helth was to day sick he that laughed yesterday to daye did weepe he that was yesterday in prosperitie was to daye in aduersitie he that was yesterday aliue was to day deade Let vs now return to our former wordes and deduct the great things by the lesse Who is he among the humaines that hath giuen himselfe to any science or otherwise to liue whose science hath not in the ende accused him and with the whiche he hath not bene displeased combered and werie and for the better triall therof let vs consider particularly the principall estates Let vs beginne with those that occupie the water and sayle on the seas in howe many daungers are they in day and night what is their habitation any other than a foule and filthy prison as also their maner of liuing what is their raiment but only a verye smell of the wether they are alwayes vagabondes and continually in exile without anye rest beaten with windes raine haile snowe in feare of Pirats and Rouers rockes and tempestes and in hazarde to be buried in the bellies of fishes For this cause it is that Bias y e wise Philosopher Gréeke knewe not whether he should

anye thing in his net draweth it vp and so goeth away withall othersome there are that play all out and others that remayne vntill they are as full as spunges and in the ende they are made to restore all others also that doe nothing but inuent subsidies and séeke meanes to inlarge or multiplie the treasures of kings and so become riche with spoyling of the poore people And Princes do by thē many times as we do by our hogs we let them fatten to the ende to eate and deuour them afterwarde so are they suffered many times to enriche themselues for to be despoyled after when that they are so fat and one that is new come shal manytimes be preferred in their places here you may sée how y t these poore courtiers sel their liberty for to become rich they must obey al commaundements be they iust or vniust they must frame thē selues to laugh whē y e Prince laugheth to wéepe whē he wéepeth approue y ● whiche he approueth cōdemne that which he condemneth they must obey to al alter and chaunge wholy his nature to be seuere with those that are seuere sorowfull with those that are sorowfull and in a maner transforme themselues into the nature of him whō they will please or els to get nothing If the Prince be impudent they must be the like if he be cruell they must delight in bloudshed To be shorte they must frame themselues to all ordinances and maners of the Prince or whom they will please and yet many times one little offence stayneth all the seruice that one hath done in his life time The which those that assisted y ● Emperor Adrian did féele who when they were elected by him into hie estates and dignities by the reporte of diuers flatterers they had not only taken from them that which before he had giuen them but also they were declared to be his chiefe enimies The which Plato liuelye considering and foreséeing in the Court of the Atheniensis did prōptly quit their deliciousnesse and yet he coulde not so well take heede to himselfe but that he returned to Dennis a tyrant of Sicilie who in the ende solde him to Pirats of the sea But what happened to Xenon that olde sage graue Philosopher whom Phalaris in satisfaction of his seruice caused most cruelly to be put to death as also did the King of Cyprus Anacreō to the noble philosopher Anaxagoras and Nero his tutor Seneca Alexāder Calistenus for that he wo●● not worship him caused his féete to be cut of his eares his hāds also his eyes to be put out and so left in the mercie of a straight prison or dungeon wherein he finished most miserably his dayes Such hath bene many times the ende of a great number of learned men who bicause they woulde not obey to the fearfull affections of Monarchs loste their liues in recompence of their good seruice and wholesome counsels without putting in account the vices that frequent those that followe the Courte whereas the most part of humain thinges are abolished Many in y e Court put of their cappes to thée that woulde be glad to sée thy head from thy shoulders such bow their knée to do thee reuerence which would that they had broken their leg to cary thée to thy graue Many haue the name of Lord that meriteth y e name of a hangman there is alwayes I know not what nor how or one I vnderstand not who is the cause that incessantlye one complayneth altereth or els despiseth In the Courte if thou wilt be an adulterer thou shalt finde of thy complices if thou wilt quarrell thou shalt find to whom if thou wilt lie thou shalt find those that will approue thy lies if thou wilt steale thou shalte finde them that will shewe thée a thousand wayes howe if thou wilte be a carder or a dicer thou shalt finde them that will cog and playe with thée if thou wilt sweare and beare false witnesse thou shalte finde there thy like to be shorte if thou wylte giue thy selfe to all kynde of wyckednesse and vices thou shalt find there the very exāple giuers Here may you sée the life of my maisters the Courtiers which is no life but a continuall death Here you may sée wherin their youth is emploied whiche is not youth but a transitorie death Whē y ● they come to age knowest thou what they bring from thēce their gray heades their legges full of gouts their mouth hauing a naughtie smell their backe ful of paine their hearts ful of sorow and thought and their soule filled with sin to be short in the Court there is very little to write but muche to murmure at of the which things yf thou desier a more ample knowledge reade the worke that Dom Anthonie Guenera bishop of Mondouent and the Crowner of the Emperor and Eneas Siluius otherwise called Pope Pius which haue compassed twoo most excellent and perticular treatises of thys matter wherein they haue painted my maisters the Courtiers so in their coulors that they haue stayed the hope of adding to those that will discouer after them Let vs leaue speaking of y e Courtiers with their life so vnquiet and miserable and let vs contemplate a little the estate of Kings Princes Monarchs and Emperors for whome onely it séemeth that felicitie is created for if we consider all that maye render the life of man in tranquility happy and content we shall finde that fortune among all other mortall creatures hathe prouided for them prodigally What maketh mā more wonderfull in this worlde but goods richesse dignities Empire licēce to do good or euill without correction powre to exercise liberalitie all kind of volupteousnesse aswell of the spirite as of the bodie All that may be wished for for the contentation of man be it in apparell in meates or drinkes varietie in meates in magnificence in seruices in vestures that which maye tickle the memorie and flatter the concupiscence of the fleshe is prepared for them euen from their cradell for to conduct y e estate of their life in more happe and felicitie The discourse of which if we wil consider outwardlye there is not one but will confesse that they alone triumph oner that that others languish in But if that we will consider things more nearer and examine and waye them in a true ballance we shall find that the selfe same things that we thinke degrées for to attaine to felicitie and to cause them to be happie are the verie instruments of vice that cause them to haue more greater sorowes that doth render thē most vnfortunate but wherfore serueth their costlye ornaments and honorable seruices or delicate meates when that they are in continuall feare to be poysoned seduced and beguiled by their seruitors haue not we had the experience therof in our time doeth not Platina write of a certaine Pope that was poysoned by the siege with a paper that his seruant did

therfore that in few wordes we will make a generall conclusion of our worke if we wil consider man in the first estate that God created him it is y e chiefe principal of Gods worke to y ● end that in him he might be glorified as in the most noblest and excellētest of all his creatures But if we consider him in the estate of the generall corruption spred all ouer the posteritie of Adam we shall sée him nooseled in sinne monstruous fearfull deformed subiect to a thousande incommodities voide of beatitude vnable ignorant variable and hypocrite To be short in steade of being Lord of all creatures is become slaue to sinne in the which he is borne and conceyued But if we will consider afterwarde as being made all new by the immortall séede of Gods word ye shall sée him restored not only in al his first honors and goods but muche more greater for there where as sinne is poured out for to let and hinder him the grace of God is more abundātly poured out for to succor him making him a new creature as Sainct Ambrose sayth in the booke of the vocation calling of the Gentiles the. 3. chap. And S. Augustine in his booke of corruptiō and of grace cap. 10. And as concerning vs let vs doe as Plato knowing the goodnes that God hath done to vs let vs giue him thankes in that we are borne men not beastes and if that we finde anye thornes in this crooked life that with ease we cānot disgest if we féele anye fight in our soule the which is hid in this body as in a graue let vs endeuor our selues to go into the holie Citie of Ierusalem whereas we shall be exempt of hunger colde heate and thirst and generally from all infirmities and teares to the which this poore bodie the which is but the Chariot wherevnto the Soule is The Author doth intraduct the Citie of GOD in our language Drunkēnesse of Alexāder Plinie Aristo Plinie Aristo Loriot Arist 22. ca● the. 9. boke tr●ting of beastes Polidorus of the in●ention of things Industrie of Svvallovves Aristo Plinie Aelian of the crovv Plutarch Musicke in beastes P. Belan in his Historie of Birdes Prouer. 13. Arist lib. 2. cap. 30. Plinie A maruelous diligence of the Romanes The Polipus vvill eat hirself if she wāt fode Aelian Prudency of the Cuckow The excellencie noblenesse of the horse A storie vvorthie of memorye of a dogge Against the Epicurians Psal 139. The Author beginneth to discouer more profoūdly the humaine miseries Hippo. in his booke of infantments Praise of the brains Hippoc. N. Dehāpas in the contemplation of nature 7. booke The violence that a chile doth to nature vvhen his nine monethes are accomplished Diuerse appetites of vvomē vvith childe The miserie of pore mothers in their childings Mōstrous childings The miserie of man that is nourished by another than his mother Misery of man in his nouriture The Apes An example for fathers and mothers The vncredible crueltie of Caligula Cardan in his booke De subtilitate Roland Peter in the traduction of bookes of the nature of man Esay ix Iere. xx Iob. xiii A complaint of Theophrastus for that the life of beastes is longer than the life of man A complaint of fathers that commit their children to ignorant and vicious tutors An ill example of fathers tovvardes their children Many mothers make the ropes vvherevvith their children are hanged A notable sentence of Marcus Aurelius vpon humain miseries The miserie of those that saile on the sea A praise of husbādrie for the better shevving of the miseries that follovv Plato Giue peace O Lorde in our dayes bicause ther is no other that fighteth for vs but onely thou O God Miserie of merchantes vvith a plaine discourse of their fraudes deceites Corruption of the estate of Merchants The miserie of men of vvar I haue treated of this more at large in a treatise the last yeare of peace and vvar The harmes that come by vvarre The christian philosophie of a heathen A notable discourse The crueltie of souldiers Gaudentius Meruleus murthered in the Churche A comparison of the vvarre of men and the vvar of beastes Execrable vices of the Court Princes seeme to be voyde of miseries A cruell and an abhominable act The true office of a Prince Thre plages from the which a Prince ought to bevvare of The Elders made most dreadfull prayers for vvicked Princes Kings depraued by deliciousnesse Marcus Aurelius The miserie of Popes Pope Florentine in his bookes of the infelicitie of Princes A notable sentence of Pope Adrian on the miserie of Popes The miserie of the Ecclesiastical estate Clicthoreus The estate of the heathen Priestes A comparison of heathen Priestes vvith ours Ezechiel Cap. 3. Micheas Cap. 34. Esa ca. 56. S. Bernard sermon 33 of cāticles S. Bernardes words against the Ecclesiasticals at the coūsel of Reimes The miserie of those that administer iustice Against Iudges that are corrupted Math. 20. Ieremie S. Iames Cap. 5. ● A praise of mariage to shevv the miseries that follovv Lawes for to recōcile the man and the vvife Miseries and thornes in mariage Beautie maketh a vvoman suspected deformitie hated riches proud A notable sentence of Marcus Aurelius Anthonius Pius The misery of man for the diuersitie of Religion Iere. 12. Ezech. 34. In a treatise of peace and vvar The miserie of mā by contagion as vvell in times past as in our age Thucydides in his second booke of the vvars of the Peloponiensis Marcus Aurelius The aire corrupted that proceded out of a coffer perished the third part of humaine kinde A plage in the French campe at Naples A plage in Bullen A contagion in Almaine A maruelous contagion in England Contagiō in Aix A maruelous act The misery of man by famine Leui. 26. Math. 24. The mothers eate their children A famine almost vncredible A butcherie vvhere mās fleshe vvas sold 4. Regū 6. Ioseph the. 7. booke 3. chapter of the vvarres of the Iewes A historie of Iosephus The miserie of our age The meruellous contagion of our time A famine the yere 1528. The diuersitie of diseases vvherevvith mā is afflicted Thoughe that abusedly the common state thinketh that this proceedeth of of some other thing A lousie sicknes●e Diuers inuentions of venims poysōs The poysons and venims inuented by men Ierome Cardan in his booke of subtilitate Exclamation against the poisoners A subtill inuention of poysoning An Emperor empoysoned vvith a vvafer cake Man afflicted by vvater The deluge Genesis 7. The foure elementes executors of Gods vvrath Man afflicted by fier Gen. ca. 9. Plinie The miserie of man by thunders lightninges and tempests Men afflicted by the ayre Man afflicted by the earth Man afflicted by earthquakes The little beasts war vpon mā and encreaseth his miseries Exod. 8. 9. Cap. Esay 4. Psal 49. Man afflicted by the maladies of the spirite Esay 2. Against couetousnesse Esay 5. The mōstrous couetousnes of a Prelate Eccle. Baruch 3. Enuy a maladie of the spirite Ambition a maladie of the spirite Loue is counted among the most grieuous maladies of the spirite Gestes and countenances ridiculous of Louers Sisiphus that turned his rochet Tantalus that died for thirst neare the vvaters Titius of vvhome the famished Rauen deuoured his heart They that haue vvritten the remedies of Loue could not helpe themselues An example of a furious Loue. The furious loue of Faustine vvyfe to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius the childe had the like qualities Entropeus in the life of Comodus The powre of Loue. There is no martyrdome that may compare to Loue as Apolonus Thianeus vvitnesseth Loue the corruption of youth in our time Discourse of the miserie of the aged Great mutations in age The miseries of death August Soli loquicrum the first booke cha 2. A straunge spectacle to see man at the point of death Violent temptatìons in death 2. Kings 28. cha The miserie of humaine cretures vvh that God shal appe in iudgement Esay 13. Ioel. 2. cha Dan. 7. cha ●phraim ●nd his ●rayers The terror of Gods iudgement the vvhich S. Ierome feared so much that he thought alvvays to vnderstand this voyce arise ye dead and come to your iudgement Apoc. 1. Exodus 20. Esay 1. cha Ezech. 5. Osee 13. The prayse of man by the vvise men of Egypt A prayse of Homer An error of the Philosophers in that that concerneth the creatiō of man Descriptiō of the beautie of mans head A prayse of the excellencie of the eyes A prayse of the brovves A prayse of the nose Lactantius Firmian in his booke of the praise of God A prayse of the tongue Praise and vsage of the teeth Praise of the chin and of the bearde Praise of the eares A praise of beautie as vvell of men as of vvomen Beautie hath moued many to vvrite Ier. Cardan Most learnedly translated by Monsieur du Prean my friend of vvhome I follovv the traduction as faithfull The Author prayseth man by force of armes The noble heart of Alexander in his youth Alexander caused the earth to be digged to vvarre against the Antipodes A prayse o Caesar and Pompei A prayse Sergius al most vnc● dible The excelencie of man in ●ainting The maruellous cunning of a man in facioning a brasen horse Cardanus A vvonderfull Image Deuinitie of the spirit of certaine men Straunge glasses A prayse of the inuention of men of our time Cardan Man vvasheth his face vvith melted mettell Alexander ab Alexandro Man aquitall The Art of flying like the Birds inuented by man The maruellous beautie of the soule if it might be sene openly Alexander in his anger seemed to be all on fier 〈…〉 The maruellous die of man Rondelet in his historie of fishes and many Elders An vncredible abstinencie lithrida●s could ●●t die by ●●yson A maruell of man that resisted poyson The Psiles and Marcians did vaunt that they coulde not be hurt vvith Serpents the vvhich the Romaines caused to be tried in an Ambassador of theirs A maruell of the sight of an Emperour There is no part of man but that there is some fruite dravvne out to the vse of phisicke Edoardus Plinie An aunsvvere to the obiections of humaine miseries Baptist Gelo traducted by Pare The cause of humaine miseries Theodoret bishop of Siria in his ●ookes of ●●e nature of man Conclusion