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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02315	A looking glasse for the court. Composed in the Castilian tongue by the Lorde Anthony of Gueuarra Bishop of Mondouent, and chronicler to the Emperour Charles. And out of Castilian drawne into Frenche by Anthony Alaygre. And out of the French tongue into Englishe by Sir Fraunces Briant Knight one of the priuy Chamber, in the raygne of K. Henry the eyght; Menosprecio de corte. English	Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545?; Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.; Bryan, Francis, Sir, d. 1550.	1575 (1575)	STC 12448; ESTC S103507	62,967	162

yet neuer do There be some old doting fooles which shal bragge of the kinges princes which they haue serued of the chaūging of offices that they haue séene and of the warres passed and of the great mutabilitie chaunge of fortune And yet notwithstanding all that they haue séene and endured Doting courtiers they be as gréedy of gayne and delight in young and foolysh pastymes as though they were newe to begyn to lyue Alas miserable men that in perpetuall trauail and continuall sorow infinite trouble haue passed theyr lyues euen from their first time of knowledge which is xv yeares to the tyme of manhood and thē from that tyme to their doting age and all to haue gayned riches and increase in renoune not in all this tyme once remēber that in steade of a true and perfite rest they prepare for themselues a hell both for bodye and soule The courtier also ought not lightly to complayne of aduersities which many tymes come to hym thinking that oftentymes though it bee our owne faulte wee doe complayne of thynges whyche shoulde complayne of vs if they had a toungue What time a man séeth him self base and is litle estéemed or poore and forgotten of the rich and deceiued of that he looked surely to haue Fortune is not the cause of pouertie incontinent he curses his fortune and lamentes his euil In the meane whyle it is not fortune that hath thus serued him but him selfe that hath serched it and founde it Such a man thinkes to bee quickelye rich honored and estéemed that shortly after seeth himself poore ouerthrowen dispised and blamed of all men cannot reuenge himselfe but onely say he is vnfortunate vnhappy to the worlde and that it is mishap which is not so but his owne folly that makes hym to leaue the suretie of his house and prepareth himself to the hazard of fortune and therfore hath no cause to complain but of himselfe which choose the way to it The best is after that a man purposeth himself to continue in the court Pacient dissemblers come to preferment in the court that then paciently he awaite and fary the tyme of auauncement or auaūtage that he looketh for or els if he cannot paciently dissemble with the tyme let him not remayne there Contentacion wherein it consisteth for contentacion consisteth not in the place but in the ambicious heart and troubled mynde And take this for a trueth ye that be courtiers that if .ij. or .iij. thinges succéed to your purpose prosperously there shall come a hundreth ouerthwart the shins either to you or to your frendes For notwithstanding that the courtiers doinges and desires come to good passe there shal be thinges for his frend or felow that goeth all awrye wherby often tymes he laments the hurt of his frend and that which is denied him more thē the pleasure he hath of his owne happe wherefore there is alwayes lacke or faute of cōtentacion Wil ye any more the being in court or out of the court ye shall beare no other matter Newes is all that is sought for in the court then what newes at the court what doth the king where is he where is the counsail and where lieth the officers of the houshold and this is most true that they which desire to heare such newes are as desirous to sée newes And by this meanes the poore wene to make themselues riche the rich the more to commaund and the lords the more to rule O what a pleasure is it for thē to be in the court hoping that the king may know them that those that be in fauor may dye or that fortune may chaunge that they come forward And it foloweth that in tarying the tyme the tyme deceiueth them and then death taketh them vnware The .xiij. Chapiter ¶ That there is a smal nomber of them that be good in the court and a great nomber of good in the common wealth PLutarch in the booke intitled De exilio telleth of the great King Ptolome that hauing on a daye at supper with hym seuen Ambassadours of diuers prouinces moued a question to thē which of al their common wealthes gouerned themselues with best lawes customes The sayde Ambassadours were Romayns Carthaginiens Ciciliens Rhodiens Atheniens Lacedemoniens Cicioniens among whom the question was effectually debated afore the kyng forasmuch as euery one of them beyng affectionate to his coūtrey aleaged the wisest reason that he could The good king desirous to know the truth and the resolucion of the question commaūded that euery one of the Ambassadours shuld tell of the best lawes or customes that were in their common welth thrée poyntes and that thereby it might easilye bee séene which was better ruled and deserued more praise Thē the Ambassadour of the Romaynes began sayd In Rome the temples be honored The gouernmēt of Rome The gouernement of Carthage the gouernours obeied the euil chastised The Ambassadour of Carthage said in Carthage the noble men neuer cease to prepare to the warre the poore people to trauail and the Philosophers to teach The gouernemēt of Cicill The Ambassadours of the Ciciliens sayd In Cicill is true iustice executed trouth is beloued and equalitie praised The Ambassadour of the Rhodiens said The gouernement of the Rhodiens In Rhodes the olde men are honest the young men shamefaste and the women méeke and gentle The Ambassadour of the Atheniens sayd The gouernement of the Atheniens the Atheniens doe not consent that the riche should bee parciall nor the meane people idle nor the gouernours without learnyng The Ambassadour of the Lacedemoniens sayde The gouernement of the Lacedemoniens in Lacedemony enuye raynes not because all are equal nor couetousnes because all is common nor idlenes because all men trauayl The Ambassadour of Cicioniens sayd The gouernement of the Cicioniens in Cicion they receiue no straungers inuētors of newes nor Phisicions that kyll the whole nor aduocates that makes the processes immortall When kyng Ptolome and his company had heard these so good and holy obseruaunces he praysed greatly the institucion of euery of them saying that he could not iudge which was the best This history is well woorthy to be noted and better to be folowed And I beleue if in our dayes so many Ambassadours should meete disputing as these did of their common wealthes they should finde mo thinges to blame and speake euill of and that without comparison then to praise commend In tymes passed the kings houses were so well reformed Vice was seuerely punished in olde tyme. the kinges thēselues so wyse and the gouernours so moderate that litle offences were chastized and once to think of great offences forbidden to the entent that the chasticement should be terrour to the euil and the prohibicion a plain aduice vnto the good It is not so in our cōmon welthes where is done so much euil and committed so many

bitter offences and vnhappines Sinne is lesse accounted of in our dayes than in olde tyme. that those which the auncients did chastice for deadly sinnes by death wee dissemble to bee but veniall the truans and wantons be so entertained as though we lacked them and not as méete to be chased and driuen away My Lady the widow or my maistres that is maried if they fall to leude and wanton liuyng ye shall not finde one that wil say madam or maisters ye doo naught Sinne is committed without reproofe but rather sixe hundreth that shall procure her dishonor This is in our time such is our fashion and maners which causeth euill so that he is more to be praised which may be called good in our common wealth thē any of the Consuls of Rome because that in the olde tyme it was almost a monstrous thing to finde one euil among a hundreth and now it is a great chaunce to finde one good amongst a hundreth The holy scripture prayseth Abraham that was iust in Calde Loth that was iust in Sodom Daniel in Babilon Toby in Niniuie and Neemyas in Damasco And lykewyse may we among this Cathalog of holy men nomber the good courtiers if there be any A good courtier is a blacke swanne but it cannot be forasmuche as none goeth about to moue the courtiers to vertue but that counsail them to perdicion There is in the court so many vacabondes so many players blasphemers and deceiuers that we may be abashed to sée such a multitude but it were a noueltie to heare of the contrarye for why the world hath nothing in his rosiers but thornes and for frutes of trées The world is replenished with counterfeite treasure but leaues for vines but bryers and in their garnerdes but strawe and in their treasures but Alcumin O golden worlde O worlde desired O worlde passed the difference betwixt you and vs is that afore you litle and litle the worlde passeth but afore vs it is quite passed In thée O world euery man vndertaketh to inuent to doe to begyn and to make an end of that he will and that which is worst of all liueth as he will but the ende is right doubtfull There is litle to bée trusted in thée O worlde The world is not to be trusted And contrariwyse litle to defende litle to enioy and very little to kéepe There are many thinges to bée desired many thinges to be amended and many thinges to be lamented Our aunceters had the Iron world but our world may well bee called the dirtie world The world is replenished with filthines because it kepeth vs continually in a filthy myer and alwayes we be there in defiled and rayed The .xiiij. Chapiter ¶ Of many affaires in the court and that there be better husbandmen then commonly is of courtiers THe Poet Homer hath written of the trauels of Vlixes one of the princes of the Greekes Quintus Curtius of Alexander Darius Moyses of Ioseph And of them of Egipt Samuel of Dauid and of Saul Titus Liuius of the Romains Thucidides of Iason with the Minotaure and Salust of ●ugurth and Cathelyne I thē willing to folow these good auctors haue vndertaken to wryte the vnkynd trauayles of the court that the courtiers of our tyme haue which haue pacience enough for to suffer them and no wysedome to auoyde them then it is not wythout a cause if I doe call the trauayles of the courte vnkynde Vnkinde traueils of the court for they bée accustomed vnto it as the olde horses are to the packesadle and to the plough sith that the courtiers themselues do suffer them so much and haue no profite thereof Some men wil say that I am euill aduised because I write the courtiers haue not their ease seeing that he that may attaine to be in the court is accompted to be fortunate But he abuseth him selfe if he thynke that all such as are out of the court bée beastes and ignorant persons and hée only wyse they rude and he delicate he honored and they vile they stammering and he eloquent If it were so that God would that the most perfite men should be in the court it should be to vs more then a fault not incontinently to be a courtier knowing that ther can be no better time employed then that which is bestowed in hearing the wyse and sage men but when all is sayd the places doe not better the men The place bettereth not the man but the man the place but the men the places God knowes for example how many gentle and good honest myndes labor in the villages and how many fooles and lubbers brag it in palaices God knoweth how many wel ordered wittes and iudgementes is hid in the villages Fooles in the court haue countenance when as wise men in villages ar obscure and how many rude wits weake braines face and brace in the court How many be ther in the court the which although they haue offices dignities estates and préeminences yet in the village after a maner of speakyng with great payne they are not able to rule .x. men How many come out of the court correcters of other that themselues in the villages shuld be corrected O how many things is sayd amonges the poore laborers worthy to be noted And contrary spoken afore princes worthy to be mocked O howe many is in the court that make themselues highly to be estéemed not for to be honest diligent but to come in auctoritie And how many is there in the village forgotten and not set by more for lacke of fauor then for either lacke of witte or diligence The princes geue the offices Those that be in fauor haue the entry nature the good bloud The parentes the patrimony and the deseruing honor but to wyse and sage commeth onely of God Wisedom and vertue cōmeth of God men haue not the power to take it away And if it were so the princes might geue good witte to whō they would they shoulde kéepe it for themselues Princes neuer loose but for lack of knowledge seyng they neuer léese but for lacke of knowlege I take it for an euil point of such as newly come from the court to the village being there rather vse mockyng then tast the benefite thereof But in the meane tyme thou séest their maner of life that is to go to bed at midnight and rise at .x. of the clocke in making readye till noone A Courtiers lyfe trimmyng their bushe or beard and settyng the cap awry And all the day after to talke of his darling that he hath in the court or of the battel of Granado wher he did meruails ●ragginge ●ourtiers And some there be of them that will lye and bragge that they were at the iorney of Pauay with the capitaine Antony Deleua at Tunes with the Emperour or at Turron with Andrew Doria And for all his brabling he was no