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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

let him go hardely to the court And contrary if the courtier feele his nature content peaceable and desiring rest and quietnes let him be dwellyng in the village and he shall well knowe that he neuer knew how to liue till he had drawen hym self from the Court The .iiii. Chapiter Of the life that the Courtier ought to leade after that he hath lefte the Court. MYronydes a wise sage Philosopher Capitain of the Boheciens sayd that the prudence of a man was as well knowen by retiring from the euill as in chosing of the good Wisedom consisteth in choosing the good and shunning the euil forasmuch as vnder the euill commonly the good can not be hid but vnder the pretence of good much euill may be dissembled euen much lyke as the Antheme that beginnes Per signum crucis and endes in Sathanas and Barrabas In like maner the great euils haue their beginning by some pretence of fayned goodnes in such sort that they be coūterfeict much lyke Maskers wrapt in swetnes as purging pilles and gilt as is the Rubarbe There is no man I thinke so mad that kepeth not himself in asmuch as he can from catching euil and specially from open euil but contrariwise it were wisedome to kéepe him from that which is not altogether good Alexander the great causing himself to be healed of certaine woundes that he had receiued in battail was reproued of his great minion Parmeno for putting himself into great hazard in the warre Frendes fayned are more perillous than open enemies To whom Alexander sayd assure me my frende Parmeno of those that be dissembling frendes for I wil be ware of them that be my opē enemies Alcibyades Agiselaus Purrhus Antigonus Lentulus and Iulius Caesar were so circumspecte in these thinges that they were alwayes vanquishers and died in the handes of their frendes and specially because they chose the good and lefte the euil Then he that leaueth the court ought not only for to sée what he leaueth but also what he taketh considering that as much or more hard it is to content him hauing left the court as it was a fore in the desiryng to bée in the court what profiteth it to leaue the Court wery troubled If thy hart can finde no rest in the place whether thou resortest Our body fulfilled with meates is led where one will haue it but the heart is neuer satisfied with desiryng An ambicious hart is neuer satisfied and wold if he might be in fauor with princes of the courte and on the other side at his ease in the village If the Courtier dayly haue mynde beyng at home of the passions afflictions that he had in the Court it had béen better for him neuer to haue gone from it because that in remembring them that thinking is more pricking and the mynde weaker to resist them In the court of princes chaunses often tymes that lacke of money or other great busines makes a man abstayne from doyng euil Want of money maketh some forsake the court the which being after in his house doeth such déedes vnseemely in a gentleman that they deserue to be corrected yea and bitterly punished There bée also another sorte of men that forsakes the Court to bée more idle at home Idlenes maketh other some to forsake the court And such would be reiected frō the nomber of honest men seing they chose that time for their purpose to sinne in the village fearing to be infamed or dishonored in the court and yet beyng in the countrey liues with shame forgetting all reason To exchue these thinges he that leaueth the Court ought to leaue hys percialitie that he hath folowed and to forget all passions otherwise he shall lament the swéete bitternes that he leaues and bewayle the life that he hath begunne This is true that in the court are more occasions geuen to destroy a man There are more occasions in the court of destruction than there are in a priuate house then are at home in his owne house to saue him It is a small profite to the courtier the chaunging of his dwelling vnles by the same meanes he change his condicions When the courtier saith I wil withdrawe me to my countrey and go dye at home that is wel said but this shal suffice that he honestly withdraw him self without determining there to dye This mortall life is to vs so apointed We must amende our liues and not curse them that we ought not to pursue it with sorow but that we are bounde to amend it Whē Iob said Tedet animam meam vite mee it was not for that hys life weried him but because hée did not amēd it Whosoeuer leaueth the court may be boulde to say that he goeth not to die but may wel thinke he hath escaped from a fayre prison from a confused life from a daungerous sickenes from a suspicious conuersacion from a greate sepulchre Many perils shooned by forsakinge the courte Death is in the court and life at home and from a meruail without ende The wysest being in the court may say euery day that they dye and at their houses in the countrey that they liue And the reason is that being in the court those necessary thynges that are to be done in the worlde cannot be done as they would nor when they would for lacke of libertie Yet I will not say Ther is more good will in the court to doe good thā libertie to performe the same but many in the courte doo theyr deuor to doe as they would but I dare affirme that for x. pound weight they haue of honest will they haue not halfe an ounce of honest libertie Likewise let him that forsakes the Court set a wise order in such busines that he hath to do calling to minde that to go home to his countrey néedes no long iorney Euil customes gotten in the court are hardly left but to dispoyle him selfe of the euil clothes of the Court néedes a wonder long time For like as vices increase in a man litle and litle so is it meete to roote them out by litle litle This ought the courtier to do the mindes to rule himselfe plucke vp by litle pieces the most notable faultes that are in him and so preately dispatch himself of one vice to day from another to morow in such sorte that when one vice takes his leaue and is gon straightway a vertue doe enter in his steade so that in proces he may goe from good to better The courtier is in nothing more deceiued then in liuing a wilde and wanton life parauenture the space of .xx. or xxx yeares thinketh in a yeare or two to become sage and graue Vertue is differred vntil age by the Courtier aswell as though he applied all his life in a sober and sad life truely that happeneth for lacke of good iudgement for it behoueth without comparison a lenger tyme for to

in thy palayce promyses are made and neuer kepte men serue and haue no reward the world promiseth and performeth not they are inuited to be deceyued they labour to be troubled trauaile to take payn they laugh and are beaten thou fainest to staye vs to make vs fal thou lendest to pull away straight agayne thou honorest vs to defame vs and correctest without mercy Farewell world thou sclaundereste them that are in credite The world doth vniustly and doest auaunce the infamed thou letteste the traytors passe frée and puttest true mē to their raunsoms thou persecutest the peceable and fauorest the sedicious thou robbest the pore and geuest to the rich deliuerest the malicious and condemnest innocentes geuest licence to depart to the wise and retainest fooles The peruerse and blind iudgement of the wo●ld and to be short the most part do what they list but not what they shold Fare wel world forasmuch as in thy palaice no man is caled by his right name for why they call the rashe valiaunt the proude cold harted the importune dilligent the sad peaceable the prodigall magnificall the couetous a good husband the babler eloquent the ignorant a litle speaker the wanton amorous the quiet man a foole the forbearer a courtier the tyraunt noble And thus thou world callest the counterfeat the true substaunce and the truth the counterfeat The world deceiueth Farewell worlde for thou deceiuest all that be in thée promising to the ambicious honors to the greedy to come forward to the brokers offices to the couetous riches to the gluttons bankettes to the enemies vengeaunce to the theues secretnes to the vicious rest to the yong time and to all thing that is false assurance Farewell worlde for in thy house fidelity is neuer kept nor truth maintained and also we may see in thy house one glad and another afrayd some ouercharged some out of the right way some voyde of comfort desperate sad heauy ouerburdened and charged and more then lost and sometime both Farewell world forasmuch as in thy company he that wenes himself moste assured is most vncertaine and hée that followes thée goeth out of the way and he that serues thée is euell payed and he that loues thée is euel entreted and he that contents thée contenteth an euell maister and he that haunteth thée is abused Farewell world forasmuch as thou hast such mishap that seruices done presents offered to thée profit nothing nor the lies that is told thée nor the bankettes made to thée nor the faithfulnes we geue to thée nor the loue we beare to thée Farewell world forasmuch as thou deceiuest all backbytest all and slaunderest al chastisest al thretest vs al achiuest al in the end forgettest al. Farewell world sithens in thy company all men complayn al cry out al wepe and all men dye liuing Farewell world sithens by thée wée hate eache one the other to the death To speke till we lye to loue till wee dispayre to eate till we spue to drinke till we be dronken to vse brokage to robbery and to sin till we dye Farewell worlde for being in thée we forget our infancy and our greene age without experience our youth in vices our middle age in turmoyling and busines our olde age in lamentacions and all our time counted together in vayn hopes Farewell world for in thy scoole we are led till the heire be white the eyes blered the eares defe the nostrels droppyng the forehed wrinckled the feete goutie the raynes ful of grauel the stomack full of euell humors the head ful of migram the body full of sorowe the minde full of passions Farewel world for none of thy louers come to good profit witnes those that daily we sée are not false knaues marked in the face theues hanged māquellers headed robbers by the hye wayes sette vpon wheles heretikes brent false money makers boyled killers of their parentes torn in pieces and other diuers punishmentes of such as are great in fauour with thee Farewell world forasmuch as thy seruauntes haue no more pastyme but to trot by the streates to mock one another to seke out wēches to sende presentes to beguile yonge girles write amorous letters speke to bandes play at the dice plede agaynste their neighbour tel newes inuent lies and study new vyces Farewel world for in thy pallayce none wil doe good to other for the bore fightes agaynste the Lyon the Vnycorne agaynst the Cocodryl the Eagle agaynst the Vultur the Elephant agaynst the Mynotaure the Sacre agaynst ehe Kyte the mastyf agaynst the Bull One man agaynste another and al together against death Farewell worlde All fighte against deth because thou haste nothing but to our ruin For often the yearh openeth afore our feete the water drounes vs the fire burnes vs the ayre mistempers vs the Wynter doth kil vs the Sommer doth chafe vs the dogges doth byte vs the Cattes doth scrat vs the Serpents doth poysō vs the flyes doth prick vs the Flees doeth eate vs and aboue all worldlye busines deuoures vs Farwel world seing no mā can pas thi domynyon in suertie for in euery path we finde stones to stumble at bridges that breakes vnder vs Snow that letteth vs Mountaynes that wery vs Thunders that feares vs Theues that robbe vs encounters that hurts vs and euil fortune that killes vs. Farewell worlde forasmuch as in thy country there is litle health for some be lippers some haue the french pockes some the Canker and some the goute and some haue the foule euell some the Sciatica and some the stone and some Quotidian feuers some wādring feuers some tercian and quarten feuers spasmes palsies and the moste parte sicke of fayre folly Farewell world forasmuch as there is not a mā in thy house but hee is noted with some defaute in his person For if there be any talle manne the reste is lubberlyke If he haue a faire face his eye shall be too blacke If he haue a good forehead it shal be wrinckeled If he haue a welfauored mouth he shal lacke téeth If he haue fayre handes he shall lacke faire heire And if hee haue fayre heire hee shall haue a foule skinne Farewell worlde forasmuch as the inhabitauntes in thee are so variable of maners and condicions that some will folow the court some wil sayle on the sea if one would be a marchaunt the other will be a husbandman If the one will be a hunter the other will be a fisher If one wil gouerne a Monarchy the other vnder pretence of that will pyll and poll the poore people Farewell worlde forasmuch as in thy house there are none that prepare themselues to liue much lesse to dye And yet we see some dye young some in middle age some in olde age some dye by hanging some by drowning some dye for hunger some in eating sleping and resting and some or they beware and for the most parte or they looke for death Farewell worlde forasmuch as we can neither knowe thy disposicion nor condiciō For if one be wise another is a foole If one be fyne another is of a grosse witte If one be valiant another is a coward If one be geuen to peace another is sedicious And if one be of a gētle spirit another is very froward Farewell world seyng no man can liue with thée for if a man eate to litle he becommes weake if to muche he waxeth sicke if a man labour strait he is wery if he be idle he liueth beastly if he geue litle he is called a nigard if he geue much he is called prodigall if a man visite his frendes often he is called importune if to seldome full of disdayne If a man suffer wrong he is called false hearted And if he doo reuenge then is he wilfull If hee haue frendes he is praysed If enemyes he is pursued If one tary to lōg in a place he waxeth wery and if he chaunge to ofte he is grudged at Finally I say that such thinges as displease me I am forced to folowe and that which I would I cannot come by O world vncleane I coniure thée thou filthy world I pray O thou world and protest against thee thou worlde that thou neuer haue parte in mee for I demaund nor desire nothing that is in thée neyther hope of any thing in thee for I haue determined with my self that posui finem curis spes et fortuna valete I haue finished worldly cares therfore hope and fortune farewell FINIS nor w ¶ Printed by VVilliam NORTON

thinges as neither shall growe to their honor nor profite Many men say that they haue enemies recountyng them often without findyng number Although it be true if it be well noted that none haue oftener or a greater enemy than him self And the most greatest daunger that I sée Clyming causeth fallinge is that vnder the shadowe to preferre and make better my selfe my selfe is the cause of my destruction The Philospher Neotidas on a tyme being asked which was the best counsell that a man might take answered The counsell of others with the dispraisyng of his owne We must not stande in our owne conceit and he sheweth the cause for that the corrupcion of man is suche that often hee searcheth in him selfe with greate paine that whiche in the head of another hée fyndeth wyth great ease Then it foloweth that in the best tyme of our lyfe our owne lyfe deceiueth vs the euil commeth fourth on euery syde heauy thoughtes ouertake vs our frendes leaue vs A liuely description of the miseries of mans life persecutors torment vs troubles make an end of vs ambicion burieth vs. If wée beholde thys thyng what wee bée whereof we bée and wherefore wée bée we shall fynde that our beginnyng is obliuion our middle age trauayle the ende sorow and altogether an open errour Thē sée how heauy is the courtiers lyfe The courtyers life is full of perills as also howe daungerous the way is where as be stones to stumble at myer to sticke fast in yse for to fall on pathwayes for to lose hym in water for to passe thorow théeues for to be afrayd of great affaires and busines to doe so that hard it is for any to goe there as they would and more harde to aryue there as they desire All these thinges haue we sayd to the intent that the Courtiers may vnderstand that neither I nor they can chose the good way leaue the euil voyd that that hurtes vs and conserue that which profiteth vs folow reason and plucke away the occasion but if by chaunse some good fal to vs Blynde fortune praysed for prosperity and blamed for aduersitie we thanke fortune and if euill come to vs then we do put the fault in her The second Chapiter ¶ How that none ought to counsell a● other to go to the Court nor when he is there to come from it but euery man to chose the life that best he liketh ARistarch the great Philosopher of Theban sayd That tyme and man was so diuers that hard it was for the most wise to chuse that to them which was good and to kepe them from that which to them is euil One thing is not pleasant to all men There is nothing more true for we sée dayly with the same that one is healed another falleth sicke with that that one waxeth better another waxeth worse with that that one is amended another is put downe and to conclude with that litle thing that one is content withall another is in dispaire The lerned Alchymus was by his Moecoenas king Demetrius asked wherein specially did cōsist the greatest trauail of the worlde He answered ther is few thinges but in them there is either trauail or suspicion A minde neuer satisfied hath excessiue trauail but aboue all the mooste excessiue trauail that a man may haue is neuer to be satisfied And that this is true we perceiue that whē a litle thing contenteth vs how litle soeuer it be we make it our paradice with the rest of our life which seldome chaunseth to fewe men because that liuyng as we liue not being contented we would assaie and knowe if it were good to be a king a prince a knight a maried man No man contented with his estate a religious or a marchaunt a laborer a shepeherd or of some other estate And at the ende when al is proued it shal be harde to finde where we would rest so vnconstaunt is the lightnes of men The wise determineth that to chose the best is the meane A simple creature is lightly contented with a small thing The poore cōtente them selues with that which the riche mightie contemne but he that hath a great harte thynkes that pouertie is a greuous life like as they that be of high estate feare the fall of fortune Plato was in hys young yeres very worldely as he that had séene much aswell in the warres as in offices in whiche he was vsed and also in handy craftes On a time it was asked him wherin he had found most quietnes and rest He answered there is no estate of life wherein is not mutabilitie there is no honor where is no peril There is no roase without a thorne nor any pleasure but it is mixte with payne no riches where is no trauail no prosperitie but it endeth nor also plesure but faileth but whē all is said I neuer foūd so much quietnes of minde as since I left myne offices in Cities withdrawing me to my bookes signifiyng that as long as we liue seruauntes of the world we desire al we proue all we procure all then all thinges are well séene and tasted all thinges do anoye vs the greatest part of our disquietnes commeth hereof that the aboundaunce we haue séemeth to vs litle and the litle of others séemeth to vs much We mislyke all that we haue our selues and cōmend that which other enioye We saye that our wealth is trauayle and that the euill happe of others is rest we condemne others actes and wée allow our owne we watche to gette somewhat and sodeinly we sléepe to léese it agayne we imagine that all men liues content and we alone néedy And yet the worst is we beleue that we dream and put not our trust in that we sée before our eyen What way one ought to follow or what estate hee oughte to chose none can well knowe nor counsaile because the thyng is so troublesome and without good iudgement by which many are deceiued Mans life on earth full of troubles If the sailing on the sea be daungerous so is the walking on the earth troubleous As touching our lyfe we sée that he that is whole dayly falleth sicke the sicke dyeth some other scapeth deadly daungers some others lyngers forth to death Better is he that hal●●●th in the way then he that runneth out of the way As touchyng the waifaryng men assone commeth he to his lodging that goeth softly as he that goeth hastely and loseth his way He that is in fauor liuing in slothfull rest had as much neede of vpholding as he that continually sweates in trauail Therfore I conclude The certainty of all thinges is that all thinges are vncertaine that there is nothing in this worlde so certain as that all thinges are vncertaine Then let vs returne to that we spake of It is said that it is fearefull to coūsell any to marry to study to go to the war

hard to bring to passe to make rich men to be subiect to the rigour of the lawe To conclude Plato not willing to abyde longer the clamor and cry of the court went and dwelt in a litle village two miles from Athens called Academia where the good old man after he had taryed there .xiiij. yeres teaching and writing many notable doctrines ended there his moste happy dayes After the memory of him the auncients called the village Academia which is to say in English a schole The conclusion is that all these honourable sage princes wise men left Monarchies kingdomes Cities and great riches and went into the vyllages there to serche a poore an honest and a peaceable lyfe Not that I will say that some of these lefte the court to be there poore and banished and rebuked but of their frée wil and frée libertie minding to liue a quiet and honest life or they dyed The xviij Chapiter ¶ The aucthor complayneth with great reason of the yeares that he lost in the court I Will demaunde of mine owne self mine owne life and make accoumpt of the same to the entent that I wil cōferre my yeares to my trauailes and my trauailes to my yeares that it may appeare how long I left of to liue and beganne to dye My life gentle reader hath not béen a life but a long death my dayes a play new for to begyn my yeares a verye tedious dreame The authors lyfe past my pleasures Scorpions my youth a transitorie fantasye My prosperitie hath béen no prosperitye but properly to speake a painted Castell and a treasure of Alcumyn I came to the court very yong where I sawe diuers maners of offices and chaunges euen among the princes that I serued And I haue assayed to trauail by sea and by land and my recompence was much more then I deserued and that was this that sometyme I was in fauor and sometyme out of fauor I haue had experience of the somer santes of destines I haue had in the courte frendes and enemyes I haue had false reports Inconstant fortune I haue béen euen now glad and mery and forthwith sadde and sory to day rich to morowe poore now mounted vpwarde straite throwen dounewarde This hath been to me a masking where I haue lost boeth money and tyme. And now I say to thee my soule what hast thou gottē of this great iorney The recompence is this A Couriers recompence that I haue gotten there a graye heade féete full of goute mouth without téeth raynes full of grauel my goodes layde to pledge my body charged with thought and my soule litle clēsed from sinne And yet is there more seyng that I must néedes speake that is that I haue returned my body so wery my iudgement so dull my tyme so lost the best of my age so passed that is worst of all I found no tast in any thing that is in the world so that to conclude I am of my selfe all werye of my selfe What should I more tell or say of the alteracion of my lyfe and of the chaunges of fortune I came to the court innocent and come from it malicious I went thither true and meaning truth The alteration that commeth by the court and returned a lyar I went thither humble and returned presumptuous I went thither sober returned a gurmand and glutton I went thither gentle and humayne and returned cleane contrary Finally in goyng thither I marde my self in al points And I haue no cause to laye the faulte in my maisters for the vices bée soone learned without a maister cannot be forgottē without a corrector O miserable that I am I kept in the court an accompt of my goodes to knowe howe they were wasted not for to distribute them to the poore I tooke héede of my honor for to encrease it not for to better my selfe by the tyme I tooke care of them that should paye mee to knowe what was owyng mée and not that I might gette to profite the poore withall but to profite in riches and not in vertue I held an accoumpt with my seruauntes to none other purpose then to know how long they had béen with me and serued mée and not to enquire what lyfe they led Finally I held a coumpt of my life but it was more to conserue it then to correct it Lo beholde this was my accoumpt this was my calculacion this was the Arsmetrique that I learned in the court Let vs yet go a litle further and sée myne exercises I neuer was yet in the court but I founde to whom I bare malice or els that enuied mée I was neuer yet in the palaice but I founde a window open and a courtier murmur I neuer yet spake to princes The misliking of courtiers of their state but I wēt from them not contented in my mind with some parte of their answere I neuer yet went to bed without complaynt nor neuer did ryse without a sigh If I went about to doe anye good thing my great affaires hindered mee If I wold study my felowes letted me If I went to take any honest and quiet pastyme mine affayres would not permit mée If I kept my selfe solitary and from company my thoughtes martyred mée The lacke of mony a great misery Finally there was neuer any thing that so vexed my heart as the lack of money in my purse And yet all this is nothing remembring that I was euer enuious to suche as were myne equalles a flatterer to my superiors and without pitie to mine inferiors wher I phansied one I bare hate almost to all other I found euery man worthy of reproofe but against my selfe I could not suffer a worde to be spoken O how forgetfull haue I béen which shoulde forget or a morsell of meate had béen put in my mouth haue talked aloude to my self alone as it had béen one that had béen mad O how often hath chaūced me that in comming from the counsail wery or from the palaice thoughtfull I would not heare mine owne seruauntes speake nor dispatch such as I had to doe withall O how many times haue I béen so drowned in busines that I could not moderate my pensiuenes although my frendes did counsail mee to the cōtrary O alas how many times hath my mynde pressed me to leaue the court and the worlde and to yelde my selfe to some solitary desert as an Heremite because I saw the king auaūce him and him and I put backe as a person halfe desperate Moreouer to fulfill my trauailes alwaies I went asking serching newes of the affayres of the court alwayes harkening what one said of another alwayes spying and watching and all this considered I founde by myne accompt that I liued in heauynes captiuitie and state of damnacion Let vs yet go farther If I were rich one or other serched some meane to deuour mée If I were poore I found none to succour mée my frendes cryed