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A04267	The peace-maker: or, Great Brittaines blessing Fram'd for the continuance of that mightie happinesse wherein this kingdome excells many empires. Shewing the idlenesse of a quarrelling reputation wherein consists neyther manhood nor wisdome. Necessarie for all magistrates, officers of peace, masters of families, the confirmation of youth, and for all his Maiesties most true and faithfull subiects: to the generall auoyding of all contention and bloud-shedding.	Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627.	1618 (1618)	STC 14387; ESTC S107465	14,499	38

IR DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE THE PEACE-MAKER OR GREAT BRITTAINES BLESSING Fram'd For the continuance of that mightie Happinesse wherein this Kingdome excells manie Empires Shewing the Idlenesse of a Quarrelling Reputation wherein consists neyther MANHOOD nor WISDOME Necessarie for all Magistrates Officers of PEACE Masters of Families for the confirmation of Youth and for all his Maiesties most true and faithfull Subiects To the generall auoyding of all Contention and Bloud-shedding LONDON Printed by THOMAS PVRFOOT An. Dom 1618. CVM PRIVILEGIO HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ❧ To all Our true-louing and Peace-embracing SVBIECTS THE Glory of all Vertues is Action the Crowne of all Acts Perfection the perfection of all things Peace and Vnion It is the Riches of our Beings the Reward of our Sufferings the Musicke on our Death-beds Neuer had so great a Treasure so poore a purchaser for man hath the offer of it The God of peace sent it the Lambe of peace brought it the Spirit of peace confirmde it and Wee still seeke to practise it With what power then may the good purpose of this worke arriue at the hearts of all faithfull Christians and with what cheerefulnesse and freenes ought it to be embrast of all our louing Subiects hauing so many Glorious seales of Honor Power and Vertue to strengthen it all that is required of Vs from you is a faithful and hearty welcome and that bestowd vpon mans best and dearest Freind either in Life or Death For peace that hath beene a stranger to you is now become a sister a Deere and Naturall sister and to your Holyest loues we recommend her THE PEACE-MAKER The Booke it selfe in glory of its name is proud to tell from whence the subiect came PEACE be to you I greet you in the blessing of a God the salutation of an Apostle and the Motto of a King My Subiect hath her being in Heauen her Theory in holy Writ and her practique in England Insula pacis The Land of Peace vnder the King of Peace Like Noahs Doue she was sent out to seeke a resting place to see if the whole world were not yet couered with the perpetuall deluge of Blood and Enmity only here she found the Oliue Leafe Hitherto hath she been Pilotto the Arke heere it first toucht shoare heere now it hath remained full Fifteene yeeres I am proud to report it Reioyce O England with thine espoused Scotland and let thy handmaid Ireland ioy with thee Let all thy seruant Islands be glad yea let in strangers to behold and tast thy blessings The disturbed French seeke succour with thee the troubled Dutch fly to thy confines the Italian leaues his hotter clymate These and many more all seeke shelter vnder the sweet shaddow of thine Oliue Branches O London blessed M rs of this happy Brittaine build new thy Gates ther 's peace entring at them The God of peace hath sent this peace of God ô euer loue her that she may neuer leaue thee salute her and inuite her Let White-Hall fit embleme for her purity be her chiefe Pallace and let it say Ades almasalus Peace and Contention lye heere on earth as trading Factors for life and death Who desires not to haue traffique with life who weary of life but would die to liue Peace is the passage from life to life come then to the factory of peace thou that desirest to haue life behold the substitue of peace on earth displaying the flag of peace Beati pacifici Let Contention enioy without ioy large Empires heere wee enioy with all ioy our happy Sanctuarie It was borne with him he brought it with him after Fiue and Thirty yeares increase and heere hath multiplyed it to Fifty with vs ô blessed Iubile let it be celebrated with all ioy and cheerefulnesse and all sing Beati Pacifici And are not the labours blest with the worke-man England Scotland though not malicious enemies yet churlish Neighbours are reconciled Feast loue liue and dye together are indeed no more neither what they were but a new thing betwixt them more firme and neere in their louing Vnion then euer deuided in their harty vnkindnesse and now both say with one tongue Beati Pacifici Ireland that rebellious Outlaw that so many yeares cried blood and death filling her Marrish grounds with massacres affording many preys of slaughtered bodies to her rauenous Wolues and in their wombes keeping the brutish obsequies would know no Lord but grew more stubborne in her chastisement till this white ensigne was displayed then shee came running with this hallowed text in her mouth Beati Pacifici Spaine that great and long-lasting opposite betwixt whome and England the Ocean ranne with blood not many yeares before nor euer truc'd her crimson effusion their Marchāts on either side traffiqu't in blood their Indian Ingotts broght home in bloud a commerce too cruell for Christian Kingdomes yet now shake hands in friendly amity and speake our blessing with vs Beati pacifici Nay what christian Kingdome that knowes the blessing of peace has not desired tasted this our blessing from vs Come they not hither as to the Fountaine from whence it springs Heere sits Salomon and hither come the Tribes for Iudgments Oh happy Moderator blessed Father not father of thy Country alone but Father of all thy neighbour Countries about thee Spaine her withstanding Prouinces long bruised on both sides thou hast set at peace turning their bloody Leaguers to leagues of friendship doe not those children now liue to blesse thee who had else been buried in their Parents wombes and say Beati pacifici Denmarke and Sueuia Sueuia and Poland Cleue and Brandenburg haue not these many more come to this Oracle of Peace and receiued their doomes from it If the members of a naturall body by concord assist one another if the politike members of a kingdome helpe one another and by it support it selfe why shall not the Monarchall bodies of many Kingdomes be one mutuall Christendome if still they sing this blessed lesson taught them Beati pacifici Let England then the seat of our Salomon reioyce in her happy gouernment yea her gouernment of gouernments and she that can set peace with others let her at least enioy it her selfe let vs loue peace and be at peace in loue We liue in Beth-salem the house of Peace then let vs euer sing this song of peace Beati pacifici Detraction snarles and tempts faire Peace to show the plentie of her fruits and how they grow SEd vbi fructus Where are all these rich and oppulent blessings that this tender white rob'd Peace hath brought with her Aetas parentum peior auis c. Our Grandfathers for the most part were honester men then our Fathers our Fathers better then wee and our Children are like ynough to bee worse then our selues Do's Peace keepe a Pallace where Charity may warme

exposed to any of these Iniuries whatsoeuer neyther cares he how many darts of Malice or Contumelie are shot against him since he knowes that he cannot be pierced Euen as there are certaine hard Stones which Iron cannot enter and the Adamant will neyther be cut filed nor beaten to powder but abateth the edge of those Instruments that are applyed vnto it And as there are certaine things which cannot be consumed with fire but continue their hardnesse and habitude amidst the flames And as the Rockes that are fixt in the heart of the Sea breake the Waues and retaine no impression of the Stormes that haue assayled them so the heart of a wise man is solid and hath gathered such inuincible force that he stands as secure from Iniurie as those insensible Substances I made mention of Not that Iniuries are not offered him but that he admits them not so highly raised aboue all the attaints of worldly wrongs that all their violences shal be frustrate before a wise man be offended Euen as Arrowes or Bullets that are shot into the Aire mount higher then our sight but they fall backe againe without touching Heauen And as Celestiall things are not subiect to humane hands and they that ouer-turne Temples doe no way hurt the Godhead to whom they are consecrated So whatsoeuer Iniuries are attempted against a wise man returne without effect and are to him but as Cold or Heat Raine or Haile the Weather of the World And for words of Contumelie it is held so small and so sleight an iniurie as no wise man complaines or reuengeth himselfe for it therefore neither doe the Lawes themselues prefixe any penaltie thereunto not imagining that they would euer be burthensome Quis enim phrenetico Medicus irascitur For what Physician is angrie with a Lunatike person Who will interprete a sicke mans reproches to the worst that is vext of a Feuer Why the same affection hath a wise man toward all men as the Physician hath toward his sicke Patients not offended to heare their outrages he lookes vpon them as vpon intemperate sicke men therefore is not angrie with them if during their sicknesse they haue beene so bold as to speake iniuriously against him And as hee sets light by all their words of honor so torments he himselfe as little with all their despight insolencies For he that is displeased for an iniurie that is done him will likewise be glad to be honored at his hands that did it which a wise man is free from For he that reuenges a Contumely honors him that did it in taking it so much to heart respecting it Art thou angrie with thy Superior Alas Death is at hand which shall make vs equalls Doest thou wish him with whom thou art displeased any more then Death Although thou attemptest nothing against him he shall be sure of that thou losest thy labour then in offering to doe that which will be done without thee We laugh sayth the wisest of Philosophers in beholding the Conflict of the Bul and Beare when they are tyed one to another which after they haue tyred one another the Butcher attends for them both to driue them to the Slaughter-house The like doe we We challenge him that is coupled with vs Brother or Friend we charge him on euery side meane while both the conqueror and conquered are neere vnto their ruine Rather let vs finish that little remainder of our life in quiet and peace that our end may be a Pleasure to no man Thou wishest a mans death and there is alwayes but a little difference betwixt the day of thy desire and the affliction of the Sufferer Whilest we are therefore amongst men let vs embrace Humanitie be dreadfull and dangerous to no man let vs contemne Iniuries and Contumelies for but looking backe we may behold Death presently attend vs. Pisistratus that liued a Tyrant in Athens being for his crueltie mocked and reproued by a druuken man answered That he was no more angry with him then if a blind-fold fellow hauing his eyes bound vp should run vpon him Another said to his friend I prithee chastise my seruant with stroks because I am angry intimating thus much That a seruant ought not to fall into his power that is not master of himselfe But now the compounding of Quarrels is growne to a Trade And as a most worthie Father of Law and Equitie speakes there be some Councell learned of Duells that teach young Gentlemen when they are beforehand and when behind-hand and thereby incense and incite them to the Duell and make an Art of it the spurre and incitement false erronious imagination of Honor Credit when most commonly those golden hopes end in a Halter That Folly and Vaine-glory should cast so thicke a mist before the eye of Gentry to fixe their ayme and only end-vpon Reputation and end most lamentably without it nay farthest from it first to hazard the eternall death of their Soules and the suruiuing Bodies to die the death of a Cut-purse A miserable effect and most horrid resolution when young men full of towardnesse and hope such as the Poets call Aurorae filij the Sonnes of the Morning in whom the sweet expectation and comfort of their friends consists shall be cast away and ruined for euer in so vaine a businesse But much more is it to be deplored when so much Noble and Gentle bloud shall be spilt vpon such Follies which aduentured in honorable Seruice were able to make the fortune of a Day to change the fortune of a Kingdome It is euident then how desperate an euill this is which troubles Peace disfurnishes Warre brings sudden calamitie vpon priuat Men Peril vpon the State and Contempt vpon the Law They pretend aboue all things to regard Honour yet chiefely seeke the dishonour of God and of Iustice and which is worse then Madnesse in those men that aduenturing to leaue this life in Anger presume to presse into the next to the Supper of the Lambe which is all Peace Loue without Peace Loue or Charitie O that Gentlemen would learne to esteeme themselues at a iust price how dearely they are bought how most precious their Redemption The root of this Offence is stubborne for it despiseth Death which is the vtmost of all Temporall punishments and had need of the Seueritie vsed in France where the Manslayers though Gentlemen of great Qualitie are hanged with their Wounds bleeding lest a naturall Death should preuent the example of Iustice This punctualitie of Reputation is no better then a Bewitching Sorcerie that inchaunts the spirits of young men like the Smoake of fashion that Witch Tobacco which hath quite blowne away the Smoake of Hospitalitie and turned the Chimneyes of their Fore-fathers into the Noses of their Children And by all Computation if Computation may be kept for Folly I thinke the Vapour of the one and the Vaine-glorie of the other came into England much vpon a voyage and hath kept as