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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

haue employed all their wit and policie for to remedy this passion Samocraceus Nigideus and Ouid haue written many great volumes of the remedie of Loue by the whiche they shewe the remedies for others but they can find no remedy for themselues for that all thrée died pursued destroyed not for the harmes that they did at Rome but for the Loues that they inuented The Emperor Marcus Aurelius knowing that Faustine his wife loued a Ruffian so that she was vnpacient and was in perill of death for y e furious desier that she had to haue him in hir possession assembled a great many people learned and of al faculties and sciences for to giùe him counsell to quench the burning heat that consumed hir by little and little But after manye resolutions certayne of hys Nobles counselled him to kill him whome hys wife loued and that one should giue hir secretly of his bloud to drinke the which was promptlye executed This remedie was great for hir affection was quenched And yet it was not of so great efficacie as Iulìus Capitolin writeth but that Comodus whome they engendred afterwardes was bloudie and cruell and was more like in conditions to the Ruffian than to the father and also was daily conuersant with the Ruffiās and delighted more in their companie than in the companie of others so that it séemed that the Mothers passion was transported to the childe But this is little to that whych I haue read in manye Histories that things are come to such desolation that when this foolishe frensie doth take holde of vs it rendreth vs brutish and mad as it hath bene manifestly and euidently shewed and séene in a yong Lad being of the highest kinred in Athens and well knowen of all the Citizens of the Citie the which hauing many times beheld a faire statute of Marble very excellentlye wrought whiche was in a publicke place of Athens he was so stricken with the loue of it that he would neuer léese the sight of it and alwayes remayned by it embracing and kissing it as if it had bene a liuing soule And when that he was out of hir sight he wept and lamented so pitifully that it woulde haue moued the most constantest to pitie and in the ende this passion got so much powre on him was brought to such extremitie that he desired the Senatours to sell it him at what price they woulde to the ende y ● he might haue it to beare about with him the which thing they woulde not graunt for that it was a publicke work and that their powre or auctority extended not so far wherefore the yong man caused to be made a rich crowne of gold with other sumpteous ornaments and went to the Image set the crowne on hir heade and decked hir with precious vestimentes and then began to call vpon hir and worshippe hir with such obstenation and partenacitie that the commō sort were ashamed of his foolish and ridiculous loue so that they defēded him to approch or resorte to the Image anye more so that the yongling séeing himselfe to be depriued and kept backe from that which was more deare to him than his life killed himselfe For the vertue of this passion is such that after it hath entred into the heart of men it walketh vncurable by the most liueliest and sensible partes of the bodie and being in ful possession of vs she causeth an infinit number of teares and sighes to be powred oute so that oftentimes it taketh awaye oure life The which the great philosopher Apolonus Thianeus confirmed to the King of Babilon who most earnestly praied him to shewe him the most grieuous and cruellest tormēt that he might inuent by all the secretes of philosophie for to punish and chastice a yong Gentleman whom he had found a bed with one of his damsels whiche he fauoured The moste greatest torment sayth the Philosopher that I can shewe thée and inuent for to punishe him is that thou saue his life for thou shalt see by little and little the burning heate of loue to get so muche on him as it hathe alredy begon that the torment that he shall endure wil be so great that he shal not imagine nor find remedy therefore and he shall finde himselfe so stirred and prouoked with diuers cogitations and thoughtes that he shall burne and consume in this flame as y e Butterflie doth in a candel in such sort that his life shal be no more life but a verie death more crueller than if he passed throughe the hands of al the tyrants and tormenters of the worlde Here is in some the cause why I haue treated at large on this passion of Loue which is the whole decay of the most part of youth in our age for haue they neuer so little set their foote or mindes on y ● pleasures of this world they prepare themselues to loue then youth libertie and riches are the worst things in this world and in those wicked occupations they lead without fruit the best part of their life Thē after this great sea of miseries with the which mā is as it were ouerwhelmed euē from his birth age commeth on and then when we ought to rest the sores and dolors are renewed we must pay the rigorous vsuries and cruell interestes of all the faults and excesse that we haue made in our life for the heart is afflicted the brayne is troubled y e spirit languisheth the breath stinketh the face is withered the bodie is crooked the nose dropping the sight is troubled the haires fall the téeth are rotten to be short there is alwayes some loose nayle and this bodie is a similitude of death without putting in count many diseases of the spirit that age is subiect to They are prompte to wrath harde to appease light of beliefe forget oftentimes praise their Elders and dispraise the wise they are sadde melancholike couetous suspitious and difficile to be shorte it is the retraite whereas are emptied and purged al the vices and vncleannesse of our age The whiche being well considered by the Emperor Augustus said that whē men had liued fiftie yeares they ought to die or desier to be killed bicause that till that time was the pleasure of mannes felicity and that which is more or aboue that age passeth in sorrow and grieuous sicknes vnsupportable death of childrē losse of goods to burie his friendes sustaine processe paye debtes and in other infinit trauels so that it were better to haue the eyes closed wayting for theyr graue than to behold these things with their eyes in this crooked age the which thing the Prophet foreséeing cried out to God saying Lorde withdraw not thy hand from me when I am olde or when that I am assailed of age We haue now to my iudgement sufficientlye shewed the maledictions and miseries wherein man is wrapped whilst he playeth his Tragedie in the circle of this world but if his entrie be

remayne solitarie in his house his wife keepeth him cōpanie doeth cherishe and comfort him and causeth him more easilye to digest the incōmodity of his solicitude if he wil go to the fieldes she cōducteth him with eye so far as she can sée him she desireth and honoreth him being absent she cōplaineth and sigheth as if he were always by hir being come home he is wel receiued cherished and fauored with the best shewes and tokens of loue that nature hath shewed in such sort that for to speake the truth it séemeth that a wife is a gift from heauen graunted to man as well for the contentation of youth as for the rest and solace of age nature can giue vs but one father and one mother but mariage representeth many in our children the which do reuerēce and honor vs who are more deare than our own proper bowels being yong little they play laugh shew vs many Apysh toyes they prepare vs an infinite number of pleasures in suche sorte that by their toyes and pastimes that nature hath giuen vs for to deceiue and passe away part of our miserable life if we be besieged with age a thing common to all they solace the discommoditie of our age close our eyes bring vs to the earth from whence we came they are oure bones our flesh and bloud séeing them we sée our selues in such sort that the father séeing his children may be assured that he séeth his liuelye youth renued in the face of his children in whom we are regenerate and borne againe in suche sort that the age being a heauy burthē is not grieuous vnto vs beholding the mirrors or similitudes of our selues that eliuate the memorie of vs and make vs almost immortal in procreating and ingendring others after vs as the Ioynt or slip being taken from a trée of the which groweth many others the which I haue treated more at large in a booke that I brought to light the last yeare of the dignitie of Mariage in the which I thinke I did omit nothing of that that pertayneth to the whole ornament and decking of the coniunction of Matrimonie therefore for feare to be accused of vnconstancie or counted a turn tippet I will not nowe dispraise that which I haue so muche exalted But for that my subiect that treateth of the miseries of all estates in our dayes requireth that I giue no more pardon of this than I did to the others I will in fewe words shew that which I haue reade in manie Authors the which confesse with me that there is much swéete and pleasant things in mariage But if we doe well consider and weye in a iust ballāce the great and vnsupportable déedes we shall finde among these Roses manye thornes and among these sweete shoures of raine we shall find that there falleth alwayes much haile be it true the Athenians being a people much commended for their prudencie and wisdome seeing that the husbands and wiues could not agrée bicause of an infinite number of dissentions and prouocations that chaūsed ordinarrly betwene them were constrained to ordeyne in their common weale certaine magistrates whom they called reconcilers of maried ones the office of whom is to reduce reconcile and set accord by all meanes The Spartins in their common weale had in like case established certain Magistrates named Armosins who had the charge to correct the insolencie of womē to reproue their arrogancie and audacitie towards their husbands The Romanes would not ordeyne Magistrates perswading with themselues that men were not sufficiēt to bridle the raging temeritie of womē that they did poure out but they had their refuge to the Gods and dedicated a temple to the Goddesse Vitiplaca where in the end they accorded of their domesticall quarrels But who can say they paciently beare the charges of Mariage the insolency and arrogancye of women the yoke of a kinde vnperfect Who may accomplishe their carnal appetite as also their vnsatiable pompes Doth not the olde Gréeke Prouerbe say that women and ships are neuer so wel accomplished but that alwayes they want repairing If thou takest hir poore she shalbe despised and thy selfe lesse estéemed if thou takest hir rich thou makest thy selfe a bond slaue for thinking to marie one equall to thée thou mariest thy vnsupportable maistres if y u takest hir foule thou canst not loue hir if thou takest hir faire it is a ymage at thy gate for to bring thée companie it is a tower that is assailed of al the world and therfore that is verie hard to kepe that euery one séeketh to haue the key beholde the hazard wherin thou art sayth William de la Perriere that thy round head become not forked which were a fearfull sight if it were visible and apparēt this is the conclusion riches causeth a woman to be proud beautie maketh hir suspected and deformitie or foulenesse causeth hir to be hated Therefore Diponares hauing tased the martirdomes of mariage said that there were but twoo good dayes in all the life of mariage the one was the wedding day and the other the day that the woman dieth for that on the day of mariage there is made good cheare the Bride is fresh and new and all new things are pleasant and of all pleasures the first is moste delectable The other day that he sayth is good is the daye wherein the woman dieth for that the beast being deade deade is the poison and that by the death of the woman the husband is out of bondage In confirmation wherof there is recited a pretie historie of a noble Romane who the day after his mariage after that he had lien the first night with his wife was verye pensiue and sorowfull and being demaunded of certaine of his familiar friends what was the occasion of his sorrow séeing that his wife was so faire riche and come of a noble progenie shewing them his foote he stretcheth out his leg saying my friendes my shooe is newe faire and well made but you know not where about it doeth hurt and grieue me Also is alleaged the saying of Philemon that saide that the woman was to the man a necessarie euill séeing that there is nothing more harder to finde in this woride than a good woman following the auncient Prouerb that sayth that a good woman a good Mule and a good Goate and thrée daungerous beastes Also is recited the saying of Plutarchus the which demaūdeth if there be any thing more lighter than a womans tongue vnbridled more pricking than hir wordes more to be feared than hir boldnes more execrable than hir malice more daungerous thā hir furie or more dissembling than hir teares not putting in account manye other things that he reciteth of the discōmodities of their worke for that many times men are constrained to nourishe other mens children or if by chaunce they are the husbands he is in hazarde to be the father of wicked children The which manie times are the desolution and

so great flame from two hils or mountaines that all the townes and mountaines about them were burned and many inhabitants burned and consumed by the violence of the flames that came forth by great violence I can in like case make mention of thunders and lightnings and how many noble personages haue bene consumed and killed by this kinde of sodaine death as Zorastus King of the Bactrians Captaine in the warre of Thebes Aiax after the destruction of Troie Anastatius the Emperor when he had raigned .xxvij. yeres Carius also and manye other Kings and Emperors that haue taken their end by this kind of death The ayre is so requisite for the preseruation of our humanitie that there is no liuing beast that can haue life without the vse thereof And yet notwithstāding it is so pernicious to humaine kinde when it putrifieth and corrupteth that the most part of pestilences before mencioned take their originall and beginning as from their verie Author The earth that is the most gentillest and tractablest of all the elements which is our common mother of all receiuing vs whē that we are borne that nourisheth vs and sustaineth vs and in the end receyueth vs into hir bowels as into a bed and kéepeth vs vntil the day that it pleaseth God to call vs to appeare and come forth to his iudgement and notwithstanding it bringeth forth all the venims and poysons with the which our life is daily assaulted And sometimes by these earthquakes and internall agitations many townes haue bene weakened and many thousands of men swallowed vp in these openings and earthquakes In the time that Mithridates raigned the earth beganne to moue and to shake with suche a rigor and furie that there was not only manye townes rased but also there was aboue a hundreth thousande men swallowed and ouerwhelmed In the time or raigne of Constantine sonne to y e Emperor Constantine there were suche a number of townes ouerthrowne and swallowed vp with their inhabitants in Asia by earthquakes that the Historiographes had much to do to number thē In the time of Isocratus and Plato the concauits bottoms of the earth did open in Europe by suche vehemencie that two great Cities with their inhabitants were swallowed vp in a moment There is not reade to our memorie nor to the memorie of man a more dreadfull earthquake than that which happened in the raigne of Tiberius Cesar by the which in the space of one night twelue Cities were swallowed vp with their goods and inhabitants amōg the which Apolonia Ephesia Cesaria Philadelphia and manye others numbred And yet it is a thing more to be maruelled at and that turneth to more confusion the pride and loftinesse of men that the earth bringeth forth certaine littel beastes that oppresse and make war vpon him yea chase excile and banishe him from his habitation and dwelling the which maye be thought vntrue and fabellous if it were not for the great nūber of Historians and Writers y ● which shew iust true witnesse thereof Elian writeth y t there increased or multiplied such a nūber of Rates in certaine places of Italie that for the destructiō that they made to rootes of trées and herbes for the which there was no remedie cansed such a famine to be that the inhabitants were constrayned to forsake their countrie Marcus Varonus one of the worthiest writers that euer writ in Latine sayth that in Spaine there was a great Borough situated on a sandie ground that was so vndermined with Cunnies that in the ende the inhabitants did forsake it for feare to haue sunke into the holes or dennes of these littel beastes by whose meane it was at the last ouerthrowne The same Author writeth that there was a town in Fraunce that was left vninhabited bicause of y e multitude of frogs In Affrica the like chaūce happened by Grashoppers Theophrastus maketh mention of a certaine Prouince that they caused the people to dishabit Plinie reciteth that there is a Prouince on the limits of Ethiopia whereas the Antes and Scorpions with other vermin exiled the men that there did inhabit The Flies caused the Megarensians to depart out of their Countrie The Aspes chased the Ethiopiās Athenor writeth that honie Bées and other flies chased out of a towne all the inhabitantes thereof made their hiues in their houses What witnesse of our humaine infirmitie is here declared in al these thinges O what discipline or schoole is this for to teach man to know himselfe what a maruell of the powre of God is thys toward his creatures of whom the iudgementes are so terrible and fearfull that as soone as man thinketh to spread out his horns or to rise against his god he can so well at the first bridle and pull down his boldnesse and proude lookes so tame him that not onely he doth send Heraulds and forerūners of his wrath war famine pestilence but in abunding there is neither element nor other brutish creature but that séeketh his decaye euen to the little beasts which are as ministers and executors of his diuine iustice y e which is manifest not only by the witnessing of y e Heathen but also by holie Scripture when that the Frogs Grashoppers did forsake their places for to ascende and come vp to the chambers and euen to the bed of the obstinate Pharao We haue here before shewed a straunge philosophie of the miserie of man For if man were of yron or as hard as a Diamond it is maruel howe he can endure the one halfe of his life without being brused and broken séeing the paynes anguishes trauels and passions that it behoueth him at all times to sustain Notwithstanding what misfortune so euer happē him what charge or burthen y ● nature doth lay vpon him yet he can not nor wil not hūble himself vnder y ● mighty hand of God for to cary his yoke nor yet to know himselfe to be as he is Therefore by good right doeth the Lord God reproue him by his Prophet that he hath the forehead of brasse and the necke of yron the which things being yll vnderstanded of Plato and of Plinie séeing the great gulfe of miseries wherein man is plunged in euen from his birth to his graue hathe called nature cruell and a vsuresse the whiche causeth so many interests to be payd to man of his excellency and dignitie that they haue esteemed y e brute beastes more happier than man but both the one and the other vnder this name of nature haue chalenged or complayned on God of vniustice and crueltie But to proue the contrary all the euils and this sea of miserie wherewith man is charged cōmeth not of the hatred of God but of the malice and corruption of man who is the very Author of all his afflictions and calamities for thinking to be equal with his God he hath begonne to fal frō his noblenesse and to efface the ymage