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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08134	Newnams nightcrowe A bird that breedeth braules in many families and housholdes. Wherein is remembred that kindely and prouident regard which fathers ought to haue towards their sonnes. Together with a diciphring of the iniurious dealinges of some younger sorte of stepdames.	Newnham, John.	1590 (1590)	STC 18498; ESTC S121837	38,495	66

vnto them that lacke waight herein shall that bée sayde Discedite a me operarij iniquitatis Goe from mée ye workers of iniquitie Luke the thirtéenth It is no suspected or vnsound counsell set downe in Decretals by these wordes Ante omnia opus est vt patres non solum nihil peccando verumetiam honestè singula peragendo manifestum res è filijs exhibeant exemplar vt in corum vitam se vt in speculum intueantur Before all thinges it is néedefull that fathers should shew themselues vnto theyr children as a manifest patterne or erample not onely be not sinning but also by doing al things honestlie that they may looke into their liues and peruse themselues as in a glasse Aristotle being asket in what sort we ought to shew our selues to our frendes marie saith he in that sorte as wee woulde wishe that they shoulde shew themselues to vs. If this point pertaineth to frendship much rather to parentage who finde it a harder matter to enfourme their children well then it is to beget them For according as they are trayned vp by their parentes wordes and examples such wil they proue to be after the prouerbial verse Arbor naturam dat fructibus atque figuram Fruites are woont to take their shape and nature of the tree All things are deriued from the worthier parts whether they be good or euill and the vertue of an honest man or good Father is like to the sauour of muske which impartteth his goodnes to others that buy not of it Of this minde appeared to bée that vertuous Prince Lewes of France called the good King who least his eldest Sonne Charles the Dolphin shoulde bée vnmindefull of those thinge which he taught him by good example in his life time at the time of his death lefte these preceptes in writing to bee deliuered vnto him of likelyhood as a Codicill or parte of his will which Christian like counsailes are worthy to bee knowen and remembred especially by them that succéede in nobility authority or generosity The aduertisementes were these 1 First yéelde an account of thy sinnes diligently vsing the helpe and sound counsaile of foure wise and well learned men that will not bee afraide to rebuke and controll thee 2 Serue God deuoutly in the Church 3 Be conuersant with vertuous men and such as liue in good order 4 Ruffians and such as haue no feare of God let them be farre off from thée 5 Be ready and willing to heare good counsaile bée it secretly or openly 6 Let not blasphemers of God and despisers of holy thinges escape from thée vnrebuked or vnpunished 7 Towardes all Christians be thou a seuere and an vpright Iudge not fauouring one parte more then the other 8 If thou must needes make warre be a protector of Christes Church and all innocents 9 Be not the meanes of swearing and forswering but rather forbid it Lastly my Sonne I exhort and pray shée I leauing this worlde before thée that thou wilt haue a godly charitable and dutifull regard towards mee The precepts be such as it may bee wished there were more practisers of the like The wise and vertuous Prince seemed a carefull and diligent follower of ghostly counsaile and namely of this out of Ecclesiasticus Who so informeth and teacheth hys Sonne greeueth the enemy and before his friends he may haue ioy of him though the Father die yet is he as though he were not dead for he hath lefte one behinde him that is like him The bishop of Augusta in his booke De via Regia hath this aduertisment vnto parents When thy Sonne saieth hee shall aske thee which be the auncient wayes thou shalt tell him of the auncient faith and of the holy and approued life and good workes of the Patriarkes Prophets Apostles and others the seruaunts and freindes of God who by the true and sincere faith raised the dead cleansed the leaporous and restored sight to the blinde The like Christian and religious lessons ought to be taught as readily as any worldly instructions That which a man soweth that he shall reape Let the Father giue good examples and hee shall reape the fruite thereof on the life maners and prosperity of his children Let him bee milde and louing and he shall taste of the loue of God Let himselfe not be stubborne against the wil of God and lawes and he shal finde it recompenced in the duetie and obedience of his children Let him forgiue the offences of reasonable sonnes and he shall ouercome their frowardnesse and ill disposition if the Philosophers words be true which saieth Filium beneuolentia patris meliorem facit that is The beneuolent fauouralbe dealing of the Father maketh the sonne better CHAP. II. That Fathers ought not to giue ill examples AMongs the Lacedemonians if two brethren fell at strife betwéene themselues the Magistrate awarded that the Father shoulde be punished for that either he was the cause of it or did not preuent it before or remedy it after For they thought the young men were to be pardoned And if they offended by the intemperance of youth their father was to bée blamed whose authority ought to forsée and prouide that no strife or debate rise betwéen his sons And therefore a Father ought to bée very carefull in nourishing and maintaining naturall loue and concord in his family and in any wise not to suffer any sparke of hatred to enter into their heartes least it kindle a fire in their brest much lesse ought he to cast in coales of discorde among thē him selfe by any vnkinde or iniurious examples of dealing For the state of a family if it bée in due order is like to a frame of ioyning worke or building wherein if some one peece bée out of his place it tendeth to a disordering of all the rest and one disorder following an other all becommeth out of ioynt and falleth vnto a confusion verie dispraisable Therefore it séemes this saying of the holy Ghost is not of light regarded Vae dantibus malum exemplum woe vnto them that giue ill examples the grieuousnesse whereof the holy Doctor Saint Augustine rather augmenteth then diminisheth when he saieth that a man may slay others by his examples Euen as the Father beginneth so it is like the sonne will procéede for as the Philosopher saieth Amat vnusquisque sequi vitam parentum Euerie man loueth to doe as his father did before him And as Seueca saieth Ther is no wicked act but the example of it hath been followed If the Father neglect the expresse will of God who would and ought to strike a stroke as well in the ordering of his family as in the directing of his life or if hee swarue from the vsage of the wisest or best forte of parentes preferring his owne fancy or wilfull conceite before all other reason the Sonne by his example will doe the like If the Father by an example of iniurie or disorder giueth an entry to venim of minde and

tricenarius federa nuptiarum ipsa digitorum coniunctione testetur Digamia in quo erit numero imo extra numerum certè in bona terra non oritur sed in vepribus spinetis vulpium quae Herodiae impijssmae comparantur vt in eo se putet esse laudabilem si scortis melior sit si publicanorum victimas superet si vni sit prostituta non pluribus that is Whereas the Gospell teacheth or mentioneth of a hundred folde fruit sixtie folde and thirtie folde to come of the séede sowne in good ground and that the hundred folde helde the first and chiefe degrée for the crowne of virginitie the sixtie folde the second degrée for the labour and good worke of widowes the thirtie folde signifieth a rewarde for the true obseruing of matrimony made by ioyning hands The state of Digamie or such as marry twise in what degrée or number be they In déede they are in none séeing it groweth not in good grounde but in bushes and thornes which are compared to the wicked Herodias that might thinke her selfe laudable in this point if she be somwhat better thē they that be naught if she serue one mans turne not many Diuers sundry other proofs reasons likelihoodes might be brought that woulde shake and quasle the very foundation of a Stepdames ouer great reckoning and presumption but this shall suffice for this turne That which may be gathered of the aboue mentioned places of testimony if it be well considered and weighed in the ballance of a mans christen conscience I doubt not but that any father standing in this case of such as haue flexible hearts and be not ouermuch hardened will at the length haue both an outward and inward respect vnto the qualitie dignitie and preeminence of the first marriage and likewise the issue thereof yea and whatsoeuer he thinketh a while there is such a remorce to be had herein specialy if he haue iniured the first as wil make his pulses work and his heart to drop teares if that be enough Which remorce and remembrance of himself may be drawne and deriued euen from example and experience in our first fathers the patriarchs and faithfull seruants of God The Bishop of Wurmace Doctor Bourchard in his common places of the decrées and counselles Ecclesiastike alleadgeth this as the wordes of Saint Hierome Ebron dicitur esse ciuitas trium virorum c. Ebron is saide to be the Cittie of the thrée men because in the same were buried the thrée Patriarchs there in a double caue with theyr thrée wiues to wit Abraham and Sara Isaac and Rebecca Iacob and Lea. They had other wiues of whome appeares not the like regard but these were the first to whose ofspring the blessing was due and by whose fruitefulnes the heretage of the faithful and the faith it selfe was maintened and vpholden by propagation and spreading vnto the posteritie from whom we clayme Answerable to this Tobias said to his son Cum acceperit deus animam meam c. When GOD shall receiue my soule thou shalt bury my body and honour thy mother al the dayes of thy life and when she hath likewise accomplished her time thou shalt bury her harde by me in one sepulchre Saint Augustine hereuppon hath these wordes In primo connubio coniuncti quia vna eadem caro est in vno sepulohro sepeliantur They that in the first marriage be ioined togither forasmuch as they be one and the same flesh it is méet they be buried in one graue or sepulchre If the examples of the patriarks the counsel of the holy doctors do persuade and induce to bring the deceased fathers to their first spouses or the first espoused to them in burialles what should we gather hereof but perfection validitie and diuine allowing of the one weakenesse clement tolleration and scantie commending of the other With what conscience then may the woman of the second marriage iniure the first by a supplanting drift and indonour of hir part first rooting out all kindely good will that should come towards the son from his father and at length stripping him of the blessing birthright and heretage due by the right of laws nature and so great antiquitie Woulde she shrowde hir wicked working and wrong doing vnder the example of Rebecca defrauding Esau of the blessing due vnto the eldest sonne No she can not for that the cases bée not like Rebecca was the first wife and Esaus own mother and also it came of the will and prouidence of God since reuealed who knewe before what was néedefull to be done for the helpe of his Church the planting of his faith and the encrease of his glorie But as for the vsuall sorte of Stepdames I wote with what Spirite they be endowed and directed who can not so well chalenge to them the worthines mysticall vnion and right of the first marriage though they be called wiues Thē is she a wrong doer by the vniuersal law of cities matrons which saith locupletari nō debet aliquis cū alterius iniuria vel iactura no man nor womā ought inrich thēselues with the wrōg or losse of others But the diuine lawe whose sentence is most to be dreaded gyueth a harde construction and a more scuere iudgement against any Stepdame and hir complices in the lyke wrongfull action as appeareth in Ecclesi● ● 34 Who so depriueth his neighbour of his liuing dooth as great sinne as though hée slewe hym to death I trowe she will not deny hir husbands sonne to be hir neighbour very neare in this meaning Wherefore not to be ouer tedious in this point as ye haue heard before the sentence of the heauenlie King against the iniurious woman deliuered by the trump of the holy Ghost euen so let the iudgement of the earthlie Emperour Marcus Aurelius against the misaduised father be digested as a pleasant reprehension and profitable admonition which is thus He is a foole that taketh counsel of a woman he more foole that asketh it but he most foole that fulfilleth it CHAP. IX That disheriting of the eldest sonne is an acte verie wrongfull and vngodly ONe of the Romane Emperours though namelesse because he was vicious yet did he ordaine sundry lawes that imported great iustice and humanitie namely amongest the rest this one That no Romane whatsoeuer should cast out of his doores any seruant slaue horse or other beast were it but a dogge for olde age sickenesse or any infirmitie grounding and confirming his law with this reason that men serue from their youth to be succoured when they come to olde age Humanitie and Iustice are so vniuersally commendable and so particularly néedfull in the life of man that we may draw infinite examples of the obseruing due regard therof euen from Paynims infidels which is the losse to be maruelled at by this saying of Strabo Moriales maxime Deos imitantur quoniam benefici sunt All people doe followe the propertie and goodnesse