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A09899	The art of thriving. Or, The plaine path-way to preferment. Together with The mysterie and misery of lending and borrowing. As also a table of the expence of time and money. Published for the common good of all sorts, &c.; Tom of all trades	Powell, Thomas, 1572?-1635?; Powell, Thomas, 1572?-1635? Wheresoever you see mee, trust unto your selfe. aut	1636 (1636)	STC 20162; ESTC S114990	49,954	274

or no he acknowledged it and tooke upon him the Iustification thereof for said he ye have taken from me my living and profession of the Ministrie Schollership is all my portion and I have no other meanes now left for my maintenance but to turn Physitian and before I shal be absolute Master of that Mystery God he knowes how many mens lives it wil cost For few Physitians use to try experiments upon their own bodies With us it is a Profession can maintaine but a few And divers of those more indebted to opinion than learning and for the most part better qualified in discoursing their travailes than in discerning their Patients maladies For it is growne to be a very huswives trade where fortune prevailes more than skill Their best benefactor the Neapolitan Their grand Seignieur The Sorpego their Gonfollinere The Sciaticke their great Marshall that calles the Muster Rolle of them all together at every Spring and Fall are all as familiar to her as the Cuckow at Cank-wood in May. And the cure of them is the skill of every good old Ladies cast Gentlewoman when she gives over painting she falls to plastering and shall have as good practice as the best of them for those kinde of diseases Marry for Womens griefes amongst Physitians the Masculine is more worthy than the Feminine Secrecie is the chiefe skill and virility the best learning that is required in a Womans Physitian But I never read of many of those to be long lived or honestly wived hitherto in all my reading Hitherto I speake nothing in disrepute of the more reverend and learned sort of Physitians who are to be had in singular reverence and be usefull to mankinde next to the Divine Indeed I rather pitty them and pittying smile to see how prettily these young gamesters Male and Female lay about them and engrosse the greater part of Patientrie in all places wheresoever And here I may more fitly say God knowes how many mens lives this abused opinion had of such Gamesters costs Because they be not Masters of that Mystery and that science which requires the Greeke tongue exactly all the learning and skill of Philosophie History of all sorts especially naturall knowledge of all vegetatives and Minerals and whatsoever dwels within the foure elements Also skill in Astronomy Astrology And so much of the Iudicials upon all manner of Calculations as may be well warranted with much other kind of learning art skil whereof my young travailing Phisitian and trading wayting woman never heard Their means of Advancement are in these wayes viz. To be Physitian of some Colledge in one of the Vniversities as divers Colledges have such places Physitian to the King or Queens person Physitian to either of their housholds Or to some Hospitall as most have such Or to some great persons who may prefer them hereafter and be somewhat helpfull in the meane time To a good old Vsurer or one that hath got his great estate together unconscionably For they feare nothing but death and wil buy life at any rate There is no coward to an ill Conscience It is not amisse to make way of acquaintance with Gallants given to deepe drinking and surfetting For they are patients at all times of the yeere Or a Gentlewoman that would faine use the meanes to be pregnant Or your Lascivious Lady and your man in the Perriwig will helpe to furnish with a foot-cloth A Citizens wife of a weake stomacke will supply the fringe to it And if all faile And the Bathe will affoord no roome Let them finde out some strange water some unheard-of Spring It is an easie matter to discolour or alter the taste of it in some measure it makes no matter how little Report strange cures that it hath done Beget a Superstitious opinion in it Goodfellowship shall uphold it And the neighbouring Townes shall all sweare for it The Apprentice followes THe first question is to what Trade you will put your Sonne and which is most worthy of choice For the Merchant it requireth great stocke great experience in Forraine estates And great hazard and adventure at the best And this is not all For it depends upon the Peace of our State with forraigne Princes especially those with whom we hold mutuall traffique Or who lye in our way to intercept or impediment our Trade abroad Besides that in time of Warre they can hold no certainty of dealing or supplying their Factory in parts beyond the Seas Shipping is subject ever at the let goe to be stayed Marriners to be prest and many other inconveniences attend them in such times Besides the burthen of Custome and Imposition which all States impose more or lesse So that unlesse we have peace with such Neighbours there is little hope in that profession in the ordinary and lawfull way of trading Happily you will alledge that some Merchants thrive well enough when the warres most rage and when the streame of State is most troubled Some then hold it to be the best fishing they that gaine then Sir if they gaine justifiably gaine not as Merchants but as men of Warre which occupation a man may learn without serving seven years apprentiship unto it And if they gaine justifiably as Merchants it must be in some generall stocke of a Society incorporated who have purse to passe to and fro with sufficient power in the most dangerous times And if such Societies are tollerable at any time it is at such times How they be otherwise allowable I leave to consideration For the Shopkeeper his welfare for the most part depends upon the prosperity of the Merchant For if the Merchant sit still the most of them may shut up their Shop windowes Little Skill Art or Mystery shall a man learne in Shop-keeping A man shall never in forraigne parts being put to his shifts out of his owne Meridian live by the skill of weighing and measuring The most use of advantage he can make of it is to benefit between the Mart and the Market than which nothing is more uncertaine seeing there is no true judiciall of the falling and rising of commodities And the casualties that they are subject unto especially in time of Warre Take this for a generall rule that those Trades which aske most with an Apprentice are incertainest of thriving and require greatest stocks of setting up Amongst Trades give me those that have in them some Art Craft or Science by which a man may live and be a welcome guest to all Countries abroad and have imployment in the most stormy times at home when Merchants and Shop-keepers are out of use as An Apothecarie A Druggist A Chirurgion A Lapidarie A Ieweller A Printer An Ingraver in stones metal One that hath skill in seasoning of shipwood A Carpenter of all sorts especially of shipping A Smith of all sorts especially of Clockes Watches Guns c. A Planter and Gardner of all sorts An Enginere for making of Patars and the like Engines of Warre

The art of Thriving OR The plaine path-way to PREFERMENT Together with The Mysterie and Misery of Lending and Borrowing As also a Table of the expence of Time and Money Consider it seriously Examine it judiciously Remember it punctually And thrive accordingly Published for the common good of all sorts c. by T. Powel LONDON Printed by T. H. for Benjamin Fisher and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Talbot in Aldersgate street 1635. To the Reader THere is a method in all arts and a mystery but in none more then in the art of thriving being the very Center to which all the other arts doe tend and for which they were invented Magister artis venter and what is that but Thriving Now in the study of this great art you must make the world your Liberary and learne to reade men as well as bookes and yet not to discourage you in the whole volume of this science you are to turne over but three leaves onely somewhat close writ very hard to reade and when you are once out can hardly begin againe Times Trades and Debts this is that screw of a three fold twinding for if you screw not your fortunes the right way as it is in all screwes you may turne and work your heart out remember but that first And let me tell you Time is the hinge of all thriving Trades are the doores on which good hopes may turn and stand long enough if Debts those undermining leavers of husbandry fling not all off the hooks Thus then thinke with your selfe to Time a businesse well and to begin businesse in time is the very key to the door of preferment and thinke the losse of a minute more dear than the losse of a pound for certainly of all expences the expence of Time ●s the costliest which mindefull reader that thou mayst know now learn to prize and reckon ●hy time right for as Seneca said ●o Lucilius quem mihi dabis qui aliquod pretium tempori ponat qui diem estimet qui intelligat se quotidie mori and therfore that made him say in the beginning of the same Epistle to Lucilius vindica te tibi as if a man were to be revenged upon himselfe for hasting his owne death by ●osse of Time Now therefore ●hat thou maist know how to take and redeeme thy Time I have here set before thee a table of each minute of thy life this is the first leafe and now I passe to the next having not time to speake of Time 2 All men are or would be rich even the sluggard wisheth though he hath not 'T is easie indeed to covet the top of wit or preferment but to get up the hill hic labor hoc opus there is a businesse indeed the wayes to thrive are manifold yet one good is worth all and in effect is all onely all the Art is finding and catching it Could Archimedes but have found footing for his Mathematicall instrument he would have done wonders Give me but footing where my selfe may stand From their fixt Base I 'le hoyst both sea and land Boldly spoke and bravely meant and questionlesse if you could have done the one for him he would have perform'd the other for you Thinke not thriftie would be that I by his example enjoyn the impossibilities or to build castles in the ayre but meerely to shew thee how out of nothing to produce something and thus I apply it Could a young man once take hold or setling in preferment where he may but fixe the instrument of his hopes then may he easily drive the world before him and so mount up to wealth Now who is able to levell to a beginner the shortest cut or score him the very way to thrive if he either stand in his owne light through wilfulnesse or cut the throat as it were of all his hopes through despaire of better the foole thus concluding with himselfe He that 's borne under a three-penny Planet shall never be worth a groat To him and to him I dedicate not What should I talke to such of Promotion But to a forward spirit and a manly heart prepared for industry and resolved to stand to his curse in Paradice I commend this my Grammar of Trades Nor thinke hopefull Reader I have prefixt a specious title to make the sale more oylie I would I were dead if I care whether you buy or burne it onely I would have thee reade and be wise labour and be rich The old Paradox is witry and true Quisque suae fortunae faber Every man sits at the very Anvile and forge of his own Fortune-making now then if you can see to strike the Iron while it is hot that is while time and the hand of Providence hold forth the opportunity you may make your trade but if you linger till it be cold it will cost you another Heate Experto mihi credite Now therefore that no man may over-slip his Fortunes or be pusled for want of light to see when it is offered or to conduct him forward when it is found Loe here a Torch held out before him pointing the plaine high way to preferment in all Professions Trades and Arts found out by an old traveller in the Sea of Experience Longis erroribus actus qui mores Hominum c. who now stands after all his folly and ruines a Land-marke to the generall good of others To the Father and his sonnes to the Mother and every Mothers childe to the Scholler the Apprentice the Navigator the Husbandman the Courtier and the Souldier whether in hopes or in despaire standing rising or falling I bequeath this my Legacy my Looking-glasse to promotion my Grammar of Trades 3 And since in the voyage to Promotion Lending is the Rocke and Borrowing is the Gulfe I have discovered them both in the end lest your tender endeavours should tare against the one or be swallowed up in the other Farewell and where you see me if you meane to Thrive looke to your selfe Thine living and dead T. Powel The art of Thriving The Contents 1 AN Introduction to the following discourse with the occasion 1 Direction for a Scholler in his Education Maintenance and advancement in his minority 2 In the Vniversity 3 In the Ministry 4 In Benefices abroad 2 Promotions following by Law 1 Civill 2 Common 3 For the Physitian and his meanes of Advancement 4 The Apprentice with the due Election of Trades and following of Merchandize 5 The Navigator his way of Advancement imployment 6 The Husbandman 7 The Courtier 8 The Souldier 1 By Sea 2 By Land Directions for matching of daughters The Mystery c. Contents 1 The scope of the following Treatise first of the Borrower secondly of the Lender 2 1 The Courtiers Method 2 The Innes of Court man 3 The Country Gentleman 3 Their severall causes of Insolency 4 The sundry wayes and weapons wherewith they fence with their Creditors 1 The Innes of Court mans 2