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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04569	The pilgrimage of man, vvandering in a vvildernesse of vvoe wherein is shewed the calamities belonging to man being borne in this world, and how all the principall estates thereof are crossed with misery.	Johnson, Richard.	1635 (1635)	STC 14691.7; ESTC S2158	18,352	32

taxe and draw money from the poore people and generally all their study is imployed to bée wastfull and prodigall in the exactions and miseries of the poore commons The third and last sort are such that vnder the cloake of kindnes and honesty counterfayting good men haue alwayes their eyes vpon other mens liuings and make themselues reformers of vices They inuent wicked and false deuices not only how to get other mens goods but oftentimes their liues who before God are most innocent Behold here you may well sée the manifold miseries that compasse Scepters and states of Princes Here are the Thornes that they receiue in recompence of their brightnesse and royall Dignity which ought like a Lampe to giue light to all the world but when it is eclipsed or darkned with any vice it is more reprochfull in them than in any other priuate person whatsoeuer for they sin not only in the fault which they commit but also by the example that they giue The abundance of honours and pleasures that Princes enioy serueth as a baite to induce them to euill and are the very Matches to giue fire to Uice What was Saul before hée was made King whose life is shewed in the holy Scripture whom God did elect yet he made a sudden eclipse or changeing How wonderfull was the beginning of the Reigne of King Salomon the which being ouercome with Royall pleasures gaue himselfe as a prey to women Of two and twenty Kings of Iuda there is found but fiue or sixe that haue continued in their vertue If we consider the estate of the Assyrians Persians Grecians and Egyptians wee shall finde more of them wicked than good If wee consider what the Kings and Romane Emperours were which hath béene the most flourishing Common-wealth in the world we shall find them so ouercome with vices and all kind of cruelties that I do almost abhorrs to speake of their corrupt defiled liues What was the estate of their Common-wealth before that Scilla Marius did murmure against it before that Catiline and Catulla did perturbe it before that Caesar and Pompey did slander it before that Augustus and Marcus Antonius did destroy it before that Tiberius and Caligula did defame it before that Domitian and Nero did depraue it For although they made it rich with many Kingdomes and Lordships yet were the vices they brought with them more greater than the Kingdomes they gayned For their goods and riches are consumed yet their vices remaine vnto this day What memory remaineth of Romulus that founded the City of Rome Of Numa Pompilius that erected the Capitoll Of Ancus Martius that compassed it with walles Did not they shew what felicity remaineth in high estates who are more subiect to the assaults of Fortune than any other earthly creature For many times the thred of life breaketh when they thinke least of death and then the infamy of those that bée wicked remaineth written in Histories for a perpetuall memorie thereof The which thing all Estates ought more to regard a thousand times than the tongue that speaketh euill which can but shame the liuing but Bookes record a perpetuall infamy for euer Which thing being duely considered of by many Emperours and Kings in times past they forsooke their Scepters and royal Empires and betooke them to an obscure life resting better contented with a little in quiet than to enioy with full sayle the crooked honours of the world CHAP. V. Of the misery of vicious Courtiers and of their wicked liues WHat greater felicity can there bée in this world than to bée in a Princes fauour to bee at his elbow at all times to vse courtly manners and other offices of humanity of which number there be some so subtile crafty that they doe play as the Fisherman who as soone as he hath gotten any thing in his Net giueth ouer the Court and goeth his way Othersome there are that play all out and other that remaine vntill they become wonderous rich and in the end they are made to restore all backe againe There are also others that doe nothing but inuent meanes to enlarge their treasures and become wealthy with spoyling poore people Princes doe by them many times as we doe by our Hogs we let them fatten to the end we may eate them afterward so likewise are they suffered many times to enrich themselues to be disposed of afterward when they are fat and one that is new come oftentimes is preferred in their places By this you may see that Courtiers oftentimes do sell their libertie to become rich For they must obey all commandements they must frame themselues to laugh when the prince laugheth to wéepe when he weepeth approue that which he approueth and condemne that which he condemneth They must alter and change their natures to be seuere with those that are seuere sorrowfull with those that are sorrowfull and in a manner transforme themselues according to the nature of him whom they will please or els he shal get nothing To be briefe they must frame themselues to his manners and nature and yet many times one little offence staineth all the seruice they haue done in their life time before Many in Princes Courts put off their Cappes to them whom they would gladly see cut shorter by the head and often bow their knees to doe them reuerence whom they wish had broken their neckes Here you may sée the life of a great number of vicious Courtiers which is no life but rather a lingring death here you may sée wherein their youth is imployed which is no youth but a transitory death for when they come to age they bring nothing from thence but gray heads their feete full of Gouts their backes full of paine their hearts full of sorrow and their soules filled with sin CHAP. VJ. Of the misery of Magistrates that administer not true Iustice with a discourse against wicked Iudges NOw our discourse of Courtiers being past it is requisite that we speake of things done in the ciuill life and to how many miseries it is subiect For although it be at this day a degrée most Noble and necessary for the peace of mans life yet shall we find that it deserues to haue his part in this Pilgrimage as well as others and if there be any delectation pleasure or honour depending thereon yet it is transitory and vnconstant First knowing that all the actions of Magistrates passe before the eyes of the common people whose iudgements in matters of state be but simple yet haue they a certaine smell or sauour to know the good from euill wherefore those that be Iudges and Magistrates be subiect as in a Play to be hissed at and chased away with shame and confusion For the hare-brained people which is compared to a monster with many heads are mutable vncertaine fraudulent apt to wrath and mutiny ready to prayse or dispraise without wisedome or discretion variable in their talke vnlearned and obstinate Therefore it behooueth

that the life of a Iudge or Magistrate be sincere and vertuous for as he iudgeth openly so shall he be iudged of the people seuerally not only in matters of waight and importance but in those of small consequence For alwayes the rude people will find somewhat to reforme as the Lacedemonians murmured at their Law-maker Licurgus for that he went alwayes holding downe his head The Venetians defamed wise Cato in his eating and accounted Pompeius vnciuill for that he would scratch with one finger onely Yet these are but few in comparison of other good men that the common sort haue persecuted banished and in the end put to death If that great Oratour Demosthenes were aliue he could say some what who after hée had a long time béene a iust and faithfull Gouernour of the Common-wealth of Athens was in the end without cause vniustly banished Moses and many other holy men haue so many times tasted the fury of the common people that if they were this day liuing they would powre out most grieuous complaints against them Now we haue shewed and set foorth the miseries that procéed from common people so must we in like sort put into the ballance the errours and corruptions that are found in wicked Iudges Of the which sort some are corrupted with Feare for such feare they haue that rather than they will displease a Prince or a great Lord they wil violate iustice like Pilate that condemned Christ for feare that he had to displease the Emperour Tiberius Other Magistrates are corrupted by Loue as was Herod who for to please the foolish loue of a Damsell that danced condemned to death Saint Iohn Baptist although he knew he was iust and innocent Some are many times corrupted by hatred as was the chiefe Priest that condemned Saint Paul to be stoned to death though he deserued it not Some Magistrates are corrupted by Siluer and Gold and other Gifts and Presents as were the children of the Prophet Samuel and this disease is so contagious that I feare at this day many are infected with it They all loue Rewards saith the Prophet they all séeke for Gifts they doe not right to the Orphane and the Widdowes complaint commeth not before them And in an other place Woe be to you that are corrupted by Money by hatred or loue and which iudge the good to be euill and the euill good making the light darkenesse and the darkenesse light Woe be to you that haue not respect to the deserts of things but to the deserts of men that regard not equitie but gifts that are giuen that regard not Iustice but Money You are diligent in rich mens causes but you deferre the cause of the poore You are to them most cruell and rigorous Iudges but vnto the rich kind and tractable The Prophet Ieremy cryeth out against wicked Iudges and saith They are magnified and become rich they haue left the Orphanes and haue not done iustice for the poore Shall not I therefore punish these things saith the Lord and my soule take vengeance on such manner of people Heare also the sentence that Saint Iames pronounceth against them at the day of Iudgment You haue condemned and killed the iust you haue liued in wantonnesse in this world and taken your ease now therefore saith the Lord of Hoasts wéepe and howle in your wretchednesse that shall come vpon you your garments are moatheaten your gold and siluer is cankred and the rust thereof shall be a witnesse against you and it shall eate your flesh as it were fire for the complaints of the poore are ascended vp to my Throne These are the complaints that the Prophets and Apostles made against wicked Iudges and Magistrates and likewise the censures that our good God hath thundred against them And now I will speake of the misery of Marriage with a discourse of the same CHAP. VIJ. Of the praise of Marriage and likewise the miseries that ensue thereon THere is no ioy nor pleasure in the world which may bee compared to Marriage for there is such fellowship between the parties coupled that they seeme two minds to be transformed into one likewise both good fortune and bad is common to both their cares equall and their ioyes equall and to be briefe all things are in common betwéene them two If wee account it pleasure to commit our secrets to our friends and neighbours how much greater is the ioy when we may discouer our thoughts to her that is ioyned to vs by such a knot of affinity that we put as much trust in her as in our selues making her wholly treasurer or faithfull kéeper of the secrets of our minds What greater witnesse of feruent loue and vndissoluble amity can there be than to forsake father mother sister and brother and generally all their kindred till they become enemy to themselues for to follow a husband that doth honor and reuerence her and hauing all other things in disdaine she onely cleaueth to him If he be rich she keepeth his goods if he be poore she is companion with him in pouerty if he be in prosperity his felicity is redoubled in her if hee be in aduersity he beareth but the one halfe of the griefe and furthermore she comforteth him assisteth and serueth him If a man will remaine solitary in his house his wife keepeth him company if he will goe into the fields she conducteth him with her eye as farre as she can see him she desireth and honoureth him being absent she complaineth and sigheth and wisheth his company being come home he is welcommed and receiued with the best shew and tokens of loue and for to speake truth it séemeth that a wife is a gift from heauen granted to a man as well for the contentation of youth as the rest and solace of age Nature can giue vs but one Father and one Mother but Marriage presenteth many in our children the which doe reuerence and honour vs and are more deare vnto vs than our owne selues for being yong they play prattle laugh and shew vs many pretty toyes they prepare vs an infinit number of pleasures and it séemeth that they are giuen vs by nature to passe away part of our miserable life If we be afflicted with age they shew the duty of children close vp one eyes and bring vs to the earth from whence we came They are our bones our flesh and blood for in séeing them we sée our selues The Father beholding his Children may be well assured that he séeth their liuely youth renued in their faces in whom we are almost regenerate and borne again in such sort that age is most grieuous vnto vs beholding the mirrours and similitudes of our selues the which doth make our memories almost immortall Many are the ioyes and swéet pleasures in marriage which for breuities sake I passe ouer but if we do well consider it and waigh it in a iust ballance we shal find that amongst these Roses are many Thornes growing and amongst these