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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10414	A mirrour of monsters wherein is plainely described the manifold vices, &c spotted enormities, that are caused by the infectious sight of playes, with the description of the subtile slights of Sathan, making them his instruments. Compiled by Wil. Rankins. Séene and allowed.	Rankins, William, fl. 1587.	1587 (1587)	STC 20699; ESTC S115638	36,729	52

hauing no other to exercise the infamie of his arte which addeth such torture to his tormented bodie and such anguish to his vexed soule that there appeared in his face such tyrannie as if he onelie were the man to confound with mischéefe the whole world And soothe to saye such is the ambition of dissention that it setteth Princes at debate kings at warre and commonwealths are wrackt and rent by the outrage of this hellish féend the wretchednesse of which vice I will note to the intent the wise may auoide the same This pernitions vice of dissention so barketh continually at peace and vertuous procéedings that where his currish qualities are there ciuill gouernement is cleane dashed pollicie preuented vertue extinguished happie estate inthralled finallie all floorishing things so confounded that it rather representeth a wildernesse inhabited of hideous and sauadge beasts then a commonwealth gouerned by wisemen or a people surprised with lawe and equitie So venemous are the téeth of this barking Dogge that wheresoeuer hee biteth hee leaueth behinde him extirpation continuall Iarres contempt of equalitie and an aspiring minde of superioritie naye such is it that in what common wealth so euer it be héeretofore florishing naught now is to be expected but ruine desolation mourning and wringing of hande with no lesse pittifull outerie then when it was sayde great Babilon is fallen For euen as the ship that is tossed with suddeine tempests in the raging sea when his masts are shiuered his sailes rent his tacklings torne so farre that the maister himselfe is past all hope of safetie and expecteth nought but present death So dissention raigning in the harts of men procureth such hurlie burley outragious swelling of puffed minds as present nothing but slaughter bloudshed and most vnspeakeable massacres No otherwise then the thunder of angrie Iupiter dooth dissention terrifie the most couragious minds and make the pillers of the whole earth to tremble The better to explaine the nature of so damnable a furie it shall not be amisse to consider the fruits of manie excellent examples Amongst which I find none more effectuall to diswade the rest from this mischéeuous contention then that was fostered betwixt the founders of Rome Romulus and Remus whose dissention was so great inflamed with furie that no sparke of reason or good order might extinguish the same before the curssed hand had shed the quiltlesse bloud of the other so farre dooth dissention incense men that they forget both loue and nature How did the dissentious minds of Catiline and his confederates dismay the whole state of Rome with their brutish conspiracies so that had not Cicero imploide his graue counsell and approoued wisedome in timelie season Rome had béene ruinated and those sauadge men like wool●es had rent the bowels of their natiue countrie That Gretian mirror Aiax by the dissention that was betwixt him and Vlisses so farre forgot reason that he most vnnaturallie murthered himselfe What incurable dissention was that caused betwixt Me●elaus and Paris that the flames thereof gaue so large a blaze as both Greece and Troye thereby were almost quite consumed Strabo setteth downe a notable example of a fellow that not onelie sowed dissention at his owne natiue home but abroad made it a practise to set Kings at dissention One Fun●stion subiect to Horatius hauing lewdlie spent his liuing and therefore not regarded of the King as he would went to Morettus heyre vnto the crowne and informed him that the king his vncle fearing his aspiring minde did intend to send for him and commit him to prison with a pretence of a supposed treason who vnkindlie taking the supposed ill of the king his vnckle gathered a mightie armie to contend with him and rewarded Funestion with the charge of two hundred men who liking not his reward disdeining the same came backe to the king and informed him of the disobedience and pretended treason of Morettus which caused the king to leauie an armie and to méete his kinsman who hauing spent much money munition and men and wearied with warres Fun●stion makes a mutinie in the kings campe and carieth awaie fiue thousand of his best men and came to an Iland called Taxos informing the king that the two kinsmē were confederat to come together against him and beat him out of his countrie who presentlie fortified himselfe rewarded Fun●stion bountifullie giuing him the charge of his men at armes But he forgetting the King fell in loue with the Quéene and bicause shée would not consent accused hir of adulterie to the King but such was the iudgement of God to confound this dissentious wretch that he was suddenlie kilde with a thunderboult Such is the vpright iudgement of God that he will not permit anie dissentious person to liue vpon the earth vnpunished Most terrible and to be lamented is that Britaine example of the two brothers Po●rex and Ferrex whose dissentious minds caused Porrex to kill his brother being a king and vrged the Quéene Videna for reuenge to kill hir naturall sonne Porrex who afterwarde was by hir subiects iustlie murthered for the death of that most vertuous Prince Almightie God in the sacred scriptures hath set downe how much he loatheth this heinous offence committed against his deuine maiestie by the punishment which he allotted to proud Hammon that he was hanged on the selfe same gallowes his dissentious minde caused to be erected for Mardocheus so falleth it out that the dissentious fall into the pits they digged for others and their owne mischéefe reboundeth vpon their owne hatefull heads These be the thornie fruits of Dissention procéeding from the choaked thoughts of ambitious minds worthilie therefore was this deuouring dogge plagued in hell with the furious flames of neuer quenching fire as he was a wicked instrument to inflame mens hearts vpon earth Brymstone Pitch and Tarre continuallie burne the neuer wasting bodie of dissention with such furie as his least paine is vnpossible to be aptlie described This vile vice raigneth likewise amongst Plaiers with no lesse authoritie then Belzebub reigneth in hell for such is their dissentious mindes that like Dogges striuing at a bone they gnarre one at another one hateth another and séeke by all means possible to worke mischéefe by their dissentious minds But these matters can they finelie cloake with the visard of fréendlie fauour and coulour their pretences with loue they owe to them they set them at debate the selfe same visard that s●rued Dissention to maske vnder For when it maye be said by their mischéeuous mindes they set other together by the eares they can colour it by saying they were my fréends and therfore was I loth to sée them so much backbite one another Thus doo these dissentious persons paint their pretences with fine coloures to the intent the simple may not perceiue their damnable drifts but be ouercome with their subtile sleights and cleanlie

restrayneth the power of Nature which is alwayes vpright and indifferent that it blindeth her with a desire to cou●t what may be hadde and a negligent regard what should be doone It hath the eyes of Argos to gase euery way for promotion but blinde to remember whence sprong preferment It hath the handes of Briarius ready to receiue commoditie which way soeuer it is offered but like senceles partes benummed when restitution is expected Ingratitude with the Cormoraunt deuoureth all but féedeth n●ne loues to be pittied yet hateth compassion béeing made happy thinkes not on others miserie Exempt from mourning sayeth none shed teares At liberty forgetteth bondage and aduaunced to authoritie disdaineth the meane condition of inferioritie Whose tyranny is such as wyll affoords death for life hate for loue and iniury for a benefite fraude for faith and treason for trust If we aske why so many Princes doo dayly exclaime vpon Trayterous and disloyal Subiects they wyll answere for ingratitude If we demaund why the kinde Parent breaketh his hart with sighes and consumeth hys dayes in sorrow hys aunswere wyl be for a gracelesse and vnthankfull Chylde If wee séeke the cause why Magistrates lament theyr labour it is for the vnthankfull mindes of lewde Cittizens Lastly we may soone imagine what mooueth Masters to repent theyr fauour showne towards vnthankfull Seruaunts But as he which forgetteth the benefite of a good turne reapeth no other fruite in his barren fielde of ingratitude but hate and reproche so contrariwyse a minde detesting to be drowned in y ● blacke poole of Obliuion receiueth the good rewardes of loue and lasting honor Cicero setting downe the ready way to happines amongst such duties as are required in a perfect Man findeth none more necessary then to be thankfull For sayth he if with Hesiodus we be commaunded to restore such thinges as wee receiued for our owne vse with greater measure and more plenty what shall w●● then doo being prouoked by vndeserued curtesie Ought we not like fruitfull groundes yéelde more a thousand folde then we receiued for if we doubt not to expresse the loue of a willing hart towardes those of whom we hope for some benefit how much more ought we to be thankfull to those which alreadye haue bountifully pleasured vs and by whom we haue béene great lie profited Two wayes are we sayd to be liberall in giuing and requi●ing that which was gyuen The one consisteth in our owne power the other no good manne may neglect Pernitious therefore is thys monstrous ingratitude whatsoeuer he be in whose hart it is firmely established and thorowly grounded he is farre inferior in glory nature or condition to a sauage and brutish Beast For as the venimous broode of the Uiper doth destroy her damne that did nourishe her or the cruel Tyger that kylleth the olde Tygresse that brought her to life so doth the vngratefull person not onely enuenome his benefactor or reléeuer wyth poysoned ingratitude but likewise séeke to kill him that saued his life destroye him that nourished him and let him perrish for reliefe that whilom saued him from daunger And as the vngratefull minde of the Snake when the Husbandman saued hys life from the Snow and cherished him by hys fire appeared by stinging hym with hys venemous féeth So whatsoeuer he be y t eyther nourisheth an vngratefull man or cherisheth him euē so far as life or death can extend he wil requite him wyth ill for hys good and wyth despight for hys former fauour And to nothing better may an vngrateful man be compared though it be somewhat familiar then to a dogge that when his master offered him meate for rewarde bitte him by the fingers Howe lothsome may thys vice appeare in the Carthagenians who most vniustly against all good descrte banished theyr noble and victorious Captaine Hanniball whose déedes had he deserued death had béene sufficient to haue pleaded for life by whose continuall toyle in bloody conflicts valiant exploytes and excelient atchieuings euen from hys youth increased theyr confines aduaunced theyr honor endoubled theyr dominions and almost quite extinguished she furious flame of theyr daring enemies the Romaines And much doo I bewayle that noble Emperour Augustus Caesar who for all his gratious benefites plentifully powred vppon the Common wealth of Rome at last was recompenced by vile ingratitude wyth the reward of foure and twenty woundes whose damned daggers wyll wytnesse against their vngratefull mindes Rosilius that vile vngratefull wretch whome Cicero by the rhetoricall force of hys eloquence hadde fréed from the hate and death pretended by the Lawes of Rome most villanously wyth hys owne hands with butcherly blade did cut hys aged throate My hart lamenteth wyth remorse to thinke howe that Tyrant Nero spared not to bathe hys handes in the luke-warme bloode first of his owne naturall mother next of hys learned Maister Seneca who was alwaies ready by arte to haue suppressed his vice being then but gréene had not nature ordeined him to so damnable a life Who was so ready to execute Cato Maior béeing by law condemned to die for the supposed death of the young Emperor Octauius as that wretched pesaunt whose throate not long before he deliuered from the strangling haltar No lesse monstrous then the rest was the vngratefull mind of Cyclops bastarde son to Ninus king of Babilon who hauing disinherited his lawfull son and heire a Prince no lesse vertuous then puissaunt onely to crowne him King and y t whilst nature yet permitted himselfe to raigne was afterwards by him most trayterously murthered in hys bedde So soone had his aspiring mind vngratefully forgot hys duetie and allegiance to so gracious a Soueraigne But leaue we prophane Histories and looke a while into the sacred Booke of God where wée may consider the harror of this vice by the manifolde examples The Isralites after our mighty God had deliuered them from the bondage of Egypt and guided them by night with a Piller of fire and in the day shadowed them wyth a Clowde deuiding the Seas for theyr safe passage raigning Manna from Heauen to féede them and sending streames of water out of the harde Rockes yet such was their ingratitude as they not onely forgetting hys gracious benefits repined at hys prouidence but with theyr grudging mindes tempted his diuine maiestie for which such was his wrathe conceiued against theyr vnthankfulnes that but for his seruaunt Moyses sake he would worthily haue banished them the Lande of promise After that Dauid that kingly Prophet and annoynted of God had diuers times so néerely approched the presence of his deadly enemie Saul as without resistaunce hee might easilie haue bereaued him of life but spared him was notwithstanding continually pursued by Saul as a witnesse of his vngrateful mind who sought the death of him that spared his life So many are y e examples written