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A10138	The schoole of honest and vertuous lyfe profitable and necessary for all estates and degrees, to be trayned in: but (cheefely) for the pettie schollers, the yonger sorte, of both kindes; bee they men or women. by T.P. Also, a laudable and learned discourse, of the worthynesse of honorable wedlocke, written in the behalfe of all (aswell) maydes as wydowes, (generally) for their singuler instruction, to choose them vertuous and honest husbandes: but (most specialy) sent writte[n] as a iewell vnto a worthy gentlewoman, in the time of her widowhood, to direct & guide her in the new election of her seconde husband. By her approoued freend and kinseman. I.R.	Pritchard, Thomas, fl. 1579.; Wied, Hermann von. Brefe and a playne declaratyon of the dewty of maried folkes.; Kingsmill, Andrew, 1538-1569. Viewe of mans estate. Selections.	1579 (1579)	STC 20397; ESTC S115267	56,077	90

of him Christe only is her romfort ioy and all togeathers vpon Christe is hir thought daye and night shée longeth onely after Christ for Christes sake if it may serue to his glory shée is hartely well contented to die yee shee giueth ouer her selfe wholly therto for Christes loue knowing assuredly that hir soule hir honour body lyfe and all that she hath is Christes owne Thus also must euery honest Wife submit hir self to please hir Husband with all hir power and giue hir selfe fréely and willingly to loue him and obey him and neuer to forsake him till the houre of death And farther sayth S. Peter Let the Wiues be in subiecton to their Husbandes that euen they which beleeue not the worde may without the worde be wonne by the conuersation of the Wiues while they beholde your pure conuersation coupled with feare whose apparrell shall not bee outward with brodred haire and hanging on of Golde either in putting on of gorgious apparrell but let the hid man of the harte bee vncorrupt with a meeke and quiet spirit which spirit is before God much set by for after this manner in the olde time did the holy Women which trusted in God tire themselues and were obedient to their Husbandes euen as sara obeyed Abraham and called him hir Lorde whose Daughters ye are as long as ye do well And Paule speaking vnto Tytus sayth hée Let the elder Women be in such apparrell as becommeth holinesle not beeing false accusers not giuen to much Wine but that they teache honest thinges to make the young Women sober minded to loue their Husbandes to loue their Children to be discrete chaste huswifely good obedient vnto their Husbandes that the worde of God be not euill spoken of VVhat a Wife ought to bee HEre may you learne that a Wife ought to be discret chaste huswifely shamefast good méeke pacient and sober not light in countenance nor garishe in apparrell with dyed or curled haire painted nor pasted but with a cumly grauitie and a sad behauiour of a constant minde true tongued and of few wordes with such obedience in all godlynesse to her Husbande and head as it beseemes a Christian to haue vnto Christ and to the intente that the Husband in like case may learne his duetie let him harken what Sainct Pawle sayth and take heede that hee turne not his authoritie to tyranny The dutie of the Husband to his Wyfe HVsbandes loue your Wiues sayth hée as Christ loued the Congregation and gaue him selfe to sanctifie it Now must you vnderstande that the Husbande is the Wiues head as Christe is the head of the congregation and Christ showeth to the congregation the same thinge that the head showeth to the bodye for like as the head seeth and heaveth for the whole body studieth and deuiseth for to preserue it in strength and life euen so doth Christe defend teach and preserue his congregation For hee is the eye hart wisedome and guide therof so ought Husbands then to loue their wines be their heads in like manner to show them like kindenesse and after the same fashion to guide them and rule them with discretion for their preseruacion not with force or wilfulnesse to intreat them And S. Pawle saith farther So ought men to loue their wiues as their owne bodies he that loueth his wife loueth himself For no man hath at any time hated his owne flesh but doth nourish and cherish it euen as the Lorde doth the Congregation Therfore ought euery man most fernently to loue his wife equally with himselfe in al pointes for this is the measure of mutuall loue Matrimoniall that either partie haue nothing so deare that they can not be contented to bestow one vpon another ye and if neede should be they should also not spare their owne liues one for another no more then christ did for his congregation And like as when we repent and beléeue in the promise of God in Christ though we were neuer so poore sinners are as ritch as Christ al merites ours so is a Woman though she were neuer so poore afore she was maried as ritch as hir husband for all the he hath is hirs ye his owne bodye and hath power ouer it as saith Sainct Pawle And if it so chaunce that you finde not your wife so perfect in al pointes as you would or as your selfe yet must you not dispise hir nor bee bitteer nor cruell vnto hir for hir faultes but gently and louingly seeke to amend and win hir For like as Christe thought no scorne of his church dispised hir not neither forsooke hir for hir vncleanenes and sinnes so should no christian man spurne at his wife nor set light by hir because that sometime she falleth offendeth or goeth not right but euen as Christ nourisheth and teacheth his church so ought euery honest husbande also louingly and gently to informe instruct his wife For in many things saith S. Peter God hath made the men stronger then the women not to rage vpon them to be tirantes vnto them but to helpe them beare their weakenesse Bee curteous therfore saith hée and win them to Christ and ouercome them with kindenesse that of loue they may obey the ordinance that God made beetwéene man and Wife Oh how ashamed be those men to loke vpon this texte which with violence in their furye will intreate their wiues no beast so beastly for in the most cruelst way is not mete as when the wife is sad and disquieted then with spiteful wordes and wanton fashions so prouoking hir to anger Where it is not the dutie of the husband but rather ashamed to his owne head likewise it is worship for a man to haue the feare of the Lorde before his eyes that he prouoke not the plague of vengeance Let vs therfore haue humilitie in our hartes For as a wise man loketh well to his owne goinges euen so pleasant are the wordes spoken in due season which moueth the woman in hir wrath vnto patience whereof Salamon sayth Faire wordes are an Hony Combe a refreshinge of the minde and a health of the bones For it is seldome seene that any beast is found in the cruelst rage that the Male doth euer hurte his Female and how vnnatural a thing is it for a man to hurt his owne flesh and body Who will violently reuenge himselfe yea on his foote if it chaunce to stumble but wil not rather if hee haue an yll bodye cherish it to make it better The strong saith S. Pawle ought to beare the frailenesse of the weake let one suffer with another beare ye one an others burden and so shall ye fulfill the lawes of Christ and aboue all thinge sayth S. Peter Haue feruent loue amongst you for loue couereth the multitude of faultes So that loue in all things and at all times ought to bee the whole doore and only instrument to worke and frame all things betwéene man and wife VVhat the Husband ought to

things ther is a merry meane and bounds for to be kept The which to passe or to impaire no vertue may bee reapt WHen the seauen wise Philosophers imprinted their sapient and politicke Posies vpon the walles of the Senat house Cleobulus Lyndus one and chéefe of the number with his fine fingers writ this sage Sentence The meane is best in all thinges as an instruction worthy aduertisement and impression in the memory of man. Another Caueat I will adioyne that in talking wee doo not carpe nor quip some silly soule as subiecte to vice or infirmitie which other of sharper intelligence espie in vs for Diogenes warned vs to exile our presence that vice which wee reproue as foule and fulfome in an other And Cicero sayth that hee ought to be spotlesse that with dire defame surueyeth others infirmities If a man view both endes of the Wallet he shal be so ouer charged with the weight of vices packt behinde that hee will not annoy with nippes others of honester lyuinge For it behocueth a man to pull the beame out of his owne eye ere hee can espye the mote in his Brothers As annexed to this cryme I admonish the gentle Reader that hee be setled in state not pufte vp with the blissull blast of fawning Fortune nor dolefully indure distresse imitating Socrates who was neuer mooued to heare of his heauy happes nor prowde praysed for excellent exploytes Plato was demaunded how a wise man was knowen He answered hée that is not angry beeinge discommended nor prowd for adhibited prayse And why because that pride and wrath bee the extreames of Vertue and the faire mannered man knoweth them not If a man perpend and consider the euent of pleasure and sawning blisse of froward Fortune hee had more neede to follow the deede and dooinge of Hermolaus who in prosperitie mourned than others that glow and glory therein For after faire weather commeth rayne and there is no such fulnesse but after comes as great an ebbe Fortune is variable as appeareth by Camenus a ritche man who so bathed him selfe in blisse and aboundaunce of wealth that hee neuer tasted of woe or mischaunce Vpon a time for repast he went to see silly Fishermen castinge their Nettes and fingering their trash to feede his humors his Signet fell into the Sea well sayd hée now I know that euil Fortune doth raigne The second day as they drue their Nettes they caught a goodly Cod which for a rare and goodly guift they imparted vpon the Gentleman His Cooke gobbetinge the same in his entrayles founde his Maisters Signet who with excéedinge gladnesse and chearefull grace presented it to his Maister who blinded with the blisse of Fortune ioyfully receaued it imparting vpon his Seruaunt a iolly Iuell named Nihil and perswaded him selfe that Fortune so fauoured his Maistership that hee could not miscarry in any exployte or attempt To bee fully resolued of desembling Fortune hee tooke a corde I meane a Halter and in a brauery assayed how it became a ritch man or how that gallant cheyne would fit Fortunes heire or dandled dottrell standing vpon a stoole Fortune burthened and laden with the care of this life champion like hee tisped his féete beside Fortune frowning at his folly suffered her long lulled lubber to stranguish and hang to death Thus ought wee to conceaue no pride in felicitis nor dispaire in distresse and pouertie It was wel and wisely sayd of Plautus in Amph. that it séemed good to the Gods that after pleasure should succéed paine as after labor ease This excellent example may batter the buildinges of Fortune in our daies and may disgrace them inhaunsed therby Wherfore let euery man labour to liue vertuously to the example of others And as coye Curtezans and daintie Dames haue their glistering Glasses to beeholde and correcte their attier or cumly countenance so should euery man haue a godly person for a patterne to liue by whose steps studied on shuld guide him to vertue Of the diuersitie of ages and yeares and what manners is proper to them KNowinge by the aduertisment of Terence and other learned Authors that change of yeares requireth discrepancy of manners and alteration of condicions I thought it to bee woorth the while to Chronickle in the skirtes of this base Booke the seuerall duties of all ages Findinge in Authors the yeares of man to bee deuided into sixe seuerall wayes and manners of lyuing I will anchore and annexe to them their proper functions And first to begin with Infancie or Babeship who for weakenesse of nature is not reformable though sinfull therfore we wil commit his gouernance to the discretion of his Mother or Nurce Next and second is childehood hauing the vse of speaking whose toungs and mindes like a Painters cloth is fit for to receaue euery hue or colour Wherfore their sences are to be seasoned with the verdure of Vertue euen from their Cradels for the new vessel wil tast euer or long of the first lickor they must than be taught to prooue and grow a Christian as they doo in strength and yeares Apuleius saydithe childe that prooueth strong in bones by benefit of bountifull nature and a Mouster in manners to be better vnborne then to haue fruition of life to comaculat with defame vnperfect behauiour his pleyfers fréends For one rotten shéepe annoyeth a thousād In Greece it was vsed that the Father Maister was punished for the childes offence if fondly they fauoured crime committed worthy chasticemente and correction Diogenes espying a Scholler playing the wanton with his staffe beate his Maister If pampering Parents were at this day so executed it would fare better with youthes and teachers They will not follow the right path of education of children set forth by Philel who in his Booke of Education of children instructeth foolish Fathers mad Mothers to instruct their children to know God their Creator to bee obediente to them in word and déede to be humble to their Superiors gentle to their equals milde in manners not teachinge thē to bable to lie to be slothful to go slouenly in their aparrel vnwasht or fulsome any way if vortuously they bée traded vp béeing tender twigs impes they must of necessitie grow to persection of manners in tract of time The thirde age is called of the Latenistes Iuuentus of Iuuo for the childe passinge the time of seauen yeares is able to ayde his Parentes accordinge to the english of Iuuo to ayd In which Quintilian writeth that such as bee vsed in that time and yeares to curious cates confectes sweete meates will euer looke for the same and iudgeth that to be the cause of murthers theftes and roberies For youthes so delicately nusted comminge to mans estate wil by hooke or by crooke come by and maintaine the same for such as be vsed to delicate diet except good qualities adorne and boulster it out their sugred lust will condempne their bodies Wée reade of one Maxillus a Noble man whose princely Parents

that their fréendes and Fathers be inhabitantes therin Thirdly to profit the same by worde and deede to deliuer it from bondage and captiuitie Fourthly to defend the same with maine force and to repell all violence and iniury offered thertoo Lastly to dye for the honour of thy Countrey as there are many of the Romanes and others Chronicled in Liuie at this day for the doughty defence and sacrificed blood in the behalfe of their natiue Lande and that caused Horace to say It is a méete thing tody for our Countrey Why are valiaunt Captaines honoured but that they be prompt to hazard life and limmes in the defence of their Countrey as Sir William Drurie who manfully rauished the long beséeged Castell of Edenborughe of his maidenhood an acte worthy highted honour and perpetuall praise Captaine Morgan Captaine Chester Captaine Barkley Captaine Frobusher with many other worthy English Captaines and valiaunt Gentlemen that liue in flourishing fame who so valianntly in forraine Landes finished their conflictes and bloody broyles that for seare of their manhood from time to time forraine enemies haue sainted to mollest Englande with warres Who hath not harde of the hardy enterprise of famous Frobusher and his fortunate company who haue by their trauell inritched this Lande and Countrey These and many such others worthy warriours set more by fame and immortallitie of commendacion then fumbling feare and losse of lyfe By such came the Pronerbe It is better to dye with honour than to liue with shame Such I say bee the gay Gardes of Englande their Countrey beeing worthy members therof By the ayde of these the Churles sweate and frie at the fier tasting of ease when they fréese with frost and chilling colde in daunger of death As Tullie sayde that Rome was happy to haue such a consull as hee was so maye Englande reioyce to haue procreated such valiaunt Captaynes to serue so good and gracious a Prince as cause and occasion at any time doth require Dutie due to our Parentes WEe are not onely admonished by prophane writers to féede the humors of of our Parentes but by sacred Scripture and last true Testament of our Sauiour Christ and ther in not onely in rated Law set foorth by Moyses the messenger of Iesus Christ but in places depending vpon the performable promises of Christ Iesn and his meare mercy Wherfore who voyde of grace gréeuously graueleth his Parentes is not dampned to die the second death onely by the Law of the Lord but is indangered of the fruition of his manifolde mercy promised to the séede of Adam And as the children be bound to obey and doo as dutie defineth to them so Parentes must not will but such thinges as be honest vertuous and lawfull and consonant to the word of God For wee must leaue father mother and cléeue vnto the Lord we read of many soolish fathers who béeinge enemies to the Crosse Gospell of Christ at the houre of death mooued vpon their blessinges that their children should persist therin a wicked and detestable decree of Parentes Parents ought not to commaunde their children nothinge but that whiche is honest godly and fit for their yeres and calling And in sutche God commaundeth vs to be seruiceable at their neede in worde in deede to cure their care to lay to reléeue them pressed with pouertie and to beehaue our selues to adorne their callynge and qualities by our excellencie of liuynge that their dulled humours may be indulged by vs and not impaired that they may glory in vs and not lothe vs that they may ioy in our presence and not wish our absence or dissolution of life Cicero saith what is pietie and godlinesse but obedience to our parentes Philellius writyng of the duties of children towardes their parents saieth although we can neuer repaye like curtesies and bestowe vpon them matchable benignant benefits yet children must indeuour as farre as lieth in them to regratifie them as in seruyng folowyng and accompanyng with them in executing their willes in patience and performance and if they commaunde thinges vnlawfull vngodly and vndecent not to snarre or snap quippe or carpe them for it but modestly to perswade them to the contrarie with reformable termes or to let it slippe it passing with patience ¶ Of sutche pnnishments as were appointed for vnobedient children IT will not only decipher the losse of longe life promised by God in his commaundements by shamefull death for disobedience perpatred towards our parents whiche may sufficiently reclayme vs therefro but I will adde how odious a thynge it was adiudged amonge the Heathens and Insidels to miscarie towardes them Orestes Grecus for killynge of his Mother Clitemnestra was chaunged into a féende or furious vgly Monster Nero was for the like déede doyng counted a terrible Tyrant worse than bruite beastes for the Storke beyng a brutish and sencelesse birde wil féene her Dam and progenitors ouer egged and worne with age Amonge the Romanes bée that molested his Parentes or payned them to death was wretchedly wrapped in a Bulles skinne associated with a Serpent and throwen into the deapth of the Sea. Duties towardes their Schoolemaisters IVuenall a Poet pregnant of wit peerelesse for passing pleasanntnesse of Phrase and Methode of Writinge sayth in his Satyres that many honoured their Maisters and teachers as they did their Parentes for as progenitors giue by Gods ayde bodily beeing so teachers the liuely life of the minde garnished with the garde and company of vertues beautified with mildenes of manners and nurture And truly if wée had nothingels but flesh and bones which wee haue by benefit of Parentes wee should prooue inferior to sencelesse creatures for what is it but the sincke of sinne and open sepulchre and graue of greefes without instruction and institutions of a Teacher Wherfore next to Parentes I finde them to bee reue renced of olde time though now a dayes peeuishly paltred withall Philelius commendeth obedience reuerence towards their Instructors as a meane to obtaine Learning and he explaineth it by the example of Troianus the Emperour who in all poinctes highly honoured his teacher Plutarch in so much that beeinge Emperour hee preferred him before him in all places Marcus Antonius a Romane péere so honoured his instructors that beeing deade hee had their Images made of glisteringe Golde and erected in his Cubickle and Chamber Cicero the Father of fine Phrase and fluent spéeche maketh mencion in euery of his Bookes of his Maisters and furtherers in Learninge These men knew what learning was what benefit there was by it atchiued but hammer headed horders of money set more by a penny than by the excellency of lyberall Artes and Sciences To cast Pearles amonge Swine is plaine pittie and not loyall liberalitie I will compare them to Esopes Cocke who in the Dounghill found a precious Pearle hée looked vpon it saw it cleare and bright yet knew not the precious vse and vallure thereof Oh sayth hée I had rather haue one grayne of