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A15754	A display of dutie dect vvith sage sayings, pythie sentences, and proper similies: pleasant to reade, delightfull to heare, and profitable to practise, By. L. Wright.	Wright, Leonard, b. 1555 or 6.	1589 (1589)	STC 26025; ESTC S102227	30,145	48

swallowed vp in the bowels of the earth And rather then the obstinate stubborne and disobedient should scape vnpunished euen Satan himselfe the master and captaine of all traytorous rebels would mooue him to be his owne hangman as Achetophell and Iudas the very hayre of his head for want of other would yéeld it selfe for a haltar to strangle him as Absolon and his partakers and the trées of the field offer their stretched out armes as fit Iebbets to confound him as a member vnworthy to liue in a common wealth And here by the way a question might arise touching 3. sorts of people in this land The first are certaine seditious preachers possessed with proud erronious spirits euery one hauing a Church plot or common wealth in his head who vnder an hipocriticall shew of holinesse turning vp the white of the eye with déepe groning sighes in their long pharisaicall prayers to blind the multitude presume to walke at libertie according to their owne lustes speaking peruerse thinges to drawe disciples after them beating dayly in the peoples heads what possible they can to conceiue a loathing and misliking of her Maiesties gouernment and order of religion established The second are certaine of the inferiour Magistrates put in trust as the rest to execute the office of Iustice. keepe the people in due obedience to her Maiesties proceedings punish contemners of her laws Who notwithstāding vpō a greedy couetous desire to pray vpon the spoyle of church-liuings do preuily vnder a colour of zeale both fauour further incourage maintaine the faid seditious Scismatikes as fit instruments to serue their purpose to y e great disturbance of the church disquiet of the common wealth The third are a sort of fickle headed people who hauing their eares itching for nouelties are apt and readie vpon euery light occasion to cast off the yoke of obedience and giue héede to those spirits of error getting them heaps of teacher● after their owne fantisies without regarde of dutie eyther to Prince or lawes Now the question is this Whether these thrée sorts of priuie whispering murmurers their conditions and manners rightly considered may iustly be taken in the number of faithfull true and loyall subiectes or rather more dangerous enemies to y e state then open professed Papists Certaine morall rules and profitable aduertisements touching ciuill behauiour and gouernement of life THe rules of ciuill gouernement requireth a man to frame his manners apt and méete for all honest company and societie of men as discréete amongest the wise merry with those that be merry and mourne with those that mourne to yéeld sound reasons in graue matters and pleasant conceits in light trifles Sobrietie without sullomnesse is commendable and mirth with modesty a vertue delectable A merry mind doth commonly shewe a gentle nature where a sower grimme countenance is a manifest signe of a curious teastie churle and disdainfull hypocrite Humilitie and lowlinesse of minde winneth the fauour of God and gentle speech and courteous behauiour the hearts of men To be silent of tongue and se●ret of heart Nature hath giuen vnto man two eares and but one tongue sayth the Philosopher to teach him to heare much and speake litle Pithagoras being asked the best way for a rich foole to get estimation let him weare costly attyre quoth he speake litle for a foole holding his peace séemeth to be wise The trée of the field is knowen by the fruits the thoughts of mans heart by his wordes Honor and worship is in a mans wise talking sayth Iesus Syrach but the tongue of the vndiscréet is his owne destruction Life and death are in the instruments of the tongue sayth Salomon he that can temper his words with discretion kéepeth his soule frō troubles Words spoken in due season are compared vnto apples of gold in a siluer dish But better he speake not when wisedome prouoketh not Then wiseman he séeme not when silence he kéepeth not To auoyd the company of the wicked For as bodies infected with contagious diseases are lothsome and odious so mindes corrupt with false doctrine rude manners and vicious liuing are most irkesome and dangerous He that toucheth pitch sayth Iesus Syrach shall be defiled therewith and he that kéepeth company with the wicked shall hardly escape without blemish either in life or credite And therefore it was not lawfull for the Israelites to associate themselues with the Cananites least they should be infected with their manners Abraham was commanded to depart from Caldea Lot and his daughters from Sodom and the congregation of God from the tents of Corah Dathan and Abiram What fellowship hath light with darknesse Christ with Baliall or the faithfull with an Infidell The Israelites dwelling in Sytim committed whordome with the daughters of Moab And the heart of Salomon for all his wisedom by kéeping company with heathen Idoloters was turned away from the Lord. Let common societie be vsed in equalitie Like with like do alwayes best agrée for as the kettle with the pot the Lambe with the Wolfe and the Asse with the Lion Such is the fellowship betwéene the poore and the rich Requitall amongst equals is of common courtesie but recompenee in vnequals inforced of necessitie Shew a child an apple and he will cry for it but make thy superiors priuie to thy pleasures and he will haue it or else make thee cry for it Not dainty in dyet nor ryotous in expenses but moderately to liue within his bounds To cut his coat according to his cloth not with the prodigall to spend all nor with the couetous to kéepe all but with the discréet to vse all He that hath litle and spendeth much is called a prodigall foole he that hath much and spendeth little a miserable carle but he that can moderate his expences according to abilitie is wise Measure is called a merry meane liberalite is a vertue consisting to spend not as a man would but as he may A thinne spare dyet is most holesome for health profitable for wealth I like M. Tussers alowāce Two dishes well dressed and welcome withall Both pleaseth thy friend and becommeth thy hall Much spice is a théefe so is candle and fire Swéet sawse is as crafty as euer was Fryer And as varietie and excesse in dyet do surfet the bodie and consumeth the wealth so change of gorgious apparell sheweth pride without profit and commonly couereth a threed bare purse Attyre most commendable is neither curious nor clownish sumptuous nor costly but sober and decent as best beséemeth his estate and calling Mistresse Fortune is sayde to be handmaide to Ladie Uertue who esteeming more of simplicity with securitie then pride without profit is cōpared to a poore simple woman in ragged attyre as one dispised of the world bearing a bridle in the one hand

and increasing of patrimonie accounting an ounce of dignitie more worth than a pound of honestie disiring rather to liue without vertue than dye without money hauing more regarde to the swimming of their sonnes then the sinking of their soules and commonly the wisest men the fondest fathers that when for very age not only the pleasures of this life but also life it selfe is readie to shake hands and bidde them adew Yea if the graues could speake they would call thē and say it were high time to depart this life and come dwell in them and yet in the whole race of their former yeares haue left to their posteritie no example of any goodnesse but rather of vice and infamie whereby our countrie is growen rich in treasure but poore in vertue It may aptly be sayd vnto England now as Marcus Aurelius sayde once to Rome Oh Rome sayth he I wéepe not to see thy houses decayed nor thy stréetes lie vnpaued nor thy tymber consumed but I wéepe to sée thée so voyde of wise fathers obedient children and good vertuous people It is commonly séene where riches are honored there vertue is dispised for great riches cloketh vices and carrieth light heads into presumption and therefore as parents abound in wealth so children abound in wickednesse such as be left rich by their fathers will become often richlesse by their owne will and such as haue libertie in youth to liue as they list want list in age to liue as they should Age no doubt is an honorable thing notwithstanding except their wisedome knowledge and experience of vertue be conformable to their ancient yeares so as after the flowers of youth their frutes of good lyuing may appeare to the example of those that follow they deserue not that reuerent title and estimation due to their calling Whose wilfull negligence in not doing to youth that in power they might and in dutie they ought hath bred such contempt to cast off the yoke of obedience and dishonor them in age We daily sée the miserable father with great trauaile carefull studies and broken sléepes to scrape and heape together what possible he can to honor his child who hauing his purse full of money and his head full of folly consumeth it in vice royat and prodigalitie to the fathers infamy and so by Gods iustice the prodigall sonne doth scorne the carefull sighes of his couetous father whereby the prouerbe is verefied that riches got with craft is commonly lost with shame And thus the negligence of age and folly of youth bréeds in the end a double woe to both the one ending in sorrowfull griefe the other in lamentable miserie A dutifull sonne following the honest steps of a good vertuous father the same God that blessed the one will prosper the other but being inclined vnto vice naughtinesse his fathers gift is rather a meane to hasten his destruction then helpe to prolong him How much are children bound Their parents for to loue Which vnto vertuous ground Their pregnant wits do moue So that in youth they get The treasures that shall stay When fortunes slitting net With waues will weare away The right steps vnto learning are thus orderly lincked together first aptnesse by nature secondly loue of learning thirdly obseruing of right order and fourthly a constant mind without new fanglenesse Aptnesse knowledge and vse in time bringeth perfection in all things The first is the gift of nature the second commeth by learning and studie and the third by diligent practise A vertuous age asketh a diligent youth WHere Lady vertue is imbrased she is courtuous gentle and easie to be intreated a sure professed friend to all such as willingly desire imitate and vse her whose propertie is to fauour and follow not the stubborne but the obedient not the fickle but the fixed nor the idle but the diligent Looke where she is estéemed there diligence in youth is alwayes allowed no treasure without trauaile no gaine without paine nor learning without labour And therefore he is likened to a trée hauing swéete frute but a sower roote he that will carry a Bull with Milo must carry him a calfe also and hee that will haue hearts ease must néedes haue some arse-swart withall harts ease Our elders did very aptly compare time to a man with a bauld head sauing a locke of hayre before to signifie that if he be once past he can not be catched hold vpon or pulled backe againe hauing also a paire of wings to signifie his spéede and swiftnesse away and with a syth in his hand like a mower fetching his stroke in token that he is neuer idle but alwayes working A diligent youth bringeth foorth a learned age a ioyfull life and a happie death but experience hath taught me and reason beareth witnesse that to counterfeit vertue and séeme learned when planting time is past except great paines it bringeth small profite but to be vertuous and learned in déede craueth labour at the first and yeeldeth fruit with pleasure at the last Of Idlenesse IDlenesse is called the mother of ignorance the nurse of vice the pillow of Satan the image of death ground of all mischiefe it maketh heauie handes lumpish leggs beastly bellyes drowsie pates and witlesse wils The foules of the ayre were made to fly the fishes of the sea to swimme the beastes of the field to trauaile and man to labour As soone as Adam was created to auoyde idlenesse he was set to dresse the garden After his fall it was sayde vnto him in the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bread Noah planted a vineyeard Iacob Moses and Dauid kept shéepe The vertuous woman in the Prouerbes eate not her bread with idlenesse she was vp early and late labouring gladly with her handes she occupyed wooll and flaxe layd hold vpon the distaffe and put her fingers to the spindle In the common wealth of Israell euery degrée had his duty and office appointed and no idle state alowed For idlenesse the Lord rained downe fire and brimstone vpon Sodom and Gomor In the primitiue Church it was sore punished Amōgst the ancient Romans no man was suffered to walke in the stréetes without the toole in his hand whereby he got his liuing and if any mans landes were left vnplowed or husbanded according to the custome of the countrie it was by law confiscat The Egyptians were seuerally examined once a yeare how they liued and spent their time and being found idle were punished with death The Indians so greatly detest idlenesse at this day that euery family are straightly examined before dynner and only those which haue deserued it by labour suffered to eate and the rest constrayned to fast He that tilleth his lande sayth Salomon shall haue plentie of bread but he that followeth idlenesse shall haue pouertie He that will not labour sayth the Apostle let him not eate Euerie creature vnder heauen

to restraine vice and certaine working tooles in the other as one alwayes apt to labour She hath also a paire of wings in tokē that she fléeth vnto the heauens She treadeth death vnder foot to signifie that she is immortall And placed betwéene two extréeme vices as who should say she alwayes kéepes the golden meane It is a true saying better to liue in lowe degrée then high disdaine A quiet contented minde sayth the wiseman is more worth then great riches Euery ounce of state asketh a pound of gold and euery foote rising in authoritie increaseth an ell in necessity The ambitious is hated the base minded ouercrowed but the meane estate resting vnder the cloke of obedience within the reach of his owne happe is alwayes in most safetie and least danger He that liueth in health is well fedde hee that is preserued from colde well clothed and he that can liue out of debt is rich happie his sléepes are sound his conscience quiet and his life pleasant Where wilfull race of witlesse braynes Flanting in pride to passe degrée Bringing rich estate to great decay And lewd heads to great miserie Enuie followeth Vertue What good men want by nature they séeke to supply by art but the enuious wanting discretion supplyeth it with malise Let a man humble himself to the proud and he wil not hurt him kéepe no companie with drunkerds and they will not infect him aske nothing of a couetous man and he will not harme him but the more he shall be estéemed of the best sort for honest life ciuill behauiour vertuous qualities the more he shall be persecuted with a number of enuious eyes For ielosie to beautie aduersitie to prosperitie and enuie vnto vertue are so linked and ioyned together that the one followeth the other as the shadowe followeth the body And therefore that famous Philosopher Hermocrates exhorted his sonne to liue so he might be enuied for his vertues Of the malicious backbiter THe Basaliske killeth men a farre off by the sight of his eyes and the enuious backbiter by y e sting of his toong The serpent kéepeth his poyson only to the hurt of others but the spitefull backbiter both to the hurt of others and destruction of his owne soule The Camelion can transforme himselfe into all colours saue white and the malicious backbiter into all fashions saue honestie Disdayning his superiour because he is not equall to him his equall because he is equall to him and his inferiours least hee should be equall to him But commonly such euill surmising mindes backbiting mouthes and slanderous tongues are to none more noysom and dangerous then themselues to whom it often hapneth as it did to the viper which gréedily caught Paul by the hand intending to hurt him fell her selfe into the fire and perished The property of a faithfull and fained friend FRiendship is the agréement of mindes the chiefe of moral vertues called the iewell of humanity A true friend sayth the Philosopher is long sought for scarce to be found hard to be kept Well is him that findeth a faithful friend saith Iesus Syrach the weight of gold is not cōparable to the goodnesse of his faith He is alwayes willing and ready to comfort his friend in aduersitie to helpe him in necessitie to intreate and vse him courteously to beare his infirmities patiently and reproue his errors gently Whose rebukes are much like pepper which is hoat in the mouth but holesome at the hart and he that can not beare or take the rebukes of his friend in good part is aptly compared to a harpe string which being wrested in tune doth breake and snappe a sunder Piping and harping maketh a swéete sound sayth the wise man but the tongue of a friend goeth beyond them all Many there be sayth Salomon that are called good doers but where should one find a true faithfull man Gold is tryed by the touch stone A good Pilot in rage of tempest A valiant Captaine in time of warre and a true friend in necessitie A friend vnused is like a medicine vnministred a friend without friendship like a trée without fruite As good a foe that hurts not as a friend that helpes not A fained dissembling friend is much like a serpent bred in Egypt called a Crokedell Whom when she smyleth poysoneth and when she wéepeth deuoureth Or the Hiena hauing the voyce of a man speaking like a friend and the minde of a Wolfe deuouring like a féend Or the Panther who with the swéetnesse of his breath and beautie of his coate allureth such beastes within his compasse as he intendeth to vncase and pray vpon their carcasse Or the flattering Syrens that swéetly sing the saylers wracke Or the Foulers pipe that pleasantly playeth the birdes death Or the Bee who carrieth honny in her mouth and a sting in her tayle Or the box trée whose leaues are alwayes gréene but the séedes poyson So his countenance is friendly and his wordes pleasant but his intent dangerous and his déedes vnholsome Mel in ore verba lactis fel in corde fraus in factis His fetch is to flatter to catch what he can His purpose obtayned a figge for thée than In chusing a friend is chiefly to be obserued that as olde wood is best to burne old horse to ride old bookes to reade and old wine to drinke so are old friends alwayes most trusty to vse And he that reiecteth his kindred chuseth friends of strangers is much like him who changeth his legge of flesh for a stilt of wood It is further to be noted that where the persons are diuerse in nature differing in manners variable in conditions or contrary in religion their friendship can not possible long continue Againe touching the naturall inclination of men hee that is light and toyesh in youth proueth often teastie and waspish in age A bold malipart boye a wilfull seditious man A grimme crabtrée countenance doth cōmonly shew a hard churlish disposition A smooth glosing toong a crafty d●●●embling hart And a quicke sharpe wit an vnconstant and wauering condition Neither faithfull to friend nor fearefull to foe But especially a proud furious or scornfull person is apt to take displeasure and thinke vnkindnesse vpon euery light occasion and if such a heart where friendship hath dwelt begin once to hate it is like a spung which sucketh vp as much matter of malice as before of fauour and affection And euen as the best wine maketh the sharpest veniger so the déepest loue turneth to the deadliest hate In prayse of friendship Of all the heauenly giftes on earth Which mortall men commend No treasure well may counteruaile A true and faithfull friend What swéeter solace can befall Then such a one to finde As in whose breast thou maiest repose The secrets of thy minde If flattering Fortune chance to frowne And driue thee to distresse True faithfull