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A02300	A dispraise of the life of a courtier, and a commendacion of the life of the labouryng man	Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545?; Allègre, Antoine.; Bryan, Francis, Sir, d. 1550.	1548 (1548)	STC 12431; ESTC S109583	53,989	226

liued there should none haue the name of Emperour but he Nowe when y e Ambassadours ariued at his house they found him in a litle garden wher he was settyng of Lettys and Onyons And hearyng what they sayd vnto him he answered in this wise Do you not thynke my frendes that it is muche better for him that can sowe his Lettys and afterwarde pleasantly and merely to eate thesame so still to exercise himselfe then to returne entre into the goulfe of troubles in a cōmon welth I haue assaied bothe I knowe what it is to commaunde in the court and what it is to liue labor in the village wherfore I pray you suffre me here to abide in pacienee for I desire rather here to liue with the labor of my hādes then in the sorow and cares of an Empire Note by this example that the life of the laborer is more to be desired then the life of a prince Cleo and Pericles succeded in the rulyng of the common welth after Solon a man excellently lerned and wel estemed and taken among the Greciās for half a God by the reason of the wyse lawes he made amōg the Atheniens These two noble gouernours were muche be loued because that as Plutarch telleth Pericles whiche .xxx. yeres had the administraciō of y e busines and affaires of y e citie was neuer sene to come into any mans house but his owne nor yet to sit in any open place among y e cōmon people suche a grauitie was in him Aboute the yeres of his age whiche was .lx. he went from Athens to a litle village where he ended the rest of his dayes studiyng and passing the tyme in husbandrye He had a litle small gate or wicket in the entryng of his house ouer which was written Inueni portū spes fortuna valete That is to say forasmuche as now and before I haue knowlege of vanitee I haue founde the porte of rest fye of hope and fortune farewell By this example no courtier can say that he leadeth a sure life but onely that courtier whiche doeth as this wyse captain did withdraw himself Lucius Seneca was as who shuld say a right leder to good maners a instructer to good letters to Nero the sixt Emperour of Rome with whom he taried .xxiiii. yeres had great doynges of thīges pertainyng to the cōmon wealth as well of priuate causes as otherwyse because he was sage and of great experience And at the last cōmyng to great age and weryed with the continual conflictes busynesse of the court lefte the court and went and dwelt in a litle mancion he had nigh to Nole Campana where he liued after a long tyme as witnesseth his bookes De officiis de Ira de bono viro de aduersa fortuna and other bookes whiche were to long to reherse At last fortune and mannes malice did their office Nero cōmaunded him to be slaine not for that he had committed any crime worthy to dye or done any thing otherwise then an honest manne ought to do but onely because the lecherous Domicia hated him Note well reader this example that sometyme fortune pursueth him that forsaketh y e court aswel as the courtier Scipio the Affrican was so estemed among y e Romaines that in .xxii. yeres whiles y t he was in the warres he neuer lost battell And yet made he warre in Asia Europ and Affrica and to this neuer committed acte worthy of reproche And yet he wan Africa and put to sacke Carthage brought in bōdage Numance ouercame Hannibal and restored Rome weakened and nere destroyed by the losse they had at y e battail of Cānes And yet for all this beyng of y e yeres of lii he withdrewe him frō the court of Rome to a litle village betwixte Puzoll and Capua where he liued a solitary life and so content withal that whiles he taried there a xi yeres space he neuer entred into Rome nor Capua The diuine Plato was borne in Liconia and was norished in Egipt and learned in Athens It is red of him that he answered y e Ambassadours of Cirene that required of him lawes to gouerne theim selues in sure peace in this wise Difficilimū est homines amplissima fortuna ditatos legibus cōtinere Which is to vnderstand that it is hard to bryng to passe to make riche men to be subiect to the rigour of the lawe To conclude Plato not willyng to abide lōger the clamor cry of the court went and dwelt in a litle village two myles frō Athens called Academia where the good old man after he had taryed there xiiii yeres teachyng and writyng many notable doctrines ended there his moste happye dayes After the memorye of him the aūcientes called y t village Academia whiche is to say in English a schole The cōclusion is that all these honourable sage princes wise menne left Monarchies kyngdomes cities great riches and went into the villages there to serche a pore an honest a peaceable life Not that I will saye that some of these lefte y e court to be there poore and banished and rebuked but of their fre wil and fre libertie minding to liue a quiet and honest life or they dyed The. xviii Chapiter ¶ The Aucthor complaineth with great reason of the yeres that he lost in the court I Wyl demaunde of myne owne selfe mine owne life and make accoumpt of thesame to the entent that I will conferre my yeres to my traueiles and my trauailes to my yeres that it may appeare how long I lefte of to liue and beganne to dye My life gentle reader hath not been a life but a lōg death my daies a play new for to begyn my yeres a very tedious dreame my pleasures Scorpions my youth a transitorie fātasy My prosperitie hath been no prosperitie but properly to speake a painted castell and a treasure of Alcumyn I came to y e court very yong where I saw diuers maners of offices and chaunges euen among y e princes that I serued And I haue assayed to trauail by sea and by lande and my recompence was much more then I deserued and that was this that sometyme I was in fauor and sometyme out of fauor I haue had experience of y e somersautes of destines I haue had in the court frēdes enemies I haue had false reportes I haue been euen nowe glad and mery and furth with sadde and sory to daye riche to morowe poore now mounted vpward straite throwen dounewarde This hath been to me a maskyng where I haue loste both money and tyme. And nowe I saye to the my soule what hast thou gotten of this great iorney The recompence is this that I haue gotten there a gray head fete ful of y e goute mouth w tout tethe raines full of grauel my goodes layd to pledge my body charged w t thought and my soule litle clensed from synne And yet is there more seyng y t I must

in writyng prudent in seruice and conformable to all But when I waked out of my folly as from a dreame and looked to my feete I knewe easly that I had born false witnes to my selfe of this golden pleasāt imaginacion sawe of truth in other y e which I dreamyngly imagined of my selfe I serched the waie how to be estemed of euery mā holy wise gentle cōtent of a good zele and a sea of sadnes Lo this faulte happeneth to courtiers as it did vnto me y t is to ioyne folishe libertie with vertuous honor whiche be two thinges that cannot agree because that disordinate will is enemye to vertue and honor But for my part good reader I geue thankes vnto God my affeccions be somewhat wasted and mortified for I was woont 〈◊〉 in seruice to desire daily t●at e court might remoue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I care not though seldo●… 〈◊〉 neuer I come from my h●se I had a speciall lust to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for newes And now I care n●● for them at all I saw the tyme when I loued not to be out of company And now I desire no thyng more then to be solitary I was wont to delite to heare to see iuglers daunsers lyars and daliars And now so to do wer to me more then death In like maner I was wont to solace my selfe in Fishyng Hunting shootyng in the Hackbut And nowe I mynde no nother but to bewaile and lament the tyme I haue loste and call to minde the first tyme that the Emperor toke me into his seruice frō thence where I was norished from my tendre yeres in great feare not knowyng what the world was but occupied only in my deuocions and lernynges I often rose at midnight I comforted the sicke I red the gospell and other good bokes of good doctrine Briefly euery mā did helpe me to be good and chastised me frō euil If I did well I was praised if I did euil I was corrected if I were heauye I was comforted if I were angry I was appeased if in any agony my frēdes praied to God for me O what cause haue I to repent out of measure thus to haue forsaken rest and godly liuyng and to haue enioyed episcopall dignitie in which the Emperor set me forasmuche as a verteous life is y e hauen of all good and the Episcopal dignitie the sea of all daungier Lo how I haue passed my good yeres w tout emploiyng my tyme wel w tout knowlege what my fortune should be I do therfore admonishe the reder to do better then I haue done in y e court if y u be there or els to forsake it in a better houre then I haue done for so doyng thou shalt declare thy selfe that thou hast determined to liue sagely and well aduised The .xx. Chapiter The auctour taketh his leaue of the worlde with great eloquence FArewell world forasmuch as one can nor may trust of y e nor in the. For in thy hous o world the passage is paste and that whiche is present goeth soone away and that whiche is to begyn commeth wonderous late forasmuche as he that thinketh himselfe most firme sonest doth fall the moste strongest soonest doeth breake and perpetuities soonest decay in suche sort that those which be destinate to liue an hūdreth yeres thou sufferest him not of all that time to liue one yere in quiet Farewell worlde forasmuch as thou takest renderest not againe thou weryest but comfortest not thou robbest but makest no restitucion y u quarellest but doest not pacifie accusest before thou haue cause to complaine geuest sentence before thou hearest the parties euen till thou kill vs and then buriest vs before we dye Farewell worlde forasmuch as in thee nor by thee there is no ioye w tout trouble no peace without discorde loue without suspicion rest without feare aboūdance without fault honor without spotte riches without hurte of conscience nor high estate but he hath somewhat that he complaineth of Farewell worlde forasmuch as in thy palaice promises are made neuer kepte men serue and haue no rewarde they are inuited to be deceiued they labour to be troubled trauail to take paine they laugh and are beaten thou fainest to stay vs to make vs fal thou lēdest to pull away strait again thou honorest vs to defame vs and correctest without mercy Farewell worlde thou flaūderest them that are in credite and doest auaūce the infamed thou lettest y e traitors passe fre and puttest true menne to their raūsomes thou persecutest the peaceable and fauorest the sedicious thou robbest the poore geuest to the riche deliuerest the malicious and condemnest innocētes guest licence to departe to the wise and retainest fooles and to be short the most part do what they lyst but not what they should Farewell worlde forasmuche as in thy palaice no manne is called by his right name for why they call the rashe valiaunt the proude colde harted the importune diligēt the sad peaceable the ꝓdigal magnifical the couetous a good husband the babler eloquent the ignoraunt a litle speaker the wāton amorous the quiet mā a foole the forbearer a courtier the tyraunt noble And thus thou worlde callest the counterfeat the true substaūce and the trueth the counterfeat Farwel worlde for thou deceiuest all that be in thee promisyng to the ambicious honors to the gredy to come forwarde to the brokers offices to the couetous riches to the gluttons bākettes to the enemies vengeance to the thefes secretnes to the vicious rest to the yong tyme and to al thing that is false assuraunce Farewell worlde for in thy house fidelitie is neuer kepte nor truth maintained and also we may see in thy house one glad and another afrayd some ouercharged some out of the right way some voyde of comfort desperate sad heauy ouerburdened and charged more then lost and sometyme bothe Farewell worlde forasmuch as in thy cōpany he that wenes himselfe moste assured is most vncertain and he that folowes thee goeth out of the way and he y t serues thee is euil payed and he that loues thee is euil entreated he that contentes thee contenteth an euil master and he that haunteth thee is abused Farewell worlde forasmuch as thou hast suche mishap that seruices done and presentes offered to thee profite nothyng nor the lyes that is tolde thee nor the bākettes made to thee nor the faythfulnes we geue to thee nor the loue we beare to thee Farewell worlde forasmuch as thou deceiuest al backbitest all slaūderest al chasticest al threttest vs al achiuest all and in the ende forgettest all Farewell worlde sithens in thy company al men complain all crye out all wepe all men dye liuyng Farewell worlde sythens by thee we hate eche one the other to the death To speake till we lye to loue till we dispaire to eate till we spue to drinke till we be drōken to vse brokage to tobbery to synne till we

dye Farewell world for beyng in the we forget our infācy our grene age with out experience our youth in vices our middle age in turmoilyng busynes our olde age in lamētacions all our tyme coūted together in vaine hopes Farewell worlde for in thy schoole we are led til y e heere be white the eyes blered the eares deaf the nostrels droppyng y e forehead wrinkled y e fete goutie the raynes full of grauel y e stomacke ful of euil humours the head full of migrain the body ful of sorow the mynde full of passions Farewell worlde for none of thy louers come to good ꝓfite witnesse those that daily we see are not false knaues marked in the face theues hanged manquellers headed robbers by y e hye wayes sette vpon wheles heritikes brent false money makers boiled killers of their parētes torne in pieces other diuers punishementes of suche as are great in fauor w t thee Farewell worlde forasmuch as thy seruaūtes haue no more pastyme but to trot by the stretes to mocke one another to seke out wenches to sende presentes to beguile yong girles write amorous letters speake to baundes play at y e dise plede against their neighbour tell newes inuent lyes and studye newe vices Farewell worlde for in thy palaice none will do good to other for the Boare fightes against the Lyon the Vnicorne against the Cocodril the Egle against y e Vultur the Elephāt against y e Mynotaure the Sacre gainst the Kyte the mastyf against the Bull One man against another and al together against death Farewell worlde because y u hast nothing but to our ruine For often the yerth openeth afore our feete y e water drounes vs the fyer burnes vs the ayer mistempers vs the Wynter doth kyll vs the Sōmer doth chafe vs the dogges doth byte vs the Cattes doeth scrat vs the Serpētes doth poyson vs the Flyes doeth pricke vs the Flees doeth eat vs aboue al worldely busines deuours vs Farewell worlde seyng no man can passe thy dominion in suertie for in euery pathe we fynde stoones to stumble at bridges that brekes vnder vs Snowe that letteth vs Moūtaines that werye vs Thunders that feares vs Theues that robbe vs Encoūters that hurtes vs euil fortune that killes vs. Farewell worlde forasmuch as in thy countrey there is litle health for some be lippers and some haue the French pockes some the Canker and some the goute and some haue the foule euil and some the Sciatica and some the stone and some Quotidian feuers some wanderyng feuers some tercian quarten feuers spasmes paulsies the moste parte sicke offaire folly Farewel worlde forasmuche as there is not a manne in thy house but he is noted with some defaute in his person For if there be any talle man the rest is lubberlike If he haue a fayre face his iye shall be too blacke If he haue a good forehed it shalbe wrinkeled If he haue a welfauored mouthe he shall lacke teethe If he haue faire hādes he shal lacke faire heer And if he haue faire heer he shall haue a foule skynne Farewel worlde forasmuch as the inhabitaūtes in thee are so variable to maners and cōdicions that some will folowe the court some wil sayle on the sea and if one would be a marchaunt the other will be a husbandman If the one will be a hūter the other will be a fisher If one wil gouerne a Monarchy y e other vnder pretēce of y t will pyll poll y e poore people Farewell worlde for asmuche as in thy house there are none that prepare themselfes to liue and muche lesse to dye And yet we see some die yong and some in middle age some in old age some dye by hāgyng and some by drounyng some dye for hūger some in eatyng slepyng and restyng and some or they beware and for the most parte or they loke for death Farewell worlde forasmuch as we can neither knowe thy disposicion nor condicion For if one be wise another is a fole If one be fyne another is of a grosse witte If one be valiant another is a coward If one be geuen to peace another is sedicious And if one be of a gentle spirit another is very froward Farewell worlde seyng noman can liue with thee for if a man eate to lytle he becommes weake if to muche he waxeth sicke if a man labour straite he is wery if he be idle he liueth bestly if he geue litle he is called a nigarde if he geue muche he is called prodigal if a mā visite his frēdes often he is called importune if to seldome full of disdaine If a mā suffre wrong he is called false hearted And if he do reuenge then is he wilfull If he haue frendes he is praised If enemies he is pursued if one tary to long in a place he waxeth wery and if he chaunge to oft he is grudged at Finally I say that suche thynges as displease me I am forced to folowe and that which I would I cannot come by O worlde vncleane I coniure thee thou filthy worlde I pray O thou worlde protest against thee thou worlde that thou neuer haue part in me for I demaūde nor desire nothyng that is in thee neither hope of any thyng in thee for I haue determinined with my self that posui finem curis spes et fortuna valete I haue finished worldly cares therfore hope and fortune farewell FINIS EXCVSVM LONDINI IN AEDIBVS RICHARDI GRAFTONI TYPOGRAPHI REGII MENSE AVGVSTII M.D.XLVIII CVM PRIVILEGIO AD IMPRIMENDVM SOLVM