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A00698	A vvoorke of Ioannes Ferrarius Montanus, touchynge the good orderynge of a common weale wherein aswell magistrates, as priuate persones, bee put in remembraunce of their dueties, not as the philosophers in their vaine tradicions haue deuised, but according to the godlie institutions and sounde doctrine of christianitie. Englished by william Bauande.; De republica bene instituenda, paraenesis. English	Ferrarius, Johannes, 1485 or 6-1558.; Bavand, William.	1559 (1559)	STC 10831; ESTC S102013	301,803	438

art dust and shalt be turned into dust again Notwithstandyng these yet manne was not so abased but that he knewe hymself to be lord and president ouer all thynges that be vpon the yearth Wherevpon he furthwith began to set vp his crest to swell with loftines of courage and to tourne his countenaunce against heauen neither acknowledgyng ne yet callyng vpon his creatour But there were Giauntes vpō the yearth yea the mightier sorte and despisers of God wherefore the Poetes did not vnproperly faine that thei assaulted heauen Whiche a man maie also vnderstand by the Philosophiers for although thei did not by plaine pretence denounce warre against heauen yet thei attempted to direct their thoughtes vain strength of mynde thitherward as though it had been giuen thē to sell a manne cleane life and to surpasse the secretes of heauen from the knowledge whereof no man was further then thei While thei attempted to passe the mountaines of glasse and thence were dismounted thei were made a laughyng stocke vnto God which tourned their glory into shame and their wisedome into folie Sinne therefore makyng waie into man he cōtinued to walke after his owne fleshe louyng himself and puft vp with pride and pitched all the thoughtes of his harte vpon malice wherevpon blasphemie vnthankfulnesse frowardnes and all vngodlines entred into hym as it were into a common sinke This loftines of minde God alwaie hath punished for whiche he neither forbare Angelles nor kyngdomes nor any people Whiche ought to be an ensāple vnto vs to laie apart pride to acknowledge our owne frailtie to directe humbly this our commonable and ciuill life after the heauenly rule There bee moreouer many testimonies of holy scripture wherby we be warned with al endeuour to eschew this detestable vice whiche if thei did no deale moue vs yet natureher self setteth before our iyes many thinges whiche put vs in mynde of our basenes and whiche doe after a secrete sorte shewe vs how we ought to knowe our selues For if we behold our conceiuyng the beginnyng of our birthe the maner of our natiuitie the maner of our noursyng the race of our life and the necessitie of death man in fewe thinges semeth the better then brute beastes yea in many poinctes for al these excellent qualities he is farre vnder muche lesse then ought he te be stoute couraged to neglecte Gods commanndement or proudly to disdaine any other Certainly if we consider the beginnyng of our birth whereby man is prepared to this life it is vncleane and almost lothsome to nature her self For other beastes doe openly engender euen nature as it were mouyng theim thervnto The conceiuing of man onely beareth shamefastnes desiring rathar to be hidde then opened bicause of the staine of synne whiche driueth man to bashefulnes and causeth hym to be ashamed of hymself Nature bryngeth furthe brute beastes but synne bringeth furth man the Prophete witnessyng thesame Behold I was cōceiued in iniquitie in sinne my mother cōceiued me Yea further this weake beginning of man the proudest of all liuyng creatures is not without greate daunger for if the mother sone after she haue conceiued doe either snese or smell the snuffe of a candle she trauaileth before her tyme. If besides these you marke the tyme of deliueraūce you shall hardly iudge whether nature be a more louing mother or an heauier stepdame to mā For somuche as this one liuyng creature whiche is borne to rule ouer all other beginneth his life as Plinie writeth with paine whereas no cause why can be alledged vnles it bee a faulte that he is borne into this worlde for whereas nature hath bestowed vppon all other thynges bothe couerynges and shelles barkes skinnes bristilles heares feathers quilles fleases scales and also defenses and staies of the limmes wherewith thei maie bothe defende and rescew themselues frō daunger that maie ensue as to the Elephant his snoute to the Buck hornes to the Hare swiftnesse of foote to the Woulfe teeth to the birdes winges and to euery thyng accordingly she hath cast furthe onely man naked vpon the bare yearth fenselesse which is compelled to keuer hym self and hide his priuie partes by relefe of others and to seke hymself fensible weapons of others so that if wee will signifie any notable miserie we neade no more but to note the birthe of man into this worlde Wherevpon most of y ● Thraciās wer wont to wepe in their childbed and the parentes with mournyng to receiue their child new borne into the worlde but at his death to bury him with merueilous reioisyng and gladnes as though that he whiche is newe borne were rather to bee lamented then he that deceaseth and departeth the miserie of the world No lesse labour is it to nourishe vp the child whē it is borne For other beastes as sone as thei entre into light by the very motion of nature doe seke after foode Some of their owne accorde run vnto the dammes teates Some with open mouthes receiue them offered by the dammes as though that creature were in vain bred that requireth no nourishment To man alone she hath giuen criyng weepyng and teares whereby he declareth his want maketh signe that he would haue some thing but so darkly that he knoweth not what yea and not onely doeth not make hymself ready to receiue food but often refuseth it when it is offered hym Now when he is brought vp many thousande lettes many daungers many kindes of intrapmentes declare how hard it is for hym to passe the race of his life and to come to his fatalle ende whiche if I should drawe furthe in order and make rehersall thereof it should not bee so harde as neadles specially in a thyng knowne not so muche as but to verie Barbars For no liuing creature is in daunger of mo diseases none standeth in more hazarde of priuie ambushmentes then he doth that by man Lions for all their wildnes yet doe not one encountre an other the serpent stingeth no serpent but man is a Woulfe to man at whose hand he daily receiueth muche harme Furthermore none is couetous but he none ambicious none vncontentable in desire of thinges but he onely he is incontinuall pain wearied with calamities of whiche euilles although thou perswadest thy self to haue discomfited one or two and so thinkest thy self in sauetie yet thou must abide a sore conflicte with nature her self seyng thou art enforced to feare euen the lightnyng of the element the stēche of the yearth the Scorpions stroke so many kyndes of poisons venime whiche although thei neuer chaunce vnto thee yet fleshelice fleas crablice and many other like vermines shall noie thee and declare that man is in daunger of many thousande kindes of miseries But also y e necessitie of death is not to be so moch coūted vpō seyng it is indifferent as well to other thinges as to liuing creatures for whatsoeuer is borne must

die and retourne to that dust whence it had his beginning wer it not that an other kinde of death had fallen to mā whiche came in by synne whereby also we haue founde an other beginnyng of life For there is no other liuyng thing but it decaieth vniuersally and in hole sauyng man alone whose onely bodie perisheth the soule which is seuered from it continewyng euerlastyngly so that the good be receiued into a blessed life whereas the bad be thrust doune into the euerlastyng tormentes of hell hauing in this poinct death like to brute beastes bicause thei neither thinke the soule immortall neither beleue that there is any resurrection or any helle that thereby the death of an oxe and a man semeth like whereof the Eccesiastes also putteth vs in mynde Heape hither so many meanes wherby we either hasten our own death or vpon very triflyng occasions lese our life seyng moe dye by surfeit and wine then by the sword many while contrary to nature by helpe of cunnyng thei labour to lengthen their yeres and onely seeke cause to liue caste themselues awaie by vsyng to muche Phisicke Here I neade not to touche diuers kindes of sodaine deathes wherby wonderous many haue miscaried and decaied So died Anacreon the Poete choked with a reasin grain So died Fabius the Senatour of an heere whiche he did drinke in milke Coruelius Gallus which sometyme had been Pretor and Quintus Heterius a knight of Roome died while thei were in the verie acte of generation Sophocles and Dionisius the tyraunt of Scicilie bothe deceased for ioye when thei heard tidynges of the vpperhande of a tragedie Yea in Saxonie I my self sawe a countrey man bothe well spent in yeres and of honest reputacion whiche as he should haue retourned home beyng well tipled fell of his horse wheron he roade into a little puddle of rain and there falling on slepe and drawyng in water at his mouth was therwith choked and childishly cast awaie Of whiche sorte of ensamples I could rehearse a nomber whereby wee be put in minde of our mortalitie and that ere we wene Sure we are to die but by what kinde of death and in what monent we knowe not We must watche therfore while we liue in this ciuill life emong men lest the sodaine necessitie of death finde vs vnprouided and not awake for we shall bee so muche the lesse able to giue an accompt of our former life the more we yelde to wickednesse and dispise the obedience of Gods cōmaundement Ye vnderstande if I bee not deceiued the beginnyng of the proudest of all other liuyng creatures full of most shamefull basenes ye vnderstande his trade of life subiecte to daungers and laboure and how many and sondrie waies he procureth his owne destruction Last of all how perilous a thing it is for a wicked manne to die whereby God doeth as it were pulle vs by the eare and call vs from the filth of iniquitie vnto repentaunce that our owne basenes frailtie fondnes and miserie set before our iyes we maie knowe that all thynges whiche can chaunce vnto vs in this worlde bee but mere vanities and muche lower estate then that of suche beginninges we should thinke our selues borne vnto pride remembryng the saiyng of Pythagoras knowe thy self which is profitable that thereby we should prepare our selues for the ciuill societie specially consideryng we be borne not to our selues our frēdes and countrey alone but also to the glory and honour of God to whom in all our doynges for all our basenes and simplicitie we hold our selues bounde ¶ The argument of the ▪ iii. Chapiter That the trade of liuyng well ought to be the beginnyng bothe of buildyng citees and of adornyng common ▪ weales MArcus Tullius a man whiche hath deserued well not onely of ciuill affaires but also Philosophicall studies in his booke whiche he hath entituled of dueties saieth the best enheritaunce that can be left to children by their parentes and more worthie then any patrimonie is the renowne of vertue and noble actes ▪ whiche who so by misdoyng defaceth doeth bothe v●lelie and wickedly It falleth out therefore so that no man must staie at that honour whiche he hath brought with hym from his kynne and house but ought by his own well doyng to enlarge thesame cōsidering y e worthy fame is beautified if it light in a worshipfull house but it is no good proofe to saie he is a gentleman borne ergo a worthy man whereby it appeareth that nothing is more disworshipfull then to staie worship onely vpon a gentle blood when he that so doeth doeth not onely by actiue meanes not encrease thesame ▪ but by naughtines disgraceth it And to this foresaid patrimonie of vertue I saied that manne naturally is prone and bent if that by ill condicions whiche haue so throughly settled them selues in hym he were not misguided There muste therefore bee some meanes deuised accordyng to the whiche as it were a childes leader the life of manne ought to bee fashioned for the settyng out whereof I will apply euery thyng in due place as nere as I am able And in deede good orderyng and disposyng of thynges in any entreatie dooeth require a very perfite placyng of eche matter lest for want thereof any thing become not euidente inough or doe not open the waie to the reader furthe right and bryng hym by a compendious meanes to vnderstande those thynges whiche he necessarie to be knowen Man therefore naturally beyng cōmonable streight vpon his beginnyng driueth at the societie and communitie of life wherein filthines of maners sette aparte he maie embrace vertue profite others and finde out some ●onest waie to further himself and to aduaunce his coūtrey But when men at the first resorted together ward the histories declare that thei wandered without any certain dwellyng place from wood to wood and denne to denne and liued by acornes Of whiche sort Herodotus reporteth there were a kynde of straie Scithianes whiche what waie so euer their cattaill straied for pasture thither thei themselues folowed wherevpon thei call theim Grasiers And some dooe write that in these new found Ilandes the inhabitauntes liue like beastes Afterward cottages and caues forsaken for suche perchaunce were their lodginges then thei began to builde houses but of clai● Whiche first of all other as Gellius by Plinius reporte writeth one Dorius soonne to Gelius made takyng ensample of the Swalloes neste whiche Iosephus seameth to ascribe to Caine Adams soonne or Ioball soonne to Lameche Afterward accordyng to thesame writers opinion twoo brethren of Athens Eurialus and Hyperbius began to build houses of bricke whiche Diodorus Siculus doeth alledge to be Vestaes doyng that was doughter to Saturne Rhea Neither were menne content so when thei had builded houses for mainteinyng their children wiues and familie but drawyng nigher to the societie of life ioyned one with an other wherevpon Aristotle the Stagerite in the first

exercise their tirannie Neither those that bee tirauntes at home can forbeare sorenners But as thei be of nature cruel mankine and haters of menne so thei can not by this euil example but all waies sucke vp blood and shewe in their doyngs all poinctes of fearcenes I shal not here neade to make any reporte of Phalaris the tyraunte whiche caused a brasen Bull to be made wherein men might bee tormented after it had been made hote to thende that in their pain thei might bellowe like beastes and not crie like menne and so moue their execucioner to pitie yet in this poincts not so cruell for that he caused Perillus first to be put therein whiche was the first deuiser of the same ingine Neither is it nedefull to rehearse the rigorous rage of Alexander Phereus whiche was wont to burie quicke menne ones face tourned towardes an other and had a delight to couer theim with the skinnes of Beares and of other brute beastes that beyng thus transformed into Beares and beastes the hunters and their houndes might rente theim in pieces A nomber of ensamples of like crueltie could I mencion in these our daies whiche were nothyng inferiour to these that bee paste in olde tyme if I thought it expedient or would giue any occasion to the Sarazen to detest christianitie But this cometh better in place which Thrasibulus wrote vnto his frende Periander of Corinthe that if he entended to compasse the estate of a Prince in his common weale and to bee strengthened therein he should destroie the chifest of the citee were thei friendes were thei foes for that tirauntes lightlie haue euen their friēdes also in suspiciō But it was as nedeles to suggeste these thinges to Periander as it were to hurle water into the meane sea or to spurre an horse that is to fearce of his owne nature or as moche in effecte as the scholer to teache the scholemaster For Periander as Aristotle writeth gaue this counsaill to Thrasibulus that he should cut of the highest of y ● corne eares that is should slea the chifest citezeins and establishe the kyngdom to himself alone Hereunto also agreeth that whiche Tarquinius the laste of the Romain kinges surnamed Superbus counsailed his sonne to do being receiued of the Gabianes as a fugitiue frō his father when as he demaūded of his father what was beste to bee dooen concernynge the citezeins he by striking of the poppie toppes insinuated priuelie that the chief men of the citee should be flaine Whiche ensamples although thei bee wonderfull monstruous and not worthie to come to any mannes knowledge yet thei be left vnto vs in writyng not without Goddes prouidence that thei mighte be a terrour to princes and magistrates that thei should not attempte the like but should perswade themselues to bee men and that thei ought to affectate nothing but mālike attēptes that thei might not tourne their gouernement to the peoples destruction and their owne commoditie but to the honour of their countrey and to the glorie of God as men to be reuerenzed not onely for maiestie but also for humanitie Howbeit by what meane sotuer these Woulues dooe endenour to chaunge their heare into Woulle like to Vertumnus to transforme theimselues into sondrie shapes yet thei can not chaunge their nature but that it will burste out and disclose the mynde as Midas was bewraied by his eares Whereby it came also to passe that men when thei could no lenger abide the vilanie contempt wronge insolencie and more then seruile yoke thoughte it beste ones to shake of this feare and to make an ende of soche odious dominacion which deuise had soche successe that there hath not ben one tiraunte whiche hath not had some miserable ende and if that bicause that the people hath been wicked he hath escaped reuengement of hand yet he hath died soche a death as hath been gratefull and wished for of all men but moste shamefull and reprochfull of all other to hymself after his death Which thinges the Chronicles do men●ion that Herode whiche killed all the infauntes in Bethleem of twoo yeres olde and vnder neither forbare his owne sonne whervpon Augustus Cesar said that he would rather bee Herodes s●we then his soonne did forsee whiche liyng at the poinct of death commaunded Saloma his sister and her housebande Ale●ius that thei should assemble all the chief of the Iewes and shutte them vp togither in a Tiltyarde and assone as he wer deade should slea them to thentent the Iewes which he knewe would reioyce at his death might mourne against their willes A miserable kinde of men truely whiche euen at their death haue this onely comforte that no man maie loue them but tourne all mennes hartes againste them that when thei lacke breathe thei maie yet doe mischief and so satisfie their furious hatred whiche thei haue conceiued against mankind Whervpon it hath been thought a godly and good deede and for the common weales behofe to banishe those wicked generaciōs with their children vtterly to expell theim as though not one whelpe of an euill beaste ought to remaine aliue For as Tullie saieth we haue no sure societie of life with tirauntes but rather extreame daunger and disagremente For it is a pestilent and wicked kinde of men and worthie to bee reiected out of all mennes companie in so moche that the Citees of Grece vsed when any man had slean a tiraunt to giue him thesame honour that was due to their goddes to ordein diuine seruice for him to make ballades and songes in his praise as though soch that saued the people and reuenged soche wickednes deserued immortall fame and renoume Albeit we must impute this vnto the Ethenickes ordinaunces which onely had respecte to that societie whiche naturall honestie reueled vnto them seyng that to take any thing from an other and peruersely to aduauntage a mannes self to an others harme is thought more to be against nature and ciuill order then death it self or any other calamitie that can chaunce either to our bodies or goodes Tullie also witnesseth that the same constitucion is in euery ciuill lawe by whiche in eche citee common weales bee gouerned that it is thought naturall to sustain all kinde of trauaill all kinde of trouble all daunger for the safetie of our citezeins naie rather for the preseruacion of all people Since that therfore this Giaūtlyke kinde of tirantes is in all poinctes so noisome so vnhoneste and so wicked that for their own aduauntage thei make no ende of robbyng and spoilyng others and of heaping wrong vpō wrong thei suffer not the societie of y ● subtectes to be in safetie but dissolue it whiche is a poinct of extreme enemitie Therefore as the profite whiche cometh to euery particulare man and to all in generall is one so euery man ought to rise and drawe out his weapon againste a naughtie Magistrate and to quenche that flame wherewith the common weale is set