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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68845	The vvorlde possessed with deuils conteinyng three dialogues. 1. Of the Deuill let loose. 2. Of blacke deuils. 3. Of white deuils. And of the commyng of Iesus Christe to iudgement, a verie necessarie and comfortable discourse for these miserable and daungerous daies.; Monde à l'empire et le monde démoniacle fait par dialogues. Part 2. English. Selections	Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571.; Chauncie, William.	1583 (1583)	STC 24786; ESTC S119207	112,768	274

Hesiodus is one of y e moste aūcient Greke Poets that wee haue And because that whiche he writeth of this matter agreeth very well with many of the pointes which Theophrastus hath alledged but chiefly out of the bookes of Apocripha whiche beare y e name of Esdras I will recite that whiche he writeth of the 4. ages speaking first of the goldē age thus muche in effect We must beleeue that Gods and men together first were framed When golden age ouerspread the yearth and Saturne ruled aboue Men liued like Gods and voide of care no labours toyle their lande Ne tedious age ne sicknesse grief did once their myndes remoue From spotlesse life from pleasaunt cheare and Death was but a sleepe And fertillyearth her pleasaunt fruites did yeeld withouten toyle Their goods were common mindes were on no hatred here could creepe O happie age whose mery myndes were placed on suche a soile Now heare what Iuuenall saith touching this Golden age In tyme past poore men liued in field without fraude or deceit And anon after he saieth Thei thought it shame and worthy death if youth by age had paste Not shewyng honour vnto them and would the bearded man Should reuerenced be of youth though thei excede in corne and Maste Suche honour beare thei vnto age suche reuerence beardes had than Tobie Iuuenall toucheth emong other pointes one wherein there is greate ouer sight at this daie For youth is now so ill manered so proud so stout so ouerwening so shamelesse and so vnbridled that in stede of honouryng their elders thei despise thē whiche is worthie of greate blame Ierom. Thei are blame worthie in deed for thei peruert both the order of God and nature for God hath giuen expresse commaundement to honour age and to reuerence the horie heared and graie bearded And though GOD had not so commaunded nature ought herein to be a Schoolemistres vnto vs except we will willingly resist her as Monsters Tobie Wee maie easilie thinke this to be true for that the Gentiles them selues were constrained to acknowledge it a dutie And thei learned not by the holy scripture and lawes of God to honour their elders for that it was not giuen and reueiled to them as to the children of God but haue learned it by lawe of nature whiche is common Schoolemaisters to all Ierom. This Schoolemaisters nature of whom thou speakest hath so emprinted this in the hartes of all men that euen thei whiche will neither heare nor obay it are neuerthelesse constrained to confesse it bothe to be right honest and of duetie as the Ambassadours of the Lacedemonians did wel declare to the Athenians For on a tyme there were certaine common Playes at Athens with Scaffoldes made wherevppon these Ambassadors were placed very honorably there was a poore old man an Athenian whiche gatt vp as the rest did but all the seates were taken vp and because he could finde no seate but was faine to stande al the people laughed hym to skorne sauyng the Lacedemonian Ambassadours whiche rise from their seates to giue hym place The Athenians seyng this courtesie liked it well and gaue them greate praise Wherby thei shewed that thei knew what was honestand praise worthie but none of them desired to haue this praise Therefore the Ambassadours saied The Athenians can iudge bothe of courtesie and honestie but thei vse it not Tobie Then are thei of the nomber of those that knowe muche good maner but vse none and surely these Ambassadours bothe shamed and taunted them as thei deserued But to come to our matter though young men dispise their elders we neede not meruaile if thei care not for their elders to whom thei owe duetie because of their age seyng there are so fewe that honour and reuerence their naturall fathers and mothers as thei ought neither can awaie with them Ierom. It is not at this daie alone that Children haue neglected their duetie towardes their Fathers and Mothers but also the one against the other and cheefly against God And therfore Hesiodus speakyng of the siluer age toucheth it somewhat to this effect The children of the siluer age did next succeede the golde Vnlike the first in wit and deede and vnder Mothers wyng Were busied in their parentes workes tell thei were waxen olde And simplie lead a toilyng life and knewe none other thyng And when thei came to perfect age and fell to shift for foode Their life did wast and pinyng care did fret their peeuishe brests And enemies styng betweene these fooles gan breede muche hatefull moode And careles thynking on their goods dispise their heauenly hests He speaketh like a heathen of their religon whiche was diuers according to the diuersitie of the Countrey for thei had diuers Gods which thei helde as Patrones as our Papistes helde of their Sainctes And because they had diuers manners of Seruices and Ceremonies and diuers vsing thereof as our Papistes haue in their religion Hesiodus condēneth those which follow not the maner of Religion of their owne Countrey And then anon after he addeth the punishment whiche God laied vpon them agreeyng to Ouid whiche had written more at large of the flood as farre as he knewe followyng the holie Scriptures as other Poets did which wrote before hym whiche is thus muche in effect When Ioue once sawe that thei dispised to yeeld the Gods their due In wrath with waues he drencht the earth and formed it a newe And from thēce he commeth to the brason age whereof he speaketh thus muche Next after came the Brasen worlde vnlike the siluer farre Men made of Okes of courage stoute delightyng muche in warre No rest no lawe a stony worlde with loftie lookes and grim No force could feare their fierie moode and large of bone and lim Tobie When Ouid speaketh of the fower ages as farre as I perceiue by that that thou hast rehearsed of his Metamorphosis he maketh no mention of the decay of strength in mans body but onely of the decrease of vertue and encrease of vice But Hesiodus writeth of bothe and me thinketh he doth not muche disagree from that whiche is written in the holie Scripture touchyng of auncestors before the flood anon after For euen at that tyme the strength of man beganne to deminishe and decaie Is it not true Theophrastus Theo. Iacob beareth witnesse of that before Pharo saiyng The whole time of my Pilgrimage is an hundred and thirtie yeres feare and euill haue the daies of my life been and I haue not attained vnto the yeres of the life of my fathers in the daies of their Pilgrimage And Dauid after hym saieth of his tyme The tyme of our life is threescore yeres and ten and if thei be of strength fourescore yeres yet their strength is but labour and sorrowe for it is cut of quickly and we flee awaie Tobie Yet notwithstanding methinkes Iacob and Dauid were long before the tyme that is compared to