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A23344 A dyall for dainty darlings, rockt in the cradle of securitie A glasse for all disobedient sonnes to looke in. A myrrour for vertuous maydes. A booke right excellent, garnished with many woorthy examples, and learned aucthorities, most needefull for this tyme present. Compiled by VV. Auerell, Student in Diuinitie, and Schoolemaister in London. Averell, W. (William) 1584 (1584) STC 978; ESTC S112712 28,627 52

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Syria Venus of Cypres Cleopatra of Egipt Lucrece of Rome with Faustin the rest Where is theyr beauty Where is theyr pompe Where is theyr Princely apparell Theyr costly chaines Theyr precious iuels Theyr ringes Theyr bracelettes And the rest of all theyr glorie Is it not in the earth Is it not forgotten What remayneth thereof to them But as a certayne man had written on his graue Hoc solum mihi super est Sepulchrum Onely this Sepulchre remaineth vnto me Euen so of all your pride of all your beautie and of all the rest of your worldlie pleasures wherein you fixe your chéefe felicitie nothing but earth remaineth to your delycate body and for your naked soule the ritchesse of Gods mercie cast away therefore these fading shaddowes and cleaue to the substaunce of assured thinges consider with your selues that whatsoeuer you possesse or whatsoeuer you vse in this lyfe it is but a vapor that swiftlie slydeth and a false flame that quicklie fadeth onely your good conscience shalbe a brasen wall and a tower of defence for you at the daye of iudgement before the presence of the omnipotent God vnto whome if you will liue wel account all worldly thinges but smoke so shall you not be pressed downe with the vanities of this lyfe but that you may without feare of conscience lyft vp your eyes to beholde the presence of your redéemer and raine with him in that euerlasting place of pleasure ❧ The punishment of disobedience shewed vppon an obstinate and stubborne Sonne who most miserablie and vnnaturallie withheld from his Parentes the needfull noutishmentes of theyr necessarie sustenaunce A notable spectacle for euerie disobedient childe to see therein the plagues of God vpon vnnaturall chyldren that withdrawe from theyr aged Parentes the duetie and loue that they ought to showe A Mongst the workes that nature hath framed we count it great deformitie for any thing to be repugnaunt to the kinde whereof it tooke increase in as much as in those sensible Creatures seperated from rationall vnderstanding and being but led by sensuall gouernement we sée an inward duetie and secrete loue that causeth the roote of thankfulnesse to yéelde foorth liuelie fruites of plentifull good will to repaye the passed paines of theyr séellie Parentes Both byrde beast fishe or whatsoeuer receyueth life is in some part endued with a certaine knowledge and loue of those from whom they had theyr being or essenciall substaunce and therefore those children vnto whome so little regard of naturall loue remaineth that they not onely derogate that dutie from theyr Parents which God and nature hath commaunded but also pursue the lyfe of theyr progenetours euen to their graues being led on with a couetous desire rather of theyr substaunce then any willing wish of theyr liues assuraunce I knowe not wherevnto I may resemble them by similitude but to the Vipers broode most full of ingratitude who not tarying theyr timelie maturitie eate out theyr Mothers sides most cruellie preparing theyr timelie passadge to the vntimelie death of theyr miserable mother and as both the Male and Female receiue theyr death by the increase of theyr vnnaturall séede the one by bearing the other by ingendring so fareth it with a great many impious children that like these Vipers vnthankefull to theyr Parentes for theyr being desire not onely the death of theyr Fathers but if any richesse or substaunce is growing to them by theyr Mothers departing like detestable séede doo also procure the death of both to the ende that lyke the Vipers they may procure theyr present being though it be to both theyr Parentes vndooing Example of this you shall perceyue in the sequell of this discourse as also the vengeaunce of God vppon the vice of disobedience being left as a clappe to dismay the mindes of such rebellious persons before the bolt of Gods vengeaunce be shot to their further punishment In the partes of Normandie there dwelt a man more renowmed for his ritchesse then fortunate in his issue who though by byrth he was to some inferiour yet for substaunce to many men superiour so that I knowe not whether he were more happie in his wealth or vnhappie in his Sonne such contrarietie was there in both these giftes of fortune that for the one he was to her beholding for the other to accuse her of disdaine But such is the vnconstauncie of fortunes giftes that amidde many pleasures the aucthour of fortune sendeth some displeasures least the forgetfull nature of man should decline from the remembraunce of his omnipotencie This man had but one onely sonne whome therefore he tenderly and delicately brought vp to mans state not bending the wyeth while it was gréene nor propping the plant while it was young by reason whereof the wyeth grew stiffe and the trée croked so that it passed Artes integritie to alter the course of natures deformitie Quo semel est imbuto recens seruauit odorem The vessell being new was at first seasoned with stinking lothsome licquor so that it was to harde afterward to remoue thereof the sauour they that will haue fine Spanielles teach them being small they that will haue good horsses bridle them being young and they that will haue vertuous Children doo correct them being Infants otherwise the dogge will not hunt the Horse will not beare nor the Chylde liue in honest behauiour but the one will snarle the other will kicke and the thyrd will stubbornelie spurne at his duetie There was adioyning to this man a certaine Knight who noting the wealth of this vnfortunate Father to returne to the possession of this his onely Sonne thought that such a masse of money as he possessed would counterpayse the simplicitie of his stocke and beare out the base ignobillitie of his byrth and therefore hauing a Daughter of comelie countenaunce adorned with the giftes of natures lyberalitie purposed to contriue a match betwixt this ritch mans sonne and his fayre daughter and wayting oportunitie brought certaine of his fréendes to perswade this seelie man to an vnprofitable match and thus he framed vnto him his spéeche Syr muse not at my wordes but fréendly waye my meaning which I intende to vtter the ende whereof tendeth to the aduauncement of your stocke and kindred So it is that fortune hath giuen vnto me a Daughter of byrth well borne of beautie sufficient and of goodes and vertuous gouernement her will I bestowe in marriage vpon your sonne which if you like shall as I hope not onely redound to your great comfort and further helpe while you are héere but also héereafter exalt your posteritie and bring your stocke vnto high renowne and gentry This will I doo conditionallie that you will make a present deliuerie of all your possessions into the handes of your onelie sonne who though by nature he shall be mooued to your sufficient maintenaunce yet will I sée that to your necessitie shall be ministred aboundauntlie the commodities are diuers that may induce you héere vnto fyrst
consider that your age requireth rest which you may take hauing once accomplished this thing then what ioy maye it be vnto your aged minde to beholde with your eies your sonne assured lie placed in your possessions who though he be your onely heire to succéede you in the same yet may be thereof preuented by death or by accident of aduerse fortune This simple man heard attentiuelie this sugred tale not considering that in smothest streames is most daungerous wading in shallowest waters most perillous sayling and in greatest places most hurtfull sléeping the Bée carrieth honny in her mouth and a sting in her tayle the Sirens sing swéetly but theyr song is the Saylers sorrow So this flattering Knight though in his spéeche appeared an outward showe of trueth yet was it but the hooke to catch this séelie fishe with all to the ende that his Daughter might come to the possession of his wealth And therefore I may liken the simplicitie of such men that cast not the disprofite of eche cause as well as the commoditie to the follie of the fishe Sargus whereof Aelianus speaketh which so vehementlie loueth the Goate that the fisherman when he purposeth to take her putteth on a Goates skin ouer his head with hornes prepareth his nettes the Sunne shining at his backe and dispearseth in the Sea Wheate sodden in porrage made with Goates fleshe the sauour thereof when the Fishe perceyueth she draweth nie delighting in the sight of the fained Goate and so is taken in the nette to her owne annoyaunce euen so these men delighted in the shaddowe of outward trueth are deceiued with substaunce of inward deceits Thus this olde man trusting to the glorious wordes of this wilie Fisher was caught in the nette of vaine beléefe that such ease and contentation should redounds to his desyre as should cause the small course of his future lyfe to be spent in fulnesse of all delyght and therefore though lothe to depart from that hee firmelie loued yet perswaded thereto by the professed fréendes of this glorious Gentleman was induced to condiscend to theyr desires The marriage daye therefore appointed the solemnities thereof were shortlie accomplished The Sonne and the Daughter the first yéere ministred to the necessitie of theyr aged Parentes plentie of all thinges the second more sparinglie but the thirde most vnshamefastlie the fowrth yéere through the suggestions of his Wife he prepared for his wofull Parents a lyttle lodging opposite against his statelie building where he might yéeld vnto them a bare scantling of necessary sustenaunce Thus these odious children as time increased beganne to immitate the nature of the Pellicanes younglings who after theyr mother hath brought them vppe to some bygnesse beginne to strike and pecke her in the face for which she being vexed in her furie kylleth them and afterward being sorie therefore she pearceth her sides with her boysterous beake tyll the warme blood issuing from her breast renueth her younglinges to newnesse of life In which similitude is comprehended the entyre affection of a mother to her children and the small requitall of children to theyr Parentes This aged and vnfortunate Father with his croaked olde Wife suffered in this state no lyttle néede and necessitie yea scarselie durst they set foote within the doores of theyr vngodlie Sonne but commaunded those things yea and requested the same which they could not want from the handes of a household seruant O myserable seruitude nay O vntollerable slauerie that he which had aucthoritie to commaund the sonne was now at the pleasure of a seruaunt In this case these two croked Creatures passed a great part of theyr toylesome time vntyll it fortuned the aged Mother out of her cottage windowe espied one daye in the house of her Sonne meate spitted and layde to the fyre ready to be roasted the sight whereof procured vnto her some hope of better fare then accustomable vse did yéelde vnto her But séeing that delaye of eyther sending for her or to her did driue her in doubt of the least parte thereof shée came vnto her aged husbande the onelie copartner of all her gréefe saying vnto him O my well beloued husbande the auncient companion of all my paines thou séest in what hungerie state we spend our withering time which requireth greatest sappe of nourishment as for me I am but a myserable mother and an vnhappy woman whome fortune hath taught to be with fewest things content But goe thou to the house of our Sonne where it may hap thou shalt fyll thy hungerie bodie with part of that meate which mine eyes by chaunce espied The olde man hearing these wordes of his fréendlie Wife leauing his aged lymmes vppon his staffe hasted to the house of his vnnaturall childe hoping to finde that fare that his hungerie heart did wishe But this wretched and accurssed childe hauing intelligence of his Fathers approche caused the meate to be taken from the fyre and priuilie conuaide the same into a secrete place least the eyes of his aged Syre should but be fedde with the sight thereof and hastelie running to méete his croaked Father in steede of reuerent spéech gaue him froward language and for honour to his siluer heaires obstinatelic shewed him a frowning countenaunce Which when the séelie simple man perceyued how frustrate he was of his longed hope dissembling the matter he presentlie returned to his former abode whose sorrowfull heart I referre to the milde consideration of euerie lenious and gentle Parent that haue felt the discourtesie of such bastards and vnnaturall slips which degenerate from the vertue of theyr auncient roote from whence they tooke theyr off-sppring Sée héere the nature of a dunghill byrd once matched in alyaunce with the noble Eagle beholde the nature of this crabtrée slippe being once grafted into the daintie Pearetrée stocke Marke well the nature of this carren Kite being entred in societie with the fléeing Faulcone consider the quallitie of this vpstart Gentleman matcht in affinitie with this new alyaunce Set a begger on horsebacke and he will gallope set a foole on a bench and he will knocke his héeles make a cobler a Courtier and who more scornefull make a iauell a Gentleman and who more disdainefull This yong youth aduaunced to this state forgot the place from whence he had his originall disdaining his Father contemning his Mother and withholding from them sustenaunce and reuerence which had giuen vnto him substaunce essence But behold the punishment of God vpon disobedience how seuerelie he reuenged this lacke of earthlie duety which by his word he hath commaunded and let it be a myrror to all vertuous chyldren that they withholde not from theyr aged parents that loue and affection which nature hath required This haggard sonne his father being gone commaunded the meate to be laide againe to the fyre the which was no sooner doone but suddenlie a monstrous ●uglie Tode violently leaping vp and downe the Chamber approched the fire side and hastelie shipping vpon
O fathers the fruite of slacke correction what foolishe pittie procureth in gracelesse children what lyttle lacke of vice and what great want of vertue corruption hath sowne in the hearts of your younglinges bring not your selues therefore vnder the yoake of your children for your shall finde it a painefull burthen The Wise man sayth Trust not to their lyfe nor regard not their labours For common experience teacheth vs in these dayes that the loue of Fathers to theyr children is verie great but the affection of children to theyr Parents verie small we sée what care Fathers haue ouer the state of theyr children and what negligence children haue euer theyr Fathers and therefore it may be saide verie well that loue by nature dooth descend but not ascend it descendeth from the Father to the Sonne but it ascendeth not from the sonne to the Father wherein the loue of the Father appeareth more and the loue of the childe lesse but what is the cause that the loue of the Father is more effectuall to the childe then the childes good will to the Father the reason is Quia radix citius putresceret quamque ramus remitteret sibi influentiam Because the roote shall sooner rotte then the braunch shall send backe his influence vnto it But somewhat to amplifie as well the duetie of children as to quallifie the vaine affection of Parents I wish all children to print this passed patterne in theyr hearts and to write the same in the table of theyr thoughts that they may learne thereby to honour theyr Parents and to cherish them in theyr latter yéeres The Wise man saith My sonne make much of thy Father in his age greeue him not as long as he liueth And againe Honour thy Father from thy whole heart and forget not the sorrowfull trauaile thy Mother had with thee It is written in the booke of Tobias Honour thy Mother all the dayes of her lyfe for thou oughtest to remember what and howe great perilles she suffered for thee in her wombe This did that Heathen man Coriolanus remember of whome Valerius maketh mention who being Consull of Rome and depressed thereof being driuen into exile by the Romaines went vnto the Volscans of whome being fréendly entertained he was made theyr Captaine against the Romaines and after many Citties taken he approched vnto Rome and comming within a thousand paces thereof they sent vnto him Orators from the Senate to intreate of peace but he would not heare them againe they sent their Priests with their Insignes adorned but he refused them at the length his Mother named Veturia cōming to the campe being suddenly espied of her sonne he cried out O mater vicisti iram meā scio quid vis O mother thou hast sayth he ouercome my anger I knowe what thou wouldest haue wherof hapned peace onely through the loue of his mother insomuch as he said more hath the loue of my mother doon then the strength of the Romains The Philosopher Aristotle sayth Dijs parentibus et magistris non potest reddi equiualens To God to Parentes and masters no man can yeeld recōpence Valerius rehearseth a notable history of a mother in Rome which had a daughter married the mother had committed a fault for which she should be burned her daughter came to the Emperor with her little child bowed her knée desiring life for her mother the Emperor sayd the case committed required death that she was worthy the same the daughter replied O mightie Emperor Princes should be mercifull not suffering their suppliants to depart without comfort yet I beséech thée O Emperor let not my mother be publiquelis put to death for how filthy will that be how ful of confusion so to die before the people but if that no pardon may redéeme my mothers life yet graunt I beseech thée that she may be condemned to perpetual prisonment there to finish her last farewel The Emperor considering y e meeknes of the daughter gaue sentence that the mother should be condemned to die in prison without any nourishment to her giuen the daughter yet craued that she might naked descend vnto her mother in the dungeon which being graunted she visited her mother in this wise O mother I came naked out of thy wombe naked vnto thee I doo descend to bring thee bread or foode was not to me permitted but as I being young did sucke thy breast to maintaine me so thou being old sucke mine to sustaine thee thus liued the mother eight dayes with the milke of her mild daughter this being showne to y e Emperor how that she was yet liuing moued him to wrath in somuch y t he would haue slaine the Jayler for that he suffred not her to famish with hunger who sware that nothing was by him administred to her the Emperor therfore marked secretlie the egresse of this kinde and louing daughter and heard her sweet and mild cōmunication and séeing her giuing vnto her mother her breasts to sucke cōmaūded this daughter to be drawne foorth of prison naked wéeping séeing the compassion of the daughter to her mother said daughter I giue vnto thee thy mother whose tender intyre good will hath deserued her deliuerance A most worthy rare example for children in these daies to immitate and folow For as saith Rauen Auelle à sole solis radium et nō lucet rinum à fonte et arescit ramū ab arbore et exiccatur membrū à corpore et putrescit separa filium à deuotione paterna et iam non est filius sed frater et collega illorum de quibus dicitur vos ex patre diabolo estis Take away from the Sun his beames and it shineth not from the fountaine his riuer it waxeth dry from the tree his bough it wil wither from the body his member it will rot so seperate a sonne from fatherly loue and then is he no sonne but a brother and a fellowe of them of whome it is sayd Ye are of your father the deuill To conclude let all children or they of what age state or calling so euer which haue Parents thinke them worthy of all honor reuerence loue feare endonoring to requite as much as in them lyeth though fully they cannot the labor trauaile the cost and care the loue losse that theyr Parents haue passed for theyr preseruatiō that they may say they haue nourished vp no Woolues to worrie them but well-willers to cherishe them that beastes in theyr nature exceed not theyr loue whom reason hath framed to excell all creatures As the Storke● that succour theyr parents in theyr aged time recouering them with theyr winges supporting them in flying and also administring to theyr noriture and necessitie Moreouer let them consider but the tender nature and kinde affection that they ought to beare vnto them being stronglie vrged thereto by reason of theyr being for by
this accurssed meate cleaued to close to the same that force nor strength could beat the same away The maide crying to her young maister with a shriking voice caused him quicklie to discerne the matter who assaying by stripes to repulse the same away wrought by Gods iust iudgement his owne punishment for this filthie Tode contrarie to natures temeritie which hath taught the same to flie the sight of man with forcible strength reuerted from the meate and respringing from the same leapt suddenlie into the face of this Lordlie sonne cleauing so fast therevnto that no art nor councell no force nor fortitude could driue the same from his accurssed fleshe but that sticking thus vnto his face many yéeres punished the wickednesse of this vngratious impe that contrarie to lawe nature disdayned the duetie due to his withered Parents But that which is most myraculous when any man touched any part of this hateful monster or endeuored to driue the same from of his face the terror of torment so assaulted his heart that it pinched the same with most vntollerable paines The fame of this woonder was spread throughout all the vttermost endes of Normandie and Fraunce the straungenesse whereof did amaze as many as heard the same causing in many children some feare and duetie to theyr Parentes and in many Fathers more carefull regard of theyr children Yet as there is no offence so bainous but by contrition auoideth Gods vengeaunce so is there no sinne so gréeuous but is pardoned by repentaunce for though the fire of Gods wrath be often kindled against our transgression yet the waterie teares of submission quencheth the consuming coles of his anger and obteineth present remission and so though this obstinate sonne had both offended his earthly Father and also incensed his heauenlie Creator yet his minde melting in humility prouoked the Lord to accustomable pittie so that after long patient and sufficient sufferaunce the Lord sent vnto him spéedy delyueraunce Drawe néere you dallying Daddes that marre the mindes of your children by excessiue and ouermuch cockering beholde the iudgementes of God that punisheth you in those thinges that you chéefely loue because you make them your Gods who ought to be theyr guides you adore them lyke Saintes which should serue you lyke Sonnes you let them run at lybertie which you ought to kéepe in straightly you minister to theyr néedlesse youth which should labour for your néedfull age you giue them all things and deny them nothing and yet you complaine that your children are gracelesse when you your selues are not therein blamelesse O Fathers remember you haue béen children remember that in your childhood the flesh did assayle yée letchery dyd burne yée lust dyd inflame yée the world dyd prouoke yée and the deuill dyd tyse yée and sith thou art a Father and hast béene a sonne sith thou art olde and hast béene young let not thy chylde liue so in youth as maye make thée wéepe in age neyther let him so follow his affection as maye cause thee wayle thy want of discretion Harke what the Wise man sayth If thou bring vp thy sonne delycatelie he shall make thee afraide and if thou playe with him he shall bring thee to heauinesse laugh not with him least thou weepe with him also and least thou gnash with thy teeth at the last giue him no lybertie in his youth and excuse not his follie bowe downe his necke whyle he is young hye him on the sydes whyle lie is but a childe least he waxe stubborne and giue no more force of thee and so shalt thou haue heauinesse of soule Saint Augustine reciteth a notable example of Cyrillus a Cittizen of Hiponenses who hauing a Sonne which he superfluously loued for that he was his onely sonne he possessed he brought him vp so delicately that he wanted nothing but had it of him willinglie denying nothing that he demaunded but graunting him all things that he requyred being as slowe to correct him as he was loth to displease him this youth consumed a great part of his fathers goodes in luxurious lyuing as a number doo with vs in these dayes which frequent the Tauerne before the Temple visite theyr harlottes with letters before theyr redéemer with teares delyte rather to sippe the cuppe of theyr concubine then to taste of the comfortable cuppe of Communion but beholde the glorie of foolish Fathers and marke the fruite of vnbridled children for being one day dronken with as much wine as his Syre was with superfluous loue he kylled his Father weake with age oppressed his Mother great with childe would haue defyled his sisters and wounded two of them vnto death O myserable and detestable impe of the deuill but sée héere O fathers what cōmeth of your too too foolish affection superfluous loue which blindeth your iudgement that you cannot will not correct the faultes of your children as the Philosopher sayth Amor et odium sepe faciunt iudicium non cognoscere Loue and hatred oftentimes peruert iudgement The cause of which maketh you to nussel them in such nicenes that they are vnfit for labor or study through corruption of idlenes the Emperor Octauian set his sonnes daughters to labor to the end y t they might if fortune failed obtaine a meane to liue in honest behauior he taught his sonnes the exercise of chiualrie his daughters to worke in wooll painefully Licurgus taught his yong children to suffer harme patientlie to doo good willingly Many examples may be héerin inserted in which I should séeme too tedious if I should prosecute them with prolixitie but because I will not be too long I will therefore conclude with breuitie shewing how this want of correction and this too fond affection hath caused Parents to be punished in theyr children Dauid for as much as he was too slacke in correcting his childrens abuses was therefore plagued in theyr oppressions how was he expulsed by Absalon How was he shamed in Amon And to be short Hely for his negligence in not correcting the offences of his children was punished of God so that in one day his sonnes were slaine he brake his necke and his daughter in lawe for sorrowe thereof trauailed with childe and died Boetius reciteth a History of Lucretius that was nourished vp of his father without discipline and correction vntyll mans state who consumed his money at dice and harlottes and being many times redéemed by his Father out of prison fell notwithstanding to ill company and conuersation tyll on a time being taken for some great offence and led vnto the gallowes his father folowing him he requested at the place of execution that he might speake with his father and that he might but kisse him before his departure and fayning the same most sharplie bitte of his fathers nose saying Father iustlie by thy meanes doo I suffer this for hadst thou but corrected me I neuer had come to this miserie Beholde héere