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A10138	The schoole of honest and vertuous lyfe profitable and necessary for all estates and degrees, to be trayned in: but (cheefely) for the pettie schollers, the yonger sorte, of both kindes; bee they men or women. by T.P. Also, a laudable and learned discourse, of the worthynesse of honorable wedlocke, written in the behalfe of all (aswell) maydes as wydowes, (generally) for their singuler instruction, to choose them vertuous and honest husbandes: but (most specialy) sent writte[n] as a iewell vnto a worthy gentlewoman, in the time of her widowhood, to direct & guide her in the new election of her seconde husband. By her approoued freend and kinseman. I.R.	Pritchard, Thomas, fl. 1579.; Wied, Hermann von. Brefe and a playne declaratyon of the dewty of maried folkes.; Kingsmill, Andrew, 1538-1569. Viewe of mans estate. Selections.	1579 (1579)	STC 20397; ESTC S115267	56,077	90

that their fréendes and Fathers be inhabitantes therin Thirdly to profit the same by worde and deede to deliuer it from bondage and captiuitie Fourthly to defend the same with maine force and to repell all violence and iniury offered thertoo Lastly to dye for the honour of thy Countrey as there are many of the Romanes and others Chronicled in Liuie at this day for the doughty defence and sacrificed blood in the behalfe of their natiue Lande and that caused Horace to say It is a méete thing tody for our Countrey Why are valiaunt Captaines honoured but that they be prompt to hazard life and limmes in the defence of their Countrey as Sir William Drurie who manfully rauished the long beséeged Castell of Edenborughe of his maidenhood an acte worthy highted honour and perpetuall praise Captaine Morgan Captaine Chester Captaine Barkley Captaine Frobusher with many other worthy English Captaines and valiaunt Gentlemen that liue in flourishing fame who so valianntly in forraine Landes finished their conflictes and bloody broyles that for seare of their manhood from time to time forraine enemies haue sainted to mollest Englande with warres Who hath not harde of the hardy enterprise of famous Frobusher and his fortunate company who haue by their trauell inritched this Lande and Countrey These and many such others worthy warriours set more by fame and immortallitie of commendacion then fumbling feare and losse of lyfe By such came the Pronerbe It is better to dye with honour than to liue with shame Such I say bee the gay Gardes of Englande their Countrey beeing worthy members therof By the ayde of these the Churles sweate and frie at the fier tasting of ease when they fréese with frost and chilling colde in daunger of death As Tullie sayde that Rome was happy to haue such a consull as hee was so maye Englande reioyce to haue procreated such valiaunt Captaynes to serue so good and gracious a Prince as cause and occasion at any time doth require Dutie due to our Parentes WEe are not onely admonished by prophane writers to féede the humors of of our Parentes but by sacred Scripture and last true Testament of our Sauiour Christ and ther in not onely in rated Law set foorth by Moyses the messenger of Iesus Christ but in places depending vpon the performable promises of Christ Iesn and his meare mercy Wherfore who voyde of grace gréeuously graueleth his Parentes is not dampned to die the second death onely by the Law of the Lord but is indangered of the fruition of his manifolde mercy promised to the séede of Adam And as the children be bound to obey and doo as dutie defineth to them so Parentes must not will but such thinges as be honest vertuous and lawfull and consonant to the word of God For wee must leaue father mother and cléeue vnto the Lord we read of many soolish fathers who béeinge enemies to the Crosse Gospell of Christ at the houre of death mooued vpon their blessinges that their children should persist therin a wicked and detestable decree of Parentes Parents ought not to commaunde their children nothinge but that whiche is honest godly and fit for their yeres and calling And in sutche God commaundeth vs to be seruiceable at their neede in worde in deede to cure their care to lay to reléeue them pressed with pouertie and to beehaue our selues to adorne their callynge and qualities by our excellencie of liuynge that their dulled humours may be indulged by vs and not impaired that they may glory in vs and not lothe vs that they may ioy in our presence and not wish our absence or dissolution of life Cicero saith what is pietie and godlinesse but obedience to our parentes Philellius writyng of the duties of children towardes their parents saieth although we can neuer repaye like curtesies and bestowe vpon them matchable benignant benefits yet children must indeuour as farre as lieth in them to regratifie them as in seruyng folowyng and accompanyng with them in executing their willes in patience and performance and if they commaunde thinges vnlawfull vngodly and vndecent not to snarre or snap quippe or carpe them for it but modestly to perswade them to the contrarie with reformable termes or to let it slippe it passing with patience ¶ Of sutche pnnishments as were appointed for vnobedient children IT will not only decipher the losse of longe life promised by God in his commaundements by shamefull death for disobedience perpatred towards our parents whiche may sufficiently reclayme vs therefro but I will adde how odious a thynge it was adiudged amonge the Heathens and Insidels to miscarie towardes them Orestes Grecus for killynge of his Mother Clitemnestra was chaunged into a féende or furious vgly Monster Nero was for the like déede doyng counted a terrible Tyrant worse than bruite beastes for the Storke beyng a brutish and sencelesse birde wil féene her Dam and progenitors ouer egged and worne with age Amonge the Romanes bée that molested his Parentes or payned them to death was wretchedly wrapped in a Bulles skinne associated with a Serpent and throwen into the deapth of the Sea. Duties towardes their Schoolemaisters IVuenall a Poet pregnant of wit peerelesse for passing pleasanntnesse of Phrase and Methode of Writinge sayth in his Satyres that many honoured their Maisters and teachers as they did their Parentes for as progenitors giue by Gods ayde bodily beeing so teachers the liuely life of the minde garnished with the garde and company of vertues beautified with mildenes of manners and nurture And truly if wée had nothingels but flesh and bones which wee haue by benefit of Parentes wee should prooue inferior to sencelesse creatures for what is it but the sincke of sinne and open sepulchre and graue of greefes without instruction and institutions of a Teacher Wherfore next to Parentes I finde them to bee reue renced of olde time though now a dayes peeuishly paltred withall Philelius commendeth obedience reuerence towards their Instructors as a meane to obtaine Learning and he explaineth it by the example of Troianus the Emperour who in all poinctes highly honoured his teacher Plutarch in so much that beeinge Emperour hee preferred him before him in all places Marcus Antonius a Romane péere so honoured his instructors that beeing deade hee had their Images made of glisteringe Golde and erected in his Cubickle and Chamber Cicero the Father of fine Phrase and fluent spéeche maketh mencion in euery of his Bookes of his Maisters and furtherers in Learninge These men knew what learning was what benefit there was by it atchiued but hammer headed horders of money set more by a penny than by the excellency of lyberall Artes and Sciences To cast Pearles amonge Swine is plaine pittie and not loyall liberalitie I will compare them to Esopes Cocke who in the Dounghill found a precious Pearle hée looked vpon it saw it cleare and bright yet knew not the precious vse and vallure thereof Oh sayth hée I had rather haue one grayne of

is Virilitie in Latten called vir to the whiche worde addinge a sillable tus Vertue is denominated as of Vir Vertue In this age Vertue must abounde for yeres yelde courage the minde is fit to further out Vertue In this age man must be fully clothed with the habite of Vertue as Prudence Iustice Temperance and Fortitude Prudence to instructe him to season his speeche there with to recorde déedes doone to dispose present affayres to suruey prudently all his businesse in his vocation to commendable ende For it is the parte of an vndeseréete man to say I had not wist or to prooue a Troian wise too late Terence saith in Adelph It is a poincte of wisdom not to looke to present but to foresee future casualties Iustice shal schoole him to pacience concorde humanitie faithfull dealyng the grounde of Vertues Temperance to obserue a meane in all enterprises sobrietie modestie and chastitie Fortitude not of body but of couragious minde and valiaunt stout stomacke to countenance forth the fury and fiercenes of fawning fortune with a goodly grace beeing pittifully pinched with pouerty especially to kepe vnder foote wicked wrath odious indignatiō of mad meaning mindes with rules of reason Plato adiudged him most valiaunte that coulde gouerne him selfe spurred to anger The last Caueat and rule rated for virilitie is so to behaue him selfe as he wisheth to bée estéemed of accompted and to labour to leade his life in loyall league of honestye hatinge accesse to the hatefull hue that dighteth man with dire defame and spiteful spots of stayned stem of liuing Olde Age béeing the sixt and last leaue taking for the excellent experience and trim tryall had in expired lot of life must be so furnished with the guiding gouernaunce of Prudence that they so compasse all and singuler their affaires in such wise and subtill forte as younge impes may be instructed therwith Cicero reporteth that olde men in his dayes were so expert and skilful in the common wealth that the guided and gouerned the same without any cause of strife or occasion of Warre Romulus the bountifull builder of Rome chose an hundreth olde Fathers whom of Senectus he called Senates to rule the same that their christall like lyuinge might bee an excellent example of prooued probitie to the youth thereof and they as Princely pictures and Images of honourable honesty had highted homage of surueyinge the same And although they knew this yrkesome age to bee rotten ripe to season and dounge the ground yet least the nature of man inthraled to the soueraignties of subtill Sathan shoulde bee blinded therewith they had ꝓrotrahed vppon their Iudiciall Seates this Posie Remember man that thou art but dust daily drawest on thertoo Further there was an olde withered wretch paynted resemblinge these bendinge backes to imbrace their Mother the ground ready to the graue that beholdinge it they might not choose but execute Iustice aright The view of olde age kept them backe from pinching the poore or iniuringe their Neighbours they followed Horace his good aduice for deprauinge them selues of worldly blisse they gyrded them to their Graues daily expecting the onset of dolefull Death What decencie is due to God and honestie towardes all men Chap. 4. THe true tutche of Vertue doth not consist in the knowledge and science therof but in exhibiting the same to reclaime the retchlesse or rather the gracelesse Groomes that flowrish the Flag of Vices and sinne And Cicero sayth in dooinge thereafter which maintayneth the stay and state therof Séeinge therefore that the excellent essence and beautifull béeing of vigent Vertue consisteth in action and daily déede of honesty I will shew how the actes of man haue their course or ought to bee directed towardes God and man and euery sortes of people Vertuous obeysance towardes God. HOnesty towards God martired for the wicked transgressions of spightful meaning man cruelly crucified rufully racked lothesomly lashed with stinginge stripes by lewde forlorne sinners consisteth in prayer and pietie towardes his personage in humble inthralment to his mercy crauinge at his handes to washe and mundises with the Well water of meare mercy our soule soncke by reason of the fraight of sinne and surge of sorrowes to the pit of Perdicion and gapinge gulfe of dread and dampnation To request with trickling teares as Dauid did that hee of his benignant beautie will rid vs of that heauy heritage and duetie due by our rufull race runned from the stocke of Adam Lactantius in his thirde Booke ascribeth vs a seconde duetie or seruice towardes our Sauiour That is to bée feruent in his cause reuealers of true Religion and publishers of practiced pietie For this onely cause and seruice to God were wee borne and created was learning inuented and all things fashioned and framed of Christ In this is wisedome as Liuie and Valerius witnesseth and as Paule teacheth and all other thinges vayne and transitorious ¶ Our dutie towardes man. CHriste in his Gospell saith Loue the Lorde thy God and thy Neyghbour as thy selfe By which we learne that the first duetie is to him wards The second towards mankinde Lactantius listning to the wordes of the Gospell affirmeth the first function of Iustice to be due to God the second to man which beeinge so if a man waxe cruell to his Brother or tirannously tire him with vexacions greefes or other anxieties of minde let him perswade him selfe to bee forsaken of God his Sauiour and to soiorne in the daungerous Denne of Dampnation least wee should be ignoraunt of our duetie Paule that precious Pearle of the Church and posting Preacher of God sheweth that wée must cloath the naked harbor the vagrant bury the dead féede the hungrie visite captiues with comfort giue drinke to the tirstie which forrunners of fayth bringeth blisse to the faithful soule of man In dooing these thinges wee should prooue our selues second Gods kinde and curteous amorous fortherers of firme and fast fréendship one to another abhorring fightinge brawlinge spite enuie mallice as prouokers of death and frying in the Fornace of Sathan Towardes our natiue Countrey PHilolius in his fourth Booke affirmeth that the olde Philosophers did set more by their natiue soyle than by their Parentes Therfore Plato sayd that our Countrey chalengeth part of our life for we are borne to prosite the same and that fiue wayes The first in trauelling for the honour and ryal renowne of the same The instinct and inclination of nature foretelleth the same For if wee come in place where our Countrey is defaced by twatlinge mates or detected of crime Nature aduersant to such assertions wil boyle in man and the fresh floish of blood appearinge in mooued moode will bewray the same and cause conflictes of parties as often times it hath beene knowen the like accidentes to come to passe Secondly in instructing the same with politicke councell which I take to be addicted as perticuler function to Preachers who of nature ought to labour therein for

good tokens and markes wherby to make your choice as by the fruite to iudge the Trée for so saith the Booke of Ecclesiasticus in the .xxvij. Chapter The worde declareth the harte the talke is the tryall of men Yet because these are rather probable coniectures then sure demonstracions for Fame oftentimes lyeth therefore when you haue caste the whole and the somme yet God is all in all this matter and the onely maker of good Mariages Bee free then from worldly businesse he cleare from carnall affections cast your hope vpon God depend vpon his prouidence commit the matter wholy to his handes resorte and flye to him with oft and earnest prayer for that when all other wayes bee tryed is the plainest to seeke the surest to trust and the readiest to finde for such as seeke good Wiues and good Husbandes You haue a good example in the .xxiiij. Chapter of Genesis how Abraham proceeded in the Mariage of his Sonne Isaac You haue there the praier that the seruaunt of Abraham made to whom the charge therof was committed how hée entringe his iourney desired God to prosper him and to shew mercy vnto his Maister Abraham and that God according to his faithfull prayer gaue him a token wherby hée chose the vertuous Virgin Rebecca For her Parentes when they perceaued that God wrought with man could not deny their good will vnto Isaac but answered This thing is proceeded of the Lorde we cannot therfore say vntō thee eyther euill or good You haue also there the exercise of Isaac how he was occupied in the meane time while Rebecca was taken out of his Ryb hée wente out to praye in the Féelde towardes the euening and Rebecca first found him so occupied This is all my good Cosin that I haue now to be sayd Giue your selfe ouer wholy vnto God to bee your guide Let your eyes be so earnestly bente vpon him as they were wont to be vpon your Mistreste whom you haue heretofore serued Then shall God no doubt giue you as a portion to the rightuous hée shall so ioyne you that man may not seperate you Christ shal bee present with you as at the Mariage of Cana hee shall conduct you with his holy spirit he shall turne your Water into Wine hee shall make the sower sweete and prosper all your affaires In the meane time while God worketh bee not you ydle but practise your selfe in Isaackes exercise and God shall sende you an Husbande of his kinde euen a faithfull Sonne of Abraham a chosen Childe of god Yea God shal sende his Aungell to lead that man vnto your house euen as hee brought Tobyas vnto Sara at the house of her Father Raguell And as my poore prayer may helpe I will become your faythfull Orator I will beseeke the Lorde God to guide you with his holy spirite to prouide you an Husband for your comfort and to graunt you long to liue and loue togeather to your desired hartes ease and vnspeakeable quiet And so I leaue to trouble you and betake you to God who I am sure will neuer forget you if you repose your whole confidence in him Yours to commaund during lyfe I. R. This faythfull pledge of true intente With trustie harte is truely mente FINIS THE GLASSE of godly Loue. Wherin all maried couples may learne their duties each toward others according to the holy Scriptures Verye necessary for all maryed men and women that feare the Lorde loue his lawes to haue it in their Bedchambers daily to looke in whereby they may know and do their duties each vnto others and leade a godly quiet and louing life togeathers to the glory of God and the good example of their Christian Bretheren Iames. 1. See that ye be not only hearers of the worde but also doers least that therby yee deceaue your selues Colossians 3. Aboue all thinges put on Loue which is the band of perfection To all Christian men and women that are maryed FOrasmuch as the Diuel is most ready to make strife where there ought to bee most loue and hath with heddy wilfulnesse concupiscence and ignorance soblinded the hartes of those which liue vnder the yoke of Matrimony that as I may iudge by their fruites there be very few that leade their lyues therein according to the lawes of Christe Therfore my deare welbeloued Christians which professe the Gospell to the intent that you should liue therin according to your profession and knowledge I haue here breefely and plaincly set forth what it is and how you ought to leade your lyues therin accordinge to the Rules of the holy Scriptures so that your pure and godly lyfe may bee a good example and also make such ashamed as would sclaunder the holy Gospell and professours of the same yea and that their wonted worde which is marke these new men by their lyuinge may sound to Gods glory to the honour of his most holy worde and praise of al them in Christ which do professe the same Farewell in the Lorde YOu shall first vnderstande that Wedlocke is an hie and blessed order ordained of God in Paradise which hath euer bin had in great honor and reuerence whern one man and one woman are coupled and knit togeather in one fleshe and body in the feare and loue of God by the frée louing hartie and good consent of them both to the intente that they two may dwel togeather as one flesh and bodye of one will and minde in all godlynesse most louingly to helpe and comfort one another to bring forth children and to instruct them in the lawes of god Also to auoyde Fornication and all vncleanenesse and so in all honesty vertue and godlynesse to spend their liues in the equall partakinge of all such thinges as God shall send them with thankes gyuinge And because that the Wife is in subiection to her Husband I will begin with her shortly declare what dutie and obedience shée oweth vnto him by the commaundementes of the Scriptures Ephe. 5. The duetie of the Wife to her Husband SAynct Pawle sayth Yee Wiues submit your selues to your owne Husbandes as to Lorde for the Husband is the Wiues head as Christ is the head of the Congregatiō Therfore as the Congregation is in subiection vnto Christe likewise let Wiues be in subiection to their Husbandes in al thinges So that the wife must bee obediente vnto her husband as vnto Christ himselfe whereout it foloweth that the saide obedience extendeth not vnto any wickednesse or euill but vnto that which is good honest and cumly In asmuch as God delighteth onely in goodnes forbiddeth the euill euery where it foloweth also that the disobedience that a wife showeth to hir Husband displeaseth God no lesse then when he is disobeyed himself For the wife ought to obey hir husband in all pointes as the Congregation to Christe which loueth Christ onely and aboue all thinges shee is glad and willinge to suffer for Christes sake shee doth all for the loue