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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

of him Christe only is her romfort ioy and all togeathers vpon Christe is hir thought daye and night shée longeth onely after Christ for Christes sake if it may serue to his glory shée is hartely well contented to die yee shee giueth ouer her selfe wholly therto for Christes loue knowing assuredly that hir soule hir honour body lyfe and all that she hath is Christes owne Thus also must euery honest Wife submit hir self to please hir Husband with all hir power and giue hir selfe fréely and willingly to loue him and obey him and neuer to forsake him till the houre of death And farther sayth S. Peter Let the Wiues be in subiecton to their Husbandes that euen they which beleeue not the worde may without the worde be wonne by the conuersation of the Wiues while they beholde your pure conuersation coupled with feare whose apparrell shall not bee outward with brodred haire and hanging on of Golde either in putting on of gorgious apparrell but let the hid man of the harte bee vncorrupt with a meeke and quiet spirit which spirit is before God much set by for after this manner in the olde time did the holy Women which trusted in God tire themselues and were obedient to their Husbandes euen as sara obeyed Abraham and called him hir Lorde whose Daughters ye are as long as ye do well And Paule speaking vnto Tytus sayth hée Let the elder Women be in such apparrell as becommeth holinesle not beeing false accusers not giuen to much Wine but that they teache honest thinges to make the young Women sober minded to loue their Husbandes to loue their Children to be discrete chaste huswifely good obedient vnto their Husbandes that the worde of God be not euill spoken of VVhat a Wife ought to bee HEre may you learne that a Wife ought to be discret chaste huswifely shamefast good méeke pacient and sober not light in countenance nor garishe in apparrell with dyed or curled haire painted nor pasted but with a cumly grauitie and a sad behauiour of a constant minde true tongued and of few wordes with such obedience in all godlynesse to her Husbande and head as it beseemes a Christian to haue vnto Christ and to the intente that the Husband in like case may learne his duetie let him harken what Sainct Pawle sayth and take heede that hee turne not his authoritie to tyranny The dutie of the Husband to his Wyfe HVsbandes loue your Wiues sayth hée as Christ loued the Congregation and gaue him selfe to sanctifie it Now must you vnderstande that the Husbande is the Wiues head as Christe is the head of the congregation and Christ showeth to the congregation the same thinge that the head showeth to the bodye for like as the head seeth and heaveth for the whole body studieth and deuiseth for to preserue it in strength and life euen so doth Christe defend teach and preserue his congregation For hee is the eye hart wisedome and guide therof so ought Husbands then to loue their wines be their heads in like manner to show them like kindenesse and after the same fashion to guide them and rule them with discretion for their preseruacion not with force or wilfulnesse to intreat them And S. Pawle saith farther So ought men to loue their wiues as their owne bodies he that loueth his wife loueth himself For no man hath at any time hated his owne flesh but doth nourish and cherish it euen as the Lorde doth the Congregation Therfore ought euery man most fernently to loue his wife equally with himselfe in al pointes for this is the measure of mutuall loue Matrimoniall that either partie haue nothing so deare that they can not be contented to bestow one vpon another ye and if neede should be they should also not spare their owne liues one for another no more then christ did for his congregation And like as when we repent and beléeue in the promise of God in Christ though we were neuer so poore sinners are as ritch as Christ al merites ours so is a Woman though she were neuer so poore afore she was maried as ritch as hir husband for all the he hath is hirs ye his owne bodye and hath power ouer it as saith Sainct Pawle And if it so chaunce that you finde not your wife so perfect in al pointes as you would or as your selfe yet must you not dispise hir nor bee bitteer nor cruell vnto hir for hir faultes but gently and louingly seeke to amend and win hir For like as Christe thought no scorne of his church dispised hir not neither forsooke hir for hir vncleanenes and sinnes so should no christian man spurne at his wife nor set light by hir because that sometime she falleth offendeth or goeth not right but euen as Christ nourisheth and teacheth his church so ought euery honest husbande also louingly and gently to informe instruct his wife For in many things saith S. Peter God hath made the men stronger then the women not to rage vpon them to be tirantes vnto them but to helpe them beare their weakenesse Bee curteous therfore saith hée and win them to Christ and ouercome them with kindenesse that of loue they may obey the ordinance that God made beetwéene man and Wife Oh how ashamed be those men to loke vpon this texte which with violence in their furye will intreate their wiues no beast so beastly for in the most cruelst way is not mete as when the wife is sad and disquieted then with spiteful wordes and wanton fashions so prouoking hir to anger Where it is not the dutie of the husband but rather ashamed to his owne head likewise it is worship for a man to haue the feare of the Lorde before his eyes that he prouoke not the plague of vengeance Let vs therfore haue humilitie in our hartes For as a wise man loketh well to his owne goinges euen so pleasant are the wordes spoken in due season which moueth the woman in hir wrath vnto patience whereof Salamon sayth Faire wordes are an Hony Combe a refreshinge of the minde and a health of the bones For it is seldome seene that any beast is found in the cruelst rage that the Male doth euer hurte his Female and how vnnatural a thing is it for a man to hurt his owne flesh and body Who will violently reuenge himselfe yea on his foote if it chaunce to stumble but wil not rather if hee haue an yll bodye cherish it to make it better The strong saith S. Pawle ought to beare the frailenesse of the weake let one suffer with another beare ye one an others burden and so shall ye fulfill the lawes of Christ and aboue all thinge sayth S. Peter Haue feruent loue amongst you for loue couereth the multitude of faultes So that loue in all things and at all times ought to bee the whole doore and only instrument to worke and frame all things betwéene man and wife VVhat the Husband ought to

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

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 specially sent writtē 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. Imprinted at London by Richard Johnes and are to be solde at his shop ouer against S. Sepulchers Church without Newgate Printed in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth Vide P. 41. To the worshipfull Maister Richard Euerard Thomas Pritchard wisheth continuance of health wealth and prosperitie IF benefites bountifullye beestowed may whet dulled senses or taste of receaued curtesies spurre the cowarde Knight to hazard him selfe I haue good cause occasion to venture the reproch of people rather than to suffer so lyberall a Micenas to lose deserued fame or my selfe to bee spotted with ingratitude the Mother of vices which the Romanes so spited and enuied at that they attached therwith were as fellones fully executed to death Supposinge therfore it to bee least approchfull to set foorth to the gaze of people my ignorance and to participate with the world my silly sentences than that my ingratefull acceptions of your liberalitie should either impaire so laudable a qualitie grafted in your mind or stop the same to my Successors Wherfore though that your Worships children bee so vertuously trayned vp that they neede not the instructions of so base a Booke yet J hope it may reclayme the rude rablement of people to lead a better more lawdable lot of life Whose reconciliacion to Vertue can not bee with out your condigne praise that disdayned not to patronise my trauell tendring the same Which though grosely fumbled vp yet your curtesie is such that you wil consider of my meaninge and weye good will more than this papers Pamphlet declaringe the same Alexander Kinge of Macedonia did not weye the cup of water which Synaetes imparted vpon him but his good wil so J trust my pretence wil bee accepted more than the thing J greete you with all And therupon I commit you to Gods good gouernment Yours to commaund Tho. Pritchard What is an honest lyfe of what it consistes and what it profiteth Chap. 1. AFter that Christe created all thinges for the behoofe of man as Brastes and Birdes fishe and fleshe in the precinctes of the wicked worlde Lastly our Sauiour made man gouernour of all and as a Stewarde to vse these his creatures to satisfie nature not lust to set forth his glorye and not to feede his gluttony to publishe and blaze abroade Christ his potencie and not like epicures impiously to abuse the same The better to busie him in his stewardship to the intente hée might giue iust accompt therof to his Creator hée hath neede of the habite of honestie to exile traiterous inuentions and to bathe him selfe in the Fonte of Vertue to abandon conspiring affections And hauing flighted the tumult of vices hurliburly of sinne and qualitied the flames of the fleshe to addicte him selfe to lawfull and honest lot of lyfe Which integritie of liuing is nothing els but in a trade of loyall lyfe to passe brutish creatures and to apply our selues to that which is to God gladsome and associate to Vertue Vertue is to flée vice and to kéepe your selues in the bandes and bulwarkes of honesty Sainct Austine teacheth vertue to bée the prescribed meane to liue well and godly Mantuan the Poet largely deciphereth what vertue is vttereth these wordes in her owne person I vigent vertue do dash the doome of fierce fortune the scourge of vices the banisher of iniquitie doo dight and trim the mortall with the fine and fresh hue of perpetuitie I lyst and exalte man made of dust and ashes to participate ioyes immortall The Sunne can do nothing with his bright beames and splendant goulden Banner the Moone with her light and christall clearenesse the Starres with their twinckling glances without my presence If I perishe mischiefe mounteth gluttonie gloryeth vice vaunteth pryde is pampred fayth infeebled religion contempned and finally for demure manners miraculous murders for pietie prauitie and for heauenly contemplation inuasion of wickednesse Plutarch in his Booke of bringing vp youthe showeth the effectes thereof defininge her vnder the habite and title of Philosophie sayinge that Vertue doth declare what is good and godly foule and fulsome how wée should behaue our selues towardes our Parentes our elders straungers Officers Magistrates fréends seruaunts and all others As to giue God duetifull reuerence to Parentes humble obeysance to Magistrates lawful obedience to bee modest to inferiors not puffed with pryde in prosperitie nor desperate in pouertie not prone to pleasure méeke and gentle still obseruinge the merry meane adiudged vertue Lucillius that passing Poet sayth that it is a vertue to know the good from the bad to decline from vicious and vnsatiable affections and to labour to attayne honour through newnesse of life and amendment of manners The deuision of Vertue CIcero that gay Gardener and cunning Arborer hath grafted vpon this Trée of Vertue foure braue branches out of which bud many springing sproutes very necessary and spectant to perfection and heale the miserable maymes of mans life That is Prudence Iustice Temperance and Fortitude which foure as in appellations diuerse so in proofe and practice dissonant Yet the true genitors of honest lyfe and meane methode of lyuing which Macrob. witnesseth in his Booke De somnio Scipionis particularly imparting to each of them a seueral goodly guist of action To Prudence polliticke conueiance and duetifull direction to wil that is good and godly sincere and sauery and to dissanull nought and noysome and with diuine prouidence to be prompte and ready to shunne iminent daungers To doughty Dame Fortitude it is as duety addicted not to feare fainting fittes not to be dismayde but with criminous assertions or fulsome factes not to bee lulled in the Cradell of Securitie in pleasaunt prosperitie nor yoked with misery to pant in pouertie This Fortitude is not mans might or stubberne strength of the armes onely but it must growe to the habite of vigent Vertue and bee garded and gouerned with preceptes of reason inuironed with the institutions of milde manners and merry meane which shall yéelde the possessor magnanimitie in countenaunce constancy in assertions and couenauntes bountiful magnificencie and vaunted valyantnesse To Lady Temperance is adioyned this sway in mans life that the possessor may not couet thinges worthy repentance nor perpetrat the desert of Peccaui inthraling his affections to the yoake of reason This loyall Lady hath to her associate and handmaydes

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

Barley or other corne than a bushell of these bright stones So it fareth with the Countrey clownes they had rather saue a penny then profit their Children in learning the reason is because they know not how excellent it is and that a man without learninge is an Image of death Of those which contempned their Maisters and teachers WIcked Nero whose diuelish deede to his Motherward condempneth for a reprobate and abiecte is noted of all writers of ingratitude towards his Maister for hee was the death of Seneca his Teacher that lewds lob and dissolute Tirantt bad him chuse his death hee tooke a Pen knife and launced all the vaynes of his body and so killed him selfe as his name soundeth for Senecaus is his name that is slayinge him selfe Beroaldus in prouerbiall discourse inueyinge against the tiranny of wicked Nero sayth hee is to bee spitted and spited at that will infame his teacher or Maister they fret and fume chide and chafe to pleasure and profite their Schollers wherfore of right they may require and of dutie demaund furtherance at their handes Duties towardes ourfreendes EXperience hauing taught mee that very fréendes allied by nature adoption for curteous behaniour to haue sallen at debate and with dint of beyslerens blooddy blowes to haue cleane battered the Forte of fréendshippe and Bulwarkes of professed amitie I thinke and suppose that fury to haue yssued of ignorance and lacke of duetie allotted to the professed vertue to exile such falshood in fellowship and bloody bickermentes I wil shew how they harboring in the Hauen of Amitie may escape the surge and Sirtes of Dissension and for the maintaynance of the loyall league of true loue let them obserue sixe principall preceptes First doo not exigate or demaund at thy associate in louing league any vnhonest exployte or perpetrate and commit a deede of naughty demeanure to cracke his credite or sommon him shame Secondly not like a fléeting Swallow to accompany thy fréend in prosperitie and to further a faire face of frendship and in dule and dire distresse to suffer him to cast the cardes of colde comfort alone In the Sommer a man may haue the chirping chat of the swallow but in Winter compared to aduersitie shee vtterly forsaketh thee Such bee flatterers and not fréendes Thirdely to will and nill all one thing one studie one exercise for Cicero sayth diuersitie of things aske diuersitie of lyuinge Fourthly that wee doo not to our freend but as wee woulde hée should doo to vs for true and trusty freends haue one minde one harte in two bodies Fifthly not to loue or beare a signe and shewe of freendship in hope of happy rewarde for wee ought rather to gine than to aske Last of all fréendly obeysaunce according to callinge not as some which because they thinke a man to bee their freende will presume to robbe him of his honour vpon which spronge vp the Prouerbe To much familiaritie breedeth a contempt Such be not freendes but robbers of mans honour and Theeues hauinge the Cloake of freendshippe on vnder which they steale a mannes worshippe or callinge from him In the chusing of a fréend in déede wée must know him to bee of good conuersation and behauiour than wée must haue an eye to his manners gestures and conueyances and examine them whither they bée sufferable and whither without grudge of conscience wee may tollerate them els wee were better neuer to associate our selues to suche a mate for it will bée an occasion of sedition and anger It is aduersaunt to the rule of Fréendship to correct thy adopted fréends before a congregacion or to giue him hase termes inferior to his callinge which may ingrasse the like boldenesse in the hearers to afforde thy fréend the like and so thou shalt bee a means of lowtishnesse to him whom thou seemest to loue Finally I must admonish fréendes not opprobriously to obiect kindenesse tendered them in their aduersitie nor hauing imparted vpon them some good turne to misuse the partye supposing him bound to obey for the receipt therof which I haue noted in a froward fréend of mine Such kindenes Cicero repineth against saying true fréendship abstayneth from cause of dissension Dutie towardes olde age THe Romanes schooled in Cicero his trim tracte of dueties made a Law that whosoeuer passed by the elder sorte of Cittizens without obeysance of Benet and bowinge of bones should bee punished by the head which as I conster to bee beheaded or els to stand a shamefull Anathemat yoaked in Pillory to the vtter cracke of their credite Age is the crowne of honour for that it is the Cheste of prudente experience and supposition of honestie els had hee beene cut off before hee had attayned thereto Ouid sayth that they are to be borne withal for the infirmitie of age aboundance of choller collected through the want of naturall heate to disgest humors heaped in their crushed carcasses And for that the state of the common Wealth is and hath euer beene committed to their discreete rule and gouernance not only prophane Authors ascribe them duetifull reuerence but it is specified in Scriptures that wée might more reuerently accomplish and performe the same Towardes Matrones and Women I Am not ignorant that dowltish dottrels haue spitefully sought to spoyle Women of their honour inferring paltry proffers to forder their furious frowardnesse and spite conceaued against them out of canckered péeuishe Poettes which altogeather voyde of good nature manifestly shew the mayme of nature which so greenously graueleth them that they indeuour to insinuate and flatter mankinde to forsake woman the only solace ioye and Iewell of the world Amonge whom Albertus that malicious man bewrayed their imperfection more of spite than of necessitie or thinge spectant to the knowledge of man his beastlinesse shall condempne him a Traitour to Women and they the trimme treasure of man foule and fulsome lewde lothsome is that beastly birde which besmerth his owne neast What worde is so base what terme so wicked or name so odious as may fit this forderer of mischeefe to woman kinde being his nusted neast and carefullest kindred O odious Albert and you abiecte outcast kistrels who forgettinge your byrth and beeinge to haue depended of women ryotously raue and desperatly deuise vndiscretly to discouer their naturall impersections as though it lay in them to bee rid thereof Recante yee silly cinicall sectes your eyes condempne your worke your toungues at the view of beautifull daintie Diamondes cry Peccanimus Your Penne panteth for greefe to haue inueyed against honest Matrones yea as shame of Albertus his deede weynd him to woe and misery so no doubt such mischéeuous searchers of maymes towardes their owne Mothers shal be dismisde with the like rewarde Sainct Peter a man of milder opiuion said A woman to be a crowne of honour to a man and to be borne with all as the weaker vessell and should not extende crueltie towardes them neither in worde nor déede For ther

's is no Tiger so terrible or fierce no lion so lewde or cruel no Beare so bare and voyde of gentilenesse or naturall clemencie as to payne or pinche gréeue or molest their pammes mutche lesse man indued with reason I can compare them to no creature but to vipers which recompence their dammes which bare them in gnawyng their guttes Because there be but few that so sclander onslie defame the stately stemne of women the onely porte of the world and sure sollace of man I will bee take mee to scilence Dutie towards our enemies IT may séeme straunge to the nature of man so siercely geuen to reuenge that any league or loyaltie or manhood should be obserued betwéen furious snes or enemies Except he hath read it in Historiagraphers who exhibitted to the gaze of mens bluddie broyles and warlike tradicions in whiche is specified the lawe of armes how truce is concluded estsoones a certeine space which to violate or defile the corage and valiant stoute stomacke of venterous Captaynes cannot be brought or perswaded vnto Cicero affirmeth in his first booke of duties that faith boluntarie plighted and aduisedly geuen to our foes is to bee obserued and parte performed and in very déede it is a poynt of brutish beastelinesse for to strike without admonishion or caueate Terence sayd the wiseman will demurre of the matter before hée fight But Vertue admonisheth vs not to fight but to bée armed with her handemayde dame Patience but if Choller spurre thee to it I thought good to shew how infierce dealynge wée must prooue men and not beastes Liuie the Marciasist Poet saith That wée ought not to fight but for Peace and quietnesse And forgeuynge is the noblest reuenge that may bée Men ought not to iarre or iangle for euerte triffle for of sufferaunce commeth ease And as the English man sayeth It is good slepynge in a whole skinne Dutie due to Straungers or Traueilers DOughtie and dutifull Dido Quéene of Carthage to the instruction of people how they should entertaine straungers and tired trauelers So feasted Eneas and his accompanied troupe of trimme Troianes with daintie diet and royal hospitalitie that to this day her bountifulnesse towarde straungers is fresh and vigent in memories of men And Virgill thought it worthe the while to Chronicle in his booke so notable a facte and to waste his winde in deciphyring the manners thereof The Romans forwarde in good déedes and courteous conueiance who indeuoured to prooue famous for executynge vertuons actions gaue and imparted the office of the Consulshippe vpon Torquinius and the Pretorshippe to Numa Pompeius béeyng straungers which argueth greate lenitie and force of Vertue habitante in them And Beroaldus and Liuie affirme that Iupiter was feared of sutche as miscaried towarde poore Peregrines and strayinge straungers And the Gentiles kepte hospitalitie consecrated to Iupiter the reuenger of distoyaltie offered them Plautus in his Commedie called Paen. Reproueth one sharꝑely for deridynge and scornyng of siraungers Plato pardoned no fault doone to them the Scripture say Hée is accurst that leadeth the blinde which is a very straunger out of his way but now they haue giuē him Drummes intertainment soone in at doores and sorier out light come light goe None is so derided mocked and laughed at as straungers now in England they bee punisht whipt plagued on euery side there is no sparks of Roman kindenesse in them no whit of Dido his bountifulnesse byding in them which is an occasion of slaunder to this our natiue Soyle Duetie towardes our Maysters whom wee serue bound or free ALl that goe vnder the name of Seruauntes must obserue these foure wayes towardes their Maisters whom they daily feede vpon and recreate their bodyes by their prouision as well in nightfull reste as daylis dyet First it is spectant to the execution of seruile function to bee prest ready and willing to finish the rated busines of their Maisters not as Snayles slowly settinge it forwarde but with couragious dilligence delightinge therein Secondly not glaueringe or flattering their Maisters in their presence and in their absence fraudilently to deceane them a thing though it scape the chasticement of man yet it can not passe the iust reuengement of God for hee hateth the wicked dissemblinge man and falshood stinketh in his presence prouoking his déepe displeasure The thirde Plautus teacheth vs sayinge a seruaunte must forsake and abolishe from his minde all priuate gaine and onely heede his Maisters profit and deale iustly therin Fourthly to bee silent when they bee mooued though choller so blindeth them that they swarue from the truth and not to answere Quid pro quo as their equals and not to blab abroade their fables talkes or suruey in compassinge of matters prouokinge their iust displeasure or lewdly lust after their Wiues or Seruauntes The last duety is towardes Magistrates and Officers MAgistrates and Officers beeinge the liuely limmes and members of our gracious Quéene and Godly Gouernesse are dutifully to bée obeyed for where there is no order sayth Oliuerus Carnaruonensis there is sempiternall horror and pathe to perdition In what doo wee differ from brutish beastes but in order and lawfull league of life Liuie sayth if the armes and feete and other mans members fal out with the head they must all perish if the Subiectes contempne Magistrates executioners of the Lawe both Prince and Subiectes must taste the gale thereof God sende the breach of order bée not the ouerthrow of England and stubbernesse against our Princes Lawes Decency deuised to fit all seasons TO aduaunce honestie and shewe Dame Vertue to be fully famylied and habitant in vs wee must haue respecte and consideration of time and place for if our talke be not consonant to them both it argueth litle learninge or hoped hap of Vertue A learned and vertuous man in deede needeth no further commendacion but to presse in place where hee may shew his actions allied to Vertue and knowledge arguinge probitie of life and perfect published manners Macrobius sayth the due obseruation of time and place to bee the surest signe of wisedome And Pyttacus Mitillus wisheth a man before hée enterprise any exployte to consider and pithily to perpende to whom hee sueth what hee sueth for and when As we reade of one Clobulus who came to Caesar inthralled to wrathe to request admission to haue dominion in a Promontarie appertaining to his Empire Caesar fretting at other losses commaunded him to bee hanged sayinge it is better to hange thee by the necke than thou shouldest spoyle the Countrey and spurre many thereto Thus it falleth out with such as desire so dasieth that they can not see or to obserue time fitting their purpose Hereupon Terence sayde I came in season which is the chéefest thinge of all Which that it may the better bee heeded of children and others I will speake somwhat of How to vse thy selfe at a Banket AT Banckets or feastes where multitude of men are resembled and towled to repast haue consideration