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A00808	A diamonde most precious, worthy to be marked instructing all maysters and seruauntes, how they ought to leade their lyues, in that uocation which is fruitfull, and necessary, as well for the maysters, as also for the seruants, agreeable vnto the holy Scriptures. Reade me ouer, and then iudge, if I be not well, then grudge: thinke well of him that mee made, for Gods worde shall neuer fade.	Fit John, John.	1577 (1577)	STC 10929; ESTC S117750	53,823	110

in his life and after her prayer made vnto God she tooke asworde that hanged by and tooke him by the heyry lockes and with two strokes vpon the neck smot of his hed Antonius a Ruler a vāquisher in many battails had so laden himselfe with wine that as he sate to giue iudgement in the Tribunall Seate in the morning was constrained to vomite Puer These mē did drinke wyne and were dronken with excesse and it made bitternesse and sorrow vnto their minds I confesse dronkenesse filleth the mind of the flesh with shame as it did vnto Noe Lot and Antonius and to the rest I haue hard say that Sisera was dronk was slain of Iahel although his drink was milk not wine Ciuis It was so as the story doth declare The Apostle sayth be not dronken with wyne wherein is excesse Wo be vnto them that rise vp earlye to vse themselues in dronkennesse and yet at night are more superfluous with wyne Wo be vnto them that are cunning men to suppe out wyne and expert to sette vp dronkennesse Be not thou a wyne biber for as I haue told you wyne hath destroyed many a man The fyre proueth the hard yron euen so doth wine proue the harts of the prowd when they be dronken A dronkarde sayth the Apostle or extorcyoner with such shall ye not eate but put away from you him that is euill The Elder men be sober not geuen to muche wyne Keepe no company with wyne bibbers and royotous eaters of flesh for such as bee Dronkards and roioters shal come to pouerty Wine inordinately taken doubleth mans reason maketh euill vnderstanding infeebleth remembraunce sendeth in forgetfulnesse poureth in errours and bringeth forth sluggishnesse Hee that is geuen to much sleepe shal go with a ragged coate Puer This saying is verifyed by our old priest in the Countrey for ragged and drowsye he is and lightly is neuer frō the Alehouse but when he goeth to the Mattens and Euensong if hee did perceyue and printe these sayinges in his mynde he would be ashamed thereof yet hee thinketh himselfe wyser then seuen men that sit and teach Ciuis They lack good gouernmente whereas it is and a good Pastour or a Sheapehearde whiche is carefull to suppresse all manner of vyce Salomon sayeth Giue Kinges no wyne giue Kinges and Princes no strong drinke lest they forget the Law and regarde not the cause of the pore and needy geue strong drinke and wyne vnto such as are condēned to death and wyne vnto those that mourne that they maye drinke it and forget their miserye and aduersitye Puer The Lord GOD be mercifull vnto vs and geue vs grace one to pray for another that the same vyce of dronkennesse might be rooted out whereby they may become new mēbers of our Sauiour Christ For he destroyeth both the righteous and vngodlye what a myserable estate are they in to vse their selues in such disorder Ciuis I pray God that thou doest remember this another day be bolde if you come where any such vyce is vsed to say speake euery man the truth vnto his neighboure execute Iudgement truely and peaceably within your portes none of you imagine euill in his harte agaynste his neighbour Puer I gather out of this saying that whych I would it were well noted and followed then they woulde neyther lye nor deale falsely one with another Ciuis Then all bitternesse and fearefulnesse and wrath and roaring and cursed speaking shold be farre from you with al maliciousnesse but be you wheresoeuer you shall dwell curteous one to another merciful and forgeue one another euen as GOD hath forgeuen you in Christ Come not in the path of the vngodlye and walk not in the way of the wicked eschew euill and goe not therein departe aside passe ouer Puer I thanke you for your counsel but I pray you now let vs passing along by the way haue some more of the communication howe the duety and vsage of the Maysters at London and howe their Apprentises are bounde Ciuis I will tell you how it is as breefely as I canne Fyrst of the duety of maysters and so consequently as tyme doth serue of the Seruauntes Puer You shall doe very well vnto me for you haue bene a good instructer to me I pray God that I may beare it wel in memorye Ciuis You say well I haue read in the first Epistle of S. Paule to Titus the second chapter That the elder men be sober honest discreete sounde in the faith in loue in pacience and the elder women like wise that they should shew themselues as it becommeth holynesse that they be no false Accusers not giuen to much wyne that they teach honest thinges that they informe yong womē to be sober minded to loue their husbands to loue their Children to be discrete chast huswiuely good obedient vnto their own husbands also he saieth in the same chapter exhorte the yong men likewyse that they be sober mynded Puer What doth S. Paule meane by the elders Ciuis That is a mayster a gouernour ouer his houshold Puer Is that his meaning well I vnderstand that but yet you come not to that I loked for Ciuis I will doe then as nigh as I can but I would be loth to do cōtrary to the saying of S. Paule to Timothy in the. v. Chapter Puer What saith he Ciuis He sayeth if any man teach otherwyse and agreeth not vnto the wholsome words of our Lord Iesus Christ and to the doctryne of Godlinesse he is pufte vp knoweth nothing but wasteth his brayne aboute questyons and striuinges of wordes whereof spring enuy strife railings euil surmising vain disputacions of such men as haue corrupte minds are robbed of the truth which thinke that lucer is Godlines Puer I do not so desyre you to teach or instruct me any thing contrary to the scripture for if I might perceue you did I would willingly eschew it Ciuis I am ioyfull thereof for S. Paule sayeth to the Colossians the third chapter Ye maisters do to your seruants that which is iust and equall know that ye also haue a mayster in heauen Also the duty of a mayster is that he must dilligētly prouyde that he gouern thē Godly iustly Godly shal he gouern thē if while they bee in his seruice he excercise thē not only in seruil manual works but also in deeds of godlynes vertue and to forsee that no kind of sin be vsed of his seruants in his house neither ydlenes suffred neither swering picking neyther stealing neyther whoring nor any fylthy cōmunication but that all Godlinesse honesty and vertue be practysed among them when they come from the Church vpon the Saboth day or holiday to examyne them what fruitefulnesse the haue learned there that by this meanes God maye the more aboundantly

poure forth his blessing vpon him and all his housholde Puer These are good exhortations which delighteth me verye well I pray you as you haue begon so reherse more to me and you can Ciuis Yes I thanke God I can for the duety of a mayster is to dele iustly truely and faythfully with his seruants he must take heede that he do not onely require of them faythfull and dilligent seruice due and true worke and labour but that he also wythout fraud or deceyt giue them their dutyes and couenaunts as meate drinke lodging linnen wollen apparell their occupation and whatsoeuer is agreede vpon betwene them that there be found no vnrighteous dealing in hym but all iustice all equitie and truth Let him not euill intreate his seruaunt that worketh truely but let him loue a discreete seruaunt as his owne soule and defraude him not of his duty If the mayster intreate a good seruant euill and keepe him harde and make him to be prowd and to run away from him he cannot tell what way to seeke him Puer It is most true for as much as you tolde me that the duety of the mayster is to foresee that neyther ydlenesse should be suffred you haue tolde me your mynde for that I pray you in lyke manner let me vnderstande what is agaynste swearing Ciuis Saynt Iames sayeth sweare not neyther by heauen nor by earth neyther by anye other oth But let your yea be yea and your nay nay least you fall into ypocrisye Thou shalte not take the name of thy Lorde God in vayne for the Lord will not holde him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vayne Wherfore I aduertise thee let not thy mouth be vsed to swearing The wyse man sayeth whē that men here such swearing the heire of their heades should arise for feare and they should stop their eares and not here such vnreuerence and despysing of Gods name Thou shalt not sweare at all neyther by Heauen for it is Gods seate nor yet by the earth for it is his footestoole neyther by Ierusalem for it is the Cittie of the great King neyther shalte thou sweare by thy heade because thou canst not make one heare whyte or blacke who so sweareth by the Aulter sweareth by the same and by all that is thereon and who so sweareth by the Temple sweareth by the same and by him that dwelleth therein and who so sweareth by heauen sweareth by the seate of God and by him that sitteth thereon Puer Why ought not a man to sweare at anye tyme Ciuis If they be called before a Iudge for the iust tryall of matters in controuersy it is lawfull for them to swere and then they must take heede For when God made promise to Abrahā because he had none greater to sweare by hee sware by himselfe and sayd surely I wil blesse thee multiplie thee in deede As for men they swere by hym that is greater then their selues and the oth is the end of al strife Who so swereth by any creature he sweareth by him that made that creature Puer Then you alow to sweare before a Iudge to be agreable to the scripture If they sweare falsly what is to be accounted vpon them Ciuis Those that swere falsely do contrary to the scripture For it is written thou shalt beare no false witnesse agaynst thy neighbour False witnesse procureth mallice thefte mansianter and other vyces to be hidden it is the oryginall of vyce for a Iudge sitting in iudgemente cannot indifferentlye minister iustice because that false witnesses do blynd the truth often tymes Ye shall not sweare falslye by my name and so to vnhalow the name of thy God for I am the Lord sayth god Better is the pore man that liueth Godly then the blasphemer that is but a foole The wyseman sayth a false witnesse shall not remayne vnpunished A false witnesse laugheth iudgement●● scorne A false witnesse shall perish Who so beareth false witnesse agaynste his neighbour he is a very speare and sword and a sharpe arrow Thou shalte not forsweare thy self but shalt performe thine oth to God swere not at all be no false accuser Let thy tongue be ignorant of swearing and loue so wel truth that whatsoeuer that thou speakest think that thouswearest Herod sware to Herodias daughter what so euer she did aske of him he woulde giue it her he performed it although he was sorry for hys othes sake The Romayns had a law that as such as were found to be periured shold be thrown downe he adlong from the top of a high Rocke called Tarpeius The counsell of Iosephus was that hee which blasphemeth God and vnreuerentlye vse his name should be stoned vnto death and then hanged vp by the space of one day and so taken down and buryed without all manner of honour The Egiptians law was that no swearing shoulde be vsed among them at all except it were for a waighty cause if anye were founde to be periured the same shoulde loose his heade Doualdus King of Scots made this acte within his land that al periurers and common swearers should haue their lippes seared with a burning hote Iron Puer These are very sore and strayghte lawes which you haue tolde me of but canne you tell mee if anye suche strayghte lawes were at any tyme made in England cōcerning the blaspheming of the name of God. Ciuis I remember I haue hearde say that King Henry the fyfte made a statute for swearers in hys owne Pallace that if he were a Duke that did sweare he should forfeite for euery tyme fortye shillings to the ayding and helping of the pore if he were a Lord or a Baron twēty shillings if he were a Knight or an Esquyre x. shillings if he were a Yoman twenty pence if he were a Page or a Lackey or a slaue to be scourged naked eyther with a rod or else with a whip Puer If this law were in these dayes put in execution there would not be so much swearing vsed as is which for lack of the feare of GOD prouoketh many to offende which God of his goodnesse ingrafte into their stony hartes the increase of his loue and that they may feare him with all vnfayned reuerence I perceyue and doe gather of your good lessons that better it were that the bodyes of the blasphemers in this world should suffer a little payne then after this lyfe to haue both their bodyes and soules cast into Hell fyre Ciuis You say troth if al fathers and mothers and maysters would dilligently watch vppon their children and seruants it shall cause them not onely not to be defyled with the moste greuous sinne of swearing but also that the most holy name of God should be had in high reuerence great estimation and perpetuall honour for euer after so long as they liue But aboue al thinges I woulde wishe

the Parentes themselues to be an ensample in this behalfe vnto their children and seruauntes and shew euermore such reuerence vnto the name of GOD that the yonglinges maye well perceyue that it is no vayne thing that they are taught If they doe the contrary that is to say blaspheme the holy name of God then shall they vndoubtedly come vnto dishonour and a shamefull ende In this world the plague and vengeance of God shall not goe away from their houses they shall be stricken with many greuous diseases in their bodyes their goods and Cattell yea and all that euer they haue shall come to nought their kynde of liuing shall be despysed with all good men their death shal be paynful miserable and wretched and after these so great and manifolde plagues they may be sure for their wicked swearing to be cast into Helfyre where the flames of it shal neuer be quenched where weeping and gnashing of teeth shall be where the wormes shall knawe their owne consciences and shall neuer dye More ensamples might be declared at large for thys matter but you shall here further what S. Paule writeth to the Ephesians the sixt chapter vnto maysters Ye maysters sayeth he doe euen the same vnto your seruants putting away threatnings and know that euen your maister also is in heauen neyther is there anye respecte of person wyth him Puer You haue accomplished my desyre But I pray you good mayster Citizen let mee some what vnderstande your mynde of the dutye of the seruauntes and in what order the maysters do take them in London when they come rawlye as I doe out of the cuntrey Ciuis The Citizens that lack seruants and especialy those that are men of great welth will seeke to haue some sufficient Sureties for those that they wil entertayn into their seruice and good consyderation it is for a man maye take into his house one that shall soone vndoe his mayster before hee hath warning thereof I woulde GOD Citizens would take heede of mayster Lillyes sayings Happy is he whome other mens harmes canne make hym to bee warned Puer As you saye then it is requisyte that he shall haue suretyes for his truth and honest behauiour but euery one that commeth to London is not of that ability Ciuis It is so therefore some honeste man doeth put it in aduenture Puer I truste in GOD so will some honeste man doe with mee I praye you doe you knowe anye honest man that lacketh a Seruaunte I force not of what occupation Ciuis I wil say vnto you as S. Iude sayeth in his Epistle I willingly would wish you vnto him that is able to keepe you that you fall not Puer I thank you for that I pray you now shewe vnto me the order and vsage of the apprentises how they be bound what the scripture sayth agreable thervnto Ciuis I wil. Whē you haue contynued a tyme with your mayster you shall goe with him to the Hall that he is free of before the mayster and Wardones of that company be presēted that they may view see you whether you be crooked or lame they wil giue you good instructions to shew you what your dutye is as well to God and vnto your mayster and mistresse and also to know your duety as S. Peeter commandeth honour all men loue brotherly felowship and as the Lord hath called euerye person so lette him walke Also you must be bound by a payre of Indentures for so many yeares as your Mayster and you can agree for alwaies prouided whē you come out of your yeres before you haue the liberties of London you must be of the age of foure and twenty yeres the same maister as I told you in the duty of maysters must teach you or cause you to be taught your occupation he to find you meat drink linnen wollen hose shoes and all other such necessaries And if you haue serued your mayster truely then he wil make you a freeman of London wherby you may liue with the ayde of almighty God doe full well as your mayster before you hath done You must be carefull and myndfull to carry awaye good exhortations when you heare them and willing and dilligent to please your Mayster and Mistresse in which doing you shall fynde great commoditie and profyte Puer When a man is bound shal he not go into the Countrey to see his friendes during the tyme of his Apprentiship nor a shooting in the fyeldes I loue that excercise well Ciuis Not without your mayster and Mistresse giue you leaue and you must take heede you doe not tarry long abroade then neyther for when you are absent you know not occasyon of busynesse they shall haue for you to doe Puer Then the seruants are at a better poynt in the countrey although they take paynes on the working dayes yet they maye goe leape shote Daunce Dise Card and bowle and vse what gaming they shall think good on the Sondaye and Holiday Ciuis You cannot do so in London I remember there was a statute made in the sixte yeare of the reigne of King Henrye the eyght that al Constables and other head officers fynding or knowing any person vsing or exercysing any vnlawfull Games as Tenis playe bowles Claish and al other vnlawful games prohibited by many statutes shall haue full power to commit euery such offender to warde there to remayne without Bayle or Maynprise tyll such tyme he or they so offending be bound by obligation to the Kinges vse in such somme as by discretiō of the same Officer shal be thought reasonable that they from thenceforth shal not vse any vnlawfull Games and besydes in another statute the Constables doth incur the daunger of a penaltie assessed vpon them for the neglecting of their duetyes and office and is not this put in execution in your countrey Puer God forbid it shoulde what shoulde wee doe when Seruice is done Ciuis I told you in the duety of the maysters so it is the dutye of alseruauntes to vse games and honest pastymes and excercyses alowable by the lawes of this realme that is shooting or else adict your selfe if you cannot reede with some well disposed person that can reade to here the scriptures reade descant vpon them and let that be your games and pastymes Puer These are very straunge conceites and doe the seruauntes in London I pray you vse this exercise Ciuis If they doe not it is lamentable their duety it is and myne lykewyse although wee be obliuious therin God graunt that we may be more myndfull thereof Puer I pray you now proceede and shew mee some aucthours and the duety of a seruaunte towarde his mayster Ciuis I thanke God I can somewhat shew it vnto you for I haue bene a seruant and now a mayster haue charge of seruants whereby I should know both although I must needes confesse Therighteous man offendeth and so may both

haue deuysed a plague whereout you shall not pluck your neckes Wo be vnto them that seeketh vyolently to heape vp other mens goods The Prophet Zachary saw a flying booke of twenty cubits long and ten cubits broade in the which was written the curse that shall fall vpon all theeues In the booke of Iosua we reade that Achan the sonne of Zereth stole and conuayed away a goodly Babilonish Garment and two hundred sickles of Siluer and a tongue of Gold of fyftye sickles weight and that therefore at the commaundemente of God he was stoned to death and his stollen good with all that euer he had besydes his sonnes and his daughters his Oxen and his Asses his sheepe his Tent were burnt with fyre King Antiochus which when he with hys Armye entred into the Temple purposing to haue spoyled it and to take out of it great soms of money was stayne both he and his company and hewne in peeces Now you vnderstande some sentences of scripture according to your desyre yet whatsoeuer is gotten wyth crafte and subteltye with vnrighteous bargening with false weights and vniust mesures is before God playne thefte and therefore it ought to be restored Puer Thē by your sayings there is as I conceaue two kynde of theftes the one is to steale from another man and the other is to deceaue his Neighboure by false weyghtes and vniust measures Ciuis It is so For a false Balaunce is an abhomynation vnto the Lord but a true weight pleaseth him A true measure and a true Ballaunce are the Lords he maketh all weyghts Treasures that are wickedlye gotten profyte nothing but righteousnesse deliuereth from death To vse two maner of weights or two maner of mesures both these are abhominable vnto the Lorde The Lorde abhorreth two manner of weightes and a false ballaunce is an euill thing ye shall do no vnrighteousnesse in iudgemēt in metyard in weight or in measure True balaunces true weights a true Epha a true Hin shall ye haue I am the Lord your god And agayne Thou shalte not haue in thy bagge two maner of weights a great a small neyther shalte thou haue in thy house dyuers measures a great and a small But thou shalt haue a right and iust weyghte and a perfect and iust measure shalt thou haue that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God geueth thee Puer These thinges I must needes looke vnto for loath I am that it should happen so to me I thanke God there was none of my kindred that euer I did know was found guylty concerning such cryme I haue heard people say with the same measure you mete withthe same shall others meate to you agayne And whatsoeuer you wil that mē should do to you euen so doe ye to them I will labour to get the truth and will not sell away wysdome nurtour and vnderstanding for Wisedome is better then strēgth But now let me heare further of obedience Ciuis I told you at your fyrst meeting of obedience and it is a thing very necessary to be remēbred you must please your mayster mistresse as S. Peter cōmandeth in the second chapter of his fyrst Epistle seruants obey your maysters with al fere not only if they be good curteous but also thogh they be froward for what prayse is it sayeth S. Peter if when ye be buffeted for your faults you take it paciently but if when ye suffer wrongfully ye take it paciētly then is there thank with God for hervnto were you caled For Christ also suffred for vs leuing vs an example that we should folow his steps which did no sin neyther was there deceit found in his mouth which whē he was reuyled reuyled not agayne when he suffered he threatued not but cōmitted the cause to him thatiudgeth righeously Puer If you treade a worme on the tayle she will tourne agayne much more should a man when he is buffeted to stryke agayne Ciuis Ioseph mooued to quarrell agaynst his Brethren and did not and you must remember what I sayde vnto you Christ did forgeue his death so must you forgiue your mayster and there is no man that would giue correction vnto his seruaunt vndeserued Puer Correction I can holde well withal but there may be correction deserued and correction vndeserued Ciuis Your duety is to be swifte to heare sloe to speake and slow to wrath For the wrath of man worketh not that which is righteous before God therefore you must not geue worde for word or taunt for taunt nor to pleade with him as it were a counseler should pleade a case at the Barre before a Iudge For I tolde you before you must not be stowt and stubborn but lowly and obediente which thinges by your talke you haue already forgotten and yet you sayde Obliuyon should not enter so soone into you you haue two eares the one to heare the other to carrye away the sence and true meaning of such thinges as are taught you Saint Paule wryteth to Timothie in the fyft Chapter Rebuke not an Elder but exhorte him as a father Puer I graunt I sayde so and so I say still and your former wordes I haue printed in my mynde yet this worde to be buffeted greeueth me I am of some stature I thinke to serue my Prince wherefore I trust these wordes shall not displease you I can away with all things you haue sayde to me sauing that Ciuis Do you not beleeue me and can you not awaye with that I haue tolde you by scripture I coulde recyte more to you and one thing more I will shewe you It is written in the. xxi Chapter of Deutrinomium wherein is shewed and declared the greate daunger and perrill of those which are disobedient children which say as you say and will refuse correction and good gouernmente That is if any man hath a sonne or a seruaunt that is stubborne and disobedient and wil not hearken vnto the voyce of his father and mother and they haue taughte him nurtoure but he will not hearken vnto them this worde father and mother is taken here for Mayster and mistresse it followeth what shall be done vnto him Then let his father and mother take him and bring him out vnto the Elders of the Citty and saye This our sonne is stubbern and disobedient and will not hearken vnto our voyce he is a ryoter and a dronkarde then let all the men of that Cittie stone him with stones vnto death and thou shalte put euill from thee and all Israell shall heare and feare If suche correction should be vsed in these dayes what would seruauntes and children doe God forbid it should but yet it is not hurtfull for mee to exhorte and perswade you by scripture to bring you out of darkenesse into light which light shall be your comforte and I tolde you before of two corrections Puer You did