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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34922	The voyage of the wandring knight shewing the whole course of man's life, how apt he is to follow vanity, and how hard it is for him to attain vertue / devised by John Cartheny, a French man ; and translated out of French into English by W.G. of Southampton, merchant ...; Voyage du chevalier errant. English	Cartigny, Jean de, 1520?-1578.; N. R.; Goodyear, William.	1661 (1661)	Wing C681A; ESTC R34789	91,602	121

point to decipher it for it consisteth not in Angelical knowledge much less in mans wit wholly to comprehend so noble a mystery none knows it but he who hath proved it you may be sure that there are not as in the Palace of Worldly pleasure chambers hanged with Silk Tapestry and every corner sumptuously and superfluously adorned No no but there were Histories of the Old and New Testament to view and mark I found not their Coffers full of Gold and Silver Cup-boards of Plate Presses of Silks all manner of Mercery-ware neither dainty Dishes delicate Drinks bawdy Songs wanton Musick the Lady of Love her Son Cupid nor any thing that Worldlings imbrace but I found a thing far supassing all that is in the World This good this joyfull this comfortable this unspeakable this incomprehensible-thing cannot be named worthily enough but of good and bad he is called God even he who is the only Soveraign good above all things reasonable and unreasonable Peradventure you will say this is stoange news that you Sir Knight should see God in the Palace of Vertue How is it strange seeing he is every where not only in Heaven but also in Earth and in Hell Truly I confess that God is every where but I deny him to dwell every where and yet I know that by his power and invincible presence he is every where though not every where by the fulness of his greatness and his gifts it followes then that he dwelleth every where I pray you what profiteth it the damned that he is in hell by his power Iustice and Vengeance Truly by such presence of God they have no joy no consolation no benefit or selicity for that all are cursed in whom God dwelleth not by his grace whatsoever they be be they Kings Princes or Popes who have all other riches and delights in the World But all they that have the grace of God are happy or at least wise in hope though they live even in a loathsome prison and are poorer than Lazarus which desired to be refreshed with the crums that fell from the evil rich Mans Table Now when we pray to God we say Our Father which art in Heaven for that is the place where God gives the enjoying and possession of himself to his elect and that is their dwelling prepared by the grace of God That is that God speaks of by the Prophet Esay saying Heaven is my seat and the Earth is my foot-stoole For asmuch saith God as I dwell in mine Elect by Grace I will tumble at my feet those that love Voluptuousness rather then their Maker In the book of Wisdom it is written That the seat of wisdom is in the soul of the just God is wisdom and the just soul his seat God is in every place where he dwelleth but he dwelleth not in every place where he is This is most true though marvellous for the evil are alwayes where God is but yet God dwelleth not in them Wheresoever the wicked are they cannot hide themselves from God and yet they are not dwellers with God nor God a dweller with them They are where God is as the blind man in the Light of the Sun the Light is not in him because he hath not the use of it But the good are alwayes with God and God dwelleth in them as in his Temple Saint Paul saith That the temple of God is holy And therefore is ye live well as he commands you you are his Temple And God himself saith I will be in them I will walk amongst them I will be their God and they shall be my people Now therefore you see that although God be every where in his power yet he dwelleth no where but where he is by grace It is plain that where Vertue is there God inhabiteth by grace which is the only consolation of all reasonable Creatures Is it possible that any Man can find in Heaven or in Earth such Soveraign good as is in God who is the most excellentest and chiefest good and the true joy of all reasonable Creatures Now can that body fail in any goodness which hath God by his Grace resting in his Heart who is the only Authour of all goodness and the giver of all true Ioy and persect Felicity But some will say that they see good People in the World oftentimes suffer misery deprived of their goods and put by the pleasures of this world which appeareth in the sadness of their countenance for they seem to be conceived with sorrow and as it were to labour and travel in heaviness as a Woman in Child birth I confess it to be so but yet if you say that they are not surnished with all good and true joy and Felicity you err greatly For the Soveraign good which is God dwels in the just soul for evermore although foolish Worldings say in their Hearts and thoughts Can it be that those miserable men which are afflicted with poverty or imprisonment have more possession of true Felicity than we that wallow in Wealth and are without want of any Worldly pleasures But they consider not that true Ioy consisteth in the Soul But be you sure that as the Soul is the most precious part of the body so ought the goodness of the Soul to be greater than the goodness of the body The Ioy of the Iust and Righteous is more inward than outward for all his goodness is in the soul as the joy of wanton Worldlings is outwardly in the body This just Man suffereth outward extremities but yet inwardly he hath more joy than the Voluptuous Man And though the just man being alwayes afflicted maketh shew of sadness all his life time yet at the hour of death their joy and consolation appeareth with hope of eternal life whereas contrariwise the Wordling goeth his way with grudging and despair The just man esteems Gold and Silver to be coloured Earth worldly wealth and Voluptuous seeding to be Famine and Filth Honour Dignity and Delight to be smoak which the Air consumeth suddenly to be short he maketh all the World no better than an exile and although his body be detained here for a season yet all his thoughts cares desires and meditations are conversant among the Orders of holy Angels and the happy Assembly of Saints in Heaven singing Psalms and Prayses incessantly So that whatsoever we esteem evill in this World God turns it to good For he makes us rejoyce in Tribulations taking them for medicines to purge our corruptions and not accounting our Persecutors as our Enemies but rather as Helpers to salvation The just Man esteems simple fare sufficing nature better than abundance of delicate or excessive Drunkenness or Gluttony They take more pleasure in kneeling praying and fasting then worldlings do in dancing and singing wanton Songs Finally that they do or suffer God turns it to good And therefore Saint Paul saith that all things turn to the good of those that love God The eye never seeth the

compassion upon thee Where be the Worldlings the would not be sorry for their sins Where are they become Are they not condemned to everlasting torment in Hell fire O think then that sin doth greatly offend God Think what punishment God hath ordained for sin which makes Man an Enemy to God and a friend to the Devil Secondly think that at this present time thou art in Gods favour by the means of his Grace who made thee a child of God and an Heir of Heaven by Hope so that now thy Conscience is quiet Think what good Consolation thou hast received by devour prayer think what spiritual instructions Gods Grace hath given to thee think all the pleasures of the World are mingled with Sorrow think that this World shall pass away with all the pomps and pleasures of the same think that thy present Estate is the high way to Heaven and so shalt thou keep perseverance Thirdly think that the just judgment of God is to come which is to the good to give Heaven and to the evill Hell Think thou must dye and that at thy death thou shalt not receive so good consolation as thou hast had of Vertue and Gods grace Think that at thy death thou must leave behind thee Wife Children Goods and Mony whether thou do good or evill Think that thou must go to a Region unknown and to a place where thou hast never been and if thou be sound to have dyed in sin without repentance the Devils will attend to take thy damned Soul and will carry it into the dungeon of Darkness there to seel eternal torments But if thou be sound with Perseverance in the Palace of Vertue millions of Angels will go before thee and with great joy will bring thee to heaven O think upon the just judgment of God to come when every one shall be judged according to his deeds For God fahoureth neither Kings Princes nor People high nor low rich nor poor without respect of persons be will chuse the good and condemn the evil at the day of doom when we must appear personally without excuse or exception before him then every man must be his own Atturney when the just Iudge at that day will shew himself terrible to the Perverse which have followed Voluptuousness and have not heartily repented but will be gentle mercifull and good unto those that have been sorry for their offences O think what torments the un-repentant shall suffer both in body and soul perpetually whereas all such as have persevered in goodness to the end shall receive joy and the fulness of God and of Heaven In such sort to persevere in goodness to the end do thine utter endeavour and thou shalt see that God will be ready with his grace to arm thee with constancy in thy Christian purpose CAP. XI A protestation which Good Understanding taught the Knight to make every day for the avoiding of temptations and how he ought to humble himself before God and what he should ask in his prayer MY Son alwayes I wish thee to keep perseverance with thee by whom thou mayest avoid temptations which would induce thee to sin and force thee to forsake the true Faith and also to transgress the holy Commandements of Almighty God This to avoid I wish thee every day to repeat the promises which thou hast made to God in thy Baptism which follow thus in effect O Most high most excellent and holy Lord God I protest that I will live and dye in the true Catholike and Apostolike faith revealed in thy holy Word and that I will do my utmost endravour to keep thy holy Commandements which heretofore I have wilfully and carelessy transgressed wherefore I am sorry and do heartily repent me for the breach of them and in token thereof I make my Confession saying I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth And in Jesus Christ his only Sonne our Lord which was conceived by the holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary Sufferred under Pontius Pylate Was crucified dead and buryed He descended into Hell The third day he rose again from the dead He ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost The holy Catholick Church The communion of Saints The forgiveness of sinnes The resurrection of the body And the life everlasting Amen Then say Lord God give me grace most heartily I beseech thee without doubting to confess and believe the articles of this my Christian Faith and in the same to persevere to the end And so rehearse the Ten Commandements of Almighty God which are these The same which God spake in the xx Chapter of Exodus saying I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the Land of Ægypt out of the house of Bondage 1. Thou shalt have none other Gods but me 2. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven image nor the likenesse of any thing that is in Heaven above nor in the Earth beneath nor in the water under the Earth Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God and visit the sins of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me and keep my commandements 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine 4. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day six dayes shalt thou labour and doe all that thou hast to do but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt do no manner of work thou and thy son and thy daughter thy man servant thy maid servant thy catell and the stranger that is within thy gates for in six dayes the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that therein is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it 5. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy dayes may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee 6. Thou shalt do no murther 7. Thou shalt not commit Adultery 8. Thou shalt not steal 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy Neighbour 10. Thou shalt not cover thy Neighbours house thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours wife nor his servant nor his maide nor his ox nor his Asse nor any thing that is his Then considering the tenour of that which thou hast said crave grace at Gods hands to walk after his will using the same prayer which Christ taught thee and saying Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome come Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass

as could be in all things saving goodness Then I desired Voluptuousness to shew me the rest of the Pallace according to her promise so we walked together into a goodly great Chamber hanged about with Cloath of Gold beset with Pearls This Chamber was paved with Marble black and white the Pillars were Iasper the Roofe was Ivory laid on with Gold and the Stairs were Alabaster In this Chamber also was a Sumptuous Chair of State wherein-most magnificently sate a Prince having on his head an Imperial Crown of Gold beset with precious Pearls and in his hand a scepter Royal. He was besides that very richly Arrayed accompanyed with many Nobles Pompously Apparelled This Prince I reverenced and he likewise saluted me giving commandement that I should be most singularly and ercellently used So we went from thence and being abroad I asked Lady Voluptuousness what Prince the same was who said that he was the Prince of 〈◊〉 Pallace even my Father the only giver and b●stower of Felicity the which I believed to be true till I found indeed that he was Lucifer the Father of Filthiness the Grand-father of Gluttony the Prince of Pride the Emperour of Iniquity and the Lord of Lewdness a Ruler of the World and one that had nothing to do in Heaven but in Earth among a sort of wicked worldlings and Devilish People This Lucifer arragantly challengeth unto himself that he hath Power to give Glory Honour and Riches to whom he listeth as the Scripture witnesseth wherefore worldlings do serve him as his Subjects From thence we went to the Treasure-House where we saw Coffers full of Coyn and Iewels which was kept by Lady Fortune as Voluptuousness said and she bestowed all that Treasure on such as the King commanded From thence we went up into a great Gallery where we saw three Presses the first full of fine wollen the second of pure Silks the third of fair white Linen this place Pomp had in keeping From thence we went to the perfuming house which differed nothing from an Apothecaries Shop For there I found all things that might move a Mans appetite or stirr up his delight There were colours to paint proud women Perfume and Oyntments to make their bodies soft and sweet and this place was kept by Lasciviousness Then we went into goodly large-Vaults where wine of no kind wanted and there was Dame Drunkenness her Kingdome From thence I was led to the Kinchins where all things were kept in order by Licorourishness whose rule lay in that place From thence to another great Room where we saw a sort of young sweet-faced Bodies Voluptuousness told me they were Ganimedes and Endimions From thence she had me by to a place that was builded very round in compass which place was marvellous bright and lightsome by reason of the great Glass windowes of Crystall This served them instead of a Temple for they had none other Here we saw a great number of fine Delicate Dames exceeding Amiable and Beautifull among all one Excelled whose Name I asked and Voluptuousness shewed me that it was Lady Venus whom all Licentious Lovers do like notable wel and honour her as a Goddesse By her sate a blind Boy who with his Bow and Arrowes shat at adventure and hit my Heart by and by came down Venus and she plucked it out receiving me with comfortable words and wonderfull perswafions And although the Arrow was quickly taken out and might seem to do no harme yet I think the head thereof was poysoned for it hath made so deep a wound as is very infections and scarce curable unless with some speciall plaisters The same Cupid governeth all Leacherous Lovers of what age soever they be or degree witness daily experience he is naked and past shame not caring who looketh upon him his blindness representeth the Folly of such as run head-long after lewd love setting their Feathers in the wind without respect of any after-clsp His Bow and Arrowes do signine the Folly of Foolls which offer themselves to be his But and stand still while be doth shoot and hit them His wings signifie the wavering minde of such as he hits who are quiet in no place or time For who is more mutable vain light inconstant and variable than the fleshly Lover Some say that this Cupid hath a Torch burning in his hand meaning thereby that he burnes to the heart all them that he toucheth All this dispatched Voluptuousness and I went to Dinner and she promised me when I had dined to shew me the rest of the Pallace CHAP. X. Dinner being done Voluptuousness sheweth the Wandring Knight the rest of the Pallace of Worldly Felicity with the description of the Towers thereof And by the Author is declared the evill Fruit of certain notorious sins THis chanced in the pleasant Month of May when Love and Lust is most in force so it was determined that we should Sup in goodly Gardens not in Banqueting Houses although they were Wonderfull fine but in Arhours Over-grown with Sweet Eglantine Rose-trees and Vines fair and clear Fonntains of cold water running by and fragrant Herbs and Flowers casting a comfortable Scent The little pretty Birds did sing round about us as well in Cages as on Trees and Bushes There was playing piping singing dancing leaping embracing and kissing Finally each Lover with his Lady was merry and to be brief every one did what liked him vest and thought themselves happy to find such Felicity But all my desire was to see the rest of the Pallace wherefore I charged Lady Voluptuousness with her promise which took effect insomuch that we went all along to a certain place where I saw the very secret Lodgings of Voluptuousness But what they were for fear of offending the Reverend Reader I mean not to rehearse then we went from Gallery to Gallery from Office to Office from Chamber to Chamber where I saw every place furnished with so rich Movables and such choyce as nothing can be wished more Amongst all those Rooms one Chamber exceeded in largness and Workmanship for costly Carving and in all other respects There I sound a very brave Bed Gorgeously trimmed insomuch that I commended the same highly Then Lasciviousness said that she had charge of that Chamber and if I listed to lye there that Night I should Lust also promised to bring Lady Venus to lye with me I hearing this me thought I felt the wound that Cupid gave me as fresh as at the first Then went we about the Walls which were all of Iet Thick and Strong Vpon these Walls were built seven Towers likeunto Steeples and every Tower had his owner In the first Ledged Pride in the Second Envy in the Third Wrath in the Fourth Gluttony in the Fift Leachery in the Sixth Covetousness and in the Seventh Sloath. My purpose was to go unto them all one after another And as I entred into the Lower of Pride which was the first I spied Written this Possy over the Porch PRIDE IS