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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06684	A health to the gentlemanly profession of seruingmen; or, The seruingmans comforts With other thinges not impertinent to the premisses, as well pleasant as profitable to the courteous reader.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637, attributed name.; I. M., fl. 1598.	1598 (1598)	STC 17140; ESTC S120831	45,157	78

to God his Prince or his Countrey to whom he with his lands liuing possession and worldly patrimonie is bound in seuerall dueties for there is none but knoweth that at their handes that hath much much shalbe required If a Gentleman haue a competent lyuing that wyll maynteine good Hospitalitie which is as I sayd before the harbourer of two hopes Prayse and Prayers and him selfe like a Gentleman yf he will not exceede his degree al other superfluous charge layde a part wyl bestow vpon his owne or his wiues backe in brauerie of apparrel halfe a yeere of his house-keepinges charge the other halfe yeere must of necessitie be maymed pinched and impayred to the great hurt and hinderaunce of that duetie which he is bound to performe by neighbourhood to his Countrey and by charitie to his poore brother Concerning this costly and fashionate Apparrel I remember a notable example of a King of England as it is sayd that calling vpon occasion certayne of his Noblemen and Peeres of his Realme to the Court whyther when they came one amongst the rest came very homely apparreled in a Ierken of Frieze and a payre of bretches of Countreys Russet and al his other apparrel correspondent his trayne and attendantes were a hundred or sixe score proper and personable men all well Horsed and gallantly furnished at all poyntes this Noble-man thus attended came to the Court and doing his duetie to his Prince and Soueraigne the King sayd vnto him My Lord I cannot but commende your troupe and trayne so well furnished and your selfe so worthyly attended but your owne person to be apparrelled in so base and vnseemely a suite I cannot but highly discommende for that it befitteth not a man of your estate degree and calling but alwayes to be apparrelled in costly comely decent and handsome habite Well my Leige and Soueraigne answered the Noble-man What as is amisse shalbe amended God willing So going from the Court to his lodging he sene presently his man to buy hym a rich Gowne of blacke Ueluet the sleeues thereof all beset with Aglets of Golde a Ueluet Cappe with a Fether and a golde Bande very richly bordered about with Pearles and precious Stones of great value a suite of Cloth-of-golde of the newest and richest fashion his Gyrdle and Hangers richly imbrodred and beset with costly Pearle with all other his apparrell no lesse stately and costly Thus richly furnished attended with onely one Man and a Page he makes his repayre the next morning to the Court agayne where when he had done his duetie to the King Yea mary my Lord sayd the King you are now like your selfe and as you should be but where is your goodly trayne of Men and Horse wherewith you were yesterday so gallantly garded If it may like your Grace answered the good Earle throwing downe his Cappe Heere is twentie Men and twentie Horse and throwing off his Gowne sayes Heere lyes fourtie Men and fourtie Horse more with other the rest of his sumptuous Rayment at the lyke rate saying that all his Men and Horses were turned into gorgious Garments Now sayth he yf it like your Maiestie that I shoulde maynteine my selfe in these Royall Roabes to do your Grace seruice onely garded with my Man and my Page or that I should maynteine my troupe of Horse and Men to do your Maistie seruice at home or abrode against your Graces forraine foes or domesticall Rebels yf any such shalbe in my homely habite Whether of these as it shall please your Grace to commaunde me I am redie to obey but my liuing is not able to perfourme them both Now what answere he receyued from the King I know not but if both could not be perfourmed then I perswade my selfe that none is so simple but will preferre the Men and Horse before the gorgious Garmentes both for the honour of the King the credite of the Maister the sauegarde of the Countrey the common good for the weale publique and in all other respectes whatsoeuer But Totnam is turned French these Men and Horse are metamorphosed into Golden Garmentes which makes Seruingmen yea and Men so litle set by and so smally regarded wherfore they may wel both say sing In vaine my eyes in vaine you wast your trickling teares In vaine my sighes my sighes and sobbes of my despayres In vaine you search these troupes of gallent men and horse In vaine you search for paynted plumes hath banishd al remorse The stately Towers decay the Courts therof grow greene No passage into Pallace fayre where great resort hath beene The Hauls are now too large the Tables are too long The clouted shooes comes in so fast they keepe too great a throng The Chargers now be changed wherein men wont to eate An olde Fruite dish is big enough to hold a ioynt of meate A Sallad or a Sauce to taste your eates withall Some strange deuice to feede mens eyes mens stomackes now be small And where the Porters lodge did yeelde beefe bread and beere The Kitchen Haul Parlor to now wantes it twice a yeere Now Seruingmen may sing adue you golden dayes Meere miserie hath taken place where plentie purchast prayse Thus you haue heard that the number of this profession by this decay of Hospitalitie is greatly lessened and diminished and so consequently the state of the remaine impayred for what trade or occupation is best there are commonly of the same most professors But I will speake a worde or two of the perticuler inconueniences that hath happened to this at the first happie but by tract of time thrise vnfortunate fraternitie hereby I meane by the decay of good House-keeping First whereas their pleasures were equall with their Maisters and their Maisters tooke pleasure commonly in honest sportes now these their Maisters sportes and pastimes are either turned into couetousnesse groping after worldly graith or els into riotous spending their Patrimonie in gay Cloathes lasciuious lewdnes extraordinarie gaming or such like the godly meane which is the heauenly harmonie is now banished these I may say inhumane coastes and cannot be harboured in any of our Hauens Now the Seruingmans pleasure is turned into seruile toyle and droyling drudgerie for since he hath no fellowes but that are dayly and hourely imployed and how not in pleasure as before in haulking hunting fyshing and fowling but in other businesse he himselfe alwayes riding and running about worldly busines or otherwise as it shall please his Maister to appoynt but I cannot nor will not maynteine argument against this for Otium est radix omnium malorum Idlenesse is the roote of all mischiefe And if Seruingmen should do no other seruice but as they were wont and tie them selues to their ancient custome then they should be altogeather idle because former imployment is taken away But it may be obiected You tolde vs what maruels Seruingmen merited at their Maisters handes in former ages and why are not their desartes so well gratified in these latter dayes as