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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68482	A remedy for sedition vvherin are conteyned many thynges, concernyng the true and loyall obeysance, that comme[n]s owe vnto their prince and soueraygne lorde the Kynge.	Morison, Richard, Sir, d. 1556.; Cheke, John, Sir, 1514-1557.	1536 (1536)	STC 18113.7; ESTC S122062	27,498	54

suppeth euyll that for his good supper kepeth his bedde a seuen nyght after You wyl thynke I knowe London well that make this offer vnto you Blyndefelde me ca●…e me after to what place ye woll I wyl lyttell fasle to tel where ye set me and before whose doore They that know not my cunnynge wyll skace beleue me I praye you can ye set me in any place but I may say and lye lyttell I am nowe before a Tauerne or an ale howse Fayle I maye but farre I can not fayle In Italy it is all moste as moche shame for an honest man to come out of a tauerne betwene meles as it is here to come frō the ba●ke In Venis there is no moo tauernes thenne there be innes neyther wyne is to be solde by the quarte but in the innes bicause it becometh none to bye after such facion but strangers those that can not tary longe in a place How moch good myght a few good men do a fewe myght so begyn to redresse this errour that there shulde nede no lawe to cōpell men to do them selfe good who was amonge the Romans but he myght fynd in his hart to haue fewer dyshes whā Manius Curius beyng dictatour that is in the highest office that any man coude beare in Rome was contented not onely to lyue with wortes but also glad to styrre the potte hym selfe and to gyue Ambassadours theyr answeres as he was kelynge the potte We banyshed the best thyng that euer was with manne when frugalitie was dryuen away we kowe not what welth is in smal thinges nor yet what ryches is in contented pouertie Pouertye hath ben the inuentrice of all good craftes and of al other thynges that eyther gyue ornamētes or brynge cōmodities vnto mans lyfe Recken but one goodthynge that a welthy person hath inuēted a thousād euyl I can reherse Pouertie hath ben the maker of al ryche realmes What citie had a poorer begynnynge than Rome what lesse Ryches then Venys What kyng was porer then the kynge of Portyngale ¶ Socrates was axed howe his comon welthe shulde withstand the malice of a rycher seing that he wolde the communes to haue very lyttell and thother neuer a deale to moche Howe they maye withstande one sayth he I nede not telle you but I am sure they shal be good inough to fyght ayēst two if they bothe be welthy and ryche ynoughe Howe so saythe Adimanthus Euer sayth Socrates one poore soudiour is good inoughe for two ryche in batayle He is quycke these are dulle he leane and lusty these fatte and foggy he made to hunger thurst and hardenes these delycate and deed if they be a nyght or two out of theyr nestes Howe shall they fyghte well that ii or .iii. shildes woll skace couer theyr belyes ¶ Who wyll beleue that Scipio so worthy a capitayn of the Romayns could leue his doughters nothyng to theyr mariages but the comune welth fayne to gyue them their dowries what Romaine coulde thinke pouertie to be refused whan so noble a manne was contente with it I can not tarye in exāples Cincinnatus Fabricius and many other I muste not speake of It is skace credyble that Plutarche wrytethe of a capitayne of the Lacedemonians Euermore whan this wente to warfare they were fayne to gyue hym money out of the comune hutche to bye hym botis and showes what souldiour coulde thinke hym selfe poore when he sawe his capytayne haue so lytel They were contented with suche extreme pouertie and doo we thynke it laufull because we be not so ryche as we wold be to ryse ayenst our prince this our prince so louyng so lerned so made of nature to a kyngdom so endued of god with all such prīcely vertues as are to beautifie a comon welth coude we if we knewe what we dyd go agaynst kynge HENRY the VIII of whom I wyll say nothynge but this that his gracis fame and prayse can not falle but when all good letters fall which can not be before men leaue the erthe and the erth men I wyll saye nothyng of myn owne Al be it me thynke it moch apperteyneth to hym that wyll handel this mater well bothe to shewe howe moche Englande is bound to loue his grace and howe moch we ought to hate all them that wolde his grace any euyll But I wyll let Erasmus the greattest lerned man of our tyme speke for me Harke what he sayth of our kynge ¶ VVHAT REGION of this world is there but it may reioise at the high felicitie of England if it loue Englande what nation but it may enuy the welthe of Englande if it loue not Englande Vndoubted it is a kynge that eyther makethe a a Realme noble or that obscureth it with whatte bookes with howe many sortes of tongues shall the posteritie testifie that Englande in all kynd of vertue so flourysshed in kynge Henry the .viii. his tyme a prince sent of god vnto Englande whiche may seme but euen nowe to be borne euen now to be Englande so clensed of euyll customes and vices so imbued with all excellent ordinaunces that Massilia it selfe may here take example of ciuilytie soo instituted with Christes faythe that Rome nowe may come to skole to Englande soo stuffed with lerned men that Italye may enuy England sauynge that enuye hath no place where good letters reigne Englande hath a kynge whiche may be a rule vnto all princis that hereafter shall gouerne any comune welthe Good lorde this this in dede is a kyngedome This is a Princelyke court that his grace kepethe I lette passe the greatte gyftes that god hath endued so abundantly bothe his gracis goodly personage and mynde which al be it they come of god rather than of our industry yet they are hyghely profytable to a comune welth whā they light on a good prīce And although this many yeres it hath ben smal praise in a prince to be well lerned yet his hyghnes shall bring it to passe y t as in time past it hath ben the chiefe ornament of a kynge to be lerned soo it shall here after be iudged hyghe prayse worthy a kyng to excel in knowlege His gracis singuler qualities shall declare them but fooles that are wonte to saye that noble courage of princely stomake is moch defaced moche broughte downe by lernynge and studye For what kynge can they brynge forthe that hath ben without letters whiche had more dexteritie in any feate that belongeth to a prince than his hyghnes hath so made of nature apte to euery thyng that in rydynge shotyng and suche other common pastimes there be fewe that are to be compared with hym There be fewe kyndes of musyke but his grace hath a good knowlege in them Wonderfully well seene in the sciences Mathematycall who can be more diligenter in oppressyng vice he hath dryuen out of his realme those that lyued by myschiefe he hath netted his realme of ydle vacabundes wold god his grace had done but the one as