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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03850	The nobles or of nobilitye The original nature, dutyes, right, and Christian institucion thereof three bookes. Fyrste eloquentlye writte[n] in Latine by Lawrence Humfrey D. of Diuinity, and presidente of Magdaleine Colledge in Oxforde, late englished. Whereto for the readers commodititye [sic], and matters affinitye, is coupled the small treatyse of Philo a Iewe. By the same author out of the Greeke Latined, nowe also Englished. 1563.; Optimates. English	Humphrey, Laurence, 1525 or 6-1589.; Philo, of Alexandria. De nobilitate. English.	1563 (1563)	STC 13964; ESTC S104304	130,119	392

power as hit is greater and more abundant so ought theyr bountie be larger plentifuller For sithe Monkes eche where haue yet good names her ●fore ware oughte Nobles bee who succeaded in theyr Roomes and setsed theyr possessions that herein they proue not their inferiours Nor yelde to them in this practise of Charity whom farre they passe in purenes of farthe Therefore as ministers so noble mens part it is to prouide them harborough to leasse them vse of housen and Citie to open them the churches to succour them chiefely if relygious exiles neede theyr ayde Euer truly haue Noble mens housen lyen open to Noble ghestes Let eke theyr gates lie open to the myserable and banished for christes cause other wyse succourlesse That so both they be and may be rightly called almes gods on earth The auncient gentry is reported farre to drowne these our later nobles in this part of curtesy Sith now many mens charity cooleth The paynims counted it theyr chiefest commēdation to haue theyr entries worne And wonted to sit at theyr gates that no ghest mought scape them Herefore is that Cimon magnified in Cicero by the report of Theophrast Who toke suche order and so commaunded hys farmers that whatsoeuer inhabitant of Latium came to his manor shoulde haue al necessaries allowed him But he was liberal to his benefactors but once father Abraham and Lot his brother indifferētly to all men Of whom the firste sate in the gate thother in the entrye of hys tabernacle eyther spie and prie for some straunger Whiche once seene they ryse runne meere hym embrace hym crouche do●one to the grounde and humblye entreate hym to enter For this is the request and sute of Abraham in Genesis to the Angels whome both hee sawe and toke to bee straungers I beseche you sir I may finde so muche fauour with you that you passe not my house Tary I pray you while a lytle water bee fette to washe your feete Rest ye vnder this tree and I wyll fetche you a loafe of breade and make you mery then goe forwardes on gods name For therefore turned ye into your seruaunte Loe Abraham the honourablest Prince of the Israelyte● the father of faith and all faithful abundant in Cattell Conqueroure in warres dreadfull to whole Nations kinges prostrateth him selfe on the ground entreateth thē professeth him selfe theyr Seruant to whom hee geueth Runneth to the herde his whole house attendeth those straungers and abiectes Sara bestirs her shee moulds thre bushels of finest meale ▪ knedeth Cakes the boye with all speede killeth a fat and fayer steere butter and milke is set them hym selfe standinge serueth them O simple and happ●e age O māgled maners O straunge Metamorphosis O newe couersion vp side downe in and out Let Abraham humble paineful hospital learne our proud slouthful inhospitall Nobles Who not only not geue but chase away and stubbournely entreat straūgers checking them with threates scoffes and tauntes That Englishemen are ●urteous I denie not yea they haue bene euer counted the chiefest honourers of straungers And trulye so they be delyghted rather wyth forreyne wittes and traffyke then their owne countreyes Where notwithstanding they haue both plentye of excellent wittes and aboundaunce of all necessaryes and most ciuile inhabitaunts Yet so delight theym all forren pleasures that in maner they disdayne theyr home commodityes Whiche affection towardes straungers I condemne not Naye I rather exhorte theym more to imbrace and loue them but warning withall they despise not but reuerence and imbrace the good giftes of God theyr home commodities Howe sumptuous are they in enterteining Princes or embassadours How excessiue what glisteringe Nobles what pompe What shew Whome truly for the mayntenaunce of theyr dygnitie I commend But that vnmeasurable magnificēce muche myslike whence what I couet dymynished that wyshe I employed on poore pylgrimes Christes and exiles To prouyde them necessary lyuing admitte them into felowshyps and allowe them yearely stypendes Whyche well I wotte the Noblest Prince Edward of happy memorye moste lyberally did bothe in London and eyther vnyuersitie whome some Dukes Nobles and byshops imitated Chiefelye the reuerende Father and late primate of Englande of the priuye Councel to Kynge Henry the .viii. and hys sonne Edwarde Crowned with blissefull Martirdom of Mary hys doughter Thomas Cranmar Archebyshop of Caunterbury a worthy successoure of william warram in that See whome so lyuelye hee resembled in sincerytie and bountie Emouges the Nobles not the leaste prayse earned Henrye Graye Marquesse Dorcet and Duke of Suffolke nowe a Noble Citezen of heauen Who lyberallye relieued manye learned exyles The like may wee saye of many other who renouncynge the worlde and worldely pleasures haue exchaunged lyfe wyth death or rather mortalytie with immortalytie Thus some deade haue I voutched Nor want there presidentes of the quicke But them wyll I not praise but rather erhorte daylye to contende with them selues that sith not a fewe of them were straungers in Germany and therefore vnderstande their estate by experience they would more and more put on that sence of humanytie and affecte of mercy To relieue pilgrimes wearned wyth trauayle and destitute of ayde banyshed now their Countrey bounds and succour and cherishe theyr need● wyth theyr plentie In conclusion be Nobility bountiful to all men But Iustice yf ought els chiefely pertayneth to mans societye Iustice Wherfore worthely of Aristotle it is called others vertue Where properly taketh place that sayenge of Pollux to Commodus the emperour termynge it the balanced lawe For in maner of balance with euen hande paysyng eaming eche thinge it sweyeth not from right nor more then iust is leaneth on either parte And that vertue is both fectest and necessariest for a Noble man Whose whole life and practises are chiefly busied in mayntaynyng commen commodityes Where wyth once adourned easelye hath he gotten the princesse of al vertues Whereby he shal rule both him selfe and others For neither is fortitude needefull where Iustice is and if lawes ruled armes shoulde hushe syth none should be iniuried But insurious they become through couctise and thirst of coyne For what worke we not to heape and hourd goodes Truly a filthie faulte in all men but hardly thinke I any maye be sayned filthier in a noble man For whom we would haue free liberall whom we wishe of highe minde and vndaunted courage who shoulde esteeme all worldly toyes as draffe and chippes howe vnseemely and seruile were it What blotte to his estimation he should encurre that mock of Euripides To be a happy horder and cofferer an vnwilling steward and disbourser of money Hieremye accuseth the princes of Israell as ranening wolues bloud-sheaders manquellers gredy guttes and Dauld calleth them Lions lieng in theyr dennes in waite for the simple and rauening the poore halinge hym into theyr nettes But beware least they crye to god and the mournynge of the poore ascending and peareyng the eares of the lord of Sabaoth prouoke him agaynst