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A09195	The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman. By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?; Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 90-1627, engraver.	1622 (1622)	STC 19502; ESTC S114333	134,242	209

vp and with him to haue perished offereth himselfe as Pater Romani eloquij whose words and stile that you may not bee held an Heretique of all the world you must preferre aboue all other as well for the sweetnesse grauitie richnesse and vnimitable texture thereof as that his workes are throughout seasoned with all kind of Learning and relish of a singular and Christianlike honesty There wanted not in him saith Tacitus knowledge of Geometry of Musicke of no manner of Art that was commendable and honest he knew the subtiltie of Logicke each part of Morall Philosophy and so forth How well he was seene in the Ciuill Lawes his Bookes De legibus and his Actions in Verrem will shew you which are the rather worthy your reading because you shall there see the grounds of many of our Lawes heere in England For the integrity of his mind though his Offices had lien suppressed let this one saying among many thousands perswade you to a charitable opinion of the same Arecta conscientia transuerfum vnguem non oportet quenquam in omni sua vita discedere Whereto I might adde that tale of Gyges ring in his Offices which booke let it not seeme contemptible vnto you because it lyeth tossed and torne in euery Schoole but be precious as it was sometime vnto the old Lord Burghley Lord high Treasurer of England before named who to his dying day would alwaies carry it about him either in his bosome or pocket being sufficient as one said of Aristotles Rhetoriques to make both a Scholler and an honest man Imitate Tullie for his phrase and stile especially in his Epistles Ad Atticum his Bookes De Oratore among his Orations those Pro M. Marcello Pro Archia Poeta T. Annie Milone Sext. Rose Amerino Pub. Quinctio the first two against Catiline and the third Action against Verres These in my opinion are fullest of life but you may vse your discretion you cannot make your choice amisse After Cicero I must need● bring you Caesar whom Tullie himselfe confesseth of all Orators to haue spoken the most eloquent and purest Latine Et haue bene loquendi laude●● saith he 〈◊〉 uteris ijs quidem reconditis exquisith summoque studio diligentia est consequ●tus And In qūo saith Quintilian ●anta vis id acumen ea concitatio vt illum codem animo dixisse appareat quo bellauit In whom there was so great vehe mency that fine iudement that courage and motion that it seemes hee wrote with the same Spirit hee fought To reade him as you ought you must bring with you an able iudgement beside your Dictionarie by reason of the diuersitie of Countries Tracts Places Riuers People names of ancient Cities and Townes to be sought out in moderne strange and vnknowne names of materials in buildings as in his bridge ouer the Rhine framed Ex tignis trab●bus fibulis sublicis longurijs c. which except you were seene in Architecture you would hardly vnderstand then strange names and formes of warlike Engines and weapons then in vse sundry formes of fortification water-workes and the like which notwithstanding since haue beene made knowne and familiar vnto vs by the painefull labours of those all-searching wits Lipsius Ramus Gionanni de Ramellis and others and may be read in English excellently translated and illustrated by that learned and truly honourable Gentleman Sr Clement Edmondes Knight Clearke of his Maiesties most honorable Priuie Counsell my worthy friend though many excellent workes of Caesars as his Epistles his Astronomy c. through the iniquitie of enuious Time are vtterly lost and perished Now offereth himselfe Cornelius Tacitus the Prince of Historians of whō I may not vntruly say as Scaliger of Virgil euius ore nil tomere excidit as well for his diligence as grauitie so copious in pleasing breuitie each Sentence carrying with it a kind of loftic State and Maiestie such as should me think proceed from the mouth of Greatnesse and Command in sense retired deepe and not fordable to the ordinarie Reader Hee doth in part speake most pure and excellent English by the industry of that most learned and iudicious Gentleman whose long labour and infinite charge in a farre greater worke haue wonne him the loue of the most learned and drawn not onely the eye of Greece but all Europe to his admiration But there being as Lipsius saith Suus cuique lingua genius Let me aduise you of this by the way that no Translation whatsoeuer will affect you like the Authors owne and proper language for to reade him as hee spake it confirmeth our iudgments with an assured boldnesse and confidence of his intent and meaning remouing that scruple of Iealousie we haue commonly of ignorant and vnfaithfull pens which deale many times herein sublesta fide Besides it is an iniurie to the Author who heereby loseth somewhat of his value like a peece of rich stuffe in a Brokers shop onely for that it is there at a second hand though neuer worne or newly translated but yesterday The next Titus Liuius whom like a milky Fountaine you shall euery where finde flowing with such an elegant sweetnesse such banquetlike varietie that you would imagine other Authors did but bring your mouth out of taste In his first Decade you haue the comming of Aeneas into Italy the building of Rome the first choise of the Senate the religious rites of Numa the braue combate of the Horatij and Curiatij the tyranny of Tarquine the rape of Lucrece by Sextus his sonne and first Consuls created In the third the Historie of the second Punicke warre Hannibals passage against the league ouer the Riuer Iberus who after eight moneths siedge tooke Saguntum his passage ouer the Pyrenean hills his forraging of France after ascending the Alpes with his ouerthrow of the Romanes with his Horse troop●s at the Riuer T●cin● where Scipi● after A●ricanus rescued his father beeing verie grieuously wounded His second ouerthrow of the Romanes at the Riuer Trebia his hard passage in cruell weather and tempests ouer the Apponin● c. In the fourth is recorded the occasion of the warre against Philip King of Macedonia concerning the comming in of two young men of Acarnania into the Temple of Ceres at Athens Against whom Sulpitius was sent by whom the Macedonians were ouerthrowne in a● horse battaile how L. Furius subdued the rebellio●s Gaules ouerthrew Hamilcar with thirtie fiue thousand Carthaginians with many other expeditions of Philip of Macedon and Sulpitius In the fift the going out of the fire in the Temple of Vesta how Titus S●mpronius Gracch●● Subdued the Celtiberian Spaniards and built a Towne in Spaine called Gracchuris after his name Posthumius Albinius triumphed ouer the Portugals the number of the Citizens of Rome reckoned by the poll with the Law of Volu●●●ius Saxa by which no woman was to inherit c. Be then acquainted with Quintus Curtius who passing

life Beleeue you with Chrysostome that the ignorance of the Scriptures is the beginning and fountaine of all euill That the word of God is as our Sauiour calleth it the key of knowledge which giuen by inspiration of God is profitable to teach to conuince to correct and to instruct in righteousnesse And rather let the pious and good King Alphonsi●s be a president vnto you and to all Nobilitie who read ouer the Bible nor once nor twice but foureteene times with the Postils of Lyra and Burgensis containing thrice or foure times as much in quantitie and would cause it to be caried ordinarily with his Scepter before him whereon was engrauen Pro lege Grege And that worthy Emp. great Champion of Christendome Charlemaigne who spent his daies of rest after so mnay glorious victories obtained of the Saracens in Spain the Hunnes Saxens Gothes and Vandals in Lumbardie and Italy with many other barbarous Nations whereof milions fell vnder his Sword in reading the holy Scriptures and the workes of the Fathers especially S. Augustine and his bookes De Ciuitate Dei in which hee tooke much delight Whom besides it is recorded to haue beene so studious that euen in bed he would haue his Pen and Inke with Parchment at his Pillow readie that nothing in his meditation nothing might ouer-slip his memorie and if any thing came into his mind the light being taken away a place vpon the wall next him was thinly ouer-laid with●Waxe whereon with a brasen pin he would write in the darke And we reade as oft as a new King was created in Israel he had with the ornaments of his kingly dignitie the Booke of the Law deliuered vnto him signifying his Regall authoritie was lame and defectiue except swaied by Piety and Wisedome contained in that booke Whereunto alludeth that deuice of Paradine an Image vpon a Globe with a sword in one hand and a booke in the other with Ex vtroque Caesar and to the same purpose another of our owne in my Minerua Britann● which is a Serpent wreathed about a Sword placed vpright vpon a Bible with the word Initium Sapiemia CHAP. 6. Of stile in speaking and writing and of Historie SInce speech is the Character of a man and the Interpreter of his mind and writing the Image of that that so often as we speak or write so oft we vndergoe censure and iudgement of our selues labour first by all meanes to get the habit of a good stile in speaking and writing as well English as Latine I call with Tully that a good and eloquent stile of speaking Where there is a iudicious fitting of choise words apt and graue Sentences vnto matter well disposed the same being vttered with a comely moderation of the voyce countenance and gesture Not that same ampullous and Scenical pompe with emptie furniture of phrase wherewith the Stage and our pettie Poeticke Pamphlets sound so big which like a net in the water though it feeleth weightie yet it yeeldeth nothing since our speech ought to resemble wherin neither the curiousnesse of the Picture or faire proportion of Letters but the weight is to be regarded and as Plu●arch saith when our thirst is quenched with the drinke then we looke vpon the ennameling and workmanship of the boule so first your hearer coueteth to haue his desire satisfied with matter ere hee looketh vpon the forme or vinetrie of words which many times fall in of themselues to matter well contriued according to Horace Rembe●● dispositam vel verba invita feq●untur To matter well dispos'd words of themselues do fall Let your stile therefore bee furnished with solid matter and compact of the best choise and most familiar words taking heed of speaking or writing such words as men shall rather admire then vnderstand Herein were Tiberiu● M. Ante●ie and M●cenas much blamed and iested at by Augustus himselfe vsing euer a plaine and most familiar stile and as it is said of him Verbum insolens tanquam scopulum effugiens Then sententious yea better furnished with sentences then words and as Tully willeth without affectation for as a King said Dum tersiari studemus eloquendi formula subterfugit nos clanculùm apertus ille familiaris dicendi modus Flowing at one and the selfe same height neither taken in and knit vp too short that like rich hangings of Arras or Tapistry thereby lose their grace and beautie as Themistocles was wont to say not suffered to spred so farre like soft Musicke in an open field whose delicious sweetnesse vanisheth and is lost in the ayre not being contained within the walles of a roome In speaking rather lay downe your words one by one then powre them forth together this hath made many men naturally slow of speech to seem wisely iudicious and be iudiciously wise for beside the grace it giueth to the Speaker it much helpeth the memorie of the hearer and is a good remedie against impediment of speech Sir Nicholas Bacon sometime Lord Chancellor of England and father to my Lord of S. Alb●n●s a most eloquent man and of as sound learning and wisedome as England bred in many Ages with the old Lord William Burgbley Lord Treasurer of England haue aboue others herein beene admired and commended in their publique speeches in the Parliament house and Starre-Chamber for nothing drawes our attention more then good matter eloquently digested and vttered with a gracefull cleere and distinct pronuntiation But to be sure your stile may passe for currant as of the richest alloy imitate the best Authors as well in Oratorie as Historie beside the exercise of your owne Inuention with much conference with those who can speak well nor bee so foolish precise as a number are who make it Religion to speake otherwise then this or that Author As Longolius was laughed at by the learned for his so apish and superstitious imitation of Tully in so much as hee would haue thought a whole Volume quite matred if the word Possibile had passed his pen because it is not to be found in all Tullie or euery Sentence had not sunke with esse posse videatur like a peale ending with a chime or an Amen vpon the Organes in Paules For as the young Virgin to make her fairest Garlands gathereth not altogether one kind of Flower and the cunning Painter to make a delicate beautie is forced to mixe his Complexion and compound it of many Colours the Arras-worker to please the eyes of Princes to be acquainted with many Histories so are you to gather this Hony of Eloquence A gift of heauen out of many fields making it your owne by diligence in collection care in expression and skill in digestion But let me leade you forth into these all-flowrie and verdant fields where so much sweete varietie will amaze and make you doubtfull where to gather first First Tullie in whose bosome the Treasure of Eloquence seemeth to haue beene locked