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A08918	An extracte of examples, apothegmes, and histories collected out of Lycosthenes, Brusonius and others ; translated into Englishe, and reduced into an alphabeticall order of common places, by A.P.	Parinchef, John.	1572 (1572)	STC 19196; ESTC S113993	85,726	246

brought before the Emperoure he iudged it more honest the place to serue to the woorshippe of God howe so euer it were than to the durtie slubbring of cookes and scullians Ex domino Fox King Alfrede alias Alurede Anno 899 king of Englande in his youthe perceyuing him selfe somewhat disposed to the vice of the fleshe and therby letted from diuers vertuous and good purposes did not as many yong Princes and Kings sonnes in the worlde be nowe wonte to doe that is to resolue them selues so all kinde of carnall licence and sensualitie running and folowing without bridle whether so euer theyr licence giuen doth giue them leaue as therefore not without cause the cōmon prouerbe doth reporte of them that kings sonnes learn nothing else well but only to ride Meaning thereby that Princes and Kings sonnes hauing aboute them flatterers which boast them in theyr faultes only theyr horsses giue them no more than to any other but if they fit not fast they will cast them But this yong king seeing in him selfe the inclination of the fleshe minding not to giue him selfe so muche as he might take but rather by resistance to auoid the temptation therof besought God that he would send to him some continuall sicknesse in quenching of that vice whereby he mighte be more profitable to the businesse of the common wealth and more apte to serue God in his calling Then at Gods ordinaunce he had the euill called Bicus till he came to the age of twentie yeres After this sicknesse being cured he fel to another which continued with him from twentie yeares of his age to 45. according to his owne petition and request made vnto God whereby he was more reclaimed and attempred from other more greate inconueniences and lesse disposed from that which he did most abhorre Also he deuided his goods into two equall partes the one appertaining to vses seculare the other to vses spirituall or ecclesiastical Of the which two principall partes the firste he deuided into thrée portions the first to the behoose of his house and familie the secōd vpon his workemenne and builders of his newe woorkes whereof he had right great delighte and cunning the thirde vppon straungers Likewise the other seconde halfe vppon spirituall vses he did thus deuide in foure portions one to the reléeuing of the poore an other to monasteries the third to the schollers of Oxford for maintināce of good letters the fourth he sent to forren churches wythoute the realme Also so sparing he was of time that he deuided the day and the night into three partes if he were not lette by warres and other great businesse the viij houres he spent in study and learning other viij houres he spent in prayer and almes déedes and other viij houres he spent his naturall rest sustinance of his body and the néedes of the realme The which order he kept duely by the burning of waxen tapers kept in his closette by certaine persones for the same purpose Nowe besides these other qualities and gifts of Gods grace in him aboue mētioned remaineth another part of his no little praise cōmendation which is his learning and knowledge of good letters whereof not only he was excellent expert himself but also a worthy maintainer of the same throughout all his dominions He translated into English Orossius pastorale Gregorij the historie of Bede Boetius de consolatione Philosophie also a Booke of his owne making in his owne tong which in the Englishe spéeche is called a handbooke in Gréeke called Inchiridion in Latin a manuell Suffring no man to aspire vnto any dignity in the court onlesse he were learned Do. Fox Next vnto this vertuous and learned prince Alfrede of all others that I could reade Maximi ian moste resembled hym in godly learning and in learned godlinesse Who was so excellente expert in the toungues but specially in the Latine stile that imitating the example of Julius Caesar he did wryte and comprehend in Latin histories his own acts and feates of chiualrie and that in suche sorte that when he had giuen a certaine taste therof to one Pycharmerus a learned man asking his iudgement how his warrelike stile in Latin did like him the said Pycharmerus did affirme and report of him to Iohn Charum the witnesse wryter of this historie that he did neuer sée nor read in any 〈◊〉 story a thing so exactly done as this was of Maximilian Moreouer as he was himselfe right learned so was he a singuler patrone and aduauncer of learning and learned men And for the maintenaunce thereof erected the excellent vniuersitie of Wittenberge Dominus Fox ex Iohanne Carione Of Pleasure KIng Lysimachus by chaunce of warre taken captiue of the Scithians in hys captiuity was so sore oppressed with thirst that he was glad for a draught of drinke to sell his kingdome But afterwardes remembring for howe shorte a pleasure he hadde solde a thing most precious he cried out and wept saying Alasse howe madde was I to sell a noble empire for the satisfying of my affection and gréedie belly The same day that Socrate shoulde drincke his deadly drench when his shakles were taken off his feete he felt himselfe maruellous light and pleasant and sayde behold how wonderously nature hath ordeyned that sorowe and pleasure goe alwayes togither and that there is neuer any perfite pleasure where there hath not bene paine and sorowe before Ex Laertio lib. 2. As Homer like a learned Poete dothe faine that Circes by pleasant enchauntments did turne men into beastes some into Swine some into Asses some into Foxes some into Wolues euen so Plato like a wise Philosopher dothe plainly declare that pleasure by licentious vanitie that swéete and pleasant poyson doth ingender in all those that yéelde them selues vnto hir foure notorious properties The first forgetfulnesse of all good things learned before The seconde dulnesse to receiue either learning or honesty afterwards The third a minde imbracing lightly the worst opinion and barren of discretion to make true difference betwixt good bad betwixt trouth and vanity The fourth a proud disdainfulnesse of other good men in all honest maters Plato and Home haue both one meaning For if a man inglut himself with vanitie or walter in filthinesse like a swine then quickly he shal become a dul asse to vnderstād either learning or honestie yet he shal be as subtil as a foxe in bréeding of mischeefe in bringing misorder with a busie hed a discoursing tōg and a factious heart alwayes glad to cōmend the worser partie euer ready so defend the falser opinion And why for where the will is giuē from goodnesse to vanitie there the minde is caryed from right iudgement to any fonde opinion in religion in Philosophie or any kinde of learning The fourth frute of vain pleasure by Homer and Platoes iudgement is pride of them selues and contempt of all others which is the very badge of all those that serue in Circes

father who abhorring all pride rebuked hir for hir ouer nicenesse Wherfore the nexte day shee attyred hir selfe more soberly and came and saluted hir father Who sayde vnto hir is not this attyre better than yesterdays yea quoth shee For to day I indeuoure to satisfie my fathers by yesterday my husbande his eyes Ex Macrobio Satur. lib. 2. cap. 3. An other tyme when one tolde hir that she was a great deale more proude than hir father Caesar She answered my father forgetteth that he is Emperour but I remember wel that I am an Emperours daughter Ibidem When one demaunded Phitons wife why she was not attired in gold as other princes wiues were she answered bicause my husbands vertue is a sufficient ornament for me Ex Stobeo ser 72. Tharsius Amphius béeing exalted from the state of a gardener vnto great honor and dignitie beganne to forget his olde friends Wherfore one of them saide vnto him if ye remēber sir we also sprang vp of the same séede that you did Of Princes and principalitie PYthagoras sayde that a Prince ought so to rule that he may be more beloued than feared of his subiects For loue causeth reuerence but feare causeth hatred and treason Ex Stobaeo ser 46. Edwarde surnamed the Confessour somtimes king of Englande describeth the office of a prince in this sort A king saith he ought aboue al things to feare God to loue obserue his commaundements to cause thē be obserued throgh his whole kingdome He ought also to kéepe cherish maintayne gouerne the church within his kingdome according to the institution of his auncientes and predecessors to defend the same agaynst al his enimies so the god aboue al thinges be honoured euer be before his eyes He ought also to set vp good lawes and customes suche as be holsome approued such as be otherwise to repel and put out of his kingdome Item he ought to do iudgement and iustice in his kingdome by the counsel of the nobles of the Realme Also thrée seruauntes a king ought to haue vnder him as vassals fleshly lust auarice and gréedy desire Whō if he kéepe vnder him as slaues he shall reigne well and honorably in his kingdome Al things are to be done with good aduisement and premeditation that properly belongeth vnto a king For temeritie and rashnesse wil bring a kingdome soone to desolation and decay Dominus Fox Ex libro regum antiq in praeto Londinensi Agesilaus would oftē say that a prince ought to excell his subiectes not in nicenesse and wantonnesse but in fortitude and temperaunce Also he sayde that a prince oughte to learne this lesson to be stoute and cruell agaynst traytours and rebels and to be gentle and louing vnto his citizens and subiectes And he was wont muche to reioyce in this that where as he was Prince and ruler of his people yet he coulde aswell indure to take paynes as any of them Yea when vs woulde haue his souldiers attempte any enterprise he hym selfe would be the first that should set on it and so for shame they woulde followe him in dooing the like Ex Plutarch in Lacon When one sayde vnto Theopompus king of the Lacedemonians that then it should be well with the Lacedemonians when the Prince knewe howe to rule the subiectes as he ought to doo he replied that that shoulde rather come to passe when the subiectes knewe howe to obey their Princes Meaning that the citie shall be beste gouerned where the citizens will be obedient and ruled by their gouernour For as the Gospell sayth euery citie deuided within it selfe shall be broughte to desolation Ex Fulgocio li. 7 ca. 2. Cyrus king of Persia sayde that no man shoulde be a Prince which were not better than the people whom he ruled and did not excell them in valiauntnesse and prowesse aswel as in wisdome and knowledge Brus li. 3. ca. 33. Fredericke the Emperour béeing demaunded whom he loued best of his subiects he answered that he loued thē best which would so please him that in no case they would displease god A christian prince and spoken right christianlike Ex Aenea Siluio Alphonsus king of Arragon sayde that those princes ought especially to be beloued feared which were louers and imbracers of iustice and equitie Which Princely vertues who so euer is indued withall theyr behest all men loue reuerence and feare As we reade of Cyrus who not only in iustice but also in all other princely vertues was him selfe an example vnto his subiectes and whose woorde was of as great a force as the oth of any priuate person Ex Panormi lib. 1. de rebus gestis Alphonsi When one tolde him that the king of Spaine should say that it was not comely for a Prince to be learned he said that those were woords of an Oxe and not of a man. For quoth he a Prince wythout learning is nothing else but as it were an Asse with a crowne Also whē it was tolde him that he was not apparelled like a Prince he answeared that he had rather be princelike in manners and authoritie rather than in his scepter and crowne Boso the last king of Araletensis commaunded the Bishop that he shoulde not goe to Euening prayer on Christmasse euen before that he came thether But when the Bishop with the rest of hys companie had taryed somewhat longer than his accustomed time and sawe that the king came not he went to seruice Wherfore whē the king came in he began to chide with the Bishop and was so moued that before all the people he gaue him a blowe Whereof the Bishop thincking to be reuenged complained to Otho the Emperoure who immediatly commanded that the Bishop should be beheaded And when the Archbishop intreated for him he woulde not forgiue him but sayde that no woorde that came from the mouthe of a Prince shoulde be spoken in vaine When one sayd vnto Antigonus that all things were honest and iust what so euer the Prince did he answeared yea amongst the Barbarike Princes it is so but we account nothing honest which is not honest in déede nor any thing iuste which is not iust in déede Alexander Seuerus the adopted sonne of Heliogabalus was a wise valiant and vertuous Prince who bare suche affection to learning and learned men that he would do nothing without their cousel and assistence From his Courte he dismissed all superfluous and vnnéedefull seruantes and sayd that he was no good pupill which fedde idle seruauntes with the bowels of his common wealth And amongste his other good vertues which was a rare thing in those dayes he was fréendly and fauourable vnto the Christians In so muche that when the Christians hadde occupied a certaine publike place to some good vse belike for the assembling and conuenting togither of the congregation the companie of the cookes or tiplers made chalenge thereto The matter being