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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01286	A booke of christian ethicks or moral philosophie containing, the true difference and opposition, of the two incompatible qualities, vertue, and voluptuousnesse. Made by William Fulbecke, maister of Artes, and student of the lawes of England.	Fulbeck, William, 1560-1603?	1587 (1587)	STC 11409; ESTC S105667	32,626	90

A BOOKE OF christian Ethicks or Moral Philosophie Containing The true difference and opposition of the two incompatible qualities Vertue and Voluptuousnesse Made by William Fulbecke maister of Artes and student of the Lawes of England At LONDON ¶ Imprinted by Richard Iones dwelling at the Signe of the Rose and Crowne neere Holborne bridge 1587. To the worshipfull and vertuous Gentleman M. George Seintpolle Esquire William Fulbeck wisheth all prosperous euentes THe G●aecians were wont to consecrate to their seuerall Gods seueral trees as to Apollo the Laurell because he was alwaies fresh in countenance The Oake to Iupiter as being alwaies strong the Oliue to Minerua as being alwaies fruitful of som gallant inuentions the Firre tree to Neptune as President of ships alwaies swimming and neuer sinking the tree called Aesculus to the three sonnes of Saturn because the roote is in the bottome of the earth the trūck in the water the top in the cloudes It behoueth me likewise somwhat to the imitation of them to yeelde a reason why I consecrate to your worship this Pamphlet not as a massy Tree but as a slender fruit of a rooted good will though of a short trauaile in it I haue giuen pleasure an ouerthrowe being not able for weaknesse to mannage in the fielde and not willing for wantonnesse to giue carefull care to the bloodye notes of the trumpet and because it is vnpossible that you should beholde the face of one that flyeth from you therefore I am constrained but not much against my wil to present to your worshippe the view of pleasures back vpō which you may see ingrauen the picture of hell howsoeuer her visage doe represent the face of the firmamēt but because you haue expressed more in a godly life then I haue shadowed in a fewe godly lines because your zealous conuersatiō is the image which my thoughtes haue in this discourse imagined therefore I iudged it most conuenient to submit this book to your fauourable construction not as a monument of my victorie but as a memoriall of your singular modestie nor as a sufficient counterpain of your good behauiour but as a short abridgement of your ample ver●ues the friendlie countenāce wherwith you haue alwaies cheared my drooping fancies was the loadstarre that drew me on to saile so far in this boysterous Sea where if the windes doe threaten me aboue and the water belowe yet as long as the starre shineth the sterne shall not faile Leander lost his ankerholde for lacke of light and the Tunnies dare not swim but when the moone doeth shine the light that I craue is your fauor the extinguishing that I am afraide of is mine own feare wherefore changing feare with hope I chāge wordes with silence beseeching God that your vertue may be extended with your life and your life counterpaized with your happinesse Yours to the vttermost of his power William Fulbecke To the curteous Reader IT is reported of the Eagle that she opposeth her yonglinges against the face of the Sun meaning therby to make trial and haue certaine knowledge which bee natural Eagles and whiche bee bastardly branches they that can looke directly against the Sun she admitteth for her owne those that are constrayned to winke shee extrudeth out of her nest Her in I may resemble my selfe to the Eagle who being the inuēter of this treatise haue laid it open to the eies of alimen that is to the eies of the world which Ouid in his metamorphosis applieth to the Sun now if it be indewed with this felicitie that it can abide the stern visage of seuere sages the pearsing eies of curious Gentlemen the critical censures of the learned Academickes I wil chalenge and cherish it as a fortunate issue otherwise refuse and reiect it as misbegotten hauing more of Amphitrio then of Iupiter of fancie then of reasō I haue long time sacrificed my studies to Angerona the Goddesse of silence laying my finger on my lippes and saying nothing foreseeing that if I shoulde rubbe the galle rippe the impostume ransacke the kannell of worldlye opinions worldlye I tearme them as beeing bredde in the worlde receiued of the worlde and practised by worldlings by worldlinges I meane the most and the worste most fonde and worst minded I shoulde stirre vppe Waspes and haue my wordes intertained with nipping gloses and returned home with a bitter farewel but sith it is no shame to write against such againste whome not to write is a great shame I haue taken courage vnto me and brought against thē a cōpleat legion If I shold haue inueighed by Satires I shoulde haue seemed too curious if I should haue iested by Epigrammes I might seem too captious if by Commedies I should coppy out their liues they would accōpt me too scurrilous if by tragedies I shold lamēt their maners they wold iudge me too scrupulous therefore vsing the name of Christian Philosophie I doe meane nether to fray thē with the title nor to flatter thē with the treatise but mine indeuour is speciallie bent to allure them by lenitye to win them by parley and to conuince thē rather by confession then by confusion but if this first trumpet which I haue sounded against them do giue me a signe of their obstinate resistāce after this legion displayed I will encounter thē by the grace of God with a whole armie of reasons setting thee curteous Reader on the top of Tarpey where thou maist easelye behold the cōflict and warfar of the Romans Sabines fighting in the valleis of Hetruria neither bend thy body to the one side nor wag thy hand to the other but with both eies behold both so shal we both be beholden to thee and being iustified by a righteous sētēce giue thee the comēdation of an vpright Iudge Farewel be not partiall Thine in Christ W. Fulbecke The true difference betweene Vertue and Voluptuousnes THere be seauen Artes whose Principles are principallye learned and practized of voluptuous liuers the art of dissembling the Arte of blaspheming the arte of deceiuing the art of flattering the arte of disdaining the arte of louing the arte of dicing seuen heades of Hydra seuen lewde sisters and seuen illiberall artes not worthie the name of artes fith their best professors are the baddest men they are so much better in their artes by how much they ar worse in their maners being therefore impudent because in vanitie they are arteficial and therefore vaine because in their arts they are impudent These be not the Muses inuentions because they are conioyned with great dishonestie haue a ranke smell of a lothsome impietie these be y e daughters of lady pleasure nestled in Pandoras boxe and sent● like Harpaies ouer the face of y e earth to take away from vs our wholsome foode and with their owne dunge to defile ●ur trenchers being throughly instructed of Circe to change men into beastes mens mindes into brutish appetites mens inuentions into foolish dreames and