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A23383	A meruailous combat of contrarieties Malignantlie striuing in the me[m]bers of mans bodie, allegoricallie representing vnto vs the enuied state of our florishing common wealth: wherin dialogue-wise by the way, are touched the extreame vices of this present time. VVith an earnest and vehement exhortation to all true English harts, couragiously to be readie prepared against the enemie. by W.A.	Averell, W. (William)	1588 (1588)	STC 981; ESTC S104468	32,149	54

labouring haue felt the payne all the reward I demaunde is thy good worde which if I may haue I am satisfied and so reposing my selfe thereon I ende wyshing thee health and long life with the fruition of heauenlie ioyes Farewell ⸫ ¶ A Dialogue wherin the extreame vices of this present age are dysplayd against Traytors and Treasons The Tongue DEare Brethren and fellowe members by what authoritie or right rather with what boldnes dare our Brethren the Belly and Back oppresse vs and so Lord-like commaund vs it is a shameful thing extreame folly and a thing very vnséemly when the seruaunt ruleth and the Lorde obeyeth the slaue commaundeth and the Maister serueth truelie we are worthy of the greatest torments that lyke drudges will become a scoffe and scumme to others Like fooles we haue made the Belly and Backe our Lords with great labour we get and prouide al things may please them poore soules we haue no rest sometime the Belly commaūdeth one sometime the Backe another one saith to y ● Foote arise sluggard awake the other to the hand bestirre thée apace get me some meate prepare mee some dainties fetch me some wine lay the Table the day passeth the time goeth and I haue eaten nothing Hunger and Thirst my two enemies come threaten my death the one on the one side the other on the other and therfore except yée spéedely help me I die and these are their daielie and vsuall complaints The Hande Syster you saie trueth and amongst the rest no one hath more cause to cōplaine of them both then I for I labor sundry waies to maintaine thē In the Winter I suffer cold in the Summer I endure heat my ioynts are benummed with the one and dryed with the other I labor day night to procure for thē both what I can yet they are neuer satis-fied The Tongue I knowe it but yet your toyle is not equall with myne for I am often a common Paratour and solicitour for them both Manie times I am faine to braule for them when I haue small thanks for my labour somtimes I am a Patrone or rather a Latrone to robbe the Ministry by selling of lyuings sometimes a Iudge and eftsoones a witnes somtimes a Counseller otherwhiles a Merchant and then after a retailour of wares I counterfait Lawes I tell lyes I sewe seditions I stirre vp Traytors I slaunder Princes vnder cullour of trueth I beguile and deceiue I ●weare and forsweare I breake promise I allure to whoredome to theft to murder and to all mischiefe I make no account so I may get them ought whether per fas or nefas by right or wrong If I come among Princes I flatter if among the noble or ritch I sooth them vp with swéete wordes Si ai●rt aio si negant nego looke what they say I affirme it and all this I doe that by flatteries I may féede the Belly dai●●●lie clothe the Back brauelie The Hande And I praie you is my toyle any lesse are my deceites inferiour vnto yours am I not forced through their procurements if I may without shame open my follies to picke and steale sometimes by priuie filching to make all fish that comes to net sometimes by open robbing violently to lay hands vpon others What treasons what poysonings what murder is it or what wickednes that I doo not for their sakes accomplish whose goods haue I spared whose bloode haue I not spilled to serue the turne of these my Lordlie Maisters Haue I spared the Prince the Father the Childe the Sister the Brother the Husbande the Wife Nay what age or se●e haue I pittied to please these ouerruling commaunding Lords I want no examples to confirme my sayings yet least you should imagin me to say more then I can proue I will sette downe a fewe for the maintainaunce of my cause And first to begin with Traytors did not Curio at first Caesars enemy yet afterward to maintain the Bellie and Back sell vnto Caesar for 26000. crownes the Cittie of Rome How vnfaithfully did Polymnestor of Thrace murder Polydorus King Priamus some and all for his gold to maintaine his brauerie and to sette him one degrée higher in his Kingdome Aul. Posthumius Albinus béeing sent to ouerthrow Iugurtha was corrupted with money and in stead of warre most shamefully concluded a peace How did Standley and Yorke two English Traytors in Flaunders deale with the most vertuous and famous Quéene of England whom God preserue long to raigne ouer vs to the confusion of all forraine and domesticall Traitors When the Romaines warred against the Latines Cassius a standerdbearer f●ue Crassus Brutus his sonne because for money he would haue betrayd his Father and opened the Gates to the enemies Heraclius the Emperour slewe Phocas his Father to maintaine himselfe in the brauerie of an Empire Richard the third reaching with ambition of a crowne most vnnaturally slew his two little Nephewes his hart contriued it but I performed it Frotho the King of Denmark had thrée sonnes Haldanus Roe and Scato who when their Father was deade stroue all togeather for the Kingdome by meanes of which Haldanus the elder slew y ● two yonger that hee alone might sway the Kingdome Semiramis hauing obtained of her Husband Ninus to sit but one day in the princelie seate and for that day to sway the Kingdome imprisoned her Husband afterward slewe him that she alone might liue in all daintines and brauerie These and infinit other haue the Belly and Backe 〈◊〉 me to destroy making me as a slaue to serue their appetites The Foote Séeing each of you haue iustly made your complaints as Nature hath placed me lowest so giue me leaue at last to declare my griefe I acknowledge the Tongue is greatly enforced the Handes meruailously troubled and the other members wonderfully oppressed to serue the turne of two not Maisters by Nature but Monsters by abuse yet consider my trauaile and you shall find it nothing lesse then the rest How doo I trott vp and downe and as a Porter togeather with my fellow am forced to beare vppe the rest of the members Whatsoeuer must be had I am the Messenger to fetch it is there any dish to féede the Belly then must I runne to buy it is there any fine apparrell fashionable for the Backe be it neuer so farre I must trudge for it And albeit y ● the waight of the members which nature hath gyuen be sufficient to charge ouerburden my féeble force yet must I haue a loade deuised by arte to oppresse the weakenes of my slender ioynts so that I thinke my burden heauier then Aetna or the waight of the Heauens vpon the shoulders of Atlas with griefe héerof my boanes consume my synnowes shake my humors dry vp and my ioynts quake like as when two weake Pillars beare vppe the burden of a heauie house Besides neither can the Tongue come to vtter her spéech nor the hands to execute their purpose without

liues Pugnate pro patria fight for your country your dearest countrie wherein you haue ben bred borne nourished brought vp toward which you ought to bee as inwardly affected as you are naturally moued to your mothers It is your natiue soile and therefore most swéete for what may bee dearer or swéeter than your Countrie No gold nor siluer comparable to your Countrie no pleasures nor delightes like to your Country for what so is néerest to nature that thing is swéetest to life and as Plato sayth in Critone Et patri et matri et progenito●●bus omnibus patriam esse anteponendum Our Countrie ought to be preferred before Father Mother or els our auncestours for though our fathers mothers and kindred die yet our Countrie doeth nourish vs cherish and preserue vs. When the people of Tegea in Arcadia made warre with them of Pheneum the battaile being set and ordered on each side redie to ioyne together they tooke counsaile each to send thrée brethren valiant and stout men who shoulde contend for the victory They of Tegea sent the sonnes of Rheximachus they of Pheneum of Demonstratus these sixe met and in fight two of Rheximachus sonnes were slaine the third named Critolaus ouercame his enemies with this stratagem he fained to flie and as each of the other pursued him he seuerally slew them all and returning with victorie was ioyfully receiued of all saue of his sister Demodice though he had saued the Citie by his valour yet because hee had by chance slaine her louer shee enuied at his victorie and reioyced not at his triumph which the young man disdayning as an enimie of her Countrie he slew her and beeing after accused of his mother was notwithstanding by the Citizens fréed If there be anie among vs that be such enuious traitors that regard rather theyr owne pleasures or commodities more than the safegard of their country be they fathers mothers sisters or brothers I would they had the rewarde of Demodice and famous haddest thou bene Critolaus in the memorie of all ages that preferredst thy Countrie before thy kinne and the honor thereof before thine owne life haddest thou not filed thy hands in womanish bloud Into this your Countrie your enemies boast to set foot they count vpō your riches and treasures your landes and possessions your wiues and fayrest daughters and to dispossesse you not onely of your pleasures but of your dearest liues but I remember the fable of Hermogenes that the Apes séeing the commodities that men had by Cities how the couerings of their houses and penteises kept out the raine and winde in Winter and shut out the hot Sunne in Summer their walles and doores shut out théeues and their defenced townes and great gates defended them from wilde beasts and enemies certaine of them especially those that liked this ciuill life concluded to call a counsell and in open assemblie as the nature of Apes is apt to imitate euery action they perswade to take from men a péece of ground whereon they would build Cities as men doe they reckon vp the commodities that the walled townes would kéepe out wolues their houses wind and wether but they adde this that they would build theirs more commodiously for they would haue their orchards and gardens all within their Cities the fruites whereof should maintain them Also they would haue their Theaters and playes for pleasure but they should be al within their wals this they perswaded the counsel was liked and with the remembrance hereof they were delighted it was soone contriued in thought and easie to be spoken but not so soone done for when the wood was to bée hewed the stones to bee squared the boords to be sawed and euerie other thing to be prepared they sawe then their Apish counsel was frustrate and too hard for them to accomplish euen so the proude Spaniards like Hermogenes Apes haue consulted and determined to enter your Iland and therein to inioy both their pleasure and commoditie but I doubt not deare Countrimen when it shal come to the push of the pike and dint of the sword but that our God wil so frustrate their purpose as through your valiant mindes and hardie déedes they shal finde their counsell but vaine and returne home again like Apes without tailes They play with vs as Iulianus the Apostate did with the Christians in his time who as Theodoritus in his 6. booke and 44. Chapter telleth after the Parthian warres made great preparation against the Christians whō he scornfully tearmed Galilaeans threatning he would race them out and set vp deuillish images in their Churches At that time Libanius a singular Sophist but an enemie to the truth and a follower of Iulian looking and longing after his maisters victory in regard of his threates came to a godly Schoolemaister and teacher of youth in Antiochia scoffing at his religion scornfully asked him Fabri filius quid nunc putas agit What thinkest thou nowe doeth the Carpenters sonne But hee inspired with the spirite of GOD foretolde that which presently followed saying O thou Sophist the creacreator of all things whom thou callest the carpenters son Loculum Juli●●o concinnat is making a coffin for Iulian and in deede according to his prophesie within few dayes after this Apostate died was put in a coffin and being laide in the graue for all his swelling pride came short of that which he proudly threatned I might tell of Sancherib of the Philistines against Saul and diuerse others that haue threatned the Saints of God which because they boasted agaynst the Lorde were ouerthrowen But because I haue fallen in hand with Iulian I will not let passe the apt Antithesis that is betwéene the Spaniards and Iulian with his followers They bragged to ouerthrowe the Galilaeans as they tearmed them so doe the Spaniards the Protestants or the Lutherans as they name them they threatned to set vp Idols so doe the Spaniardes images they protested to root race out Christians so do the Spaniards the true professors they threatned to shed their bloud most spitefully so do the Spaniards beast to spil ours most cruelly but doubt not louing Countriemen but that Christ Iesus whom you serue is making their coffins and that eyther the sea or a straunge lande shal be their graues that cannot be contented with their owne but proudly séeke to oppresse the Saints of God Therefore I exhort you as Hezechia did those of Iuda Be strong and couragious feare not neither bee afraide for the force of Spaniards nor for al the multitude that is with them for there be more with vs than with them with them is an arme of flesh but with vs is the Lord our God to helpe vs and to fight our battailes They doe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fight agaynst God wee do fight in defence of his word they seek after spoyle we after the building of Gods Church they séeke wretchedly to rent from vs that is not