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friend_n	ambassador_n	king_n	send_v	1,522	5	5.9615	4	true

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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

this ende That euery noble man in his Shire Citye or Countreye maye in like maner to theyr power prouyde the realme be not charged or whelmed wyth that wanderyng and pernici us draffe of vagaboundes and lasye loyterers Be this therfore decreed that liberallye they ayde the needye that simplye they geue not suttellye let to vsurye a benefite And such gifte scripture termeth an almes and pitye For it is geuen to the pitied and almes worthy The Philosophers call it bountye benignitie or liberalitie Liberalitye towards the learned Let also a Noble mans chest open to the famous in skyll or studye of knowledges For in times paste kinges Nobles and al honourable were protectours and nurses of learnynge learned and studentes And accompted as it were Apollines and maynetayners of the Muses who in maner watered and refreshed with their liberality as plentyfull dewe the same sterued or destitute Whom vnlesse the ayding and beneficial hand of Nobles assiste and supporte necessarily must they faynt and fall For artes are fed by honour preferments aydes and faynte throughe want contempt and pouertye Hence springe those bothomles prayses and glorious titles of Alexander the greate Hence those of Augustus and Mecenas prynted by the famous pennes of Ouide Virgile Horace But that other king of the Macedons munificence Anaxagoras D●ogenes and many other both proued and praysed Whose emba●sado●rs bringing Xenocrates 50. talentes whē he refused aunswering he neded not so much notwtstanding of curtesye seing thē somewhat dismayd toke 30. poundes the kinge willed him to gratifie any his frend if any neded it with the rest To Anaxarchus he sent by his cofferer so much as he requirrd Namely a. 100. calentes which he not onely not denied but seemed in maner to thanke him for be would so boldly demaūd it of him as his frende whoe both mought and would geue it hym For this cause with immortal thankes and euerlasting memory oughte they be honored and reuerenced who first founded schooles and vniuersities appoyntinge stipends and priuileges aswel for the studious to learne as professours of artes to teach wherwith we wont to be allured and prouoked to study paynefully and profite merely But gone is that golden age present are our brasen and iron yeres ▪ wherin who ought augment these benefites are rather spoylers then patrones of learninge Who either by flattery sute or extorcion seeke theyr pryuate gayne in students reuenues and compasse rather to rase what is builte than to laye or found new To many politike artificers bee there in this suitle and wylye skil who either purchase for noughte of wardens and Rectours of colleges theyr lands and liuings or enter on them ere they fal or ayded by the Prynces letters patents dispossessinge the olde tenaunt wyl in spite of theyr nose become their tenaunts or if the heades denye theyr requestes chafe like younge Dukes and threate I wot not what to the whole felowshyppe But otherwyse would I oure Noble man bothe doe and meane To surmount the benefites of his auncestours to mayntayne the dignity of learninge to augmente their profites to employon them with a gentilmanly frankenes so muche as they want shal not be burdennus to him selfe To garnishe also libraryes with store of bookes is not the leaste commendation of Nobility Wherein Ptholomeus Philadelphus whylom excelled Which prayse is nowe descended to the Noble familye of the Fuggers Next Liberalitye toward●s Goddes Saynctes be liberality vnlocked to them who suffer for religion and areemprisoned or otherwyse afflicted for Christes cause For in the Apostles time they bestowed their almes on the godlye poore And Paule ofte gathered for the brethren at Hiernsalem and others And councelleth the Galathians bothe generally to be bountifull to all men but chiefely to the householde of faith For what wee contribute to the godlye and the persecuted for Religions sake is most accepted of god and who receiueth them receiueth Chryst Yea who receyueth a Prophete in the name of a Prophete or a iust man in the name of the iuste shall receiue the reward of a Prophete and righteous And who geueth the least of these but a cuppe of cold water to drinke in the name of a Disciple shal not misse hys rewarde Howe much the detestabler is theyr myschieuous beneficence and accursed bountie who not to feede or clothe hungrye or naked Christe but rather to spoyle and dysrobe hym not to cheryshe but rende hym not to saue but staye hym lauishelye power oute and waste theyr goods welth and power And who to aduaunce supersticion not builde Religion eyther renew raised Monasteryes or found new Rigorous in sacking the poore but superititiouslye Relygious in deckinge Images Masses Relikes pardons pilgrimages clothinge Sainets counterfaites prodigally wyckedly liberall Which erpence is so much the lamen tabler as it is in the mids of the light of the Gospell vsed and for they ryfle from the good and gospellers what they bestow on the euel And turne the substance of the godly as the rent and scattered relikes of theyr life to horrible abuse But these haue other where theyr pryce worthy theyr deedes In meane time ill gotten and worse spent worst wasteth but what is employed on godly vses and subsidies of the holy Sainctes shal with vsury returne to the owner So as for carnall thinges he shall reape spirituall and heauenly And thus hitherto haue we entreated of theyr reuerence to theyr countrey theyr loue of the multitude concorde twixt them selues almes towards the poore liberality to the learned bounty to the godly which all be members of the commen wealthe whom as germane brethren this our Noble man oughte embrace with fauour and amitie Nor oughte theyr beneficence bee withholdē but emparted with straūgers soudred Hospitaltye toward●● Straūger● and as hit were grafted in the commen weale which vertue is termed hospitality namely commended to the Iewes in the old law by god whom hee wylled to be curteous to straungers who were pilgrymes erst them selues in a forren land For lyghtlye learne they that haue proued like misery to succour misers And are moued with greater compassion and sence of others griefe Cesar therfore commended the Germans for they thought it detestable to missuse a straunger And shielded all suche as for anye occasion fledde to them from wronge accompting them holye and communicatinge all theyr house and tables with them The Britains chiefelye the Kentishmen hee termeth of all other most ciuile which it appeareth was preiudiciall to them the chiefe cause of Cesars warre For they ayded the frenchmen his enemies and succourd them with frendly and commodious harborough Beware the newe Germans and Englyshmen they chaunge not but continewe this manour and custome which so much the more they ought for as nowe they exceede theyr elders in Christianity so oughte they passe them in vertues That charge credited Paule to the bishoppes Namely to entertaine and loue straungers Nor lesse carefull ought Nobles bee whose