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A06162	An alarum against vsurers Containing tryed experiences against worldly abuses. Wherein gentlemen may finde good counsells to confirme them, and pleasant histories to delight them: and euery thing so interlaced with varietie: as the curious may be satisfied with rarenesse, and the curteous with pleasure. Heereunto are annexed the delectable historie of Forbonius and Prisceria: with the lamentable complaint of truth ouer England. Written by Thomas Lodge, of Lincolnes Inne, Gentleman.	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1584 (1584)	STC 16653; ESTC S109563	53,394	94

y ● ouerseeing of his domestical preparatiō cōming to y ● stable among the hors kéepers of his new come guests reprehending one of th● for faulting in his office y ● felow impatient of reproofe measuring y ● gentleman by his plaine coat stroke him on the fa●e turned him out of y ● stable but afterward attending on his master perceiuing him whom he had stroken to be y ● Lord of y ● house he humbly craued pardō y ● gentleman as patient as pleasant not only forgaue him y e escape but pretely answered thus I blame not thée good fellow for thy outrage but this companion pointing to his coate which hath made thée mistake my person So at this instant estéeme I M. Gosson hath dealt with me who not mesuring me by my birth but by y e subiect I hādled like Will Summer striking him y ● stood next him hath vpbraided me in person whē he had no quarrell but to my cause therein pleaded his owne indiscretiō loded me with intollerable iniurie But if with Zoylus hée might kisse the gibet or with Patacion hop headlesse the world shoulde bee ridde of an iniurious slaunderer and that tongue laboured in suppositions might be nailed vp as Tullies was for his Philipicall declamations But good Stephen in like sorte will I deale with thée as Phillip of Macedon with Nicanor who not respecting the maiestie of the king but giuing himselfe ouer to the petulancie of his tongue vainly inueighed against him whom notwithstanding Philip so cunningly handeled that not onely he ceased the rumor of his report but also made him as lauish in commending as once he was profuse in discommending his attempt was thus performed he séeing Nicanor sorely pressed with pouerty reléeued him to his content Wherevpon altering his coppie and breaking out into singular commendation of Philip the king concluded thus Loe curtesie can make of bad good and of Nicanor an enimie Nicanor a friend Whose actions my reprouer I will now fit to thée who hauing slaundered me without cause I will no otherwise reuenge it but by this meanes that now in publike I confesse thou hast a good pen and if thou kéepe thy Methode in discourse and leaue thy slandering without cause there is no doubt but thou shalt bée commended for thy coppie and praised for thy stile And thus desiring thée to measure thy reportes with iustice and you good Gentlemen to answere in my behalfe if you heare me reproched I leaue you to your pleasures and for my selfe I will studie your profit Your louing friend Thomas Lodge BARNABE RICH Gentleman Souldier in praise of the Author IF that which warnes the young beware of vice And schooles the olde to shunne vnlawfull gaine If pleasant stile and method may suffice I thinke thy trauaile merits thanks for paine My simple doome is thus in tearmes as plaine That both the subiect and thy stile is good Thou needs not feare the scoffes of M●●mus brood If thus it be good Lodge continue still Thou needst not feare Goose sonne or Ganders hisse Whose rude reportes past from a slaundrous quill Will be determind but in reading this Of whom the wiser sort will thinke amis To slaunder him whose birth and life is such As ●alse report his fame can neuer tuch ¶ IOHN IONES GENtleman in praise of the AVTHOR THough not my praise yet let my wish preuaile Who so thou be that list to read this booke I neuer yet by flatterie did assaile To count that good that most did please my looke But alwaies wisht my friends such stile to vse As wise might like though foolish would refuse In opening vice my friend who spends his time May count by priuate good no profit lost What errors scape in young and lustie prime Experience badge of truth may quickly cost Who sets the marke that makes men shunne the sand Deserues good words his proofes for profit stand For common good to crosse a few mens vaines Who like to Midas would that all were golde I count not misse since there vnlawfull gaines Makes some men sink whom birth might well vphold I know the sore the scarre is seene to plaine A blessed state where no such wils doo raine In briefe I praise this booke for pretie stile For pithie matter Gentle be thou iudge O would my wish some fancies might beguile Then faire reuenewes should not fit a snudge A world to see how Asses daunce in golde By wanton wils when Gentles starue for colde Whose errors if it please succeeding age To see with sighs and shun with sad aduice Let him beholde this booke within whose page Experience leaues her chiefest proofes of price And thanke the youth that suffered all these toiles To warne thee shun that rocke which many spoiles FINIS GEntlemen since the presse cannot passe without escape and some things are so mistaken as without co●rrection they will be very grose May it please you when you read to correct especially such principall errours as these that followe Folio 30. b. Line 4. For woed Read wonne Folio eod Line 8. For colde Read cloudes Folio eod Line 15. For showde Read shoard Folio eod Line 30. For concluding Read concluded Foli 31. a. Lin. 34. For presents a secrets méete Read wth séemly secret gréete For the rest I referre them to your discretion who can distnguish coulours and either better or fit words to your fantasies Your friend Thomas Lodge AN ALARVM against Vsurers NO maruell though the wise man accompted all things vnder the sun vain since the chéefest creatures be mortall and no wonder though the world runne at randon since iniquitie in these later dayes hath the vpper hand The alteration of states if they be look into and the ouerthrow of houses if they be but easely laid in open viewe what eye would not shed teares to sée things so transitorie and what wisedome woulde not indeauour to dissolue the inconuenience There is a state within this our Common wealth which though it necessarily stand as a piller of defence in this royall Realme yet such are the abuses that are growen in it that not onely the name is become odious by somes errour but also if the thing be not narrowly lookt into the whole lande by that meanes will grow into great inconuenience I meane the state of Merchants who though to publyke commoditie they bring in store of wealth from forein Nations yet such are their domesticall practises that not only they inrich themselues mightelye by others misfortunes but also eate our English Gentrie out of house and hame The generall facultie in it selfe is both auncient and lawdable the professours honest and vertuous their actions full of daunger and therefore worthy gaine and so necessarye this sorte of men be as no well gouerned stat● may be without them But as among a trée of fruite there bée some withered fallings and as among wholesome hearbes there growes some bitter Colloquintida so it cannot be but

that will be gracious in his Mistresse eye must by outward attempts and vnaccustoured purposes séeke to confirme his happinesse Wherevpon vpon sundry conclusions he inserred thus that the next day by certaine rare attemptes hée would either finish that he had so long sought for or perish in the perfourmance of his enterprise and the day seruing to attempt that which he imagined by night he bethought himselfe of the Cymnosophists of y ● countrey among whom remembring one of singular experience and notable lerning he resorted vnto him opening first how he was inthralled by fancie how precluded by all occasions especially by the fathers disdaine next how some opportunitie serued him lastly how the agony tormented him desiring the Philosopher whose wisedome coulde sée into all causes to search out the fatall Exigent of his loue Appollonius for so the Gymnosophist was called hauing calculated the Gentlemans natiuitie and séeing some planets retrogate couering the asperitie of the destenies with the hidden secrecie of an Artist discoursed thus O Forbonius if as Socrates did his golde thou drown thy affections it would follow that with him thou shuldest enioy frée libertie of thy selfe and not suffer thy affects to rule thy reason Art thou bewtiched by Circes of a humane shape hast thou gotten a beastly forme of a man borne to reasonable actions wilt thou now swallow an vnreasonable misfortune If many cares be the decayers of the minde if many sorrowes the consumers of the body better were it by day to studie the lyberall Sciences then at such time as we shoulde imploye our selues to honourable attempts to become vnhonourably licentious Alas Forbonius considering what a louer is what a louer suffereth what a louer séeketh I finde the person idle minded I finde his patience an insupportable sorrow I finde himselfe not himselfe in y ● he is vnreasonable The daily actions of a louer are discommendable the night exclamations so odious as that they in this cōuert nature who shadowing y ● world with darknes limitting each creature his rest yet they euen in y ● time labor in out-cries in which they shuld take conuenient rest My good friend y ● gretest wisdome is to measure euery attēpt w t his casualties if ought happen y ● may séeme impossible to cast off the rayne and suffer it to passe in that sorme it was concluded in Thou louest Forbonius better wer it thou didst loath for by loathing thou canst but be comp●ed vnnaturall but by louing thou mayst fortune to be vnfortunate If all thinges be ordered by the higher powers it is vayne you must conclude to infringe what is concluded on if the destenies haue appoynted that Forbonius shall not be happie in inioying Prisceria Forbonius is not reasonable in suing for Prisceria Unhappie Paris in Helen though fortunate in inioying her beautie but when loue begins with a fading benefit it endeth with an euerlasting sorrow The conclusion of a wise man must be to yéelde to the necessitie of Fate and to continue contented with that which cannot be altered by succession Tell me by the immortall Gods my good friend I beséech thée what happines conceiuest thou possible to follow either in enioying thy Lady or finishing thy loue Alas the greatest swéete is a continuall sower and after many vnfortunate repulses a sodain misfortune makes an ende of many a yeares courting I speake all this to this ende my Forbonius because I would preuent that by counsell in thée which otherwise if thou follow thine owne lure will be a confusion to thy selfe Thou comest to me for counsell to compasse loue and I would confirme thée that thou shouldest auoyd the occasions of following loue Thou wouldest by my meanes strayne arte to subdue nature yet I labour both to direct by arte and to suppresse by nature Truly my good friend looking but to the hidden secretes of nature I finde thée subiect to manye misfortunes and no way to be remedied but by one only vertue Thou shalt after long toyles compasse that thou hopest for yet when thy greatest plesures begin to take the originall euen then shall they finde their exigent Since therfore the reuolutions of the heuens conclude that by onely continent forbearaunce thou shalt be disburdened of many misfortunes I beséech thée lette this transitorie pleasure be accompted off as it is and finish vp thy loue with my counsell so shalt thou be fortunate in preuenting destenie and continue in happines wher too much loue may make thee vnluckie Forbonius lead by the inconstant opinion of his young yeares not waying the graue and fatherly councell of Appollonius aunswered him thus O Father when the wound is giuen it is ill counsayling how to auoyd the stripe and when the heart is captiuated there can be but small recouery by counsell how wer it possible for me to restrain that in my selfe which the Gods could not limit in their Deities Easie it is for the whole Phisition to counsell the sick patient but when y ● extremitie wringeth excessiuely none bideth the martirdome but the afflicted O Appollonius my minde measureth not the iniquitie of fate neyther doo I séeke limits for that which by no direction can be exterminated from out my heart So that good father rather respect my present sute then my future discommoditie and by your counsell make ende to my sorrowes whereby it will thus come to passe that enioying the pleasure I long wish for I may more boldlye beare the assault of froward fortune when it commeth If it be onely death that my enemie Fate threteneth me with let me enioye this benefit as for Fortune I will be friende to her enemie the which is the graue and acquaynting my soule but with the onely Idea of my Mistresse thinke my selfe as happie as they that haue walkt the Elisian fieldes a long space to their content Appollonius willing to doo him good yet sorrie hée could not preuaile with his counsaile at length began thus Since my Forbonius thou wilt be ruled by no counsayle thou must be pertaker of thine owne sorrowe As for thy request I will so satisfie thée as not onely thou shalt at thy pleasure conceiue thy Mistresse minde but also open vnto her the secrettes of thy heart by which meanes thou shalt héerein haue accomplishment of thy wish though in so dooing thou shewe but lyttle wisedome Wherevpon resorting to his studdie he brought foorth a mirrour of notable operation a practicke in prospectiue which deliuering to Forbonius he commended it thus O my friend I deliuer thée that héere to féede thy humour which was composed to comprehend Arte. In this myrrour thou maist after thou hast written thy minde taking the Sunne beame send the reflection to thy mistresse eye wherby she may as legeably read thy letters as if they were in her handes and by thy instructions made priuie to the secrets of thy glasse retourne thine aunswere in that very forme in which thou sendest For the rest I leaue it to