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A07905	The mirrour of mutabilitie, or Principall part of the Mirrour for magistrates Describing the fall of diuers famous princes, and other memorable personages. Selected out of the sacred Scriptures by Antony Munday, and dedicated to the Right Honorable the Earle of Oxenford.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1579 (1579)	STC 18276; ESTC S110067	46,675	112

receiued me at last And sorowing teares did make a mends for all Direct your wayes as Iustice dooth beséeme Assure you then you can not walke a stray And of this crime none can you guiltie déeme Remember me and thus I haste away FINIS The Author THe Author stood meruelously amazed to heare this dolefull Discourse vttered by King Dauid to see how sorowfully he bewept his so vniust attempt and how earnestl●… he craued pardon for his lewd offence Atlast the Author approched ne●…rer vnto him and sayd Undoutedly my moste gratious and Souereigne Prince this your careful complaint wilmooue the mides of other such like si●…ers to driue into vtter obliuiō their vnsatiat desires wherby moste greeuously they offend in the presence of the Almightie O my freend answered King Dauid this my fact was bothe odious in the sight of God and man yet cheefly in disobedience of the Almighties commaundements but hartely I lament the same and wish that this deed may be a mirrour vnto all to beware how they fall in to the like and thee my freend and all other I wish wisely to foresee vnto your selues be fetuent in prayer and continuall in contemptation so the Aduersary shall haue no power to assayle and so my Freēd far wel Adieu good King answered the Author and GOD of his inestimable mercy arme vs all constantly in thy repentaunce After this entred a crabbed creature deformed to beholde his belly so monsterous and huge and his visage so ougly to beholde after a whiles pausing he began to speake as followeth CLVTTONY GL●… not thy self vvith vain desire of vvelth Let modest mean alvvay thy state suffice Vse not excesse for to impaire thy helth The drunken S●… all vertue dooth despise The 〈◊〉 paunch his belly makes his God. O happy man that keeps the golden mean Nought more reproche or more deserues his r●…d You ●…vel may see then such a life vnclean THE COMPLAINT of Diues for his Gluttony vsed in bi●… life time Caput 5. DRound in the gulf of endlesse woes am I A Glutton vile moste odious to beholde My life I led so lewdly out of frame That all the World my presence doo despise And why for that I might haue shund before But fond desire to that repugnant was I Lordly liued and fared of the best I like a Prince had all the World at wil To see the poore did gorge mée with disdaine I thought all much that went beside my mouth No at my gate they should for hunge●…●…ye Ere I a whit w●…ld pity their estate When Lazarus lay begging at my gate I gaue great charge that none should him reléeue No not the crummes that from my table fel To saue his life hée should them not obtain The dogs to him more gentle was then I They lickt his sores when els hée naught could get And now beholde what haue I for my hire An endles flame wher●… I ●…ry my hart The helhounds stand and claw mee with their 〈◊〉 ▪ A thousand plagu●… I suffer in a day And all not half so much as I deserue Though ten times more they were adioynd to mée Poore Lazarus that p●…ing lay in 〈◊〉 In Abrahams bosome 〈◊〉 from ha●… 〈◊〉 Where I had all the pleasure on the 〈◊〉 And hée the woe his ioyes are treble folde My daintie diets now hath la●…e ful sower Now simple meat would seru●… for daintie fare But hée they say that wil ●…o warning take Deserueth wel to haue a like rewarde And hée that makes a God vpon his drosse Must buy it deer as I alas haue doon The pleasure that I had on earth before Ful hard I now doo buy it to ●…hy cost Sée what it is to trust in massy murk sée what it is to make a God of drosse Beholde what gain returns vnto my share for thinking that my life would alway last I am the wretch that did contemne the poore but for contempt beholde what did ensue You Wordlings all that yet remain behind remember Diues drencht in deadly dole Sée how desartful rightly hath him sped for lawlesse life deuoid of any gr●… Who scornes at God God sure wil scorne at him Let him not trust that weith wi●…●…negarde b●… Wel since you haue my fatall fall beheld I doubt not but you wil preuent the like If so you d●… your pleasure may be more If not your woe shal be as great a●… mine But while you haue a space alotted you Remember mée and feare wil force you 〈◊〉 And so Adieu to 〈◊〉 I ●…st retur●… Where tr●…l 〈◊〉 ●…se my caren corse There must I li●… there must I neuer dye O gri●…ly gréef that neuer wil haue end Fye on all mu●… that brought mée vnto this Farwel my Fréends stil think on Diues life FINIS The Author THis grisly tale of Diues perplexed the Author in a daz●…ed dump to consider with him self what desert obtayned the excessiue desire of Gluttony what au irksoe sore it is vnto the soule bringeth the body into a brutish beastlines and maketh him consue his dayes in canckred conceits the flaunting fare vsed at their tossing tables the rietoꝰ regard they haue their owne s●…ish sloth from morning to night passing their pleasure in irksome excesse of detestable drunkennes then wallowing in the mire of mortall miseries pamperd with all secucurities possible to bring him to the b●…ck of subtil Sathan then is hedlong hurled into a thousand crabbed cares a multitude of mischeefs compa ssed with cruel calamities all hope abandoned faith vtterly suppressed and vice egregiously imbraced no tung can possible expresse the diuers dolors brought about by slauish sin man so vnstedfast by nature to run hedlong into the ●…ame But then to driue him out of his former fanta sies approched one in place with a currish coun tenance his paunch corne out and round about beset with fearfull flames of fire 〈◊〉 sight wher of the Author stood quaking and qu●…ering yet refreshing him self with assured hope he attēded to hear what he would say AVARICE As God hath sent and vvel increast thy store Vaingloriously doo not therin excel And eke again doo not disdain the poore Regarde on earth thou but a time shalt dvvel In time therfore this odious vice expel Consider vvelth dooth florish but a space Erect thy minde in heauen to gain a place THE COMPLAINT of Iudas bemoning his Auaritious hart in selling his Maister Christe for thirtie pence Caput 6. WHat doo I liue wil death not end my car●… is crooked fate so luckles vnto mée that wil not end my mortall misery No greater plagues must be thy shamelesse share For lothed life which thou before didst vse In crauing that which moste did the abuse Lothe cruel wretch to showe thy filthy face Or that the World should think vpon thy déed For whose offence ful many harts doo bléed For that I wretch transgrest in cruel case My Maister milde for lucre t●… betray Woe woorth thée wretch to think

THE Mirrour of Mutabilitie or Principall part of the Mirrour for Magistrates Describing the fall of diuers famous Princes and other memorable Personages Selected out of the sacred Scriptures by Antony Munday and dedicated to the Right Honorable the Earle of Oxenford Honos alit Artes ¶ IMPRINTED at London by Iohn Allde and are to be solde by Richard Ballard at Saint Magnus Corner 1579. VERO NIHIL VERIVS A happy race God graunt the woorthy wight to whom this Creast of honnor dooth pertain To liue in ioy vnto his harts delight and after death among the Saints to reign ¶ TO THE RIGHT HOnorable and his singuler good Lord Patron Edvvard De Vere Earle of Oxenforde Uicount Bulbeck Lord of Escales and Badlesmere and Lord great Chamberlayne of England Antony Munday wishesh in this world a triumphant tranquillitie with continuall increase of Honorable Dignitie and after this life a Crown of euerlasting felicitie in the eternall Hierarchie AFter that I had deliuered Right Honorable vnto your courteous and gentle perusing my book intituled Galien of Fraunce vvherein hauing not so fully comprised such pitbines of stile as one of a more riper Inuention could cunningly haue carued I rest Right Honorable on your Clemency to amend my errors committed so vnskilfully But at that time beeing very desirous to attaine to some vnderstanding in the languages considering in time to come I might reap therby some commoditie since as yet my vvebbe of youthfull time vvas not fully vvouen and my vvilde oates required to be surrovved in a forreyne ground to satisfye the trifling toyes that dayly more and more frequented my busied braine yeelded my self to God and good Fortune taking on the habit of a Traueler And hauing sustayned in the colde Countrey of Fraunce diuers contagious calamities and sundry sortes of mishaps As first beeing but nevvly ariued and not aquainted vvith the vsage of the Countref betvveene Bulloin and Abeui●…e my Companion and I vvere stripped into our shirts by Soldiars vvho if rescue had not come vvould haue endamaged our liues also Me thought this vvas but an vnfreendly vvelcome considering before I thought that euery man beyond the Seas vvas as frank as an Emperour and that a man might liue there a Gentlemans life and doo nothing but vvalke at his pleasure but finding it not so I vvished my self at home again vvith sorovve to my sugred sops But calling to minde that he vvhich fainteth at the first assault vvould hardly indure to fight out the Battell tooke Courage afresh hoping my hap vvould proue better in the end since it had such a bitter beginning and so passed forvvard to Paris Beeing there ariued to recompenee my former mishaps I found the vvorld vvell amended for not only I obtayned nevv garments but diuers Gentlemen to be my freends also some that had sustained as ill fortune as I and therfore returned back againe into England and other some that vvere very glad of my comming in hope I had beene such a one as they looked for But repelling such Sathanicall illusions such golden proffers of preferment to aduaunce me vn to my larger contentment I gaue them the hearing of all their politique deuises vvhich as they thought had taken deep root at their first planting And considering that I had enterprised this iourney for my pleasure and in hope to attaine to some knovvledge in the French tung if that I should seeme to scripulous in their presence it might turn to my farder harme For there no freends I had to help me no vvelth to maintaine me no succour neere to saue me but if I denyed my nevv freends vvould disdaine persvvaeded my self in their presence to doo as they bad me but vvhē they vvere absent to doo then as pleasd me By these meanes I obtayned their lavvfull fauoure in so much that they thorovvly prouided me for my iourney to Roome VVhere for my more prefermēt likvvise they deliuered me diuers let ters to sundry persons vvhose names I remit that there I should be placed in the office of a Preest VVell my freend I gaue them a thousand thanks for their liberall expences and freendly Letters and so vve departed But vvhen vve had vvith an nights rest pondered of our iourney and considered the emminent daungers before our eyes First hovv ready Sathan stood to tempt vs and prick vs forvvard stil to the eternall perdition of our soules Secondly that vve should forsake so soone the title name of a Christian and yeeld our necks to the yoke and slauerye of the Romaine Decretales in that vve professing our selues before faithfull follovvers of our deere Maister Christe should novv so vvilfully for sake him Thirdly vnto all our freends espetially our Parents vvhat an hart sorovve it vvould be to heare hovv their liberall enpences bestovved on vs in our youth in trayning vs vp in verteous educations is novv so lightly regarded as able to cause the Father to yeeld his breath for the sorrovve conceiued through th●… negligence of his Sonne and all ingenerall lament our vnnaturall vsages Fourthly from the Seruants of one eternall true God to come to be Idolaters VVoorshipers of stocks and stones and so forsake the feare of God our duty to our souereign Prince and our looue to our parents and all affection to our freends All these beeing the principall points thorovvly cōsidered vvithdrevv my mind from my former intent as hauing knovvledge of my Lord the English Ambassadour then lying in Paris to him vve vvent deliuered our aforsaid Letters desiring the prudent coun cell of his Honnor therin His Honnor perceiuing our imbi cilitie and opening the Letters found therin vvhere of I haue before certified your Honnor vvhich vvhen he had vvoorthily ballanced in the brest of a second Solon sayd My deere and faithfull Countrymen as I hope you are not so glad of your vvelfare as sory for your ariuall in that you hazard your selues on such a staylesse state to become as freends to your enemyes and foes to your Countrey heere standing at the mercye of a rauening VVolfe vvho not on ly vvould deuoure you from your Countrie but bothe body and soule from Heauenly felicitie Better therfore to abide the pouertie of this your vvant and necessitie then to sell your selues vvilfully into such perpetuall slauery and not on ly to your great ignomy but to your freends perpetuall infamy to your Prince and famous Countrie if you leaue your Captaine thus covvardly Take hart afresh corragiously dread no calamitie take patient all aduersitie God vvil assist ye This excellent Discourse pronounced by so prudent a per sonage me thought did demonstrate the excellencye of true nobilitie And then departing from his Honnor I iournied into Italy to Roome Naples Venice Padua and diuers o ther excellent Citties And novv returned remembring my bounden duty to your Honnor I present you vvith these my si●…ple labours desiring pardon for my bolde attempt Faccio fine è riuerentemente baccio le