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A00410	Questions of profitable and pleasant concernings talked of by two olde seniors, the one an ancient retired gentleman, the other a midling or new vpstart frankeling, vnder an oake in Kenelworth Parke, where they were met by an accident to defend the partching heate of a hoate day, in grasse or buck-hunting time called by the reporter the display of vaine life, together with a panacea or suppling plaister to cure if it were possible, the principall diseases wherewith this present time is especially vexed.	O. B., fl. 1594.	1594 (1594)	STC 1054; ESTC S120718	71,141	94

about to deceiue you with darkenesse of words If a field be said to haue eyes a wood may likewise haue eares But whether you heare me not or list not to beleeue me the likelihood hereof shall carrie me to credit the same knowing that matters of lesse proofe and more vnlikely trueth haue bene receiued from worse grounds and beginnings then this commeth from But you may see how the loue I beare you hath carried me to clime vnknowne hauntes and such difficult pathes as there are no steppes or traces left mee to follow therefore you may say it is like to proue a hard iourney to a weake traueller Dunst Now I better remember my selfe I haue read many stories agreeing with your worthies in their notable deedes and exploites done by couragious and bold attempts Huddle I will not seeke to winne you by extremitie of speeches but leaue you to the libertie of your owne better conceauings To keepe whole the vnderstanding of the matter I will come to that which shall neereliest agree with that I said before After this principall Worthie was enthronized by others himselfe was also addicted and disposed for the better conseruation of all things in order in the integritie of his iudgement and discernings to consider with rewards and dignities such deseruers and beautified mindes as himselfe had seene forward by ready and feruent dispositions placing and crediting vnto them for their tryed and approoued seruices such degree of trust and superioritie as might both stand in stead towards a recompence of their trauailes and also the more incourage them to go on with him in perfecting things necessarie to vphold societies and vocations wherevnto he had lately sorted the whole people Afterward such of all sorts as had defected and come short in sufficiencie to performe matters and places committed vnto them so as the rest receiued losse and hinderance by their fault or negligence such iniurious deceiuers were deposed thrust downe and disfranchised as persons vnfit to become the strong vertues and properties beseeming men euer after compelled to exercise weake things and withall enioyned to liue out the rest of their dayes in the company and conuersation of women What occasion soeuer notwithstanding vrging the vse of them such were neuer recalled nor suffered to execute duties amongst men Dun. That you may perceiue the warmth my beleefe hath catcht through your most excellent description I will open vnto you my conceiuing of your speeches by the processe whereof I gather you meane to deriue Kings and Princes from the most especiall deseruing worthy who from successour to successour haue still added ornaments of rare excellencies to the intent that those who from time to time haue issued from them might through their cleare and shining perfections be discerned to haue issued from such noble famous and renowmed progenitours Prouing further withall that such high prowesse and meritorious parts neuer fading but euer more and more encreasing haue long sithence through the dignitie and glory of notable deeds by the hand of God bene exalted into throne and Maiestie wherein they sit hauing in themselues through him sufficient power and abilitie enough to nobilitate and make famous whomsoeuer they may please to nominate appoint and choose Hud I thinke it hath bin the warmth of gentle bloud which beating within your brest hath thrust out this formalitie you indent your words withall could my consent helpe towards it you should be made a gentle maister Scriuener for your orderly frame of words are so well suted that as me thinketh you haue much amended the old patterne you began with in the morning If you mistake me in sence also no worse hereafter it shall not repent me to talke of this fashion yet a while longer with you Dunst Though of my selfe it soundeth not well yet without brag be it spoken there be Gentlemen of bloud in this countrey that sit not so high in the subsidie booke neither are rated in furnitures and setting out of men to the warres in sort as I am Hud Herein you deceaue me little I euer tooke you fitter for the land then the sea How can you proue a good marchant that are not willingly pleased with the venture of a little without grudging to gaine infinitlie and continually I doubt me if her Maiesties most gratious prouidence exceeded not the beneuolent respects you beare euen to your self you could not so quietly haue encreased your ability nor brought your wealth to that plenty you now enioy it but might haue bene indangered to haue lost somewhat of that you haue long sithence through her safe gouernment and defence laid vp hoords robbing the common-wealth of the due vses they were made and should serue for There are too many both vnmercifull and most vnthankfull men who repine and are more troubled with the departure of a from their superfluitie and abounding plentie then other good men are from their reasonable and competent abilities which they readily shew to the vttermost by their good intents I partly know them you stretch your superlatiue degree of comparisons at or if I do not thus much generally I can say of all Gentlemen that their forwardnesse to haue such things in a readinesse for themselues if need should so require and with setting out their sonnes in seruices already past that if you should be rated as they becommingly prepare themselues you would thinke your selfe robbed of that you bestow in that sort of and for the safetie of your selfe and your goods I confesse you want no abilitie with the formost to performe necessarie seruices could your willing heart consent to the same as I said to your owne good I trust for Subsidies Gentlemens lands and their other values are more readily discerned and farre more seruiceable then your buried pelse laid vp for the deuill and his kingdome of darknesse Had you the lamentable experience but of one daies warres which God keepe vs from you would then call for twentie yeares subsidies and bring them in as willingly as you now burie and obseure them from the seruice of the realme For all your complaining I doubt not but once in the yeare you squit out a commoditie to ingrate vpon the Gentlemans necessitie you meane with buying eyther his whole yeares wood-sale his croppe on the ground or some other out-lying commoditie that shall goe neare to defray your whole yeares charges the marriage of your children excepted Dunstable Had I thought your maistership would haue taken my free speeches in so ill part which concerned onely my selfe and my ready abilitie to forward to my power my Prince her occasions and seruices I would haue forborne to haue vttered my minde wherein I onely grieued that any should exempt themselues or forbeare to extend their vttermost helpe and indeuour in such good workes My intent was not to repine at my owne easie charges especially to performe so necessarie a dutie If it please you to forget my foolish speeches and scattering questions beginning where

deadly poison for the Sonne out of the same mouth to say I reioyce in this day wherein I haue preuailed against my father Nay are not these the words of a meere Sathanist out of his hart to say Death take my father hold him fast I haue deliuered him fettered and bound into thy hands thou shalt murther him with little striuing for I haue taken resistance away from him How like you sir of these dutifull recompences to reward a tender father withall could you not be contented to see such an heire faire hanged and that in time too ere he had deminished that whereto he had no right to make rome for a more worthy to come into his place Hud Is this that you would haue your sonne to stay himselfe vpon in such order and sort you shall be able to leaue him in Are you from a kinde father become the tragicall tyrant you spake of euen now or haue you made a triall of your selfe against the time may come to play that part in earnest you haue hither to dallied withall Thankes be to God your case hath bene such to finde alwaies a leasure to looke vpon lamentable spectacles in others a far off haue at no time bin constrained to come vpon the stage to play a part your selfe Dunst Could I play any part to do you seruice according to the intendment of my heart I would willingly without constraint performe my seruice in what soeuer sort it may please you to command my poore abilitie Would God your worship had remooued displeasures and taken vp strifes while they were new begun before they had altered to that vehement sharpenesse and bene aggrauated to that greatnesse which since hath brought a tedious aduersitie and vexation vpon you the rigour wherof hath constrained you to indure such vnkindnesses as the world in the like cases affoordeth Hud I stand in very little neede I thanke you to haue these vnpleasantnesses renued or made lasting vnto me but rather am compelled by the crueltie of a disease worse then a Dysenteria to vse the remedie of a medicine against the deuill his biting called patience Dun. To be plaine with you sir If you sell the Lordship of the towne wherein I dwell forsaking all other parts I will play the Caonian Doue and be gone ere the Hawke come Hud Your are a shrewd Pigeon to pull come it once to billing it had need be a hardie hawke that should bring you vnder her beake If you scape the sowfe you will it and legge it too too swift for a short winged Hawke one the plaines and too strongly for along winged Hawke in the couertures or bushie coppises I haue taken more harme by three kinds of base birds that haue their blouds brused within them which I will be content to name vnto you then by all the Hawkes you can recken that haue any sparke of naturall goodnesse in them The birds names be these Rookes Stock-doues and Starelings But of the three the least harme I haue receiued from the Starelings and the rather because my owne commiseration hath caused me to beare with them The other two for these noisome properties especially I am troubled with The one is they are full of hurt the other that they are profitable to none The Rookes looke whome they take an vnkindnesse against as it is their beastly natures and properties indeed to be noisome troublesome to all sorts of birds looke I say what they cannot maister single and of an euen hand they bring in a rage and tribe of helpers to the downfalling of them they haue conceiued shrewdnesse against The Stockdoue in like sort when he hath laid an offence in your way for which he looketh for your indignation and displeasure if you but stalke at him as they say without fire in the cock straight his taile goeth higher then his head giuing you a proud obeisance or malepart courtesie which you must take for a full recompence of all your harmes I saw this other day in a wood of my owne one of these rancke blouded Stockdoues breast a phesant from his perche as disdainfully as if himselfe had bene Lord of the wood alone The Phesant you know how harmelesse and generous a birde he is hurting none neither striuing at all but when he is compelled to resist Dun. I meruaile surely how the Doue could mislike that beautifull and louely birde Hud I can easily take away your wonder because the Phesant had better bloud in his body then the other lowring and wrie looking wretch Dunst To continue my speaches to you to whom I meane as to my selfe I wish you to hold fast and make much of somwhat while you haue it least hereafter you seeke that you had and could not keepe where it will not be found I am but a poore thinne Kettle and therefore would be loath to be knocked against a thick brasse pot whose smiting would surely prooue my breaking I loue not to take wrong and to be threatned also I had rather be packing while my bones be whole then to be promised golden splents when they are broken I like not those priuie mocks to be made bare of my goods and then to be pitied the shame that is so put vpon me in my extremity is far worse then indurate necessitie it selfe It is a wayfairing mans propertie to make much of the pot and neuer to let it go out of his hand when he is drie till he haue supped it of cleane then when he hath left it licquorlesse in a rage to cast it against the ground I like not while I haue ought to be stroked and scorned together with these faire words what wants thou let me know and I will helpe thee They that be brought downe through such simple confidence shall be raised againe at leasure committing all to fortune like as when a man hath foolishly ouerseene his fore-game which was furthered by good casting thinking to recouer the same with the muse of his wit playing an after game at Irish God blesse me from such mercilesse minded men as can so lead a man into a foole his paradise and there leaue him succourlesse When I am tempted by any such ones busie questions or dangerous communication it is my best and safest way to be alwaies found in a dreame Were I a riche man I might speake prowd words and haue them iustified at the full but since I am but poore I will speake such words as without offence may take place Hud Sithence the black mantle of the night hath foulded vp within her darknesse this daies light I am also contented to let the firie light of this exercise die in my hand bearing patiently the burthen of the heauie saddle you haue fastened vpon my silly Asselike back Dunst Nay rather I beseech you I being Gods silly creature commonly called a packhorse suffer me to carry the last sacke to the mill Since the multiplying of speeches to this large proceeding haue growne out