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A56780	The worth of a peny, or, A caution to keep money with the causes of the scarcity and misery of the want hereof in these hard and mercilesse times : as also how to save it in our diet, apparell, recreations, &c.: and also what honest courses men in want may take to live / by H.P. ...	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?	1641 (1641)	Wing P949A; ESTC R12154	24,730	40

ill if your purse hath been lately purged the Doctor is not a leisure to visit you yea hardly your neighbours and familiar friends but unto monied and rich men they slie as Bees to the willow palms and many times they have the judgements of so many that the sick is in more danger of them then his disease A good and painfull Scholer having lately taken his orders shall be hardly able to open a Church doore without a golden key when he should ring his bells hence it commeth to passe that so many of our prime wits runne over sea to seek their Fortunes and prove such Vipers to their Mother-Countrey Have but an ordinary suit in Law let your Cause or Case be never so plain or just if you want where with to maintain it and as it were ever and anon to water it at the root it will quicklie wither and die I confesse friends may do much to promote it and many prevaile by their powerfull assistance in the prosecution There was of late years in France a marvellous faire and goodly Lady whose husband being imprisoned for debt or somthing else was constrained to be his Sollicitor and in her own person to follow his suits in Law through almost all the Courts in Paris and indeed through her favour gat extraordinary favour among the Lawyers and Courtiers and almost a finall dispatch of all her businesse onely she wanted the Kings hand who was Henry the fourth of famous memorie he as he was a noble witty and understanding Prince understanding how well she had sped her suit being in the opinion of most men desperate or lost told her that for his part he would willingly signe her Petition withall he asked how her husband did and bad her from himselfe to tell him That had be not pitch'd upon his hornes he had utterly been spoil'd and crush'd So that hereby was the old Proverbe verified A friend in Court is better then a peny in the purse But as friends go now adayes I had rather seek for them in my parse then in the Court and I beleeve many Courtiers are of my minde Againe to teach every one to make much of and to keep money when he hath it let him seriously think with himselfe what a miserie it is and how hard a matter to borrow it and most true it is that one faith Semper comitem aeris alieniesse miseriam That miserie is ever the companion of borrowed money Hereby a man is made cheape and undervalued despised deferred mistrusted and oftentimes flatly denied Beside upon the least occasion upbraided therewith in company and among friends and sometime necessitie drives men to be beholden to such as at another time they would scorne to be wherein the old saying is verified Mis●rum est debere cui nolis And on the contrary how bold confident merry lively and ever in humour are monied men they go where they list they weare what they list they eat and drink what they list and as their mindes so their bodies are free they feare no City Serjeant Court-Marshalls-man or Countrey-Bailiffe nor are they followed or dog'd home to their ordinaries and lodgings by City-shopkeepers and other Creditours but they come to their houses and shops where they are bidden welcome and if a stoole be fetch'd into the shop it is an extraordinary favour because all passers by take notice of it and these men can bring their wives or friends to see in Court the King and Queene at dinner or to see a Maske by meanes of some eminent man of the guard or the Carpenter that made the scaffold The Common and Ordinarie Causes why men are poore and want money THere must by the Divine Providence in the body of a Common-wealth be as well poore as rich for as an humane body cannot subsist without hands and feet to labour and walke about to provide for the other members the rich being the belly which devoure all yet do no part of the work but the cause of every mans poverty is not one and the same Some are poore by condition and content with their calling neither seek nor can work themselves into a better fortune yet God raiseth up as by miracle the children and posterity of these oftentimes to possesse the most eminent places either in Church or Common-wealth as to become Archbishops Bishops Judges Commanders and Generalls in the field Secretaries of State Statesmen and the like so that it proveth not ever true which Martiall saith Pauper eris semper si pauper es Aemiliane If poore thou beest poore thou shalt ever be Aemilianus I assure thee Of this condition are the greatest number in every kingdome other there are who have possessed great estates but those estates as I have seene and knowne it in some families and not farre from the citie have not thrived or continued as gotten by oppression deceite usury and the like which commonly lasteth not to the third generation according to the old saying De male quasitis vix gaudet tertius haeres Others come to want and miserie and spend their faire estates in waies of vitious living as upon drinke and women for Bacchus and Venus are inseparable companions and he that is familiar with the one is never a stranger to the other Vno namque modo Vina Venusque nocent Some againe live in perpetuall want as being naturally wholly given to idlenesse these are the droanes of a Common wealth who deserve not to live Qui non laborat non manducet saith the Apostle Paul Both countrie and citie swarmeth with these kinde of people The diligent hand saith Salomon shall make rich but the Sluggard shall have scarcity of bread I remember when I was in the Low Countries there were three souldiers a Dutchman a Scot and an Englishman for their misdemeanors condemned to be hanged yet their lives were begd by three severall men one a Brick-layer that he might help him to make bricks carry them to walls the other was a Brewer of Delft who beg'd his man to fetch water and do other worke in the Brewhouse now the third was a Gardiner and desired the third man to help him to worke in and to dresse an Hop-garden the first two accepted their offers thankfully this last the Englishman told his maister in plaine termes his friends never brought him up to gather Hops but desired he might be hang'd first and so he was Other having had great and faire estates left unto them by friends and who never knew the paine and care of getting them have as one said truely gallop'd through them in a very short time these are such of whom Salomon speaketh who having riches have not the hearts or rather the wit to use them these men most aptly Homer compareth unto the Willow tree which he calleth by a most significant Epithete {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in Latine Frugsp●rda or loose-fruit because the palmes of the Willow-tree are no sooner ripe but

discontent for want of Money HE that wanteth money is for the most part extreamly Melancholique in every company or alone by himselfe especially if the weather be fowle rainy or cloudy talke to him of what you will he will hardly give you the hearing aske him any questions he answers you with Monosyllables as Tarleton did one who out-eat him at an ordinarie as Yes No That Thankes True c. That Rhetoricall passage of Status transtativus is of great use with him when he laies the cause of his want upon others as protesting this great Lord that Lady or kinsman owes him money but not a deniere that he can get he swears he murmures against the French and other strangers who convay such summes of money out of the land besides our leather hides under the colour of calve-skins with that he shews you his boots out at the heeles and wanting mending he walks with his armes folded his belt without a sword or rapier that perhaps being somewhere in trouble an hat without a band hanging over his eyes onely it weares a weather beaten Fancie for Fashion sake he cannot stand still but like one of the Tower wilde beasts is still walking from one end of his roome to another humming out some new Northern tune or other if he meets with five or ten peeces happily conferred upon him by the beneficence of some noble friend or other he is become a new man and so overjoyed with his fortune that not one drop of small drink will down with him all that day The Misery of want of Money inregard of Contempt in the World VVHosoever wanteth money is ever subject to contempt and scorne in the world let him be furnished with never so good gifts either of body or minde So that most true it is that one saith Nil infoelicius in se paupertas habet quàm quòd homines ridiculos facit The worst property that poverty hath it maketh men ridiculous and scorned but oftentimes of such as are more to be contemned themselves in regard either of their ignorance or vitious living or uselesse company if we do but look back into better and wiser Ages we shall finde poverty simply in it selfe never to have been as now adayes in this last and worst act of Time esteemed a Vice and so loathsome as many would have it it having been the badge of Religion and piety in the primitive times since Christ and of wisdome and contempt of the world among the wisest Philosophers long before But Tempora mutantur and in these times we may say with the wise man My sonne better it is to die then to be poore for now money is the worlds God and the card which the Divell turnes up trumpe to winne the Sett withall for it gives birth beauty honour and credit and the most thinke it conferreth wisdome to every possesso P●cuniae omnia obediunt hence it is so admired that millions venture both soules and bodies for the possession of it But there is a worse effect of poverty then that it maketh men dissolute and vitious Oh mala paupertas vitii scelerisque ministral Saith Mantuan It wresteth and maketh crooked the best Natures of all which were their necessities supplied they would rather die then do as they sometimes do borrow and not be able to pay to speake untruths to deceive and sometime to cheate their own fathers and friends What greater griefe can there be to an ingenuous free spirit who sitting at a superiors table and thought to be necessitous and onely to come for a dinner to be plac'd the lowest to be carve dunto of the worst and first cut as of boild beefe brawn or the like and if the Ladie or loose bodied mistres presents unto him the milke from her trencher then assuredly it is burn'd to the bodie if he be carved unto out of a pastie of venison it was some part that was bruised in the carriage and began to stinke yet for all this he must be obsequious endure any jeere whisper for his drinke and rise at the comming in of the Bason and Ewer To do the which any generous and truely Noble spirit had rather as I am perswaded dine with my Lord Maiors hounds in Finsburie fields Another miserie a kinne to the former is what discourse soever is offered at such tables the necessitous man though he can speake more to the purpose then them all yet he must give them leave to engrosse all the talke and though he knowes they tell palpable and grosse lies speake the absurdest non-sence that may bee yet must he be silent and be held all the while for a Vau-neant let these and the like examples then be motives unto all to make much of money to eat their own bread in their houses and to be beholden as little as may be to any for their meat for Est aliena vivere quadra miserrimum How necessity and want compelleth to offend both against body and soule SEeke not death in the error of your lives saith the Wiseman that is by taking evil courses to procure unto your selves untimely endes as those do who through extream necessitie are constrained to steale lie forsweare themselves become cheaters common harlots and the like wherof now adaies we liave too many examples everie where to the hazard of their soules to hell and their bodies to the handes of the Executioner Hereby we may see how much it concernes all parents to give their children vertuous education in the fear of God and to employ them betimes in honest vocations whereby they may be armed against want and ill courses and doubtles many yea too many parents have beene and are herein much too blame who when they have given their children a little breeding and bringing up till about twelve or fourteene yeares of age they forsake them and send them out into the wide world to shift for themselves to sinke or swimme without trades or portion provided so they be rid of a charge what care they hence we see so many young men and women come to untimely endes who living might have beene comforts to their friends and parents and prooved good members in the common wealth I spake before of idle persons whom Saint Paul denieth to eat which are the droanes of a Common wealth not to be pitied whom Homer pretily describeth Of Frugalitie or Parsimonie what it is and of the Effects thereof HAving already shewed you the misery of want from the want of money let me give you a preservative against that want from the nature and effects of thrift which if not observed and looked to he shall live in perpetuall want and indeed next to the serving of God it is the first we ought even from children to learne in the world some men are thriftie and sparing by nature yea saving even in trifles as Charles the first was so naturally sparing that if a point from his hose had broken he would have tied the

heavie upon him to lie further off But to our purpose The most ordinary recreations of the Countrey are football ska●es or nine pins shooting at butts quaits bowling running at the base stooleball leaping and the like whereof some are too violent and dangerous the safest recreations are within doores but not in regard of cost expence for thousands sometimes are lost at Ordinaries and Dicing-houses yea I have known goodly Lordships to have been lost at a cast and for the sport of one night some have made themselves beggers all their lives after Recreation is so called à Recreando that is from by a Metaphore of creating a man anew by putting life spirit and delight into him after the powers of his minde and body have been decayed and weakened with overmuch much contemplation studie and labour and therefore to be used onely to that end some go for recreations which trouble and amuse the minde as much or more then the hardest study as Chesse which King Iames therefore calleth Ouer-Philosophicall a follie and indeed such Recreations are to be used that leave no sting of repentance for sinne committed by them or griefe and sorrow for losse of money and time many dayes after I could instance many of that nature but I will onely give some generall rules to be observed in some of them If you have a minde to recreate your selfe by play never adventure but a third part of that money you have let those you play withall be of acquaintance and not strangers if you may avoid it Never mis-time your selfe by sitting long at play as some will do three or foure dayes and nights together and so make your selfe unfit for any businesse in many dayes after Never play untill you be constrained to borrow or pawne any thing of your owne which becommeth a base groom better then a Gentleman Avoid quarrelling blasphemous swearing and in a word never play for more then you are willing to lose that you may finde your selfe after your pastime not the worse but the better which is the end of all Recreations There are some I know so base and penurious who for feare of losing a peny will never play at any thing yet rather then they should want their recreations I would wish them to venture at Span-counter and Dust-point with Schole-boyes upon their ordinary play-dayes in a Market-place or Church-porch Of such honest wayes that a man in want may take to live and get money IF a man hath fallen into poverty or distresse either by death of friends some accident or other by sea or land sicknesse or the like let him not despaire for Paupertas non est vtium and since the Common-wealth is like unto an humane body consisting of many members so usefull each to either as one cannot subsist without the other as a Prince his Counsell and Statesmen are as the head the arms are men of Arms the Back the Communalty Hands and Feet are Country and Mechanique Trades c. So God hath ordained that all men should have need one of another that none might live idlely or want imployment wherefore Idlenesse as the bane of a Common-wealth hath a curse attending upon it it should be clothed with rags it should beg its bread c. I remember I have read in an Italian Historie of one so idle that he was fain to have one to help him stirre his chaps when he should eat his meat Now if you would ask me what course he should take or what he should do that wanteth money let him first bethink himselfe to what profession or trade of life he hath been formerly brought up if to none to what his Genius or naturall disposition standes most affected unto if he hath a minde to travaile he shall finde entertainment in the Netherlands who are the best pay-masters except the Emperour of Russia and the Venetians I meane for the most meanes in Europe If you list not to follow the warres you may finde entertainement among our new Plantations in America as New England Virginia the Barbadas Saint Christophers and the rest where with a great deale of delight you may have variety of honest employment as fishing with the net or hooke planting gardening and the like which beside your maintenance you shall finde it a great content to your conscience to be in action which God commaunds us all to be if you have beene ever in a Grammer-Schoole you may everie where finde children to teach so many no doubt as will keepe you from starving and it may be in a gentlemans house or if you get entertainment of any who followeth the Law or practifeth Physick you may with diligence and practise prove a Clerk to himselfe or some Justice of the Peace by the other you may get the knowledge and nature of herbes and all forraigne Drugges from his Apothecarie and perhaps manie good receipts for agues wounds and the like I have known many this way to have prooved in a country towne tollerable Physitians and have growne rich if being borne a gentleman as our gentlemen doe you scorne to doe any of these you may get to be a gentleman usher to some Ladie or other they are not a few that have thrived passing well this way and in a word rather then in miserable and pitilesse want let a man undertake any vocation and labour alwayes remembring that homely but true distich of old Tussers Thinks no labour slaverie That bringes in pennie saverlie And as a necessary rule hereto coincident let every man endeavour by a dutifull diligence to get a friend and when he hath found him neither are they so easily found in these dayes with all care to keep him and to use him as one would do a christall or a venice glasse to take him up softly and use him tenderly or as you would a sword of excellent temper and mettall not to hack every gate or cut every staple and post therewith but to keepe him to defend you in your extremest danger False and seeming friends are infinite and such be our ordinarie acquaintance with the complement of glad to see you well how have you done this long time c. and with these we meete every day In a word for a conclusion let every one be carefull to get and keepe money know the worth of a penny and since we are born we must live Vivions nous let us live as well as merrily as we can in these hardest times and say every one of us as Sir Roger Williams that brave souldier said to Queene Elizabeth when he wanted pay for himselfe and his souldiers Madam I tell you true we will be without money for no mans pleasure FINIS Scar beere brewed with broom in the Low Countreys at peny farthing the gallon is much like it “ Ca●et “ A place neer to Westminster Hall where very good meat is dressed all the Terme time Nil ait esse prius melius nil coelibe vita The old Embleme of suretieship Wisdome For the Romanes had nodinners but suppers which were about three of the clock in the afternoon “ Some of them are yet living in London That many dishes breed many diseases In Philop. In Farra Epistolarum In Basilicondoron