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A06341	The prouerbes of the noble and woorthy souldier Sir Iames Lopez de Mendoza Marques of Santillana with the paraphrase of D. Peter Diaz of Toledo: wherin is contained whatsoeuer is necessarie to the leading of an honest and vertuous life. Translated out of Spanishe by Barnabe Googe.; Proverbios. English	Santillana, Iñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de, 1398-1458.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.; Pedro, de Toledo, Bishop of Málaga, d. 1499.	1579 (1579)	STC 16809; ESTC S108829	87,267	250

forsaken and reiected of his people as is mencioned in the Prouerbe 19. My sonne serue God with all thy heart for why his wrath from hie Doth fall and whiske through all the worlde in twinkling of an eie For when he list he casteth downe such as he blessed late And doth aduaunce the godly man to great and hie estate The Paraphrase THe Marques sheweth in this Prouerbe the profite and commoditie that commeth of seruing and fearing God and the hurtes inconueniences that follow to such as offende him according to the dayly lessons of the church The soueraign power of God is shewed in casting downe the mightie out of their seate which are those that heape to them selues his displeasure and in exalting the humble and the meeke which are those that feare him For as Dauid in one of his Psalmes sayth The Lord throweth downe one and lifteth vp an other for the vessell is in the hand of God And of such as serue and feare God he sayth I haue not seene the iust forsaken nor his seede begging their breade And of those that offende and fall into his displeasure he saith I haue seene the wicked in prosperitie and flourishing like the Cedars in Libanus and within a while I went by the place where he was and beholde he was perished and not to be seene And therefore well saith the Prouerbe The Lord bringeth the mightie to the ground that offendeth him prouoketh his displeasure aduaunceth to honour the poore man that feareth him And vpon this is the whole Scripture in a maner grounded that is to wit that God promiseth euerlasting ioy sufficiencie of worldly goods to all those that serue him and euerlasting destruction both of life and goods to those that offend and prouoke his wrath 20. Be conformable to the time and season that dooth fall For otherwise to be is cause of griefe and losse of all Abhorre presumption as a monster and an enimy To knowledge that is onely light and lampe of magestie The Paraphrase IT is written of Dauid the King that for feare of falling into the hands of Saule he fled into an other countrey neere adioyning where they well vnderstood that hee was annointed king ouer Israel And when they had taken him and brought him before the King of the countrie whose name was Achis because they should not detaine him in prison nor gratifie Saule with the deliuery of him hee fayned him selfe to bee mad and wryed his mouth as one that had been possessed with a spirite and fomed at the mouth this was counted for a great wisedome and discretion in Dauid because he framed him selfe according to the time and season whereas if he had doone otherwise he had cast away him selfe And Cato saith That it is a great pointe of wisedome to counterfaite follie in some place and in an other place It is good for a man to seeme half out of his wit enraged when time and reason requires As Aristotle in his third Booke of Ethicks witnesseth where he speaketh of Fortitude At some time againe it shall behooue him to shew him selfe to be humble and meeke yea and also fearefull as Aristostle in the very same booke writeth The like is to bee obserued in the vertues of Temperaunce Liberalitie and all other vertues in knowledge of which circumstances Wisedome doth chiefly consist Againe the Prouerbe sayeth That a man ought to abhorr presumption as the enemy and contrary to the cleare Lampe of Knowledge VVherevpon Sainct Hierome in one of his Epistles writeth after this sorte Amongst all other things that the Romaines wisely deuised this was one That whensoeuer any of their Captaines returned with victory to Roome least he shoulde be puft vp with pride and vainglory for the worthynesse of his person or brought into a fooles paradise forgetting himselfe for the great honor and triumph that was done vnto him they thought good that as they honoured him three maner wayes for the ouerthrowe that hee wan so the selfe same day to make him remember him selfe and to let fall his Pecockes taile they likewise dishonored him with thre notable dispights The honor which was doone to all conquerours that they did vnto him was in three manners The first was that all the people of the Citie came out to meete and receiue him with great ioy and gladnesse The seconde all the Prisoners that he had taken went before his Chariot with their hands bound behinde them The third they put vpon him a shert of the God Iupiters and set him in a Chariot of Golde which was drawen with foure white Horses in which sorte they caried him to the Capitoll with great honor ioy and showtes of the people And with these three sortes of honor they ioyned these three reproches to the end hee shoulde not wax proude nor insolent The firste was they placed by him cheeke to cheeke a ragged and an vnseemely knaue and thus they did to signifie that any man though his state were neuer so base nor miserable might by vertue attaine to the like honour The second this beggerly companion did nowe and then buffet him to the ende he should not be too proude of his honour and euer as he strake him badde him to remember that hee was a man and should dye The thirde dishonour was that it was lawfull for euery man to giue him the shamefullest woordes they coulde deuise And this the Romaines did as I saide before to the ende the Conquerour should abhorre presumption which is the aduersarie of the Knowledge that clere and comfortable light 21. For time is it that all things makes and time doth all things marre And when dame Fortune pleased is such things as hurtfull are Fall out to our commoditie and many times doe please While such things as cōmodious are doe turne to our disease The Paraphrase THis is the onely difference betwixt euerlasting thinges and transitory things The euerlasting things endure for euer the transitory thinges as with time they come so with time they decay therefore in the proueth before the Marques giueth vs aduice and exhorteth vs to bee conformable to the time season And that reason that maketh him so to say is that as a thing is in one time wrought done so is it in an other time vndone destroied For as Solomon in his Eccleastes saith There is a time to be borne a time to die a time to build a time to pluck downe neither ought we as the prouerb saith to be offended if things fal not out according to our desire for when it pleaseth Fortune such things as seeme displeasant vnto vs shall redound to our commoditie For the better vnderstanding wherof we must consider what is the true signification of this word Fortune of which there be many sundry opinions For some those that be heathen people as Boetius in his first booke Of Consolation saith will needs haue this Fortune to be a Lady and

profit and good turnes his Citizens could not away with nowe were they the case beeing altered driuen to dreade as their mortall enemy and besieger of their towne And beeing thus by the siege sore distressed which is alwayes more grieuous to great and populous Cities then to small townes they were constrayned to send vnto Coriolanus moste humbly requiring him to leaue his siege and to departe from the Citie and whereas their Embassadors beeing the chiefe and principall men of the Citie and of the Capitoll with colde entertainment were neither heard nor answered they continued their sute and with humble submission sent out their priestes and clergie beeing araied in their deuoutest vestures but as the other were returned so were these sent back with very harde speeches and euel entertainment whervpon the whole Citie bewayling their miserable case and crying out for the cruel aunswere that iustly deserued they had receued Venturia the mother of this Coriolanus staudeth vp and taking with her Volumnia hee sonnes wife with her and her Children she goeth directly to the Campe of the Volscians whom when Coriolanus a farre of perceiueth hauing in his company a galant company of Gentlemen he commeth foorth to meete her though not a little disquieted because his minde gaue him that their comming was onely to mooue him for the raysing of his siege and as soone as he came neere vnto them alighting from his horse hee came towardes his mother to embrace her But shee putting him a little backe from her with her hand with a heauie countenaunce saide vnto him these woordes Before thou commest neare mee and before I receiue thine embracinges let mee vnderstande whether I bee come vnto my sonne or to my enemie or whether I shall enter into thy tent as a mother or as a sorrowfull captiue Alas to what extremitie is my wretched Age come to see thee firste bannished and expulsed thy Cittie and nowe a cruell enemie and spoyler of thy Countrie that nourished thee howe couldest thou come into these partes with so deadely and reuengefull a minde howe couldest thou enter into these territories and not let fall thy furious displeasure and threatnings Howe happened it that at the sight of Rome thou saydest not vnto thy selfe Loe heare within these walles is enclosed my natiue soyle my patrimonie my mother my wife and my children Vnhappie woman that I am who am well assured that if I had neuer borne thee Rome had neuer by thee been besieged And if I had neuer beene deliuered of a sonne I had happily dyed both free and at home in mine owne countrie I speake not these woordes because I am not able to suffer anie thing that shall be more reprochfull to thee nor for the griefe of myne owne captiuitie whose miserie can not be long by reason of my age but onely for these that be heere present thy miserable wife poore distressed infants When Ventruria had thus ended her sorowfull complaint Coriolanus imbracing her with teares in his eyes said these wordes Mine owne sweete Mother my rage and fury is conquered appeased and is turned at your request from this mine vnnatural vnthankful countrie wherwith he presently discamped brake vp his siege Wherevpon Valerius in the same Chapter sayeth That the hart that was full of wrath reuenge for the iniurie that he had sustained and was now in assured hope of present victory vpon the onely sight of his mother and vpon his vertuous compassion chaunged his intent of bloody warres into a sweete and healthfull peace Long were it to write how greatly vertuous children haue alwayes beene gouerned by duetie and reuerence to their parents Touching Nero of whom mention is made in this prouerb where hee sayeth The beastly lust of that same monster vile c. Howe lothsome and horrible the lecheryes of this shamefull tyrant was and what and howe greate his disobedience was to his owne natural mother is to bee seene in the story of his life where who so liste may reade it And therefore I meane to stand no longer vpon this prouerb but to conclud affirming that reuerence ought of bounden deutie to bee giuen to the Parents for which the Lorde hath promised in the fourth of his Commaundements a long and blessed life vpon the earth I could heere bring in if I were disposed a great number of testimonies as wel from the Philosophers as from the holy Patriarches and Prophets But because the olde saying is The tedious tale offends the eare and briefest words wee gladiest heare And therefore let this that I haue saide suffise the Reader which I take to be inough for the vnderstanding of the Prouerbe 92. And heere we may not ouerslip the wicked Absolon But call to minde his froward hart and fond presumption For neuer haue we seene nor shall that he that is vnkinde Doth any grace with GOD aboue or any fauour finde The Paraphrase ABsalon was the sonne of Dauid a man of passing beautie and singular proportion who found the meanes by certaine of his seruants to murder his brother Amon for the deflouring of Thamar his sister turning her dishonestly out of his house For which murder Dauid was greatly offended howbeit vppon fatherly compassion and at the humble sute and request of Ioab who was a speciall friende to Absalon he pardoned him But Absalon whether it were because he found not the like countenaunce at his fathers hande as he was woonte to doe or that hee was set on by some wicked seruauntes and leude Councellers or whether it was the motion of his owne euill disposed minde he presently withdrue himselfe as if he wont with his fathers fauour from Hierusalem and came to Hebron and with the sounde of the Trumpet calling togither the people of Israel without any regarde of his duetie to his father he made him selfe King with presumption to depose him and to set vy him selfe to that intent he allured vnto him a great number of the tribes of Israel and entred into open armes against his father But God who could neuer away with the disobedience of the childe to his father turned all his deuises force and power to his owne confusion for at the ioyning of the battailes the fight being fierce there was slaine to the number of twentie thousand and Absalon him selfe galloping vp and downe and passing thorowe a thick wood was hanged by the heare of the head vpon the bough of an Oke his Moyle running from vnder him and beeing found so hanging was slaine by Ioab and certaine of his seruants wherby the good father obtained the victory of his disobedient sonne where it plainely appeared that God him selfe abhorring his rebellious fact fought against him as is more largely declared in the seconde Booke of the Kinges which I haue heere but briefely touched to shewe that the disobedience to the father is greatly displeasing of God. The thirtienth Chapter of Age. 93. Let not olde age thee discontent since that it is