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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08567	An epistle of the reuerend father in God Hieronymus Osorius Bishop of Arcoburge in Portugale, to the most excellent Princesse Elizabeth by the grace of God Quene of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, &c. Translated oute of Latten in to Englishe by Richard Shacklock M. of Arte and student of the ciuill Lawes in Louaine; Epistola ad serenissimam Elisabetam, Angliae Reginam. English	Osório, Jerónimo, 1506-1580.; Shacklock, Richard.	1565 (1565)	STC 18887; ESTC S101135	51,158	170

and seke after deceiptfully pleasures they be branded with the marck of fowle shame and be tormented contynually with the worme of theire wicked conscience Therefor all the trade of a blessed life consisteth in truthe and all wretchednes standeth vpon lying and dissimulation For which cōsyderation all Princes which doo wishe the safetie of theyr cōmon weale and desire to cōtinewe and vpholde theyr honour ought all wayes to pretend this bothe in worde and worcke to wytnesse this that nothing is more deare vnto thē then the bright beames of veritie So they shall set all good men free from feare and holde shameles flaterers noses to the grynstone The which thing that they may more easely compasse it is neadefull that they enriche and highely aduaūce good and true meaning men but as for nawghtiepackes coyners of lyes and forgers of flearing tales thei ought to abandon them farre from theyr acquaynetaunce and to think them vnworthie of any prefermēt For all flatterers be sworne enemies to the truth back frendes to all good men verie poison of Princes and not only deadly foes to the whole c̄munaltie but also malishiously mynded against God hym selffe For he which wrastleth against the truth wrastleth against the mightie ruler of all thinges who is the only and euerlasting veritie Therefore these naughtie and pestilent persones are to be put out of all cōceipt to be kept a loofe from climing to honoure to be excluded from all companie and familiaritie yea to be banished as farre as there is any land lest the infectyon of theire myschefe sholde spreade it selffe to the vtter vndoing of Kinges and waste the whole cōmon wealthe with a remedilesse consumption But on the other syde thei which euer speake the truthe neuer double or dissemble but esteme true vertue more then worldly ryches ▪ and drawe the lyne of theire whole lyfe by the square of wysdome and honestie they I say if they kepe thē selues secrete be to be pulled oute of theire prime closettes will they nill they drawe they back neuer so muche they are to be brought acquaynted with kinges and to haue whole heapes of ryches bestowed vpon them For those ryches of Kynges be in better assuraūce which be laied vp in the fidelitie of good men then those which be horded and couched vp in theire cofers For beyng layd vp in the treasure howse thei breede the cancker of enuye but being sette a broade to the vse of good men they make the Kyng to be well spoken of and fortifie his estate with the faithful hartes of good men Beside this riches closed and chested vp may ether be caried away of theues or be lasht oute and made hauock of through the falshode of the kepers But the remembraunce of a good turne is rooted for euer in thākfull myndes can not be plucked out by any mans pilfrie More ouer it is to be consydered that they which by no false or sowle fetches but by true vertue and fayre conditions cam to be familiar with their Kinges doe thinck that of duetie they ought to bestowe those riches which they receaued of theyr Kynges ▪ to the profit of them by whome they enioye them But they whiche by hypocrisy haue obteyned great wealthe of Kinges for so muche as they gape al for gaines as sone as they spy where more aduauntage is to be gottē they forsake theyr kinges yea they betray them and some tyme byd them battayle Whereby we may gather howe mad all Princes be which not regarding good men bestowe riches and promotions vpon wicked persones and put all theyr honoure in the credit of them whome couetousnes will not suffer to be trusty faithfull But they which be of suche wysedome that displacyng naughtie men doo call good menne vnto them and make them partakers of theyr coūcels and charge doe prouide very well for theyr honoure and safetie For it can not be that the Safegarde of Prynces shoulde be betrayed of them who holde fidelitie more deare then all the wealthe of the world nether can theyr honour be stayned with anie spotte of reproche when it shall appeare that they be fastned in the frendshippe and familiaritie of vnculpable men For as nothing bringeth more shame to Kinges then the companie and familiaritye of rakehells so the frendshippe of good men doth greatly increase theire glory and renome For we so iudge of them as they be with whome they be moste familiar cōuersant Whereby we may cōclude that those Kynges be not to be counted riche and puissant which possesse greate pyles of golde and syluer pretiouse stones gloriously glystring great store of yuorie many mynes of metall and be Lordes ouer manye landes but those rather which be assisted with a numbre of men excelling in honestie and trustines which be lincked in league and frendshippe of all good men so farre as shall become their Princely person and Royall maiestie For all those thinges afore sayde be seldome obteined withoute vertue but thei be neuer reteined withoute the succoure of vertue But turne vertue naked oute of all the robes of riches yet she will holde her owne and make her bright beames be sene a great waye of Beside this if riches haue not the ayde of vertue they can help nothing but rather stirr vp and kyndle the cole of couetousnes in the hartes of many to worke treason agaynst them whome they see pufft vp with plentie of possessions But vertue alone many tymes without reskue of ryches preserueth the Prince hys estate and doth auoyde the daunger which hangeth ouer the common wealthe But this may suffice which we haue spoken as concerning the healpe of man now it followeth in ordre that we sholde intreate of the ayde and assistaunce of God Therefore if the honestie and faithfullnes of good men be of suche force that withoute theyr healpe no Kyngdome or common weale can long endure then I praye you what shall we think of the healpe of God For God is he by whose Deitie councell wyll kingdomes doo begyn be enlarged mayntayned by whose wisdome they be kept in ordre by whose helpe they be vpholden and finally by whose displeasure they decay ouerwhelme and vtterly come to naught Therefore a Prince which will acquite hym selfe well in his office and comlyly handle the rule committed to his charge before all thinges must kepe religion purely and vndefyledly and in his daylye prayers desire God to prosper hym accompting al the happy successe in rulyng the realme to stay vpon the seruice and pleasing of God For first if wisdome be so necessarie for Kinges that without it they can not haue so muche as a pece of a common wealthe but they shall leaue all thinges topp feturuy and seing wisdome borroweth her light of none other then of that passing and vnspeakeable clearenes of the wysdome and spirit of God by the which all thinges are led in the right way and lightned vpon what thinges

more cōtrary to vertue then hypocrisye so it euidently doth bewray it selfe in fayned and counterfeyte religiō For horrible wickednes cloking it selfe deceiptfully with the name of vertue myndeth nothing ells but the rasyng of religion and scrapyng of the remembraunce of God oute of mennes myndes Here most noble Quene I desyre you to cōsyder the matter wysely for seing you be clogged with so many cares that by no meanes you be able by youre owne wytte to auoide suche snares and so peryllous pytfals whiche be layed for you all Christendome and seing all the swey of your Kyngdome standeth vpon this one poynt that you shold inbrace religion purely that you sholde be assysted with the healpe of God and that you shold kepe the realme assigned to you in good estate and prosperitye nothing ought to be better welcome to you specially in suche disagremēt of religion then to be aduertised of matters of so greate importaunce by a man which wysheth your grace verye well which is farre from hope of all fylthie lucre whiche also knoweth what belongeth to true religion I dare be bold to say thus muche vnto youre grace that if I had mistrusted your wysdome and gentlenes I wolde not haue bestowed laboure in writing these letters For it had ben a poynte of great madnes to take that in hand which I haue vtterly dispaired of But when youre wytte learning gentlenes and good nature did bryng me in greate hope of youre honorable Maiestie and when I vnderstode that the spoyle of religion which is cōmitted in your realme is not to be imputed to you but to many men which being verbes actiue I knowe not of what mad moode go about to pul insondre the fences and inclosures of all lawe and religiō and that it is no God a mercye to them but long of your graciouse goodnes that any sparcke of Christian religion doth remayne I dought not but you will be well pleased to here me speake Wherefore in moste hartie manner I desyre you first that you will take these my enterpryses in good parte the which you shall do if you will looke in to my heart oute of which proceadeth all that I doo secondly that before you haue readen all which I purpose to comprehend in this epistle you will not gyue youre verdict either to the prayse or disprayse of them last of all I request you by the faythe which you owe to Christ that if by the craftye councel of others you haue conceiued any wrong opinion if ryght reason shall confound it if euident truthe shall bewray it if godlynes shall boult it oute that you will not refuse the good grace of God but willyngly gyue credit to those reasons which you shall see to be more agreable to Christian religion For it is the poynt not only of a prowde and arrogant stomake but also the token of a dull and blockyshe wytte which faultes be very farre frō you to be so addicted to certayne chosen and singular opinions beaton in to the heade by dayly crying and callyng on of wicked persones that it can not be remoued from that opinion which it hath once taken in hand to defend which thyng as in euery trade of lyfe is beyond all God hys forbode so in wrong religion which is taken of a heade is most perylous and daungerous For the more trymme excellent and profytable any thing is in his right kynde so the more vyle beggarly and hurtfull it is when it is coūterfeit The which I wold God we had not tryed in these troblesome dayes For after that by the naughtye persuasyon and bedlem boldnes of some men forsooke that religiō which frō the Apostles tyme euen to our age hath continued inuincible and many being inuegled with paynted woordes haue strayed from that way which the disciples of Christ dyd fyrst open and many holy men in whome the holy ghost dwelled dyd afterward enlarge that they might walcke in that pathe which with a shew of licētiousnes and pleasure dyd drawe folish and vnaduised men vnto it I saye after that this newe deuised religion was spredd abroade by meanes of many seditiouse sermons and erronyouse bookes we haue sene shamefastnes sodenly to be shaken of honestie to be chassed oute of the countrie man his lawe and God hys lawe to be troden vnder fote holy thynges to be prophaned godlynes to be iested at boldnes euery where to scape skotfree vnshamefastnes to be mayntayned many opinions contrary one to the other to bee scattered abroade the vnity of Christ to be torne with sutes of dyuerse sectes and in euery place where these mad men haue come the fyre of horrible discorde to haue ben blowne vp Out of this roote haue spronge deadly displeasures often vprores perylouse dagger drawinges hereof many blody battayles haue ben fought many slaughters done many spoyles cōmitted many mennes possessions destroyed with fyre and sworde And now I pray you who is so blynde which doth not see what crueltye appeareth in many of them which haue ben the authors of these opinyōs with what disdaynefull arrogancye they do iette vp and downe with what malypertnes and cursed speaking they rayle vpon good men Adde now here vnto the breache of lawes the contempt of rule the hatred of Kyngly authoritie the vnmercyfull treasons which these men moste dyuelyshly deuyse agaynst Princes Recken here also theyr secrette whysperynges when they cast theyr heades together how to destroy and vndoo theyr Kynges and whilst most shamefully they worke theyr wo for whose wealth and good estate they ought to serue and call vpon God For who hath so littell wytte that can not perceaue that this sect is alltogether for the peoples to the to feade theyr humoure and that it is more fyt to styr vp increase then to asuage and diminish theyr folly and madnes But all these people pleasers for so muche as they be men of no wysdome or discretīo but be led with an inordinate desire of liberty they loue not law they defye iusticers they wyshe in theyr hartes that kinges were at the dyuel that they without cōptrolmēt might liue as they lyst For they couet to be set free from lawe and ordre that they may be bond slaues to theyr owne wyl and naughtie affectīos is there any m̄a can deny this haue not we had the proofe of it by many exāples doth not euery mā see that they shoote all at this marke that Princes being dispatched oute of the way there might none be left which shold once say black is theyr eye Therefore some Kinges they haue poysoned some they haue attempted to kyll with the sworde and haue cast many myschenouse fetches how to pull them oute of theyr seate But peraduenture some man wyll say this hath not chaunsed for any grudge which those good men haue borne toward Kynges but only for the diuersytye and variance of religion And that it were not to be feared that the