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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09922	The praise of musicke wherein besides the antiquitie, dignitie, delectation, & vse thereof in ciuill matters, is also declared the sober and lawfull vse of the same in the congregation and church of God.	Case, John, d. 1600, attributed name.	1586 (1586)	STC 20184; ESTC S115011	65,829	162

the Gospell it may not therefore be allowed Whereunto I answere that being not ceremoniall it is sufficient for any christian being cleare free from the Manichees opinion that the olde Testament hath approued it Again grant that it hath no commaundement in either the old or new Testament is it therefore without all aduise and consideration to bee reiected Verily many thinges haue beene very acceptable vnto God which haue had no expresse commandement in the Scriptures As the gold incense mirre which the three wisemen offered vnto Christ the precious box of spiknard wherewith Marie Magdalen annointed his blessed feete the costly oders wherew t Nicodemus did embalm his glorious body the bowes of trees garments which the people broke down spred in the way as he went to HierusaleÌ„ infinite other more which were done without any warrant of holy Scripture Wherfore as in the building of the temple the seruice of them which brought lime and morter and other base thinges and as in the beautifieng of Christes bodie these thinges of small price and value were acceptable vnto the Lord so no doubt but the songes of the faithful may be as a sweete odor of incense vnto him and most gratefull in his sight Thirdly this vse of singing is a ceremoniall thing and if there were no other yet this were a sufficient cause why it shoulde be excluded out of the church I aunswere that Musicke was no ceremony for euerie ceremony in the time of the law was a type and figure of somwhat the substance wherof comming in place the ceremony was abolished Nowe because we finde nothing in the Gospell which answereth to Musick in a certain agreement of similitude as vnto his type and figure we may therfore safely pronounce that Musick was neither ceremoniall in the time of the Law nor to be abolished out of the church in the time of the Gospell Many other reasons of smal momeÌ„t may be brought against vs but seeing so litle force in the stronger I thought it an vnnecessarie point to trouble my paper and the reader with the weaker And surely I do not mislike the good couÌ„sel indeuor of any wel disposed man that is earnest in correcting abuses and in separating that which is good from that which is euill But me thinks it is a desperate remedy for some few abuses and inconueniences which might be better amended to roote out al Musick from the church Much like the counsaile of Fabritius and other senators of Rome which by abolishing gold siluer or at leastwise the vse therof thought to take away couetousnes and ambitioÌ„ Or the deuise of Lycurgus among the Lacedaemonians who for hatred of druÌ„kennes caused all the vines in the country to be digged vp by the rootes Now as these men being otherwise wise and politique as diuerse others their actions testifie tooke not herein a right course of reforming those faultes which were amisse because they might better haue taken order against couetousnesse and drunkennesse by permitting a lawfull and decent vse of mony and wine than by quite abolishing of them euen so those which reprehende certayne thinges in Church Musicke may better reforme them in permitting a moderate vse than in plucking it vppe by the rootes For as a manne may bee couetous without monie and drunken without wine so a fraile and weake minde will finde other prouocations to call it from the dittie though Musicke shoulde bee wanting Wherefore for conclusion of this matter as I easily graunt to Master Bullinger that this is no good argument The East Churches vse singing the West Churches vse not singing Therefore the West Churches are no Churches So I hope Maister Bullinger and anie other good man whatsoeuer will graunt as much to mee that this is as false a collection The West Churches vse not singing the East Churches doe vse singing therefore the East church is no church Seeing then that there is no precept in the newe Testament whereby Church-Musicke is eyther commanded or forbiddeÌ„ as it is apparant that as those Churches which vsed it not cannot be compelled to receiue it so those churches which doe vse it can by no place of the Scripture therefore be condemned And this is the resolutioÌ„ of al our late diuines Bucer Bullinger Caluin and the rest which with one consent agree that it is an indifferent thing hauing no hurt but rather much good in it if it bee discreetly and soberly vsed Why then is it not as lawful for me to incline to this part that it should or may be vsed as it is for theÌ„ to incline to the contrary that it should not or may not in any wise be vsed considering that neither my singing maketh me lesse the seruaunt of God nor their not singing them the more holy and deuoute men Lastly therefore it remayneth that hauing answered the chiefest arguments that make against vs I now bring certaine reasons for my positioÌ„ First therefore Musick is rather to bee vsed in the church than not because it is the excellent inuention and gift of God himselfe ordained to the honor and glory of God neither doth their cauill auaile any thing at all which saie that if this reason were good then all the liberall sciences the knowledge of the ciuill law and all good and honest artes might by as good reason be vsed in y e church because they are also the inuention good gift of God For if they knew howe to refer euerie of these things to their neat proper end they might perceiue that as the end of those other sciences is first to know and then to serue to the glory of God so the vent and only end of musicke is immediatly the setting foorth of Gods praise and honour A second reason of mine assertion is because musick with the concinnitie of her sound and the excellency of harmony doth as it were knit ioyne vs vnto God putting vs in mind of our maker and of that mutuall vnitie consent which ought to bee as of voices so of mindes in Gods church and congregatioÌ„s Thirdly if there were no other reason yet this were of sufficieÌ„t force to perswade the lawful vse of Musicke in that as a pleasant bait it doeth both allure meÌ„ into the church which otherwise would not come causeth theÌ„ which are there to continue till the diuine seruice bee ended Fourthly men doe more willingly heare more firmely cary away with them those thinges which they heare song than those which they hear barely spoken and pronounced Lastly the vse thereof is ancient and of great continuance for it was vsed in Traian his time as I before shewed and it was translated from the religious of the heathen which in hymnes and songes yeelded all reuerence and honor to their gods of wood stone And surely if there be any one thing in man more excellent than another that is Musicke and therefore

were made for the most part of reedes though some assigne them to Silenus the foster father of Bacchus on whome he alwaies attended riding vpon an Asse yet the greater part agree in Pan the God of sheepheardes The occasion was this It chaunced that he fell in loue with Sirinxe a nimph of Arcadie who would neither giue her head as they say for the washing nor her virginitie for the asking And therefore when he first came to commense his sute shee tooke her course from him towarde the riuer Ladon Where her iourney being at an end vppon request made vnto the nimphes shee was deliuered by them from that rusticke paramoure by transforming her into water reedes Those hee tooke for loue of her and made them instruments to vtter forth his complaintes Howsoeuer other thinges in this historie be feigned sure it is that it carieth with it an other drift than to proue Pan the author of that instrument And if it be so howe could so grounded a worke-man being made as they say to the imitation of nature and expressing by his hornes the sunne beames by his redde face the coulour of the skies by his rough and heary thigh the trees and hearbs vpon the face of the earth by his goats feete the soliditie and steedfastnes of the same be the master of a vaine and frutelesse worke What shall I speak of the Lute Citterne Violle Rebeck Gittorne Pandore Dulcimer Organes Virginals Flute Fife Recorders of the Trumpet Cornet Sackbut and infinite other sortes so excellent pleasant in their sundrie kinds that if art be any way faultie for them it is for being too too riotous and superfluous For hauing as it were wearied and ouergone her selfe in choise of new sortes shee hath deuised a kind of newnes euen out of the old by ioyning compacting many in one which these later times may by right chalenge for their inueÌ„tion But to leaue al other historiographers dissenting some of them far in opinions that historie which indeed is the witnes of times light of the trueth written by the finger of God sets downe Iubal sonne of Lamech Ada to be the Father of all such as handle harpe and instruments THE DIGNITIE OF MVSICKE PROVED BOTH by the rewardes and practise of many and most excellent men Chap. 2. THus hauing stoode vpon the antiquitie and originall of musick being so neerly linked togither that they could not wel be seuered it foloweth by order that I speake somwhat of her honor A needlesse treatise were it not for the affectionat iudgemeÌ„ts of some men which making more reckening of the shadowe than the bodie accompt neither vertues nor sciences worthie the taking vp for their own faire faces vnlesse they come furnished with good sufficient doweries Ipse licet venias Musis comitatus Homere Si nihil attuleris ibis Homere foras Come Homer if thou list bring the muses crue Yet Homer if thou bring naught els but theÌ„ adue Notwithstanding to satisfie those which like indifferently well of this science not so much for her owne laudable nature as her profitable accidents let them knowe that her professors practisers were not rewarded heretofore as they speake in reproch w t meate drink mony which they cal fidlers wages but admitted into the presence and familiaritie of kings sought vnto by whole cities and countries dismissed with rich and honourable rewards I am sory that I am forced to seeke those kind of arguments being fitter to quiet the common people thaÌ„ the learned and wise who looking into the things themselues wey theÌ„ by themselues valuing at an higher price the goodnesse where-with they are endowed than the goods and commodities where-with they are enriched But to approue musicke vnto both those sortes of men to the vpright wel minded for her own sake to the others for the things which they doe most estimate I intend both by variety and trueth of historie to make manifest declaration in euerie respect of her dignitie Who was more accepted of Periander King of Corinth than Arion of Hieron King of Sicil than Simonides of Perdicchas than Menalippides of Alexander the great than Timotheus Zenophontus who could make him both giue an alarum and sound retrait at their pleasures Who in better fauor with Agamemnon than Demodochus to whom hee committed his wife Clitemnestra for the time of his long vnfortunat voiage with Themistocles than Exicles whom he made his daily and housholde guest with M. Antonius than Anaxenor to whom he gaue the tribute of four Cities with Iulius Caesar than Hermogenes with Nero than Ferionus with Vespasian than Diodorus with Galba than Canus Who more tendered of Aristratus king of SycioÌ„ than Thelestus whom he countenanced being aliue with al kind of preferment and honoured being dead with a costly monument Nay the cunning of some hath so farre rebated the edge of most cruel and hard harted tirants that they haue beene willing as they say perforce to put vp iniuries and wrongs at their hands Pyttachus of Mytilen let go scotfree Alcaeus his sworne enimie notwithstaÌ„ding he had both disgraced him and taken armes against him The like did Phalaris the Agrigentine by Tisias his mortall foe albeit hee tooke as much pleasure in murdering as in banqueting and had ofteÌ„ euen with greedines dislodged the soules of many innocents from their harmles bodies Thus Musick led him farder thaÌ„ euer humanity could draw him What need I ad water to the sea after al these speak of Terpander in a dangerous tumult of the LacedemoniaÌ„s appointed by the oracle required by the countrey to appease their vprores A president so much the more to bee heeded by how much the iudgement of a whole countrey than of any priuate persoÌ„ is the rather esteemed And is LacedemoÌ„ singular in this case haue not Rome Greece ioyned hands with her the former instituting a College of Minstrels the later by ordeining that the same men should bee their sages prophets and musicians Plenty makes me scant both by restraining me to choice by withdrawing me from tediousnes for how easie a thing wer it in such abuÌ„daÌ„ce to tire weary euen y e patientest ears Notwithstanding because I am to coÌ„uince these iudgements which look no farder than the outside harkeÌ„ rather to the honor coÌ„ferred otherwise thaÌ„ the honesty goodnes incideÌ„t to the things theÌ„selues let them ad to the fauour and acceptation of those roiall persons aboue named their practise and industrie which they haue exercised I omit the muses graces gods and goddeses before mentioned Colworts twise sodde are harmeful and tales twise tolde vngratefull This next pageant shall bee filled with Emperours Kings and Captaines men both of courage and experience not content to go by hearesay and testimonie of others but adioining them vnto their owne vse and practise Nero Emperour of Rome wanne and ware the garland to the

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