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A15494	A loyal subiects looking-glasse, or A good subiects direction necessary and requisite for euery good Christian, liuing within any ciuill regiment or politique state, to view, behold, and examine himselfe in, that he may the better frame the course of his life, according to the true grounds of the duties of an honest and obedient subiect to his king, and to arme himselfe against all future syren songs, and alluring intisements of subtill, disloyall, dissembling, and vnnaturall conspirators, traitors, and rebels. Collected for the most part out of both olde and later writers, whose names are in the next page set downe. Wherevnto are brieflie added sixe speciall causes of vndutifull subiects disloyaltie. By William Willymat.	Willymat, William, d. 1615.	1604 (1604)	STC 25761; ESTC S120179	57,436	78

A LOYAL SVBIECTS LOOKING-GLASSE Or A good subiects Direction necessary and requisite for euery good Christian liuing within any ciuill regiment or politique state to view behold and examine himselfe in that he may the better frame the course of his life according to the true grounds of the duties of an honest and obedient subiect to his King and to arme himselfe against all future Syren songs and alluring intisements of subtill disloyall dissembling and vnnaturall conspiraters traitors and rebels Collected for the most part out of both olde and later writers whose names are in the next page set downe Wherevnto are brieflie added sixe speciall causes of vndutifull subiects disloyaltie By WILLIAM WILLYMAT AT LONDON Printed by G. Elde for Robert Boulton and are to be sould at his shop at Chancerie lane end neere Holborne The names of the Authors out of which this present Treatise hath for the most part beene collected Augustine Ambrose Theophilacti Caluine Musculus Marlorate Hyperius Hemingius Piscator Iacobus Rex Bullinger Bucer Coruinus Luther Vrsinus M.H. Latimer Perkinsus Turnbull To the right vertuous excellent and most High and Noble Prince HENRIE by the grace of God Prince of Wales Duke of Cornewell Earle of Chester and heire apparant to the Realmes of England Scotland France and Ireland c. THE late gracious acceptance most worthy yong Prince with so prompt welwilling hand so amiable and pleasant a countenance and so kinde and courteous words of those mine hastie and bold attempted labours in translating into Latin and English verse the seuerall Precepts and Instructions of our dread Soueraigne your Fathers Maiesties ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΝ ΔΩΡΟΝ for your owne sake and vnto your owne selfe by him so Christianly fatherly painfully and learnedly first penned that Princes Looking-glasse or Princes direction for that title or inscription I then thought best befitting such an argument so benignly accepted of hath animated and encouraged me once againe to publish vnder your Graces Patrocinie an other Looking-glasse to wit this present Loyall Subiects Looking-glasse or a good subiects Direction a treatise I suppose in these our last dayes and perillous times very requisite and necessarie for all Christian subiects like as was the other for a Christian Prince A fault I confesse is by me here committed by this my second so bold an enterprise but yet Priùs perspecta clementia lenitate tua fretus in good hope you will beare with my wants and imperfections and accept and respect mine heart and plaine simple well meaning will and rather poyse the quantitie of mine affection and zeale to do good according to the gaine of that one poore talent that the Lord God hath committed vnto me then the qualitie of mine offence I haue aduentur●d towards the helpe and instruction of the rude and ignorant sort of subiects who want both good bookes and good teachers to publish this my sillie Treatise befitting silly subiects least through ignorance of their duties in true allegiance they might the sooner be seduced deceiued and withdrawne from giuing vnto Caesar that which is Caesars Simple and plaine indeed is this my worke I must simply confesse but yet an instrument of mine inward good affection and a faithfull witnessing messenger before both God and man of my well-willing and well-meaning heart Qui si non potui maxima parua dedi And if your Grace according to your former clemencie shall happily vouchsafe it that good successe as to come abroade to the view of the world vnder the wings of your benigne defence and fauourable protection then I doubt not but of the better sort it shall be the better accepted and also from the nipping cancred Cater-pillers the more freely escape vntaunted whose naturall inclination is rather to prie at the moates in other mens eyes and to carpe and finde faults with other mens dooings then to respect and perceiue beames in their owne eyes or endeuour to profit Gods Church and their country with any their owne better labours The euer-liuing God for his annointed Christ Iesus his sake graunt you his eternall fauour grace and blessing long and many happy yeares with your owne hearts desired felicitie to the aduauncement of Gods honour and glory to the ioye and comfort of all good faithfull Christian hearts to the terror of all your and our forreigne enemies and home-borne conspirators and to the happie conuersion or vtter confusion of the publique and priuate aduersaries of Gods eternall truth Your Graces most loyall and dayly humble Orator WILLIAM WILLYMAT To the Christian Reader GReat sundrie and manifold good Christian Reader are the enormities inconueniences and mischiefs which the lack of the right vse of Gods most sacred word and the diligent care to be gouerned and ouer-ruled by the same do bring breede and engender among mortall men O subtill serpent ô deceiptfull and too diligent Sathan euermore and euery where prying seeking and hunting like an hungrie and roaring Lyon for thy pray when irreligious Macheuillians apt schollers of that Italian helhound desperate carelesse Atheists obstinate dissembling corner-creeping Papists temporizing carnall and verball Protestants brainsick heady and male-contented Puritanes and such other like right borne children of this world haue once cast of the care the knowledge the vse and practise of that true lightsome Lanterne of Gods word which should haue serued to guide their actions and giuen light vnto their feete whereby they might haue troden in the right pathes of all goodnesse how busie diligent and readie art thou then with thy legions of reprobate Angels to stuffe and possesse the blinde ignorant obstinate wilfull rebellious male-contented hearts and busie braines of such men with ambition enuie malice heart burning discontentment of minde murmurings and grudgings dislike and contempt of the most Christian and best gouernment as not fitting nor agreeing with their humors slandering euill speaking and back-biting such as are in lawfull authoritie conspiracie treason sedition rebellion and infinite other mischiefes too many and too tedious here to recite How true this is as at sundrie other times heretofore so also now hath it proued it selfe by these last discoueries of some of our English disloyall vnnaturall and traiterous plotting practises and conspiracies The buildings and very foundations whereof the close and cunning conueying whereof yea though it were in the very fruite of a tree the mightie Lord God our onely buckler shield and sure fortresse according to his former accustomed goodnesse and mercifull dealings in our late Queene Elizabeths raigne hath vnto vs reueiled and detected yea dissipated frustrated vtterly confounded he for his holy names sake worke in our hearts vnfeined thankfulnesse for the same Now for as much as God hath appoynted admonitions and exhortations to encounter temptations least perhaps the deuill that old experienced and throughly practised enemie of mankind the chiefest author of these and all other such wicked and abhominable attempts should againe suggest and ingest the like lewde motions into the hearts of

to empaire the large and great scope of the Roman Empire Ambition What hath drawen some men to such desperate minds so farre to abandon both God and all goodnesse as to geue ouer themselues to Necromancie and to contract and enter into couenants with the deuill that they might come to soueraigne power and authority Ambition What caused Henry the fift the Emperour by force to depriue his father from the Empire and to keepe him in prison till he died there Ambition Maufroy the prince of Tarentum what moued him to strangle his owne father Frederick the emperour and to poyson Conradus his owne brother what forced Antonius sonne to the Emperour Seuerus to stabbe his brother Geta with a Dagger What caused Solyman king of the Turkes to strangle his owne sonne Sultan Mustapha What moueth many to put innocents to death that stand in states expectant of kingdomes that themselues may take surer footing as they thinke to growe vp and continue in royall places What is and hath beene the cause of these and many other such satanicall and most impious and horrible actions Ambition Ambition I say Ambition And what should I further weary my selfe and weary the reader spend my time paper and Inke to repeate the examples effects fruites and sequels of this vile monster Ambition Let me therfore conclude this second cause of subiects vndutifulnesse with my before noted request namely that all loyall true meaning subiects in time beware that they do not in any wise yeeld vnto this pestiferous humour of Ambition then the which there cannot lightly be a greater enemie to all duties of good subiects CHAP. III. Concerning Enuie the third cause of vndutifulnesse of subiects THe third cause whereby Sathan vndermineth and maineth the good and reuerent conceipt of the Soueraigne in the heart of the subiect is Enuie Whence Enuie first springeth the roote whereof is fetched out of the deuills owne garden for from him came and sprong forth the originall and beginning thereof who in the beginning so enuied the welfare and prosperous estate of man that he sought not only to seperate him from that pleasaunt abode in Eden the pleasauntest place on the earth but also to alienate him from Gods sauour and by that meanes to expell him from all happinesse and to plunge both him and all his ofspring into eternall miserie Through this enuie it is that one man grieueth at an other mans well doinge and prosperity The fruit● of Enuie whosoeuer is once attached herewith straight-waye he murmureth and grudgeth he chafeth fretteth and fumeth that any man should be aduaunced to any honour dignity office or high authoritye besides himselfe inuenting imagining and deuising which way and how to disgrace hurte disquiet crosse and remooue him that so is preferred The enuious man lāguisheth pineth to see his neighbour promoted and prosper as saith the Poet Horace Inuidus alterius rebus macrescit opimis The man that enuie doth possesse doth pine and fall away At others wealth and good successe encreasing euery day Such a waster and consumer is this enuie that for the correspondencie thereof with these things auncient writers both Latine and Greeke haue compared and lykened it to the Worme that consumeth old soft timber What things enuie is very aptly compared vnto Moaths that eate and wast wollen cloth Rust that corrupteth and cankereth away yron Vipers yong ones that eate out their dammes bellies before they be brought forth into the light These viperous generations of enuious creatures are likewise resembled to the swelling toad which as some report cannot abide the smell of Iarmaunder euen so will these swell and disdaine at vertuous and good gouernours placed by God in the midst of Gods garden Other cōparison● very well befiting the enuious man to expell and chase away such venomous toads They are moreouer likened vnto the blind Howlet which as it is sayd in the day time is very dimme and slowe of sight but in the night is most quick of eyesight Euen so whereas the vertues graces and good qualities of magistrates rulers and gouernours appeare and shew themselues manifestly to all the world in open light as it were at the no one day yet these enuious people see nothing nor will take any knowledge of any of those good gifts but if through the infirmi●y of the flesh any of them slippe and be tainted with any fault be it neuer so little this can they soone espie herein they haue Lyncaeus his eies then a little moate shal be made a great mountaine Ex humili tumulo magnum producunt olympum If they see any thing well done they grudge at it and find fault with it like Simon the Leper who blamed Marie Magdalein for doing of a good deed If they see that God accept of blesse and prosper any mans doings more then theirs streight way they maligne him and enuie him yea and maliciously seek his bloud like as Cain did his brother Habels If any man for the good seruice done for or in his countrie be applauded vnto and haue his due honour giuen him they seeke to disgrace him to hold back his due from him and to supplant him or keepe him vnder 1. Sam. 18.7 like king Saul who could n●● abide the speach nor remēbrance of little Dauids tē thousand If the kings highnes for some good seruice or for some good liking or for some other secret purpose better knowen vnto himselfe then to these men do honorably bestow any gift or preferment vpon any courtiers or other his good subiect noble or otherwise ô how these enuious murmurers will mutter grudg speake against that like vnto those whining malecontented labourers which could not abide any equall reward to be giuen vnto their fellow labourers like vnto that enuious Mat. 20. vnkind vnnaturall brother that was angrie with his father and would not come into the house although faire entreated Luk. 15. and that because he maligned and enuied that his father should giue his yonger brother a kind and a naturall fatherlike entertainment after his returne from going astrey Euen so this enuious broode and ill willie kind of men will chaunge the copy of their countenaunces murmure grudge giue out hard speaches euen against their supreme Soueraigne if he take to heart giue sauourable and gratious entertainment to any other then themselues or other of their owne crue and faction whom it shall please them to allow and thinke well of There is neither king nor keisar the highest magistrate nor the inferior subordinate magistrate who either by birth right succession or by their vertuous and good desert haue beene aduaunced and exalted to any manner of honor and dignity in the common-wealth but enuie possessing the virulent heart and bitter tongues of this insatuated crue they will not stick to breake out into slaunderous and malitious misreports and to barke at the beards of those to whom in al humble reuerent and

dutifull maner they ought to submit themselues Let all loyall subiects therfore take heede auoide and shun from Enure this third cause of subiects vndutifulnes and according to S. Paul his exhortation Do all things without murmurings reasonings that they may be blamles pure Phil. 2. and the sonnes of God without rebuke in the middest of a naughty and crooked nation CHAP. IIII. Concerning the lack of subiects wisdome and knowledge the fourth cause of their vndutifulnesse THe fourth way by which sathan seeketh to abuse subiects and to inueigle and entise them to abuse and make lesse account and reckoning of higher powers and magistracie then they should and to grow more vntowardly and contemptuous in their bounden duties then becommeth dutifull subiects for to be The great in conueniences of want of wisdome and knowledge is lack of wisdome and knowledge for through the one that is through lack of wisdome subiects become altogether vnable to iudge and discerne of princes pretenses and pollicies so both ashly foolishly take vpon them like Sus Mincruam to censure controull and condemne the actions and proceedings of their princes through the other that is lack of knowledge they be come vndutifull and disobodient to the lawes ordinances iniunctions acts and statutes of the king and his magistrates and officers vnder whom they liue Kings Princes and gouernours do vse oftentimes for diuerse causes to disguise their purposes with pretenses and colours of other matters Princes proceedings pollicies and purposes not to be condemned nor misconstered so that the end of their drifts and secret purposes are not right seene into nor vnderstood at the first this to be lawfull the word of God doth not deny To make construction of intents and as yet vnknowen meanings of princes in any ill part falleth not for subiects but rather to interpret them in the best maner and take them in the best part Euery creature is not acquainted with the mind of his creator nor euery subiect of his gouernour so the Lord saith Iob giueth not account of all his matters and so in some respect it may likewise be said of princes that they giue not accounts of their matters to all their subiects 1. King 3. King Salomon pretended to deuide the quick child betweene the two harlots and did not what if any foolish busie subiect or seruant had stept in to haue taken exception against Salomons commaundement of diuiding the infant surely it had argued a foolish want of discresion and a sawsie vndutifullnesse to haue interrupted the kings attempt wherin did lurke almost manifest reuellation of king Salomons exceeding gift of wisdome 2. King 10. Iehu pretended that he would serue Baal much more then euer did Ahab but he did it not but by this subtilty destroyed all the seruants of Baal Euseb lib. 1 chap. 11. de vita constant Constantius the Emperour pretended that as many as would offer sacrifice vnto Idols should haue accesse to his royall person dwell in his court and haue offices and great honor in the common wealth but they that would not should both be banished the court and depriued presently of such honors as now they did enioy But yet he did not so but by that policie tried the true christians from Idolaters and so tooke to them and cast out the Idolaters had it not beene great lack of wisdome to haue interrupted these Christian princes pretences and commaundements tending as afterward it proued to so good an end had it not been busie folly and rash vndutifullnesse for any subiects to haue meddled taken exceptions against exclamed vpon and condemned these christian pretenses and pollices Here-hence then let Christian subiects learne to beware that they fall not into vndutifullnesse through this lacke of wisdome in not discerning the lawfullnesse drift and end of princes affaires And likewise let them here learne and striue to be acquainted with and to know their Princes lawes for otherwise they must needs incurre the crime of vndutifullnesse through lacke of knowledge for how can they obay lawes which they neuer sawe heard not read of and yet can they not be excused through ignorance CHAP. V. Concerning Discontentment of minde the fift cause of subiests vndutifulnesse THe fift cause of vndutifulnesse of subiects which hindereth many from performing and yeelding of those bounden duties which magistrates may iustly expect at their hands is discontentment of mind Two sorts of subiects troubled with discontentment of minde abounding especially in two sorts of subiects first in the proud ambitious sort of great men in the world secondly in the wicked and wilfull needy sort of inferiour subiects of the first hath bin spoken in the first and second chapters for the second when they haue rashly inconsideratly prodigally and lewdly wasted and consumed their patrimony their landes and goods when all is gone and nothing left then in their discontented moods with blasphemous and horrible oathes they will vtter and maintaine diuerse vnseemely vncouth vngodly vndutifull disloyall positions as that this world is vneuenly dealt that it is no sinne to take it from these fat backes and greasie bagges that haue it and will do no good with it but will suffer a good felow to starue in the streets or h●ng himselfe before they will depart from one peny that they hope to see a day shortly when a sword and a dagger will do them as much good as the best farme or the best plowe in the parish that if all they haue will buie them a sword and a dagger they hope to liue as well as the richest Curmuchin of them all and that they be good fellowes and haue had it and must haue it and will haue it for why as some of them say Domini est terra plenitudo eius the earth is the Lords and all that therin is These prodigal professors of irregulatity in their malecontented fitts when they see that their companie will serue them stick not to despise all rules of magistracie then Ex abundantia cordis es loquitur their tongues run voluntary wilfully and wittingly scornefully and contemptuously will they cast out words of high indignation and disdein against the reuerence and honor of higher powers and so these wild-headed and staring eyed creatures these impudent and audatious spirited madcappes must be counted forsooth men of valor of ingenious spirits of manly courage and martiall natures they looke as bigge as if their faces were made of harnesse and their hearts growen with haire like Leonides that most valiant and couragious Lacedimonian These furious roysters and desperate cauallieres crooke in their nailes to keepe them sharpe for a day and with their Absolons long locks prognosticate either a vindictiue resolution of mind or foolish vaine heads or Absolon fatal end they want nothing but only a ring-leader a captaine of their owne conditions whom they may follow or else bandes and legions of lewdlings like themselues which would