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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14293	The golden-groue moralized in three bookes: a worke very necessary for all such, as would know how to gouerne themselues, their houses, or their countrey. Made by W. Vaughan, Master of Artes, and student in the ciuill law,	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1600 (1600)	STC 24610; ESTC S111527	151,476	422

fathers vertues but liued wickedly should be disinherited their reuenewes giuen to the most vertuous of that race not admitting any vitious heyre whatsoeuer The properties of a Gentleman Chap. 15. THe meanes to discerne a Gentleman bee these First hee must bee affable and courteous in speech and behauiour Secondly hee must haue an aduenturous heart to fight and that but for verie iust quarrels Thirdly hee must bee endued with mercie to forgiue the trespasses of his friendes and seruants Fourthly hee must stretch his purse to giue liberally vnto souldiours and vnto them that haue neede for a niggard is not worthie to bee called a Gentleman These bee the properties of a Gentleman which whosoeuer lacketh deserueth but the title of a clowne or of a countrie boore In breefe it fareth with Gentlemen as it doth with wine which ought to haue foure good qualities namely it must not taste of the Caske next it must sauour of a good soyle Thirdly it must haue a good colour Last of all it must sauour of the goodnes of the grape and not bee sophistically mingled with water and such like That Gentlemen must not greatly respect what the common people speake of them Chap. 16. THe common people grouÌ„d their actions vpoÌ„ fallible expectations they are stout when perils bee farre off and very irresolute when they approach Who therefore is so brainesicke as to beleeue their assertions What else is glorie then a windie gale neuer comming from the heart but onely from the lungs They that be praysed vnworthily ought to bee ashamed of their praise Admit they bee iustly praised what thing more hath it augmented to the conscience of a wise man that measureth not his good by the rumour of the common people but by the trueth of the conscience For which cause the Romanes built two temples ioyning together the one being dedicated to vertue the other to honour but yet in such sort that no man could enter into that of honour except first hee passed through the temple of vertue Honor as the Philosopher sayth is a reuerence giuen to another for a testimonie of his vertue Insomuch as honor is not attributed to vertue by dignitie but rather it is attributed to dignity by vertue of them that vse the dignitie Howbeit notwithstanding I haue not such horny heart-strings that I would not at al haue meÌ„ to be praysed but my meaning is that Gentlemen should obserue a meane and a limitation in their common applauses and fine soothings For to bee altogether carelesse as Stoykes Cynicks would haue euerie one to be what men think of theÌ„ is not onely a marke of arrogancy but also a token of a loose life Wherefore gentlemen must endeuour by al meanes without vain-glory to keep a good name especially among their neighbors to beare themselues such men indeede as they would haue al men account theÌ„ Wherto accordeth that saying of the Poet Thou shalt liue well if thou takest care to be such a one as thou hearest how the people testifie of thee abroad Of Knights of honour Chap. 17. THose I call knights of honour who here in England are named Knights of the Garter and in France Knights of the order of saint Michael The original of the honorable order of the Garter was first inuented after this maner WheÌ„ K. Edward the third had by the means of Edward the blacke Prince his sonne taken captiues King Iohn of France and King Dauid of Scotland and had put them both in ward at London and also had expelled King Henrie the bastard of Spaine restoring the Kingdome to Peter the lawfull King then he to honor and grace his victories deuised an honourable fellowship and made choyse of the most famous persons for vertue and honoured them with this order giuing theÌ„ a garter adorned with gold and pretious stones together with a buckle of gold to weare onely on the left legge Of which order hee and his successors Kings and Queenes of England should be soueraigne and the rest by certaine lawes among themselues should bee taken as brethren and fellowes in that order to the number of sixe and twentie And this breefely touching the inuention and authour of the honourable order of Knights here in England Now I will addresse my pen to write of the honourable order in France King Lewes the eleuenth of France after he had made peace with his peeres whom in the beginning of his raigne he had excluded from his presence inuented at Amboise in the yeere of our Lord 1469. a societie of honour consisting of sixe and thirtie Noblemen and named Saint Michael Patron of them euen as the English knights had deuoted themselues to the tuition of Saint George giuing ot each of them a golden chaine of the value of two hundred pound which they were bound to weare daily not to bestow sell or gage the same as long as they liued if any one of them chanced to die forthwith there was an election to dubbe another in his roome not by voyces but by litle scrowles turned together in the forme of balles the which they did cast into a bason and the Lord Chauncelour was to reckon them Then he that had most balles on his side was admitted to the societie the King speaking these words The honourable societie do accept of thee as their brother and in regard of their good wil to thee-wards do bestow this golden chaine on thee God graÌ„t thou maist long weare it When the King had spoken these words hee gaue him a kisse on the right cheek This is the custome of dubbing kinghts of the order of Saint Michael Also there be other orders of knights in Christendome as the kinghts of the golden Fleece knights of the Bathe knights of the patent deuised by y e Pope and knights of the Rhodes But because the rehearfall of them are not much appertaining to our purpose I cease to treate further of them Of Citizens Chap. 18. HE that first inuented a citie was the cause of much good The which praise some attribute vnto eloquent men Some to Saturne And others to Orpheus and Amphion For in the beginning of the world people liued barbarously like vnto bruit beasts and the nature of man was such that they not hauing eyther the law naturall or ciuill prescribed rogued vp and downe dispersed in the world possessed nothing except that which by force they tooke away from others til there arose some notable men both in wisedome and valour who knowing howe it was to instruct man assembled all of them into one place ordamed a Citie and enuironed them round about with walles Further Citizens in generall are they that liue vnder the same lawes and soueraigne magistrates But Citizens particularly are they that are free-men do dwel in Cities and boroughs or corporated townes Generally in the shire they be of no account saue onely in the Parliament to

of commoditie and for the preseruation of themselues as well in peace as in warre The which is a thing naturall both in respect of parts to wit a shire a parish and a family whereof a Commonwealth is the accomplishment and of men naturally disposed to liue in societie Neuerthelesse there haue beene many societies which were not Common-wealths but certaine base habitations in villages where the weaker yeelded seruice to the stronger Also the Arabians at this day wander vp and down ignorant of liuing and do carrie about with them their woodden habitations which they draw vpon charrets seeking for prayes and spoyles froÌ„ the riuer Euphrates along vnto the sea Atlantique But to these and such like well may I apply that saying of the Philosopher namely that he which cannot abide to liue in companie is eyther a beast that is a monstrous wicked man or a God that is a man surpassing the ordinarie sort of vertuous men in perfection The examination whereof caused all that were free and liberally borne to be enclined vnto societie and to defend the Common-wealth with all their powers yea and thereunto to beare a greater affection then to their parents Although our families bee destroyed yet the Commonwealth standing wee may in time flourish againe but if the Common-wealth be destroyed both we and our families must likewise come to vtter destruction Let this serue for a watch-word to our English Fugitiues who vnnaturally haue abandoned their natiue countrie and now being become Seminarie Priestes and vncleane spirits like vnto them that in the Reuelation issued as frogs out of the Dragons mouth doe by all shameful acts and false counsels suborne their countrymen to conspiracies against their Prince and Common-wealth The diuision of a Common-wealth Chap. 2. IT was a great controuersie among politicians about the diuision of a Common-wealth for some would allow but of two sorts some contrarie appoynted foure and others fiue Polybius accounted seuen Bodinus whose iudgement is most of all applauded approoueth onely those three speciall kindes of a Commonwealth which Aristotle hath mentioned The first a Monarchie where the gouernement of the whole Common-wealth is in one mans hand This kind regarding the weale publike more then the weale priuate is named the soueraigne authoritie as in England France Spaine Denmarke Polonia and Swethland The second an Aristocracie where the smaller number and those of the best sort do beare rule as the Senate of Rome in times past and the Gentlemen of Venice at this present day The third kinde of a Common-wealth is called a Democracie where the regiment of a Commonwealth consisteth in the power of al or else of the greater part of the people as in ancient times at Athens and nowe at this present the Cantons of Switzerland Of a Monarchie Chap. 3. AMong all creatures as well hauing life as without life one alwaies hath preeminence aboue the rest of his kind This inferiour world obeyeth the superiour and is ruled by it as wee see by a certaine vertuous influence associated with light heat and named by some the quintessence of the world which issueth down froÌ„ the celestiall essence spreadeth it selfe through the lumpe of this huge body to nourish all things vnder the Moone In like maner we see the sunne the principall minister of this celestiall vertue as a monarch among the Planets illuminating al the world with his glistering beams We see the Moone as an Empresse predominant ouer al moist things We see the fire bearing the soueraigntie ouer the other elements In musicall concents consisting of soundes we see the treble as it were commaÌ„ding the base Among reasonable creatures man onely is the chiefe Among beasts the Lion Among birdes the Eagle Among fishes the Whale Among metals gold Among graines wheate Among aromaticall spices balme Among drinke wine And to conclude haue not the Bees one onely King Is not vnitie the first of numbers and when we haue cast our accounts do not we return the same to one totall summe Thus by naturall discourses wee see that a monarchie of all other regiments is the most excellent If wee search ancient Fables we shal find that the gods were ruled by Iupiter What blind Bayard therefore wil deny that all superiour and inferiour things are much better ordered by the arbitrement of one then by the aduice of many Moreouer there bee foure forcible reasons which prooue that a Monarchy ought to be preferred before all other sorts of gouernments First from the beginning of countryes and nations the gouernement was in the hands of Kings who were not extolled to that high degree of maiestie by Ambition but for their modestie which was knowne to all men Likewise that which is auncient and first is more noble then that which is newfangled and later Secondly the image of a monarchie is found in priuate families For the authority of a father ouer his children may bee resembled to a royall gouernment because the Children are the fathers charge hee alone must prouide for them and their offences are by him chastised With which concurreth that common speech Euery man is a King in his owne house Thirdly a Monarchie hath continued aboue a thousand yeeres whereas the longest Aristocracie and Democracie haue not lasted aboue sixe hundred yeeres Our Kingdome of Brittaine retained a Monarchie from the time that Brutus first inhabited it vntill Cadwalader who was the last king of the British bloud which was aboue foureteene hundred yeeres Then in the yeere of our Lorde 574. the Kingdome was diuided among seuen of the Nobles who still continued ciuill warre one vpon the other vntill Ecbert in the yeere 800. reduced the seuen prouinces into one whole Kingdome Since which time there ruled Princes as Monarches vntill now this yeere of our Lord one thousand six huÌ„dred Whereby wee finde that our Monarchie hath alreadie lasted full eight hundred yeeres Scotland likewise hath endured in a Monarchie from the yeere of our Lord eight hundred and twentie Dungall then raigning vntill this present yeere Fourthly a Monarch carrieth a greater maiestie whereby hee seemes gratious and amiable in the sight of his subiects and dreadfull to his enemies To conclude lette vs consent that a Monarchie is the most excellent regiment of all others as that which draweth neerest to Gods will who is the Monarch of all Monarches King of Kings and Lord of Lordes Obiection It is better to be subiect vnto God alone then vnto man for he foreseeth al things to come and without his prouidence one sparrow shall not fall on the ground And seeing that hee is so carefull for these small things will not he thinke you care for man that is of more value then many sparrowes Furthermore wee are Christians chosen of God and pretious as liuely stones and also made a spirituall house an holy priesthood to offer vp spirituall sacrifices to God by Iesus

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