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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11774	The Belgicke pismire stinging the slothfull sleeper, and avvaking the diligent to fast, watch, pray; and worke out their owne temporall and eternall salvation with feare and trembling.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1622 (1622)	STC 22069; ESTC S116957	66,236	114

to such as labour Thus in Armies a few Cowards may occasion the losse of all and a few valiant persons resolutely knit in one fortune and ingagement may discomfite a multitude of negligent persons Sloth is the Nurserie of euery evill in a Common-wealth scarcitie famine beggerie the everie sedition disobedience and finally the ruine and dissolution of the whole bodie and frame of the State ariseth from thence It is written of the Malabars in the East Indies that their Noble-men called Nagros weare long railes on their handes to shew that they are Gentlemen and no workers for to worke they are ashamed others must worke for them and they were borne to no end in the world but to liue and eate and drinke and waste the good creatures of God and so to doe mischiefe till they die wherein they seeme to resemble Swine who are neuer either pleasant or profitable till they be seene in a dish Wee see all the beasts and birdes of prey are not so sociable or vsefull to man as those that labour diligently for their liuings with man There is more vse of the Horse then of the Lyon of the Oxe then of the Beare of the sheepe then of the Wolfe of the innocent Dove then of the rauenous Kyte Buzzard or Hawke though many men rather delight to associate themselues with these then with those to shew the lazie disposition of their base barbarous and tyrannous natures and how much these incline to the execrable example of Cain or the new-found Canibals the sonnes of cursed Cham. I need not trauell farre for examples in this kinde the Monopolists and Improuers of our Land and the irreligious Impropriators who prey vpon Church and State are of this Order yea all our private Wealth swarmes with these Monsters and their breede is from the lazie scumme of counterfeit Gentilitie who bearing those Armes idlely which their diligent Predecessours haue purchased as badges of some honorable atchieuement doe thereby disgrace their Originals as if they were priuiledged to be vicious by the redundancy of their predecessors vertues Arist de Anim. li. 1. But as it is true that the Philosopher saith Nobile est quod ex bono procedit genere so it is a true which he likewise saith Generosum est quod non à natura sua 〈◊〉 degenerauit these therefore either being base in their Originals or degenerating from the nobilitie and vertue of their Ancestors become of Common-wealths-men common-woes-men and study to doe such acts and invent such projects as may vndo the publique for their priuate and inordinate desires Yea the example of these so corrupts the State and so ouerspreades the face and body thereof like a Canker or Tetter-worme as it hath wel-nigh eaten out the valiant race of the ancient English yeomandrie which was one of the chiefe glories of our Nation and the principal base and foundation of the Common-wealth at least of the strength and libertie thereof Not that heereby I intend to disparage the Nobilitie which is supplementum or complementum as the other is firmamentum Reipublicae but rather to preserue it intire from mixture and coagulation and to let all men see that the roote of euery commendable vocation is diligence and to be without a vocation cannot subsist with true Nobility For all the honors priviledges of the anciēt Nobilitie were granted vpon this ground that they had worthily acted something for the generall benefit of many yea Principalitie it selfe springs from this low but fruitefull root So that as Primum ens consideratum in Metaphysica Arist Pol. li. 1. Eccl. 31.9 est illud quod prius est nobilitate caritate Sic in Physica sic in Politica c. And therefore virtus malitia determinant nobiles ignobiles servos liberos according to that vvhich Siracides saith Blessed is the rich that is found without blemish and hath not gone after gold nor hoped in mony and treasures Who is he and wee will commend him for wonderfull things hath he done amongst his people Who hath beene tried hereby and found perfit Let him bee an example of glorie Who might offend and hath not offended or might doe euill and hath not done it Therefore shall his goodnesse bee established and the Congregation shall proclaime his loue and charitie And after speaking of Enoch Noe Abraham Isaak and Iacob the ancient Worthies and of their workes of wisdome he saith All these were honorable men in their generations and were well reported of in their times There are of them that haue left a name behinde them so that their praise shal be spoken of There are some also which haue no memorie and are perished as though they had neuer beene and are become as though they had neuer beene borne and their children after them Thus if vve looke into Antiquitie amongst the Ethnickes euen vnto those that canonized or rather deified their Princes vve shall finde that vvhen the desire of dominion began to disturbe the vvhole World and brake out into open hostility and invasion the diligent and industrious persons vvere forced for their owne safety to elect out some of the strongest from the rest to be their guard from forraine assaults And to these they gaue both titles and priviledges to incourage their diligent attention on their offices yea and after death did so farre celebrate their happy memories as the Ages following ignorant of the true cause made them gods and gaue them diuine honour especially the Poets vvhich vvere the Chroniclers of those times Thus it appeares that Nobility vvas first from Office not from nature among the Heathen and for the Iewes Siracides speakes of the Iudges vvho governed the State and defended them from forraine tyranny Let saith he their bones flourish out of their place and their names by succession remaine to them that are most famous of their children So not the eldest sonne but the most vertuous and actiue is the heyre of his fathers honors though the other be of his fathers titles and lands Thus vvhether vve looke on the roote or branches vvee shall finde Nobilitie to spring from action and to die by idlenesse so that it is true vvhich the Philosopher saith Arist Rhet lib. 1. Honor est benefacti operationis signum Now for any man therefore to purchase honour vvithout some vvorthy action fore-going or for any man to conferre this vvithout merit concurring is not truely to be Noble but the idol● of Nobility and such Parchment honour as One vvell calls it is nothing but as a licence to be idle or to begge withall because they put it to no better vse Hist of the world lib. 3 fol. 15.3 Great and worthy actions as the same Author saith are the right children of honourable persons who liue not so much in the yssue of their bodies or in the name and title of their fore-fathers Nobilitie as in the yssue of their mindes their good deeds and the good

men are excited and incouraged to sow mault brew and to seeke to supply the Common-wealth vvithin it selfe vvithout borrowing abroad And vvhilst I consider this I can but sometime vvonder perhaps in my ignorance at our restraints about the out-lading of Corne and Beere euen vvhen there is no dear●h but plenty if men vvere forced to bring out their store Assuredly if in the time of scarcity vvhen God seemes to call vs to fasting and humiliation as at this present fasting vvere enjoyned and strictly obserued and the Alehouses daily and duly visited for auoyding of idlenes drunkennesse and excessiue ryot there needed no other prouision against famine But this is the plague these Statutes being penall are beg'd aforehand or left to the pursuite of beggars and base Promoters who compound the forfeiture and coosen the Lawe or committed to the ouersight of such as are Ingrossers themselues vvho desire to haue all things deere that they may vent their owne commodities at the best rate and so grow rich though the Common-wealth waxe poore 3. Thirdly from this Excise of forraine Beere and other commodities the State makes more gaine towards the maintenance of the vvarres and other publique vvorkes then all the rest that deale in them For in Beere especially they double the price and haue clearely as much for the Excise as the Merchant paid to the Bruer Now in this they do the parts of prouident fathers vvho seeing their prodigall children waste their portions they vnderhand lend money vvhich their children know not of and so preserue their Lands from sale and their pawnes from forfeiture returning them againe vvhen the haue more vvit to keepe them and vse them And in my conceit this vvere a good Toile to take out frugall Foxes and a sure trap for our negligent drunkards and prodigall heires vvho being only niggardly in publique vvorks where they should freely giue vvill grutch to disburse six pence towardes the maintenance of the Minister and reliefe of the poore or twelue pence towardes a Subsedy for defence of the State or for the Kings and kingdomes honour vvhen they will at that very time willingly spend ten times so much in ryot and excesse neuer feeling or complaining of the matter though they continued this course euery day and cannot by perswasions of reason or the force and authoritie of the lawes of God or man be diuerted and drawne from it such a basenesse there is in man such a dull and beastly sottishnesse in nature to contrary Religion and reason especially being seconded in any euill by company and confirmed therein by custome past reclaiming Now if the vnited Provinces had peace vvith Spaine as other Countries haue or vvere in subjection to Spaine as not onely the Spanyards but some of their owne infected members and some others perhaps of Ours inconsiderately as I suppose seeme to desire then neither should they be secure of their owne lives estates and liberties nor their neighbors safe by them For assuredly howsoever men flatter themselves as the Catholike King would be King of all Catholike subjects so most of thē seeme to desire him for their head But should they be so vnhappy as to haue their desires what were they but slaves since vvhere the Spaniard comes he sets himselfe downe like an absolute and tyrannicall Lord silencing all Lawes but his owne vvhich are as those of the Medes and Persians yea as those of Draco written in blood Never did the Lurdanes more Lord it in England then they vvhere they conquer or be let in vpon any tearmes tell me Naples Milan Antwerpe if this be not true And though Religion be made the stalking-horse to infatuate and bewitch the mindes of men and make them betray themselues and their Countries to slaverie yet the Larke beeing dared and the Woodcocke in the Net that maske is cast away and there is as much trust to their promises as to the Moores their Kinsmen and late Countrimen So that because of this feare as long as the contrariety of Religion lasteth the innocent party cannot be safe vvithout armour nor secure then Shew mee in any part of Christendome vvhere any person professing the reformed Religion hath beene spared vvere hee friend neighbour or kinsman if That side had strength enough to reach his throat and notwithstanding our advantages let slip in mercy and none of them pursued bloudily how haue they in all places by all meanes waded in bloud vp to the chinne for the accomplishment of their designes And this will continue as long as Antichrist raignes for the Wolfe is bloudy and the Lambe simple his Fleece warme and his Bloud and Flesh sweet But if the peaceable Gospel had free passage and free operation then indeed there were not only hope but security that wee should liue in peace one by another and that the strength and riches of one King should not be terrible to another vvhilst God would teach every one to be contented with their own to attend with conscience the charge they haue in hand the peaceable governement of the States committed to them and as brothers to joyne their powers against the common enemie of the Christian Religion not so much seeking his subversion as conversion nor ambitiously thirsting after the enlargement of their owne Kingdomes as piously desiring the enlargement of Christes Kingdome For as a covetous rich man if he seriously thought to vvhat end his goods vvere giuen him and what a strict account he must make for them would not so greedily hunt after his owne hurt and others losse so assuredly if ambitious Princes did vvell consider their charge and conscionably study vpon the workes and duties of their Callings knowing that as the people are giuen to be their seruants so they interchangeably are giuen to serue the people Antigonus Rex Maced dixit Regnum esse splendidam servitutem that all may serue God they vvould not with so much hate and hazard of God and man of soule and body of their Kingdomes heere on earth and the Kingdome of heauen expose their subjects liues to certaine ruine for the accomplishment of their inordinate and importunate desires especially Christian against Christian brother against brothes neither would they vsurpe such a tyrannicall and heathenish authority ouer their flockes as with the Great Turke to make their owne wils limits and lawes to the wils of all other men Hoc est deglubere pecus non tondere But as the Pope that spirituall Tyrant that Antichrist hath gotten Church-Courtiers to vphold his Regaltie with impudent foreheades and artificiall falsehoods so these haue gotten Court Clergie-men to become their Champions who being full of winde themselues haue blowne these bladders with flatterie and forgerie euen to forget their owne vanitie to which they are subject and to which they shal be subjected in the end whilst they imagine all other men to be made for their pleasures and their wils to be a more just law to their subjects then