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A01402	The rich cabinet furnished with varietie of excellent discriptions, exquisite charracters, witty discourses, and delightfull histories, deuine and morrall. Together with inuectiues against many abuses of the time: digested alphabetically into common places. Wherevnto is annexed the epitome of good manners, exttracted from Mr. Iohn de la Casa, Arch-bishop of Beneuenta.	T. G., fl. 1616.; Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?; Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556. Galateo.	1616 (1616)	STC 11522; ESTC S102804	122,087	364

battaile or great peece of seruice they were put to the worst and driuen to slight by Scipio Aemilianus at their sitting down they were reprehended by their leaders in great rage for their base cowardise with these words are not these the Romane sheepe that we haue so often beaten home to their foldes to which the souldiers made this answer they are indeed the same ●●eepe but they haue changed their shepheards meaning they had now more valiant Commanders Valour is so great a friend to learning that that it will answer in her behalfe vnterrified with swearing or swaggering for so a noble young Gentleman much giuen to learning and a great louer of study sitting one day amongst his bookes was visited by a more hot braine then wise witted gallant a neighbour of his who at his comming vnto him vsed this speech What still at thy booke euer amongst the dead come abroade and liue with the liuing Oh answered the yong Gentleman I am sorry to heare thee say one thing and prooue another for my bookes are dead in show but full of life indeede and thou doest liue in shew but to vertue the true life thou art dead Valour holds vp the sword of Iustice and maketh life to shine with a lustre of honor as the starres through the cloudes Valour raiseth meane men to order of her seruice and degrees of militarie renowne so it be seasoned with experience and vnderstanding otherwise to see a yonger soldier preferred before another breedes repining and how euer fauour and authoritie may proceede per saltum yet it is a meere wrong Vertue I make true honour worthie truest praise And from the dust the humble I do raise VErtue hath a countrey in heauen and when she commeth on earth she is like a traueller that goeth to a friend to perswade him to change his dwelling for a better Vertue maketh life famous and death glorious and he that neglecte●h her is a foole but he that hateth her is a diuell Vertue in youth maketh age honorable and in age maketh death memorable it is as harmony to life and a sweet Di●pason in musicke to the comfort both of the players and standers by Vertue in misery is the ioy of the wicked as wickednesse in prosperity is the griefe of the godly which makes me remember a saying of a Phylosopher to Phalaris the Tyrant who reprehended him for weeping at the death of his friend as being a principle against true Phylosophy but he very confidently replied I weepe not O Tyrant that the vertuous doe die but that the vicious doe liue and such as thou dost gouerne Vertue is blemished with vaine-glorious ostentation but to boast of wickednes and vice is the top of sinne and most abhominable to God and good men Vertue in a Prince is the subiects ioy and the peace of all estates is conserued by vertuous administration mar●●all discipline due execution of lawes worthy aduancing to preferment couragious suppressing the insolent and resolute constancy to mainetaine true religion and ciuell administration all which must be performed by vertue and cannot be done without her direction Vertue of the wise is to be beloued the life of the vertuous to be gracious the seruice of the faithfull to be rewarded and the honour of the valiant to be aduanced Vertue maketh the minde of man to thinke right vpon God and to doe right amongst men so that true Vertue beginneth by good motions good motions proceed to resolute meditations resolute meditations must bee expressed by orderly wordes orderly wordes must goe forwards to effectuall deeds effectuall deeds to constant perseuerance and perseuerance must knit vp the life with the indissoluble knot of eternall fame Vertue is most graced by mercy and pitty for therein doe men come neerest the diuine nature whilst tyrants on earth breath nothing but blood and reuenge Vertue buildeth vpon hope of reward and honour is a great spur●e to vertuous endeauors Vertue hath her greatest lustre compared to the vicious as starres shine brightest in the darkest night Vertue of the soule dimmeth the beauty of the body as the brightnes of the Sunne diminisheth the light of a candell for vertue will appeare in despight of enuy yet must men take heed of polluting ve●tue with the lest crime for a staine is not so soone seene in a course cloath as in pure linnen Vertue is gracious in the beginning famous in the proceeding admirable in the end and glorious in the memory euen after death Vertue in the depriuation thereof leaueth the soule more bare then the naked body Vetue is like a mirrour for as when a man looketh in a glasse and thereby discouereth the spots and staines of his face so through vertue doe we behold the imperfection of nature and the deformity of sinne Vertue cannot bee obtained without an industrious heart and painefull pursuit ● therfore let no idle person euer thinke to attaine vertue by following vanity for a shadow in shew cannot produce a substance in effect Vertue is the gift of God but gotten by industry Warres I am a scourge of sinne how ere I seeme Vniust and barbarous as fooles esteeme VVArres that are bloody make euen the peace wofull and those are accursed that are sowers of ciuell discord Warres dispeople Countries deuast Cities defloure Virgins rauish Matrons ouerthrow Common-wealthes ruinate husbandry spoile Merchants empouerish the Trades-man and turnes topsie turuy the whole Kingdome Warres are sent as a Nurse and punishment of sinnes and because sinne doth euer encrease till the last houre there will neuer be a generall peace Warres attempted through ambition or vaine-glory doe commonly end to the preiudice of the beginner but if to propulse iniuries then the decider of all controuersies commonly carrieth the cause with the innocent parties Warres are leuied to maintaine peace for as a sword is an instrument of defence and a cloake a shelter for the raine so men vse wars to keepe themselues from the stormes of vtter ruine by forren enemies or priuate subuersion by ciuell or if you will vn●iuel friends Warres that grow vpon ambition are like to bee terrible but a luxurious peace is as miserable Warres are pleasing in conceit or for outward brauery to the vnexperienced as peace is vnpleasant to a troublesome spirit Warres are fearefull in the very rumour much more in the terrible effects for though the Drumme and Trumpet ye elda braue sound yet doth the Musket and Pike giue a killing blow Warres are commonly forren or domestick the first may bee propulsed by like forces but the other must be preuented by cautelous endeauours and both in the beginning as we doe the bursting out of riuers which otherwise will spoile all with their violent ouerflowings Warres cannot be maintained without men Men cannot be got without money mony cannot be leuied without taxes and impositions taxes cannot be paid without obedience nor obedience shewed without loue and hearty inclination to the Prince Warres resemble the eyes and

THE RICH CABINET Furnished with varietie OF Excellent discriptions exquisite Charracters witty discourses and delightfull Histories Deuine and Morrall TOGETHER WITH INuectiues against many abuses of the time digested Alphabetically into common places WHEREVNTO IS ANNEXED the Epitome of good manners exttracted from M r. Iohn de la Casa Arch-bishop of Beneuenta LONDON Printed by I. B. for Roger Iackson and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet Conduit 1616. THE PRINTER To the courteous Readers GENTLEMEN HAuing had the good happe among other aduentures of Presse to Print not long since sundry small fragments full both of honest reuelation for Wit and vseful obseruation for Wisedome fit to please and profit the wel-disposed And perceiuing the same accordingly to haue found generall approbation and applause howbeit I must ingeniously confesse neither so orderly disgested by the P●nne nor so exactly corrected at the Presse by reason of some vnseasonable hast as both the Author and my selfe haue since seriously wished Now therefore at better leasure for your greater delight in reading and ease in finding I haue here with the helpe of a skilfull and industridustrious friend Methodically reduced all into this Rich Cabinet doubly furnished with ample Addition of newe Treasures of diuers kinds which 〈◊〉 you accept no worse then the former I shall bee the more encouraged to endeauour your further content to the vttermost of my facultie So fare you well R. I. ¶ An Alphabeticall Table containing the heades of all the principall matters in this Booke AEfinitie fol. 1 Anger 3 Atheisme 6 Beautie 7 Birth 10 Benefits 11 Couetousnesse 13 Crueltie 15 Courtesie 18 Courtier 19 Clergy 21 Citizen 27 Countrey life 29 Cuckold 31 Death 32 Diseases 35 Drunkennesse 37 Effeminatenesse 39 Elloquence 40 Enuy. 41 Folly 44 Fortune 47 Friends 48 Gentrey 51 God 58 Grauety 61 Honour 63 Humility 65 Hypocrisie 67 Inuection 68 Ignominy 70 Idlenesse 72 Kings 74 Knowledge 76 Knauery 79 Lawes 81 Lechery 83 Loue. 85 Liberty 88 Merchant 89 Man 91 Modestie 9● Money 94 Negligence 97 No-body 98 Nurture 100 Oeconomick 101 Office 105 Order 107 Oathes 109 Pleasure 111 Poetry 112 Pouer●y 113 Player 116 Pride 118 Profit 121 Quietnesse 122 Reason 124 Religion 126 Remembrance 129 Resolution 130 Statesman 132 Scholler 134 Souldier 135 Shifting 137 Singularitie 139 Sinne. 140 Sorrow 141 Temperance 144 Time 146 Traueller 147 Troubles 149 Vanitie 151 Vallour 154 Vertue 855 Warres 157 Wilfulnesse 159 World 160 Woman Whore A Treatise of Manners and behauiors THE RICH CABINET Containing Descriptions Characters Discourses and Histories Diuine and Morall Affinitie This wel may be the weake ones strong defence And strōg ones weaknes may proceed frō hence AFfinitie cannot haue greater glory then when the father is wise the children vertuous the brothers kinde the cosins louing and the kinred conformable Affinity is happy where cosins nephewes are well bred and kinde consorts sisters are modest and gracious maidens brothers are naturall and indiuiduall friends children obedient and pleasing to their parents wiues are vertuous and submisse to their husbands and wise and careful to gouerne their housholds Aff●nity degenerating in honesty is like foule scabs in a faire skinne such Affines brings as much credit comfort to their friends as do lyce in their clothes they are much like of a lousie condition they will cleaue close vnto you while you haue bloud to feede them but if you begin to die or decay they goe from them that breed them Affinity doth sometimes shew a catalogue of kinsmen but a blank of friends For it is not the similitude of titles or names but the resemblance of like true and tender affection and harts wherein the reality of right and naturall affinity consists Affinity of faire words and false hearts are like Tantalus his apples they are euer hanging round about him but he may die for hunger before he shall taste them Or they are like the apples of Sodom that are faire without and dust within Good for nothing but to deceiue hungry passengers who would but cannot feed vpon them Affinity is pleased when the children and childrens children prooue the Parents delight but if vngracious they are more charge then comfort Affinity with needy and penurious friends is like a stemme that hath many suckers or vnder-plants which are still drawing the iuyce away from the great and maine root but themselues neuer bring forth a handful of fruit Affinity hath that priuiledge that in lordly houses and of inheritors there ought to be the haunts of brothers cosins nephews vnckles and all other of his kin bearing good will to their affaires supporting their necessities in such wi●e that to them is no houre forbidden or dore shut neuerthelesse there are some brothers cosins and nephewes so tedious in speech so importunate in visiting and so without measure in crauing that they make a man angry and also abhorre them and the remedy to such is to appart their conuersations and succour their necess●ties Affinity makes men presume in offences but heere lies the danger when kinsmen fall out indeed they are at deadly food and commonly irreconcileable therefore a care must be had of the occasion and a cunning to contriue a pacification Affinity setteth whole families many times at variance euen to the drawing of strangers to take part but when an attonement is contriued the rest are not only condemned but pay for the mischiefe when a mans bloud returnes and feare of ouerthrowing the whole family keepes malice in restraint Anger Ire's good and bad if good it still doth swell At ill if b●d it frets at dooing well ANger is the heat of bloud as feare the defect of nature but in both temperance bringeth men to perfection Anger and Enuy makes the body leane and ma●erates the minde when it had need of rest●u●ation by rest Anger is sometimes manly as griefe vvith reason is naturall but to be outragious is beastly and to cry childish Anger without discretion turneth into furie and continuing without restraint endeth in sorow Anger vpon good cause is wis●dome and against sinne honesty and without sinne holinesse but to braule and swagger is vnciuell Anger without force is like a lustfull Eunuch willing but weak or like a mocked old man that holds vp his staffe but cannot strike in both a man shall show folly in willingnes to hurt and inability to execute Anger bringeth hastie spirits in danger of hurt and when the passion is cooled by consideration repentance followes but if it be too late it is subiect to derision Anger and excesse of meates are great enemies to health For meats doe corrupt the humors and anger consumeth the bones so that if men did not eate ouermuch and would not be ouer-angry there should be little cause to be sick and much lesse of whom to complaine For the whips that do most scourge our miserable life are ordinary excesse and deepe anger Anger made great Alexander like the least part

but displeasure not ●aste but torment not recreation but confusion when in the enamoured there is not youth libertie and liberalitie Loue according to the world enstructeth young men to serue the liberall to spend the patient to suffer the discreet to haue skill to talke the secret to keepe silence the faithfull to gratifie and the valiant to perseuer Loue the Bee for her hony and allow her a good hiue but trouble not her labours lest her sting be vnpleasant Loue is seene euen in creatures void of reason for the Pellicane makes her breast bleed yea sometimes to death to feed her young and the Stork is not vnkinde to feed her old one in age Loue of all passions is the sweetest and treason of all villany is the vildest Loue in youth is full of kindnes in age ful of trouble in folly full of vanity in ielou●e full of frenzie and in necessity ful o● misery Loue was an old nothing to exercise wit in idlenesse and is now a new nothing to feed ●olly with imagination Loue is begotten by the eyes bred in the braines walks in the tongue growes with the flesh and dies in an humor Loue doth trouble wit hinder Art hurt nature disgrace reason lose time spoile substance crosse wisedome serue folly weaken strength submit to beautie and abase honour Loue is wills darling patience triall passions torture the pleasure of melancholie the play of madnesse the delight of varieties and the deuiser of vanities Loue is the virgins crack the widowes cros●e the bachelers bane the maried mans purgatory the young mans misery and the ageds consumption a fained god an idle fancy a kinde of fury in some a frenzie Loue is the abuse of learning the ground of enuy the stirrer of wrath the cause of mischiefe the disquiet of the minde the distracter of the wit the disturber of the senses and destruction of the vvhole man Liberty I rather had abroad my selfe engage Then with the Larke liue in a golden cage LIberty is such a priuiledge of nature that the bird had rather flie in the open fieldes then sing in a siluer cage or princely banqueting house from which euen with gladnes if an escape can be made she flieth away Liberty hath bin so precious euen amongst Cities and Countries that many of them haue destroied themselues rather then be subiect to their conquering enemies Witnes Numantia who from her ancient originall of Greeks and immitation of their honorable maintaining their liberty set fire of all they had and after killed one another Liberty is so sweet a delight that it hath made kingdoms forsworne and Princes breake their vowes which necessity enforced witnes al the tributs that France England Denmarke and other Countries haue payd to one another and for vvhich whole Armies haue been leuied battailes fought thousands slaughtered Cities deuasted Countries ouer-runne and people brought to ruine and all to maintain● their libertie Liberty hath caused many rebellions and taught great Princes admirable lessons of magnanimitie For when Zenobia Queen of Palmira had lost her husband Odenatus shee raised warres in Syria against the Romans to maintaine her liberty but at last ouercome by Aurelianus the Emperour and carried in tryumph to Rom● shee there died in sorow for the losse of her libertie Liberty is a bewitching pleasure for it bringeth vs to pouerty for rather the● vvee will take paines or serue in some honourable attendancie we will be idle as vagabonds and abuse libertie in wicked and abhominable liues Libertie is cause of all disorder for if the licencious be not restrained by law terrified from offending by punishment and detained in obedience by denial● of libertie they would runne at randome to all vices and set open a larger fielde of intemperancie Liberty is the mother of wantonnesse and therefore as in a Citi● there be many watches Courts of gard gates defended rounds walking and Sentinells standing to keepe men within their houses at vnseasonable times so in the libertie of our liues there be diuerse vertues to suppresse our rebellious thoughts and as it were put in prison our impious cruptions of frailetie Liberty many times proceedeth from honorable respects and causeth losse of life before losse of reputation as in the story of Sopho●isba may appeare whom when Masinissa had promised Scipio to deliuer into his hands because hee would performe his word and defende her glorie from captiuitie hee caused her to poyson herselfe and so rendred the dead body to the Romans Libertie is the iewell of life and comfort of our verie soules For if wee be free it makes vs the Lords seruants and if wee be seruants it aduanceth vs to be the Lords free-men so still we must be at liberty from sinne to auoide the seruitude of Hell Liberty is a good mother of many bad children for sloth idlenes licentiousnes vanity wantonnes abuse of time pouerty and wants are many times the birth of her trauels and become monsters in the world through the abuse of libertie Libert●e in a young man is as dangerous as laciuious talke to an a●●orous virgin for both tend to destruction and without speciall graces there is no preuention of ruine Libertie makes the deere leap● the horse neigh the calfe skippe the lamb● play th● cony ●risk the dog wag his taile the ●ouirrell gamboll the ape mount the trees and all creatures reioyce for this benefite of nature Merchant I am if royall of that dignit●● As bright by right makes my posteritie MErchant is a worthy cōmon-wealths man for how euer priuate commoditie may transport him beyond his owne bounds yet the publicke good is many wayes augmented by mutuall commerce forren trading exploration of countries knowledge of languages encrease of nauigation instruction and mustering of sea-men diuersity of intelligences and preuention of forren treasons Merchant is onely traduced in this that the hope of wealth is his principall obiect whereby profite may arise which is not vsually attained without corruption of heart deceitfull protestations vaine promises idle oathes paltry lyes pedling deceit simple denials palpable leauing his friend and in famous abuse of charitie Merchant must bee cunning in diuers artes nay neede both learning and iudgement especially Arethmaticke Cosmography morallitie Rhetoricke vnderstanding to make vse of time and place and skill in his profession to knowe what is cheape to bee bought abroad and deerely soulde at home where ready money serues the turne and exchange of commoditie supplies the want how hee shall be entertained how long and how many times welcommed because in some places they are tied to precepts and limited to proclamations Merchant is no common freeman ouer the world as we suppose for euery countrey hath her seueral restraints he that trauels in the East may not goe into the streights he that goes into Indy cannot trade into Turkey not he that sends to Turkey haue busines in Stode or other places of our principall marts except he be free of those companies and