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A16241	Theatrum mundi the theatre or rule of the world, wherein may be sene the running race and course of euerye mans life, as touching miserie and felicity, wherin be contained wonderfull examples, learned deuises, to the ouerthrowe of vice, and exalting of vertue. wherevnto is added a learned, and maruellous worke of the excellencie of mankinde. Written in the Frenche & Latin tongues by Peter Boaystuau, and translated into English by Iohn Alday.; Theatre du monde. English	Boaistuau, Pierre, d. 1566.; Alday, John.	1566 (1566)	STC 3168; ESTC S102736	106,769	288

Theatrum Mundi The Theator or rule of the world wherein may be sene the running race and course of euerye mans life as touching miserie and felicity wherin is contained wonderfull examples learned deuises to the ouerthrowe of vice and exalting of vertue wherevnto is added a learned and maruellous worke of the excellencie of mankinde Written in the Frenche Latin tongues by Peter Boaystuau and translated into English by Iohn Alday ¶ IMPRINTED AT LONdon by H. D. for Thomas Hacket and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Churchyarde at the signe of the Key ¶ In prayse of the Booke LO here the braunches fresh and greene Lo here deare Friend the race Lo here the path is to be seene through which mankinde doth trace The finall scope the totall ende the wandring steps wherein Humanum genus seemes to tende ▪ his pagent to begin Most like a Theater a game or gameplace if ye will which royally doth beare the fame approude by learned skill Through blisse through ioy through smiling fate commixt with care and woe Now plaste aloft in Princely state and straight brought downe as lowe By hap mishap or haplesse happes compared to a shade Or flower of the fielde which clappes or heate doth cause to fade For as the youthfull wightes assay their partes on stage a while And lauish tongues from day to day with time doth them beguile So that at last their pompe and pride their filed speach hath ende None otherwise away to slide our crooked limmes doe bende The chiefest Lampe or glistring Starre whereof described plaine Surmounting others all full farre herein thou mayst attaine And thus with Tullies worke I fine placing this learned Booke Condecorate with Muses nine a Glasse whereon to looke To the Right Worshipfull Sir William Chester Knight Alderman of the Citie of London and Merchant of the Staple Iohn Alday wisheth health to the pleasure of God with most happie and prosperous successe in all your affaires AMONG all the Learned worthy writers of our age worshipful Sir there is none to my iudgement more worthy of perpetual prayse than those which haue most learnedly philosophied on the miserie of man those I say which contemplating beholding the calamities of these dayes with the corruption of man kind haue not feared to set forth the liues liuings of al estates to this end that in reading hearing their miserable life and wicked conuersation they be the soner moued to detest and abhorre the same and crie out with the Prophete Dauid saying I haue sinned Lord and therevppon amende their wicked wayes Among the which the Author hereof named Peter Boaystuau hath most worthilye set foorth this present worke not only in the French tongue to the profit of his Countrie but first of all in the Latin tongue to his perpetuall and due prayse and to the profite of all Christian Countries and Nations Wherein he hath moste learnedly set forth the corruption of all estates so that those that reade this present booke can no otherwise do but be ashamed of their vniust dealings Moreouer least that man should dispaire of his saluatiō in reading this pitiful Metamorphose or Tragedie knowing themselues culpable he hath most worthily set forth the dignitie and excellencie of man shewing him how much more in excellencie he doth excell all other creatures whō GOD hath created and made So that this is in sūme Right Worshipfull Sir the effect of this rude translation the which I thought good to direct vnto your worship and so much the rather bicause of youre ripe iudgement and perfect knowledge in the French tongue the which as it is well knowen to be vncomparable so are the rest of your most godly vertues wherewith nature hath endued you as a worthie and graue counseller to this honorable Citie of London Receyue therefore I besech you this my rude translation and it accepting in good part excuse my rash enterpise esteeming it as a zeale of my good will the which moste worthilye vnto your worship I haue directed Your daily Orator Iohn Alday To the Right Excellent and Reuerende Lord and Prelate my Lord Iames of Betoun Archbishop of Glasco and Ambassador of Scotland Peter Boaystuau wisheth health and perpetuall obedience MY good Lorde certaine auncient Philosophers haue made maruellous complaints against the ingratitude and misknowledge of man for that he neuer entreth into his owne conscience and considereth not his owne proper nature althoughe that his industrie and prouidence be so great that it spreadeth all abrode In such sort that neyther the compasse and largenesse of the Earth the violence nor deepenesse of the Seas neyther the amplitude and spreading of the Ayre neyther the burning heate nor distance of the Sunne neyther yet the course or reuolutiō aswell of y e Clouds as of the Firmamēt can retaine or hinder the celerity of his Spirit but that he will séeke know the nature resort of al y ● is contained in the vniuersal world The furie and rage of y ● wilde beasts he tameth and maistereth and he only remaineth without bridell or snaffle by his diligence and promptnesse of wit he hath described the properties of herbes and plants the secret vertues of stones with the calcionating of mettels And notwithstanding man is so masked and disguised that he knoweth not himselfe He is the Heraulde beginner and foreshewer of things contayned in the circute of this worlde and yet he is blinde and dumbe in his owne doings He foreséeth and discouereth the nature and propertie of the Elementes he reformeth ordeyneth compasseth and weyeth that which is séene vnder the concauits of the Skies And neuerthelesse man in himselfe is as one confoūded and ouercome In consideration wherof my good Lord I haue vnto him addressed this Rule by the which he may contemplate and aduise without being drawen beside him selfe his infirmitie and miserie to the ende that making an anotamie or foreshewing of all the partes of his life he be the sooner moued to detest abhorre his vile and corrupt liuing And if we would be equitable Iudges of humaine actions what is this worlde anye other than a Rule circle or compasse where as some play the handicraftes men of base condicion others represent Kings Dukes Earles Marquesses Knights Barons and others constituted in dignities and notwithstanding assoone as they haue layde downe their maskings and disguisings and that death cōmeth which maketh an ende of this bloudie Tragedie then they knowe themselues to be all men and wretched sinners and then the Lorde God which is in heauen laugheth at their foolish enterprises and vanities as witnesseth y e Prophet Dauid yea with such a dreadfull laughter that he maketh vs quake for feare and the earth to shake Man then in my iudgement is subiect to an infinit number of miseries and calamities in the which he is wrapped in from his birth euen to his graue wherefore séeing this pitiful Metamorphose also his excellēt

his pollicies The Atheniensies murmured at their Simonidus for y t he spake too hie y e Thebiās accused Paniculus for that he would spit oftentimes the Lacedemonians noted their Ligurges for that he went alwayes holding downe of hys head the Romanes founde a great vice in Scipion for that in sléeping he snorted too loude the Vticences defamed the good Cato in his eating they founde Pompeius vnciuile for that he woulde scratch with one finger onely the Carthagians blamed Hannibal for that he was alwayes vnlaced and open before his stomacke others murmured at Iulius Cesar for that he caried the girdell of euil grace And yet this is but little in comparison of other good men that this people or common sort haue persecuted banished and in the ende put to death in satisfaction of their good seruices that they had done in the common welth If that greate Orator Demosthenes were aliue he could say somewhat who after that he had bene so iust and faithfull a protector of his common wealth of Athens was in the ende vniustlye banished as though he had committed some notable crime Socrates was also poysoned Hannibal was so yll treated of his that he was constrained to wander miserably in the world The Romanes did the like to Camilus the Gréekes to Ligurges and Solon the one of them was stoned and the other hauing y e eye pulled out was banished like a murtherer Moyses and many other holy men haue so manye times tasted the furie of the people that if they were this day liuing they would poure out maruellous complaintes against them And as we haue shewed and set forth the defauts and miseries that procede of the peoples parte so must we in like case put into the balance the errors and corruptions that is found in wicked Iudges of the which sorte some to be short are corrupted by feare for the feare that they haue to displease a Prince or a great Lord they violate iustice and are as Pilate that cōdemned Christ to death for feare that he had to displease the Emperor Tiberius Cesar other magistrates are corrupted by loue as was Herod the Tetrarch who for to please by foolishe loue the Damsell that daunced condemned to death S. Iohn Baptist although that he knewe he was iust and innocent Some are many times corrupted by hatred as was the chiefe Priest who of malice condemned S. Paul to be smitten and stoned thoughe he deserued it not Sometimes the Magistrates are corrupted by golde and siluer and other giftes and presentes as were the children of the Prophete and great Prieste Samuel and this disease is so contagious that at this day it is commō among many They all loue sayth the Prophet presents they all séeke for gifts they do not right to the orphelin and the widdowes complaint commeth not before them and in another place woe be to you that are corrupted by mony and by prayers by hatred or loue and that iudgeth the good to be euill and the euill to be good making of light darknesse and of darkenesse light woe be to you that haue not respect to the merits of things but to the merits of men that regardeth not equitie but gifts that are giuē that regardeth not iustice bnt monye which regard not that which reason ordeineth but only to the affection whereas youre desiers doth guide you you are diligent in riche mens causes but you defer the cause of the poore you are to them cruell and rigorous but to the riche louing and tractable Thē Wisdome following the like matter sayeth the poore crieth and no man giueth eare but one will aske what he is the riche man speaketh and all the world pleadeth his cause and lifteth vp his wordes with admiration euē to y e skie yet this is not enough for when that they are in the degrée of honor they haue another worme that gnaweth them they do with their childrē as the mother of Zebede saide Lord graunt that my childrē may sit the one on thy right hand the other on thy lefte hand in thy kingdome after them they aduaunce their children in their dignities being sometimes ignorant and foolish Then the Prophet Ieremie sayth they are magnified and become riche they are become fat they haue lefte the orphelin and haue not done iustice for the poore shall not I therefore punishe such things sayeth the Lorde God and and my soule take vengeance on suche maner of people Heare also the sentēce that sainct Iames pronounceth against them at the day of iudgement you haue condemned and killed the iust you haue liued in wantonnesse in this worlde taken your ease you haue satisfied youre hearts now therfore sayeth the Lorde of hosts wéepe and howle in your wretchednesse that shal come vpon you your garmentes are Moth eaten your golde and your siluer is cankred and the ruste therof shalbe a witnesse against you and you shall eate your fleshe as it were fier for the complainte of widdowes is ascended vp to my throne These are the complaintes that the Prophets and the Apostles made against worldly Iudges here are the Censures that our good God hath thundered against them There resteth now nothing more but to know what is done in Matrimonie séeing that we haue sought out in generall the miseries of all the estates of the world There is nothing more certaine if we will weye in our mindes the originall of Matrimonie excellent and well accomplished on both partes as Plato did his Commō weale Cicero his Orator S. Augustine in his Citie of God There is nothing in the worlde whiche may compare in pleasures to mariage ▪ be it true the fortune aswell prosperous as aduerse is common and that more is there is so great Communaltie of bodie and vnxion of spirites that they séeme two transformed into one And if the pleasures séeme to vs greate to confer our affaires and secrets with our friendes and neighbors how much is the delectation more greater that we receiue to discouer our thoughtes to hir that is ioyned to vs by such a place of charitie that we put our truste in hir as in oure selues making hir wholy treasurer or faithfull kéeper of many inwarde secretes and cogitations of our soule But what may be more greater witnesse of feruent loue than to forsake Father Mother Sisters and Brothers and generally all the Consanguinitie till they become enimie of themselues for to follow a husband that doeth honor and reuerence hir and hauing all other things in disdaine she only cleaueth to him if he be riche she kéepeth his goods if he be poore she employeth all the Arte that nature hath giuen hir for to compare with him in his pouertie if he be in prosperitie his felicitie is redoubled in hir she séeing hir selfe partaker of his benefits if he be in aduersitie she beareth but the one halfe of the griefe and furthermore counterfeiteth him assisteth and serueth him If a man wyll