present and eternall glory FINIS PAge 41. line 1. read he walloweth P. 46. read Apharantes P. 65 read Mycerninus P. 86. li. 5. read Pulcheria P. 87. li. 20. read infortunio P. 88. l. 1. dele not P. 90. li. 12. Villegisus so in the margent 118. li. 15. read King 132. li. 12. read dry 145. line 2. read auidissima Eccle. 2 25 ConscientiaÌ„ malaÌ„ laudaÌ„tis preconiuÌ„ non sandt nec bonam vulne rat conuitiuÌ„ Aug. contra petil Your Lordshipp shall finde them anciently diuided into Regra satrapicia ciuilis priuata of which the second which is the Lordly House fitteth your Honour Iul. Capitolinus Auenti lib. 1. annal Bocor Plutarch Luke 1 63 Victor de persecv vaÌ„d lib 2. Swearers drunkardes are no more tollerable in a family theÌ„ Arrians in a Church Being a straÌ„ ger in Midhurst in August this yeare 1609 I hearde by one whome I beleeue that at Cowdrey were fed daily relieued wel neere 200. of all sortes Lady MouÌ„tacute daughter of the late fia of Dorset Aunt to the now Earle Procop. de bell Goth. lib 2. Vxorem euntem adsacra christianorum stercoribus proâ—ectis defoedari curauit verberibus cam immanitur tractauâ—â—t Herod lib. 6 They were Thracians called Dolonci They shall be Barons of Dacres in the right of their Mother Psalme 23. Gilbertus de Aquila was the Lorde of Laughton Sir Nicholas Pelham Sir William Pelham Sir Iohn Pelham M. William Morley of Gliude M. Henrie Carey son and heire to the Lorde Hunsdon Coelius Erasmus M. T. P. Mistris Blount was daughter to the Lorde La-ware M. W. B. Luke 10 5. Aug. ser de ehrlet caueÌ„d Hom. 1. Cap. 5 v. vlt a Ioh. 11. 25 b Act. 17. 28 Psal 49 20. Acts 8 20. Iudg. 17 30 c Psal 14. 3. 2. Sam. 23. Ecc. 7. 30 1 Reg. 10 27. Heb. 20. 22 Mat. 10 16 Dan. 12. 3. Psa 107. 43 De gentib scriptor Prou. 9 4. Eccl. 12 13 Gen. 25 32 33. Doctor Babington L. Byshop of Worcester vppon Exodus Beda Luk. 12 20 Mat. 15 23 Herod lib. 4 Stobaeus ser 42. vocat eas Apharants Sab. lib. 4. cap. 9. Gel. lib. 6. cap. 11. Herod lib. 4 Herod lib. 1 Erasmus Eustathius super odyss Plutarchus Suidas Gilbert li. 1 Narrac IdeÌ„ lib. eod Mat. 6 33. 〈…〉 Esay 30. 1 Heb. 9 28 Prou. 1 22. Prou. 9 12. Psal 2 10. Prou. 8 10. Mat. 18 10 Deut 6 7. Deut 17 4. 〈◊〉 58 2. Pet. 3 15. Luke 2. 8. * Centur x. In his Chappell where none came but the Emperor himself he caused to bee written Villegese prioris fortunae esto memor qui nunc ses considera Centur. 11. 1 cor 14 31 Eccl. 9 11. Esay 8 21. Iudg. 15. Dan. 10 8 Reuel 1 17 Luke 14. Exod. 23 4 1. Tim. 5 8 Gen. 41. 1. Tim. 3. 4. Pro. 31 13 Psal 127. 2. Luke 12. Cant. 2 5. Gen. 8 22 Alex. ab Alex. Psal 50 13 Psa 145 15 Act. 20 35. 2 Tim. 6 17 Iames 5 3. Luke 12 15 Micah 6 8. Luke 12 20 Ideo rogans diues non exauditur in tormentis quia rogantem pauparem non exaudiuit in terris Aug. De consul lib. 2. Pet. Rauisi Lonicerus Valer. lib. 3 Tuscul In. Prou. De cond huma Plutarch Plutarch Nicetas Prou. 22 2 Psal 137. Neh. 1 4. Aug. ad Nectar Isaiah 37. Iero. lib 4. com Ranulphus Polychr Ephe. 5 25 Ambr. Psal 128 3 Mowing Apes Digging Pigges Gen. 27 43 Gen. 24. 2. Reg. 5 3 Iustine Pro 23 2. Gen. 42. 43 Iud. 19 16 and 20. Heb. 13 12 Gen. 18 19 Gen. 21 19 Luke 10. Leaud descr Italiae Cran. lib. 4. Iob. 31 32. Genesis 2 6 Exod. 2. In Abdiam
THE House-holder OR Perfect MAN Preached in three Sermons lately by ED TOPSELL preacher at Saint Buttolphs without Aldersgate Prou. 27 23 c. Be diligent to know the estate of thy Flock and take heed to thy heards c. The Contents follow in the next leafe Printed for Henry Rockyt and are to be sold at his shop in the Poultry vnder the Diall 1610. ⧠Contentes of the first Sermon 1 DIfferences of men because few be good 2. A perfect man described by the text 3. Wisedome needefull for all especially for the teacher of other 4. The way to attaine it 5 Neglecters of the meanes reprooued 6. multitude of fooles and a remedy for them 7. All wants sensible except the want of true Wisedome 8. odiousnesse of spirituall folly by Doctrine 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. And by comparatiue examples 19 20. Exhortation to wisedom and dehortation from folly Contents of the second Sermon 1 THE subiect of priuate wisedome 2. Diligence described 3. The necessity thereof 4. The diligent shall beare rule 5. And is rewarded 6. The praise of diligence 7. Dispraise of negligence and sloth 8. Commodities of diligence amplified in mo rewards 9. As Nobility and acquisition of honour 10. comfort to the diligent and good presidents to other 11 Discommodities of negligence 12 Education to labour desert of hire necessary for al men Contents of the third Sermon 1 THE generall charge of Householders praise of knowledge 2. Euery man shold know his owne estate and affaires 3. And not onely belieue other 4. Comparison of Faith Knowledge 5. Dignity of knowledge especially Diuine 6. Ignorance cause of many euils 7. Who and what must bee knowne in Oeconomicks 8. God and reason commaundeth it 9. Honour of Household prouision and cares 10. Yet with predominancy of spirituall things 11. The Householders Store-house necessary 12. This store must be giuen forth commaunded by God 13. By Nature 14. By Men. 15. Exemplified in Beasts and Creatures 16. 17. yet so that we leaue rather then lacke 18. It must be spent on our Countrey 19. 20. 21. 22. And on Wiues Children Seruants and Strangers To the Right Honourable and right worthy young Plants of Nobility highly borne Diuinely educated and happily married the Lord RICHARD SACKVILL Earle of Dorset Baron of Buckhurst and the Lady ANNE his beloued wife sole Daughter and heire to the renowned Lord GEORGE late Earle of CVMBERLAND and the truly Religious Lady MARGARET Countesse Dowager of CVMBERLAND Great LORD and LADY IT were vaine to excuse this enterprize your goodnesse will not refuse it it were folly to commend it your wisdomes might iustly explode it I will not say I contriued and compiled it for your sakes so shoulde I seeme to begge your thanks and depriue my selfe of a vniuersall benefite for wee that labour in the Church must not bee personall Yet I will say that I would not divulge it to the world but vnder the honor of your names And if it could adde either Goodnesse or greatnesse to your Honours as I hope Almighty God in time will both I would euery line had beene a leafe and euery page a volume till both your soules and selues could say with Salomon who could eate or hast to these things more then we You are nowe become other then you were and the graces of your Noble Natures and education begin to appeare to the view of all that will beholde you for your great places haue mounted you on the highest seates whereby you cannot bee secret though you woulde for you may not discend that Theater of Honor till you dye Principibus regnare est viuere non regnare est mori Princes Rulers their life is to be eminent and when they cease to be eminent they dye and cease to liue VVherefore you see without my Narration the good and euil in great personages will disclose it selfe so as all the enemies shall not staine their Vertues which will breake forth like the Sunne in his heighth and heate nor all the flatterers with their seuerall false colours and false praises so enammell and gilte ouer their vices but they will discouer themselues and if they would not yet an euill conscience is not cured with false praises nor a good one wounded by vniust reproaches Your Hon are greatly blessed by Almighty God I am assured you will as you ought euer acknowledge his goodnesse and greatnesse the Author of yours For you haue not forsaken your Fathers houses with Abraham Iacob and other but you are both heires of your Fathers houses and in their houses to your mutuall glory your coniunction hath increased their honour for you acquired And that which hapneth to fewe is fallen vpon you euen in your first and yonger yeares to be rich and good God graunt it to continue and without blemish to the Noble Stemmes from which you are descended I will not cease to pray that you may bee glad Parentes of many children like your selues and you and your Posterity be greater and better then they if it bee Gods good will and pleasure The first thing wherein your Hon must now shew your selues to the worlde is your Houshold gouernment Houshold Gouernment I say the Parent first beginner of Common-wealthes the Seminary of Kingdoms Counsels the discerner of naturall wisedome the Architect of honour and Disciplinarie schoole of a wise vertuous and happy life from which Almighty God setcheth his Byshops The Romaines and best common-wealth-men fetched their Consuls Tribunes and many times Kings haue beene chosen out of this ranke The wise Salomon is an Authour of this gouernment as you may reade in the succeeding discourse Antoninus was made an Emperor out of this sight proofe and hope who is commended for taking away all wages from the ydle and leauing nothing to his Daughter but his priuat Patrimony Hermion the fift King of Germanie who liued after the floud foure hundred and eleuen yeares much about Abrahams time is likewise remembred for his oeconomy VVhē he went abroad to fight he gaue diligent order for his Husbandry at home I could speake of Eberhard a Duke of VVittenberge for this cause honoured like a God Of Galeacius of Columella and of Cato the wise who wrote heereof and is commended for this saying Non deterior domus rector quam ciuitatis A Housholder is not inferiour to the Gouernour of a Citty and he that is not wise in Domesticall matters shall neuer bee trusted in the Common-wealth For these causes when I came vnto Hartfield after seauenteen years absence the first Pulpit that euer I ascended and the first place of my Ministerial function I chose to speake heereof how and with what successe your Hon haue hearde and I am not now bound to make relation thereof or trouble my selfe against rash ydle false and at the best ignorant censures yet as euill Lawes gaue occasion to good manners sinnes
him for the Prince and restorer of their Country who did first of all inuite them to his house after their departure out of the Temple vvho passing by this Miltiades and hee by their apparrel knew them to be strangers hee called to them and offered them entertainment in his house which they accepted and the next day they shewed him the Oracle and intreated him to go with them possesse their Countries principality which thing hee did and happily enioyed many yeares the reward of his hospitality Euen so the Diuine Oracles I know haue prouided for you your posterity in Testimony that almighty God loueth Hospitality more honour on earth and an incorruptible kingdome in Heauen Maister PELHAM WHo may in all your Country say better then you My shepheard is the Lorde his rod his staffe comfort me My head he hath annointed with Oyle and my Cup doth ouerflow My table is decked in the presence of my foes I dwell by greene Pastures and stil waters You are seated in the Eagles nest it is a regal Bird you if I be not deceiued are descended of that race Royall thinges do therefore become you Good Sir let me not slatter you the fame and name of your Antecessours haue long sounded in those partes Honour of Armes commended your Father and Vncle Loue of his Countrey your Brother Hospitality in peace hath bin your honour I trust you haue not nor will not giue ouer to feed Your Patrimony hath beene by your thrift augmented and there is no cause why your mind should not euer tast of her prime and most honoured graces mercy liberality and hospitality These things brought me first vnto you And I confesse as I had heard so I foūd neither want nor wast neither an euil eye nor a sparing hand and in that time of your greatest expence on your poore Countreymen you increased most in fame and wealth I cannot forget that note of a neighbour of yours the woorthiest learnedst iustest most ingeniously affable Gentleman that euer I knew in all my courses to whose noble memory Iowe a better Sacrifice then now I giue that your house hande were open whē your mouth was shut and other men had their mouths open when their houses and handes were shut You haue ennobled your family by honorable alliance in marriage I need not commend him he honoureth your family and none that knoweth him but honoureth him beeing a louer of the meanes of Honour Learning and Armes without which no man is Noble or woorthy of Honour It is the basest and vnworthiest mark of a Gentleman to care for nothing nor to dignifie his house but by purchases gallant Sutes Rapiers and Spurs gaming and playing scores and hundreds and neuer to doe any part of Honour whereof he boasleth A man may say vnto them as Herodes Atticus did to Bradeas his Wiues Brother when hee had praised his race and descent and yet beeing vnwoorthy himselfe Tu equidem in astragalis nobilitatem gestas They haue no Honour but in olde bones I will pray that your Sonne may Patrizare and that if Heauen resist not you may liue to see him most happie for you will make him Rich. And I will end as Stratonicus sayde of his Hoast vvho receyued him kindly and welcommed him most heartily although he knew him not and after him two or three in the same curteous maner Discedamus ò puer nam inuenimus pro columba palumbum pro hospite pandocheum Let vs bee gone and depart for insteade of a Doue we haue founde a Ring-Doue and where we thought to find a speciall fauour to bee receiued alone wee finde a House-keeper that entertaineth all Maister BLOVNT YOu are my latest acquaintance therefore with you I must conclude not as the least but as the vpper most in my hart and if I would praise you for houskeeping you might giue me leaue to say as much of you as of the residue and in your proportion equall to the best For with the Centurion you haue euer loued our Nation I meane the Preaohers vnto your commendation do al the Prophets and Children of the Prophets giue Testimony You and your nobly borne minded wife neuer refused him that came vnto you in the name of a Prophet Wherefore faint not but expect a Prophets reward a prophets rewarde what is that Nothing in earth but an empty Cup Heathy and Barren Land God forbidde so the world rewardeth vs and woulde admit vs but one foote before the Begger viz. we must stand in the Porch the begger without the doore but a Prophets reward is to be partaker of all the good labors of the Prophets For the louers of goodnesse are respected before God with the Preachers But especially the reward of the olde Prophets was the assured performāce of al that they had foretolde of Iesus Christ and thereof they are not now ashamed no more nor no lesse is the assurāce of those things which you belieue hope for they that trust in the Lord shal not be ashamed These lines I mean the succeeding Booke were written in Dedsham house how vnthankful should they be if they did not leaue a long lasting Monnument vpon that Housholder vnder whose roofe they had their first being in letters Beleeue me Sir I was neuer better pleased nor had more cause of cōtent then in your house Where besides Leuies large feast we had Christ at the table euery day I meane the holy scriptures we wanted nothing fit for Christians or fitting vs for heauē only the prime part of your family your owne worthy selfe was absent the hope of your name your son Oh that you had more of such hope so you had more inheritances for thē and for the residue of your hapy issue you are blessed in them al they for a father a mother are as happy as euer were any of their bloud yet by father mother nobly discended Now must I your latest Oratour and as it were a child of yesterday blesse you all in the name of al my brethren the Prophets your ancient wel respected ghests to whō with the Sumanite you haue giuē lodging and light with the Sarepthian widdow Oile Meal with Lazarus Mary and Martha meate drink entertainment obediēce with Onesiphorus sought them out being not ashamed of their chains So as Candala Q. of Panonia neece to Lewis the 12. of France said to the Venetians for her royall entertainmēt that she neuer knew her selfe to be Queene til she came to their teritory so may the Preachers say they know not themselues to bee Christes Ministers til they come to your house The Lorde shewe mercy to this house and the peace of Christ which the Apostles preached and the sonne of peace rest in it to the worlds end So be it FInally vnto al other Noble worthy Worshipfull Housholders
as vrge his example I meane our Theologicall fooles Fooles in Diuinity who like the Iewes to whome Caiaphas prophesied vnderstand nothing and like the rabble in the Actes know not wherfore they are come together no not in their very Sacred and holiest assemblies I tell you the hoast of these Fooles are so great that one wise man cannot direct them and you had neede to pray that as the generation of Fooles are in Diuine matters many so the seed of the righteous to conduct might also be many There want labourers in this haruest O Lord send them foorth to turne the disobedient to the vvisedome of the iust They haue a storie in Denmarke that one Craca a Queene of that Countrey hauing three sonnes whome in her naturall affection she much loued and desired to promote and especially one amongst the rest named Ericus She being giuen to Magicke made by the confection of three Serpents a strange messe of Broth whereof none of her sonnes would tast saue onely this Ericus who eating thereof his Mother procured him the Kingdom and he was afterward called Ericus disertus that is Ericus the Wise We cannot I cannot make any such confection for you there are many sicke for this broth but what need we go to the Deuill for a Medicine to procure Wisedome There is Balme in Gilead there is a Physitian in Israel there is a Prophet in Iudah there are meanes sufficient in the Lords holy word or else Salomon would neuer haue saide Let him that is simple destitute of vnderstanding come and eate of my meate and drinke of my Wine that I haue drawne Euery man is become so wise in the Lords matters that he can teach others but when death and danger commeth vpon him euen then his resolution like Ice and Snow melteth away and hee is then to seeke of his soules estate Alas must fooles become teachers of the wise Or guides of as very Ingrams as themselues Or shall the horse teach the rider The Oxe the Husband-man to Plough Or the Sowe the good wife to spinne No verily this is exorbitant euen so is it for Masters and Parents and aged Persons who wil be guiding their Seruants Children or youngers yet haue neuer learned Salomons conclusion and end of all thinges Feare God and keepe his Commaundement for that shall bring a man peace at the last 7 Thus haue I discourced of Wisedom and the benefits thereof whereunto I will adde but this one complaint that all wants and defects bee sensible and their presence dolefull to them that feele them onely the want of heauenly wisedome is not perceiued is not lamented If a mans Land or possession or leafe bee in any danger presently he repaireth to a Lawier to declare his case either of offence or defence to secure his owne worthily for wherefore was Law made Or how shall Iustice be honoured except the estates of men in the differences and controuersies of the world may bee thereby established If the bodie bee any waies heauy or distempered we instantly post for a Physitian to the end that Maladies preuented in time may more easily be auoided and health preserued and we doe wel herein for God hath not made vs for sicknes but for health and he which placed vs in a Paradice did signifie thereby that wee coulde not brook a Desart what Paradice haue wee now left except our health Or what Desart is so intollerable as sicknesse Wherein many are forsaken of their friends and forget their dearest selfe Nay if our Horse or Oxe be but a little ill and forsake their meate wee send for a Leach to the end that it may bee holpen but if our soule sicke of sinne and folly forsake the wholesome food thereof tarry at home forbeare the church and Sermons despise grace and Heauenly wisedome we are so wise in our owne conceites that feeling no smart or paine we care not to be cured but like mad men breake our bandes and set light by our best Phisitians ô therefore I pray God open our eyes that our souls be not in worse case then our Oxen and Asses they fall and are sicke and find some to helpe them vp and ease them we fall and are sicke and finde none to helpe vs vp but like wanton Children wee lie still and cry against them that would relieue vs. This is folly this is an euill to be abandoned and whosoeuer is but a meane Christian as he blesseth the hande that feedeth him with bread so let him blesse the hand that feedeth him with knowledge 8 But for the more detestation of spirituall folly giue mee leaue to argue against it and disproue it to your consciences that this rusticke sottishnesse and soliditie or foolish simplicity in Diuine affaires which concerne the soule may bee abandoned for surely such an one is Salomons foole and if our Sauiour Christ say that he is daunger of Hell fire which saith thou foole how much more is he worthy and likely to go to hell that is a foole then he that calleth a foole For certainly if the wrong to bee so tearmed when one is not be so inexpiable as that it holdeth the slaunderer in daunger of eternall torment what is not he worthy of that maketh himselfe so It is but the action on of the case to be so named but to be so is reall and therefore suffereth yeeldeth greater damage Hearken therefore vnto me and I will set before you a rowe of fooles recorded in assured stories whom euery man in the Letter derideth and loueth in the figure that is misliketh and scorneth this folly in other but loueth in himselfe 9 Who is more odious in scripture then Esau who to satisfie his present hunger after his hunting pleasure sold his owne Birth-right for a messe of pottage this shall be our first foole whom all know and none pitty for if an action demonstrate a foole surely hee deserueth one of the first places This man God hated euen for this action and who dare loue him there was neuer yet any that shewed him any pitty no not his Father nor Rebecca his Mother and him therefore do all other hate But tell me why is hee alone thus hated for selling an earthly Patrimony for so small a price When as there bee many moe among vs which sell Heauen for lesse So do al the prophane impatient of pouerty willing to giue themselues to the Diuel for riches and not onely out of any want as Esau had but out of pride that being Seruingmen Yeomen they might bee Gentlemen of Gentlemen they might bee Knightes of Knights they might be Lordes of Lords they might be Kings out of ambitious thoghts they are transported beyond those wayes which the Angelles watch whereby they take the Diuell at his word and for lesse then the worlde which the Sonne of God refused they fall down and worship him no want or hunger or paine causing them but onely licentious
diligence procureth aboundaunce in time of want and fauour in time of iudgement who can sufficiently expresse or admire her praises which maketh men so praise-worthy both in Court and Countrey When all Iewry were asleepe at our Sauiours birth who had the warning and notice thereof from heauen euen the very same night but the Shepheardes that kept their flocke by night commended for nothing but for their diligence to them did the Angelles of Heauen bring tydings of the Byrth of Christ our Sauiour the sonne of Dauid Loe another Commendation of diligence and a greater cannot bee to heare the Angels speake the heauenly Souldiers sing and to see before all earthly men next to Ioseph and Mary the most blessed Babe that euer was Diligence is obserued by the heauenly powers and rewarded with the happy vision of Iesus Christ 7 Againe the continual brand of infamy and disgrace that is set vpon the negligent and sluggish is no meane praise of diligence and industry and therefore wheresoeuer wee read of a sluggard or ydle person euen in his greatnesse he is taxed for this Esau who hauing beene a hunting came home hungry to satisfie his present hunger solde his Birth-right in his negligence saith S. Austen Malebat emere quam quaerere cibum hee had rather set his Birth-right packing then tarry or go seeke meate at an easier rate whâ—rfore he is branded with the Title of very fewe Esau Ihate Claudius after he was Emperour grew so carelesse and sluggish that he minded nothing neither what he saide nor to whome nor among whom hee spake Ptolomy another carelesse King of Egipt would play at Chesse sitting in Iudgement vppon mens liues whereby many times wrong iudgment proceeded out of the Kinges negligence and the bloude of an Innocent was shed which all the kings of the world could not make to liue againe or giue a satisfaction Theodosius the younger was wont to subscribe to all Letters or grauntes that were brought vnto him to draw him from this carelesnesse his Sister Palcheria deuised an edict to be made whereby hee banished his wife whom hee loued most dearely And then she getting the writing againe after the Emperour had signed it brought it vnto him blamed him he denied it she produced it and the shame thereof made him more diligent euer afterward Thus by negligence are al other Vertues stained because diligence giueth grace to all Learne I beseech you to be diligent and not to breake off your diligence in any point and in all your actions ioyne labor and Prayer together Labour without Prayer is a presumption against God Prayer without Labour is a temptation of God Let Iudas Macchabeus witnesse this for me before al his batels he euer prayed except two one against Eupator and then hee was ouercome and lost the field the other against Alcimus and Bacchides and then he lost his life Although his praises were many for valour fighting yet his diligence had not bin so fortunate if he had not ioyned his Prayers to his sword Be faithfull and diligent in small thinges so shall God make you rulers ouer many he which is negligent in the smallest shal not be trusted with greater I cannot forget I will not conceale the worthy saying of Bernard Seruans doctrinam rarò accusabit fortunam diligentiam cum infortunia rarò sociabis pigritiam rarò separabis That is He which keepeth good Doctrine shall sildome accuse fortune You shall not seldome ioyne diligence misfortune togither you shall as sildom seperate misfortune and sluggishnesse and â—o I ende this second part of the praises of diligence 8 The third part I propounded to my selfe are the commodities of diligence which are many and therefore neither this place nor this time will not permit me to set downe either all or those fewe so largely which I wil heere describe First Almighty God allureth and draweth on men in all kind of life by and for the hope of reward and profit Noahs Arke Moses message to Pharaoh Dauids fighting against Goliah our Sauiour Christs passion our profession haue all their seuerall rewards and promises annexed to them so hath diligence for it cannot be that the same vertue which blesseth mankind with so many benefites but that also it should receiue many commodities for them First Salomon saith The diligent hand shall beare rule Verily there is none of vs all but still retaine both an Image of honour and an aspiring to Gouernement for God made not vs for seruile base slauery but to beare rule ouer the creatures of the world By diligence we haue already shewed how many Emperours and Kings haue beene aduanced from mean estate and now I will adde a fewe moe The Kings of Hungary were deriued from Lechus the second who was a Husbandman and by a deuine demonstration taken from the Plough to bee the Virgin-Queenes Husband in rememberance whereof he caused his wodden soles or shooes to be reserued in his Castle for all posteritie to remember how and in what sort he came first into the Court. All the worlde knoweth that the Byshoppricke of Metz is one of the greatest of Christendome the Byshop being a Soueraigne and a Prince Elector the seate which Princes and great Lordes haue sought after for their sonnes We read of one of their woorthiest Bishops called Villegesus who was but a Basket-makers sonne yet would hee haue the Badges of his Fathers occupation to remaine in his Pallace aswell to make other studious whereby they might come to honor as also to put him in minde of his meane descent 9 The Graecians saide Ponos eucleias Pater Labour was the Father of Honour for the blessing of God doth so follow it that many moe are made honourable by diligence then by Birth witnesse all the Romaines who raised their Commonwealth and stoode not vpon termes of blood although it be honourable some of them were fetched from the Plow some from other meane places then Vertues gaue Titles nowe Titles sell Vertues Cicero Fabius Quintius and other Witnesse these thinges When Demosthenes was asked how hee came to that excellent facility of speaking so as hee led his Auditory to what part he pleased being the glory of the Greekes and an honour to himselfe hee gaue this aunswere that by spending more Oyle then Wine hee came to that habit of perfect speaking Meaning that he was in his study writing and reading by his Lamp when other were at the Tauerne or in their banquettes eating and drinking soft beddes and much learning are hardly gotten together good cheere and painefull diligence are sildome matched together therefore as Lazarus his sorrowes went before his ioyes Diues his ioyes before his sorrowes so Humility and Labour go before honour and Honour abused and taken before the time is seconded with shame misery and peraduenture hell 10 Againe another commodity wee receiue by labour and diligence is the comfort of a good heart when we must sit