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A13399	The garden of wysdom wherin ye maye gather moste pleasaunt flowres, that is to say, proper wytty and quycke sayenges of princes, philosophers, and dyuers other sortes of men. Drawen forth of good authours, as well Grekes as Latyns, by Richard Tauerner.; Garden of wysdom. Book 1	Taverner, Richard, 1505?-1575.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. Apophthegmata.	1539 (1539)	STC 23711A; ESTC S111348	26,718	98

The garden of wysdom wherin ye maye gather moste pleasaunt flowres that is to say proper wytty and quycke sayenges of princes philosophers and dyuers other sortes of men Drawen forth of good authours as well Grekes as Latyns by Richard Tauerner 1539 Solde in Lomberdstrete at the signe of the Lamb by Iohn̄ Haruye ¶ Richarde Tauerner to the gentle readers YE haue here good readers a gardeyn or a paradyse rather of nette propre quicke and graue sayenges of renowmed persons in which to recreate your selfes it shalbe as I iudge no les profytable then pleasaunt vnto you I had purposed to haue made the boke moche longer but beynge otherwyse letted I was compelled to cloose vp my worke Howe be it yf I shall hereafter perceyue that ye haue any delyte and pleasure in this kynde of studyes I woll not stycke when I shall haue oportunitie to enlarge my garden and adde herevnto the second boke If not at lest ye haue a token significatiō of my good zele holly bent to do you such pleasur profyte as in my lyttell powre lyeth Fare you well At London the thyrde day of Apryll Anno. 1539. ¶ The garden of wysdome conteynyng wytty and plesaūt sayenges of kynges philosophers and dyuers sortes of men ¶ Agasicles AGasicles kynge of Lacedemon beyng demaūded by what meanes a prynce or ruler maye saufly rule withoute any garde of men to de fende his bodye Answered If the prynce so ruleth his subiettes as a father his chyldren What thynge coulde be spoken of a panym more ehrystianly Certes this sayenge to be true pueth thexperience at this day of the most excellent prince our soueraigne lord Kyng Henrie the eyght Lord god w t what inward ioy with what hartie loue reuerēce do al his liege subiettes imbrace the maiestie of his gracis person and not only his liege subiettes but also euen the very ranke traytours whiche intended nothyng elles but sedicion yet the incomparable maiestie of his owne person they coulde not but haue in wonderous reuerence Wherof shuld this come but by reasō that his grace beareth hym so benignely so gentilly so louyngly to all his subiettes that he may very well be called pater patriae the father of the countrye or to vse the terme of the prophete Esaye the noursynge father Do ye not thynke that this so excellent a prince so entier ly beloued of his subiettes yf it were not rather for feare of foreyn enmies then of his owne subiettes myghte ryde go whereso euer his hyghnes wolde without any garde ¶ Agesilaus AGesilaus that great kyng of the Lacedemonians when he was asked by what meanes a manne myghte attayne to haue an honeste name amonges men Aunswered If he speake that is beste and do that is most honeste What thynge coulde be spoken more briefly and agayn what more absolutely He was accustomed to say that the office of a capytayne is agaynst rebeiles to vse hardynes and agaynste his liege subiettes gentylnes When a certayne vnshame fast suter heng styll vpon hym crauyng and sayenge euermore vnto hym Syr ye haue promysed me ye haue promysed me In dede ꝙ the kyng I haue promysed the yf the thyng be lawful that thou askest but yf not I sayd it but I promysed the not With this propre answere he shoke of the malapettnes of the suter But when the felow wold not yet cease crauyng but aunswered agayne It becommeth kynges to per fourme what so euer they graūt euen with a becke of theyr hedde Neuer a whyt more ꝙ the kyng then it becom meth such as come to kynges to aske and speake that is lawfull One praysed a rhetoricien bycause he made tryûynge matiers and thynges of smal importaūce to seme weigh tie great matters I ꝙ Agesilaus wolde not iudge hym a good shoomaker whiche for a lyttell fote maketh a great payre of shoes Undoubtedly in speakyng the trouth is moste alowed and he speaketh beste whose tale is agreable to the matier Agesilaus was wont very often to warne his sowldiours that they torment not theyr prisoners as felōs but saue them as men Also for chyldren ta ken in the warres he prouyded that they shulde be brought togyther into one place to thintent that they perisshed not at the remouinge of the oost The same prouisyon and care he had for the decrepite very aged persons whiche were taken prysoners lest bycause they were not hable to folowe they myght be torne in pecis of dogges and wylde beastis And this humanitie gatte hym a wonderful beneuolence not onely of others but also euen of captiues and prysoners It is to be feared lest this Panym kynge shall ryse at the great day cōdemne a great nombre of christian prynces capitayns whiche spare neyther virgyn wydow suckyng infantes ne decrepit persōs but rauysh kyll all bren all more like Turkes then christians ¶ Agis AGis kynge of the Lacedemoniās was wont to saye that the Lacedemonians oughte not to aske how many the ennemies be but where they be Signifieng that the victorie hangeth not vpon the nombre of sowl diours but vppon theyr hardynesse courage readynes and celeritie in settynge vppon theyr ennemies I truste in lyke wise that Englyshemen when so euer the defence of our coūtrey shal call vs to warre against our enemies woll not cowardely aske howe many they be but lyke fyerse hardy champyons where be they that dare maynteyne any false quarell agaynste oure moste drad soueraigne lorde and his people in full a readines at a becke to runne whether so euer his maiestie shall commaunde When a certayne rhetoricien praysed his science of rhetoryke with hygh wordes sayeng that nothyng is more excellent then an eloquent oration Then ꝙ Agis when thou holdest thy peace thou arte nothynge worthe Meanyng that it is moche more excel lent gloriouse for a man to do worthy thynges then to haue a tonge ready and swyfte to talke of worthy thyn ges ¶ Lycurgus Lycurgus he that made lawes for the Lacedemoniās when he was very desyrous to brynge his coūtreymen from theyr corrupt and vicyouse maners vnto a more temperate fascion of liuyng brought vp u. whel pes of one kynde of whiche the one he suffered at home to eate deyntye meates the other he vsed to lede out in to the fyldes and to exercyse hym in hun rynge Afterwarde he brought theym bothe forthe into the Gyldhall before all the citizens and caused to be layde there certayne delycate meates also by them thornes and breres forthwith he put forth an hare So when eyther of the whelpes ran to that he was accustomed vnto the one ot the meate the other vpon the hare Se ye not o frendes ꝙ Lycurgus these two whelpes that where as they be of one kind yet bycause of theyr dyuers bryngyng vp they be now waxen and are becom farre vnlyke one an other and howe exercyse is of moche more strength vn to honesty then is nature Assuredly the

shall I dare go home agayne what shall I saye to my father Shewe thy father ꝙ themperour that I haue displeased the. Bicause the yong man was ashamed to cōfesse that themperoure was displeased w t hym he gaue hym leaue to turne the tale and lay ali the blame on hym When Augustus was now fourty and aboue Cinna a yong man of noble byrth and nephue to Pompey was appeached of hyghe treason y t he laye in a wayte with his complices to kylle the emperour It was tolde where when and howe they wolde haue executed theyr felonye For they purposed to haue murthered hym as he shulde haue sacryficed The sentence of condemnation was made ready but in the meane season while Augustus themperour ꝑplexly spake nowe this now that his wife Liuia cōming in seyng the case Do ꝙ she that the phisicians be wont to do which when y e accustomed remedies wol not helpe do assay the cōtraries With sharpe ex ecution thou hast hitherunto done no good forgiue Cinna now bewreyed can not hurt thy lief thy fame he may helpe Forthwith he sent for Cinna alone to come speake with hym when he was come he cōmaunded an other chayre to be set for him Cinna sayd y e emperour this fyrst I requyre of the that y u interruptest me not in my tale a tyme shalbe gyuen y e to speake Here when Augustus themperour had rehersed his manifold benefites towardes Cinna how he had saued his life when at his cōquest he was founde amonges his enmies how he had giuē him agayn al his enheritaūce patrimonie how moreouer he had promoted him to an highe rowine he demaū ded of hym why he purposed to haue slayne him Cinna beyng therw t sore troubled themperour thus ended his cōmunicatiō I giue the thy life Cinna agayn afore myn enmye now a cō spirour of my deth a traitour From this day let amitie begyn betwene vs let vs cōtende whether I more faythfully haue gyuen the thy life or thou dost owe it me And he offred hym the consulshyp of Rome Woll ye knowe the ende of this mater Cinna euet af ter loued Augustus best of al men he made hym his sole heire executour Neuer after that tyme any man conspired his death ¶ Phocion PHociō a noble cytizen of Athens was of suche constancie and per fection that he neuer was seen of any man eyther to lawghe or wepe When Demosthenes on a tyme sayd vnto hym The men of Athens o Pho cion wol surely kyll the yf they begyn ones to rage He answered in this wise In dede they woll kyll me if they begyn to rage but the they woll kyll yf they ones become sage and in theyr ryghte wyttes For Demosthenes spake for the moste parte to currye fauour of the people and his wordes were more sugered then salted more delectable then profytable Alexander the worthy conquerour demaunded of the Athens men certayn shyppes to be gyuen hym Forthwith they asked Phocion his aduyse and counsell in this behalfe Surely ꝙ Phocion my counsell is that eyther by force of armes ye vaynquyshe him or be the frendes of the vaynquysher Brefly he aduysed them to denye nothynge vnto Alexander vnlesse they trusted to withstande his malyce with force of armes ¶ Demosthenes DEmosthenes the renowmed oratour of Athens whenne he was spitefully rayled vpon of a certayne felowe Loo ꝙ he I am put in to a contention and stryfe in whiche he that is superiour is inferiour and he that ouercōmeth is ouercommen Undoutedly in knauerye he that hath the vpper hande declareth hym selfe the worste man A pore woman had receyued of two straungers money to kepe with this condicion that she shuld not deliuer it agayn to the one without the other One of them within a while after fay nynge his felowe to be dead came in mournynge clothes to the woman requyred the money She thinkynge his felowe to haue ben dead in dede deliuered it Forthwith commeth the other felowe and begynneth to sue the woman at the lawe She beynge now put in vttter despayre Demosthenes cōmeth to the barre and thus defendeth the womans cause agaynste the demaundant This woman good felowe is redy to deliuer the money that ye delyuered her to kepe but oneles thou brynge thy felowe she can not do it for as thou alledgest thy selfe this condition was agreed vpon betwene you that the money shulde not be rebayled to the one without the other By this witty answere he saued y e sely woman eluded the conspiracie of the fals harlottes whose purpose was to receyue the same money twyse Demosthenes on a tyme sayled to Corinthe where was Lais the fairest harlot then coūted of al women in the world He desyred to lye w t her a night But when she demaūded an excedyng great sōme of money for one nyghtes lodgynge he beynge therat astonyed chaunged his mynde sayenge I bye not repentaunce so dere Signifieng that after dishonest pleasures repentaunce foloweth at hande Dionisius DIonisius kynge of the Syracusans when he perceiued that his son whom he intended to leaue kyng after hym had defiled a citezens wyfe Beyng therwith sore angry asked his son whether cuer he founde anye suche thynge in his father Trouth ꝙ the yonge manne for thou haddeste not a kynge to thy father Neyther thou ꝙ Dionisius shalt haue a kynge to thy sonne onles thou leaue these pagiauntes When he perceyued that his mother wel striken in age coueted to marye agayne He sayd The lawes of a realme o mother maye be broken but the lawes of nature can not Signifienge it is ageynste nature an olde woman past chyld berynge to marye agayne A certayne straunger came to his courte and sayd he wolde secretly cōmon with Dionisius for he coulde shewe hym how he myghte knowe afore when any went about to conspire treason agaynst hym The kyng toke the man vnto hym and all the companye voided bad hym say on Now ꝙ the felowe gyue me syr kynge an hundreth pound that thou mayste be thought to haue lerned the feate of me He gaue the money and made as though he had lerned it meruaylyng at the mans subtyll deuyse For this faynynge was not a lytell profytable to feare his subgettes from conspyrynge his death Demaunded of a certayne persone whether he were ydle God forbyd ꝙ he that this thynge shuld euer chaūce vnto me Meanynge that it was a ryght fowle thynge for heddes and mi nisters of cōmon weales not to execute diligently theyr office But assuredly herin our moste drad soueraygn̄ lorde kynge Henry the eyght maye be a myrrour and spectacle to all prynces and other inferiour officers For who euer eyther more prudently or more vigilauntly hath gouerned a common weale When he harde that one of his sub gettes had hyd his gold in the groūd he commaunded it shulde be brought vnto hym But after that the man un beselyng a lytle porcyon of the golde went and dwelt in