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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

to the honour dignitie of the citie but the thyng was of such sorte that it myght not be publyshed and declared before them all Here y e people agreed that he shulde disclose it to Aristides and yf he alowed it they all wolde alowe it Nowe whenne Chemistocles had declared vnto Aristides that he thoughte of burnyng the place where the Grekes shyppes stode for so shuld it come to passe that the Athenienses shulde be rulers and lordes ouer all Grece Aristides commynge forth to the people sayde Undoubtedly nothynge is more profitable then the coūsayle of Chemistocles but agayn nothynge is more vnhonest then the same Whiche voyce when the people harde they forbad Chemistocles to make any mo wordes herof Assuredly here the citizens of Athens for in them then was the gouernaunce of the same shewed them selfes to be of a wonderfull noble courage in that they abandoned and vtterly refused profite ioyned with disworshvp and therwithall declared also howe great the authoritie of renowmed vertue is in that they doubted not to commytte the fortune of the hole comen weale to the iugement of one man Aristides was choson on a tyme to be tresaurour of the citie which office when he hadde executed very purely and vncorruptly yet he was accused of Themistocles and condemned of extorcion But through fauour of the most worshypfull and honest citezens he was not onely released of the amer ciament which was assesed vpon him but was appoynted also agayn to the same office Whiche by simulation euen for the nones he so administred that omyttynge his former seueritie and rowghnes he showed hym selfe gentle and facyle to such as loued to waxe ryche with the detryment of the comon wealth By whose laboure it came to passe that the people y e thyrde tyme with high fauours assigned eft sones the same office to Aristides Then spake he and sayd For the well executyng of myne office ye condemned me and now bycause contrarie to equite I haue graunted many thynges to the spoylers of the citye ye haue iudged me worthy of honour Certes this man knew by what meanes he myghte growe in fauour with the people saue y t he had rather be ryghtu ouse then gloriouse When Aristides beynge wrongful ly condemned to dye was ledde to exe cution one of his enmyes spat on his face He dyd nothyng elles but wyped his face and smilyng sayd to the officer that wente with hym Admonishe this person that hereafter he gape not so vnmanetly Pericles PEricles the Atheniense to his frend requyrynge hym to beare false witnesse for hym wherunto was knytte an othe that is to saye a perturye aunswered he wolde be his frende but vnto the aultre Signifieng that so farre forth a man may do pleasure to his frende as he go not beyonde the boundes of religion and honestye When the eclyps of the sonne sodeynly chaūced Pericles seyng other very many but in especyall the gouer nour of the nauie dismaid and sore astomed therat with his cloke couered the gouernours face and asked hym whyther he thought this to be a straūge token when he answered no. what differēce then is there ꝙ he saue that the thynge that nowe causeth this dat kenesse is greatter then my clooke Meanynge full prudently that by the comynge betwene of the moone the sonne is hydde frome vs euen as the clooke beynge caste betwene letted the other mens syghte and that the thynge whiche naturally is done is no straunge token or suche monstruouse thynge as men shuld feare Diogenes DIogenes a philosopher of the secte of Cynickes vnto one whiche counsayled hym that nowe in his age he shulde repose hym selfe and cease from labour aunswered If I ranne in a runnynge place for the maystrie shulde I when I were now nere the gowle flacke my runnynge or rather increase it Rightly he iudged that the studye of vertue the nerer one draweth to his ende is so moch the more to be inforced and hasted bycause it is a greatte shame then to ware faynt and colde from an honeste purpose He dysalowed the madnes of men that wolde bye and sell thynges precyouse for least and agayne the vilest thynges for moost For an ymage or picture he sayde whiche was a very vile thynge was solde for moche money where as a busshel of meale whiche was a ryght precyouse thyng was bowght for very litle money The ymage is nothyng necessarye to mans lyfe but without meale we can not lyue Wherfore ꝙ he it were more conuenient that meale were moche derer thē ymages or pyctures The philoso pher estemed the pryses of thynges by theyr naturall vse where as the people estemeth them by folyshe persuasyon Alexāder the great on a tyme came to Diogenes to se hym and thus he spake vnto hym I am come o Diogenes to helpe the bycause I se thou lackest many thynges To whom Dio genes made answere Whether of vs two is more nedye I which besyde my scryppe and clooke desyre nothyng or thou whiche not contented with thyn owne realme that thy father lefte the casteste thy selfe in to so many hasardes to get the a larger dominion in so moche that the hole worlde semethe skase ynough for thy insacyable coue tyse The superstytion of men that were feared with dreames he thus mocked The thynges ꝙ he that ye do waking ye nothinge regarde but the thynges that slepynge ye dreame ye carefully and busyly serche out A certayne rych man vnlerned but royally cladde he called a shepe with a golden fleese When Diogenes sawe the officers lede one taken for stelynge a cuppe out of the treasorie Lo ꝙ he the great theues leade the lyttell thefe Wolde god this coulde not be truely spoken vpon some christen officers by whom otherwyles he is broughte to the galowes whiche haue stolen the value of twenty pens where they waxe riche with great theftes or pyllages rather and extortions without punishment What tyme Philyp kynge of the Macedonians hadde an armye lyeng at Cheronia Diogenes came thither anone he was takē of the sowldiours brought to the kyng which as sone as he sawe Diogenes who was vnknowen vnto hym cryed out angerly a spye a spye To whome Diogenes forthwith aunswered In dede Phylyp I am a spye for I am come hyther to espye thy madnes whiche not beyng cōtented w t the realme of Macedonie by thy incrochynge of other mens realmes puttest thy selfe in daunger to lose both thyn own kynge dome also thy lyfe The kyng wonderynge at the mans franke speche boulde language commaunded he shulde escape without any hurte to be done vnto hym He said loue is the busynes of ydell personnes forasmoche as this affection cōmonly assayleth those that be giuen to ydelnes and ease So it cōmeth to passe that whyles they loyter in ydelnesse they falle in to a thynge mooste full of busynes and yet in the meane season they do no good thynge at all He sayde good men be the ymages of god For