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A09195	The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman. By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?; Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 90-1627, engraver.	1622 (1622)	STC 19502; ESTC S114333	134,242	209

in Poesie was most rich and his sweetnesse and facilitie in a verse vnimitably excellent as appeareth by that Master peece his Psalmes as farre beyond those of B. Rhenanus as the Stanza's of Petrarch the times of Skelton but deseruing more applause in my opinion if hee had fallen vpon another subiect for I say with one Mihi spiritus diuinus eiusmod● places quo scipsum ingessit a Patre illorū piget qui Dauid Psalmos suis calamistris inustos sperarant efficere plausibiliores And certaine in that boundlesse field of Poeticall inuention it cannot be auoided but something must be distorted beside the intent of the Diuine enditer His Tragedies are loftie the stile pure his Epigrams not to be mended saue heere and there according to his Genius too broad and bitter But let vs looke behinde vs and wee shall finde one English-bred whose glorie and worth although Cineri suppôsta doloso is inferiour neither to Buchanan or any of the ancients and so much the more to be valued by how much the brighter he appeared out of the fogges of Barbarisme and ignorance in his time that is Ioseph of Exeter who liued vnder Henrie the 2. and Richard the first who wrote that singular and stately Poeme of the Troian warre after the Historie of Dares Phrygius which the Germanes haue printed vnder the name of Cornelius Nepos He died at Bourdeaux in France where he was Archbishop where his monument is yet to bee seene After him all that long tract of ignorance vntill the daies of Henrie the 8. which time Erasmus calleth the Golden Age of learning in regard of so many famously learned men it produced more then euer heretofore flourished Sir Thomas More sometime Lord Chancellor of England a man of most rich and pleasant inuention his verse fluent nothing harsh constrained or obscure wholly composed of conceipt and inoffensiue mirth that he seemeth ad lepôres fuisse natum How wittily doth hee play vpon the Arch-cuckold Sabinus scoffe at Frenchified Lalus and Herney a French cowardly Captaine beaten at the Sea by our English and his shippe burned yet his victorie and valour to the English disgrace proclaimed by Brixius a Germane Pot-aster What can be more loftie then his gratulatorie verse to King Henrie vpon his Coronation day more wittie then that Epigramme vpon the name of Nicolaus an ignorant Phisitian that had beene the death of thousands and Abyngdons Epitaph more sweete then that nectar Epistle of his to his daughters Margaret Elizabeth and Cicelie But as these ingenious exercises bewraied in him an extraordinary quicknesse of wit and learning so his Vtopia his depth of iudgment in State-affaires then which in the opinion of the most learned Budaus in a preface before it our age hath not seene a thing more deepe accurate In his yonger yeeres there was euer a friendly and vertuous emulation for the palme of inuention and poesie betweene William Lillie the author of our Grammer and him as appeareth by their seuerall translations of many Greeke Epigrammes and their inuention tried vpon one subiect notwithstanding they lou'd and liu'd together as deerest friends Lillie also was beside an excellent Latine Poet a singular Graecian who after he trauelled all Greece ouer and many parts of Europe beside and liued some foure or fiue yeeres in the I le of the Rhodes he returned home and by Iohn Collet Deane of Paules was elected Master of Pauls Schoole which he had newly founded Shortly after began to grow eminent aswell for Poesie as all other generall learning Sir Thomas Challoner Knight father to the truly honest and sometime louer of all excellent parts Sir Thomas Challoner who attended vpon the late Prince borne in London brought vp in Cambridge who hauing left the Vniuer sitie and followed the Court a good while went ouer with Sir Henry Knyuet Embassadour to Charles the fift as his friend and companion what time the Emperour being preparing a mightie fleete against the Turkes in Argier the English Embassadour Sir Thomas Challoner Henry Knowles M. Henry Isam and others went in that seruice as voluntaries with the Emperour But the Galley wherein Sir Thomas Challoner was being cast away by foulenesse of weather after he had laboured by swimming for his life as long as he was able and the strength of his armes falling him he caught hold vpon a cable throwne out from another galley to the losse and breaking of many of his teeth and by that meanes saued his life After the death of King Henry the 8. he was in the battaile of Muskleborough and knighted by the Duke of S●mmerset And in the beginning of the raigne of Queene Elizabeth hee went ouer Embassadour into Spaine where at his houres of leisure he compiled ten elegant bookes in Latine vers de Ropub Anglorum instauranda superuised after his death by Malim and dedicated to the old Lord Burghley Lord Treasurer Being sent for home by her Maiestie he shortly after died in London and was buried in Paules neere to the steppes of the Quire toward the South-doore vnder a faire marble but the brasse and epitaphe written by Doctor Haddon by sacrilegious hands is since torne away But the Muse and Eternall Fame haue reared him a monument more lasting and worthy the merit of so excellent a man Of English Poets of our owne Nation esteeme Sir Geoffrey Chaucer the father although the stile for the antiquitie may distast you yet as vnder a bitter and rough rinde there lyeth a delicate kernell of conceit and sweete inuention What Examples Similitudes Times Places and aboue all Persons with their speeches and attributes doe as in his Canterburie-tales like these threds of gold the rich Arras beautifie his worke quite thorough And albeit diuers of his workes are but meerely translations out of Latine and French yet he hath handled them so artificially that thereby he hath made them his owne as his Troilus and Cresseid The Romant of the Rose was the Inuention of Ithan de Mehunes a French Poet whereof he translated but onely the one halfe his Canterburie-tales without question were his owne inuention all circumstances being wholly English Hee was a good Diuine and saw in those times without his spectacles as may appeare by the Plough-man and the Parsons tale withall an excellent Mathematician as plainly appeareth by his discourse of the Astrolabe to his little sonne Lewes In briefe account him among the best of your English bookes in your librarie Gower being very gracious with King Henrie the 4. in his time carried the name of the onely Poet but his verses to say truth were poore and plaine yet full of good and graue Moralitie but while he affected altogether the French phrase and words made himself too obscure to his Reader beside his inuention commeth farre short of the promise of his Titles He published onely that I know of three bookes which at S. Marie Oueries in Southwarke vpon his monument

in processe of time assumed to themselues the Surname of Cavendish as being Lords of the Towne and Mannor of Cavendish in Suffolke out of which familie disbranched that famous Trauailer Mr. Thomas Cavendish who was the third that trauailed about the world whose voyage you shall finde set downe at large in the English Discouerers written by Mr. 〈◊〉 It is borne by the name of Hobart and was the proper Coate of Sir Iames Hobart Knight Atturney Generall vnto King Henry the seauenth a right good man withall of great learning and wisedome hee builded the Church of Lodd●n and Saint Olaues commonly called Saint Toolies bridge in the County of Norfolke This worthy Knight lyeth buryed vnder a faire monument in the middle I le on the Northside in Christs Church in Norwich But it is now borne with the Coate of Vister by the gift of King Iames vnto him as a Barronet by the Honourable and Nobly minded Sir Henry Hobart Knight and Baronet Lord chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas of Blickling in the County of Norfolke whose vprightnesse in Iustice and loue to his country hath like his owne Starre communicatiue of it selfe dispersed the fairer beames into all places R●x dilect● 〈◊〉 s●o Roberto de Woodhouse Archidiacone de Richm●nd Thesa●rario s●o salutem Negotia●os statum regni contingentia c. vobis mandamus ●irmiter i●iungentes quod omnibus alijs prater●issis c. Beside I haue s●ene the will of King Henry the fourth and He●rie the fifth where one was a gentleman of Henry the fourth's chamber and by his will made one of his executors as also he was to Henry the fifth who wrote his letter to the P●ior and Chapter of the Church of the Trinitie in Norwich to giue him leaue to build himselfe a Chappell in their Church So that from time to time they haue held an Honourable place and at this day are worthy stayes and pillars of Iustice in their Countries Nor must I heere let fall the worth of two sons of this Gentleman Sir Thomas Woodhouse Knight who marryed Blanch Sister to the right Honourable Henry now Viscount Rochf●rt and Master Roger Woodhouse his brother Gentlemen not onely learned but accomplished in what euer may lend Lustre to worth and true gentilitie This was also the Coate of Sir Thomas Louell Knight of the Garter made by King Henrie the seuenth of whose ho●se hee was Treasurer and President of the Counsell This Sir Thomas Louell was a fift sonne of Sir Ralphe Louell of Barton Bendish in the Countie of Norfolke This his Coate with the Garter about it standeth ouer Lincolnes Inne Gate He founded the Nunnery of Halliwell where was also his house on a wall of which not ma●y yeares since was to be read this inscription All ye Nuns of Halliwell Pray ye both day and night For the Soule of Sir Thomas Louell Whom Harry the 〈◊〉 made Knight It appeareth also that Sir William Louell Lord Morley was Knight of the Garter for in Morley Church the seate of his Baronnie is yet remaining in a Glasse window which I haue seene this Coate with the Garter about it This Coate Armour is verie ancient as is proued by sundry bookes of Armes Church windowes and seuerall deeds wherof I haue seene two bearing date Anno 18. Richard the 2. with seales of this very Coate fixed thereunto with this inscription about the same viz Sigillum Robertide Ashfield as also another deed bearing date Anno 3. Henrie the fixt made from Robert the sonne of Iohn Ashfeild of Stow-Langton Esquire to Simon Finchan● and Iohn Whitlocke with a faire Seale of red Waxe whereupon was a Griff●● S●iant with his wings displayed ouer whose body is this Armes with this inscription about the who●e Seale viz S. Robertide Ashfeild Armig. The aboue named Robert Ashfeild builded the Church of Stow Langton in the Quire whereof which I haue seene hee lyeth butied vnder a faire Marble he was seruant vnto the blacke Prince whom he followed in his warres in France This Coate is thus borne by Sir lohn Ashfeild Knight sole heire of that Family now Gentleman of the bedde Chamber to Prince Charles This ancient name and family of Crow was anciently of Suffolke for about the time of K. Edward the 4. Thomas Crow of Suffolke the elder purchased Bradsted in Kent whose sonne Thomas Crow the yo●ger married Ioane the onely daughter and heire of Nicholas Boare son of Iohn sonne of Richard Boare that married Lora the daughter of Simon Stocket of Bradsted in Kent The aforesaid Ioane brought to Thomas her husband his house called Stockets with a Chancell built by the aboue named Simon Stockets as appeareth by a French deede tempore Edw. 2. As also a house and certaine land called Boars by whom shee had issue Iohn Crow the elder father of Henry Crow father of William Crow of Bradsted Esq. who married Anne the second daughter and coheire of Iohn Sackuill of Chiddingleigh in Sussex Esq. The said Mannor of Chiddingleigh hath beene in the possession of the Sackuills aboue three hundred yeeres and at this day is part of the inheritance of the Right Honorable Richard Sackuill Earle of Dorset and Baron of Buck●urst which William Crow and Ann● his wife hath issue Sackuill Crow their sonne and heire now liuing with others This Coate of Talbot belongeth vnto the Right worshipfull Master Thomas Talbot Doctour of the Ciuill Law of Miliers Hall in Wim●ndham in the Countie of Norfolke a very learned and honest Gentleman If you would proceede further in blazonry and the true knowledge of the des●●●ts of our English Nobility I refer you to that exact iust and elaborate worke of my singular and learned friend Master Augustine Vincent Rouge-croix very shortly to be published● which let it be vnto you of all that haue written in that kinde instar omnium So I referre you henceforward to your priuate reading and obseruation CHAP. 14. Of Exercise of the Body I Now from your priuate studie and contemplation bring you abroad into the open fields for exercise of your Body by some honest recreation since Aristotle requireth the same in the Education of Nobilitie and all youth Since the mind from the Ability of the Body gathereth her strength and vigor Anciently by the Ciuill Law these kinds of Exercises were onely allowed of that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which are the exercise of Armes by single combate as running at Tilt-barrians c. coiting throwing the hammer sledge and such like Running iumping leaping and lastly wrestling for the first it is the most Noble those Epithites of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 haue beene the attributes of Kings and Princes whose delight in auncient times was to ride and mannage great horses Hereby you are ennabled for command and the seruice of your Country And what saith Tullis can bee more glorious then to bee able to preserue and