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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

Shield within a Bordure Componeè Or and Gules before the Armes of Ferrara in recognisance of the league and fidelitie wherein hee promised to stand bound to serue the King at his own charges And for the like respect Lewis the eleuenth in May 1465. allowed Pietro de Medici to beare three Flower-de-luces in his shield which I haue seene borne in cheife vpon one of his sixe Lozenges Of Difference by the Labell A second difference is by the Labell borne chieefely as the difference of the elder Brother As Edward the blacke Prince and all our Princes of Wales eldest sonnes to the King beare their Fathers Soueraigne Coate with a Labell of three points Siluer Iohn of Gauns had his Labell Ermin Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke on his Labell Siluer nine Torteauxes Edmond Plantagenes sonne and heire of Richard Duke of Yorke Earle of Ru●land who being a Child scarce twelue yeares of age was stricken to the heart with a Dagger by the Lord Clifford at the battaile of Wakefield had vpon his Labell of fiue points Argent two Lionceaux Gules with nine Torteauxes The Coate of Vls●er and Mortim●r being ●mpaled with his owne as may be seene in the windowes of F●deringhay Castle the mansion house of the Duke of Yorke where by his father Richard Duke of Yorke and Cicely Nevill his mother hee lyeth buried whose bodies remoued out of F●deringhay Church-yard for the Chancell in the Quire wherein they first were laid in that fury of knocking Churches and sacred Monuments in the head was also felled to the ground lapped in Lead were buried in the Church by the commandement of Queene Elizabeth and a meane Monument of Plaister wrought with the Trowell erected ouer them very homely and farre vnfitting so Noble Princes I remember Master Creuse a Gentleman and my w●rthy friend who dwelt in the Colledge at the same time told me that their Coffins being opened their bodies appeared very plainly to be discerned and withall that the Dutchesse Cicely had about her necke hanging in a Silke riband a pardon from Rome which penned in a very fine Romane hand was as faire and fresh to be read as it had beene written but yesterday Of Difference by the Bend. A third difference is by the Bend Baston c. as the house of Bur●●● beareth Fr●●●● with a B●tune Gules though the proper and true Coate of 〈◊〉 is Of a Lyon Gules within an Orle of Escallops Azure Lewis Earle of Eureux in Normandy brother to Philip le B●ll bare Seme de France with a Batune Componeè Argent and Gules Iohn Earle of L●●●aster and Brother to Richard the first afterward King bare for his difference a Batune Azure If the mother be of the ligne Royall many times her Coate is preferred into the first quarter as H●nry Earle of D●●●nshire and Marqu●sse of Exeter ●●re his mother K●tharines Coate who was daughter to King Edward the fourth And the like Humphrey Stafford who was the first Duke of Buckingham by Anne Platag●n●● his mother ● the Coate of Thomas of Woodstocke whose daughter she was This Coate I remember standeth in the great Chancell window in the Church of Kimbalt●n In France it hath beene and it yet a custome among the Nobilitie to 〈◊〉 their owne proper Coates and take others as perhaps their Wi●es or the Armes of that Srig●●●● whereof they are Lords or whence they haue their Titles as Mons. Hugues brother to King Philip marrying the daughter and heire of Herbere Earle of Ver●●●d●●●s forsooke his proper Coate and bare his Wiues which was Checky Or and Azure onely three Flower-de-luces added in chiefe to shew he was of the blood And Robert Coun● de Dreux albeit he was brother to King Lewis 〈◊〉 bare Checky Azure and Or with a Bordure Gules Robert Duke of Burgogne brother to Henry the first tooke for his bearing the ancient Armes of the Dukes of Burgogne which was bendy Or and Azure within a Bordure Gules giuen by Charlemaigne to Sanson Duke of Burgogne And whereas we in England allow the base sonne his Fathers Coate with the difference of a bend Batune sinister or bordure engrailed or the like it was in France a long time forbidden I thinke vnder the Capets to the Princes of the blood as 〈◊〉 Earle of M●mfort base sonne to King Robert was forced to leaue his Fathers Coate and beare Gules a Lion à la queue fourcheè Or passeè per à lentour Argent for Le maison de France ●●●●tant les bastardes no leur endurè son armeirè c. saith Tillet The last and least obseruation is of Crests the Helmet the Mantle and doubling thereof which according to the manner of diuers Countries are diuersly borne In Germany they beare their Beauers open with Barres which we allow in England to none vnder the degree of a Baron in some places they haue no Crests at all If you would farther proceed in Nobilitie or Heraldry I would wi●h you to reade these bookes of 〈◊〉 ob●●itie in gener●●● Simon Simonius de N●●ilit●●e 〈…〉 at Leipsig 1572. Chassan●●●● his Catalogus Gloria mun●● Hippolitus à Collibus his Axumata Nobilitatis Conclusiones de Nobilitate Doctorain published by one of Meckleburg who concealeth his name printed 1621. dedicated to the Archbishop of Breme Petrus Eritzius Coun●●●●er to the Elector of Brandenburge published Conclusiones de Nobilitate in quarto Lionellus De pracedentia ●omi●um Of the Spanish Nobilitie these Authors haue written Ioannes ab Arce Offalora in folio Priuilegios y Franquezas y libertades des bijos d●algos De Senniorio de Vizcaia c. in fol. Ludovicus de Moll●●a De primog●nior●m Hispanicorum iure c. in fol. Iosephus de Sesse in Decis Aragon Decis 8. 9. 10. c. Gonzales de C●rte his Nobliza del Andaluzia in fol. Of Italy Sicily Naples c. Scipie Mazzella nelle Neapoli Illustrata in quarto Paulus Merula in Cosmograph lib. 3. pt 3. in Italian Of France The Workes of Tillet Fer●● Charles L'Ois●●● Choppin Theatre d'Honneur Of Germany or the Empire Fran. Contzen his Politiques in fol. The Collections of Goldastus with some others The practise of Blazonrie Willeged the first Abbot dyed the same yeare that Off a did of very griefe it was thought for the death of his king and kinsman whom he dearely loued Anno 8●8 After him succeeded these in order Eadricke Vulsigus Wul●●●us Eadfrithus Wulsinus Who built Saint Peters Church Saint Michaels and Saint Stephens and made a faire market place in the towne Alfricke Aldredus Who digged vp and searched the ruines of Verlam-cesire which in his time were dens of theeues and whores saued all the tile and stone for the repaire of the Church and in digging vpon the North side in the vale found oaken plankes pitched Shelles peeces of oares and a rusty Anchor or two Eadmer after his death being a religious and a good man imitating his predecessour saued all the ancient coines vrnes

deliuered with such sententious grauitie weight of reason so sweetened with liuely apt similitudes entertaine Plutarch whom according to the opinion of Gaza the world would preserue should it be put to the choice to receiue one onely Authour the Sacred Scriptures excepted and to burne all the rest especially his Li●es and Morals After him the vertuous and diuine Seneca who for that he liued so neere the times of the Apostles and had familiar acquaintance with S. Paul as it is supposed by those Epistles that passe vnder either their names is thought in heart to haue beene a Christian and certes so it seemeth to me by that Spirit wherewith so many rules of Patience Humilitie Contempt of the world are refined and exempt from the dregges of Paganisme Some say that about the beginning of Neroes raigne he came ouer hither into Brittaine but most certaine it is he had diuers lands bestowed on him here in England and those supposed to haue laine in Essex neere to Camalodunum now Maldon Againe while you are intent to forreine Authors and Languages forget not to speake and write your owne properly and eloquently whereof to say truth you shall haue the greatest vse since you are like to liue an eminent person in your Countrey and meane to make no profession of Schollership I haue knowne euen excellent Schollers so defectiue this way that when they had beene beating their braines twentie or foure and twentie yeeres about Greeke Etymologies or the Hebrew roots and Rabbines could neither write true English nor true Orthographi● and to haue heard them discourse in publike or priuately at a table you would haue thought you had heard Loy talking to his pigges or Iohn de Indagine declaiming in the praise of wild geese otherwise for their iudgement in the Arts and other tongues very sufficient To helpe your selfe herein make choice of those Authors in prose who speake the best and purest English I would commend vnto you though from more Antiquitie the life of Richard the third written by Sir Thomas Moore the Arcadia of the noble Sir Philip Sidney whome Du Bartas makes one of the foure columnes of our language the Essayes and other peoces of the excellent Master of Eloquence my Lord of S. Albanes who possesseth not onely Eloquence but all good learning as hereditarie both by Father and Mother You haue then M. Hooker his Politie Henrie the fourth well written by Sir Iohn Hayward that first part of our English Kings by M. Samuel Daniel There are many others I know but these will tast you best as proceeding from no vulgar iudgments the last Earle of Northampton in his ordinary stile of writing was not to be mended Procure then if you may the Speeches made in Parliaments frequent learned Sermons in Terme time resort to the Starre-Chamber and be present at the pleadings in other publique Courts whereby you shall better your speech enrich your vnderstanding and get more experience in one moneth then in other foure by keeping your Melancholy studie and by solitarie meditation Imagine not that hereby I would binde you from reading all other bookes since there is no booke so bad euen Sir Be●is himselfe Owleglasse or Nashes herring but some commoditie may be gotten by it For as in the same pasture the Oxe findeth fodder the Hound a hare the Stork a lizard the faire maide flowers so we cannot except we list our selues saith Seneca but depart the better from any booke whatsoeuer And ere you begin a booke forget not to reade the Epistle for commonly they are best laboured and penned For as in a garment whatsoeuer the stuffe be the owner for the most part affecteth a costly and extraordinarie facing and in the house of a countrey Gentleman the porch of a Citizen the carued gate and painted postes carrie away the Glorie from the rest So is it with our common Authors● if they haue any 〈◊〉 at all they set it like veluet before though the backe like a bankerupts doublet be but of poldauie or buckram Affect not as some doe that bookish Ambition to be stored with bookes and haue well furnished Libraries yet keepe their heads emptie of knowledge to desire to haue many bookes and neuer to vse them is like a childe that will haue a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping Lastly haue a care of keeping your bookes handsome and well bound not cas●ing away ouermuch in their gilding or stringing for ostentation sake like the prayer bookes of girles and gallants which are carried to Church but for their outsides Yet for your owne vse spare them not for noting or interlining if they be printed for it is not likely you meane to be a gainer by them when you haue done with them neither suffer them through negligence to mold be moath-eaten or want their strings and couers King Alphonsus about to lay the 〈…〉 at Naples called for Vitr●vius his book of Architecture the booke was brought in very bad case all dustie and without couers which the King obseruing said He that must couer vs all must not goe vncouered himselfe Then commanded the booke to be fairely bound and brought vnto him So say I suffer them not to lie neglected who must make you regarded and goe in torne coates who must apparell your minde with the ornaments of knowledge aboue the roabes and riches of the most magnificent Princes To auoide the inconuenience of moathes and moldinesse let your studie be placed and your windowes open if it may be towards the East for where it looketh South or West the aire being euer Subie●t to moisture moathes are bred and darkishnesse encreased whereby your mappes and pictures will quickly become pale loosing their life and colours or rotting vpon their ●loath or paper decay past all helpe and recouerie CHAP. 7. Of Cosmographic THat like a stranger in a forraine land yee may not wander without a guide ignorant of those places by which you are to passe and sticke amused amazed in the Labyrinth of Historie Cosmography a second Ariadne bringing lines enough is come to your deliuery whom imagine standing on a faire hill and with one hand pointing and discoursing vnto you of the Coelestiall Sphaere the names vses and distinctions of euery circle whereof it consisteth the scituation of Regions according to the same the reason of Climates length and shortnesse of dayes and nights motion rising and setting as well of fixed stars as erratique eleuation of the Pole Paralells Meridians and whatsoeuer els respecteth that Coelestiall body With the other hand downeward she sheweth you the globe of the earth distinguished by Seas Mountaines Riuers Rockes Lakes and the like the subiect of Geographie which defined according to Ptolomey and others is an imitation of the face by draught and picture of the whole earth and all the principall and knowne parts thereof with the most remarkeable things 〈◊〉 belonging A science at once

lately repaired by some good Benefactor lie vnder his head which are Vox clamantie Speculum Meditantis and Confessio Amantis He was a Knight as also was Chaucer After him succeeded Lydgate a Monke of Burie who wrote that bitter Satyre of Peirs Plow-man He spent most part of his time in translating the workes of others hauing no great inuention of his owne He wrote for those times a tollerable and smooth verse Then followed Harding and after him Skelton a Poet Laureate for what desert I could neuer heare if you desire to see his veine and learning an Epitaph vpon King Henry the seauenth at West-minster will discouer it In the latter end of King Henrie the 8. for their excellent facultie in Poesie were famous the right noble Henrie Earle of Surrey whose Songs and Sonnets yet extant are of sweete conceipt and the learned but vnfortunate Sir Thomas Wyat. In the time of Edward the sixth liued Sternhold whom King Henry his father a little before had made groome of his Chamber for turning certaine of Dauids Psalmes into verse and merrie Iohn Heywood who wrote his Epigrammes as also Sir Thomas More his Vtopia in the parish wherein I was borne where either of them dwelt and had faire possessions About Queene Maries time flourished Doctor Phaer who in part translated Virgils Aeneids after finished by Arthur Golding In the time of our late Queene Elizabeth which was truly a golden Age for such a world of refined wits and excellent spirits it produced whose like are hardly to be hoped for in any succeeding Age aboue others who honoured Poesie with their pennes and practise to omit her Maiestie who had a singular gift herein were Edward Earle of Oxford the Lord Buckhurst Henry Lord Paget our Phoenix the noble Sir Philip Sidney M. Edward Dyer M. Edmund Spencer M. Samuel Daniel with sundry others whom together with those admirable wits yet liuing and so well knowne not out of Enuie but to auoide tediousnesse I ouerpasse Thus much of Poetrie CHAP. XI Of Musicke MVsicke a sister to Poetrie next craueth your acquaintance if your Genius be so disposed I know there are many who are adeo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and of such disproportioned spirits that they auoide her companie as a great Cardinall in Rome did Roses at their first comming in that to auoide their sent he built him an house in the champaigne farre from any towne or as with a Rose not long since a great Ladies cheeke in England their eares are readie to blister at the tendrest touch thereof I dare not passe so rash a censure of these as Pindar doth or the Italian hauing fitted a prouerbe to the same effect Whom God loues not that man loues not Musicke but I am verily perswaded they are by nature very ill disposed and of such a brutish stupiditie that scarce any thing else that is good and sauoureth of vertue is to be found in them Neuer wise man I thinke questioned the lawfull vse hereof since it is an immediate gift of heauen bestowed on man whereby to praise and magnifie his Creator to solace him in the midst of so many sorrowes and cares wherewith life is hourely beset and that by song as by letters the memorie of Doctrine and the benefits of God might be for euer preserued as we are taught by the Song of Moses and those diuine Psalmes of the sweete singer of Israel who with his Psalterie so lowdly resounded the Mysteries and innumerable benefits of the Almightie Creator and the seruice of God aduanced as we may finde in 2. Samuel 6. vers 5. Psalme 33. 21. 43. and 4. 108. 3. and in sundrie other places of Scripture which for breuitie I omit But say our Sectaries the seruice of God is nothing aduanced by singing and instruments as we vse it in our Cathedrall Churches that is by Antiphonie Restes Repetitions Varietis of Moodes and Proportions with the like For the first that it is not contrary but consonant to the word of God so in singing to answer either the practise of M●riam the Prophete●se and Sister of Moses when she answered the men in her song will approue For repetition nothing was more vsuall in the singing of the Leuites and among the Psalmes of Dauid the 136. is wholly compounded of those two most gracefull and 〈◊〉 figures of repetition Symploce and Anaphora For Resting and Proportions the nature of the Hebrew verse as the meanest Hebrician knoweth consisting many times of vneuen feete going sometime in this number sometimes in that one while as S. Hierome saith in the numbers of Sappho another while of Alcaus doth of neoessitie require it and wherein doth our practise of singing and playing with Instruments in his Maiesties Chappell and our Cathedrall Churches differ from the practise of Dauid the Priests and Leuites Doe we not make one sound in praising and thanking God with voyces and instruments of all sorts D●●●e as S. Hierome saith reboet laquear ●empli the roofe of the Church ecchoeth againe and which lest they should cauill at as a Iewish Ceremonie we know to haue beene practised in the ancient puritie of the Church but we returne where we left The Physitians will tell you that the exercise of Musicke is a great lengthner of the life by stirring and reuiuing of the Spiri●s holding a secret sympathy with them Besides the exercise of singing openeth the breast and pipes it is an enemy to melancholy and deiection of the mind which S. Chrysostome truly calleth The Deuils Bath Yea a curer of some diseases in Apugli● in Italy and therea bouts it is most certaine that those who are stung with the Taramula are cured onely by Musicke Beside the aforesaid benefit of singing it is a most ready helpe for a bad pronunciation and distinct speaking which I haue heard confirmed by many great Diuines yea I my selfe haue knowne many Children to haue bin holpen of their stammering in speech onely by it Plato calleth it A diuine and heauenly practise profitable for the seeking out of that which is good and honest Homer saith Musitians are worthy of Honor and regard of the whole world and we know alb●it Ly●urgu● imposed most streight and sharpe Lawes vpon the Lacedaem●ni●ns yet he euer allowed them the exercise of Musicke Aristotle auerreth Musicke to be the onely disposer of the mind to Vertue and Goodnesse wherefore he reckoneth it among those foure principall exercises wherein he would haue children instructed Tulli● saith there consisteth in the practise of singing and playing vpon Instruments great knowledge and the most excellent instruction of the mind and for the effect it worketh in the mind he termeth it Sta●ilem Thesaurum qui moros instituit componi●que ac mo●tit ●rarum ardores c. A lasting Treasure which rectifieth and ordereth our manners and allayeth the heate and furie of our anger c. I might runne into an