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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00410	Questions of profitable and pleasant concernings talked of by two olde seniors, the one an ancient retired gentleman, the other a midling or new vpstart frankeling, vnder an oake in Kenelworth Parke, where they were met by an accident to defend the partching heate of a hoate day, in grasse or buck-hunting time called by the reporter the display of vaine life, together with a panacea or suppling plaister to cure if it were possible, the principall diseases wherewith this present time is especially vexed.	O. B., fl. 1594.	1594 (1594)	STC 1054; ESTC S120718	71,141	94

QVESTIONS OF PROFITABLE AND PLEASANT CONCERNINGS TALked of by two olde Seniors the one an ancient retired Gentleman the other a midling or new vpstart frankeling vnder an Oake in Kenelworth Parke where they were met by an accident to defend the partching heate of a hoate day in grasse or Buck-hunting time called by the reporter the Display of vaine life together with a Panacea or suppling plaister to cure if it were possible the principall diseases wherewith this present time is especially vexed ANCHORA SPEI LONDON Printed by Richard Field dwelling in the Blackfriers by Ludgate 1594. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE ROBERT DEVORAX EARLE OF ESSEX AND Ewe Vicount of Hereford Lord Ferrers of Chartley Borchier and Louaine Maister of the Queenes Maiesties horse Knight of the noble order of the Garter and one of her Maiesties honorable priuie Counsell Your honors most bounden O. B. wisheth long and happy life with encrease of honours RIght honorable hauing found this booke of profitable concernings and pleasant delights collected by the diligence of some one who it should seeme ouer heard the matters at such times as they were talked vnder an Oake in the parke at Kenelworth some few yeares past I thought it my dutie meeting with the substance thereof to dedicate them vnto such a principall worthy as your honors selfe who haue alwaies hitherto bin found florishing and budding forth to all vertues in such forward sort so as the world hath conceiued an vndoubted hope you will alwaies hold greene and lasting in the increase of them without suffering any rottennesse or corruption of vices at any time to approach you Further because the principall subiect of matter herein contained setteth out the notablenesse of such former worthies as haue through the perfection of vertues absolute in themselues deliuered successiuely the fulnesse thereof ouer vnto their posteritie it could not but meane your worthy selfe especially when I called to minde the example of your honorable father deceased who in his life time ataining to the tipe of vertues worthily acquired through the full entire possession of them was no doubt in himselfe sufficiently able to deliuer thē ouer as peculiar proper blessings to his worthy ofspring so that now they are found no lesse excellent effectuall vertues in your selfe the rest of his succeding children thē they were in his antecedent selfe Withall I most humbly beseech your honour not to thinke I presume hereby to adde any forces to your strong vertues which are already sufficiently knowne and magnified euen of them that are best able and most worthy to iudge but rather being priuie to my owne vnworthinesses onely desire to shew that there neither is nor hereafter shall be any abilitie to do dutie hidden in me which for lack of diligence I would leaue vnperformed Neither go I about to thinke that it is possible for me to expresse that which belongeth to the due desert of your incomparable vertues A matter also superfluous for me to do considering that euen as the shadow followeth the body so glory and renowme associateth the excellent parts of noble and well deseruing men The principall thing right honourable that I had herein to regard was that the matter might fall out fit and beseeming the dignitie of your worthy selfe whom I haue bin bold to choose as patron to present the argument of this booke vnto wherin I confesse I haue not so thoroughly obserued my charge neither but haue wittingly faulted therein also foreknowing as I do that your honor can spare no houres from the vtilitie of common-wealths matters to bestow so much as one looke vpon the vnworthinesse hereof Yet for their sakes who vndoubtedly if they will may reape benefit hereby I haue made bold to hope your honor will vouchsafe to enable it wherein you may according to the words of the Gospell hauing enough your selfe receaue at my vnworthy hands that also whereof you haue no neede If your honor for their sakes vouchsafe to agnise my dutifull endeuoures it will prooue such a sufficient reioycing vnto me as shall binde me for your so great fauour and pardon dayly to pray for your honours encrease and growth vp to all the happinesses your heart can wish Beseeching almightie God further that as mightie Gedeon receiued strength and furnishings of all necessary aids and meanes to preuaile and ouercome his enemies the Madianites at the time of his faithfull seruing and calling vpon God vnder an Oake in Ephah Euen so vnder the seruice and command of our gracious and neuer fading greene Oake planted and watered by the hand of God to be the shelter of vs all vnder her fauourable aids your honor together with such other worthies tried and approoued partakers in all aduentures may bring vnder the enemies to God and our Christian peace so that in the end also God blessing your labours you may build vp an altar of peace for the behoofe of this land as Gedeon did vnder his Oake which he called Iehouah Salom the God of peace Yours honours most bounden O. B. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER SIthence the world is become so stomack-fallen to abhorre all meates I haue thought good to commend vnto the sa●… this Panacea or supl●…g plaister to cure if it were possible all diseases The drench you may imagine to be made by the Pithagorians Academickes Peripateticks Epicureans and the rest wherein if the curious vaine of euery appetite be not fitted yet the assay and taste thereof cannot hurt because the entire and whole thing which should haue brought loathsomnesse with it is not at all offered here The Authors of this medi●…e fearing that if they should haue filled vp their speeches with copious words to euery satisfying through it mellow ripenesse it would haue died at the first reuealing as many other more worthy and better approoued things haue done Auoiding also by continuall processe all tediousnesse thorough which they should haue bin combersome to themselues tyring in like manner others with an entire thing haue therfore taken the way brieflie to cut off all copious speaking least the matter should haue proceeded more infinitely thē either their leasure or the matter required contenting one another with the bare sence of things on purpose to continue life in the matter knowing it notwithstanding to be subiect to withering as all other things are Abhorring besides as it should seeme to argue any thing to a triall through painted guile or supportation of Arte. Now howsoeuer the matter frameth I may hope not to purchase the grudge or enuie of any medling not at all therein farther then may beseeme the vprightnesse of a reporter yet therein also as becommeth me intreate the readers especially Gentlemen and the better sort in whom there is alwaies to be found humanitie and moderation not to enterpret things to the worst but rather to pardon falts which all men are subiect vnto to whom I commit the correction of my selfe so far as I haue offended

if they may please to vouchsafe the paines knowing that they will at the least allow me as great a libertie to confesse my owne ignorance as to iustifie other mens knowledges Now for the enuious and ignorant I desire to haue it taken of them as a tale told to deafe men but to the wise and indifferent I hope it may prooue a song sung in a wood that had a profitable eccho For whose sakes also I had thought to haue compassed out this matter with another meate wand but that the multitude of precepts should haue bin thereby obscured a fault and hinderance to haue made open and plaine things lesse knowne THE DISPLAY OF FOLLIE Huddle SEe you neighbour Dunstable what hote spurring there is made after the Buck ouer yonder land were it with you and me as it hath bene since each knew other we could not behold such sport thus farre of but rather so farre as might become vs keep way with the formost Dunstable Sir then was then and now is now they that cannot do as they haue done must content themselues with what they may do pleaseth it you therefore to giue ouer the game in the plaine fielde and to let me tie vp our horses to yonder bough reposing our selues awhile vnder the shade of this goodly greene Oake Hud I readily consent to your indifferent motion Dunst Because it is vnwholsome and not altogether safe to sleepe in this wilde wood let me beseech you to discourse such matters as our experience may delight vs to remember withall voutchsafe I pray you to report the newes of London for thence I vnsterstand your maistership is lately come Hud With a glad will but ere we enter into them let me first tell you what I latest heard which proouing true will equally glad vs both This noble Earle is not come hither to take an honorable recreation only as heretofore he was wont but purposeth withall to keepe a standing house here the whole yeare thorough Dunst But that I feare the contrarie how should I reioyce at these glad tidings Hud My selfe in like manner hold the matter doubtfull knowing the speciall imploiments her Maiestie hath daily to make of his most approoued good seruices being still as he hath bene alwaies so excellent a becomming states peare that his worthinesse cannot but carrie him from vs to matters of farre greater consequence To say truly our vntoward deseruings haue merited no such benefit from him for longer then we are receiuing good turnes at his hands or in hope of his pleasuring vs no longer can we stay our tongs from cursing banning and vngracious deprauing his noteable parts whereof we are most vnworthy to iudge yet alwaies take vpon vs singular skill and knowledge were it therefore but our vngratitude onely then which hell hath not a more vgly vice it alone were sufficient to discourage such hopes of our good as from the rich treasure of his honourable bounty otherwise might likely descend vnto vs. Our malignant hearts are bent towards this Gentleman like as the double deuoted Iewes were against our Sauiour Christ whom they worshipped and reuerenced so farre as miracles and their owne gaine might stir them vp to admire him further they would not haue to do with him vntill the time came they were able to betray lay violent hāds or crucifie him Now this good Earle his Chimneyes smoake to prepare wherewithall to cram and fat vp our swine bellies now we wonder at him and terme him noble Gentleman honourable Lord wise counsailer and the princeliest subiect any realme Christened hath or had in our memorie False harted hirelings cā we say thus while Beefe Brewesse lasteth then with false black breath boiling from out a venemous stomack blast the sweete blossoms of his frutefull vertues which euen now had almost bin made profitable vnto vs had we not put foorth our snakish toungs tipt with the poisonfull hissing of slander and detraction But now I long to heare the faults you haue obserued in my long speech hoping you will deale plainely in manifesting them vnto me Dunst Since it is your pleasure to stay your discourse with a desire to heare my plaine eloquence I rather blame you for speaking too little against that which is so worthy reproofe then otherwise thinke much or that you ouer said in the Earle his praise To say truly such are our grosse manners not caring what we say so we say somwhat and somwhat we must say else could not the world take knowledge of our sufficiencies which serue vs much better to finde wants in other men where they are not then to feele the burthen of our owne extremities lying heauy vpon our shoulders ready to breake our weake backs For my part I meane to turne that cursed speaking you named into hartie praier that it may please God to further this noble man his purpose and desire both to this whole countries benefit and also to the encoraging of other noble and worshipfull Gentlemen who accompanie him in loue and good will to do the like by his example where they dwell A thing so much discontinued and so farre worne out of fashion that vnlesse by some notable man it be reduced and set vp againe the old ancient patterns lost and gone I feare me it will hardly or neuer catch the right shape againe men haue swarued so much to the new cut wearing all on London fashion where they neuer thinke on their poore countries saue on quarter rent daies only Hud Though you spared me on the maine which stood in your way you thought to nick me on the bye not set for you The ouersight I made in comparing the Iewes dealings with God and Christians their behauiour towards man that mistaking you would not see though too apparant to a curious eye but free and tollerable things to be vsed or laide aside according to the occasions and discretions of men those you launched at euen out of your reach presuming for that you shadowed your selfe vnder the couerture of a formall figure finding fault with your selfe to escape vndiscouered marching with your coulours flying therin you vse me as the blinde Spaniard his boy serued his maister who to make a lurching fault himselfe was content not to find his maisters little digression from the law himselfe had made as if a little breache in the one not found fault with should giue the other a libertie to offend at large The outside of your coate neuer gaue me cause to suspect any such lining besides what your ancient patterns and fashions should meane I cannot easily gesse My yeares being some few more then yours me thinks I should remember from as long a time as you The while I haue hued things haue bin gained and bettered by wiser skill and sufficienter knowledges whereby to raise more profitable and conuenient vses out of things as may appeare in matters almost of euery sort Heretofore had men attained vnto any little smattering or small maisterie