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A01518	The droomme of Doomes day VVherin the frailties and miseries of mans lyfe, are lyuely portrayed, and learnedly set forth. Deuided, as appeareth in the page next following. Translated and collected by George Gascoigne Esquyer.	Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.; Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 61-1216. De contemptu mundi. English.	1576 (1576)	STC 11641; ESTC S102877	200,832	291

The Droomme of Doomes day Wherin the frailties and miseries of mans lyfe are lyuely portrayed and learnedly set forth Deuided as appeareth in the Page next following Translated and collected by George Gascoigne Esquyer Tam Marti quam Mercurio ¶ Imprinted at London for Gabriell Cawood dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the Signe of the holy Ghost 1576. THis worke is deuided into three partes the first whereof is entituled The view of worldly Vanities Exhorting vs to contempne all pompes pleasures delightes and vanities of this lyfe And the second parte is named The shame of sinne Displaying and laying open the huge greatnesse and enormities of the same by sundrye good examples comparisons And the third parte is called The Needels Eye VVherein wee are taught the right rules of a true Christian life and the straight passage vnto euerlasting felicitie Heerevnto is added a priuate Letter the which doth teach remedies against the bitternesse of Death ¶ TO THE RIGHT HONOrable his singuler good Lord and Maister the Earle of Bedforde Knight of the noble order of the Garter and one of hir maiesties most honorable priuie counsell George Gascoigne wisheth much encrease and long continuance of Gods fauour according to ●…is bounden duetie RIght noble my singuler good lord if I shuld presume in this epistle dedicatorie to blasonne and set forth eyther your iust desertes in generalitie or your exceeding fauour and bountie towardes me in perticularitie I might both offend your honorable eares which are seldome seene willing to harken vnto your owne prayses and much dygresse from myne owne former course in writing since I haue hetherto in all my lyfe attayned small skill or grace in the arte of adulation Let it then please your honor to rest throughly satisfied with this my simple acknowledging of your great goodnes so much surpassing my smal deserts that I fynde none other meane of discharge but onely to cōtinue your faithful seruaunt and follower The which I protest to accomplish vnto my lyues end as well towards your own person my good Ladie as to all your posteritie in euerie duetifull respecte And my good Lorde I must needes confesse both vnto your honour and to the whole world that amōgest a number of imperfectiōs I finde my self giltie of much time mispent of greater curiositie thē was conuenient in penning and endightyng sundrie toyes and trifles So that lookyng backe with inward griefe towardes the beginning of my recklesse race I fynde that both the tyme and my duetie doe challenge in me the fruites of repentaunce To be shewed in some seryous trauayle which might both perticulerly beare witnesse of my reformation and generally become profitable vnto others VVherevnto I was now almost twelue moneths past pricked and much moued by the graue and discreete wordes of one right worshipfull and mine approued friend who in my presence hearing my thryftlesse booke of Poesyes vndeseruedly commended dyd say That he lyked the smell of those Poesies pretely well but he would lyke the Gardyner much better if he would employe his spade in no worse ground then eyther Deuinitie or morall Philosophie Vnto which wordes I thought not meete to reply much at that tyme hauyng learned that a rashe answere should not bee giuen vnto a graue aduyse But finding my selfe therewith throughly tickl●…d and therby also finding the great difference betweene that friende and many other who had sūdrie times serued me as an 〈◊〉 with prayses cōmon suffrages affirming that I deserued a Lawrel Garland with sundrie other plausible speeches not heere to be rehersed I beganne straight waye to consider that it is not suffycient ●…or a man to haue a high ●…ying Hawke vnlesse he doe also accustome hir to stoupe such Quar●…ies as are both pleasant and profitable For i●… the best Faulkener with his best flying ●…aulcon shoulde yet continually beate the flockes of simple shiftlesse Doues o●… suffer his Hauke to checke alwayes at the caryon Crow the plesure might perhappes content a vayne desyre but the profite or commoditi●… would skarcely quyte his cost And in lyke maner whosoeuer is by the highest God endued with anye haughty gifte hee ought also to bestowe and employe the same in some worthie and profitable subiecte or trauayle Least in his default he deserue the name of an vnprofitable and carelesse Stewarde when his accoumpt is strictly cast So then to returne to my purpose my singular good Lord I haue of long time thought my selfe bounden by some seryous trauayle to declare that those graue and friendly wordes dyd not marche altogither vnmarked through m●… mynde And therevpon not manye monethes since tossyng and retossyng in my small Lybrarie amongest some bookes which had not of●…en felte my fyngers endes in XV. yeares before I chaunced to light vpon a small volumne skarce comely couered and wel wor●…e handled For to tell a truth vnto your honor it was written in an old kynd of Caracters and so torne as it neyther had the beginning perspycuous nor the end perfect So that I can not certaynly say who shuld be the Author of the same But as things of meane s●…we outvvardely are not alwayes to bee re●…ected euen so in thys olde torne Paumphlette I founde sundrye thing●…s as mee thoughte wrytten with suche zeale and affection a●…d tendinge so dyrectly vnto the reformacion of maners that I dyd not onely my selfe take great pleasure in per●…culer ●…eading ●…ereof but thought them profitable to be p●…blished for a generall commoditie And therevpon haue translated collected into some ordre these sundry parcells of the same ●…he which aswell bicause the aucthor is to me vnknowen 〈◊〉 also b●…cause the oryginal copies had no 〈◊〉 tytle but cheefly bicause they do all tende zealously to an admonicion whereby we may euery man walke warely decētly in his vocacion I haue thought mee●…e to entytle The Droomme of Doomes daye Thinking my selfe assured that any Souldier which meaneth to march vnder the slagge of gods fauour may by sounde of this droomme be awaked and called to his watch and warde with right sufficient summons For more perticuler proofe wherof let it please my good Lorde to vnderstand that I haue deuided this worke into three partes VVhereof the first I haue named The viewe of worldly vanities Bicause it doth very eloquently and pythily persuade all men to contempne the pompes excessiue pleasures and delightes of this lyfe A treatise which though at the first it seeme very hard and vnpleasaunt yet whosoeuer wyll vouchsafe the dyligent reading thereof shall reape thereout no lesse commoditie then a body repleate with hewmours receyueth by the medicinable purgacion The seconde parte I haue termed the Shame of s●…e Bicause in deede it displayeth and blasoneth the detestable enormities thereof and helpeth to cure the sowle by remembraunce and consideracion of the very lothesoomnesse which sinne doth continually carry in it selfe This part needeth not so much demonstracion as it deserueth commendacion And whosoeuer doth

Lord doo regarde iniquities O Lord who shal abyde it For who would not feare a Iudge the is most mightie Since no man can flye frō him or escape his hands Most wyse bicause no man can hide himself from him or deceiue him And most iust since no man can corrupt him If you looke for might strēgth he is most strōg mightie Wise in his heart mightie in powre If you call for equitie in iudgemēt no mā dare geue testimonie for me If I wold iustifie my self mine own mouth wold cōdemne me If I shold say that I am innocēt he wil proue me lewd faltie yea though I were simple He spake the words they were made he did cōmand they were created Which calleth the stars they say héere we are Which maketh his angels spirits his ministers the flame of fyer Whose wil nothing at al resisteth Unto whom no word is impossible Unto whom all knées doo bend both heauenly earthly they that are in hell Thē him no man can flye frō or eskape as the Prophet saith If I ascend vp into heauen thou art there And if I go down into hell thou art there also He searcheth the hart and the raynes vnto whose eyes all things are made open Which can number the droppes of the rayne the sands of the Sea. The God of knowledge the Lord which foreséeth al things and is pryuie to all thinges the searcher of all secrettes From him no man can lurke as the Apostle sayeth there is no creature vnuisible in his sight He is a iuste iudge mightie and long sufferyng Which neyther by entreatie nor by rewardes neyther for loue nor for hatred will declyne from the right way But goyng euermore in the high way doeth suffer none euill to scape vnpunished Nor leaueth any goodnesse vnrewarded Therefore no man can corrupt him Accordyng to the saying of the Psalmist thou shalt giue vnto euery one accordyng to his déedes Then who would not feare that examination wherein he shal be both the Accuser the Aduocate and the Iudge For he shall accuse when he shall say I was hungry and you gaue mée not to eate I was thirstie and you gaue me not to drinke He shall pleade lyke an Aduocate when hée shall adde therevnto as long as you did it not to one of the least of these you did it not vnto mée Hée shall iudge when he shall conclude saying goe from mée you accursed into euerlastyng fyre There shall néede no witnesses in that iudgement for then the hidden places of the darke shall be made manifest For nothing is hidden which shal not be reuealed Then the bookes of conscience shall be opened Then shall the dead be iudged by those thinges which are written in the booke for theyr works do folow them How greatly shal sinners be ashamed whē theyr most wicked and abho●…inable faultes shall be apparant and manyfest vnto all men Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiuen and whose sinnes are couered For hée can neuer bee revoked or called backe from that sentence Since the father hath giuen all iudgement vnto the sonne Which shutteth and no man openeth Which openeth and no man shutteth For the mouth of the Lorde hath spoken it Then wealth shall not preuayle honours shall make no defence nor friendes can make any intercession For it is written theyr golde and theyr siluer shall not bée able to delyuer them in the day of the Lordes furye All the Kynges of the earth shall wéepe and lamente when they shal sée the smoke of the fyer through the heate of their sorments What then will you doo in the day of the Lords furie in the day of visitacion and calamitie comming from farre of to whome will you runne for helpe euery man shall beare his owne burthen The soule which hath sinned shall dye O streight iudgement When men shall yeald accoumpt not onely of their déedes but of euery idle worde which they haue spoken in that day of iudgement The debt with the vsury shall be demaunded and exacted vnto the last farthing Who then can fly from the wrath and anger to come then the sonne of of man shall send his Angells and they shall gather out of his kingedome all scandalles and offences and such as doo wickedly And they shall make them as faggettes to burne and cast them into the furnasse to burne and shall cast them into the furnasse of burninge Fyer whereas wéepinge and gnashinge of téethe howling and complayning lamentacions and tormentes crying and shryching feare and trembling shal be heard Payne and labour heat and stinch darknesse and perplexitie bitternesse néede and calamitie doubtfullnesse and heauinesse forgetfulnesse and confusion grypes and panges sowre sorrowes and terrors honger and thryst colde and frost fyer and brymestone and burning fyer for euer and euer world without ende Amen ¶ FINIS Of the huge greatnes and enormitie of sinnes The second parte GOd is péerelesse and no man may alter his determination Wherfore I hau●… béen troubled in my mynde to behold him and whilest I considered him I was perplexed with feare The more diligently and clearly that a man doeth weigh ponder the rigor of the diuine iustice togither with the trespasses of his own cōuersatiō so much the more feareful hee shal be on all sides since he is not ignorant how terrible it is to fal into the hād of god which speaking by Moyses saith There is no man the can take out of my hande or power Wherevpon it foloweth that no man can alter his determinatiō For so much as whatsoeuer he determined in him selfe decréed to be done frō the beginning that no man can let or hinder Euen as God him self being holy glorious doeth testifie by the Prophet My purpose shall stand all my will shall be fulfilled And againe who is lyke vnto mee or who is able to susteine mée and what is he that may resist my countenance behold God is great God is high in his mightie strength and none of the lawe giuers is lyke vnto him who may search out narowly his wayes or who can say vnto him Thou haste done iniquitie Here vpon also God is called inflexible or immoueable Not for that he can not be pleased or appeased or for that by his prouidence he setteth necessitie vpon things But bicause his foresights and ordinances are vnuariable infallible and most certayne Neyther is there any thing comparing it to the eternall and prouident regard of the diuyne vnderstandyng that can be thought casuall or that changeth by happe Wherefore the more sharpely that we behold the incomprehensible and vnseareheable depth of the diuine iudgements the vnspeakeable frailtie defects of our own nature togither with the greatnes of our saluatiō So much the more hūble wary we shal haue iust cause to be