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lord_n	honourable_a	majesty_n	privy_a	10,396	5	9.6495	5	false

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A02315	A looking glasse for the court. Composed in the Castilian tongue by the Lorde Anthony of Gueuarra Bishop of Mondouent, and chronicler to the Emperour Charles. And out of Castilian drawne into Frenche by Anthony Alaygre. And out of the French tongue into Englishe by Sir Fraunces Briant Knight one of the priuy Chamber, in the raygne of K. Henry the eyght; Menosprecio de corte. English	Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545?; Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.; Bryan, Francis, Sir, d. 1550.	1575 (1575)	STC 12448; ESTC S103507	62,967	162

A looking Glasse for the Court. Composed in the Castilian tongue by the Lorde Anthony of Gueuarra Bishop of Mondouent and Cronicler to the Emperour Charles And out of ●astilian drawne into Frenche by Anthony Alaygre And out of the French tongue into Englishe by Sir Fraunces Briant Knight one of the priuy Chamber in the raygne of K. Henry the eyght And now newly printed corrected and set forth wyth sundry apt notes in the margent by T. Tymme Minister ¶ Imprinted at London for William Norton An. 1575. nor w ¶ To the Right honorable Iohn Lord Russell sonne and heire apparant to the right Noble Fraunces Earle of Bedforde one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsaile and Knight of the most honorable order of the Garter THe recommending of this learned and pleasaunt Treatise the more generally to haue it perused right Honorable is the cause why I haue dedicated the same to your Honour For it being warranted vnder your protection in whome such vertues haue their seate that in you is expressed the right paterne of true Nobilitie can not but carry great credit though the matter of it selfe shoulde lesse deserue the same It nothing doth dismaye me for that I being vnknowne to your Honour haue thus farre presumed neyther may this seeme any rashe attempt for that cause For such is the alluring force of vertue that shee constrayneth vs to beare singular loue and affection not only to our owne Countreymen by vew of face vnknowne but also to Aliants which by Lande and Sea are farre seuered from vs. Wherefore I being caught with the commendation of your Noble heart furnished with vertue generally noysed coulde not but take courage to present this Pamphlet vnto your Honours hands as a most meete Patron for the same In the which you shall finde pleasaunt matter concerning the disprayse of the Court and the commendation of the Rusticall lyfe being eloquently pende by that Reuerende Father in God the Lorde Anthony of Gueuarra a man of great learning and grauitie whose name may sufficiently warrant the worke to be handled with great discretion last and least my willing traueyle to reuiue the same lying as dead and by tyme worn●●lmost cleane awaye Therefore accept my good will Ryght Honourable and if opportunitie shall serue hereafter there shall greater thinges appeare vnder your Honours name For this tyme not to trouble your Honour with longer speache I take my leaue recommending my poore payns as the needie Wydowes Myte to your Honourable courtesie Mar. 12.42 and courtuouse acceptaunce beseeching Almightie God to giue you increase of Honour and to blesse you and your most Noble and vertuous Lady that she may enioye to hyr comfort and yours that long desired and blessed fruite and with Anna the Mother of Samuel 1. Sam. 2.1 ioyfully prayse God for the same Your Honours most humble Thomas Tymme To the Reader IF high estate and Noble byrth Adournde with learnings lore Deserue high commendacion And merit prayse therefore If pearles of greatest pryce deserue Of ryght in fynest golde To be coutched and enamelde For all men to beholde If wysedome or authoritie If knowledge credit fame If haultie courage courtlie grace And myldenesse with the same May gyue to booke a countenaunce Or make it more regarded I say vnto this booke there ought Lyke prayse to be awarded Whose Authour Dan Gueuarra hight A Phoenix of our age To Charles the fyfth late Emperour A Counsayler full sage And Preacher eke the same and eke A Cronicler of Actes Who coulde by sounde of clanging trumpe Emblazon out his factes Who many workes to vs hath left For which we better fare Dyrecting vs to vertue and Of vices to beware Acquaynted well with courtly guyse In Kaisers fauour hygh Yet verdict gyues that Countrey lyfe Surmounth it farre and nygh Whose pithie reasons fyled speache And sugred woordes dyd moue A worthy Knyght of English Court Whome Henry Kyng dyd loue Fyrst to translate from forrayne phrase Into our mother tonge Inuesting it with English roabe As good for olde and yonge For pleasure and for profite both To recreate the mynde And reaping thence commoditie Ease for themselues to fynde One not vnlyke to Xenophon Whose shape his Countrey men Set vp with sworde in ryght hande claspt In left a wryting pen. In lyke sorte lyude this worthy knyght In marshall feates well tryde With Launce Speare Targe in tyme of peace His penne good workes descryde Whose worthy paynes and learned pennes I doe commende to thee Whose vertues bryghtly shyne and neede Not to be praysde by mee That Myte of labour which my selfe Therein bestowed haue In gentle sorte accept for more I neyther seeke ne craue And ioyne with me in prayer fyrme For health long lyfe and raygne Of our most noble Queene that shee On earth may long remayne To guyde the sterne of Christian barge With Oares of sacred lore And afterwarde to raygne with Christ In blysse for euermore FINIS T. T. ¶ A Table contayning briefly the summe of euery Chapter CHAPTER 1. OF certaine Courtyers which ought to complayne of none but of themselues CHAPTER 2. That none ought to counsayle another to go to the Court nor when he is there to come from it but euery man to choose the life that liketh him best CHAPTER 3. That a Courtyer ought to leaue the Court for not being in fauour but being out of it already that he ought not to seeke entertainement there againe that he maye be more vertuous CHAPTER 4. Of the lyfe that the Courtyer ought to leade after that he hath left the Court. CHAPTER 5. That the Rusticall lyfe is more quiet and restfull and more beneficiall than that of the Courte CHAPTER 6. That in the Village the dayes séeme more longe and the ayer more cleare and the houses more restfull than in the Courte CHAPTER 7. That commonly the Inhabitants of the Villages be more happy than Courtyers CHAPTER 8. That in Prnices Courtes the custome and vse is to speake of God and lyue after the worlde CHAPTER 9. In the Court fewe amende but many wax woorse CHAPTER 10. That a man cannot lyue in the Court without he trouble himselfe or some other CHAPTER 11. That in the Courte those that be graue are praised and well estéemed and the other that doe the contrary not regarded CHAPTER 12. That in the Court of Princes all say we wyll doe it but they doe it not CHAPTER 13. That there is a small number of them that be good in the Courte and a great number of good in the common wealth CHAPTER 14. Of many affaires in the Court and that there be better husbandmen than cōmonly is of courtiers CHAPTER 15. That amonge Courtyers is neyther kept amitye nor faithfulnesse and how much the Court is full of traueyle of enuy and rancor CHAPTER 16. By howe muche the common wealthes and the Courtes of the time past were more perfite thā the Courtes of the time present CHAPTER 17. Of

it fréely without doyng any homage or seruice to any man This I dare say the courtier hath not nor is not in such frée libertie in respecte of such as be of the village forasmuch as of very necessitie my maister the courtier must win the Marshall or Harbengar of the lodging and must receiue at his handes the billet to come to his lodging and that late ynough and wery to his host breake open dores beat downe walles Shamefull shiftes of courtiers disorder houses burne implemēts and sometyme beat the good man defyle the wife O how happy is he that hath wherwithal to liue in the village with out troubling both of himself and many sondry places without séeking of so many lodginges without assayes of so many straunge occasions of straunge men without wéeping of any person but is content with a meane estate and is deliuered of all such breakebraines Another benefite of the coūtrey is this that the gentleman or burges that there doth inhabite may be one of the chief or chiefest either in boūtie honor or auctoritie Little worship in the court is great honor in the towne the which happeneth seldome in the court in great cities and townes for there he shall sée other goe before him more trim and more braue and gorgious then he as well in credite as in riches as well in the house as without the house And Iulius Caesar sayd to this purpose that he had rather bée the first in a village then the second in honor in Rome For such men as haue high hartes and mindes and base fortune it should be to them much better to liue in the village with honor then in the court ouerthrowen and abated and out of fauor The difference betwéene the tariyng or abidyng in a litle place and a great place is that in the litle places are founde much people poore and néedy of whom men may take compassion and in the great place many riche men whereby enuy is norished The commodities that come by dwelling in the village Another commoditie in the village is that euery man enioyeth in quiet and peace such as God hath geuen him without to haue such to come to their houses that shall constrayne them to make extraordinary expēses or to haue his wife seduced or his daughters defiled The occasions to doo euil be put away by reason that he is occupied in the mainteining of his housholde in trayning of his sonnes chastening of hys seruauntes He liueth confirmed to reason and not to his opinion and liues hopyng to dye not as he that loueth to liue euer In the village We ought to liue as dying thou shalt not care for good lodging nor for looking to thy Horses and Mules nor for the lading of such thinges as they shall cary Thou shalt not heare the crying of pages the plaintes of the stuardes of the house the babling of the Cookes nor thou shalt feare Iudges nor Iustices least they shuld be to sore against thée And that which is much better thou shalt haue no craftie knaues to béeguyle thée nor women to betraye thée Another benefite of the village is this that he shall haue time enough to al thinges that he will do so that the time be well spent time enough to studie time to visite his frendes time to go a hunting and layser when he list to eate his meat the which layser courtiers commonly haue not Courtiers ●●●dom leysure to eate their meate for asmuche as they employe the moste part of their time in making of shiftes to playe the courtier or to speake more plainely to wepe and lament in such sorte that one may say of them the which the Emperour Augustus said of a Roman a great busie broker the same day that hée dyed I wonder said he séeyng the tyme failed him to chop and to chaunge how hée could now finde layser to dye Another commoditie of the village is this those that be dwellers there maye goe alone from place to place without to be noted to fall from grauitie they néede no Mule nor Horse with a foote clothe The countrey lyfe requireth ●o great train nor page to wayte of my lorde or damosell to waite vpon my lady And that were scornefull to do in the court alone And without daunger one may walke from neighbor to neighbor and from land to land and not thereby minish any part of his honor Another benefite is The rustique life requireth no sūptuous aparrell that men may go whether they will clothed simply with a staffe in his hande a swearde by his side or hacbut in his necke and if he be weary of pounsed hosen let h m weare stoppes if he be a colde let him take his furred gowne for all is one there A good gentleman dwelling in the village and hauing a good coate of cloath an honest Spanish cloke on his back a paire of lether shooes goeth as well trimmed to the church as doth my Lord the courtier to the court with his gowne furde with Marters or Sables A man of the village of what sorte soeuer he be is in as good case that rydeth to market or to the faier to make prouisiō for his householde vpon a mare or a nagge A poore plowman is far better than a rich and honorable extorcioner though he be in the court as a lord of the courte is at Iustes vpon a great courser trapped with golde And when all is sayd better is the poore ploughman on a poore asse liuing as he should then the rich man well horsed pilling and doyng extorciō to pore honest men The .vj Chapiter ¶ That in the village the dayes seeme more long and the ayer more clere and better And the houses more easy and restful than in the court ENsuing still the commodities of the village wée ought not to forget that he which dwelles there among other thinges hath commoditie of good corne and consequently good bread contrary to this in the court specially in great townes they haue breade for the most part euil baked or euil leauened or not leauened at all the cause is forasmuch as in the townes oftē there lacketh good corne or good corne milles to grinde the corne holsome water whereby often hath come among them great death Another commoditie in the village is this the which I prayse much hée that dwelles there may practise and labour in mo thinges and better imploy the tyme then in the court or in the great townes in which places it behoueth a mā to dissēble to say litle to be ful of reuenging enuyous a treader of stones and pauemontes must vse grauitie and seldome to come out of his house and incessantly be graue O half a God that dwelles in the village where liberally one may speake what he wil and iest with his neighbours before his gates and his window And this may hée doe without euer to chaunge or to