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A16131	The morall philosophie of Doni drawne out of the auncient writers. A worke first compiled in the Indian tongue, and afterwardes reduced into diuers other languages: and now lastly englished out of Italian by Thomas North, brother to the right Honorable Sir Roger North Knight, Lorde North of Kyrtheling.; Fables of Bidpai. English.	Doni, Anton Francesco, 1513-1574. Moral filosophia.; Bı̄dpāı̄.; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?	1570 (1570)	STC 3053; ESTC S104622	91,288	193

The Morall Philosophie of Doni drawneout of the auncient writers A worke first compiled in the Indian tongue and afterwardes reduced into diuers other languages and now lastly englished out of Italian by Thomas North Brother to the right Honorable Sir Roger North Knight Lorde North of Kyrtheling * THE WISEDOME OF THIS WORLDE IS FOLLY BEFORE GOD ¶ IMPRINTE●●T LONDON by H●●●●… Denham ¶ To the Right Honorable and my singuler good Lorde the Lorde Robert Dudley Earle of Leycester Baron of Denbigh Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Maister of the Horse and one of the Queenes Maiesties most Honourable priuie Counsell RIght Honorable Diogenes being demaunded what thing of all other waxed olde soonest and liued also longest aunswered Benifite The which sayde he bestowed vpon an vnworthy person of vnthankefull minde dieth streight without further fruite but done to a worthie man and of courteous nature it is neuer forgotten but augmenteth bonde during life So my Lorde confessing my selfe not only bounde to your Lordship in mine owne respect hauinge heretofore tasted of your Honour but dulye remembred by my late Lorde and Fathers testament of his great bonde vnto you who liuing loued and honoured your Lordship and dying was desirous to shew to the worlde that he was not forgetfull of your Honourable fauour and courtesie shewed him and nowe also of my Lord my Brothers succeeding him whose bonde your Lordship still increaseth to you with your large and friendlye loue to him which doth no more binde him than hee is nowe and euer will bee thankefull to your Lordship in acknowledging the same I haue presumed vnder your fauour to offer to your Lordship this meane Present as a witnesse of my dutie and loue and of your Lordships honor and goodnesse meaning for life to retaine with me a gratefull minde to your Lordshippe Howbeit when I consider the learned writers of our Englishe Nation and pervse their graue and wise inuentions and discourses of their owne doings excellently writtē in our owne tongue without interpretation of others workes knowing that to translate onely is a farre lesse reputation than to be an Author of any good worke and to bee tyed to others wordes constructions bringeth ofttimes in an other language obscure and darcke phrases as I doe reioyce in them so am I ashamed of my selfe that this small gift of mine to your Lordship neither aunswereth my good will vnto you nor is worthie as I wishe it of your Honour Yet my good L. let me humbly intreate you to esteeme as Darius sayde not the value of the gift but the occasion of the thing giuen And how much the gift of it selfe is but simple and without curiositie so much the rather the same well considered is to be lykened to vertue it selfe which needeth no glorious shewe or ostentation to the iudgement of the wise By meanes whereof I am imboldened in this rude and homely stile to prease to offer to your Honor the fruites of my simple traueyle and to dedicate this noble and pleasant Treatise which at the first sight will seeme to manye a vaine thing treating only of Beastes but better aduised they shall finde it within full of Moralitie examples and gouernement Some perhappes will thinke my labour bestowed in the translation hereof and offered to your Lordshippe superfluous for that your Lordship vnderstandeth the Italian tongue verie well and can perfitely speake it For such as vnderstande anye tongue in which any good Authour hath written doe rather desire to reade it in the same tongue wherein it is originally written than in any other translated Wherfore Plato the great and learned Philosopher willed such as talked with him of Geometrie to repaire to Euclydes or else to reade it in his owne tongue To those I aunswere That I haue committed no errour to dedicate it to your L. vnlesse peraduenture in presumption to th end that such as vnderstande not may be pertakers of your gifts and your L. that vnderstandeth maye at your pleasure and leysure conferring the one with the other be iudge of the matter as I haue made your Lordship patrone and my only Mecenas As concerning the morality and sense of this Philosophie it is shadowed by the maner and speache of brute and dumbe beastes and by the examples and gestes of their liues which carieth such a veyne of delite with it as amongst a number of Italian Authours which I haue read I coulde finde none better in my poore opinion for mee to deale in and pleasanter for your Lordshippe at voyde times to reade than this Wherein you may my Lord see into the Court looke into the common wealth beholde the more part of all estates and degrees and the inferiour and common sort also maye learne discerne and iudge what waye is to be taken in the trade of their life but Courtyers aboue all others attending on the Princes presence A Glasse it is for them to looke into and also a meete schoole to reforme such schollers as by any maner of deuise practise or subtiltie vniustlye seeke to aspire or otherwise to abuse the Prince Thus my Lord leauing further to enlarge mee and to trouble your Lordship humbly beseechinge you to take my rude paines and bolde offer hereof vnto your Lordship in such good part as I haue ment it deliuering it to your honorable protection knowing my little labour herein to bee subiect to the censures and reproofe of many that are readie to carpe at euery little fault or finding themselues touched anye waye will mislike a troth with offer also of my humble dutie to your Lordshippe I humblye take my leaue wishing your Lordshippe and your noble house long life and happie successe in all your affaires Your Lordships humbly to commaunde Thomas North. To the Reader HE THAT BEGINNETH not to reade thys Booke frō the beginning to the ende and that aduisedly followeth not the order he findeth written shall neuer profite any thing thereby But reading it through and oft aduising that he readeth hee shall finde a marueylous benifite therof The stories fables and tales are very pleasaunt and compendious Moreouer the similitudes and comparisons doe as they saye holde hands one with the other they are so linked togithers one still depending of another which if you seuer desirous to reade any tale or storie by it selfe not comparing the Antecedent with the Sequele besides that you shall be farre from the vnderstanding of the matter you shall thinke them ryding tales spoken to no purpose but to occupie your eares and consume time Therefore follow I say this order giuen you and receyue to you the fruites of my poore traueyle and of your painefull reading Farewell Al lettore G. B. Il DONI che col suo leggiadro stile Augelli e mutipesci Armenti e fiere Fà ragionar d'Impresa alta humile E sotto il falso asconde còse vere Non pensò mai che la ricca ANGLIA e THYLE Sapessero di

same night howe the Asse reprooued the Moyle his brother The Lyon sent to the Libbard and commaunded his officers they shoulde vnderstand particularly the Moyles case and to dispatch him roundlye AL the beasts got them into the Parliament house and euery one tooke his place according to his degrée and sate them downe and the house being set there was brought before them in chaines this solemne traytor the Moyle And when he was come before the presence of such a sight of Asses and fooles the Libbard standeth vp speaketh Right honorable it is yet fresh in memorie that the King killed the poore innocent Chiarino so that from that time hitherto his Maiestie hath not bene quieted in his minde that hée put him to death by the false accusation and enuie of my Lorde the Moyle His Maiestie therefore hath liked to call vs to Parliament that euery one of vs should witnesse the troth if we knowe or haue heard any thing of his doings in what maner he did it what Arte he vsed with whom he practised and by whom he was assisted in this great treason to bring his wicked minde to purpose Euery one of vs is bound that knoweth ought to vtter it for the preseruation of the Realme and his Maiesties most royall person And then by iustice it is méete such traytors shoulde be punished and the good rewarded by meanes wherof the good may liue vnder his Maiesties reigne and gouernement with safetie and the yll be rooted out and cut off from the common weale Euery one looked other in the face and helde their peace The vnhappie Moyle perceyuing that euerie bodie was ashamed to take vppon them to tell so yll a tale cut off Fortune by the waste euen at that pinche and stepped to the matter himselfe rising vp vpon his féete being set before and boldly sayd these words Therefore my Lordes take no fantasie in your heades that is not honest for so yll woulde come of it and take not vpon you any thing that you are not well informed off least yours bee the shame and losse Let euery man remember his soule and let him not say that he knoweth not but to affirme that he hath seene I am very well contented with that Sure it were yll done my Lordes for anye man to speake that he knoweth not certainely and assuredly and the wrath of the Gods with such lyke yll lucke as mine would be poured vpon them and their lyfe and this none but I knoweth it better The maister Cooke of the Kinges Kitchin as fatte as a Hogge hearing this brauery of his to enforce his credite he tooke hart vpon him and emboldened himselfe notwithstanding his nobilitie and beganne to speake in presence of them all and thus he sayde RIght Reuerent and Honorable audience ye are very well met in this place Our olde auncient fathers that wrote many bookes of Phisiognomie of the which I thanke the King I haue greased a good number bicause I studied oftentimes in the Kitchin do tell vs many things and gaue vs diuers tokens to knowe beastes and men whereby we knowing them to be good or bad they should accordingly be rewarded or punished Id est I meane so to practise with the good and to flie the companie of the euill So it is yea marrie is it in faith I am sure of it I. Nowe for that I haue studied and according to my skyll I tell yée my Lordes I can not dissemble I finde our solemne Moyle here to haue manye yll partes in this matter which showe him in all and for all to be enuious false and a traytor leauing out that he is verye cruell and wickedly bent besides And ye marke him he euer looketh hier with his left eye than his right and his nostrels he turneth still to the right side with his eiebrowes verye thicke and long of heares and continually he looketh on the grounde which are manifest tokens he is a traitor and all these signes looke ye on him that list ye shall sée him haue them rightly I warrant ye The Moyle séeing the Swyne groyne with so yll a grace although he was euen almost grauelled and out of countenance yet he turned to him and replied MY Lords if it were true that this malicious Swyne and greasie verlet here before yee all doth tell yee that the heauens shoulde place signes in vs as a necessarie cause of wickednesse then streight assoone as we sawe any beastes brought forth with those peruerse lines and marks eyther they were forthwith to be punished or put to death that they should not worke such wicked treasons and effectes and fewe besides that should bee borne that the most part of them at the least were not marked with these signes that he his goodly bookes doe imagine I knowe not if his doctrine shall be of such authoritie receyued amongst you that it shall condemne my goodnesse and pure workes Sure this worshipfull beast is deceyued and doth as they that see an olde woman present a yong woman with any thing or deliuereth hir some letter with anye pittifull showes streight without touch of brest not knowing no further they take hir for a Bawde My worshipfull Hogge shoulde knowe thyngs better before hee be thus bolde and saucie to speake in this presence But none is so bolde as blinde Bayarde I see Thou weenest to poynt at me but thy selfe it is that is poynted at and thou marke it well Thou supposest to detect me and to open my defectes and doest not looke vpon thy selfe what thine owne doe showe thee But harken to this tale then tell me how thou likest it OVr forefathers and elders sacked a great Citie had the spoyle of all that was in it and put all to the sworde saue olde men and women and little children of all sortes In tyme these little ones grew and bicause they left them nothing men and women went naked hyding only their secrets and priuities with some thing One day there came to the towne an olde countrie Cloyne to sell woode and hee brought with him his two daughters wherof the one went plainely to worke without any ceremonie showing such marke as God had sent hir and the other comely couered it wyth leaues as well beseemed hir The people began to say to the vnmoseled Mayde oh shame of the world fie for shame hyde hyde hyde The olde Cloyne bicause he woulde not haue that Maygame behinde him turning him reuiled euery body that spake and was as madde as a March Hare and leauing him selfe bare gaue hir his furniture to hyde hir shame Then they were all on the iacke of him and reuyled him to badde His first daughter that was couered seeing hir father bare sayde vnto him Lo sayth she ye haue made a good hande nowe had not you vene better haue holden your peace and to haue kept your owne priuities close as they were at the first This tale I haue told for thee maister Cooke of the