them Then in the succession of time raigned Saint Edward a right vertuous Prince who selected and enacted excellent good lawes but within a while after the Normans conquered this land and altered the estate thereof appoynting new lawes in their owne language as a people naturally inclined to sophisticall and doubtful sence whereby they wrested the lawes to all constructions Yet notwithstanding King Edward the third was enduced to abrogate many of the Norman lawes and in their stead to inuest new and wholesome lawes The method of which is at this day put in practise among our Sergeants and vtter-Sarristers Obiection That law which is of no antiquitie neither grounded vpon any good foundations nor vsed in any countrey but one cannot bee good such is the common law of England therefore it is of no effect Answere Our Common law of England I confesse is of no great antiquitie yet grounded vpon the law of Nature and approoued by the vniuersall consent of the Prince Nobles Commons in a generall Parliament In briefe necessity hath no reason Whether alteration of lawes be good in a commonwealth Chap. 48. THere was a law amōg the Locrensians that whosoeuer did intrude himself to make a new law should come with a halter about his necke insomuch that if his lawes were approued he went away safe as he came if reproued hee was presently hanged So in like maner when we alter our vsuall diet wee feele great innouations in our bodies and do perhaps fall into some sicknesse or other but when we be accustomed once vnto it then we recouer waxe more lusty then before we were Custome as they say is another nature But yet this custome may bee reduced into a better The alteration of lawes I confesse at the first seemeth rough and raw vnto our fraile and queizy natures But within a while they be better liked of Which moued the Diuine Philosopher to say that chaunge of lawes excepting those that be bad is perilous at all times This caused the Kentishmen to rise against king William the Conquerour of this land and priuily to enclose him round about in the woods that thereby hee might the sooner be compelled to cōdiscend to their petition which was that they might be suffered to enioy their ancient customes and liberties As for the deciding of this question I thinke that some lawes may bee altered and reduced into better Howbeit law-makers must aduise themselues wel in that behalfe take great heed therein for where there ariseth small good by innouations of lawes it is an euill thing Surely It is better to beare with the imperfections of lawes because the alteration of them will not do so much benefit as harme by vsing men to disobey And againe who is so dull-spirited which will not graunt that defects of lawes ought now and then to be winked at and dissembled Vpon which occasion all persons vnder the age of forty were heretofore forbidden to enquire whether lawes were well or ill made Ripenesse of yeares is a great meane to conserue people in their obedience And for that cause young men are thought vnfit to deale in matters of state and morall Philosophy Of Diuinity Chap. 49. THe auncient Philosophers accounted three kinds of speculatiue or contemplatiue Sciences to wit naturall philosophy the Mathematickes and Diuinity which is the first and chiefest beginning of all things which is the cement that soddereth the peeces of the building of our estate and the planke wherewith our ship is fortified Take away this beginning and the world will seeme a confused Chaos Take away this cement and our building is ruinous In a word vncaske the plāks of a ship it wil leake sinke into the sea Plant ye therfore religion in your kingdomes and let not the heathen rise vp against you at the day of iudgement The Romanes we read through the bare instinct of nature did so reuerētly thinke of Diuinity that they sent their childrē into Hetruria to learne it there And yet many of vs Christiās presume to iniure the ministers God albeit we know that nothing is hidde from him and that he is present and still accompanieth vs in the midst of our secrete cogitations God make cleane our hearts within vs and cause vs to regard his ministers and word better then wee do Otherwise let vs expect for nothing but fearfull alarums warres heresies pestilence and famine continually without ceasing to annoy and destroy both vs and our countrey Whether two religions may be tolerated in one kingdome Chap. 50. TWo religions cannot be suffered in one kingdome for diuersities cause factions garboiles and ciuill warres which neuer end but with the subuersiō of the commonwealth The tranquillity of all estates consisteth in the vnion and consent of the inhabitants Take away this vnion and it is but a denne for rouers and theeues The first foundations of kingdomes were built vpon the rock of one religion and the heathen themselues had neuer established their lawes if they had harboured pluralities of religions He that displaceth this stone shaketh all the building No man can serue two masters for eyther he must despise the one or loue the other Neither must Princes halt betweene two opinions If the Lord be God follow him but if Baal be hee then go after him In religion there is no mediocrity for a man must either be a Christian or els he must be an enemy of Christ that is an Antichristian according to our Sauiour Christes words He that is not with mee is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth I am the Lord saith God this is my name and my glory wil I not giue away to another neyther my prayse to grauen images Also it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serue But how is it possible to obserue this commaundement as long as our Papists beleeue that the Pope is no man but Gods vicar and more expresly that hee is God Theodosius therefore is highly commended in that he made warre with the. Arrians and proclaimed one true religion 〈◊〉 be planted throughout all his Empire in this likewise England may faithfully glory that beyng welnigh drowned in the sea of Popish superstition she is now saued and restored to the true and Apostolicall doctrine the which God of his goodnesse maintaine from heresies and schismes Of Simony one of the chiefest ouerthrowes of religion Chap. 51. SImony is a deliberatiue will eyther of buying and selling or els of posting ouer and exchaunging some spirituall thing or some thing annexed to the spirituality as aduowsons presentations and such like This vice is called after the name of Simon Magus by reason that he offred the Apostles money that they might giue him the power that on whomsoeuer he layd his hands he should receyue the holy Ghost For which his execrable proffer hee had this answere of
and the punishment thereof Chap. 61 IT is strange nowe-a-dayes to see how one man is a woolfe to another and how their whole imaginations are set on nought else saue on destruction and bloud Although they speake gently and vtter the wordes of the holy Prophets yet in their mustie mindes they repose the Foxes subtilties and hating their brethren are as sounding brasse and tinkling Cimballes For which cause lette not beastes excell vs who are wont to conuerse with all other of the same kinde and doe right kindly loue together Lette vs not I say bee at variance amongst our selues and suffer the Diuell to haue his tryumphant will by prouoking vs to further mischiefe and like promooters to lay trappes for our enemies To fall out for euerie strawe and to reuenge euerie iniurie is as if one member of the body should rebell against another and to say the truth doe we not dayly see howe these kindes of contentious men are ouermet withall and ouerthrowne in their owne inuentions Albeit they flourish for a while yet notwithstanding at last they haue their deserts for GOD when hee strikes strikes home and to the quicke For manifestation wherof I will propose certaine late examples and which haue chanced within this last age In the yeere of our Lord 1503. Ceasar Borgias determining to poyson a Cardinall and others inuited them to supper and for that purpose sent before a flaggon of wine that was infected with poyson by a seruant that knew nothing of the matter commanding that no man should touch them but such is the iudgement of God who in the execution of iustice raiseth one tyrant to kil another and breaketh the brands of fire vpon the head of him that first kindled it Pope Alexander the sixt Cesar Borgias his father comming by aduenture in somewhat before Supper and ouercome with the exceeding drought of the weather called for drinke and because his own prouision was not as thē brought from the palace he that had the infected wine in charge thinking it to bee recommended to his keeping for wine most excellent gaue the Pope to drinke of the same wine which Cesar Borgias his bastard sonne had sent who likewise arriuing while his father was drinking drunke also of the same wine being but iust that they both should tast of the same cup which they had prepared for others In the yeere of our Lord 1563. the Duke of Guise purposing to sacke the Citie of Orleans wrote vnto the Queen Mother that within foure and twentie howres after he would send her word of the taking of Orleans wherein hee would not spare any man woman or childe whatsoeuer and that after hee had kept his Shrouetide therein hee would in such sort spoile and destroy the towne that the memorie thereof should be extinct for euer But man purposeth and God disposeth for the same day as the Duke about euening returned from the camp to the Castle where he lodged minding to execute that which he had written vnto the Queene a yong man named Iohn Poltrot hauing long time before intended to giue the stroke stayed for him in the way as hee returned to his lodging and discharged his pistoll laden with three bullets at him whereof the Duke presently after died In like maner the Duke his sonne hauing occasioned that bloudy massacre at Paris in the yeere 1572. and purposing in the yeere 1588. vtterly to roote the Protestants out of the realme was himselfe slaine through the commaundement of the French king his soueraigne whom he a litle before most traiterously had iniuried By these and such like examples let vs take heed how wee entrap one another yea let vs beware how we curse lay in waite for our chiefest enemies Vengeance is Gods and he will reward Briefly let vs embrace loue and friendly agree together in Christ Iesu. For loue deferreth wrath it is bountifull loue enuieth not loue doth not boast it selfe it is not puffed vp it reioyceth not in iniquity but in the truth it suffereth all things it beleeueth all things it hopeth all things it endureth al things Of Enuy. Chap. 62. NOt without reason are vices named brutish for they be all borrowed from brute beasts Niggardize we haue from the hedgehog pride from the lion anger from the wolfe gluttony frō the beare sluggishnesse frō the asse enuy from the dog All which saue enuy may sophistically be iustified as for example niggardize is shadowed vnder the number and care of wife and children and otherwhiles vnder the vaile of pouerty Pride pleadeth that familiarity breeds contempt and that she must obey the importunity of the times Anger alleadgeth the ingratitude of men the indignity of iniuries the disparagement and shame that may follow by too much patience Gluttony sheweth that hee hath a strong constitution of body a good stomack to his meat and therefore hang sorrow and kill care Sluggishnesse declareth that labour and study consume the vitall spirites that he which sleepes well thinkes no harme and he that thinks no harme pleaseth God Thus euery vice for the most part can shrowd it selfe vnder some cloake or other But Enuy where is thy excuse Truly thou hast nothing to say for thy selfe Onely thou meanest to escape away scotfree because thou art concealed in mans heart as being like vnto a tree which in outward appearaunce seemeth to be most beautifull and is full of faire blossomes but inwardly is rotten worme-eaten and withered Now a-daies thy subiects beare all the sway they put men by the eares they are the Petifoggers they the politicians and who but they Alasse there is no man that enuieth not another mans prosperity What then shall we further expect nothing but the comming of the great Iudge Wee see all things fulfilled wee see the father enuious against the sonne the sonne against the father to bee short wee see one brother enuious against another Now is that golden prophesie of the Greeke Oratour come to passe to wit When equity and the common good are ouerturned by enuy then must wee thinke that all things are turned topsy turuy Examples aswell domesticall as forraine be infinite concerning enuy howbeit at this time I will rehearse but one and that a forraine one In the yeere of our Lord 1596. the Duke of Medina seing that our English fleet had burnt the Spanish nauy had takē the towne of Cales and doubting that the other nauy which he had at S. Lucas would either be compelled to yeeld or pay ransome was so enuious of our happy successe that he caused it immediatly to be set on fire so that to spare a reasonable redemption he rashly lost twelue millions of gold which as it is credibly reported the nauy valued Amongst other sins which the Turks account deadly this of Enuy is not held to be the least For say they no man whatsoeuer shall euer come to the ioyes of Paradise although in all other things he be neuer
reasons First that they might remember th◠creation of the world for in sixe daies the Lord made heauen and earth and all that therein is and rested the seuenth day Secondly that they might assemble together gratefully thanke his diuine maiesty for his daily blessing powred down vpon them Thirdly that they might recreat refresh and repose themselues to th' end they might labour the next week more aptly Fourthly the Sabaoth is to be obserued by reason it is the seuenth day which number containeth great and hidden mysteries The skie is gouerned by seuen Planets The reuolutiō of time is accomplished in seuen dayes which wee call weekes God commaunded Noah to take into his arke cleane beasts fowle by seuens Pharaoh dreamed that he saw seuen fat kine and seuen leane Dauid deliuered seuen of Sauls sonnes to the Gibeonites to be hanged Christ being termed the first stone of God hath seuē eyes Seuen thousand men did God reserue that neuer bowed their knees to Baal Zachariah in a vision saw a candlesticke of gold with a bowle vpon the top of it and seuen lampes therein and seuen pipes to the lampes Iob had seuen sonnes Seuen Angels go forth before God Neither were the seuen brethren whom Antiochus put to death voyd of a mystery S. Iohn in the Reuelation sawe seuen golden Candlestickes and in the middest of them the Sonne of man hauing in his right hand seuen starres Moreouer he saw the opening of the seuenth seale and the seuen Angels which stood before the Lord to whome were giuen seuen trumpets The Antichrist is prophesied to sit vpon a scarlet coloured beast which hath◠seuen heads By which as all true Christians be perswaded the Pope and his Cardinals attired in Scarlet his seuen hilled city of Rome are meant What more shall I write of the worthinesse of this seuēfold number mans life goeth by seuens named climactericall yeers which Macrobius hath well obserued Sith therefore it hath pleased God so to esteeme of this number let vs Christians honour the same as fearing the scourage of the commaunder It was ordained by a good and godly act made in y e parliament of Scotlād in the yeere of our Lord 1512. being the one and twentieth yeere of the raigne of Iames the fourth that no markets nor fayres should be holden on the Sabaoth day Which act King Iames the sixt that nowe is by the consent of his three estates ratified and approoued in the Parliament holden in the yeere 1579. cōdemning the breakers of the Sabaoth to forfeit all their moueables to the vse of the poore within that parish where they dwelt It was likewise there enacted that no handy-work should be vsed on y t Sabaoth nor any gaming playing passing to Tauernes nor wilfull remaining from prayer and Sermons should bee in any case exercised vnder the penalties following to wit of euerie man for his labouring as often as he was taken in the fact ten shillings and of euerie person for gaming playing passing to Tauernes and wilfull remaining from praier and Sermons on the sunday twentie shillings to bee presently payed and imployed to the releefe of the poore in their parish I could wish that some speedy good order were taken here in Englād for the breakers of the Sabaoth For many now a-dayes hauing beene idle all the weeke before doe of set contumacie labour that day in despight of the Lord his Sabaoth Some frō morning to euening do nothing els but play at dice or tables swearing staring at the least crosse of fortune Others againe be delighted with reading of pāphlets louebooks ballads such like neuer once so deuout as to name God vnlesse shamefully abusing him Oh how oftē do they vse on that day vnseemly speeches the very Turks I feare me go beyond them in deuotion For they duly on their festiual daies resort to their Churches neuer once gazing or looking aside as long as seruice lasteth The seruice being ended they go home each mā to his house inuiting humbly beseeching the priests to beare them cōpany with whō they questiō touching diuine matters not by carping nicking nipping but with pure simplicity feruent care wheras many of vs Christians contrariwise do openly prophane not only holidaies but also the Lords day yet they terme themselues Christians Christiās O coūterfeit Christiās worse thē Painims Me thinks if nothing else could moue you yet the daily myraculous punishments inflicted on such prophane persons as you bee should bee a terrible warning for you At Kinstat a towne in France dwelled a certain couetous woman about fortie yeres ago who was so eager in gathering together worldly pelfe that shee would neither frequent the church to heare the word of God on sunday her selfe nor yet permit any of her familie to do it but alway toyled about pilling and drying of flaxe neither would shee bee disswaded by her neighbours frō such an vnseasonable work One sunday as she was thus busied fire seemed to fall downe among the flaxe without doing any hurt The next sunday it tooke fire indeed but was soone quenched For all this shee continued forwarde in her worke euen the third Sunday when the flaxe againe taking fire could not be extinguished till it had burnt her two of her childrē to death for though they were recouered out of the fire aliue yet y e next day they all 3. died that which was most to be wondred at a yong infant in the Cradle was taken out of the midst of the flame without any hurt Thus God punisheth the breakers of y e sabaoth Famous is that example which chanced neere London in the yeere of our Lord 1583. on the thirteenth day of Ianuarie being Sunday at Paris garden where there met together as they were wont an infinite number of people to see the beare-baiting without any regard of that high day But in the middest of their sports all the scaffolds and galleries sodainely fell downe in such wise that two hundred persons were crushed well nigh to death besides eight that were killed forthwith In the yeere of our Lord 1589. I being as then but a boy do remember that an Alewife making no exception of dayes would needes brue vpon Saint Markes day but loe the maruailous worke of God whiles she was thus laboring the top of the chimney tooke fire and before it could bee quenched her house was quite burnt Surely a gentle warning to them that violate and prophane forbidden dayes Notwithstanding I am not so straight laced that I would not haue any labour done on Sundayes and holy dayes For I confesse It is lawfull to fight in our countries defence on any daie It is lawfull to enter into the bath and it is lawfull for Phisicians and Apothecaries to temper and prepare medicines for the sicke and for cookes to dresse meate for our sustenance It is lawfull for vs
worthy Logick is defined to be an Art that knitteth well together all discourses formed by speeches and all positions in them according as they depend one vpon another are grounded vpon good reason And eueÌ„ as gold by seuen fires is tried and purified so in like maner the truth in despight of errours is by logicall disputations found out and restored to her former liberty For the end of Logick is to discerne in philosophy the truth from the false as if a man should say knowledge is the end of it The duties of it are foure namely to define to deuide to compose true arguments and to dissolue them that be false The partes of Logick are two to wit The first intentions and the second intentions Howbeit for all this the faigned Vtopians are reported neuer to haue been able to find out the second intentions by reason that none of them all could see man himselfe in common as they terme him though he bee as sâ—me know bigger then euer was any Gyant and pointed vnto vs euen with our finger But I leaue the Vtopians to their nullibies Of Rhetoricke and the abuse thereof Chap. 41. RHetorick is an Art that teacheth a man to speake finely smoothly and eloquently And whereas Logick formeth speech as it were a bare picture hauing nothing but simple draughts which serue to furnish it in respect of ech part and lineament thereof Rhetorick beyng the offspring of Logick shapeth it not onely as a picture well varnished but also enriched and polished with glorious fields and medowes and such like glozing shewes that it may become faire to the eye pleasant to the eare Being well applied there is nothing so sacred to perswade as it But nowadaies it is not much profitable especially to preachers For although Rhetorical speeches do delight their auditory yet notwithstaÌ„ding they make not much for y â— soules health Simple material speeches are best among frieÌ„ds Preachers therfore must labour to speak vtter that which the hearers vnderstand not go about the bush with their filing phrases They must not I say come with excellency of wordes to shew the testimony of God vnto the people Neyther must their preaching consist in the enticing speech of mans wisedome but in the plaine euidence of the spirit and of power Moses when God commaunded him to go downe to the Israelites would haue excused himselfe saying O my Lord I am not eloquent neyther at any time haue beene but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue Then the Lord said vnto him Who hath giuen the mouth to man or who hath made the dumme or the deafe or him that seeth or the blind haue not I the Lord Therefore go now and I will bee with thy mouth and will teach thee what thou shalt say Caluine that zealous Preacher had as many men know an impediment in his speach and in his sermons neuer vsed any painted or rhetoricall termes What shall I write of our common lawyers who with their glozing speeches do as it were lay an ambush for iustice and with their hired tongues think it not vnhonest to defend the guilty and to patronize vnlawfull pleas Why will not they imitate Anacharsis the Philosopher who when the scholers of Athens laughed him to scorne by reason hee could not pronounce Greeke distinctly and eloquently answered them that a speach was not to bee termed bad as long as it contayned good counsels and as long as honest deeds did follow after his words Constantine the Emperour deserueth great praise in that hee tooke away the forme of making deceitfull fine phrazed libels In like sort we read that the elegant solemnities of stipulations and such like trifling words were laid aside In briefe it was decreed among the Areopagites in AtheÌ„s that no Orator should vse any proheme or forespeech and digression nor perswade them eyther to mercy or to enuy Of Poetry and of the excellency thereof Chap. 42. When the children of Israel were enthralled in the land of bondage then GOD who is alway the helper of the friendlesse raised vp Moses his seruaunt made him ruler of his distressed people and deliuered them with a strong out-stretched arme froÌ„ their miserable captiuity Whereupon Moses framed a song of thankesgiuing vnto the Lord in verse which I take to be the most auncient of all So that it is certaine and as they say able to be felt with hands that Poetry came first by inspiration from GOD. Likewise Deborasung a Psalme of victory in meetre Dauid also the Prophets were Poets If wee prie into the liues of the heathen we shall find that Poetrie was the chiefest cause of their ciuility WheÌ„ before they remained scattered lawlesse and barbarous like vnto sauage beasts Amphion and Orpheus two Poets of the first ages assembled thâ—se rude nations and exhorted them to listen their eare vnto their wholesome counsels and to lead their liues well and orderly And as these two Poets and Linus before them reclaimed the wildest sort of men so by all likelihood mo Poets did the same in other places Further Poets were the first that obserued the secrete operations of nature and especially the celestial courses by reason of the perpetuall motion of the heauens searching after the first mouer and from thence proceeding by degrees to consider of the substaunces separate and abstract They were the first that offred oblations sacrifices and praiers They liued chast and by their exceeding continence came to receyue visions and prophesies So likewise Samuel the Prophets were named Seers Now sithence Poetry is so sanctified it will not bee amisse if I anatomize her parts and compare her with other faculties which done I doubt not but she wil deserue a more fauourable censure euen of the Momistes themselues The Prince of Philosophers writeth that Rhetorick had her first beginning from Poetry The chiefe of the late Philosophers doubted not to proue that Poetry was part of Logick because it is wholy occupied in deliuering the vse of examples I do not meane that kind of example which is vsed in common conferences but I meane the maners affections and actions of men which are brought as examples eyther to be imitated or shunned of the spectatours or readers In like maner Poetry is more philosophicall and serious then history because Poetry medleth with the generall consideration of all things wheras history treateth onely of the particular And not onely history but also Philosophy Law and Phisicke are subiect to Poetry for whatsoeuer nature or policy case or medicine they rehearse that may y e Poet if he please with his forme or imitation make his owne But mee thinks I see a rout of criticall Pharisees comming towards mee and discharging whole volees of cannon shot against my breast and exclayming without reason that I falsely erre for prouing
the Kings side saw in a gallerie Allen Chartier a learned Poet leaning on a tables end fast asleepe which this Princesse espying shee stouped downe to kisse him vttering these words in all their hearings Wee may not of Princely courtesie passe by and not honour with our kisse the mouth from whence so many golden poems haue issued Frauncis the first French King in the yeere of our Lord 1532. made those famous Poets Dampetrus and Macrinus of his priuie Counsell King Henrie the eight her maiesties Father for a few Psalmes of Dauid turned into English meeter by Sternhold made him Groome of his priuie chamber and rewarded him with many great gifts besides Moreouer hee made Sir Thomas Moore Lord Chauncelour of this Realme whose Poeticall works are as yet in great regard Queene Marie for an Epithalamy composed by Verzoza a Spanish Poet at her marriage with King Philip in Winchester gaue him during his life two hundred crowns pension Her Maiestie that now is made Doctour Haddon being a Poet master of the Requests In former times Princes themselues were not ashamed to studie Poetrie As for example Iulius Cesar was a very good Poet. Augustus likewise was a Poet as by his edict touching Virgils bookes appeareth Euax King of Arbia wrote a booke of pretious stones in verse Cornelius Gallus treasurer of Egypt was a singular good Poet. Neither is our owne age altogether to bee disprayed For the old Earle of Surrey composed bookes in verse Sir Philip Sydney excelled all our English Poets in rarenesse of stile and matter King Iames the sixt of Scotland that now raigneth is a notable Poet and daily setteth out most learned Poems to the admiration of all his subiects Gladly I could goe forward in this subiect which in my stripling yeeres pleased mee beyond all others were it not I delight to bee briefe and that Sir Philip Sydney hath so sufficieÌ„tly defended it in his Apologie of Poetrie that if I should proceede further in the commendation thereof whatsoeuer I write would bee eclipsed with the glorie of his golden eloquence Wherefore I stay my selfe in this place earnestly beseeching all Gentlemen of what qualitie soeuer they bee to aduaunce Poetrie or at least to admire it and not to bee so hastie shamefully to abuse that which they may honestly and lawfully obtaine Obiection The reading of Catullus Propertius Ouids loues and the lasciuious rimes of our English Poets doe discredite the Common-wealth and are the chiefe occasions of corruptions the spurres of lecherie therefore Poetrie is blame-worthie Answere In many things not the vse but the abuse of him that vseth them must bee blamed The fault is not in the Art of Poetrie but rather in the men that abuse it Poets themselues may bee traitours and felons and yet Poetrie honest and vnattainted Take away the abuse which is meerely accidental and let the substance of Poetrie stand still Euerie thing that bringeth pleasure may bring displeasure Nothing yeeldes profit but the same may yeeld disprofit What is more profitable then fire yet notwithstanding wee may abuse fire and burne houses and men in their beds Phisicke is most commodious for mankind yet wee may abuse it by administring of poysoned potions To end this solution I conclude that many of our English rimers and ballet-makers deserue for their baudy sonnets and amorous allurements to bee banished or seuerely punished and that Poetrie it selfe ought to bee honoured and made much of as a precious lewell and a diuine gift Of Philosophie Chap. 43. â— PHilosophie is the knowledge of all good things both diuine and humane It challengeth vnto it three things first contemplation to know those things which are subiect vnto it as Natural Philosophy teacheth vs the knowledge of the world Geo oâ—â—trae of the triangle the Metaphysick of God and morall Philosophie of vertue and felicitie Secondly Philosophie chalengeth the execution and practise of precepts Thirdly the promotion of a good man * Which three concurring together in one man do make him a wise Philosopher The Iewes diuided Philosophie into foure parts namely into Historical Ciuill Naturall of the contemplation of sacrifices and into Diuine of the speculation of Gods word Of which I will at this time content my selfe with the natural and the ciuill Naturall Philosophie is a science that is seene in bodyes magnitudes and in their beginnings or ground workes affections and motions Or as others say Naturall Philosophie is a contemplatiue science which declareth the perfect knowledge of naturall bodyes as farre foorth as they haue the beginning of motion within them There bee seuen parts of it The first is of the first causes of nature and of naturall bodyes The second of the world The third of the mutuall transmutation of the elements and in generall of generation and corruption The fourth is of the meteours The fift of the soule and of liuing creatures The sixt of plants The seuenth of things perfectly mixed and of things without life as of Minerals and such like Ciuill Philosophie is a science compounding mans actions out of the inward motion of Nature and sprung vp from the fulnesse of a wise minde insomuch that wee may in all degrees of life attaine to that which is honest This ciuill Philosophie is diuided into foure parts Ethicke Politicke Oeconomicke and Monastick Ethick is the discipline of good maners Of Oeconomick and Politick I haue discoursed before Monastick is the institution of a priuate and a solitarie life But of the worthinesse of this ciuill Philosophie and by how much it goeth before the naturall I haue expressed in another booke Of the Art Magick Chap. 44. THe auncient Magicians prophesied either by the starres and then their Art was termed Astrologie or by the flying and entrailes of birdes and this they called Augurie by the fire and that they named Pyromancie or by the lines and wrinckles of the hand which was termed Chiromancie or Palmistrie by the earth called Geomancie by the water and that they termed Hydromancie or by the diuell and this we call coniuring or bewitching All which superstitious kindes of illusions I feare mee haue beene too often vsed heere in England witnesse of late yeeres the witches of Warboise witnesse figure-casters calculatours of natiuities witnesse also many of our counterfeit Bedlems who take vpon theÌ„ to tell fortunes and such like Now-a-dayes among the common people he is not adiudged any scholer at all vnlesse hee can tell mens Horoscopes cast out diuels or hath some skill in southsaying Little do they know that this Art if it bâ—e lawfull to call it an Art is the most deceitfull of all Arts as hauing neither sure foundations to rest vpon nor doing the students thereof any good but rather alluring them to throw themselues away vnto the diuel both body soule Wo be vnto theÌ„ that delight therein for it were better for them that they had neuer beene
borne A man hauing in his furie killed one may by the grace of God repent and bee sorie for his offence but for the coniurer or magician it is almost impossible that hee should be conuerted by reason that the Diuell is alwaies conuersant with him and is present euen at his very elbow and will not once permit him to aske forgiuenesse Experience whereof Doctour Faustus felt who was at last torne in peeces by the diuell Cornelius Agrippa likewise a man famous for his great skill in Magicke and as yet fresh in some old mens memorie went continually accompanied with a Diuell in the shape of a blacke dōgge◠and when at his death hee was vrged to repent and crie GOD mercie hee pulled off the coller which was about the dogges necke and sent him away with these words Packe hence thou cursed curre which hast quite vndone mee With that the dogge went away and drowned himselfe in the riuer Arar Within a little after Agrippa deceased whose iudgement I leaue vnto the Lord. As touching the deedes of coniurers I confesse they bee wonderfull for the charmers of Egypt turned roddes into serpents in the sight of Pharao And there is nothing which good men doe but Sorcerers like Apes will assay to do the like Many of them among whome I meane Pope Siluester the second Pope Benedict the ninth and Pope Alexander the sixt were cunning in the scriptures professed holynesse of life and gaue pardons and indulgences as the Pope doth now vnto them that would buy them But in the end they were pitifully and openly tormented and deuoured by the Diuell their schoole-master My selfe haue seene about eleuen yeeres agoe a counterfeit dumbe fellow that could by signes and tokens foretell diuers things to come Hee could signifie what misfortunes a man hath suffered what yeeres hee was off what wife hee had maried how many children he had and which is most strange of all hee would finde out any thing which was hidden of purpose At last it was this yong Magicians happe to arriue at a zealous Gentlemans house who hauing before heard of his miraculous deedes eftsoone suspected him and made no more adoe but by violence and threatning enforced him to speake and to declare his dissimulation procured as hee himselfe confessed by the Diuell with whome hee had couenated to become dumbe on condition that he might performe such miracles haue heard and read of many Coniurers that wrought wonders and things almost incredible yet neuer haue I either heard or read of any that prospered but at the last they eyther came to the gallous or fagot or else they were preuented and miserably taken by the Diuell Which is the cause that wise men haue vtterly detested this blacke Arte as being admonished by other mens harmes to beware of it So that none but malicious simple and grosse-headed persons who eyther for reuenge or for couetousnesse are so seduced doe enter into league and confederacie with the Diuell To knit vp this discourse I aduise all persons and especially olde women to take heede of illusions and charmes seeing principally they bee damnable and forbidden by the lawes of God Secondarily Magicke is infamous abominable by the laws of man both ciuill and canon Finally men must abstain from sorceries coniurations witchcrafts and such kind of wickednesse for feare of punishment because if any sayth the Lord turne after such as worke with spirits and after southsayers to goe spiritually a whoring after them then will I set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people And in another place Thou must not suffer a witch to liue Looke therefore vnto your selues and bee prepared O simple wretches lest otherwise the siend finding you vnreadie will quickly surprize you and so inueigle your weake and shallow mindes Of Phisicke Chap. 45. MAny confound Phisicke and Philosophie together because both of them doe alike respect naturall bodies but our Ciuilians haue distinguished the one from the other For which cause I will at this time surcease the concordance and fall to the declaration of the goodnesse thereof There is no facultie saue law and Diuinitie comparable vnto Phisicke Insomuch as mightie Potentates haue not disdained to exercise it Gentius the King of Illyria found out the vertuous qualities of the herbe called Gentian Iuba King of Mauritania and Lybia found the herbe called Euphorbium Sabor King of the Medes Sabrel King of the Arabians Mithridates King of Pontus and Auicenna King Corduba were professed Phisicious The Angell Raphael caused blind Tobias with the gall of a fish to receiue his sight Luke the Euangelist was a Phisicion yea and * GOD himselfe is called the supreme Phisicion both of body and soule Wherefore see that you honour Phisicke O yee that bee rich and make much of the Phisicion for the Lord created him Of Law Chap. 46. THe law is the knowledge of things As wel Diuine as Humane and of that which is iust and vniust Of Ciuilians it is declared tripartite as it comprehendeth the law of nature the law of nations and the ciuill law The law of nature is a feeling which euerie one hath in his conscience whereby hee discerneth betweene good and euill as much as is sufficient to deliuer him from the cloudie cloake of ignorance in that hee is reprehended by himselfe Hence commeth the coniunction of male and female the Procreation of children and education The law of Nations is a prescription that all maner of people can claime as to resist violence was lawfull to defraud the wilie and subtill was no fraude to hurt a Herauld was not tolerable to pay euery man his owne was right and in a maner all contracts were brought in by this law as buying selling hiring gaging and infinite others The Ciuill law is that which is squared according to honestie and is termed euery priuate law enacted by one peculiar people There is also a Diuine law which is three-fold to witte the morall law the ceremoniall law and the Iudiciall law The morall law is that which is constituted for all Nations if they will obserue the commandements of GOD The Ceremoniall law was an instruction of infancie giuen to the Iewes to bee exercised vnder the obedience of God vntill Christs comming The Iudiciall law is that which was giuen them for politicke gouernement teaching them certaine Maximes of iustice whereby they might liue quietly without molesting one another Of the Common Law in England Chap. 47. AS soone as Brutus came into this Realme hee constituted the Troians lawes throughout all his dominions But when diuisions and ciuill broyles hapned a little after his decease those lawes decayed for a long time vntill Malmutius reuiued them enlarging them with many profitable more and were named Malmutius lawes vnto which Martia a Queene of this land added the decrees of her time and were called Martiaes lawes Besides these King Lud is reported to amend
Peter Thy money perish with thee because thou thinkest that the gift of God may be obtained with money Simony may be coÌ„mitted three maner of waâ—es First whosoeuer selleth or buyeth the word of God is a Simonist Wherefore the Lord said vnto his disciples Freely you haue receyued freely giue Secondly hee that giueth or taketh any thing for a Bishopricke Benefice Headship or for a fellowes or Scholers roome is guilty of Simony Thirdly The Minister that denieth to bury the dead or say Diuine seruice committeth Simony Now hauing declared how many waies Simony is committed I wil shew that it is the vtter ruine of the Cleargie and consequently of the whole commonwealth First Simony is condemned with excommunication the seuerest censure of the Church and therfore odious Secondly Simony hindreth house-keeping so that ministers cannot distribute almes Thirdly it breedeth the desolation and destruction of the state For commonly there ensueth a dissolution of the commonwealth when the fruits 〈◊〉 reueneâ—es therof are decreased Fourthly Simony discourageth parents to send their sonnes to the Vniuersity for what parents bee so foolish as to bestow in maintenaunce of their sonnes at least three hundred pound before they attayne to perfection and then to pay againe two hundred pouÌ„d for a benefice or foure hundred pound for a Chauncelorship surely it is a lamentable case I had rather saith one that my sonne be a colier then a scholer For what shall I put my sonne to schoole when he shall pay so much for a liuing Better it is for me to leaue my sonne an ingram foole then to buy him a liuing through vnlawfull meanes Besides who is so bluntish that knoweth not the great infinite labours of Scholers that seeth not their eyes weakned their bodies empaired which is worse their spirites decaied O stony hearts O wicked Simonists Doubtlesse this abomination portends some great calamity to follow Lastly Simony is an heresie and for that respect it ought to be reiected from all true Christians To wind this vp in a word I wish all Pastours and patrons of benefices and Chancelourships to looke more narrowly vnto themselues and to stand in feare of God who vndoubtedly is offended with their Simony and will one day requite the slacknes of their punishments with the weight thereof wil cast them downe headlong into the bottomlesse and tormenting pit of hell where euery sence of their bodies shall abide his peculiar punishment Their eyes shall haue no other obiects then Diuels and Snakes their eares shall bee afflicted with clamours and howlings their noses with brimstone and filthy smels their tast with poison and gall and their feeling shal be vexed continually with boyling lead and firy flames The sixt Plant. Of the alteration of a common-wealth Chap. 52. COmmonwealths euen as mortall men haue their infaÌ„cy childhood stripling age youth virility middle age and old age that is they haue their beginning vegetation flourishing alteration and ends And like as diuers innouations maladies do happen to meÌ„ according to the coÌ„stitutioÌ„ of their bodies or according to their diet and education so in like maner it falleth out with commonwealths as being altered eyther by domesticall ciuill wars or els by forreyne or perhaps by both together or by the death of the noblest inhabitaunts or to bee briefe by vices which are suffred to creepe in It is necessary that all things which are in this world should waxe old and hasten to the same end some sooner others later according to the will of God their Creatour and by his permission through the influence of the heauenly bodies from which this mutuall succession of life and death issueth Howbeit notwithstaÌ„ding I confesse that prodigious signes are not the causes of euents but rather foretokens of them Like as an Iuy bush put forth at a vintrie is not the cause of the wine but a signe that wine is to be sold there so likewise if wee see smoke appearing in a chimney wee know that fire is there albeit the smoke is not the cause of the fire God onely chaungeth the tymes and seasons hee discouereth the deepe and secret things and the light is with him The effects of all the Cometes and the chiefest Eclipses which hapned in this last age Chap. 53. FOrasmuch as the alterations of commoÌ„wealths are for the most part foreshewed vnto vs by heauenly signes I iudge it more meet for mee to declare those which chaunced within this last age rather then in any other especially for that they are neerer to our fathers memories and also more familiar vnto vs. In the yeere of our Lord 1500. there appeared a Comet in the North after the which followed many and straunge effects For the Frenchmen assaulted the kingdome of Naples the Tartarians the kingdome of Polonia Then was a great famine in Swethland and a cruell plague throughout al Germany besides ciuill warres amongst themselues in taking part with the Bauarians against the Bohemians TheÌ„ died Pope Pius the 3. together with the Archbishop of Treâ—ires and diuers other famous wights In the yeere 1506. appeared another Comet Whereupon died Prince Philip the father of Charles the fift and Ferdinand afterward Emperours Maximilian the Emperour made warre with the Frenchmen and Venetians In the yeere 1514. was an Eclipse of the sunne About which time George Duke of Saxony inuaded and spoyled FrizelaÌ„d King Lewis the 12. of FrauÌ„ce and Vladislaus king of Hungary Bohemia departed out of this world In the yeere 1518. was seene another Eclipse of the sunne Immediatly after the which died the Emperour Maximilian the first Christierne the 2. king of Denmarke fought a most bloudy battell with the Swethens within a while after he was deposed of his kingdome In the yeere 1527. appeared a great Comet the operation wherof the poorâ— Hungarians felt as being barbarously to the shame of all Christians martyred destroyed by the Turkes The prodigious disease of sweating was rife here in England The riuer Tiber ouerflowed the citie of Rome The sea also consumed away a great part of the low countries In the yeere of our Lord 1533. waâ— seene another blazing starre whereupoÌ„ a litle while after king H. y â— 8. was diuorced froÌ„ his brothers wife The sect of the Anabaptists begaÌ„ to rise Pope Clement the 7. departed out of this life and Pope Paul the 3. was inuested in his roome In the yeere 1539. chaunced an Eclipse of the sunne presently after appeared a Comet the effects wherof were many For there was a great coÌ„motioÌ„ in GauÌ„t which the Emperour not without much damage at leÌ„gth appeased took away their priuileges froÌ„ them Iohn the K. of Hungary ended his life And so did Henry Duke of Saxony The Duke of Brunswisk was by the young Duke of Saxony and by the Landgraue of Hassia driuen out of his countrey The English ouercame
when the Prince winketh at the cosonages of magistrates and Lawyers and permitteth some of the richer sort to enclose commons and to rake their inferiors out of measure Of Treason Chap. 55. TReason bringeth no lesse danger and hurt to men then Loyaltie doth profit and felicitie for it is farre easier to vanquish a knowne foe then to subdue a traitour and a priuie conspiratour This wicked monster in time of warre worketh more scath and damage then all artilleries Howbeit hee neuer enioyeth his promised hire but is at last cruelly punished As for example the great Turke in the yeere of our Lord 1400. hauing taken Constantinople through the treason of Iohn Iustinian a Genoway whō after he had made King according to his promise caused his head to bee chopt off within three dayes To approch neerer our owne time let vs bethinke with our selues the mercifull prouidence of God in discouering the hainous treasons pretended against our dread soueraigne Queen Elizabeth Of late yeeres namely in the yeere 1588. what befell to Tilney Sauage Babington and the rest of their cursed complices were they not all executed brought to confusion Likewise Doctour Lopouze the Queenes Phisicion who had poysoned sundry Noblemen of this Realme and by the Spanish Kings procurement went about to poyson the Queene her selfe had he not in the yere 1594. his deserued punishment Euen so the last yeere one Squire by the instigation of a Spanish Frier going about to do away her Maiestie was surprized in his treason and executed to the terrour of all such diuelish traitours Be therefore better admonished yee wauering men let the example of such as were executed terrifie your minds from rebellious attempts and suffer not wilfully the diuell to tempt and leade you into temptation Of Idlenesse Chap. 56. O You slouthfull men why doe you miche range turne your backs to vertuous labours seeing that they who ouercame the delites of this world haue deserued heauen for their rewards why doe you straggle rogue from house to house Beleeue me there is no occupation in the world that bringeth with it lesse profit then yours Goe to the emmet yee slouthfull sluggards consider her wayes and learne to bee wise She hath no guide no teacher no leader yet in the summer shee prouideth her meate and gathereth together her foode in the haruest Oh why haue you forgotten the words of the Lord namely In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bread Remember what penalties are imposed on runnagates and loytering droanes In the primitiue Church it was decreed that all men should liue of their owne labour and not vnprofitably waste the fruits of the earth Likewise the faigned Syphograuntes or officers of the Vtopians tooke heede that no man sate idle but that each one should diligently apply his owne craft and occupation What shall I say of our owne constitutions here in England In the yeere of our Lord 1572. it was enacted in the parliament that all persons aboue the age of foureteene yeeres which were taken begging and roging abroade should be apprehended whipped and burnt through the eare with a hot iron for the first time so found and the second time to be hanged For which consideration looke vnto your selues yee carelesse caitifes gette you masters that may instruct you in some occupation or other which done labour continually that not onely for your selues but for the reliefe also of such as are not able to helpe themselues In so doing Sathan the enemie of grace who hitherto like a wily foxe hath awaited for you shall goe away in despaire and as they say with a flea in his eare Of Dice-play Chap. 57. CHristians ought vtterly to forbeare Dice-play first because The diuell inuented it Secondly because it is flat against the commandement of GOD namely Thou shalt not couet any other mans goods Thirdly Dice-play is for the most part accompanied with swearing and blaspheming Gods holy name Fourthly the holy fathers of the church haue most vehemently written against it Fiftly all sports and recreations must haue respect to some profite either of body or of mind otherwise it is but lost for which wee must one day yeelde an account to God but Dice-play as wee know is no exercise for the body neither is it any pleasure for the minde for the euent of the hazard or maine driueth the players minde to a furious hope and sometimes into a fearefull quandarie to wit when hee doubteth the recouerie of his lost money Sixtly we are charged Not to consume our time in wicked and vnlawfull exercises Seuenthly men must abstaine from Dice-play that they might shew good example to their inferiours For * if graue parents delight in wicked Dice-play their sonnes will likewise be enduced thereunto Eightly Dice-play is condemned by the lawes and decrees of Princes By the law Roscia all such as played at dice were banished from their countrey It was also enacted in Rome that Dice-players should bee amerced in foure times so much as they played for King Edward the fourth of this Realme decreed that euerie Dice-player should be imprisoned two yeres and forfeit tenne pound King Henrie the seuenth enacted that Dice-players should bee imprisoned one day and that the keeper of the gaming house should bee bound to his good be hauiour and be fined a Noble King Henrie the eight ordained that euerie one which kept a dicing house should pay fortie shillings and the players themselues a Noble for euerie time so occupied Ninthly this kind of play is odious and reproachfull as appeared in Antonie to whome Cicero obiected that hee not onely himselfe was a dicer but also hee fostered such men as were dicers i Augustus the Emperour was noted and ill thought of for his dicing Lastly the despaire and aduersitie which Dice-players fall into and their extraordinarie punishments be sufficient meanes to reclaime and terrifie men from it In the yeere of our Lord 1550. one Steckman of Holsatia hauing lost much money at dice fell into despaire and therewithall killed three of his children and would haue hanged himselfe if his wife had not preuented him Likewise in the yere 1553. one Schetrerus playing at dice in an ale-house neere to Belisan a towne in Heluetia blasphemed God Wherupon the diuell came in place and carried him away Also my selfe haue knowne a wealthie yeoman that was as great a dicer as any other in that shire where he dwelt and I thinke had gotten wel-nigh a thousand pound by that his occupation but what became of him and his wealth marrie he bathing himselfe in a riuer was sodainely drowned and his sonne to whom his goods after his death did rightly appertaine before 3. yeeres were expired spent al at dice and at this day is glad to stand at mens deuotion In summe do wee not commōly see that dice-players neuer thriue and if perhaps one amongst a thousand chance to winne
to the desolation of it Lodowick Sfortia Duke of Millaine sent for the Switzers to succour him against the Frenchmen But how sped he Mary hee was by his owne mercenaries deliuered prisoner ouer to Lewis the twelfe French king yea we read that the greatest misery which euer hapned to the Brittish nation diuided was when Vortiger mistrusting the peeres of his Realme called in the Saxons to helpe him who at last coÌ„pelled him to deliuer the chiefest part of his kingdome vnto them So that at length they droue away at the naturall inhabitants of the countrey For which cause the natiue subiect is to be esteemed who staÌ„deth not so much vpoÌ„ his valour pay as vpon his loyalty reputation Besides no man is so barbarous sauage as to take part with straÌ„gers against his owne countreymen How the enemy is to be vanquished Chap. 70. WE must obserue twelue rules before we discomfit our enemies Wherof the first is that wee aske forgiuenes of God for our misdeedes and feruently beseech him to goe before our armie The second is that the Captaine Generall forbid all blasphemies swearing dicing rioting and such like impious doings The third that none but wise men beare office in the campe The fourth way to ouercome the enemie is to bee well prouided of necessaries The fift Captaines must not enuie one another The sixt niggardly and corrupt officers must bee seuerely punished The seuenth our warriours must make no long delay in the enemies country especially if the climat therof be contagious and noysome The eight meanes to obtaine the victorie ouer our foes is not to permit any to straggle abroad and rob lest meeting with ambushes they bee vnawares surprized The ninth Marchants on paine of death must not transport any newes prouision or commodities into the enemies coast The tenth valiant men must bee nobly recompenced for their aduenturous acts The eleuenth rule to haue a fresh supply alwaies at a becke and for that purpose some of the best experienced Captaines must be left behind to conduct the rawest sort and to traine them vp in martiall discipline The twelfe and last obseruation is that all transgressors be rigorously chastised to the terrour and ensample of others The Conclusion of peace Chap. 71. LEst for treating of Martiall affaires I bee either termed a fauourer of contention or else a simple dizart as hauing neuer as yet seene the enemie in the face no not so much as their tents heere voluntarily I resigne my crest I lay downe mine ensigne In regard whereof I demaund an oliue branch the onely true and vndoubted token of peace The reason that thus mooueth mee is our owne safetie for if wee should doe nothing but fight and enter into skirmishes in the end our fieldes would remaine without village and the ashes of our burat houses as a graue would couer our dead corps Who knoweth not that peace is the end of warre peace therefore must bee established betimes All things are sodered together through vnitie but disseuered through discord The Realme of France is a liuely spectacle hereof which being of late yeeres hackt by the leaguers as it were into mammocks became wel-nigh a pray vnto the Spanish king But now being vnited againe shee recouereth her former strength Wherefore O Souldiour lay downe thy Musket and Armour and say not with the Poet I haue as yet long speares round shieldes head-peeces and glistering cuiraces Oh seeke not to defile thy handes in thy brothers bloud Forgiue thine enemie euen as GOD forgiueth thee Hearken I pray thee what the Apostle sayth If it bee possible as much as in you is haue peace with all men And againe Let the peace of GOD rule in your hearts to the which ye are called all in one body Finally to end this discourse and therewithall my booke I conuert my speech vnto thee O Lord of Hostes humbly from the bottome of my heart desiring thee to saue vs from the furie of our enemies and to sende vs peace in Christ Iesus to whom with thee and the holy ghost for this which I haue written and for all other benefites receiued I yeelde all praise honour and glorie Amen If I haue done wel as the matter required it is the thing that I would if I haue spoken slenderly and barely it is that I could FINIS In aureum Magistri Gulielm Vaughanni saltum AVratum vellus vario discrimine Iason Medaea meritis auxiliante tulit Auriferos Saltus paribus Vaughannus adiuit Auspiciis Musa sub duce multa ferens Tota Domus tota vrbs Respublica tota labore Doctior coepit ditior esse suo Hinc habet Oeconomus fultos virtute Penates Inque Magistratu plenus habetur honos Quodque magis Gens quaeque operis loetissima tanti Instructa eximiis legibus alma viget Quid dabit Authoritanto pro munere gratae Post eritas Laudis praemia nuda placent Si foret haec tantis â—etas ingrata tacerent Nulla tamen laudes saecula sera tuas Mathaeus Gwin in Medicin Doctor IAMES PERROT ESQVIRE to his assured louing Cousin the Authour of the Golden-groue THy GoldeÌ„-groue yeelds good goldeÌ„ trees The rootes thereof are vertues of the mind The branches are wel train'd vp families The body is the Common-wealth refin'd Good fruit on such good trees do alwaies grow WheÌ„ wisdome reaps what vertue first did sow In Paradise which was a golden groue The tree of life in glorious maner grew Which earst wheÌ„ Eue did Satans speech approue Mans life by taste for euer could renew In this thy groue growes no forbidden plant Heere all is sound without bad iuice or want Of eu'rie tree in wisedomes Paradise Thy golden Muse good Cousin hath some taste Three bookes are planted by thine exercise Bookes such as enuies breath shall neuer blast Thrice blest art thou to whom in youth befals To bud and bring such golden vegetals Idem ad eundem OMnia fortunae sunt sublunaria ventis Subdita nec constant tot monumenta Ducum Sirogites vbi sunt septem miracula mundi Alterna referent haec cecidisse vice Solatamen fugiunt excusa volumina ventos Sola animi viuo sunt bona digna cedro Crede mihi Cognate tuam virtutibus vrbem Auratosque lares famalo quetur anus Epigramma 1. 〈…〉 ad Authorem A Vriferos alii soliti promittere montes Deducunt bardis nania barda modis Aurea tu vero promittens aurea praestas Ducis auriferis aurea rura modis Thomas Iames Master of Arts and Fellow of New Colledge in Oxford to Master Vaughan the Author of the Golden-groue moralized WHilst brothers liue as brothers they must loue As theÌ„ one woÌ„b so they one mind must beare This Vaughan shewes in this his GoldeÌ„-groue In this his learned worke without compare Two Brothers like two feete so well they goe Or like two mariners together row The soyle which hath these louing