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A09173	The Lord Marques idlenes conteining manifold matters of acceptable deuise; as sage sentences, prudent precepts, morall examples, sweete similitudes, proper comparisons, and other remembrances of speciall choise. No lesse pleasant to peruse, than profitable to practise: compiled by the right Honorable L. William Marques of Winchester that now is.	Winchester, William Paulet, Marquis of, 1535?-1598.	1586 (1586)	STC 19485; ESTC S114139	64,844	115

habite craueth pardon for so bold an attempt as also becommeth an humble petitioner to be admitted to supplie the place of his absent and diseased master who in all humilitie and loialtie of hart prostrateth himself at your Maiesties feete most humbly beseeching the continuance of your Highnes former fauors and clemencie without which neither he nor his shall be in case to performe such offices as in dutie and honor appertaineth And thus ac-acknowledging my selfe most bounden vnto your right gracious and excellent Maiestie do according to duetie beseech the Almightie for the long continuance of your Maiesties prosperous Estate and raigne in all happinesse and felicitie Your Maiesties most humble and loiall subiect WINCHESTER To the friendly Readers THIS worke is not intituled my good friends The L. Marques Idlenes for your eies to gaze on or your minds to be amazed at but as by your leaue it may be spoken by antiphrasin so by your patience I discouer no monster In shewing an vnnaturall generation happily you will imagine that Idlenes can bring foorth no good action and therefore an vnkinde issue to be called by the name of Idlenes But I answere though your surmise or imagination may engender such a report in the life of the L. Marques yet you see my conception and deliuery sheweth the contrarie in that I obserued the former idle time in reading perusing the learned and wise whose sentences and good saiengs I so greatly affected that I did not onely reade them but also committed many of them to writing which being done onely for my owne recreation and benefite I assure you good Readers was earnestly requested by diuers my louing friends to make the same more manifest to the world by cōmitting it to the presse In which doing if I haue neither done well nor satisfied your expectation blame them that prouoked my euulgation and deceiued your hope and yet for mine own part I wil be excused by the title of my booke which can warrant no more to you than it afoorded to my selfe which is enough if it keepe you onely from idlenes and yet I wil assure you something more for you shall heare many wise learned and well experienced men which I haue painefully requested to giue you some aduertisement And if your fantasies be not ouer curious or your minds to scornefull I doubt not but among so many variable blossoms you may happily catch one sauoring flower if not though it seemeth to be against all reason that idlenes can beget some fruitefull trauell yet you shall see a greater miracle which is that The dead liueth I meane that they whose carcases are consumed many yeeres since do now as it were viua voce speake aduertise counsell exhort and reprooue I assure you I perused them to my no smal contentation and delight not onely to be instructed but also to the end that idlenes might not attach me whose great burden of vanities and suggestions doth not onely surcharge vs with the manifolde heape of sin but also with the lamentable losse of golden time for indeed the want of some exercise bringeth vs in open question with the world and in hazard of condemnation either to be barren of knowledge or slow of wil for as the slanderer his toong cannot be tied though he oftentimes vtter follies so the will of man should not be barren whereby ill toongs might be occasioned to take hold and to say the truth as we our selues esteeme not the knife that is rustie nor account of the trees that are fruiteles so we must thinke that if men would not speake ill of our idlenes verie Time it selfe passing by our doores without entertainemet would accuse our life of sluggishnes or condemne our consciences of contempt and so we may both staine our name blemish our creation and hazard our happie estate that when the iudge of all iudges shall heare the crime laide to our charge our consciences shall be assured to feele the gilte therefore the great stay of mans life requireth labor first in searching Gods word to know him secondly in bending of our endeuors for the benefit of our countrey last of all by looking into our selues and beholding the great filth which most horribly lieth stinking in mans life which for want of purge doth oftentimes smell of hypocrisie vngodlines vncharitablenes treason diuelish inuentions and wicked practizes whereof sathan hath great store to plant in the idell soile Wherfore my louing friends I haue done this for my selfe and for you and though I haue not set it foorth with profound learning fined phrases or eloquent termes which are expected but of wanton eares yet I pray you allow of me in mine olde plaine fashion in the which if I cannot to your contentation make sufficient shewe of mine assured good will pardon my present weaknes being vnder the phisitians hands and I will with all my hart wish you well and commend you to the most highest Basing this viij of Nouember Your louing friend WINCHESTER IN LAVDEM OPERIS HEXASTICON G. Ch. Nobilis esto liber quòd te tot philosophantes Tanta per antiquos philosophia beat Nobilior multò quòd tandem nobilis heros Marchio Wintoniae nobilitauit opus Nobilis es genitus nutritus nobilitate es Et genus Appiadum nobile te decorat The Table THe beginning of things 1 The history of priuate men and of townes 3 Aduersitie 5 Ambition 7 Captaines ibid. Couetousnes 8 Children and youth 13 Counsell 10 Death 18 Discord and variance 25 Enuie ibid. Euill and wicked men in which treatise all wickednes is conteined 27 Fame 32 Follie. 34 Fortune ibid. Friendship and friends 36 Iustice and punishment of God 39 Iustice and iusticers of this world with iudges 40 Knowledge wisedome foresight 46 Law and ordinances 50 Loue. 51 Man and his life 56 Mercie and pitie to the poore 62 Obedience 63 Patience 64 Peace 65 Pleasure 66 Pride 68 Princes 69 Seruants 76 Slanderer 77 Sorrow and griefe ibid. Toong 79 Time 80 Warres 81 Women 82 good Works 86 World and worldly prosperitie ibid. Manie pretie saiengs 93 THE LORD MARQVES IDLENES The beginning of beginnings THE first homicide of the world was Cain The first that died in the world was Abel The first that was blind in the world was Lamec as some learned haue collected The first that builded was Enoc in the fields of Edon The first musitian was Tubalcain The first sailer was Noe. The first tyrant was Nemrod The first priest was Melchisedec The first Duke as some affirme was Moises The first that was called by the name of Emperor was Iulius Caesar. Thales was the first that found out the pole called the North star to saile by and the first that found out the diuision of the yeere the quantitie of the sunne and moone and also said that soules were immortall He would neuer marrie for the care to content his wife and the thought to bring vp his children He was asked

what God was He answered Of al antiquitie God is the most ancient thing for all the ancients past neuer sawe him take beginning nor those that shall come after shall neuer see him haue ending He was asked what thing was most beautifull He answered The world bicause no artificiall painting could make the like Againe what was the greatest thing He answered Place wherein all things do stand for the place which containeth all must needs be greater than all Againe he was demanded what knew most He answered Time bicause time was the inuentor of new things and that which reneweth the old What was the lightest thing He answered The wit of man bicause without danger it passed the sea to discouer and compas the whole earth Againe what was the strongest He answered The man that is in necessitie for necessitie reuiueth the vnderstanding of the rude and causeth the coward to be hardie in perill What was the hardest thing to know He answered For a man to know himselfe for there should be no contentions in the world if man did know himselfe What was the sweetest thing to obtaine He answered Desire for a man reioiceth to remember the pains past and to obtaine that which he desireth present The life of Philosophers THe Philosophers liued in so great pouertie that naked they slept on the ground their drinke was cold water none amongst them had any house proper they despised riches as pestilence and labored to make peace where discord was they were onely defenders of the common wealth they neuer spake any idle thing and it was a sacrilege among them to heare a lie and finally it was a law inuiolable amongst them that the Philosopher should be banished that did liue idlely and he that was vicious should be put to death Onely Epicurus gaue himselfe to a voluptuous and beastly kind of life wherein he put his whole delite affirming there was no other felicitie for slothfull men than to sleepe in soft beds for delicate persons to feele neither heate nor cold for fleshly men to haue at their pleasures amarous dames for drunkards not to want any pleasant wine and the gluttons to haue their fill of all delicate meate for heerin he affirmed to consist all worldlie felicitie A principalitie of things THe taste of all tasts is bread The sauor of all sauors is salt The loue of all loues is from the father to the child The histories and liues of priuate men togither with the report of countries and townes PHalaris was deformed of face purblind and exceeding couetous neuer obserued any thing that he promised he was vnthankfull to his friend and cruell to his enimy Finally he was such a one that the tyrannies that were seuerally scattered in others in him alone were altogither assembled one onelie good thing was there in him that he was a fauorer of wise men And in 36. yeeres they neuer found that any man sate at the table with him spake vnto him or slept in his bed nor that any man saw in his countenance any mirth vnles it were some Philosophers or sage men with whom and to whom he liberally put his bodie in trust Perillus being borne in Athens and also being very excellent in mettals came to Phalaris the tyrant saieng that he would make such a torment that his hart should remaine reuenged and the offender well punished This workman made a bull of brasse wherin there was a gate by the which they put the offender in and putting fire vnder the bull it rored in maner as it had beene a liue bull which was not onely a horrible and cruell torment to miserable creatures that endured it but also it was terrible to him or those that saw it Phalaris therfore seeing the inuention of this torment whereof the inuentor had hoped great reward prouided that the inuentor of the same should be put within the bull and that the cruelty of the torment should be experimented on none other sauing in the inuentor shewing himselfe therein rather a mercifull prince than a cruell tyrant Rome that in times past was a receit of all the good and vertuous is now made a den of all theeues and vicious I feare me least in short time will haue some sudden and great fall Cornelia of Rome said You shal see iustice corrupted the common weale oppressed lies blowne abrode the truth kept vnder the Satires silent flatterers open mouthed the infamed persons to be Lords and the patient to be seruants and aboue all and woorse than all to see the euill liue in rest and contented and the good troubled and despised If thou wilt enioie rest in thy daies and keepe thy life pure and cleane thou must obserue these three things First honor God for he that doth not honor him in all his enterprises shall be infortunate Secondly be diligent to bring vp thy children well for a man hath no enimie so troublesome as his owne sonne if he be not well brought vp Thirdly be thankfull to thy good benefactors and friends for the man that is vnthankfull of all the world shal be abhorred And the most profitable of these three although most troublesome is for a man to bring vp his children well Rome neuer decaied vntill the senate was replenished with wise serpents and destitute of simple doues As thou hast by tyrannie made thy selfe Ladie of Lords so by iustice thou shalt returne to be the seruant of seruants Why art thou at this day so deere of merchandise and so cheape of follie Marcus to his schoolmaister said My dutie is to see that you be good and your dutie is to trauell that your disciples be not euill for yoong men on the one part being euill inclined and on the other euill taught it is impossible but in the end they should be vicious and defamed for there is no man so weake nor child so tender but the force which he hath to be vicious is ynough if he will to be vertuous For there is more courage required in one to be euill than strength is required in an other to be good for to the maister it is greater treason to leaue his scholler amongst vices than to deliuer a fort into the hands of enimies for the one yeeldeth the fort which is but of stones builded but the other aduentureth his sonne which is of his owne bodie begotten Aduersitie IF there could be found any estate any age any lande any nation realme or world wherein there hath been any man that hath passed this life without tasting what aduersitie was it should be so strange to heare of that by reason both the dead as liuing should enuie him In the end I find that he that was yesterday rich to morow is poore he that was yesterday whole is to day sicke he that yesterday laughed to day weepeth he that had his hartes ease I see him now sore afflicted he that was fortunate

manners of the common wealth Why do princes commit folly bicause flatterers aboundeth that deceiueth them and true men wanteth that shoulde serue them Princes deserueth more honor for the good meanes they vse in their affairs than for the good successe whervnto it commeth for the one is guided by aduenture and the other aduanced by wisedome The land is with much miserie compassed where the gouernance of the yoong is so euill that all wish for the reuiuing of the dead It is impossible that the people be well gouerned if the magistrates that gouerne them be in their liues dissolute Princes in doubtfull matters ought not onely to demaunde counsell of all the good that be aliue but also to take paines to talke with the dead that is to read the deeds of the good in their writings To a prince that shall be an inheritor one yeeres punishment shal be better woorth then xx yeeres pleasure A prince is as the gouernor of the ship a standerd of a battell a defence of the people a guid of the waies a father of the orphanes a hope of pupils and a treasure of all The glorie of a prince is that in his works he be vpright and in his words he speake verie discreet The vertues of princes should be so manie that al men might praise them and their vices so fewe that no man might reprooue them Princes are lords of all things sauing of iustice wherof they are onely but to minister I would to God that princes did make an account with God in the things of their conscience touching the common wealth as they do with men touching their rents and reuenewes Many crouch to princes with faire words as though they ment good seruice to him their entent being by deceit to get some office or to seeke some profite Seruants I Councell those that be seruaunts to great lordes that their labours be accounted rather honest than wise for the wise man can but please but the honest man can neuer displease Of the toong and of the slanderer or backbiter IT is most certaine that of Hollie we looke for pricks of Acrons husks of Nettels stinging and of thy mouth malice I haue seriously noted I neuer saw thee say well of any nor I neuer knew any that would thee good Octauian the Emperor being demaunded why doing good to all men he suffered some to murmure against him he answered He that hath made Rome free from enimies hath also set at libertie the toongs of malicious men That is a cruell thing that the life and honor of those that be good should by the toong of the euill be measured As in the forge the coales cannot be kindled without sparkes nor as corruption cannot be in the sinkes without ordure so he that hath his hart free from malice his toong is always occupied in sweet and pleasant sayings and contrarywise out of his mouth whose stomacke is infected with malice proceedeth always wordes bitter and full of poison It is an olde disease of euill men through malice to backbite with their toong which through their cowardnes they neuer durst enterprise with their hands Of sorow and griefe GRiefe is a friend of solitude enimie of companie a louer of darknes strange in conuersation heire to desperation Sith fortune is knowen of all she suffreth not hir selfe to be defamed of one and it is better to thinke with fortune how thou maiest remedy thy self than to thinke with grief how to complaine There are diuers men which to publish their grief are very carefull but to seek remedy are very negligent We suffer griefs know them not with the hands we touch them perceiue them not we go ouer them and see them not they sound in our eares we heare them not they daily admonish vs we do not beleeue them finally we feele the wound and see not the remedy Experience doth teach vs with a little blast of winde the fruit doth fall with a little sparke of fire the house is kindled with a little rocke the ship is broken at a litle stone the foote doth stumble with a litle hooke they take great fish and with a little wound dieth a great person I meane that our life is so fraile and fortune so fickle that in that part where we are best harnessed we are soonest wounded and grieued The heauy and sorowfull harts of this world feele no greater grief than to see others reioyce at their sorowes To men of long life without comparison the diseases are more which they suffer than the yeeres are which they liue If the days be few wherein we see the elements without cloudes fewer are the howers wherein we feele our harts without cares As much difference as is betweene the barke and the tree the marow and the bone the corne and the straw the gold and the drosse the truth and dreames so much is there to heare the trauels of an other and taste his owne Greater is the disease that proceedeth of sorow than that which proceedeth of the feuer quartane and therof ensueth that more easily he is cured which of corrupt humors is full than he which with profound thoughts is oppressed There is no griefe that so much hurteth a person as when he himself is cause of his own paine Men which haue not God mercifull and men friendly do eate the bread of griefe and drinke the teares of sorow There is no greater torment to the hart than when it is differred from that which it greatly desired If all things as they be felt at hart shoulde be shewed outward with the toong I thinke that the winds should breake the hart with sighings and water all the earth with teares If the corporall eies sawe the sorow of the hart I beleeue they should see more blood sweating within than all the weeping that appeereth without There is no comparison of the great dolors of the bodie with the least grief of the mind For all trauell of the body men may find some remedie but if the heauy hart speake it is not heard if it weepe it is not seen if it complaine it is not beleeued I know no remedy but this to abhorre the life wherewith it dieth and to desire death wherewith it liueth The toong NOble stoute personages though they would be esteemed and iudged true in their sayings hauing seene many wonders with their eies yet when they make report of them they ought to be very moderate in their toongs for it is a very shame to an honest man to declare any thing wherein may be any doubt whether it be true or not When a woman is mery she alwayes babbleth more with the toong than she knoweth in hir hart Men do not vtter half their grief bicause their wofull and heauie hart commandeth the eyes to weep and the toong to be silent The chiefest thing which God