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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

needeth somtimes to be whet I meane though mans vnderstanding be neuer so cleare yet from time to time it needeth counsell Vertuous men oftentimes do erre not bicause they would faile but bicause the things are so euil of digestion that the vertue they haue suffiseth not to tell them what thing is necessarie for their profite For the which cause it is necessarie that his will be kindled his wit fined his opinion changed his memorie sharpned aboue all now and then that he forsake his owne aduise and cleaue to the counsell of another The world at this day is so changed from that it was woont to be in times past that all haue the audacitie to giue counsell and few haue the wisedom to receiue it If my counsell be woorth receiuing prooue it if it doth harme leaue it if it doth good vse it for there is no medicine so bitter that the sicke doth refuse to take if thereby he thinke he may be healed I exhort and aduise thee that thy youth beleeue mine age thine ignorance my knowledge thy sleepe my watch thy dimnes my cleernes of sight thine imagination my vertue thy supicion mine experience otherwise thou maist hap to see one day thy selfe in some distresse where small time thou shalt haue to repent and none to find remedie If thou wilt liue as yoong thou must gouerne thy selfe as olde If any old man fall for age and if thou find a yoong man sage despise not his counsell for bees do drawe more honie out of the tender flowers than of the hard leaues Plato commandeth that in giuing politike counsell it be giuen to them that be in prosperitie to the intent that they decay not and to them that be in heauines and trouble to the intent that they despaire not Happie is that common wealth and fortunate is that prince that is Lord of yoong men to trauell and ancient persons to counsell Manie things are cured in time which reason afterward cannot helpe No mortall man take he neuer so good heede to his works nor reason so well in his desires but that he deserueth some chastisement for some cause or counsell in his doings The examples of the dead do profit good men more to liue well than the counsell of the wicked prouoketh the liuing to liue euill Men ought not in any thing to take so great care as in seeking of counsell and counsellers for the prosperous times cannot be maintained nor the multitude of enimies resisted if it be not by wise graue counsellers Thales being demanded what a man should do to liue vprightly he answered To take that counsell for himselfe which he giueth to another for the vndoing of all men is that they haue plentie of counsell for others and want for themselues He shall neuer giue to his prince good nor profitable counsell which by that counsell intendeth to haue some proper interest He is not counted sage that hath turned the leaues of manie bookes but he which knoweth and can giue good and wholsome counsell Anacharsis said Thou shalt promise me not to be importune with me to receiue any thing of thee for the day thou shalt corrupt me with gifts it is necessarie that I corrupt thee with euil counsell It is easie to speake well and hard to worke well for there is nothing in the world better cheape than counsell By the counsell of wise men that thing is kept and maintained which by the strength of valiant men is gotten Ripe counsels proceed not from the man that hath trauelled into many countries but from him that hath felt himselfe in manie dangers It is impossible that there should any misfortune happen whereas ripe counsell is To giue counsell to the wise man it is either superfluous or commeth of presumption though it be true yet I say in like maner that the diamond being set in gold looseth not his vertue but rather increaseth in price so the wiser that a man is so much the more he ought to know and desire the opinion of others certainly he that doth so cannot erre for no mans owne counsell aboundeth so much but that he needeth the counsell and opinion of others We ordaine that none be so hardie to giue counsell vnlesse therewith he giue remedie for to the troubled hart words comfort little when in them there is no remedie The woman is hardie that dare giue counsel to a man and he more bold that taketh it of a woman but I say he is a foole that taketh it and he is a more foole that asketh it but he is most foole that fulfilleth it Children and youth IT is better to leaue vnto children good doctrine whereby they may liue than euill riches wherby they may perish And the cause is that manie mens children haue beene through the hope they had to inherit their fathers goods vndone and afterward gone a hunting after vices for they seldome do any woorthie feats which in their youth inherit great treasures It is better to haue children poore and vertuous than rich and vicious To be poore or sick is not the greatest miserie neither to be whole and rich is the chiefest felicitie for there is no such felicitie to fathers to see their children vertuous It is an honor to the countrie that fathers haue such children that will take profit with their counsell and contrariwise that the children haue such fathers as can giue it them The father ought to desire his sonne onely in this cause that in his age he may sustaine his life in honor and that after his death he may cause his same to liue If not for this at the least he ought to desire him that in his age he may honor his head and that after his death he may inherit his goods But we see few do this in these daies except they be taught of their parents the same in youth for the fruit doth neuer grow in the haruest vnlesse the tree doth beare blossoms in the spring Too much libertie in youth is no other but a prophesie and manifest token of disobedience in age It is a griefe to see and a monstrous thing to declare the cares which the fathers take to gather riches the diligence that children haue to spend them There can be nothing more vniust than that the yong and vicious sonne should take his pleasure of the sweate of the aged father The father that instructeth not his sonne in vertue in his youth is lesse blamewoorthie if he be disobedient in age It is a good token when youth before they know vices haue beene accustomed to practise vertue It is pitifull to see and lamentable to behold a yoong child how the blood doth stir him the flesh prouoke him to accomplish his desires to see sensualitie go before and he himselfe to come behind the malicious world to watch him and how the diuel doth tempt

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