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A01518	The droomme of Doomes day VVherin the frailties and miseries of mans lyfe, are lyuely portrayed, and learnedly set forth. Deuided, as appeareth in the page next following. Translated and collected by George Gascoigne Esquyer.	Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.; Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 61-1216. De contemptu mundi. English.	1576 (1576)	STC 11641; ESTC S102877	200,832	291

rather hauinge lesse perfect●…ō in many things then they haue for they goe as soone as they be borne but we can neither goe straight vpon our féete no nor crepe vpon our hands if nede were We are all borne crying that we may thereby expresse our misery for a male childe lately borne pronounceth A. and a woman childe pronounceth E So that they saye eyther E. or A as many as discend from Eua. And what is Eua but Heu Ha eche of these soundes is the voyce of a sorowful creature expressing the greatnesse of his grefe here vpon before Eua sinned she was called Virago and after she sinned she deserued to be called Eua when she hard sayed vnto hir Thou shalt bring forth in sorrow and payne for ther is no payne to be compared to that which a woman abydeth in hir labor Wherevpon Rachel with ouer great grefe of laboring dyed and at hir death shee called the name of hir sonne Benony which betokeneth the sonne of sorrow or payn The wife of Phinees faling sodeynly in labor brought forth a childe dyed withall euen at the instant of death she called hir sonne Icabod But a woman licke vnto one that hath escaped shipwrack is sorowfull sad whiles shee laboreth but when she hath brought forth a childe then remembereth she not hir paynes for ioye bicause a man child is borne into the world Then she conceiueth with filth and vncleannesse she bringeth forth is deliuered with paine and heauinesse bringeth it vp and nowresheth it with toyle and carefulnesse and kepeth and preserueth it with dread fearefulnesse Man commeth forth naked and shall retorne naked he commeth poore and he goeth poore Naked sayeth Iob I came out of my mothers wombe and naked shall I returne thether we brought nothing into this world and doubtless●… we can carry away nothing But if any man depart out of this world clothed let him marke well what kinde of clothing he bringeth filthy to be spokē more filthy to be heard and most filthie to be sene O vile vnworthinesse of mans estate and condicion O vnworthy estate of mans vilenesse Search the trees the herbes of the Earth they bringe forthe boughes leaues flowers fruits A man bringeth forth nitts lyse worms They distill powre out Oyle Wyne and Balmes and a man maketh excrements of spettle pisse and ordure They smell breathe all swetenesse of smell and pleasauntnesse whereas man belcheth breaketh wynde and stincketh for such as the tree is such fruites it bringeth forth and an euil tree can not bring out good fruit Then what is man according to his shape and proporcion but a tree turned topsie turuey whose rootes are his heares the stub of the roote is his head and his neck the body of the tree is his breast belly and bulke the boughes are his armes legges and the little braunches and leaues are his fingers and toes This is the leafe which is tossed with the wynde and the stuble which is dryed vp with the Sunne In the first age of Man it is read that he lyued nyne hundreth yeares and more but when mans lyfe began by lyttle and lyttle to declyne then our Lorde GOD sayd to Noe My Spirit shall not remayne with man for euer because he is fleshe and his dayes shall be one hundreth and twenty yeares the which may be vnderstoode aswell by the tearme of mans lyfe as by the space to repēt him for from that tyme forthwardes fewe are read of which lyued any longer But when mans lyfe was dayly more and more shortned then was it sayde by the Psalmest The dayes of his tyme are seauentie yeares or if it be a stronge body●… foure skore yeares and then theyr payne and sorrow increaseth For shall not the small number of my dayes be finished in smal tyme Our dayes doe passe away more swiftly then the webbe is cut from the weyuers hand A man borne of a woman lyuinge short tyme replenished with many miseries commeth forth lyke a flower and is plucked vp and flyeth away lyke a shadowe and neuer contineweth in one estate For now a dayes men doe lyue forty yeares and very fewe doe reache sixtie yeares But if man doe attayne vnto age immediately his hart is afflicted his head is troubled his spirites languishe his breath stincketh his face is wrinckled his body is bowed his eyes are daseled his féelinge faylleth and his quickenesse quayleth his teeth become rotten and his eares are closed vp An olde man is soone prouoked but hardly reuoked beleauing quickly and mistrustinge laysurely co●…etous and greédy heauy and needy Swyft to speake and s●…owe to heare praysing thinges of antiquitie and dispysinge what is vsed presently blaminge the tyme present and allowing the tyme past he sigheth and is vexed he waxeth weake and is aston●…ed as Horace sayth Multa senem circum 〈◊〉 in comod●… To conclude neyther let olde men glory against yonge men nor yet let younge men waxe insolent and disdayne olde men for they haue béen as we are and we shall one daye be as they now are The Byrde is created to flye a lofte and Man is borne to be weryed with toyle and labour All his dayes are full of labours and paynes neyther can his mynde be quiet in the scilent night and what is this but vanitie there is no man without labour vnder the Sunne nor without defectes and imperfections vnder the Moone nor without vanitie vnder tyme Tyme is the delay of thinges subiect vnto change the vanitie of vanities as the Preacher sayth and all is vanitie O how variable are mens studies and how diuers be theyr exercises and yet they haue all o●…e ende and one selfe same effect euen labour payne and vexacion of the mynde There is much businesse created for all men and a great yoke is layd vpon the sonnes of Adam from the day that they come forth of their mothers wombe vntil the day of their Sepulture in the earth which is mother to all lyuing creatures Let wyse men search narrowly let them héedely consider the height of the heauens the breadth of the yearth and the depth of the Sea let them argue and dispute euery one of this let them hādle them all ouer and let them alwayes eyther learne or teach and in so doing what shall they fynde out of this busie toyle of our lyfe but traueyle and payne that knewe he by experience which sayed I inclyned my hart to know lear●…nge prud●…ce error and folishnesse and I perceyued that all was labor affliction of the spyrite For asmuch as in great wisedome and knowledge there is great disdayne and be which increaseth knowledge increaseth also payne trauayle for although whilest that he sercheth it out he must sweat many tymes and watch many nightes with sweat and labor yet is there scarcely any thing so vyle or any thing so easy that

forsake al y is earthly For as Bernard cōfesseth They which are delighted in things y are presēt subiect vnto frailtie can hardly or not at all behold cōtemplate things y are heuēly eternal But he which accompteth thē as dust or shadowes shal be the soner raised vp in spirit to the attaining of spiritual heauēly things And herewithal since thou dost my welbeloued séem to be somwhat delighted in riches honor glory therfore I dare not fully say vnto thée y thou shuldest make no maner accoūt therof But mine admonitiō is y thou shuldest not ernestly nor hartily desire y deceiuable riches the worldly honor nor the glorie of men but y with thy whole harte thou séeke searche narowly for the spirituall treasure of vertue the heauenly honor the eternall glory And so shalt thou become a right riche man aboue all them that loue this world For Hierome sayeth those onely are to be accompted true ryches which make vs aboundant in all vertues And therfore if thou desire to be riche then loue and imbrace the right riches of vertue If thou aspyre vnto the height of honor then make hast towardes the heauenly kingdom And if thou couet a crowne of glorie or dignitie thē trauaile to be appointed enthroned amōgst the Angels aboue And this ment Gregorie whē he sayd dispise worldly riches and thou shalt haue aboundance Contempne worldly honor and thou shalt become glorious Set light by ease corporal quyet in this lyfe and thou shalte haue lyfe euerlastyng Whosoeuer can learne to contempne him selfe shall soone learne to dispise all things for God onely And he that doeth so may say with the holy Apostle I haue lost all things sayth he to the end I might gayne Christ Iesus The Prophet Esay in his seuenth Chapiter cryed out saying This natiō or people is without wisdō or aduise would God they could tast or vnderstand would foresée the latter end As also the Philosophers rule is Discentem oportet credere A learner must beleue And the Prophet also witnesseth if we beleue not we shall not vnderstand And Salomon in the fyrst of his Prouerbes sayeth My sonne barken thou vnto the disciplyne of thy father And in another scriptur●… we reade if thou sée a man of vnderstandyng straight way watche to drawe neare vnto him And agayne let not the wordes of the elders passe by thine eares vnmarked but stay thereat and from the bottome of thy harte ioyne thée vnto the sayings of the wyse men Then if héereby we bée taught to giue eare vnto wyse men to beléeue their words and to followe their counsell and aduice is it not without all comparyson more expedyent that we giue eare beleue and obeye the on●…ly wise God which is in him self the oryginal seperate and eternall wysedome Synce then the very true God him selfe the onely begotten sonne of the father for his aboundant charitie and loue wherewith hee loued vs came down into the world taking vpon him our nature ●…nd shape appearing visibly vnto men being 〈◊〉 eatyng drynkyng and talkyng wi●… them of all other it were m●…st méete that wee should harken 〈◊〉 ●…nto his counsell and aduyse And per●…orme it throughly as much as in vs may be done But Christ dyd by many meanes and wayes as appeareth by his sayinges manifoldly aduyse vs to contempne the world by promi●…ng r●…wardes by prefering helpe and by making him 〈◊〉 ●…r ex●… The which also the holy Euangelistes a●…d Ap●…les ●…d most euidently sette foorth Therefore obey ●…d ●…low h●…s counsell especial●…y since he is the way and the truth Which hest knoweth the perilles of ou●… passages and what is most expedyent for vs For since he so entirely lo●…d vs th●…t for our redemption he vouchsafed to dye we ●…ay b●… most assured that the counsell hée giueth vs is moste lo●…nde and sure to leane vnto Wherefore become thou his disciple my welbeloued and follow in all thinges his m●…st wholesome and sounde doctryne that thou mayest so much the more bl●…ssedly and with more delight behold him in the heauenly kingdome as thou now doest beleue and harken vnto hym more attentyuely in this lyfe To conclude if an Angell should come downe from heauen appearyng visibly vnto thée and saying Beholde the will or counsell of God is that thou dispyse the worlde wouldest tho●… not by and by ob●…y and beleue it But now not an Angell not a messenger but enen the God of Gods the creator of Angelles and the Lord of all things is come in proper person Yea and hath with his owne mouth giuen thée counsel to contempne the world and to make thyne estate perfect For where as he counselled the rich yong man which from his tender yeares had obserued all the precepts in the golden Tables saying Thou lackest yet one thing If thou wilt be perfect goe and sell all that thou h●…ste and giue it to the poore and come and follow mée and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen he lefte the same counsel or aduyse fo●…●…ée also who peraduenture yet hast not obserued the holy precepts in all poyntes from thy youth bywardes But thou wilt say Can all men leade a perfecte lyfe or forsake the world altogither Oh this is a foolish obiecttion and méete for fonde worldly and wicked men Of whom Salomon sayeth the number of fooles is infinyte And the holy fathers haue answeared thys kynde of obiection at large For there is great difference in iudgement betwéene that which is requyred to the conseruation and mayntenance of the first vndeuidable substance and that which is requisite to the conseruation and mayntenance of the forme or lykenesse But to remayne in the worlde to doe and performe the acte of generation and to till and manure the earthe is not requysite for the mayntenance of the fyrst vndiuydable substa●…ce but for the mayntenance of our owne shadowe shape or lykenesse And therefore let no man which findeth in him selfe any promptnesse or readinesse refuse that grace of God working in him and say The worlde must not be altogither vnprouided or vnfurnyshed For I pray thée tell mée if thou shouldest altogither giue ouer the world and giue thy selfe to a holy and solitarie life should the world therfore fayle Thinkest thou that for thée onely the earth shall be abandoned or the rockes tranferred and moued out of their places No no but doe thou gyue eare and follow the counsell of the most graue wise counsaylor which is the Angell or messenger of the great counsell on highe So that thou mayest safely defende thy selfe from infinyte perylles and walke in a safer shorter quyetter and more acceptable pathe vntyll thou bée receyued into the resting place of the Lord thy God. Christ spake as his Euangelist John rehearseth in the eight Chapiter saying I am the light of the worlde He that followeth me walketh not in darkenesse But shall haue the lyght of lyfe Where vpo●…

lawfull for vs to glorie in our selues nor to haue a vayn delight in our selues But as the Apostle sayeth He that gloryeth let him glorie in the Lord. Beholde the world passeth ouer and all the glorie therof And what is our life in this world but a smoke and vapour shewing it selfe a little and s●…raight way is vanished and gone we all slippe away lyke water into the earth Wée are earth ashes dust rottennesse and wormes meate So that when a man is deade hee shall inherite Snakes and Wormes To conclude what is this present lyfe but a continuall and ●…oste swifte course vnto deathe For some parte of our lyfe is continually and without ceasing wasted and cut off And therefore Dauid sayde Our dayes are lyke a shadowe vpon the earth and there is none abidyng And Ezechias sayde my lyfe is cut of as the webbe from the Weauer Yea euen whylest I yet began he cut mée off And Iob remember mée O Lord for my lyfe is lyke a puffe of wynde And in respecte of the eternitie the lastyng of thys lyfe is nothing as Job witnesseth in the same place saying Spare mée O Lorde for my dayes are as nothyng Héerevpon Chrisostom sayth Let vs passe saith he one hundreth yeres in delyghtes yea ad thervnto another hundereth or if you lyst ten tymes an hundereth and what shall all this bée compared to eternitie shall not all the whole tyme of this lyfe in the which we séeme to inioy so many delyghtes and to haue frée scope vnto vanities shall it not I saye bée as a dreame of one nyght compared to the eternitie Yes for as Hierome sayeth if thou haddest the wysedome of Salomon the beautie of Absalon the strength of Sampson the ryches of Cr●…esus and the myghtie power of Octauianus what should all these profitte thée when as straight wayes thy bodie shall be delyuered vnto the wormes and thy soule vnto diuilles For as Augustyne affyrmeth If Adam yet lyued and shoulde dye thys day what coulde it then auayle hym to haue liued so long Now therefore my dearely beloued weygh these things déepely For such as neglecte to marke these things presently ●…arly or late they shall say vnfrutefully with the reprobate in the day of iudgement We haue erred from the way of truth and the lyght of rightuousnesse hath not shyned in vs and the bryght sonne of vnderstandyng hath not rysen vnto vs What hath our pryde profited vs Or what hath our pompe and boastyng preuayled vs All those thyngs haue passed ouer as a shadowe and as a swyfte running messenger For then shall the heauens reneale the vanitie of the louers of this world togither with their iniquities and the earth it selfe shall ryse agaynst them Then their sin and transgression shal be manifest with suche as haue sayde to God Departe from vs Wee will not haue the knowledge of thy wayes Then shall the rounde world fight agaynst them in Gods behalfe All thynges which haue bene shall then suffer punyshement and yet shall not be consumed Yea they shall suffer and sustayne accordyng to the multitude of theyr inuentions For the wicked is reserued vntyll the daye of perdition and shall bee ledde vnto the day of furie and shal drinke of the wrath of the almightie Let these things ter●…rifie thy mynde and withdrawe it from the worlde Yea principally let them ioyne it vnto God. Furthermore the vanitie of this world doeth hereby most manifestly appeare that the prosperitie thereof is expected and gaped for with an excéedyng gréedinesse of mynde and when it commeth it can not be reteyned But all thinges passe ouer and all things flye away This day is paste and the beginnyng of the nexte is not yet knowne whither it shall be quyet or laboursome For so passeth ouer the glorie of this worlde And ther vpon Augustyne demaundeth saying What wilte thou loue temporall things sayeth he and passe away with them or wilt thou loue Christ and lyue eternally with hym For it is vnpossible that a man doe both inioy the present delights and the ioyes to come It is vnpossible both héere to fyll the paunche and there to satis●…e the mynde Men may not passe from one delyght to another and appeare gloryous bothe héere and in the worlde to come Yea and the contempte of worldely and temporall thynges is euydente by this that God doeth oftentymes bestowe them more aboundantlye vpon hys enimyes and them which are reprobate then vpon the electe For the electe doeth consider by the end that those thinges are of none accompte which doe transitorilye and seculerly delyght And therefore Hierome sayeth the spéedie cons●…lation of the goo●… is the ende of the wycked well considered and foreséene For whilest the good perceyue by the distruction of the wicked what euils and perils they haue passed and eskaped they accompt all things light easie which they suffer endure in this life So y b●…hold my welbeloued how great the deceipt of this world is howe excéeding great is the blyndnesse of the loue which we beare to the same For whilest the wicked doth willingly with great delight remain continue in this worlde hopyng to lyue long and settyng many thinges in o●…der for the tyme to come sodaynely and vnawares hée is commaunded to dye and in a moment to leaue and forsake all those thinges which he so faltily hath loued and estemed Héerevpon our Sauiour Christ bringeth in the ryche man speakyng vnto hym selfe and saying My soule thou haste muche good and treasure layde vp for many yeares Take thine ease eate drinke be mery But God answeareth him saying O foole this nyght shal they take thy soule from thée whose then shall that be which thou haste so gréedily gathered Let vs therefore gather togither true and spiritual ryches which will not forsake vs at the tyme of death but will appeare with vs before God and make vs séeme comely and beautifull in all vertue and godlinesse In these kynde of riches we may dayly increase and profit yea and in suche sorte that suche profite may bée muche more auaylable vnto vs then if we possessed all the riches in the world Wherfore let vs not myspende the leaste space of tyme nor bee occupyed in good thynges onely but in the moste excelent thinges That wée may alwayes searche out those things which drawe nearest to our saluation And so growe nearer and nearer neyghbours vnto god And bee alwayes reuerently and hon●…urably conuersaunte in the syghte of the heauenly Father Let vs thinke and thinke agayne vpon the quyet peace and tranquilitie of a pure hearte vpon the delectation of a soule beholdyng the maiestie of God and vpon the securitye and fyrme hope of the mynde which loueth god And hereby wee shall soone fynde that to gyue ouer our selues vnto such things is as much as to be conformed vnto God. And that suche as doe otherwyse are deformed and not reformed For it is not