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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06164	The diuel coniured	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1596 (1596)	STC 16655; ESTC S109564	63,922	90

THE DIVEL coniured LONDON Printed by Adam Islip for William Mats dwelling in Fleetstreet at the sign of the Hand and Plough Anno 1596. TO THE RIGHT HOnorable and learned sir Iohn Fortescue knight Chancellor of the Exchecker Master of the Wardrope and one of hir Maiesties right Honorable priuie Counsell RIght Honourable allured by your Wisdome and animated by your authority the one expressed by your generall and matchlesse knowledge in the purer toungs and the perfit vse and felicitie of your readings the other in your execution in affairs policie in counsaile place in iudgment and credit with her most Roiall Maiestie I haue more audacious then wise presumed to submit this weak labor of mine to your iudgement to determin on and authoritie to countenance for what your iudgement shall winke at the world will applaud and what your authority shall countenance ignorant detraction dare not misconster so then shadowed vnder the strong shield of your fauor I netther suspect my cause nor feare mine enemies wax afraid of the curious or abashed at the enuious accept therfore most Noble Lord this poore wreck of my wit that hath no hope of eternitie but by your grace nor defence from misreports but your name neither any more felicitie then your allowance and thinke of the writer as of him that giueth what his rich will can for those fauours which his weake power may neuer requite Thus wishing your honour that place in heauen which your charitie and pietie to all the learned iustly deserueth on earth I humbly take my leaue this fifteenth of April 1596. Your Honors most bounden Orator T. L. To the Reader whatsoeuer T. L. sendeth greeting COurteous sith you haue long time drawn the weeds of my wit and fed your selues with the cockle of my conceits I haue at last made you gleaners of my haruest and partakers of my experience Here shall you find that which Aristotle requireth in euery science probabilitie in argument and demonstration and truth in the end here shal you find the stile varieng according to the matter the matter sutable to the stile and all of these aimed to profit The reading hereof requireth Tota hominem non distractum for there is as much lost in slighting ouer as won by perusing warelie if the title make you suspect compare it with the matter it will answer you if the matter apply it with the censures of the learned they will countenance the same if the handling I repent me not for I had rather you should now condemn me for default in Rethoricke then as in times past commend my stile and lament my iudgement neither let it seeme displeasant that herein I affect not vain flourish for that I am experienced in this point of the law that the mind is mightier then the words beside this is a certaine principle Vbi mens est certa de verbis non curatur The Poet saw this when he song thus Ornari res ipsa negat contenta doceri Thus resolued both of the matter and satisfied in my method I leaue the whole to your iudgements which if they be not depraued with enuie wil be bettered in knowledge and if not carried away with opinion will receiue much profit For as the Apothicary vseth his drugs so do I my delights I make no protestation or show of the purest and best simples but for those conceits are shrunke in the wetting spoild by the hast are corrupted by irregard those wanting matter to sol themselues had need of good words to sute them play you therefore the wise marchants buy not that only which delighteth the eie and toucheth the eare but buy that which perfecteth the iudgement and enricheth the memorie The thought that is light tempteth the mind and vanisheth but those principles that hasten our experience perfit our memories These considered read iudge and vse me as best pleaseth you for to beshort my scope is your profit and my good Genius your praise and incouragement Yours in all profitable delights T. L. The Diuell coniured AMidst the inhospitable mountains of Egipt during the raigne of Constantine the renowmed and religious Roman Emperor there liued a vertuous and solitarie Hermit called Anthony who forsaking his possessions which were great and renouncing the world as vaine made the poore rich by his liberalitie and his soule happie by his charitie his bodily desires he suppressed by fast his souls perturbations by constant resist his sollace was solitude his pleasure praier his law godlie feare his hope heauen his dinner time the sun set his nights rest watchfull meditation if he slept it was standing to mortifie his flesh if he praid it was kneeling to shew his humilitie his meat bread his sauce salt his drinke water his profession was ignorance but in heauenlie things and his knowledge perfect wisdome not expressed in vanitie of wordes but in vertue and practise of good déeds To this holy Hermit resorted many some presuming on their owne wits other suspecting their owne infirmities this to receiue councell in his discontent that to gather comfort from his ghostlie preachings for they commonly are most apt to reforme others who haue maistered their affections and mortified their passions Among the rest as one of greatest marke but of weakest mind came Metrodorus the Tirian who better skild in Plato Empedocles Democritus than in true wisedeme humilitie and meditation came to visit Anthonie rather of purpose to carpe then resolution to conceiue The next was Asterius of Tapadocia who for practise in Magicke and consulting with diuels was banished Rome and sent into Egipt The last Frumentarius the Indian who earnestlie desirous to sée the man who was renowmed for so many miracles had forsaken his countrie entred the deserts met with these companions and at last found out Anthonie and where should vertue be found if not in solitude Where as the Philosopher thinketh men rather intend their conscience then their fame and where according to the opinion of Nicephorus nothing is studied but puritie of mind nothing more affected then seuerity in life and felicitie in meditation But where found they thée O holie Anthony What office becomming thy happie spirit What exercise wert thou accustomed in Truly as Gregorie saith slaying and sacrificing thy will by obedience pouring out and offering thy soule in praier testifying thy contrition by thy trickling teares thus in thy earthly bodie didst thou practise an immortall worke and with the immoued eie of thy mind didst thou behold God in faith Till a stonished at the sodaine approch of these worldlie men thou wert saluted by them and cut off by this friendly discourse from thine earnest and happie contemplations Father Anthonie in regard of thy reuerend yeares I am come to salute thée and in respect of thy desolate and solitarie life to reprooue thée for my experience teaching me to iudge things hath enlightned my reason to censure follies What life is this thou leadest Where all things that should