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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03850	The nobles or of nobilitye The original nature, dutyes, right, and Christian institucion thereof three bookes. Fyrste eloquentlye writte[n] in Latine by Lawrence Humfrey D. of Diuinity, and presidente of Magdaleine Colledge in Oxforde, late englished. Whereto for the readers commodititye [sic], and matters affinitye, is coupled the small treatyse of Philo a Iewe. By the same author out of the Greeke Latined, nowe also Englished. 1563.; Optimates. English	Humphrey, Laurence, 1525 or 6-1589.; Philo, of Alexandria. De nobilitate. English.	1563 (1563)	STC 13964; ESTC S104304	130,119	392

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And of a moste mercifull lorde and father make hym thy wrathfull and rigorous iudge For the cominalty complayneth new lordes succeded theyr olde auncients Excessiue in askinge rigorous in exactinge readier in takinge sparer in geuinge worste almost in all things For all commend the auncient Nobilitie condemne the children aduaunce their parentes to the heauens This posterity therefore briefely warne I not to oppresse with fines or incoms theyr tenants or countreimen Not to peruerte iudgementes not to enclose that erst was commen not raise theyr farmes hygher then of olde or beyonde reason not to crushe theyr backes with laboure not to dyffer to paye For all these are forbydden by the lawe of god Esay crieth Ceasse ye to afflicte learne to bee beneficiall searche iudgement And in hys thyrde chapter The lord shal come saith he to pleade with the elders and Prynces of hys people For ye haue cropped hys vyne and the spoyle of the poore is in your house Why begger ye my people and grinde as hit were the pore mens countenaunce And ther vice noteth hee in hys fifte chapter Woe to them that ioyne house to house and lande to lande leaninge roome for no Neyghboure Will ye onelye in dwell the earthe These be those Giants of the earth in times paste before the floude famous and Noble valiant and notable stronge sounde and mightie terryble and chayned These bee the successours of Nimrod stoute and boysterous hunters and rouers on the earth Whom eche where mencion the sacred scriptures Thus coūcelleth Salomon Moue not from theyr place the aunciente bounds nor enter on the lande of the Orphane For whereto staine Noble men them selues with this mucke wherto are they of so lowe base spiryte as to be chained to these earthly clogges who ought soare far higher For what are the ryches whiche here so much they prise but burthens and clogges of Cares Therefore saide Socrates oure myndes were no lesse hamperde and laden with them then oure bodyes with longe and side garmentes Ant Democritus featly depaynted money which vngotte wringes is kept with cares departeth with grieues Wherto then serueth this insatiable thirst of the which wantyng ye wayle hauyng howe loosing mourne This therefore knowe al Nobles and with like salues arme theyr brestes against this vnstanched thirst of coyne Well wite they they are no lesse bounden by lawes then euery poorest slaue And fyrst learn they they ought iniurie none Next whereto they are most bounden not onelye theym selues be not iniurious but also represse they like rauenours and extorcioners Worthye honour he is who harmeth none But who neyther suffereth others earneth doubled prayse Recor● of that deuine Plato in his bookes of lawes For manye thinke power parted from iniury bare and contemptuous and falsely perswade them selues they are laweles and lordeles Imagining the lawes Cobwebbes That meashe a flea or flye whyche crowes or mighty beasts soone breake Some thinke a well moneyed man mayster of all lawes As erst sayd Cicero of Verres Nor ought so holy or reuerend that money may not pearce Ther be Iudges that gape for bribes and are corrupted with gyftes There are lawyers Noble mens counsaylours who sell theyr patronage hyre out theyr tounge and trauayle Gaynst those let this our Noble man watche and warde And heare Esaye rightly counsayling To ayde the oppressed to render the orphane ryghte to plead the widowes cause For herein ought they not credite theyr assystantes theyr soltcitours their lawyers who sith they purchase their reames and offices must consequentlye sell them Which wel sawe and foresawe that worthye Alexander Seuerus Who commaunded Vetranius Thurinus for taking bribes of sutors chayned to a stake with grene wood syered about him to be smothered That smoakes he might be payed who smoakes solde Sitte therfore the Nobles them selues in counsell heare causes and honoure iudgementes with their presence as erst those mightiest Monarches and Emperours of the worlde Mithridates Philippe and Alexander the greate For Noble men are prynces lieuetenants and wardens and ministers of the lawes For whereto are good lawes decreed if none bee by whose trauaile they enacted maye be kept Both againe and againe hit delighteth mee to honor the former age wherein Noble men were lawyers when the Roman gentlemen blushed not to professe this knowledge when Antonians Crasses Sulpitias Sceuolas Cicerons were no lesse skilful in the lawiers aunswers then the decrees of the .xii. tables Yea this profession was peculier to gentlemen Whiche would hit were renewed that them selues might order iudgementes the arte hit selfe haue more aucthoritie and these pedlers lesse luker For a ryghte and Noble Prynce and garden of the lawes is a beneficiall and earthly god to common weales In whom are many sores whiche hee easelye either with worde or becke mought remedy Be this therefore the first part of iustice him selfe to wrong no man The nexte in iust cause to defende others and withstande iniurye Nor onely is it requisite he be right of deede but of word also Which vertue is termed faithfulnes and trueth To stand to his promyse to performe and dyscharge hys credite For a Noble man ought accomplyshe yea what so hee noddeth to Who hateth not a lyenge Lorde Deepe in hys minde therfore must be imprint this sayeng of Salomon Sixe thinges god hateth and the seuenth vtterly abhorreth Proude lookes a lyeng tounge blondye handes a minde ymagining mischiefe swift feete to euell a false witnesse a vaine man and sower of strife twixt brethren A golden sentence and worthy to be grauen in the heartes of all noble sutes euen from theyr tender yeares But I must measure my measurelesse talke The neyghbour vertue to this is equitye Not to racke al thinges by extreme right to yelde somewhat and thinke nothinge more beloued then mercy or curtesye Mercy consisteth in pardoning winkinge at faultes and forgeuenesse seeld punishinge and that vnwillyng accusinge not often nor but compeld of necessitye Curtesye requireth easie speache ciuile company frendly pleasant and curteous talke For wherto shewe Nobles thē selues so seeld Why are they so statelye and hawtye in talke to theyr brethren theyr semblables Nothynge more hygh or loftye then the sunne Yet vayleth he his golden rayes downe to the base earth Communicateth his influēce with herbes plantes seedes shineth lighteth and heateth as well the vniuste as iuste the poore as riche yea the bruite beastes Agayne the higher and loftyer he is the slower and slacker mociō he hath Euen so ought Noble men the higher they are raysed the humbler and quieter to be the more to vse lenitye curtesy to al men bridle their stomakes bury theyr vnbroken rage The contraries therfore statelines importunitye crueltye and anger much more must they flye Which when they light on anye armed with authority Nobility and power more trouble and stirre eche state For inflamed with these nourishementes and oyle as it were they haue more force to hurt Of anger 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glistereth in the exercise and practyse of vertue These thus determyned syth sufficientlye it appeareth VVhat ma●●● thinge ●●ue No bilitye is what is the true pathe to perfect Nobilitye it remayneth we shewe what maner thynge it is and wyth what ornamentes of vertues it ought b● cladde Infinite were to exprects and orderly to recken the noumber and summe of at her vertues For all suche as seuered are in the rascall rable oughte generallye to foyne and thronge in a Noble man Onelye the generall kyndes it shall suffyce to shewe whereto Nobilitye oughte rayse theyr mindes and eyes and by theym as the rule of lyfe eramyne all theyr deedes and dutyes Whyche albeit for the moste parte they maye be also applyed to others yet as Erasinus in framyng a preacher Cicero an Emperoure and Oratoure recken certayne vertues not alwayes peculyer to theym but commen wyth others so wyll we God belpinge prescribe and assygne● certayne preceptes of orderynge noblye and honourablye the lyfe whyche if not altogether at least chyefely seeme proper to Nobles For of others neither is so great perfection requyred nor can they accomplyshe all for they wante the helpes the others haue and are not asigned to lyke watche and warde Wherefore as they beare other state place offyce in the commen welth so in teachynge and enstructyng them otherwyse oughte we proceede and farre vnlyke order and meane obserue Let vs therefore settle to it But thys notwythstand●nge shall be no newe institucion of Nobilitye inuented or Imagined by me but confyrmed The fyrste Chanell therefore of theyr dutye and fountayne of all wysedome is the feare of the Lorde Namelye the true vnstayned worship of God and sincere relygyon Wherwyth Noble men must euen from theyr cradles be seasoned I meane not that they learne onelye to knowe God For euen the Gentyles knowe hym and Hermes Pythagoras Socrates denyed not there is but one God And Plato confesseth the knoweledge wisedome and power of God moste certayne and the ignoraunce thereof manyfest blyndes and wickednes For the lawe establyshed first in Iewry and spreading frō Syon and Hierusalem to the Chaldees and Egipcians thence ouerspedde Afryke and Asye Whence deriued into Greece oute of Greece it was shypped into Italye Fraunce and other costes of Europe So as there is none whose mynde thys opinion of God hathe not pearced Of the Philosophers some doubted what he was But all affirmed he was Some termed him the being of all beinges and first mouer as Aristotle Others an euerlastinge minde and God as Cicero Nor any time was their any nation so rude or barbarous nor any one so farre strayed from humanitie and godlines in whose minde some forme and Image of this godheade was not grauen Alike superfluous is it to wyl them to feare to beleue god or pray to him For the euel feare the deuels beleue the Paynems praye As teacheth Hesiode When sleape thou list when firste thou wakenest pray The Gods to assiste the euer and that dave Needeles also it is to will them partake in ceremonies and church rytes with others For so much long since Isocrates wrate to Demonicus the infidels obserued who ordaind publike priuate and forreine sacrifices feasts wakes and plaies These toyes familier euen to the commen sorte and moste vnciuile people wholly ignoraunt of gods misteryes what nedeth to teache For Epicures godlesse persons blasphemers forswearers mockers and scorners of Gods Relygion if anye bee in this sorte I determyne no otherwyse then doggs from Sacraments or swyne from pearles to bee chased To whome this oure talke nor sauoureth nor belongeth But farre otherwyse bee oure Noble man instituted and learne hee not only to feare God as iudge but also to loue hym as Father And not onely loue hym but acknowledge Jesus Christ the cause and aucthour of this loue and reconcilemente Whome hee oughte beleue to bee God partaker of one selfe substaunce with the Father become man to haue taken fleshe of a wemlesse Virgine to haue walked in earthe in Seruile forme as man to haue taught proclaimd the new league made Caytifes and sinners iuste and blessed to haue redeemd wyth hys Crosse the forlorne Captyues to haue rysen from the deade ascended with hys fleashe lefte here a Sacrament of hys bloud and bodye And therein commended to vs the holye memorye of hys happye death and ensealed the same wyth a lyuelye and effectuall monumente as hys Sygnet To bee the onely heade of the church not absente but presente not deade but mouinge quycknynge and nouryshynge hys lymmes To bee also the husbande of the Churche whom hee credyteth not as strumpet to anye Vycar but relyeueth from heauen warrynge in earthe ruleth and enstructeth wyth hys spiryte To bee shorte to bee the onelye yea the onely and moste absolute Solycitour This Chryste not quartered but whole who swaloweth and embraceth by faithe is a godly Noble man Whom also hee oughte call on and reuerendlye worshippe and accordynge to knowledge honoure but onelye hym Not transferre hys proper honour to stockes stones or Sainets That hee assure hym selfe this is the true catholike religiō which kindleth not quē cheth our faith in him which aduaun●eth him debaseth vs and ours which referreth all giftes and receiued benefites to his grace abateth the pride of our fleshe the liberty of our wyll the merites of our workes the swellynge of oure nature Acknowledgeth hym onely kinge Prophete Byshop and all in all This must oure Noble man learne this must he redite and folow Who otherwayes hale hym whisper in his eares pernicious heresyes and phantastical opinyons muste bee shound not herd as proud and presumptuous persons selfe louers and estemers of theyr owne workes and worthines Who vaunt them selues Creatours Mediatours Sauiours Christs gods Who better then their lorde are scarse contented with a tryple golden crowne where he bare only one hit of thorne Humble christe requireth humilitie and condemneth arrogance But humblenes nor weneth her selfe worthy nor gloryouslye professeth to iustifie others but shieldeth her selfe with the shade of her lorde hovinge in hym not her selfe of whom as the Cananite woman or hongry whelp she beggeth some crumme of mercye With these instructions ought the minde of our young prynce be seasoned Whiche must bee sought not oute of mens decrees but holye wryte Whiche the Nobles them selues ought with searche and readinge see and not credytinge others eyes them selues knocke aske seeke to enter finde receiue Nor suffer them selues to be scorned of wycked pryestes feeter for a plough tayle then a pulpit The sounde and onely proofe of true relygyon is the conference and examinynge of dyuine Scriptures Wickedly therfore distinguyshed they who so firste fatherd it who termed some spirituall some laye men some temporal some seculer For who wanteth Gods spirite is not Gods The people therfore are spirituall the laye men spirytuall the Nobilytie spirytuall to flie the fruites of the fleshe fornication Idolatry like vices reckened