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A09530	Phisicke against fortune, aswell prosperous, as aduerse conteyned in two bookes. Whereby men are instructed, with lyke indifferencie to remedie theyr affections, aswell in tyme of the bryght shynyng sunne of prosperitie, as also of the foule lowryng stormes of aduersitie. Expedient for all men, but most necessary for such as be subiect to any notable insult of eyther extremitie. Written in Latine by Frauncis Petrarch, a most famous poet, and oratour. And now first Englished by Thomas Twyne.; De remediis utriusque fortunae. English	Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.; Twyne, Thomas, 1543-1613.	1579 (1579)	STC 19809; ESTC S114602	539,184	716

very fewe among many are able to say so for of so many thousand thousandes as are borne howe many are there that atteyne to olde age And of them that do howe many lyue out the lawful tyme that they may be called old Sorowe I am very olde Reason It is a myracle to meete with a verie old man specially if a man thinke with hym selfe with how many dangers on steppes he hath passed to that age The great rarenesse of olde folke is a great argument of the manyfolde chaunces of this mortal lyfe Sorowe I am olde Reason Thou hast runne an hard and daungerous race it were marueyle but that by this tyme beyng weerie and desirous to rest thou were glad to see the ende so nigh Sorowe I am soone waxen olde Reason The course of your lyfe is sometyme short sometyme very short neuer long alwayes hard rough and vncertayne the last part whereof is olde age and the ende death what cause hast thou here to complayne alone Art thou waxen old By this time then thou oughtest to haue fulfilled the dueties of life and now rest thy self seing thou art come to the end thereof That traueiler were worse then mad that being weerie and weakened with his long iourney woulde be content to goe backe agayne There is nothyng more acceptable to them that are weerie then their Inne Sorowe I am aged Reason The toyles of thy lyfe haue been pleasant vnto thee belike if thou be sorie thou hast passed them Sorowe I am an olde man. Reason If thou haddest a delyte to lyue loe thou hast lyued what needes thou must do thou hast fulfilled And who is so mad that wylbe sorie for the doing of that whiche he wyshed vnlesse he perceyue that he wyshed a misse or reioyceth not that that is done alredy that might not be left vndone nor be done without great trauayle And therefore on euery side thou hast cause to reioyce whether thou hast obteyned thy wyshed desire or accomplyshed thy necessarie and payneful duetie Sorow I am in yeeres and olde age hath chased away the delites of the body Reason Enioy the pleasures of the minde which are as many and truely more permanent and do neuer depart but when the soule departeth to her they cleaue her they folowe But bodilye pleasures when they come they bring offence and when they depart they leaue behinde them cause of repentance shame and sorowe Reioyce that thou art discharged and free from them and geue thankes to thy deliuerer for bringing thee out of the handes of thine enimies and causing thee do folowe thy duetie which thou haddest deferred and neglected Sorow I am olde and want mine accustomed pleasures Reason Accustome thy selfe then to new for olde age hath it proper pleasures whiche when thou hast tasted thou wylt loath those whiche thou hast lost if thou mightest euen rufe to returne vnto them Sorow I am olde and gray headed Reason The reuerende hoarie heares of a vertuous olde man carie with them not onely more aucthoritie but also honest delite then al the filthy pleasures of young men neyther be thou greeued at the changyng of their colour For whose senses are so corrupted or iudgment blynded that he woulde not rather beholde baskets ful of white Lilies then hutches full of blacke coales And yf he were to be transfourmed had not rather be made a whyte swanne then a blacke crowe Sorowe I am olde and the filthy wrincles haue furrowed my face Reason The forrowed lande bryngeth foorth the ranker corne and the lyfe that hath been wel instructed yeeldeth the ryper and pleasanter fruite in olde age If the wrincles of thy face offende thee frame the countenance of thy minde vnto more comlinesse whiche wyll neuer be deformed with wrincles nor altered with yeeres but rather encrease by continuance and to be short wyl do thee more honour if thou neglect it not Sorowe I am olde and become so wrincled and euyl fauoured that I scarce knowe my selfe Reason I tolde thee at the begynning of this Nowe thou wylt haue lesse desire to looke in a glasse lesse please thine owne perhaps but much lesse the eyes of wanton women whom to haue a desire to delite I cannot easily determine whether it tast of greater vanitie then lasciuiousnesse But they that séeke for trustinesse for constancie for grauitie for wysedome do hope more assuredly to fynde them among these wrincles then where the forehead and cheekes be playne and smoath and soft Sorow I am aged and the sweetest part of my lyfe haue I left behynd me Reason Nay surely the sowrest for those thynges that are most wyshed for are not alwayes best Many haue desired their owne hurte which they would not do were not the saying of the Satirike Poet true There are but fewe that can discerne the true goodes Sorowe I am olde and my pleasant dayes are past Reason The dayes in al tymes are muche one and lyke but mens mindes do varie yea one minde disagreeth from it selfe Hereof it commeth that the madnesse of youth on the one side and the impaciencie of olde age on the other haue in such sort disturbed the iudgement of this lyfe that that is counted good whiche is euyl and that most excellent whiche is woorst of al. As for the dayes they are of them selues al good for asmuch as the kyng and creatour of al worldes is good And although some dayes be hotte and some cold some drye and some moyst some cloudy and some cleare some troublesome and some calme yet yf thou haue a respect vnto the beautie of the whole worlde and the course of nature they be al good But yf they be referred vnto you and your iudgement they are almost al of them euyl sorowful doubtful heauie troublesome careful bitter plaintile lamentable ful of aduersitie Among these thou tellest me a tale of certayne pleasant ones I knowe not what whiche whiles they were present were heauie and not without their complaintes and nothing maketh them now seem pleasant but that they are past and the desire thou hast that they shoulde returne maketh them deare vnto thee and the rather for that perhaps they haue caried away with them some thynges whereby thou settest no small store A foole commonly loueth nothyng but that he hath lost Sorowe I am waren old but O that my young dayes woulde returne agayne Reason O no lesse foolyshe then vayne wyshe as thou meanest but yf thy vnderstandyng were of hygher matters then were it not voyde for it wyl surely come agayne one day and according as it is written Thyne youth shal be renewed as is were the youth of an Eagle Sorowe I am olde and my good tyme is past Reason As euery age is good to the good so is it euyl to the euyll liuers vnto both sure it is but short and very neare to the ende when as the godly shal be rewarded for their vertue and the wycked punished for their sinnes Which is then

stinges to the kinges of Men as well as she hath to the kinges of Bees but now she hath onely geuen an example to the free creature not taken away his libertie but that which she doth not enforce it is my part to exhort Behold that smal but diuine Worme and leaue thou of thy sting likewise not in the wounde but before the wounde The first is the part of a base person the seconde of a kyng otherwyse as not without iustice so neyther art thou a king without mercie no not so muche as a man but onely as the Fable sayth a crowned Lion. Ioy. I am Emperour of Rome Reason Thou hast Augustus Nero Vitellius whom thou mayest followe Vnto these three not only al Princes but al men are restrayned Choose vnto thy selfe then one of these whom thou mayest followe If thou be delyghted in latter examples thou hast of the same callyng Traiane Decius and Galienus Ioy. I am Emperour of Rome Lorde of the worlde Reason The time hath been when that might haue been almost truely auowed but to what state things now are come thou seest And to thintent it may be perceiued how safe it is to commit great matters vnto fooles and dastardes how great prouidence is there nowe fallen into how great madnes how great payne diligence into how great slouthfulnesse The Romane Empire is now no longer a thyng to reioyce in but an example of humane fragilitie and the mutabilitie of fortune Ioy. I am famous for mine Empire Reason Famous names obscure thynges deceytes of the worlde credulitie of man these are hookes whereby flexible mindes are plucked hyther and thyther The names of an Empire and of a kingdome are glorious names but an Empire and a Kingdome are the most difficult functions of all other yf they be ryghtly executed otherwyse they be dangerous and deadly neyther is that princely saying commended without cause The glorious Crowne is more full of care danger and sundry sortes of miseries then is the honest and happie peece of cloath whiche yf men dyd knowe there is none woulde seeke for it or reioyce when he had gotten it no not willingly receyue it when it weere offered or take it vp from the grounde yf he founde it Wherefore awake at length ye mortall men open your eyes and be not alwayes blynded with false glitteringes Measure and weygh your owne bodyes consider in how narrowe roomes you are enclosed despise not Geometers and Philosophers the whole earth is but a pricke your ende is frayle and vncertayne and whyle ye be young and whyle ye be in health ye wrestle with death and when ye thynke that ye ryse then doo ye descende and when ye seeme to stande most surest then fastest doo ye fall neyther is there any lyuing creature that is more forgetfull of it owne strength and many tymes when ye be Woormes halfe dead yet ye dreame of kingdomes and empires Remember that you your selues are a very smal pricke or to say more truely a pricke of a short pricke yea ye are not so much as the thousandth part of a pricke This part lyke proude inhabitantes ye ouerbeare who shortly shall be ouerborne your selues and shall no longer possesse any iote of all that ye haue but that your bodyes shall waxe cold and pale with death And whereas ye be now blinde and mad and walke with a proud swelling countenaunce that whiche nature hath made narrowe make ye more large in minde and while ye be in bandes imagine great matters and when ye be dying thynke vppon immortall thynges and consyder with your selues how that in this place and time which in effect are nothing ye prosecute your ridiculous and mad fansies during the space of a very short tyme to wit rapines iniuries reuengementes troublesome hopes vncertayne honours vnsatiable desires and your owne furies and madnesse and on the otherside ye affectate Kingdomes Gouernmentes Empires Nauies Armies and Battayles And when ye haue thus continued long time in your madnesse whether ye be Emperours or Ploughmen Ryche men or Beggers your bodyes are but rotten earth your lyfe but as a lyght smoke driuen away with a strong blast and at length but perhaps too late ye shal scarce vnderstand that this worlde was but an high way to passe through and no countrey to remayne in and that al these names of Kingdomes and Empires are but vayne and false Ioy. I am made an Emperour Reason When fooles be made Emperours they do not remember that they haue ben and are men Like as is the saying of Tiberius the Emperour who when a certaine friende of his being desirous by rehearsal of certaine matters passed betweene them to bring him in minde of their auncient familiaritie hauing scarce opened his mouth to say these woordes O sir do you remember he preuented him suddenly and brake of his talke and suffred him not to proceede any farther but answeared hastily vnto him I remember not what I haue ben a wicked and proud saying and not only deuoyde of friendshyp but of al humanitie Ioy. I am ascended to the Romane Empire Reason Why doest thou reioyce hereof Men also ascende to the Wheele and Gallowes And contrariwise they lye downe in their beddes and syt downe in their chayres and most times quietnesse dwelleth in lowe places Climbing hath been shame vnto some punishment vnto many and payneful to all Of a furnished Armie The .xcvii. Dialogue IOY I Haue a furnished Armie Reason I shoulde haue marueyled if that an Armie had not followed a Kingdome an Empire that is to say one miserie another But Seneca commendeth Scipio Africanus to the Starres not because he ledde great Armies which frantike and wicked persons haue done also but for his great moderation which truely an Armie neuer bringeth to a man but often taketh it away or often diminisheth it for what vertue is there so sounde which the keeping companie with so many rakehels blooddy Butchers and their wicked example wyl not quayle Ioy. I haue a great Armie Reason Thou hast now occasion to liue in the fieldes For neyther can Armies be receiued into cities neither peaceable citizens armed souldiours dwell well togeather Ioy. I haue a most valient Armie Reason Thou hast matter of war and losse of peace if thou reioyce in this doubtlesse thou belongest not to the heauenly citie Ioy. I haue an huge Armie Reason Thou hast armed enimies on both sides of thee from whom thou art defended neyther by wal nor trenche truely an heauy and dangerous case Ioy. I haue many valient legions Reason The tediousnes trouble insolencie of these no man can easily recite but thou shalt learne by experimenting how much it is better to liue alone then with many legions For truely there are no iniuries no falshood no crueltie to be compared to the wickednesse of souldiours Thou shalt by thine owne experience finde how true that verse is which euery boy hath in his mouth There is no faith

it can not be remedied must be suffered with a valiant minde Howbeit as he doth not refuse to suffer the woorkes of nature who by this tyme ought to haue learned to suffer so many insolencies so many cruelties so many cruell outragies so many rapines committed by men the same man also shall soone perceyue howe iniuriously dame nature is dayly torne in peeces for small tryfles seeyng that one man is constrayned to suffer so manye bytter and greeuous touches at anothers handes Sorowe I am plagued with extreame heate Reason Stay a whyle for the sharpnesse of Winter is commyng apace whiche wyl abandon this tediousnesse Sorowe I am sore vexed with c●●de Reason Behold Summer maketh haste that wyll take away the bytternesse thereof Sorowe I am greeued with colde Reason There is scarce any discomm●ditie to be found for whiche nature hath not prouided a remedie And many tymes there be sundrie remedies founde for one greefe these thynges followyng keepe away colde the house clothes meate drynke labour and exercise There is seldome any ouercome with colde vnlesse before he be ouercome by slouthfulnesse I am ashamed to recken vp fyre among the remedies agaynst cold which is a great argument of humane idlenes It is nothing so easie a matter with a wet lynnen cloath to drawe away water that is mingled with wine in an whole Hoggeshead as it is to separate sluggardes from good husbandes at a good fyre in the Winter season thyther run all they that haue neyther blood nor courage of minde a man may then beholde yf he haue a delyght to see it our youth to the intent they would seeme fayre to deforme them selues agaynst the fyre by making their bodyes naked from the nauell downwarde for whom how much were it more honest and seemely to couer their priuie partes then by scorching their thyghes and buttockes agaynst the flame to annoy the senses of the standers by with their loath some stynke Sorowe At one tyme I quake and at another I sweate Reason I easily beleeue thee for I knowe thy manners and whyles thou art speakyng I wyll tell thee what commeth into my minde The historie is but new and short In Fraunce there was a father and his sonne apprehended for treason and iudged to be executed accordyng to the manner of the countrey by standyng in a Caudron wherein they shoulde be boyled to death Now it was winter and when they were both put naked and bounde into the colde water the young man began to quake and chatter his teeth for colde but when once the water began to waxe hotte by meanes of the fyre that was made vnder it then began he also by greeuous lamentation and weepyng to declare his impacience of the heate But on the othersyde the olde man persisting vnmoueable in both and lookyng vppon hym with a sterne countenaunce Thou sonne quoth he of a most vyle whoore canst thou abyde neyther colde nor heate A saying truely perhappes of an euyll yet of a constaunt and valiant minde and well deseruyng that the speaker thereof shoulde leape vnhurt out of the deadly Caudron But most conuenient for your youth to learne then whom there is nothyng more effeminate nor tender who in the Summer doo curse the sunne lyke the Atlantes and in the wynter season woorshyp the fire as do the Caldees Sorowe The snowe molesteth me Reason Those that be nice do also loath delicate thynges Howbeit some haue counted it a most beautiful matter to see snowe fall without wynde and truely if there be any thyng fairer then snowe yet verily there is nothyng whyter Sorowe We are troubled sometyme with to muche heate and sometyme with to muche colde at one tyme with ouermuch drought and at another with to much rayne Reason Some say that Alexander was most impatient of heate and no marueyle for he could not endure prosperitie nor aduersitie and contrariwyse they say that Hannibal could indifferently away both with heat and colde Why doest not thou also take vnto thy selfe some one part though it be of vnlyke prayse He coulde suffer both wel canst thou endure neyther This good doth pleasure bryng you at the begynnyng whiche doth soften you and make you effeminate and as I may truely say geld your myndes so that you dare not onely not abyde your enimies swoordes or death but also not so muche as the ayryal impressions I crye styll but alwayes I crye in vayne vnto you for that I crye vnto deafe folkes Leaue vnto nature her owne office she dooth nothyng without the counsell of the most hyghest You ignorant fooles there is not one drop of water that falleth vpon the earth more or lesse then is expedient and although that euery particuler mans lust be not satisfied yet is there generall prouision made for the safetie of all men Sorowe I am greeued on the one side with durt on the other with dust here with cloudes there with windes and thunder Reason The diuersitie of the earth foloweth the diuersitie of heauen moyst ayre breedeth durt and drye ayre dust so lykewyse by moouing of the ayre come wyndes of vapours cloudes of windes and cloudes tempestes and thunder are engendred Who so knoweth the causes of thynges and sheweth hym selfe obedient vnto nature shal not bewaile the consequence of effectes And although there be great question among some concernyng the wyndes neuerthelesse doth not the ayre that is mooued with no wynde seeme vnto thee in a manner halfe dead in so much that some not vnaptly haue tearmed the wynde a soule or a spirit As for dust thou seest how that among men of valure it is counted sweete which also vertue onely hath by dyuers operation caused that as much may be beleeued also of durt Thunder and lyghtnyng with suche other lyke forcible motions of heauen what be they other then the threates and warninges of the most mercyful God Who truely vnlesse he had loued man woulde not threaten hym but stryke hym seeing that he neuer lacketh many and iust causes to stryke hym in deede That these thynges apparteyne vnto the terrif●yng of men but specially of those that rebell agaynst God not onely the Poet who was skylfull of the secretes of nature doth signifie but also the Prophetisse whiche seemed to be priuie of Gods counsel sayeth The aduersaries of the Lorde shal feare hym and he shall thunder vpon them from heauen O ye the aduersaries of the Lorde stande in feare of the true thunderer labour to come into his fauour that beyng reconciled into freendshyp with God ye feare nothyng but to displease hym Doo ye this rather and leaue complaynyng Sorowe I am sorie for this darke and cloudie weather Reason No tempest continueth long and after fayre weather come cloudes and after cloudes fayre weather commeth agayne and one of them immediatly foloweth another and that which is so short should be suffered without complayntes Sorowe I am offended with the cloudes Reason This offence is a certayne kynde of

fal from God for that he forsaketh hym that made hym and forasmuche as pryde is the beginnyng of al sinne Thou knowest al other thynges which being diligently weighed thou shalt perceyue howe foule a monster a proude man is Of Agues The .cxii. Dialogue SOROWE I Burne with Agues Reason This heat wyl ende in processe of tyme or els with colde whiche euer of the twayne it be it is well Sorow I am greeued with agues Reason All this motion agaynst nature is of more vehemencie then continuance and of these twayne it alwayes doth the one eyther it clenseth the body or setteth the soule at libertie Sorowe I am holden with Agues Reason Stay a whyle thou shalt not long be holden for eyther thou shalt soone be discharged thereof or set at libertie and eyther of them is very good Sorowe I am sicke of an Ague Reason Thou shalt be at quiet anon nature striueth with death attend the ende of the battayle for the houre draweth nygh which shal eyther free thee from thy sickensse or discharge thee from al. Sorow I burne with the Ague Reason It is lesse harme for the bodye to burne then the foule whereof thou madest thy last seuen complayntes and howe yf the scortching of the one be medicinable for the other Finally how much more better is it by a short cast of the euyles of this present lyfe to be put in mynde of the euerlastyng punishment to the ende that men may study to auoyde infinite bitternesse who so greeuously susteyne the sharpenesse of a fewe houres and by these troubles learne to flye them from whiche neyther the Phisition nor herbes nor the critical day nor death can delyuer them Sorowe I trye with the Feuer Reason The woormes meate is rosted suffer thy selfe to be burned for other for whom other meates haue been so often tymes burned and take aduisement of the punishment Many euyles haue stoode in steede of remedies a smal greefe in the present tyme hath often geuen men occasion to prouide for greater to come and that whiche was paineful becommeth profitable Happie is that short burnyng whiche is the cause of eternal ioy Sorowe I am molested with the Ague Reason Nowe shalt thou be an vpryght iudge of prosperous health For you men beyng an vnthankeful generation cannot acknowledg the giftes of God vnlesse they be lost or surceasse Sorow I am sore vexed with a greiuous ague Reason Ye cannot long continue togither No man can burne long For either thou wilt shortly forsake thine ague or else thine ague wil leaue thee Of the payne of the guttes and Traunce The .cxiii Dialogue SOROWE I Suffer the payne of the guttes Reason Begyn to hope for there can happen now nothing more greeuous vnto thee For lyke as it is the begynning of sorowe to come to the vttermost degree of pleasure so lykewyse the extremitie of sorowe must needes be the begynning of pleasure This is the lawe of contraries that the one spryngeth from the ende of the other Sorowe I am tormented with the Iliake passion Reason It is I confesse an hard kynde of comfort that a man can suffer nothing more bitter Sorowe I am vexed with the Iliake passion Reason Who so is sorie and feareth is in wretched case but feare which is the one halfe of miserie is taken from thee on euery side for whereof I pray thee neede he to be afeard who hopeth for death whereof aboue al thynges men stande most in dreade Sorowe I am martyred with the payne in the gu●tes Reason Whyle thou lyuest learne to dye and that which must be done but once assay thou to do often then at length thou shalt do that more safely once whiche thou hast assayed to do so often for that whiche thou doest then shal be no strange thyng to thee The payne in the guttes is muche lyke vnto death sauing that death is shorter and easier so that he that can beare that payne valiantly vnlesse some other feare come betweene and alter the case shal much more valiantly endure death Sorowe I am torne in peeces by the iliacke passion Reason The vehemencie of the payne promiseth an ende for there is no man long a dying Sorow Yea the very payne driueth me into a sounde Reason The long paynes of feauers thou passest ouer with one breathyng Sorowe I feele howe I am fallen into a traunce Reason A man shall scarce perceyue when it is comming for it commeth sodenly and when it is come it presently depriueth the vnderstandyng of all force Sorowe I begynne to faint Reason O happie art thou that shalt passe ouer so assured and hard a thyng without sense Sorowe I fall oft tymes into a traunce Reason Thou returnest often from death to lyfe Sorowe I fal very often into a deadly traunce Reason Thou canst not fal into that twyce For none dyeth more then once and whiche shoulde be the best kynde of death there was somtyme disputation among certayne learned and notable men at whiche was Iulius Caesar in presence for empire and learnyng a most excellent personage who also in his latter tyme as some wryte of hym vsed many tymes to faynt suddeynly which question he in this manner determined concludyng that a suddeine and vnlooked for death was of al the most commodious Whiche opinion although vnto godlynesse and true religion it seeme very harde notwithstandyng euery one that wyse is but specially godly and studious of true religion ought so to lyue that nothyng may befal vnto hym soddenly and vnlooked for and yf any suche thyng happen to the minde that the soddennesse thereof hurt it not but profite also the body Of sundry paynes and greefes of the whole body The .cxiiii. Dialogue SOROWE I Am greeued in al partes of my body Reason If thy minde whiche is the gheast of the body be not greeued nor troubled it is wel whatsoeuer hapneth vnto the poore cottage thereof shal redownde I hope vnto the safetie of it Sorowe I am vexed in al my body whiche is a greeuous payne Reason The Stoikes say that among al humane thynges only vertue is good And although others be of another opinion yet this is the more true and manly as seemeth vnto me and many moe whereof it foloweth that whatsoeuer is contrarie hereunto is a vice whereby it commeth to passe that although the payne of the body be most greeuous yet it is not euyll Sorow Alas poore wretch how I am tormented and thou disputest and al are but philosophical fables Reason Thou shewest thy selfe to be a wretche if it were but in this poynt only for that thou callest the rules of mans lyfe fables Sorow These thynges are plausible in the schooles and famous in bookes but they are not able to enter into the racke or to clymbe vp into the beddes of the sicke they be spoken and wrytten more easily then practised Reason Yes truely they be profitable agaynst payne and sicknesse and death but not vnto al