Shield within a Bordure Componeè Or and Gules before the Armes of Ferrara in recognisance of the league and fidelitie wherein hee promised to stand bound to serue the King at his own charges And for the like respect Lewis the eleuenth in May 1465. allowed Pietro de Medici to beare three Flower-de-luces in his shield which I haue seene borne in cheife vpon one of his sixe Lozenges Of Difference by the Labell A second difference is by the Labell borne chieefely as the difference of the elder Brother As Edward the blacke Prince and all our Princes of Wales eldest sonnes to the King beare their Fathers Soueraigne Coate with a Labell of three points Siluer Iohn of Gauns had his Labell Ermin Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke on his Labell Siluer nine Torteauxes Edmond Plantagenes sonne and heire of Richard Duke of Yorke Earle of Ruâ—land who being a Child scarce twelue yeares of age was stricken to the heart with a Dagger by the Lord Clifford at the battaile of Wakefield had vpon his Labell of fiue points Argent two Lionceaux Gules with nine Torteauxes The Coate of Vlsâ—er and Mortimâ—r being â—mpaled with his owne as may be seene in the windowes of Fâ—deringhay Castle the mansion house of the Duke of Yorke where by his father Richard Duke of Yorke and Cicely Nevill his mother hee lyeth buried whose bodies remoued out of Fâ—deringhay Church-yard for the Chancell in the Quire wherein they first were laid in that fury of knocking Churches and sacred Monuments in the head was also felled to the ground lapped in Lead were buried in the Church by the commandement of Queene Elizabeth and a meane Monument of Plaister wrought with the Trowell erected ouer them very homely and farre vnfitting so Noble Princes I remember Master Creuse a Gentleman and my wâ—rthy friend who dwelt in the Colledge at the same time told me that their Coffins being opened their bodies appeared very plainly to be discerned and withall that the Dutchesse Cicely had about her necke hanging in a Silke riband a pardon from Rome which penned in a very fine Romane hand was as faire and fresh to be read as it had beene written but yesterday Of Difference by the Bend. A third difference is by the Bend Baston c. as the house of Burâ—â—â— beareth Frâ—â—â—â— with a Bâ—tune Gules though the proper and true Coate of 〈◊〉 is Of a Lyon Gules within an Orle of Escallops Azure Lewis Earle of Eureux in Normandy brother to Philip le Bâ—ll bare Seme de France with a Batune Componeè Argent and Gules Iohn Earle of Lâ—â—â—aster and Brother to Richard the first afterward King bare for his difference a Batune Azure If the mother be of the ligne Royall many times her Coate is preferred into the first quarter as Hâ—nry Earle of Dâ—â—â—nshire and Marquâ—sse of Exeter â—â—re his mother Kâ—tharines Coate who was daughter to King Edward the fourth And the like Humphrey Stafford who was the first Duke of Buckingham by Anne Platagâ—nâ—â— his mother â— the Coate of Thomas of Woodstocke whose daughter she was This Coate I remember standeth in the great Chancell window in the Church of Kimbaltâ—n In France it hath beene and it yet a custome among the Nobilitie to 〈◊〉 their owne proper Coates and take others as perhaps their Wiâ—es or the Armes of that Srigâ—â—â—â— whereof they are Lords or whence they haue their Titles as Mons. Hugues brother to King Philip marrying the daughter and heire of Herbere Earle of Verâ—â—â—dâ—â—â—s forsooke his proper Coate and bare his Wiues which was Checky Or and Azure onely three Flower-de-luces added in chiefe to shew he was of the blood And Robert Counâ— de Dreux albeit he was brother to King Lewis 〈◊〉 bare Checky Azure and Or with a Bordure Gules Robert Duke of Burgogne brother to Henry the first tooke for his bearing the ancient Armes of the Dukes of Burgogne which was bendy Or and Azure within a Bordure Gules giuen by Charlemaigne to Sanson Duke of Burgogne And whereas we in England allow the base sonne his Fathers Coate with the difference of a bend Batune sinister or bordure engrailed or the like it was in France a long time forbidden I thinke vnder the Capets to the Princes of the blood as 〈◊〉 Earle of Mâ—mfort base sonne to King Robert was forced to leaue his Fathers Coate and beare Gules a Lion à la queue fourcheè Or passeè per à lentour Argent for Le maison de France â—â—â—â—tant les bastardes no leur endurè son armeirè c. saith Tillet The last and least obseruation is of Crests the Helmet the Mantle and doubling thereof which according to the manner of diuers Countries are diuersly borne In Germany they beare their Beauers open with Barres which we allow in England to none vnder the degree of a Baron in some places they haue no Crests at all If you would farther proceed in Nobilitie or Heraldry I would wiâ—h you to reade these bookes of 〈◊〉 obâ—â—itie in generâ—â—â— Simon Simonius de Nâ—â—ilitâ—â—e 〈…〉 at Leipsig 1572. Chassanâ—â—â—â— his Catalogus Gloria munâ—â— Hippolitus à Collibus his Axumata Nobilitatis Conclusiones de Nobilitate Doctorain published by one of Meckleburg who concealeth his name printed 1621. dedicated to the Archbishop of Breme Petrus Eritzius Counâ—â—â—â—er to the Elector of Brandenburge published Conclusiones de Nobilitate in quarto Lionellus De pracedentia â—omiâ—um Of the Spanish Nobilitie these Authors haue written Ioannes ab Arce Offalora in folio Priuilegios y Franquezas y libertades des bijos dâ—algos De Senniorio de Vizcaia c. in fol. Ludovicus de Mollâ—â—a De primogâ—niorâ—m Hispanicorum iure c. in fol. Iosephus de Sesse in Decis Aragon Decis 8. 9. 10. c. Gonzales de Câ—rte his Nobliza del Andaluzia in fol. Of Italy Sicily Naples c. Scipie Mazzella nelle Neapoli Illustrata in quarto Paulus Merula in Cosmograph lib. 3. pt 3. in Italian Of France The Workes of Tillet Ferâ—â— Charles L'Oisâ—â—â— Choppin Theatre d'Honneur Of Germany or the Empire Fran. Contzen his Politiques in fol. The Collections of Goldastus with some others The practise of Blazonrie Willeged the first Abbot dyed the same yeare that Off a did of very griefe it was thought for the death of his king and kinsman whom he dearely loued Anno 8â—8 After him succeeded these in order Eadricke Vulsigus Wulâ—â—â—us Eadfrithus Wulsinus Who built Saint Peters Church Saint Michaels and Saint Stephens and made a faire market place in the towne Alfricke Aldredus Who digged vp and searched the ruines of Verlam-cesire which in his time were dens of theeues and whores saued all the tile and stone for the repaire of the Church and in digging vpon the North side in the vale found oaken plankes pitched Shelles peeces of oares and a rusty Anchor or two Eadmer after his death being a religious and a good man imitating his predecessour saued all the ancient coines vrnes
to haue need His magnificence appeared by diuers his building For within the Citie of Florence hee builded the Abbaits and Temples of S. Marco S. Lorenzo and the Monastery of S. Verdiana in the mountains of Fiesole S. Girolamo with the Abbey thereto belonging Also in Mugello he did not only repaire the Church for the Friers but tooke it downe and built it anew Besides those magnificent buildings in S. Croce in S. Agnoli and S. Miniato he made Altars and sumptuâ—â—â— Chappels All which Temples and Chappels besides the buildings of them were by him paued and furnished throughly with all things necessarie With these publique buildings wee may number his priuate houses whereof one within the Citie meeâ—e for so great a personage and foure other without at Carriaggi at Fiesole at Casaggiuolo and at Trebio all Palaces fitter for Princes then priuate persons And because his magnificent houses in Italy did not in his opinion make him famous enough he builded in Ierusalem an Hospitall to receiue poore and diseased Pilgrims In which worke he consumed great summes of Money And albeit these buildings and euery other his actions were princely and that in Florence he liued like a Prince yet so gouerned by wisedome as he neuer exceeded the bounds of ciuill modestie For in his conuersation in riding in marrying his Children and Kinsfolkes he was like vnto all other modest and discreeâ—e Citizens because he well knâ—w that extraordinarie things which are of all men with admiration beheld doâ— procure more enuy then those which without ostentation be honestly couered I omit as followeth shortly after his great and excessiue charge in entertaining of learned men of all professions to instruct the youth of Florence his bountie to Argiropolo a Gracian and Marsilio Fiâ—ins whom he maintained for the exercise of his owne studies in his house and gaue him goodly lands neere his house of Carreggi men in that time of singular learning because Vertue reares him rather to wonder then Imitation To proceed no lesse respect and honour is to be attributed to Eloquence whereby so many haue raised their esteeme and fortunes as able to draw Ciuilitie out of Barbarisme and sway whole kingdomes by leading with Celticke Hercules the rude multitude by the eares Marke Anthony contending against Augustus for the Romane Empire assured himselfe he could neuer obtaine his purpose while Cicero liued therefore he procured his death The like did Antipater a Successor to Alexander by Demosthenes aspiring to the Monarchy of Greece And not long since a poore Mahumetan Priest by his smooth tongue got the Crowne of Morocco from the right heire being of the house of Giuseph or Ioseph And much hurt it may doe if like a mad mans sword it be vsed by a turbulent and mutinous Orator otherwise we must hold it a principall meanes of correcting ill manners reforming lawes humbling aspiring minds and vpholding all vertue For as Serpents are charmed with words so the most sauage and cruell natures by Eloquence which some interpret to be the meaning of Mercuries golden Rod with those Serpents wreathed about it Much therefore it concerneth Princes not onely to countenance honest and eloquent Orators but to maintaine such neere about them as no meane props if occasion serue to vphold a State and the onely keies to bring in tune a discordant Common-wealth But it shall not be amisse ere I proceede further to remoue certaine doubts which as rubs clog the cleere passage of our Discourse and the first concerning Bastardie whether Bastards may be said to be Nobly borne or not I answere with Iustinian Sordes inter praecipuos nominarinon merentur Yet it is the custome with vs and in France to allow them for Noble by giuing them sometimes their Fathers proper Coate with a bend Sinister as Reignald Earle of Cornewall base sonne to the Conquerour bare his Fathers two Leopards passant gardant or in a field Gules with a bend sinister Azure The like Hamlin base sonne to Geoffrey Plantagenet Earle of Surreyâ— Some their fathers whole Coate or part of the same in bend dexter as Iohn Beauford a Bastard of Somerset bare partie per pale argent and Azure a bend of England with a labell of France Sir Roger de Clarendon base son to the Blacke Prince his fathers three Feathers on a bend Sable the field Or. I willingly produce these examples to confirme our custome of ennobling them and though the Law leaneth not on their side yet stand they in the head of the troope with the most deseruing yea and many times according to Euripides proue better â—hen the legitimate Who are more famous then Remus and Romulus who laid the first stone of Rome more couragious and truly valiant then Hercules Alexander our King Arthur of Britaine and William the first more critically learned then Christopher Longolius Iacobus Faber more modest and of better life then Coelius Calgaguinus the delight of his Ferrara with infinite others and where decretals and Schoolemen may beare the bell those two Grandes Gratian and Lombard A second question ariseth whether he that is Noble descended may by his vice and basenesse lose his Nobilitie or no. It is answered that if he that is ignoble and inglorious may acquire Nobilitie by Vertue the other may very well lose it by his Vice But such are the miserable corruptions of our times that Vices go for prime Vertues and to be drunke sweare wench follow the fashion to do iust nothing are the attributes and marks now adaies of a great part of our Gentry Hence the Agrigentines expelled their Phalaris the Romanes extinguished the memorie of the whole race of the Tarquines with those Monsters of Nature Nero Heliogabalus c. the Sicilians Dionysins the later with others Thirdly whether Pouertie impeacheth or staineth Nobilitie I answere Riches are an ornament not the cause of Nobilitie and many times wee see there lyeth more worth vnder a thrid-bare Cloake and within a thatched Cottage then the richest Robe or stateliest Palace Witnesse the Noble Curij and Fabritij taken from a poore dinner of Turneps and Water-cresses in an earthen dish to leade the Romane Army and conquer the most potent Kings of the world Fourthly concerning Aduocates and Physitians whether we may rancke them with the ennobled or no. Aduocates or Counsellors being Interpreters of the Law their place is commendable and themselues most necessarie Instruments in a Common-wealth wherefore saith the Ciuill Law their calling is honorable they ought to be freed of mulcts publike charges and all impositions and to be written or sent vnto as vnto persons of especiall worth and dignitie Touching Physitians though the profession by some hath beene thought seruile and in times past was practised by seruants as Domitian saith Seneca imper auit medico seruo vt venenum sibi daret and that slouenly Epithite of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be by Aristophanes bestowed vpon Aesculapius
nobly atchieued It transferreth it selfe vnto Posteritie and as for the most part wee see the children of Noble Personages to beare the lincaments and resemblance of their Parents so in like manner for the most part they possesse their vertues and Noble dispositions which euen in their tenderest yeares will but forth and discouer it selfe Hauing discoursed of Nobilitie in Generall the diuision and vse thereof giue me leaue in a word to inâ—eigh against the pittifull abuse thereof which like a plague I think hath infected the whole world Euery vndeseruing and base Peasant ayming at Nobilitie which miserable ambition hath so furnished both Towne Country with Coates of a new list that were Democritus liuing hee might haue laughing matter for his life In Naples such is the pride of euery base groome that though he be distalla he must be termed Signore and scarce will â—e open a note from a poore Calzâ—laiâ— to whom he hath beene a twelue month indebted for his Bootes if Dâ—n be not in the superscription In Venice likewise euery Mechanique is a Magnifice though his magnificenza walketh the Market but with a Chequin In France euery Peasant and common Lacquay is saluted by name of Mounsieur or Sire the King himselfe hauing no other Title The word Sire immediatly proceeding from Cyrus the Persian word for a Lord or great Prince as H. Stephanus well noteth or as it pleaseth some from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 authoritie or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Lord or Gouernor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Goe but from Paris to Anjoâ— and see if you find not all from the Count to the Esculiers allyed either to the King some Prince of the blood Noble Peere or other In the Low Countries mine old Host at Arnhem in Gildrerland changed his Coate and Crest thrice in a fortnight because it did not please his young Wife For there ye must vnderstand they are all Gentlemen by a Grant they say from Charles the fift in consideration of a great summe of money they lent him in time of his warres Come into what house soeuer though miju heer weert be but a Gardiner Ropemaker or Aquaâ—ita seller you shal be sure to haue his Armes with the Beauer full faced allowed to none but Kings and Princes in his Glasse-window with some ingenious Motto or other of his owne deuice I remember one Tâ—link there gaue for his Coate a wilde Goose in the water with this witty one Volans natans Another three Hogs falling vpon a Dog who was lugging one of their fellowes with this Endracht mackt macht Another three great drinking Bowles Orbiquiers with this truly Dutch and more tollerable then the rest vnderneath Quem non fâ—â—â—re disertum with infinite others of like Nature yet the ancient Nobilitie whereof there are many Honorable families as Hohenlo Egment Horne Bredeâ—ode Waggenâ—â—r Betsolaër with sundry others keepe themselues entire and maintaining their ancient houses and reputation free from scandall of dishonour as well as wee laugh at these their boorish deuices Some againe by altering letters or syllables or adding to their names will insinuate themselues into Noble houses and not sticke many times to beare their Coates But the most common and worst of all is in all places the ordinary purchasing of Armes and Honors for Money very preiudiciall to true Nobilitie and politique gouernment for who will hazzard his person and estate to infinite dangers for Honour when others at home may haue it siâ—e sudore sanguinâ— onely by bleeding in the vena câ—nâ— called marsupium The pure Oyle cannot mingle with the water no more this extracted quintessence and Spirit of Vertue with the dregges and subsistence of vnworthinesse Euripides when his Father told him he was knighted made him this reply Good Father you haue that which euery man may haue for his Money And certainely Vertue dum petis ar duâ— will not stoope to take vp her reward in the streete The French man is so bold as to terme such intruders Gentil-villaines but I dare not vse that word lest some that challenge the first part of it should returne me the latter Lastly to conclude most pittifull is the pride of many who when they are nobly borne not onely staine their stocke with vice and all base behauiour relying and vaunting of their long pedigrees and exploits of their Fathers themselues liuing in sloath and idlenesse disparage and disgrace those who by their vertuous endeuours are rising To these and such I oppose Marius and that stout reply of his in Salust They contemne meâ— as an vpstart I scornâ— their sloath and basenesse Againe What they idlely heave and reade at home my selfe hath either acted or seene if they scorne me let them scorne their Ancestors who came by their Nobilitie as I haue done If they 〈◊〉 mine Honor let them also enuy my labours mine innocence my perils c. Now see how equally they deale that which they arrogate to themselues from the vertue of others that they deny me from mine owne because I haue no Images and my Nobilitie is new c. Shortly after I cannot to prooue my descent bring forth the Images of my Ancestors their Triumphs their Consulships but if neede be I can shew Launces my Ensigne Caparisons and other such warlike implements beside a number of scarres vpon my breast these are my Images my Nobilitie not left me by descent and inheritance c. And as resolute of late yeares was the answer of Verdugo a Spaniard Commander in Friseland to certaine of the Spanish Nobilitie who murmured at a great feast the sonne of a Hang-man should take place aboue them for so he was and his name importeth Gentlemen quoth he question not my birth or who my Father was I am the sonne of mine owne desert and Fortune if any man dares as much as I haue done let him come and take the Tables â—nd with all my heart CHAP. 2. Of the dignitie and necessity of Learning in Princes and Nobilitie SInce Learning then is an essentiall part of Nobilitie as vnto which we are beholden for whatsoeuer dependeth on the culture of the mind it followeth that who is nobly borne and a Scholler withall deserueth double Honour being both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for hereby as an Ensigne of the fairest colours hee is a farre discerned and winneth to himselfe both loue and admiration heigthing with skill his Image to the life making it pretious and lasting to posteritie It was the reply of that learned King of Arragon to a Courtier of his who affirmed that Learning was not requisite in Princes and Nobilitie Questa è voce d'un but non d'un Huomâ— For if a Prince be the Image of God gouerning and adorning all things and the end of all gouernment the obseruation of Lawes that thereby might appeare the goodnesse of God in protecting the good and punishing the bad that the people might bee fashioned in
in Poesie was most rich and his sweetnesse and facilitie in a verse vnimitably excellent as appeareth by that Master peece his Psalmes as farre beyond those of B. Rhenanus as the Stanza's of Petrarch the times of Skelton but deseruing more applause in my opinion if hee had fallen vpon another subiect for I say with one Mihi spiritus diuinus eiusmodâ— places quo scipsum ingessit a Patre illoruÌ„ piget qui Dauid Psalmos suis calamistris inustos sperarant efficere plausibiliores And certaine in that boundlesse field of Poeticall inuention it cannot be auoided but something must be distorted beside the intent of the Diuine enditer His Tragedies are loftie the stile pure his Epigrams not to be mended saue heere and there according to his Genius too broad and bitter But let vs looke behinde vs and wee shall finde one English-bred whose glorie and worth although Cineri suppôsta doloso is inferiour neither to Buchanan or any of the ancients and so much the more to be valued by how much the brighter he appeared out of the fogges of Barbarisme and ignorance in his time that is Ioseph of Exeter who liued vnder Henrie the 2. and Richard the first who wrote that singular and stately Poeme of the Troian warre after the Historie of Dares Phrygius which the Germanes haue printed vnder the name of Cornelius Nepos He died at Bourdeaux in France where he was Archbishop where his monument is yet to bee seene After him all that long tract of ignorance vntill the daies of Henrie the 8. which time Erasmus calleth the Golden Age of learning in regard of so many famously learned men it produced more then euer heretofore flourished Sir Thomas More sometime Lord Chancellor of England a man of most rich and pleasant inuention his verse fluent nothing harsh constrained or obscure wholly composed of conceipt and inoffensiue mirth that he seemeth ad lepôres fuisse natum How wittily doth hee play vpon the Arch-cuckold Sabinus scoffe at Frenchified Lalus and Herney a French cowardly Captaine beaten at the Sea by our English and his shippe burned yet his victorie and valour to the English disgrace proclaimed by Brixius a Germane Pot-aster What can be more loftie then his gratulatorie verse to King Henrie vpon his Coronation day more wittie then that Epigramme vpon the name of Nicolaus an ignorant Phisitian that had beene the death of thousands and Abyngdons Epitaph more sweete then that nectar Epistle of his to his daughters Margaret Elizabeth and Cicelie But as these ingenious exercises bewraied in him an extraordinary quicknesse of wit and learning so his Vtopia his depth of iudgment in State-affaires then which in the opinion of the most learned Budaus in a preface before it our age hath not seene a thing more deepe accurate In his yonger yeeres there was euer a friendly and vertuous emulation for the palme of inuention and poesie betweene William Lillie the author of our Grammer and him as appeareth by their seuerall translations of many Greeke Epigrammes and their inuention tried vpon one subiect notwithstanding they lou'd and liu'd together as deerest friends Lillie also was beside an excellent Latine Poet a singular Graecian who after he trauelled all Greece ouer and many parts of Europe beside and liued some foure or fiue yeeres in the I le of the Rhodes he returned home and by Iohn Collet Deane of Paules was elected Master of Pauls Schoole which he had newly founded Shortly after began to grow eminent aswell for Poesie as all other generall learning Sir Thomas Challoner Knight father to the truly honest and sometime louer of all excellent parts Sir Thomas Challoner who attended vpon the late Prince borne in London brought vp in Cambridge who hauing left the Vniuer sitie and followed the Court a good while went ouer with Sir Henry Knyuet Embassadour to Charles the fift as his friend and companion what time the Emperour being preparing a mightie fleete against the Turkes in Argier the English Embassadour Sir Thomas Challoner Henry Knowles M. Henry Isam and others went in that seruice as voluntaries with the Emperour But the Galley wherein Sir Thomas Challoner was being cast away by foulenesse of weather after he had laboured by swimming for his life as long as he was able and the strength of his armes falling him he caught hold vpon a cable throwne out from another galley to the losse and breaking of many of his teeth and by that meanes saued his life After the death of King Henry the 8. he was in the battaile of Muskleborough and knighted by the Duke of Sâ—mmerset And in the beginning of the raigne of Queene Elizabeth hee went ouer Embassadour into Spaine where at his houres of leisure he compiled ten elegant bookes in Latine vers de Ropub Anglorum instauranda superuised after his death by Malim and dedicated to the old Lord Burghley Lord Treasurer Being sent for home by her Maiestie he shortly after died in London and was buried in Paules neere to the steppes of the Quire toward the South-doore vnder a faire marble but the brasse and epitaphe written by Doctor Haddon by sacrilegious hands is since torne away But the Muse and Eternall Fame haue reared him a monument more lasting and worthy the merit of so excellent a man Of English Poets of our owne Nation esteeme Sir Geoffrey Chaucer the father although the stile for the antiquitie may distast you yet as vnder a bitter and rough rinde there lyeth a delicate kernell of conceit and sweete inuention What Examples Similitudes Times Places and aboue all Persons with their speeches and attributes doe as in his Canterburie-tales like these threds of gold the rich Arras beautifie his worke quite thorough And albeit diuers of his workes are but meerely translations out of Latine and French yet he hath handled them so artificially that thereby he hath made them his owne as his Troilus and Cresseid The Romant of the Rose was the Inuention of Ithan de Mehunes a French Poet whereof he translated but onely the one halfe his Canterburie-tales without question were his owne inuention all circumstances being wholly English Hee was a good Diuine and saw in those times without his spectacles as may appeare by the Plough-man and the Parsons tale withall an excellent Mathematician as plainly appeareth by his discourse of the Astrolabe to his little sonne Lewes In briefe account him among the best of your English bookes in your librarie Gower being very gracious with King Henrie the 4. in his time carried the name of the onely Poet but his verses to say truth were poore and plaine yet full of good and graue Moralitie but while he affected altogether the French phrase and words made himself too obscure to his Reader beside his inuention commeth farre short of the promise of his Titles He published onely that I know of three bookes which at S. Marie Oueries in Southwarke vpon his monument
seasoning your talke at the table among graue and serious discourses with conceipts of wit and pleasant inuention as ingenious Epigrammes Emblemes Anagrammes merry tales wittie questions and answers Mistakings as a melancholy Gentleman sitting one day at a table where I was started vp vpon the suddaine and meaning to say I must goe buy a dagger by transposition of the letters said Sir I must goe dye a begger A plaine country man being called at an Assize to bee a witnesse about a piece of land that was in controuersie the Iudge calling said vnto him Sirrha how call you that water that runnes on the South-side of this close My Lord quoth the fellow our water comes without calling A poore souldier with his musket and rest in Breda came one day in and set him downe at the nether end of the Prince of Orange his table as he was at dinner whitâ—â—r none might bee priuiledged vnder the degree of a Gentleman at the least to come the Gentleman-vsher of the Prince demanded of him if hee were a Gentleman yes quoth the Souldier my father was a Goldsmith of Andwarpe but what can you doe in your fathers trade quoth he I can set stones in mortar for he was a bricklaier and helped Masons in their workes For Epigrammes Pasquine will afford you the best and quickest I know You shall haue them all bound in two volumes I remember hee tells vs once vpon a Sunday morning Pasquine had a sowle shirt put on and being asked the cause Pasquine made answer because my Laundresse is become a Countesse You shall haue a taste of some of my Anagramâ— such as they are Vpon the Prince CAROLVS ô Clarus Charles Prince of Wales All Fraunce cries ô helpe vs. Of the Queene of Bohemia and Princesse Palatine of the Rhene my gracious Ladie ELISABETHA STEVARTA Has Artes beata velit Being requested by a Noble and Religious Ladie who was sister to the old Lord De la Ware to try what her name would afford it gaue me this IANE WEST Entua Iesû And vpon the name of a braue and beautifull Ladie wife to Sr. Robert Mordaunt sonne and heire to Sr. Le Straunge Mordaunt Knight and Barronet in the Country of Norfolke Amie Mordaunt Tumore Dianam Tumore Dianam Minerua domat Me induat amor Nuda ó te miram Vi tandem amor Vpon the name of a faire Gentlewoman this in Italian ANNA DVDLAEIA Eâ—la nuda Diana Vpon a sweete and modest young Gentlewoman Mistris MARIA MEVTAS Tuame amaris To comfort my selfe liuing in a Towne where I found not a Scholler to conuerse withall nor the kindest respect as I thought I gaue this my Poesie the same backward and forward SVBI DVRA ARVDIBVS Of M. Doctor Hall Deane of Worcester this added to the body of a Glorie wherein was written Iehouah in Hebrew resembling the Deitie IOSEPH HALL All his Hope Of a vertuous and faire Gentlewoman at the request of my friend who barâ— her good will FRANCIS BARNEY Barres in Fancy And this Theodâ—sia Dixon A DEO DIXIT HONOS or O Dea dixit Honos Of my good friend M. Doct. Dowland in regard hee had slipt many opportunities in aduancing his fortunes and a rare Lutâ—nist as any of our Nation beside one of our greatest Masters of Musicke for composing I gaue him an Embleme with this IOANNES DOVLANDVS Annos Iudendo hausi There were at one time in Rome very wittie and vnhappy libels cast forth vpon the whole CoÌ„sistory of Cardinals in the nature of Emblemes I remember Cardinal Farnesi had for his part a storke deuouring a frogge with this Mordeo non mordeâ—tes Bellarmine a Tiger fast chained to a post in a scroule proceeding from the beasts mouth in Italian Da mi mia libertà vederete chi io Sono that is giue me my Libertie you shall see what I am meaning perhaps he would be no longer c. And those were very knauish that were throwne vp and downe the Court of France the Escotcheon or Armes of the partie on the one side of a pastboard and some ingenious deuice on the other as one had the Armes of the house of di Medici of Florence on the one side on the other an inkhorne with the mouth turned downward with this tart Pasquil Elle faut d'encre and so of the whole Court Emblemes and Impresa's if ingeniously conceipted are of daintie deuice and much esteeme The Inuention of the Italian herein is very singular neither doe our English wits come much behind them but rather equall them euery way The best that I haue seene haue beene the deuises of Tiâ—tings whereof many are reserued in the priuate Gallery at White Hall of Sr. Phillip Sidnâ—ie's the Earle of Cumberland Sr. Henry Leigh the late Earle of Essex with many others most of which I once collected with intent to publish them but the charge disswaded me But aboue all in your talke and discourse haue a care euer to speake the truth remembring there is nothing that can more preiudice your esteeme then to be lauishtongued in speaking that which is false and disgracefully of others in their absence The Persians and Indians had a law that whosoeuer had beene thrice conuicted of speaking vntruth should vpon paine of death neuer speake word all his life after Cato would suffer no man to bee praised or dispraised but vsed alwaies such discourse as was profitable to the hearers for as one saith Dictâ—ria minuum Maiestatem Iestes and scoffes doe lessen Maiâ—stie and greatnesse and should be farre from great personages and men of wisedome CHAP. 16. Of Trauaile I Will conclude with Trauaile which many disallow in Gentlemen yea and some great trauellers themselues but mee thinkes they are as one who hath filled his owne belly and denieth the dish to his fellow In my opinion nothing rectifieth and confirmeth more the iudgment of a Gentleman in forteine affaires teacheth him knowledge of himselfe and setleth his affection more sure to his owne Country then Trauaile doth for if it be the common Law of Nature that the learned should haue rule ouer and instruct the ignorant the experienced the vnexperienced what concerneth more Nobility taking place aboue other then to be learned and wise and where may wisedome be had but from many men and in many places Hereupon we find the most eminent and wise men of the world to haue beene the greatest Trauailers to omit the Patriarches and Apostles themselues in holy writ as Plato Pythagoras Aristotle Theophrastus Osyris King of Aegypt who trauelled a great part of the world and caused to be engrauen vpon his Sepulcher Heere vnder I lie King Osyris eldest sonne of Saturne who haue left no part of the world vnsearched whitherto I haue not come teaching againe whatsoeuer I haue found for the vse and commoditie of mankinde And Xenophon to intimate vnto vs the benefit and excellent vse of Trauaile saith that Cambyses by his