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A16241	Theatrum mundi the theatre or rule of the world, wherein may be sene the running race and course of euerye mans life, as touching miserie and felicity, wherin be contained wonderfull examples, learned deuises, to the ouerthrowe of vice, and exalting of vertue. wherevnto is added a learned, and maruellous worke of the excellencie of mankinde. Written in the Frenche & Latin tongues by Peter Boaystuau, and translated into English by Iohn Alday.; Theatre du monde. English	Boaistuau, Pierre, d. 1566.; Alday, John.	1566 (1566)	STC 3168; ESTC S102736	106,769	288

consist Their health and conseruation is the decay and ruine of their neighbor their richesse is the spoylings of the poore and others their ioys is the mournings and bewaylings of others and yet many times their victorie can not be so happie but that bothe the vanquisher and the ouercommed maye wepe and lamente For there was neuer battell so luckie but that the vanquisher at the last doth repent if he be touched with any sparke of humanitie The whiche the Heathen haue acknowledged and confessed by their owne proper witnessing as also the great Emperor Marcus Aurelius the which after manye glorious victories obtained against his enimies as he receyued hys triumphe at Rome féeling in his hearte the worng that he had don to his neighbor began to crie out when that he was conducted to his chaire of triumph saying what more greater follie or vanity may an Emperor of Rome haue for bicause he hath conquered many townes stirred those that were at rest destroyed Cities rased strong houlds robbed the poore enriched tyrants made an infinite number of orphelines widowes and in recompence of al these harmes he is receyued with triumphe and magnificence many are deade and manye haue trauelled and taken paines but one alone beareth the glorie Then he addeth these wordes by the immortall Gods when I was brought to Rome in such a triumph and saw the poore captiues in yron bandes and chaines I powred out the widdowes lamentations I sawe an infinite number of treasure ill gotten then I remembred them deade I reioyced outwardlye but inwardlye I wept teares of bloud began to crie againste Rome after this sort come hither Rome why reioycest thou at the wrongs of others art thou of more antiquitie than Babilon more fairer than Helena more richer thā Carthage more stronger thā Troie better peopled than Thebes better compassed with ships than Corinth more delicious than Tyre more happier than Numantia all the whiche are perished clad with so many vertues and kepers of so many vertuous yet thou hopest to remaine for euer stuffed vp with so manye vices and people so vilde and vicious Beleue one thing of a suretie that the glorie that is at this howre of thee hath first bene of those and the destruction that hath come vpon them shal likewise come vpon thée O what philosophie what holinesse what oracles and what prophecie is founde in a Heathen man which had no knowledge of the Euangelicall light May not we be ashamed that haue bene nourished at a better schole and illuminated with the grace of the holy ghost that this Pagan shall rise at the daye of iudgement and condemne vs that make such hauock of humaine bloud séeing that the war hath alredy for many yeres past disquieted y e Christiā weale so that with great pain can be found at this day any Region in Europe but that is staind with humain bloud neither sea nor riuer but y ● hath bene chaūged red Helericus King of the Gothes hauing in time paste destroyed Rome as Paulus Oroseus sheweth that flourished in his time caused to be proclaimed with the sounde of a trumpet that they shoulde not molest nor hurre those that were fled into the temple of S. Peter and S. Paule But things are come to suche desolation in oure age that there is no sanctuarie nor sauegard in temples nor holie places but y ● poore maidēs and wiues haue bene violated and the poore shepe of Iesus Christ haue bene staine and murthered so mad are men without sparing aged kind or dignitie but they sacrifice all so that it seemeth that they will fight to ouerthrowe nature it selfe so that in the ende it wil come to passe if that God prouide not remedie that the publicke weales shall be peopled with wild beastes or trées for by littel and littel the world waxeth desert But what is the cause that we are so prompt and enclined to loose and decay those for the preseruation of which our sauiour Christ was willing to die but why are we so desirous of their life and bloud seing Iesus Christ hath shed his for to preserue and saue vs all But at the least why haue not we so muche compassion one of another as the brute beastes haue the which shew not theyr rage and crueltie one against another or if by fortune they fight sometimes it is when that they are oppressed with hunger or for the defence of their yong ones and yet they help themselues with those armours that nature hath appointed them without adding to them other kind of weapons inuented by the diuel for there is no earthly things but that may be ouercome with y e force of gūnes so that weying well this inuention it is not only more daungerous than all the cutting weapons of the worlde but also it is more pernicious and pestilent than anye other venim or poyson yea worse than the thundrings and lightnings that come from the aire y e which for that it is composed of foure straūge elementaries being in the moste parte of his greatest drith casting the fier in the middest of the smoke multiplieth of the aire and of the fier and mingleth with the moysture in such sort that the nature of euerye element fighting with the other conuerteth in humor and in great thundering bicause that the heate with the moisture cannot agrée nor endure together but straineth to come forth the aire addresseth to the aire and the fier draweth of his nature trauelling to moūt hie being an action superior and exceding in power all the rest the which he turneth into his nature before comming out by the which meanes groweth such a hurling noyse that it is necessarie that the thing wherein this poulder is be put in pieces or that the most weakest giue place to the strōgest And then of al this stuffe commeth Canons double Canons Serpentines Culuerines Sakers Faucons Fauconnets and suche like In the naming whereof the cunning maisters haue greatly failed in imposing to them the names of birdes the which serue to giue and shewe vs melodie and pleasure they shoulde rather appropriate to them the names of the infernall diuelles for as those engins serue to rent and dismember the bodies of men so in like case doe the diuelles beate and pame the soules in hell We haue here shewed what is done in the wars the recompence of those that frequent it Now let vs see what is done in the pallaces of Princes what is y e felicitie of y e Courtiers which make a shewe of their delicatenesse séemeth there any greater felicitie in the world than to haue the Princes fauor at al times to be cherished to distribute largely to others to take the best spoyles to vse courtly maners embracings kissinges cōueyings and other offices of humanitie with an infinite number of such kinde of dregs There are of thys sort crafty and wilie that do as the fisher man who assone as he hath

to him and to assaye to counterfeite him and to get part of his melodie And furthermore the Nightingale wil enstruct his yong ones prouoking them to the like harmonie teaching them to obserue the like tunes ●o cōduct them with the like breath some ●n length other shorte then to courbe the notes whole sodenly to chaunge them 〈◊〉 faintings to transforme his voyce in 〈◊〉 manye sortes that there is no humai●● creature that can counterfeite him ●●though Aristophanes a Gréeke Autho● in his Comedie of the songs of birds ha●● employed al the might of his spirit th●●king to imitate him in certaine pointe● the which beyng maruelled at by Dem●critus after that he had bene many ye●res auditor to the Nightingale and to●ther birdes confesseth publikely that 〈◊〉 Swannes and the Nightingale ha● learned Musicke to men and that all 〈◊〉 passages and tunes in Musicke are b●● certaine notes that men haue taken fro● birdes For thys cause it is that the wy●● Salomon knowing how much beastes 〈◊〉 passe vs in many things hath sent vs 〈◊〉 their schooles vniuersities when that 〈◊〉 sayth in his Prouerbes There are fou● little things in the earth notwithstādin● they are wiser thā y e wise The Ant wh●●● is a little kind and yet prouideth foode 〈◊〉 Sommer against Winter The Cunni●● which is a kynde not greate make the●● ●ouses in the earth The Grashoppers which haue no king and notwithstāding they go by bandes The Spider or Flie whome you may take with your handes and yet remayneth in Kings places It is a thing almost incredible in these little Antes to carie so waightie a burthen with suche an extreme diligence and to obserue suche an order among them to parte a corne in the middest for to carie it more easily into their caues and if the corne be wet wyth the raine then they drie it on a sunnie daye in the sunne But with what industrie do they make theyr little holes of the which the comming in is not straight for feare that other beasts come not in but is crooked with manye turnings and many darke pathes which render into thrée places the one whereas they kepe their Parliament and assēble in counsell the other whereas they put their prouision for all the yeare and the thirde as writeth Plutarch is y e place where as they burie the dead for it is certaine as the learned haue written that they kepe y e right vse of Funerals Therfore this Philosophie of King Salomo● is not vnprofitable By the which vnd●● the similitude and shew of these little be●●stes he woulde haue vs to flie ydleness● the mother and nourisher of all other v●ces The which hath alway bene obserue● in the Primatiue Church Where it wa● ordeined that euerie one shoulde liue 〈◊〉 their owne labor for feare the fowles 〈◊〉 the aire and beastes should consume vn●●● profitably the goods of y e earth The whic● also the aunciēt Romanes kept straightlye as writeth Cicero in hys booke 〈◊〉 Lawes wherein he affirmeth y t in time● past no Romane durst go by the stréetes if that he bare not a shew whereon he d●● liue to the ende that it might be knowe● that he liued of his owne labor and not b● the sweate of others In consideration therof the Consul did carie a Battell a●● before him the Priestes a hat in y e maner of a coyfe the Tribunes a Mace the Cu●●lers a sworde the Taylers a payre 〈◊〉 shéeres the Smithes a hammer the O●rators a booke not permitting that thos● that were maisters of sciences should b● scholers of vices In such sorte that Marcus Aurelius in making mention of the auncient diligence of the Romanes writeth that they did also employ and wyth such a zeale their labors trauailes that in Rome could not be found an ydle person to carie a letter ij or .iij. dayes iourney The which maye make vs blushe for shame that professe Christ for if all the vagabondes and ydle persons were chased and driuen out of townes and Cities we shoulde not haue so many as we now haue If we our selues would exactly consider al the things that God hath created we shall finde that man onely resteth in idlenesse For so much more as things are created more excellent and perfect so hath GOD giuen them more greater trauaile Beholde the Sunne whiche moueth continually and howe that the Moone is neuer stayde The Skie and the Planets are euer mouing the fier can not be without making some worke The Cloudes neuer cease remouing the waters floudes and fountaines trauell continuallye the earth is neuer in rest she bringeth forth naturally hearbes plant● and other fruites for to nourishe as well men as beasts Therfore if we will consider all things we shall find that nature neuer ceaseth traueling Therfore to conclude there is nothing more pestilent in a common weale than ydlenesse for sh● alwaies inuenteth some mischiefe for th● corruption of our humanitie in such sor● that we maye esteme these idle person● more miserable than brute beasts of the whych some of them as the Oxen gyue their hydes to make shooes their flesh to eate their strength to labor the ground and the innocent shéepe giueth his fléec● to make cloth his flesh for to nourish vs ▪ his skinne profitable for to make manye things but man is idle and profiteth nothing sauing only to offende God slaunder the innocent and eate the breade of others labor We maye then knowe by th●se things before written what liberalitie nature hath vsed towards beastes whō she hath so much fauored y t men are constrained to follow their maners and condicions and offices so well ruled and ordeined But who is that murtherer that is so muche enimie of nature or so gredy of humain bloud that wil not moderate hys ardent desier in stealing or killing whē that he considereth that there is no beast how brutish soeuer he be that will kill or murther anye of his kinde Where is that childe so vngratefull towardes his Parents but that maye be moued with pitie when that he séeth that the yong Storkes nourish their parents in their age and minister vnto them their necessities considering that good that they haue receyued of them in their youth and that they are the Authors of their being And yet Aelian addeth things more straūger to read but much more harder to beleue that the yong ones beare such a zelous loue towardes their old parentes that if so be that they haue no foode readye for to sustaine them with they will vomit that whiche they haue eaten the daye before to giue vnto them for feare they shoulde die and sustaine them therewith till that they haue sought foode But where is that father or mother so cruell that dare cast of their fruite or intreate them cruelly considering that y e Dolphin is such a zelous protector of hir yong ones that if it chaunce any of them to be takē of fishermen they will not forsake