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A09173	The Lord Marques idlenes conteining manifold matters of acceptable deuise; as sage sentences, prudent precepts, morall examples, sweete similitudes, proper comparisons, and other remembrances of speciall choise. No lesse pleasant to peruse, than profitable to practise: compiled by the right Honorable L. William Marques of Winchester that now is.	Winchester, William Paulet, Marquis of, 1535?-1598.	1586 (1586)	STC 19485; ESTC S114139	64,844	115

needeth somtimes to be whet I meane though mans vnderstanding be neuer so cleare yet from time to time it needeth counsell Vertuous men oftentimes do erre not bicause they would faile but bicause the things are so euil of digestion that the vertue they haue suffiseth not to tell them what thing is necessarie for their profite For the which cause it is necessarie that his will be kindled his wit fined his opinion changed his memorie sharpned aboue all now and then that he forsake his owne aduise and cleaue to the counsell of another The world at this day is so changed from that it was woont to be in times past that all haue the audacitie to giue counsell and few haue the wisedom to receiue it If my counsell be woorth receiuing prooue it if it doth harme leaue it if it doth good vse it for there is no medicine so bitter that the sicke doth refuse to take if thereby he thinke he may be healed I exhort and aduise thee that thy youth beleeue mine age thine ignorance my knowledge thy sleepe my watch thy dimnes my cleernes of sight thine imagination my vertue thy supicion mine experience otherwise thou maist hap to see one day thy selfe in some distresse where small time thou shalt haue to repent and none to find remedie If thou wilt liue as yoong thou must gouerne thy selfe as olde If any old man fall for age and if thou find a yoong man sage despise not his counsell for bees do drawe more honie out of the tender flowers than of the hard leaues Plato commandeth that in giuing politike counsell it be giuen to them that be in prosperitie to the intent that they decay not and to them that be in heauines and trouble to the intent that they despaire not Happie is that common wealth and fortunate is that prince that is Lord of yoong men to trauell and ancient persons to counsell Manie things are cured in time which reason afterward cannot helpe No mortall man take he neuer so good heede to his works nor reason so well in his desires but that he deserueth some chastisement for some cause or counsell in his doings The examples of the dead do profit good men more to liue well than the counsell of the wicked prouoketh the liuing to liue euill Men ought not in any thing to take so great care as in seeking of counsell and counsellers for the prosperous times cannot be maintained nor the multitude of enimies resisted if it be not by wise graue counsellers Thales being demanded what a man should do to liue vprightly he answered To take that counsell for himselfe which he giueth to another for the vndoing of all men is that they haue plentie of counsell for others and want for themselues He shall neuer giue to his prince good nor profitable counsell which by that counsell intendeth to haue some proper interest He is not counted sage that hath turned the leaues of manie bookes but he which knoweth and can giue good and wholsome counsell Anacharsis said Thou shalt promise me not to be importune with me to receiue any thing of thee for the day thou shalt corrupt me with gifts it is necessarie that I corrupt thee with euil counsell It is easie to speake well and hard to worke well for there is nothing in the world better cheape than counsell By the counsell of wise men that thing is kept and maintained which by the strength of valiant men is gotten Ripe counsels proceed not from the man that hath trauelled into many countries but from him that hath felt himselfe in manie dangers It is impossible that there should any misfortune happen whereas ripe counsell is To giue counsell to the wise man it is either superfluous or commeth of presumption though it be true yet I say in like maner that the diamond being set in gold looseth not his vertue but rather increaseth in price so the wiser that a man is so much the more he ought to know and desire the opinion of others certainly he that doth so cannot erre for no mans owne counsell aboundeth so much but that he needeth the counsell and opinion of others We ordaine that none be so hardie to giue counsell vnlesse therewith he giue remedie for to the troubled hart words comfort little when in them there is no remedie The woman is hardie that dare giue counsel to a man and he more bold that taketh it of a woman but I say he is a foole that taketh it and he is a more foole that asketh it but he is most foole that fulfilleth it Children and youth IT is better to leaue vnto children good doctrine whereby they may liue than euill riches wherby they may perish And the cause is that manie mens children haue beene through the hope they had to inherit their fathers goods vndone and afterward gone a hunting after vices for they seldome do any woorthie feats which in their youth inherit great treasures It is better to haue children poore and vertuous than rich and vicious To be poore or sick is not the greatest miserie neither to be whole and rich is the chiefest felicitie for there is no such felicitie to fathers to see their children vertuous It is an honor to the countrie that fathers haue such children that will take profit with their counsell and contrariwise that the children haue such fathers as can giue it them The father ought to desire his sonne onely in this cause that in his age he may sustaine his life in honor and that after his death he may cause his same to liue If not for this at the least he ought to desire him that in his age he may honor his head and that after his death he may inherit his goods But we see few do this in these daies except they be taught of their parents the same in youth for the fruit doth neuer grow in the haruest vnlesse the tree doth beare blossoms in the spring Too much libertie in youth is no other but a prophesie and manifest token of disobedience in age It is a griefe to see and a monstrous thing to declare the cares which the fathers take to gather riches the diligence that children haue to spend them There can be nothing more vniust than that the yong and vicious sonne should take his pleasure of the sweate of the aged father The father that instructeth not his sonne in vertue in his youth is lesse blamewoorthie if he be disobedient in age It is a good token when youth before they know vices haue beene accustomed to practise vertue It is pitifull to see and lamentable to behold a yoong child how the blood doth stir him the flesh prouoke him to accomplish his desires to see sensualitie go before and he himselfe to come behind the malicious world to watch him and how the diuel doth tempt

voluntarily to vertue and sensualitie draweth men against their wils to vices Vices are of such a qualitie that they bring not with them so much pleasure when they come as they leaue sorow behind them when they go for the true pleasure is not in the daily vice which sodenly vanisheth but in the truth which euermore remaineth Wise men after 50. yeeres ought rather seeke how to apply their mindes how to receiue death than to seeke pleasure how to prolong life How happy may that man be called that neuer tasted what pleasure meaneth Men that from their infancie haue bin brought vp in pleasure for want of wisedome know not how to chose the good and for lacke of force cannot resist the euill which is the cause that noble mens sons oftentimes cōmit sundry hainous offences It is an infallible rule that the more a man giue himselfe to pleasure the more he is intangled with vices The rich men win with their labor and watching and their sonnes brought vp in pleasure do consume it sleeping Where there is youth libertie pleasure and mony there will all the vices of the world be resident The greatest vanitie that ragineth among the children of vanitie is that the father cannot shewe vnto the sonne his loue but in suffering him to be brought vp in the pleasures and vanities of this life I wish no greater penance to delicate men than in winter to see them without fire and in the sommer to want fresh shadow Why are there so many vices nourished in the pallace of princes bicause pleasure aboundeth and counsell wanteth Play as Seneca saith is compared to the propertie raging of a mad dog with whom if a man be once bitten vnles he hath present remedie foorthwith he runneth mad and the disease continueth with him vntil the houre of death for those that vse it hurt their consciences lose their time and consume their substance Marcus Aurelius saith if I knew the gods would pardone me and also that men woulde not hate me yet I assure you for the vilenes therof I would not sin in the flesh Aristotle saith all beasts after the deeds of the flesh are sorie sauing onely the cocke In carnall vices he that hath the least of that that sensualitie desireth hath a great deale more than reason alloweth I see no other fruits of carnall pleasure but that the bodie remaineth diseased the vnderstanding blinded memory dulled sence corrupted will hurt reason subuerted their good name lost and woorst of all the flesh remaineth alwaies flesh therefore fire is not quenched with drie wood but with cold water In the war honor by tarrieng is obteined but in the vices of the flesh the victory by fleeing is wonne Pride THe proud and disdainfull man for the most part falleth into some euill chaunce therefore it is a commendable medicine somtimes to be persecuted for aduersitie maketh a wise man to liue more mery and to walke in lesse danger What friendship can there be among the proud since the one wil go before and the other disdaineth to come behind Of Princes with their actes and sayings A Poore woman comming before Claudius the Emperour with weeping eies to craue Iustice the good prince being mooued with compassion did not onely weep as she did but with his own hands dried vp the teares Oftentimes those that come before princes do return more contented with the loue they shew them than with the Iustice they minister vnto them Antonius Pius was such a fauourer of poore widowes and Orphans that the porters which he kept within his pallace were not to let the entrie of the poore but to let and keep back the rich To a prince there can be no greater infamie than to be long in words and short in rewarding his seruants Couetous princes do not onely suspect their subiects but also themselues The diseases which God oftentimes sendeth to princes commeth not through the fault of humours but through the corruption of maners the which no medicine can resist nor any other thing remedy It is the chiefest thing that can belong to a prince or other person to be beloued for their gentle conuersation and for their vpright iustice to be feared It is necessary for Princes to be stout and rich for by their stoutnes they may gouerne their own and by their riches they may represse their enimies The prince which is too liberall in giuing his owne is afterward compelled by necessitie to become a tyrant and take from others If princes be proude greedie and ambitious after strange realmes it is most certaine that they need great treasures to accomplish their inordinate appetites but if they be reposed quiet vertuous patient peaceable not couetous of the good of another man what need haue they of great treasures Princes become not poore for spending of their goods vpon necessaries but wasting it vpon things superfluous High and noble harts that feele themselues wounded do not so much esteeme their owne paine as to see their enimies to reioice at their griefe It is better for a Prince to defend his countrey by Iustice than to conquere an other by tirannie The prince is in great danger of damnation of soule if in his gouernment he haue not always before his eyes the feare and loue of the supreme prince to whome we must render account of all our doings for there is nothing so puissant but tis subiect to the diuine power That prince hath great occasion to be vicious which for his vice thinketh not to be chastised Princes fearing neither God nor his commandemēts do cause their realme and subiects to fall into great miserie for if the fountain be infected it is impossible for the streame therof to be pure We see by experience that as a bridle mastreth an horse a sterne the ship so a prince be he good or bad will after him lead all his people If they serue God the people will also serue him if they blaspheme God the subiects will do the like for it is impossible that a tree should bring foorth other fruits than those that are agreeable to the roote Princes ought to resemble God more by vertuousnes than others Princes WHat shall vnhappy princes do which shall render al their account to God only who will not be deceiued with words corrupted with giftes feared with threatnings nor answered with excuses That prince is more to be magnified which reformeth two vices amongst his people than he which conquereth ten realms of his enimies O princes if ye knew how small a thing it is to be hated of men and loued of God ye would not cease night nor day to commend your selues vnto God for God is more mercifull in succouring vs than we are diligent in calling vpon him God did neuer create high estates to worke wickednes but placed them in that degree to the ende they should thereby haue more

defame the dead How vnhappie are they which are in prosperitie for iustly they that be set vp in high estate cannot flee from the peril of Scilla without falling into the danger of Charybdis O miserable world thou art a sepulchre of the dead a prison of the liuing a shop of vices a hangman of vertues an obliuion of antiquitie an enimie of things present a snare of the rich a burthen to the poore a house of pilgrims and a den of theeues O world thou art a slanderer of the good a rauener of the wicked a deceiuer and an abuser of ail and to speak the truth it is impossible to liue contented much lesse to liue in honor in the which is most to be lamented either the euil man aduanced without desart or the good man ouerthrowen without cause The tokens of a valiant captaine are wounds of weapons and the signe of a studious person is the despising of the world Not those that haue most knowledge but those that haue most riches in the common welth do command I doubt whether the diuine power hath depriued them or that the wordly malice hath lost the taste of them O world world I know not how to escape thy hands not howe the simple men and idiot defendeth himselfe out of thy snares when the sage and wise men withall their wisedome can scarsely set their foote sure on earth for al that the wise men know is little enough to defend them from the wicked He onely passeth without trauell the dangers of life which banisheth from him the thought of the temporal goods of this world The traiterous world in no one thing beguileth the worldly so much as by feeding them with vain hope saieng that they shall haue time enough to be vertuous The more the world encreaseth in yeeres so much the more it is loden with vices The world hath alwaies bin in contention and rest hath alwaies bin banished for if some sigh for peace others be as desirous of wars O world for that thou art the world so small is our force and so great is our debilitie that thou willing it we not resisting it thou dost swallow vs vp in the most perilous gulfe and in the thornes most sharpe thou dost pricke vs by the priuie waies thou dost leade vs and by the most stonie waies thou cariest vs thou bringest vs to the highest fauorers to the ende that afterward with a push of thy pike thou mightest ouerthrow vs. What I thinke I haue somewhat in the world I finde that all that I haue is but a burthen I haue prooued all the vices of the world for no other intent but to prooue if there be any thing wherin mens malice might be satisfied and in proouing I finde that the more I eate the more I hunger the more I drinke the greater I thirst the more I rest the more I am broken the more I sleepe the more drowsie I am the more I haue the more I couet the more I desire the more I am tormented the more I procure the lesse I obtaine finally I neuer had so great paine through want but afterward I had more trouble with excesse Pretie saiengs in common places THou art such a one as neuer deserued that one should begin to loue or ende to hate How much the noble harts do reioice in giuing to other so much they are ashamed to take seruice vnrewarded for in giuing they become lords and in taking they become slaues The rashnes of youth is restrained with the raines of reason Although we be wise we leaue not therefore to be men dost not thou know that all that euer we learne in our life sufficeth not to gouerne the flesh in one houre I am sorie to see thee cast away and it greeueth me to see thee drowned in so small a water A brother in words and a cosen in works I rest betweene the sailes of feare and anker of hope Though we praise one for valiantnes with the sword we will not praise him therfore for excellencie with the pen although he be excellent with the pen he is not therefore excellent with the toong though he haue a good toong he is not therefore well learned though he be learned he hath not therefore good renowme and though he haue good renowme he is not therefore of a good life for we are bound to receiue the doctrines of many which do write but we are not bound to followe the liues which they lead When a father passeth out of this present life and leaueth behinde him a childe being his heire they cannot say to him that he dieth but that he waxeth yoong in his childe bicause the childe doth inherite the flesh the goods and memory of the father The desires of yoong men are so variable that they daily haue new inuentions Men that reade much and worke little are as bels which do sounde to call others and they themselues neuer enter into the church It is an olde saieng that a pretious iuell is little regarded when he that hath it knoweth not the value of it FINIS A definition of God Ouid. A tyrant Perillus. Rome A report of Rome long since and found true now Diogenes declaration Honor God Bring vp thy children wel Gratitude Decaie of Rome Rome A schoolmaister his office Miserie in mans life Outward miseries Inward miseries Rashnes Careles of life Blind that they see not their friend Fauor encorageth forward Valiant For euil acts they are gloriously receiued What the couetous man procureth Riches tormenteth Gouernor in Greece Loue betwixt couetous persons Treason Insatiable Vertue straieth where counsell faileth A remedie An exhortation Gouernment Old age should not despise the counsell of youth Spendals that leaue none for themselues are bankrupts in the end Note Corruption to be shunned Good counsell auoideth mishap One wise to counsell an other Womens counsell It is meant but of the common sort Childrens inheritance A great felicitie to parents to see vertuous children Duty of children Libertie in youth Parents great care quickly wasted Sensualitie in children Experience the best schoole maister Inheritance belonged not to the eldest but to the most vertuous Difference betwixt the poore mans sonne and the rich Negligence in educating children Why many noble mens children are wicked Dutie of parents Play in youth What is laid in youth is hatched in age Sensualitie remedied What death is better than life Whom we should mourne for A definition of death A woorthie saying An excellent reason Good coūsel at the houre of death The inconniences for not making a wise will Repentance Repentance The benefite of death The graue When death is to be desired Discord in armies Dispossessed Stingeth to death Homer The reason why vice is more followed than vertue As Herennius did by his master Tullie Vices Pride Tyrannie Proud harts Ambition prodigalitie and pride A quarrelles Vices None bolder than