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A00342	The complaint of peace. Wryten in Latyn, by the famous clerke, Erasimus [sic] Roterodamus. And nuely translated into Englyshe by Thomas Paynell.; Querela pacis. Selections. English	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Paynell, Thomas.	1559 (1559)	STC 10466; ESTC S120574	35,321	96

THE COMplaint of peace Wryten in Latyn by the famous Clerke Erasimus Roterodamus ¶ And Nuely translated into Englyshe by Thomas Paynell Anno domini 1559. ¶ To the Ryghte Honorable Lorde Antonie Uicounte Momtegue Knyght of the Right Honorable order of the Garter ERasimus Roterodamus one of the excelenste Clerkes of oure tyme perceyuynge and felynge the worlde to be waueryng troublesome vnquiet and euery where bended and inclined to warre and myscheyfe coulde not temper hym selfe nor yet his penne but neades he must write vnto the worlde this true and eloquent complaint the whiche I haue translated and dedicated vnto youre Lorshyp as vnto a father and a supporter of peace quietnes intytuled the complaynte of Peace And serchynge very narowlye for a place for peace to reste herselfe in He in his tyme coulde no wheres no not amonge Princes as he sayth nor Cardinales Bysshops Prestes Lawers Maried men nor amonge Scole men nor Diuines nor yet amonge Religious mē find wher to bestowe her quietly such tempestes and surges of Controuersye a rose in euery Citie and Region throughoute all Christendome that peace was and is exiled euen from those that to thensample of all others shoulde haue enbrased her the whiche truely yf Christes trewe Relygion had bene amonge them wolde moste louyngelye and quyetlye haue receyued her and mooste tenderlye retayned her And euen nowe euerye mannes headde as I coniecture and perceyue is busye vnquyet gyuen al to newfanglenes the very mother of all commotions vprores debates battel and murther the mother of al ryetus and lycentius lyuynge and of lewde lybertie sedycion and tre●son the very roote and begynnynge Euery man is nowe redy to inuade other to spoyle to robbe to de●ace Cyties townes and burrowes Thus through Mars and Bellona and for lacke of vnytie and peace Cities are spoyled Ciuill lawes the presente ayde and mayntenaunce of the common weale put to scylence Thus Marchauntes are robed both by sea and by lande thus the innocente husbandman is vtterlye vndone thus Kyngdomes are empouereshed honest Matrons defyled Uirgins defloured incest and sacralege supported and thee world on euery side redy to decay al this as I haue said for lacke of true peace in Christ y ● which causeth men to be of one accord in fayth confyrmable in purpose and lyke in humilitie and diliction God of hys goodnes sende vs thys P●ace For why the peace of thys worlde is rather a dyscorde than a Peace of the whych and the commodytyes thereof wyth the ●ncommodytyes of warre an● howe Peace is turmulyd and toste from poste to pyller Erasymus in thys complaynte mooste syncerelye and euydenlye dothe teache vs the whyche as it is mooste eloquentlye and pleasauntlye wrytten soo it is to those that ●auour and receaue the truthe mooste true and pleasa●nte Thus oure Lorde preserue youre Lordeshyppe euer and euer and sende vs the Peace that passeth all vnderstandynge and that neuer shall haue ende Amen ¶ The complainte of Peace YF mortall men so it were for theyr commoditie wold soo disdaine me eiect me and vtterly vndo me that hath not deserued it I would euen nowe lament my iniury and their iniquitie but whan they euen at thys present doo driue me the spring and founten of all felicitie from them vtterly lost and caste awaye and cal vnto them the sea of all calamitie theyr infelicitie is more to be bewayled than is my iniury whose ch●unces I am enforsed to lamēt and to haue pitie on them with whom I had rather be angery and miscontentyd For why to driue his louer from hym howsoeuer he driueth or reiecteth hym is vnkindnes● to disdaine him that hath deseruid thankes vnthankefulnes● and to afflict and vndo the parente and keper of all men is a wycked thynge But semeth not this an extreme demē●y and madnes to thynke them selues vnworthy of so excellent commodityes the which I doo bryng with me and for these willynglye to call fo● soo cruell a heape of all euylles It is semelye and mete to be angerye with the euyll but what other thynge canne we doo than be wayle those that are soo dryuen and toste with furys she whyche certenlye are for noo nother cause more to be lamentid thā that they lament not them selues nor for no other cause more vnhappy than that they perceue not their infelicitie For it is a certaine grece and steppe to helth to knowledge the greatnes of hys infirmitie and sickenes For yf I peace prays●d by the voyce of the Godes and men be the founten parent nurysher augmenter and defender of all good thynges that other the ayer hath or the earth Yf withoute me there is nothynge flouryshynge no wheres nothyng sure● nothynge pure nor holy nothynge pleasaunte vnto menne nor thank●full vnto the Goddes Yf warre contrarye to a●l thynges be the sede of all euylles A certen Occean Sea of all naturall thynges wheresoeuer they be Yf all flouryshyng thinges through the vice of this doo putrify thynges incresyd doo dye thynges vnderset doo fall thynges well and subs●ancyall builded do peryshe and that are swete waxe so w●e Fynallye yf it be a thyng so far from holynes that it be a most presente pestylence of al go●lynes and religion Yf there be nothyng more vnfortunate than thys one thyng vnto men nor nothynge more hatefull vnto the Gods I praye the by the immortall Gods Who shall beleue these to be men Whoo shal beleue that there is any cr●m of wysedome in them that with so greate charges so greate stody so greate trauell so many cra●●●●●esses soo manye cares soo many perylles do stody to cast me of woulde bye suche a heape of euylls soo dearelye● Yf wylde beastes after thys maner woulde despyse me I woulde beare it more eas●lye and impute thee iniury done vnto me to nature where with the cruell inclination of nature had done cruellye Yf I were hatyd of dumme beastes I would forgeue theyr ignoraunce because that strength of the mynde is denyed them the which onely canne perceaue my gyftes O vnworthy thinge and more than prodigious nature hath creatyd man indued with reason and that receuyth the wyll and mind of God beneuolence and concorde and yet I doo soner obtayne a place among wyld beastes howe wylde and howe brutyshe soeuer they be than amonge men And the confederations of soo manye celestiall circles albeit theyr motion and power is not all one yet they contynue and lyue thus manye yeares The powers of the Elementes stryuynge amonge them selfes doo defend with equall wayte eternal peace and they in soo greate a discorde with a mutuall consente and exchaunge doo noryshe concorde And howe faythfull a consent and agrement of theyr membres is there in the body of Beastes and howe readye is theyr mutuall defence What thing is there more vnlyke than is the body and the soule and yet with howe streyte an amitie hath nature bounde these two together certes the seperation of

them declareth it therfore as life is nothing else but the societie of the body the soule so the helth of al the qualities of the body is concord The vnreasonable bestes do lyue euerye one in his kynde ciuillye and in good agrement Elephantes doo liue in sondrye flockes Swyne and shepe paster together Craynes and Iayes do flye together in companyes Storkes the maysters of pitye haue theyr assembles Dolphines doo defende them selfes wyth mutuall offices and dueties The politike concorde that is among Antes and Bees is knowen But wherto go I forwardes to speake of these thynges the whiche notwithstandynge they lacke reason yet they lacke not perceauyng Thou mayst knowe that in trees and herbes there is a certaine amitie Some be baron except thou ioyne a male vnto them a vyne embraseth an elme a peach a vine insomuch that insensable thinges seme yet to perceaue the benefytes of peace And as these thynges haue not the powre of perceuynge soo that they haue lyfe yet they are borderers vnto those thynges that perceiue What is so brutyshe as the kynde of stones and yet thou shalt say that they haue the sense of peace and concord So an Adamant draweth yerne vnto hym and drawne doth holde it There is also agrement among y e most sauage and wild beastes The wyldnes of Lyons doth not apere amōg thē selues A Bore doth not moue nor shake his fy●ry ●uske agaynst a bore And among Linces ther is peace A Dragō sheweth no cruelnes agaynst a Dragon And the prouerbes haue adournyd the concord of wulues I wyll adde that semeth to be more marueilous the wycked spirites throughe whom the concord and peace of those y e be in heauen and of men was first broken and nowe is broken are in leage among● them selues and defende that theyr tyranny such as it is with consent and agrement men onely whom of all other vnamitie becommeth the which principallye haue mooste nede thereof nother nature so myghtye and effectuous in other thynges canne accord nor instruction ioygne together nor so many commodities procedyng of concord vnite them nor the felynge and experyence of so many euyls reduce and bring them to mutual loue and concorde The figure and forme of all men is ●ommen and the selfe same voyce and wher as al other kynde of beastes do dyffer mooste cheyfely amoug them selues in forme and fashion of bodyes the vygure and force of reason is geuen and appoynted to man onely the whych is vnto them and amonge them so commen that it is commen to no nother beastes speache the principall conciler of amitie frendshyp is geuen vnto mā the sedes of all discipline vertuous are commonlye grafte in him a gentle a meke wytte bending to mutual beneuolēce y t which of it selfe deliteth to be beloued and is plesant to do good vnto other excepte a mā thrugh euil cupidities lustes be as it were with Circes medicines corruptid of a man through degeneration going out of kynd be made a beast Of this certēly y e vulgar cōmō peple whatsoeuer dothe pertayne to mutuall beneuolence doo call it humanitie and gentlenes Nature vnto thys hath addyd teares a document and experience of an exorable nature where by yf anye offence perchaunce hath happenyd or any smale cloude duskyd the clearenes of amitie they maye easelye be made frendes againe Lo by howe many reasonnes and wayes nature hath taught concorde And yet not beynge contente with these inticementes of peace shee would not that amitie should be onely pleasaunt vnto man but also necessary And therefore she hath soo parted and diuided the gyftes aswell of the body as of the soule that there is no man so wel furnished but that nowe and than he maye be releuyd and holpen by the offyce of the inferiours Nor she attributh nor geueth not the selfe same nor yet the lyke vnto all men that this inequalitie myghte be made equall throughe mutuall loue and amitie Diuers thinges come forth of diuers countrise that the very vse of them should teache mutuall merytes and deseruynges Unto other beastes she hath attributed armur and helpe where with they shulde defende them selues onelye manne she hath brought forth without knowledge and feable nor noo otherwyse in sauegarde than by confederations and mutuall necessitie Necessitie inuented cytyes and necessitie hath taught the societie and felowshyp that is among them that they ioynyng theyr strength and power together should repell the vyolence of wylde beastes aud robbers For in worldly thynges there is so litle helpe that mankynde euen at the begynnyug of lyfe hadde peryshed yf matrymonyall concorde had not nouryshed and broughte hym vppe Nor man shoulde not haue bene borne and borne euen at the begynnyng of lyfe should by and by haue peryshed and lost lyfe yf the frendly hand of the mydwyfe and frendely● piety of the nurse had not holpen the infante And nature hath planted vnto thys vse those vehemente lytle fyers of pyetie that thee parentes loue euen that that as yet they haue not sene And vnto thys she hath added the mutuall pietie of the chyldren to theyr parents that theyr imbicilitie and weakenesse myghte mut●allye be ●ubleuatyd and suckeryd by theyr ayde and helpe and that it ●yght be vnto all lyke plausible and fauorable and of the Grekes called mooste aptelye A●tipelargosis that is a mutuall retaliation or compensatyon of benefyte● vnto thys are added the bandes of kyndred and of affinitie In some there commeth the symilitude of wyttes of stodies and of shape the surest rec●nciler of beneuolen●e In many a certen secrete sense and felynge of y e mynd a maruelous great spurge and prouocation to mutual loue and amitie where at oure elders muche maruelde● and ascrybe it to the wyl and powre of God With thus many arguments nature hath taughte peace and concorde With thus many inticements she hath inuytyd vs vnto her with soo manye cordes she draweth vs with soo manye thynges she compelleth vs. And after al these thinges what effectuous infernal fury to hurt man these thynges beyng broken cast a syde and shaken of hath plantyd in the heartes of man this insatiable fury of fytynge And but that the vse and custome doth fyrste take a waye the admiration and than the sense of the euy●● who would beleue that these men were indued with reason that with continuall discord controuersies warres contend and striue among them selues Finally they trouble and confounde al places both haloued and prophane with rapine bloude and ruine Nor there are no confederations be they neuer so holy that can seperate and diuide them furiously ragyng agaynst them selues to the mutuall destruction of them selues Yea yt nothing had bene put or added vnto it the commen vocable or name of a man had bene sufficient for agrement amonge men But be it so that nature the which is of great force among brute beastes profited nothing among men shall