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A01402	The rich cabinet furnished with varietie of excellent discriptions, exquisite charracters, witty discourses, and delightfull histories, deuine and morrall. Together with inuectiues against many abuses of the time: digested alphabetically into common places. Wherevnto is annexed the epitome of good manners, exttracted from Mr. Iohn de la Casa, Arch-bishop of Beneuenta.	T. G., fl. 1616.; Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?; Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556. Galateo.	1616 (1616)	STC 11522; ESTC S102804	122,087	364

the best liuers and sutes in lawe are a meere laborinth to an honest man and quiet minde Troubles cannot ouerthrowe godly resolutions nor wise men bee ouercome with trifels Troubles of the spirit grow by the infirmity of the flesh and the infirmity of the spirit is the flesh ruined so that they are both wayes cause of each others calamities Vanitie The world though Heau'n is but meere vanity Compar'd with God no with Saints piety VAnitie in words cloathes and actions wherein men doe so much glory sheweth them voide of wisedome and pietie which if it infused no other infection to the speaker or hearer actour or beholder yet were it herein a great sinne that it is a lauish profuser of pretious time Vanitie and des●re of glory doe commonly keepe company for gorgeous buildings sumptuous tombes large hospitalles outward pompe delicate banqueting houses delightfull orchards and all such fabricks and sumptuous workes of purpose to bee talked of and adde to our fame are all but vanitie wanting the substance of good deedes and true humilitie Vanitie is often vented with litle vnderstanding and yet great study while the hand of wisedome quickly discouereth the folly of idle inuention Vanities are herein venemous that they so blast the forward wits of youth in the blossome or budde that they seeldome come to substantiall and mature frute Vanitie maketh wit a foolish wanton for he that delighteth in toyes to neglect weighty affaires hath litle vnderstanding Vanitie soothed corrupts wit and reason but the correction of vice commendeth and causeth wisedome Vanitie transporteth to vnprofitable pleasures when wisedome delighteth in necessary imployments Vanitie of the world is like a smoake in the ayre which seemeth to ascend vnto heaheauen but it goeth and vanisheth to nothing and letteth fall the followers thereof to the pitte of perdition Vanitie is seene in certaine things whereto no trust is to be giuen The chance of the dice the continuance of prosperitie the faire wether in winter or sun-shine in Aprill the teares of a Crocadile the playing of Dolphins the elloquence of a flatterer the preferment of a tyrant and the constancy of a woman Vanitie is soone seene in vaunting brauadoes as appeares by this story The Duke of Calabria going to make warre vpon the Florentines in a brauery saide hee would not pull off his bootes before hee had entred the citie to whom a merry fellow standing by saide oh my Lord you will I feare fret out a number of shooes then for it must needes bee a longer businesse then you imagine Vanitie is a great reproach to true vnderstanding when we either speak more then our cau●e in hand requires or liue aboue our abilitie and estates making a greater shewe and pompe then we can maintaine by our meanes or attempt any enterprise which we are not able to finish Vanitie sheweth it selfe much in idle actions and ridiculous iests as in this tale may appeare A Gentleman of Naples whose spirit was too high for his fortune liued farre exceeding his maintenance and yet had the fortune by secrete supportation to hold vp his head in the sea of the world in despight of enuious eyes Thus one night he lodged in the house of a baron a friend of his where waking somewhat early he fell to make his prayers vnto God for the remission of sinnes and worldly meanes which a certaine i●ster ouerhearing and lying in the next chamber answered with a lowde voyce oh thou prodigall childe thou art borne a yonger brother and to keepe but one man and a boy art stil begging but if thou wilt maintaine a number of idle followers whereof thou art ambitious learne to be thrifty spare in time or thy prayers will not be heard whereat the Gentleman seeing his vanitie and perceiuing he had cōmitted some error replied Indeed I spake too lowde to let thee heare me and haue committed a greater folly to suffer thee to liue vpon me Vanitie of apparell sheweth the pride of heart the weaknesse of wit the fantasticknesse of will the defect of vnderstanding or vnrulinesse of affection the superfluitie of prodigalitie and a prognosticate of pouertie Vanitie of discourse and foolish table-talke maketh men often ridiculous as appeareth by this A Gentleman sitting at the table of a great friend being his fauorite the table fully furnished and the company wel prepared to their viands the maister of the house began to rouse his shoulders in a rich chaire and himselfe as richly attired spake to a kinseman of his somewhat abruptly and then leauing him he also spake to the former Gentleman and then againe to his cousin whereat all the company amazed expected to heare some matter worthy to be vttered but he gaue onely a hemme and with a spit saide no more but cousin what is that pye before you whereat a iester cha●ing that he had stayed his teeth to giue time to his eares replyed suddenly better eate of a calues head then heare an owle speake whereat the ghuests held laughter so hard that they were ready to breake and thus is idle ignorant vanity worthely made ridiculous by hier owne folly Valour Vnlesse I make a man base feare subdue He 's but a beast to God and man vntrue VAlour aduanceth to honour and thrusteth misery aside from pressing vs down in the durt Valour proceeding by wisedomes direction perfecteth such actions as otherwise would faile in the execution Valour may be accompanied with folly and and then is it meere foole-hardinesse or temeritie so that now in the schoole of the wisest it is disputable whether a wise coward or a valiant foole is the better man Valour maketh a Captaine with a few souldiers ouercome many enemies but he that ouercommeth himselfe is valiant indeede but he which is his owne enemy whether shall he flie for succour or securitie Valour differeth from foolish hardinesse as a wise feare may be farre from cowardice in bo●● extremities turne to vice Valour scorneth to moue the impotent to impatiency to betray the innocent to villany or to vexe the simple with impetuositie Valour wil not insult ouer a weake hearted nor picke a quarrell with one that cannot answer him either for impotency some defect of nature disabilitie of person inequalitie of condition or imperfection of sense Valour in a good cause doth not feare death as true diuines in Gods cause are not terrified with the diuell Valour is often ouerthrowne by rashnesse and had I wist is the worst part of vnderstanding for rashnesse without reason may breed sorrow without compassion Valour is glorious in mercy but a cowheard is tyrannous in victorie Vallour must not attempt impossibilities nor run into with absurdities but carry an equalhead both in the practise of attempts and relation of actions neither bosting of its owne worth or extenuate anothers merit Valour of the Captaines is a maine meanes of victorie to the whole armie whereuppon the Numantines being great souldiers thus commended the Romans when once in a

that are wel gotten make good magistrates to releeue the widow and fatherlesse but hee that oppresseth them is both vnworthy of any office and to be punished for example of iniustice to others in like place Offices obtained by corruption make the prosperity and posterity that get them vnhappy because euil is vnpunished malice couered iustice hindred vice nourished and the inward enemies of our soules so strengthned against the vertues or our mindes that they are either so weakened that they cannot shew forth their efficacy or so vtterly banished that they sildome returne to their natiue country Offices are commonly a way for the Prince to know the condition of the subiects for as the touchstone trieth currant and counterfet mettals so doth the integritie or iniquitie vsed in offices try the disposition of magistrates and by them the opinion and conuersation of the subiect For good Princes make good lawes good lawes raise good magistrates good magistrates ouer-see good executions and good execution detaineth the inferior sort in obedience and loyaltie to supreame authoritie in loue to the country in due respect to their betters curtesie to equalls humanitie toward inferiors and charitie to all of all sorts Offices are still subiect to this error that such as should obtaine them by order of place are commonly shut out by fauour or reward insomuch that Princes cannot sometime eate or sleepe in quiet for such suters as are euer begging and buzzing in their eares Which makes me remember a story of Alphonsus King of Naples who being at supper and hauing on either hand some or other to whisper in his eare about the obtaining some office of honourable or profitable place suddenly with a loude voyce cryed out O how happy are the very asses that trauaile with their burthens for when they are at their bait their maisters let them feede quietly which you see Kings cannot doe Officers ought to looke into causes not persons that power may not oppresse misery nor pitie hinder iustice to the hurt of any Officers and Magistrates are to knowe that mercy without remisnesse seueritie without tyranny zeale without hypocrisie iustice without extremitie and pitie without partialitie not onely conserue Common-wealths but augment the reputation of particular offices Offices abused by wicked magistrates make the rich murmure the poore cry out the widowe wring her handes the orphan shed teares the souldier mutiney the scho●er complaine and all sortes repine Officers that bee good may bee subiect to some imperfections and then knowing their infirmities they must rather with an humble lenity draw others from their errors then with a rough tyrannie make them destitute of hopes and more dissolute in manners Officers that are wise are the pillers of State as a gracious Prince is the ioy of his subiects Officers that are wicked sometimes do wel to gaine fame like healing witches that would be thought charitable and do that they doe meerly by delusion to obtaine an honest reputation Officers corrupted haue commonly euill eyes dissembling tongues hypocriticall harts open hands close feet For they will sit still for their owne profits but sildome take paines to help others Officers thinking of nothing but gaine forget to enioy what they haue already got with labour and paine Offices obtained by money and not to be continued long in probabilitie make the possessors the more greedy to enrich themselues Offices bestowed by Princes in court against ancient custome and commendable order make the Courtiers to murmur saying The Prince doth not consider the Councell doth not dispatch the Paymasters delay the Parasites beare sway the Bishops be not residents the Secretaries haue priuate pensions Iustices take bribes the officers compound for duties the gentlemen play the vnthri●ts the husbandmen that drudge for all are beggers Officers ought to be thankfull to God and pittifull to men for God hateth the sinne of ingratitude the poore doth reuenge iniuries with teares Officers in the administration of iustice are gouerned by learning and wisedome for learning to giue sentence prudence to gouerne both which are two such properties as many desire but few obtaine Offices amongst martiall men are bestowed by order of discipline and knowledge in the warres otherwise shall the vnexperienced hazard the businesse in hand and giue the whole Campe cause to repine and repent Yet many times the fauor of Generals may be iustifiable in the preferment of younger souldiers who may be of greater merit then their elders Officers that get to preferment with intent of priuat profit are not onely voyde of good counsell but continue therein to their greater scandall the dishonour of the bestower the infamy of the procurer the feare of good men and fall of good order Order The heauen 's without me would confused rest But with me bell may well receiue the blest ORder framed the world ●etled the heauens proportioned the motions of the Sunne Moone and Starres in their seasons embelished the earth with infinite varieties of flowers and fruits in their seasonable times limited the seas with banks and bounds and fet an orderly course in all creatures Where onely Hell is full of confusions horrours and vtter disorders Order but a little neglected makes a small errour to growe greater as a little spark ill raked vp kindles a great fire and a little foule filthy water marres the whol●●ot of pottage howsoeuer the Cooke be his crafts master Order teacheth vs that an ill fauoured face a wicked nature a horrible life and execrable death doe commonly accompany one another The first is vgly the second hatefull the third fearefull and the fourth damnable Order teacheth the Iudge to summon the parties in question to appoint a day of hearing to giue eare to both sides to examine the particulars to certifie the iurors to open the truth to receiue the verdict and giue the sentence For as a carpenter by his axe and rule squareth and proportioneth his timber so in deciding of causes impertinent points are to be pared ambiguities sifted shyfts examined the truth discouered and so the cause orderly and truly decided Order maketh the eye though neuer so little see many things and that a far off one after another Order setteleth the maiestie of a Kings palace and quieteth the ambitious spirits of noble men who from order and princely direction knowe how to take their place without repining whereas if the offices in diuers mens hands are disposed without orderly rules there must needs be vnorderly proceedings in the duties that belong to their seuerall places Order in proceeding keepeth a hote braine from running into any extreame vvhereby the whole work may bee ouerthrown Whereas the minde is setled the body accommodated the hand ruled the worke perfected the workman commended Order marshalleth a feast appointeth the banquet disheth the meat placeth the dishes setteth the guests soundeth the musick and sets euery ones teeth on worke in his seuerall rank Order maketh the Physition famous by preparing the body

as Dauid sung his Psalmes and draue away the diuell by the sound of his Harpe Poetry in his vse is an admirable vertue and a rauishing contentment For it raiseth the honour of renowne illustrateth the actions of famous men eterniseth the memory of merit and quickeneth the very spirit of the reader to the same prosecutions againe it sendeth vice to hell maketh miquitie a monster keepeth vs from sinne for feare of shame and compareth the odiousnesse of impiety to deepe pits whence it is more easier to keepe ones selfe from falling in then once fallen to come out againe Poetry in his abuse is a meere excrement of an idle frency a drunken fury a scorne of wise men a popular iollitie a common may-game a storehouse for balladmongers an lnne for rimers and an idle and vnprofitable pastime liuing in pouertie and dying in contempt Poetry animated by musicke are dangerous companions amongst working spirits and barbarous nations witnesse the bardes and rimers of Ireland and Wales whose Siren songs haue excited such hellish treasons and horrible tumults Poetry and pouertie march hand in hand commonly though at first they scorned to take reward yet at last it grewe so common that without reward they could not liue by the occupation Poetry now adayes marcheth with impudency for whereas ancient poesie studied to make vertue famous the moderne endeuours to make vice glorious esteeming honesty an idle word and a simple ornament but ribaldry a witty mirth and sweete contentment Poetry must take vigor and spirit from Bacchu● company and as a fainting stomach is setled and refreshed with some cordiall receite so a wearied wit is refreshed with a little wine and the verses slip more easily out being washed ouer with that pleasant and liuely liquor Poetry seasoned with piety and learning is a Iewell of estimation but corrupted with fancy and scurrilitie a counterfeit Iem and the worst excrement and drosse of pure vnderstanding Pouertie Although I be not ill yet doe I make Men shund like ●iuels for their euils sake Pouertie is subiect to many miseries yet not to bee scorned lest haughty pride make a man worse then humble pouertie Pouertie is borne with patience when felicitie is corrupted by plentie and he which is armed with vertue can endure miserie when he which is fraughted with vices can not moderate prosperitie Pouertie may come by worldly troubles and as you call it vnfortunate mischances but wretched is that wealth which is gotten by the wofull wracke of others Pouertie that comes by prodigalitie is rather to be derided with scorn then relieued by pitie and meriteth so much the more reproch by how much the more intemperately the prodigall liued in his former iollitie Pouertie will try the honesty of disposition and patience the discretion of vnderstanding Peuertie hath an inward griefe yet sometimes is endured with constancy but villancy is hard to bee concealed by the authors or indured of others Pouerty maketh men rob the rich and to excuse it by necessity but the rich that robbe the poore haue no excuse for their auarice and tyranny Pouerty triumphs to see the miserable diuision of rich mens goods For one part is giuen to flatterers another to Lawyers a third to Physitians a fourth to vnthrifts and the last to funeralls so that the wicked haue his goods his children his infamy the graue his body the wormes his flesh and the diuell his soule from most of which pouerty is exempted Pouerty comes by fruitlesse paines for hee that plowes the seas or sowes the sands may haue his seede well washt and a cold haruest for his lost labours and vnprofitable paies Pouertie is no vice yet a wofull inconuenience for friendes forsake vs in our miseries as crowes leaue the fleshlesse carkasses that are eaten vp to skinne and bones Pouertie is a pitifull spectacle and more miserable then a mo●ster for men giue mony to see nouelties but runne away from poore mens complaints and necessities as from infectious leprosies or ruinous wals Pouertie is subiect to so many inconueniencies to be suffered of mightier men then themselues that poore men may not think on reuenge of their former wrongs but rather on defence from further iniuries and mischiefes as in this example appeares A poore countrey man hauing lost a calfe made a vowe to Iupiter to sacrifice vnto him a lambe if he would doe him the grace to shew him the thiefe that had stollen it whereupon looking vp and downe he saw a Lion feeding on the same whereat much more affrighted hee lift vppe his hands a new to heauen and cried O god whereas I promised thee a lambe to helpe me to finde the thiefe that stole my calfe I will now being found such as he is giue thee a bull to deliuer me out of his clawes Pouertie is troublesome in it selfe but when other mischifes are added it is much more grieuous and irksome For when a poore man had a shrewe to his wife one day in a fury he had happned to anger her and shee for want of her will hanged her selfe on a figge-tree in his garden at the sigth whereof much amazed hee ranne to his neighbours being as poore as himselfe and wept extreamely but at last brought them to the spectacle which they perceiuing asked why he was so foolish to weepe when they would faine haue a graft of the same tree to set in their owne gardens Pouertie is a good helpe to knowledge for Diogenes was wont to say that a Phylosopher could not study without an emptie belley thinne diet want of money poore apparell and a good wit yea Phylosophy perswaded to pouertie and maintained all the principels of the scorne of wealth and prosperitie Pouertie is a part of the play which we acte in this world as Epictetes said if the master of a Comedy can adapt the dispositions of his boyes to such seuerall parts as shall well befit their natures and inclinations to grace the enterlude so that sometimes a beggers sonne shall play the King and a Gentleman 's a vagabond and rogue shall not the God of heauen dispose of his creatures as best befitteth their abilities either to try their moderation in prosperitie or patience in aduersitie since without controuersie it is onely God that permitteth pouertie as a triall or chastisement or else sendeth it as a plague or punishment Pouertie bursteth foorth into some extreamities which may be pardoned but insolent and causelesse mutineys are not to bee endured Pouertie and riches haue denominations and effects contrary to themselues in some persons for the widowe was rich in her mite when the rich were poore in their plentie Pouertie is the greatest profession in the world for all men are beggers from the richest to the meanest for some begge one of another but all of God Pouertie is miserable if it ouercome patience as wealth is wicked if it breed pride Pouertie in a good scholler is as pitifull a spectacle as a rich foole