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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

our liues happy whereas either body or mind disquieted all outward blessings are but smal refrcshings Quietnes maketh honor to shine with a luster which otherwise is farre inferior to contented pouerty and a setled mediocritie Quietnes and rest must needs be had after labour or else neither body nor mind can endure Quietnes and contentation of a Christian was first procured and proclaimed by Christ in saying that his yoake was sweet and his burthen easie meaning to them 〈◊〉 were a little exercised therein Quietnes must needes be disturb'd in time of generall troubles and whosoeuer shal then repine is as kinde to his country as hee is wife that wil complaine that drops fall on him in a storme Quietnes must not make her end to be idlenes for extreamities are alwaies vices but the end of rest and quietnes must be to enable mens bodies mindes to future paines as the Inne dooth rest and refesh the trauailer that he may rise againe and goe further So doe we vnbend bowes to bring them again to as strong a straine the next time lest continuall intention should boow the bowe or breake the string Quietnes seasoneth sweetneth all worldly blessings which haue no true taste but in reposed mindes otherwise be they neuer so great or so good they are but bitter sweets Quietnes and feare are like day and night which cannot dwell together they are incompatible enemies and expell each other A setled resolution to sustaine all chances shuts out all feares and fearefull apprehensions and fainting expectations forestalls all couragious and constant resolutions Reason Wisedome I must confesse outstrips me still Yet am I author both of good and ill REason argues all matters in controuersie it prooues truth and approues it it refutes falsehood and refuseth it it discernes the good and iustifieth it it reueales the bad and forbids it whereby the good is iustified and the bad condemned Reason is the ground of the law which reasonable men will therefore obey But such barbarous beasts as will not bee ruled by reason which was giuen to direct them must be ouer-ruled by law which was made to correct them Reason hath two great enemies wilfulnes and power who by tyrannous ouer-bearing all right and reason doe incurre the more terrible condemnation Reason is much troubled with folly women the one cannot vnderstand her the other will not stand to her for wee commonly say It is a womans reason It is so because it is so I will not doe this or that because I will not Reason is quite casheird in loue and passion For the bold blind Louer neither seeing nor fearing the many mischiefes may follow him hath his eyes his thoughts onely on the face of his Mistresse And the fierie cholcrick companion beeing caried headlong with fury and madnesse in the heat of his passion neither heedes the bloudy face of fearefull misfortune before him nor of bleake and pale repentance behind him Both loue and anger if they be strong raise vp a clowd of clustring spirits which cleane dazel and darken the cleare reason of man and peruert all wise orderly and happy proceeding Reason sanctified maketh cōscience a good schoole mistris but when wit is wicked will peruerted no order or goodnesse can be expected Reason animated by Religion hath a power aboue nature for if you offer to throw a child out of a window it will quake for fear● whereas bring a martyr to the fire for Gods sake he reioyceth for loue Reason erres from the rule of wisedome when she doth not yeeld the necessity or taketh not opportunity of time Reason sorteth the sound from the scabbed sheepe as in Gardens it separateth the wholsome herbs and sweet flowers from the noysome and vnsauoury weedes lest growing together the infection offence of the one take away the profit and pleasure of the other Reason is the ground of law law the foundation and strength of a kingdome and iustice the crowne of a King vvho must adde life to the law by iust execution without which it is neither a buckler for innocencie nor a sword against sinne The law is as it were a dumbe or dead King the King a liuing or speaking law without execution neither King nor lawe are worth a straw Reason teacheth the Gardner to cut his growne herbes and not pull them vp by the rootes a good shepheard to sheere his sheepe not to fley them Reason should teach vs a fearefull foresight and flight of future misfortunes euen by the example of brutish creatures For the hunted Hare feedes euen in feare and a dogge once burnt with fire is often after afraid of cold water Reason is discouered by speech which indeed is the image of a mans mind For Solon was wont to say that speech was the life of action the discouerer of the inward man and that as in a glasse a man might see the outward lin●aments and proportion of the body so in the speech a man might discerne the inward disposition of the minde whereupon when the same Solon was to giue his iudgement on a youth sent vnto him hee bad him speake and answer him that hee might see what was in him Reason tells you that the trumpet giues no sound but by the breath of the trumpeter and religion tells you that the Preacher cannot of himselfe propose any spirituall matter without the gracious illumination of a heauenly Inspirer For what high or heauenly thing can proceed out of the blind vnderstanding of the naturall man corrupted Adam and a bespotted conscience Reason teacheth young men to liue well prepareth old men to die well Reason delighteth in contemplation and the study of wisedome as youthful spirits doe in sportfull recreation Reason is augmented by experience and tells vs that the strained wit hath not the strongest apprehension nor a weake capacitie is fit for a high designe Reason vttred by a plausible tongue makes perswasions passasle with a popular eare but iudgement that discernes substance from colour the maske from the face the forme from the matter will easily find out the fallacie and error euen as a good pen doth helpe and grace a good writer but if the paper be nought he shall make many a blot for a letter or commit such slender faults as will bee easily discried by a Scriuener Reason rules the minde as the eye directs the body and the helm the ship the brydle the horse though bodies shippes and horses knowe not their rulers So though the yeere is knowne by the dayes the dayes by the houres yet the thoughts reasons of mens actions are onely known to God and themselues Religion By me is God made knowen tost faith repos'd Diuels confounded and all sinne disclos'd REligion is set down in diuers books but the rest resolution of the faithfull soule is onely in the Bible the onely vnerring trueth of God which Christ hath sealed with his blood Religion is sometimes made a cloake for

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 M r. Iohn de la Casa Arch-bishop of Beneuenta LONDON Printed by I. B. for Roger Iackson and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet Conduit 1616. THE PRINTER To the courteous Readers GENTLEMEN HAuing had the good happe among other aduentures of Presse to Print not long since sundry small fragments full both of honest reuelation for Wit and vseful obseruation for Wisedome fit to please and profit the wel-disposed And perceiuing the same accordingly to haue found generall approbation and applause howbeit I must ingeniously confesse neither so orderly disgested by the P●nne nor so exactly corrected at the Presse by reason of some vnseasonable hast as both the Author and my selfe haue since seriously wished Now therefore at better leasure for your greater delight in reading and ease in finding I haue here with the helpe of a skilfull and industridustrious friend Methodically reduced all into this Rich Cabinet doubly furnished with ample Addition of newe Treasures of diuers kinds which 〈◊〉 you accept no worse then the former I shall bee the more encouraged to endeauour your further content to the vttermost of my facultie So fare you well R. I. ¶ An Alphabeticall Table containing the heades of all the principall matters in this Booke AEfinitie fol. 1 Anger 3 Atheisme 6 Beautie 7 Birth 10 Benefits 11 Couetousnesse 13 Crueltie 15 Courtesie 18 Courtier 19 Clergy 21 Citizen 27 Countrey life 29 Cuckold 31 Death 32 Diseases 35 Drunkennesse 37 Effeminatenesse 39 Elloquence 40 Enuy. 41 Folly 44 Fortune 47 Friends 48 Gentrey 51 God 58 Grauety 61 Honour 63 Humility 65 Hypocrisie 67 Inuection 68 Ignominy 70 Idlenesse 72 Kings 74 Knowledge 76 Knauery 79 Lawes 81 Lechery 83 Loue. 85 Liberty 88 Merchant 89 Man 91 Modestie 9● Money 94 Negligence 97 No-body 98 Nurture 100 Oeconomick 101 Office 105 Order 107 Oathes 109 Pleasure 111 Poetry 112 Pouer●y 113 Player 116 Pride 118 Profit 121 Quietnesse 122 Reason 124 Religion 126 Remembrance 129 Resolution 130 Statesman 132 Scholler 134 Souldier 135 Shifting 137 Singularitie 139 Sinne. 140 Sorrow 141 Temperance 144 Time 146 Traueller 147 Troubles 149 Vanitie 151 Vallour 154 Vertue 855 Warres 157 Wilfulnesse 159 World 160 Woman Whore A Treatise of Manners and behauiors THE RICH CABINET Containing Descriptions Characters Discourses and Histories Diuine and Morall Affinitie This wel may be the weake ones strong defence And strōg ones weaknes may proceed frō hence AFfinitie cannot haue greater glory then when the father is wise the children vertuous the brothers kinde the cosins louing and the kinred conformable Affinity is happy where cosins nephewes are well bred and kinde consorts sisters are modest and gracious maidens brothers are naturall and indiuiduall friends children obedient and pleasing to their parents wiues are vertuous and submisse to their husbands and wise and careful to gouerne their housholds Aff●nity degenerating in honesty is like foule scabs in a faire skinne such Affines brings as much credit comfort to their friends as do lyce in their clothes they are much like of a lousie condition they will cleaue close vnto you while you haue bloud to feede them but if you begin to die or decay they goe from them that breed them Affinity doth sometimes shew a catalogue of kinsmen but a blank of friends For it is not the similitude of titles or names but the resemblance of like true and tender affection and harts wherein the reality of right and naturall affinity consists Affinity of faire words and false hearts are like Tantalus his apples they are euer hanging round about him but he may die for hunger before he shall taste them Or they are like the apples of Sodom that are faire without and dust within Good for nothing but to deceiue hungry passengers who would but cannot feed vpon them Affinity is pleased when the children and childrens children prooue the Parents delight but if vngracious they are more charge then comfort Affinity with needy and penurious friends is like a stemme that hath many suckers or vnder-plants which are still drawing the iuyce away from the great and maine root but themselues neuer bring forth a handful of fruit Affinity hath that priuiledge that in lordly houses and of inheritors there ought to be the haunts of brothers cosins nephews vnckles and all other of his kin bearing good will to their affaires supporting their necessities in such wi●e that to them is no houre forbidden or dore shut neuerthelesse there are some brothers cosins and nephewes so tedious in speech so importunate in visiting and so without measure in crauing that they make a man angry and also abhorre them and the remedy to such is to appart their conuersations and succour their necess●ties Affinity makes men presume in offences but heere lies the danger when kinsmen fall out indeed they are at deadly food and commonly irreconcileable therefore a care must be had of the occasion and a cunning to contriue a pacification Affinity setteth whole families many times at variance euen to the drawing of strangers to take part but when an attonement is contriued the rest are not only condemned but pay for the mischiefe when a mans bloud returnes and feare of ouerthrowing the whole family keepes malice in restraint Anger Ire's good and bad if good it still doth swell At ill if b●d it frets at dooing well ANger is the heat of bloud as feare the defect of nature but in both temperance bringeth men to perfection Anger and Enuy makes the body leane and ma●erates the minde when it had need of rest●u●ation by rest Anger is sometimes manly as griefe vvith reason is naturall but to be outragious is beastly and to cry childish Anger without discretion turneth into furie and continuing without restraint endeth in sorow Anger vpon good cause is wis●dome and against sinne honesty and without sinne holinesse but to braule and swagger is vnciuell Anger without force is like a lustfull Eunuch willing but weak or like a mocked old man that holds vp his staffe but cannot strike in both a man shall show folly in willingnes to hurt and inability to execute Anger bringeth hastie spirits in danger of hurt and when the passion is cooled by consideration repentance followes but if it be too late it is subiect to derision Anger and excesse of meates are great enemies to health For meats doe corrupt the humors and anger consumeth the bones so that if men did not eate ouermuch and would not be ouer-angry there should be little cause to be sick and much lesse of whom to complaine For the whips that do most scourge our miserable life are ordinary excesse and deepe anger Anger made great Alexander like the least part