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spirit_n	word_n	world_n	worthy_a	233	3	6.3454	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10701	Faultes faults, and nothing else but faultes	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1606 (1606)	STC 20983; ESTC S115897	70,812	133

amorous daughters for whilest they are prouiding dowries to bestow them in marriages of such as they like and thinke fittest for them they prouide themselues of Paramours such as they list to fancie But for him that should take to wife her that hath beene her fathers wanton were not such a one well sped he should be sure to haue Gaule to his Sugar sowre soppes to his sweete meate he were better to marrie a milke-maide then to marrie a fathers fondling one that is called her fathers ioy his iewell his dearling that is brought vp in pleasure in pride in idlenesse in audacious boldnesse for that is growne to a fashion and this is the cause that women in these dayes haue forgotten to blush It may be that such a one will bring a great portion but let him that shall marrie her make full accompt that her vanitie will farre exceede her marriage good And for euery hundred poundes in money she brings a thousand vanities a thousand fitts a thousand follies a thousand fancies a thousand new-fangles To day she must keepe her chamber sicke of a quotidian fitte of follie to morrow the Coach must be made readie she must amongest her acquaintance to listen out for new fashions the third day alas she breedes child and then we must looke about for dainties and farre fet and deare bought they say is fit for Ladies the Prouerbe is olde and it may be true that as knights grow poore Ladies grow prowd But this foolish nicitie that is in this common request amongst women it is got into the bone and it will neuer out of the flesh and let it sticke there still for a nice conceit best becomes a pretie soule She did well expresse it that wept so bitterly to thinke how much ashamed she should be at the day of iudgement when shee should stand starke naked before so great an assembly as she heard say would be there present I haue runne my selfe beyond my bounds my purpose was but to haue spoken a litle of these faults that are committed in knitting vp of these wicked and vngodly marriages and that in such a generall sort as almost there are no other made I haue a little glaunced by the way at the folly of those fathers that doe loue their children with more affection than wit If I should now take vpon me to speake of the ingratitude of children towards their parents I might write a greater volume then my leysure might well permit But they say it is a wise childe that doth know his owne father I say againe that in many places he is a wise father that doth know his owne child And there is not a better Item whereby to discern a Bastard then to see a brat vnnaturall and vnkind to him that is taken for his father Nature her selfe hath taught this and Nature cannot erre And therefore that sonne that both against the law of God and the law of Nature becommeth vngratefull to him whom he supposeth to be his father if he be not a Bastard I say he is worse and pittie the earth should beare so vngracious a burthen I will conclude with this caueat to carelesse parents beware of those that doe gape for your lands after your death and desire the managing of your goods during your life But it is true Nature may be peruerted and there is no knowledge in the world which is not corrupted nor any learning art or science which is not abused It were too great a presumption in me to meddle with Diuinitie no it is too high a stile for a Souldiers penne and I haue learned long since Ne sutor vltra crepidam Yet to speake a little with humilitie and reuerence I will not implore the assistance of the Muses or Apollo but of the high and most mightie God Whatsoeuer is certaine of it selfe needeth no demonstration then in Diuinitie the dignitie of the subiect may suffice for where the obiect is God the ground-worke is infallible still permanent and irreuocable Diuinitie hath beene from the beginning yea the word was before the world for the worde was God Diuinitie is a heauenly law confirmed by antiquitie sealed by God the Law-giuer written and set downe by the finger of God and deliuered by those that were inspired by his holy spirit It hath pleased God from the beginning to raise vp Patriarkes and Prophets to teach and gouerne his people and after in the Kingdome of our Sauiour he ordeined the Ministrie of the Gospel appointing it perpetuall to the end of the world and hath further taught vs to pray that labourers might bee thrust into the haruest But I am sorie now to speake of our Ministrie and but according to the trueth how manie doe make themselues blind by seeing too much such as can set the holy Scriptures at a iarre who curiously searching out the vertue of words doe carelesly subuert the words of the truth What is it that they cannot vtterly ouerthrow with their fierie blasts of thundring words by Ingins of Definitions Distinctions Diuisions Silogisms Figures Allegories then they haue so many Generals and Specials with such glosing and expounding that they will presume euen to measure gods worde and his workes with their Logicall Sophismes One holds of the Letter an other would haue vs to search out the meaning contained in the letter another stands vpon the bare worde another of the sense another of I know not what but it is a miserable vngracious studie that doth nothing else but learne how to erre The puritie of diuinitie is enspired from aboue and not to be comprehended by diuiding defining compounding nor by any other Sophisticall contending In a great part of the world euen at this day Mahomet is worshipped who was the Authour of a verie foolish Religion and the Iewes are yet looking after their Messias but amongst vs Christians it is strange to see what disagreement there is amongst our Cleargie-men about rites about ceremonies about worshipping about apparell about Discipline and about I cannot tell what Yet this is especially to be wondred at aboue the rest that they doe thinke by these contentious matters to ascend into heauen for the which in times past Lucifer was throwne downe into hell I might speake of others that can content them selues with knowing vntruths without searching out of the truth but he that will be a steward of much must yeeld an account for much and of him that hath receiued fiue Talents the Lord will looke for an increase of fiue Talents The Ministers of Gods worde are these Stewards of God appointed to dispense his holy Ministeries They are the Ambassadours vnto vs with glad and ioyfull tidings they bring vnto vs the worde of our saluation they are our fathers that doe beget vs vnto Iesus Christ by preaching the Gospel of peace they are the light of the world to shine before men in all godly example of loue of charitie of humility

it should seeme the Pope hath made a new dedication of those Temples as hee hath doone of that builded by Marcus Agrippa caled Pantheon and because hee could neuer bring vertue to become a Papist hee would therefore leaue no monuments of her in Rome I could take occasion here to speak of them that will make men beleeue that they can make golde but to whom they promise abundance of wealth of him they aske a great deale of mony me thinks the Papist and he should be of neere affinitie the one professeth to make golde the other to make God but I commend the Papist to be the more speedy workeman for hee can dispatch vppe his God but with speaking of fiue wordes the other cannot perfit his gold in the spending of five loads of char-cole But Lorde how haue I forgotten my selfe I was bidden to day to a dinner where wil be a great meeting of good company I must frame my selfe to be sociable amongest them I must flatter and lie learne to make curtsie after the new fashion I must prepare mine eares to heare of strange discourses and where such store of matters are so often debated no maruell though reason be something abated One will prooue by naturall reason that fire is hote another after the setting of the Sunne wil tell a tale of the shadow a third will avowe it of his credite that Hercules was a tall fellow with a Club an other will clap himselfe on the breast and tell you twenty lies as how kinde and loving he hath beene to his wife an other sweares a tale is aswell beautified with detestable oathes as an Oration is with figures Now for some others that will reioyce in their owne abhominations making vaunts of their adulteries fornications drunkennesse and other like Sodomicall sinnes taking as much pleasure in the boasting and brauing of it as they did in the acting I say that a man committing an ill may bee sayd to be but simply wicked but after to glorie and reioyce in his euill is of a cursed spirite and woorthy to be detested of all honest company What should I speake of othersome that at such meetings will enter into disputations of approuing and defending matters of so little worth as they are not worth the speaking of yet where this short Text Dixit insipiens might suffice for authenticall authoritie they will spowt out their Syllogismes their Majors and their Minors framing their Arguments with as great vehemencie as if they were disputing about matters of faith Now if there be a good Trencher-man amongest them that can helpe himselfe with the advantage of time he betakes him to his teeth If he can but say This is a good cup of wine who would desire a better conclusion Perhappes there may be some one or other amongest them better learned than the rest who hearing this resolution and finding the cup to be emptie will aptly apply this axiome set downe by Aristotle Corruptio vnius est generatio alterius and calles to one of the wayters to fill in a fresh pot A man might speake of a number of other trifling matters fitter to be laughed at than to be repeated that commonly falles out at these merry meetings at feasts at Ordinaries or other places of good fellowship but let them passe amongest the number of Faults of little or no importance and for my owne parte I thinke a man were many times better to dine or suppe with breade and cheese quietly in his owne house than to goe to those places where there is so great frequent vnles he knew his company the better for God blesse them all I pray God there are such a number crept into this order of Knighthood that a Gentleman may thinke himselfe to be highly fauoured if hee can but find a place to setle himselfe at the side-table for the high boord is stil taken vp with those of the decayed order I thinke it were best for mee now to take a little breath but I haue yet a short iourney to make into the countrey I must goe visite the seruauntes of Christ those that liue by the plow and the cart that can gather gold out of the durt and can reape commoditie from the very excrements of filth it selfe Husbandry hath euermore beene of great account in all times and ages and the husbandmans increase is the blessing of God for he can but eire sowe harrow dung digge and delue but it is the blessing of God that giueth the encrease the best gotten goods then I say is that which is gotten by husbandry Husbandry breedeth vppe cattle for the reliefe and sustenaunce of man it maketh prouision of skinnes of wooll hemp flax and such other like sufficient in the first age for the apparrelling of man this superfluitie of colouring dying with so many seuerall sorts of weauing and transforming serueth but for pompe and is a great deale more than Nature hath neede of The husbandmans pride and his wit are verie neere alike yet they will calculate of dearth and plenty and will prognosticate to day of corne cattell butter cheese and such other what price they will beare for a yeere or two to come Their greatest speculation is in obseruing the seasons of the yeere and if it happen to holde drie two daies more than they thinke is enough or that it raine but two houres too much the next market day they will raise the prises of all manner of victuall The poore in the country shal neuer thriue that do dwell too neere the rich for the wealthy haue still money enough at commaund to buy when the poore must sell good cheape to pay his Landlords rent And when the rich men hoord vppe their store to make scarcitie and dearth the poore must serue the market to relieue his present want These drudges be they that doe drawe their whole contentment from a little durt and drosse so shutting vppe the treasure of Gentry within the limites of their miserable pelfe that if God hath but blest him with some few hornes about him I meane his pastures well stored with cattell and a teeme or two of oxen to plow his land with the kow pasture well replenisht with milch kine you shall see such a pesant to stand more on his reputation than a Gentleman indued with as much knowledge as the seauen liberall Sciences can afford him The malapert clownes that haue no vertue of the minde to crake of but of their oxen of their sheepe and how many hogges they haue in their backeside that are so choaked vp with the carkes and cares of the worlde that they can not rellish those things that sauour of wit to whose eares the lowing of a kow is better pleasing than a Lecture of Logicke Let them vaunt of their Gentrie what they list but if they be so respected I am sure it is amongst plowmen amongst shepheards amongest clownes or amongst churles such as they bee