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A29232	The history of moderation, or, The life, death and resurrection of moderation together with her nativity, country, pedigree, kinred [sic], character, friends and also her enemies / written by Hesychius Pamphilus ; and now faithfully translated out of the original.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1669 (1669)	Wing B4264; ESTC R30241	33,332	145

And her Judgment seldom failed She had an Aphorisme which was frequently and familiarly in her mouth and call'd it an infallible Maxime by which you might ghess at what was future by what was past which she said she had from the Pen of a matchless Prince a man of the deepest insight and greatest wisdom and observation in the world and was this That which hath Been will Be and there is nothing new under the Sun With her Moderation had much of her breeding besides what she had had put to her by her Father Gravity and her Mother Sagacity and careful she was to treasure up her Aunt Experiences Aphorismes and Dictates as so many Jewels of Gold yea in every matter of moment she would still come and advise with her Aunt Experience to her dying day for she long out-lived Moderation Moreover Philodik●… and Philothe●…s the two Brothers were wont at every breaking up at School to come and spend their time with her yea after they had been at the University they would often come and visit her and they thought their time well spent while they were with her They would often confess they had learnt that from her mouth which they might have looked for long enough in their Books and not have met withall Yea when they were advanced to that greatness whereof I shall tell you more anon they would familiarly come to her for advice and counsel and this made the one so happy and accomplisht a Statesman and the other a Divine She had not as was thought by some much of Learning or Languages knew none but her Mother-tongue But she had read most of the Writings of the Divines and of the Histories of her own Country ove●… and over and had them perfect And ●…he did constantly back her Precept●… with such choice and pregnant Examples that made such impression in her Schollers as that her Dictates w●…re look'd upon as Authentick ●…strations or Probatums at least and Ipse dixit was never more current in the old Philosophers School then ipsa dixit or Experientia doeuit was in hers yea Experientia docuit went for currant Authority all the Land over Very famous she was for the great good she did in teaching and indeed she excelled all other School-masters and Mistrisses whatsoever so that she was by some for a singular Gift she had in teaching above all others by way of Honour and Eminency styled Experientia Magistra Stultorum Experienc●… the Mistress of Fools because where none else could do good of them she could but by most she was styled Magistra Sapientum the Mistress of the wisest But to be sure all were the better that came under her Education and Instruction and this was an Observation that was generally taken of her Schollers That they alwayes were better Livers then those who had been taught only by Book Moderation was bred up in her School as I said and profited much was the most plyable Scholer she had in all the School and therefore she took the more delight to discourse with her read her many a long Lecture She would sometimes take her in private with her into her Closet and say to her Moderation thou art my near Kinswoman I love thy very name I would there were more of it and next to my three youngest Daughters Hope Confidence and Assurance so necessary to my Salvation I love thee as well as any Child I have and above any other mortal Creature whatsoever thy name and nature being so full of benignity and beneficialness to all mankind because so full of charity which brings us Mortals on Earth to the nearest affinity with those Immo●…tals in Heaven and should I ever have another Daughter I would call her by thy name Moderation I will tell thee what I have observed and know to be most certain Thy Ancestors have been blessings to Mankind in all Ages and in whatsoever Countries they have lived have honoured God preserved Peace secured States prevented Commotions suppressed Insurrections united Hearts strengthened Hands confirmed Love rooted out Discord countenanced Piety cherished Loyalty protected Innocency settled the Church secured Religion prevented Schismes extirpated Heresies enacted wholsom Laws establisht Commonwealths enriched the lower World with the highest blessings of Heaven Peace Joy Unity and Concord and with the best of earthly blessings Love Friendship Plenty and Prosperity Oh! how good and joyful it is to see Brethren dwell together in Unity cemented together with the Spirit of true Christian Moderation Let me advise thee my Child said she to hearken to old Experience If thou lovest thy life and desirest to see good dayes refrain thy Tongue from evil and thy Lips from speaking guile eschew evil and do good seek peace and ensue it follow Peace with all men and Holiness Be sure thou follow him who said learn of me that I am meek and lowly Get that meek and quiet Spirit which is said to be of so great price with God Honour the King obey Principallities and Powers speak evil of no man much less of Dignities clothe thy self with humility meekness and inoffensiveness and be sure to remember thy own old short Lesson Let thy moderation be known to all men be not high-minded envy no mans greatness study to be quiet and to do thy ow●… business fly as the most dangerous disease and most infectious Pest to a State that itching and bewitching evil called Polypragmosyne in our Language pragmaticalness the fatal break-neck of many and many Avoid Contentions detest Schismes conjure down by faithful prayer self-denial and all other honest means that evil spirit of Divisi●…n Censoriousness and Superciliousness Mark them that cause Divisions and avoid them Have no commerce with wickedness and the rebellious sons of Belial those of a fiery and turbulent spirit in no hand meddle with them who are given to innovations and ●…hange pray for all and do good to all that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty learn to bear and forbear whosoever saith a Confederacy say not thou a Confederacy but let integrity and uprightness preserve thee remember him who watched over himself when he saw others watched over him that they might not take him tardy in any matter of the Kingdom and who then will harm thee if thou followest that which is good But if thou meetest with trouble when thou doest well remember who said it is better if the will of God be so to suffer for well doing then for evil and whose Legacy that was In the world you shall have trouble but in me peace But be sure you never suffer as an evil doer or busie-body in other mens matters then trust in God and take his promise and Experiences t●…stimony to it He will never fail thee nor forsake thee but make thy righteousness shine as the light and thy innocency as the noon-day Then Moderation thou shalt be a happy Woman blessed in thy life and more bless●…d in thy death

blessed in thy coming into the world and more bless●…d in thy going out of this world into a better This and ●…uch more to this purpose did Experience say to Moderation and the like precepts she gave to all her Schollers And when Philodike and Philotheos came to visit her at any time she would be lessoning them the best she could and she would say to them You are young and I am old I have seen many changes I hope you will see an happy settlement I have lived to see an end of Wars I hope you shall never see an end of Peace I have lived privately being a Woman and of many sad tryals you are hopeful and likely young men and it may please God so to bless you as that you may be called forth to publick Employment and if ever it shall please God to raise you remember you are not born for your selves Labour to be as good as great more to please God then men more to mind the publick good then your private interest First seek the Kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof next the happiness of this Kingdom and the welfare thereof next to the Peace of God and a good Conscience prefer the Peace of Church and State without which you can neither have nor keep the former nor make nor cherish Panties Drive on no Interest or Design but the publick good contend for nothing but Piety Sanctity Unity and Charity oppose and detest nothing so much as Irreligiousness Prophaness Pride Division and Revenge fear God honour your Soveraign love your Country pray for the Church then shall you be blessed of God protected and it may be preferred by your Prince and beloved of your Country Remember that old never failing Oracle that Experience hath ever seen made good Them that honour me I will honour and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed And last of all let me charge you in whatsoever place you may be set that you never forget your Sister Moderation whom she held all that time in her hand and there we now leave her at present with her Aunt Experience CHAP. V. of Philodike and Philotheos bred together Philodike's Profession Character Advancement Death Burial and Epitaph NOw leaving Moderation and her Aunt Experience together we will return to Philodike and Philotheos the elder Childr●…n While they were young they were bred together under the same Tutors and Teachers Towardly and hopeful Children both the forwardest Schollers in all the School learning the same Authors and performing the same School-Exercises and profited so much that in a short time being well fitted first they were sent to the University where bothwe●… taken much notice of for their extraordinary diligence early rising and sometimes late sitting up at their study and their great pro●…iciency There when they had taken their several Degrees which had been conferred on them not out of favour but merit Philodike removed thence first to the Inns of Court where he was none of your young Gallants that brave it in rich Apparel as if they came thither meerly to see and learn fashions but a close and hard Student he was diligently examining and enquiring into the Reasons and Grounds of the Law and diving deeply and piercing thorowly into the more knotty Intricacies and profound Mysteries of his Profession to which having so well attained he was called to the Bar and in short time became famous for his practice a most courteous and affable Gentleman he was of a quick apprehension clear head firm memory free expression and excellent good language and above all very conscientious as to his Clyents and their Fees great or small he looked not so much at Clyent or Fee as at the Cause and that not whose it was but what it was He was afterwards by many steps advanced to be Lord Chief Justice in the Island Feliciana which Dignity he did more honour with his worthy carriage then the place did honour him there was he commonly styled the Incorrupt Judge and the Poor mans Advocate And after that his Prince taking further notice of him he was taken in to be one of the Privy Councel and had the Great Seal committed to his custody and so he continued to his dying day living in the high favour of his Prince and dying in the love and honour of his Country Never was Great Patriot more generally lamented and his Funeral Hearse more loaden with E●…comiastick Elegies then when he was buried One Paper I snatcht which had at the foot of every Tetrastick this for the Burden translated out of the Original thus it may be rendered Mourn mourn for Philodike Pray pray God send 's more likc And upon his Monument this Epit aph engraven Here lyes Great Philodike of Gravity descended And Matron Sagacity so much commended The Glory Peace Welfare Pillar of the Nation He serv'd God Prince Country in his Generation Brother to Great ●… Philotheos and Moderation CHAP. VI. Of Philotheos his Profession Preferments Character Life Death Burial Epitaph PHilotheos as the Mother desired was bred a Divine and stayed much longer at the University till he was accomplisht with all Endowments requisite for a Church-man And being of great note there for his good life solid preaching and depth of learning he was presented by a worthy Patron to a competent Living whereto he went and was there constantly Resident never had Plural●…y preached painfully did very much good kept Hospitality made Peace among his Neighbours if any were at variance brought his Parish to a great measure of knowledge in Religion and to a general good Conformity There had he dyed incumbent had not his Prince hearing of his singular worth promoted him to a Bishoprick that Government being then in use in that Island and so had been time out of mind which though he accepted he was not yet at all changed from what he was before nor lifted up above his Brethren but continued his former constancy in preaching became a Pattern to his Flock in Doctrine and Conversation a great encourager of Learned Orthodox painful pious and peaceable Ministers nor did he more ●…trictly enquire after their conformity to the Church then to the Scripture-Canons In a word he so gave himself to Reading E●…hortation and D●…ctrine and the other duties of a worthy Past●…r so fulfilled his Ministery which he had receiv●…d as a good Stew●…rd of the House of God and one he was besides that so well ruled his own house that had he lived in the Primitive times he might have been accounted a second Timothy or in later times he might have been called another Jewell He also dyed full of dayes and was much lamented And upon his Hearse many a sad Elegy was fastened and one much longer then all the rest had at the end of every Verse this Burden supposed to be made by the same Author and translated into English thus it runs All weep for the death of worthy Philotheos Most pray that the

World become no●… now Atheos And upon his Monumen●… this Epit●…ph inscribed H●…re lyes Philotheos of Church-men best Him the good will follow God mend the rest Moderation loved him he Moderation His death fills all with sad lamentation CHAP. VII Of Moderation her Virtues and Character her two Enemies ANd now to return again to Moderation Her two Brothers while living being of such eminent Quality as you have heard you would not think that their only Sister Moderation could want pr●…t or sit long without many fair offe●…s ●…or a Great Match and many such she had But though she was a Lady of a most amiable Aspect and compleatly accomplished yet did she never a●…ect Curiosity in her Dress nor Costliness in her Apparel though very de●…ent and comely and upon that account partly some of the 〈◊〉 who had heard much of her fame wisdom and vertues and had begun to court her fell off again and could give no other reason for it but this that they f●…ared she had so much of her Father Gravity in her as was not sutable to their youthful and frollick humours And indeed she had a great resemblance both of Father and Mother Her Father Gravi●…y she resembled to the life in her compos●…d Countenance and Gesture and her Mother Sagacity for all the world for her speech prudence and t●…mper of spirit so full of serious consideration and so judiciously circumspect as not to take up ●…very thing upon vulgar estimation and common report but duly examining a●…d deliberately weighing ●…very thing still as was to admiration And the truth is her two Brethren Philodike and Philotheos even in their highest Dignities held it not below them to advise with Moderation but in difficult cases especially they would be sure to consult with her because she had had more of her breeding with their Aunt Experience then themselves Neither did they ever repent their hearkening to her for they still found by Expe●…ience that her counsel was 〈◊〉 safest she was a Woman of a deep insight into matters of concernment for ●…urch or State and was never known to be byassed by interest or private passion as most an end others are but alwayes warily foresaw what was like 〈◊〉 be the issue of things and accordingly she advised what was most for p●…blick good She was universally beloved of all above any mortal Creature and had no Enemy in all the World save only two Extremi●…y and Disobedience Extremity hated her with all her heart though she had never given her any cause And Moderation hated Dis●…bedience with a perf●…ct hatred and blame her not she had just cause CHAP. VIII Of Extremity her ●…ed g●…ee Character and Enmity to Moderation EXtremity was descended of an Ancient and Noble Family in Cilicia sometimes a famous Province of the old Roman Empire Her Father Saul the second sirnamed Hyperzelotes a man known far and near whose education had been choice proficiency incredible parts great abilities rare travels m●…ny in his life alwayes irreprovable and in his way very devout In his younger dayes he had been of a hot and eager spirit a Proto-persecutor of the Proto-Martyr Steven but as he grew eld●…r he grew more mild and moderat●… and as he changed his harsher name of Saul into a softer Paul so was he quite changed in his disposition from Hyper-zelotes to Hyper-philadelphote●… and was turned into another man as Saul the first was for a while but he for ever He had been once of that Opinion that no sort of men ought more severely to be Animadverted into and dealt with then such who in the least dissented from the Religion and Rites of their For●…fathers and would but Authority pass Acts severe enough ●…or suppr●…ssion of such by Banishment Bonds ●…mprisonment or death he would be the man that would see them put in execution which he also did judging it the best service could be done to God or his Church thereupon he haled many into Prisons and compelled them to abjure recant and blaspheme or suffer and dye But after he was I say quite of another mind and became the most complacent and complying Person in the world and held with Mod●…ration as much as any Now he said what was his gain before was now his loss and what he formerly esteemed his glory he looked o●… as his shame Circumcision was no more with him now then Uncircumcision both nothing to the new Creature to faith in Christ to the keeping of the Commandements of God He could condescend and comply so far now as to be made all things to all men so it were to further the salvation of any His Daughter Extremity was begotten by him in his younger years as he was travelling to Damascus before he had been better catechised and instructed by Ananias The younger dayes of the Daughter were an imitation of the Fathers younger dayes who observing in those unsettled times that had been in Feliciana about that time when there was no King in Israel and every man did what was right in his own eyes that many distempered Humours ●…ven to a plain Delirium if not 〈◊〉 had pestered both Church and State thought it high time to awaken Authority to revive former severity wit●… some further addition too to curb Moderation and being passionately z●…alous to prevent any Rupture in the Church b●…fore many other Disorders in the State would have all brought into an exact Uniformity It fell out also unhappily and much to the prejudice of Moderation that some of tho●… Sons of Disobedience and Grand-●…hildren of Belial had much about that time or not long before b●…oke out into an open Rebellion and made s●…ditious Commotions when all were in exp●…ctation of settlement in the Island and not long after a bloudy War was commenced between that Island and some other potent Neighbours in the adjacent Islands And Extremity zealously watchful and prudently sollicitous to pr●…serve common Peace at home held a suspitious eye over Moderation and all her Actions as mistrusting she had underhand countenanced the former or corresponded with the latter both which God knows she was far enough from constantly praying for publick Peace and the prosperity of the Church and State yet could not Innocency as yet unknown secure poor Moderation from many a harsh Censure and bitter Taunt Then would Extremity twit Moderation and charge her with disaffection and often hit her in the t●…th with the miscarriages of others that she had nothing to do withall and would be saying you must go a way by your s●…lves and be wiser then all the world and had I power in my hands said some which was well they had not I would make Moderation pack or change her note But a●…terwards to the great sati●…faction of all upon a through observation I will not say a better information Extremities prejudice against Moderation was abated and afterwards became perfect Friends as we shall say anon CHAP. IX Of Disobedience Moderation's only Enemy whom

she hated her Pedigree Character and vile Poflerity DIsobedience was the other Enemy Moderation had and her indeed did she as much hate as Extremity did her and much more justly for her many wicked pranks and practises against both Church and State yea against all humane Society She was a Woman of an ill feature and more untoward nature descended of an infamous and stained Family yet very ancient she was the Daughter of old Belial and that by a strange woman she was of a shrewd and subtle wit mis-shapen countenance monstrous in her birth being born with teeth in her head came laughing into the world with a Coal of fire in one hand and a Sword in the other of hollow eyes and looking asquint very ill-favouredly besides by a fall in the Cradle she had her back broken and wry-neckt ever after Nature had branded her ●…or a prodigious Carryon She was twice married first to Sheba the Son of Bichri an old Incendiary and head of a seditious Crew and after he had lost his head she ma●…ried with Elymas the Sorcerer who dealt with the black Art an utter enemy to all Righteousness and as full of all subtilty malice and wickedness as his Brethren the Jesuites could wish or his Father Beelzebub could make him and he was fittest for her for it was shrewdly susp●…cted they had been naught together before She was a Woman too too fruitful and had by both her Husbands a many lewd vicious and graceless Children Her first Husband openly taught the Art and invented the Instruments of Rebellion was the first that blew a Trumpet of Sedition against his Soveraign and it is thought she set him on She had instructed her Children in all the wayes of Impiety and Disobedience a Roman Catholick she was and therefore sent some of her Children beyond-sea some were Students at Doway some at Lovayn and one she sent to John of Leyden's Colledge at Munster They were great Proficients all in the Arts and very forward to propagate those Principles taught by the Hebrew Doctor Abaddon the Greek Professor Apollyon and the Latine Dictator Filius Perditionis for some of them understood all Languages men of working brains and restless spirits a viperous Generation tea●…ing out the bowels of whatsoever Nation bred them skilful to divide destroy and supplant the only Enemies to Monarchy and publick Peace they have set their heads and their Agents awork to destroy Kings blow up Parliaments burn Cities lay waste Churches to divide between Prince and people to make or increase parties and their last end is to bring in the Abomination of Desolation The Children by the later Husband were the more by far and of several Complexions and Dispositions as if they had not been by the same Father and Mother yet were they their natural Children and had somewhat of both in them for both were notorious for all or any manner of wickedness imaginable neither barrel better Herring and the Children like them nothing came amiss to them so it were 〈◊〉 ●…ough such a Generation for swearing st●…ring drinking whoring ranting roaring quarrelling fighting ●…ilching stcaling cutting of Purses a●…d cutting of Throats as was not i●… the world ag●…in f●…aring nor God nor man slighting Laws Statutes Penalties Stocks Pillory Prison G●…llows Death and Hell too as if they had been the Spawn of the old Leviathan of whom it is said he is made without fear the Mother for the Childrens sake was call●…d Mystical Babylon the Mother of whoredoms and all abominations in the earth Some of her Children are professed Atheists and deriders of all Religion of the Sadducean Heard believing nor Angel nor Spirit nor Heaven nor Hell regarding nor Law nor Gospel Some again she hath taught and trained up to be the Inventers of new coined Oaths prodigious Blasphemies and worse then hellish Execrations and Preterplu-Satanical Imprecations out-daring Gods Justice and Patience and dastarding Satan himself yea a whole Legion of Devils not one of them once saying Dammee but all Let us alone I beseech thee torment us not Sure enough their damnation li●…greth not who draw sin thus with Cords aud damnation with Cart-ropes and say L●…t the most High make speed that we may see him and make hast that we may know what Hell is This I know that when these wretched Souls are excoriated and shall but begin to feel those torments they will presently relent and change their note either seemingly to say their Lords prayer Let us alone now and torment us not or to say their own backward Lord Un-Dammee Others again are the Masters and Professors of the Liberal Science of Carowsing and prescribe the rules and method of drinking round by number and measure till it be without either number or measure Others are devising new Games at Cards and Dice and new wayes of cheating by them Out of t●…is Family as once out of that monstrous Palladian Beast came out ●…ose that set Troynovant afire or out of this Pit came those swarms of Locusts Drunkards Gamesters Whorers Epicures Luxurious and Riotous persons who darken the glory of Feliciana and besides the devouring their own patrimonies devour the fat and the best fruits and wealth of our Land All these called Disobedience Mother and were looked upon as hers by all that knew them having the lively Image of the Beast in their foreheads others had it in their right hand set on by the right hand of Justice others had it in their Noses by drinking too freely of Madam Porne's Cup and others had a brand all their Face over by tasting too oft of their Sister Crapula's Bowl but all spake one Language which was the Language of the Beast used by no Nation Civil or Barbarous but themselves every word an Oath or a Curse or prophane Scoffe and Jest at Scripture and Piety or a Belch of Baudery which some called a corrupt or bastard Hellenish but others who had more understanding said it was pure and perfect Hellish Language I should have told you also that Disobedience after her second marriage kept a common Inn otherwise a common Stews And as Experience Moderation's Aunt and best Friend kept her School so did Disobedience her worst Enemy set up a School to increase her comings in but with this difference that all were made the better even the worst that came under her hands so all were the worse even the best that came under the hands of Disobedience Many a fair estate was soon made away there and many a hopeful person utterly undone and quite marred that came to be acquainted with her or any of hers She had six Daughters to whom she committed the carrying on of her Trade The Eldest was Madam Porne a Woman of person proper and handsom enough but otherwise more common then proper mighty gallant in her Dress and Apparel The Second Donna Spatalosa a very lascivious Wanton and inticing Creature The Third Mistriss Crapula a fowl Beast all Belly and Guts The Fourth