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A02000	Galateo espagnol, or, The Spanish gallant instructing thee in that which thou must doe, and take heed of in thyusuall cariage, to be well esteemed, and loved of the people. Written in Spanish by Lucas Gracian de Antisco servant to his Majesty. And done into English by W.S. of the Inner Temple Esquire. Full of variety, and delight, and very necessary to be perused, not only of the generous youth of this kingdom, but also of all such as are exercised in their gentile education.; Galateo español. English	Gracián Dantisco, Lucas.; Style, William, 1603-1679.; Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556. Galateo.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 12145; ESTC S103359	87,839	248

which my Galateo did rightly consider in beseeching of your Honour to accept of it with the same affection it is offered Our Lord preserve the right renouned person of your Honour many dayes with as much increase of wealth as is possible From Madrid the 10. of Ianuary 1582. Much renowned Sir your servant Lucas Gratian Dantisco Kisses your Honourable hands To the Reader HAving seene by experience in the passage of my life all the rules of this book I was of opinion that I should doe more good if I did translate out of the Italian Galateo these things which ought to be considered of in the time of our youth and to adde other stories and things tending to this purpose which I have seene and heard which might be insteed of dainties and sweete language to make us passable without an ill savour the guilded Pills of a loving reprehension which are conteyned in this booke though they bee cloathed in Tales and jestes doe not cease to profit any that stands in neede of these admonitions if his mouth bee not so bitter and his tast so distempered that nothing can please him but for others that are not such as are deciphered in this Table they may tast much of their owne neatnesse and good judgement and if any tittle of this concerne them they may bee admonished thereby and amend their fault without any trouble of any with the bare reading and observation of this treatise I know well that some will say that I have ill acquitted my selfe by these instructions though I make my selfe master of them but I answer with the same Galateo where he sayth that the rather as one that takes warning from faltring in them doe I now set them forth that others may not fall so unadvisedly as I have done and so I am excused Alleadging for my principall discharge to admonish thereby to a matter so proper for me and at such a time as it cannot be taken for a reproofe but an admonition For that when I come of discretion I consider I shall receive content in that I have bin admonished for although I have procured others to to live respected of all yet might I have bin more wary of my selfe This I offer to the curious Reader but my intention is to serve him subjecting my selfe to receive with love what reproofe he can give me A Sonet of Galves de Montalvo on the Booke IN genious nature voyd of art Is like a flint where fire 's conceal'd Art is the steele that makes to dart The sparks unto our eyes reveal'd If any of these remaine alone They both prove beggarly and bare But joynd more rich then gem or stone Each houlds his proper friendly share None is by nature learn'd or quaint And therefore voyd of good advise Like Birds for want of ayre we faint Lye still and cannot make our rise The rudest Clowne is comly made By looking in this Crystall Glasse Which Galate and Gratian had But now afford it thee to grace A Sonet of Doctor Francisco de Campusana WHat Fish to th' bared hooke will come And there loose liberty and life But bayted all throng to their doome Easing the angler of his strife If profit be with sweetnesse mixt It must be well receiv'd of all The pleasure that unto it s fixt More then the gaine doth mē inthral Good counsell as Nizander saith Doth seise on us like the bare hooke But Lucas so it bayted hath He catcheth all men by the Booke A Sonet of Lope de Vega to the Author A Blessed news and happy day Descends from heaven in rich array Reward I aske my boone I crave From you that hope this news to have You that search and hope to finde Perfect court-ship neate addresse Know heere comes wisht to thy mind Of winning carriage chiefe princesse A glasse to live by Image rare For common profit aad advise Is offered heere unto thy care Accept it freely be not nice The Courtier that this gēme doth bring If thou desire his name to have Is quaint neat fresh and glittering Gratian and Galateo brave A Sonet to the Author THe faire comly cariage Being daughter of the court of Kings Is found in Galateo sage Whose great renowne valour rings I suck from hence the courtly milke Of faire sweet gentle lordly port Hither may th' quaintest cloath'd in silk For counsell come and hav 't in short Heere he presents in patterns rare Instructions for thee to receive That without paine thou mayst take care Thy selfe from errors to relieve A Sonet of Lycenciado Gaspar de Morales A Happy lot a blessed day An age that 's full of sweet content Is here discovered and this ray Shewes thee a wit most excellent The powerfull heaven with open hand Powres valour wisdom courtship down Gives grave discretion brave command To him that nature fram'd a Clowne The Foole from hence become th wise The rustick swain can passe in Court The learners to perfection rise If in this Glasse they le but disport THE AUTHOR directeth this work to one of his Brothers advising him what hee ought to doe and what he ought to shun in his ordinary carriage to be well esteemed and beloved of the People SEing it is certaine that thou art to begin that Journey which for the most part of my youth I wasted in this mortall life for the love I beare thee I determined with my selfe to shew thee the steps in which I walked and am experienced in that when thou passest in them thou mayest know how to leave that which is ill and to choose the good in the right way of thy salvation And because thy tender age is not sufficient nor apt to receive these rules and counsells reserving them for their time I may perchance begin to treate of those which some may thinke to be of little moment And this is that which I am of opinion must bee performed so that in conversing and dealing with the People thou mayest get a good habit and observe an affable and acceptable demeanour and cariage which is no lesse then virtue it selfe or very like her as it is to be liberall constant or magnanimous so is it to know the manner and way how to governe thy selfe in thy words and behaviour And this pleasing behaviour is of force to stirre up and gaine in thy prayse and esteeme the affection and good will of those with whom thou must converse and live with all And on the contrary thou must avoyde a rude and carelesse cariage which may procure thee hatred ill will and dispraise And grant there be no punishment by Law for them that are harsh and clownish in their conversation because the fault is not accompted haynous yet it is enough they are punished by making themselves ill esteemed of all People so that in truth as men are affraid of fierce wild Beasts But make no accompt of some little Creatures as Waspes and Flyes which they feare not yet for the

contrary to this who rasped wind with a great noise and said it was all for his health because it was the evacuation of the Ayre and the coldnes of his body thus commending himselfe in this manner as being for his health one of the company answered him Sir your worship may live in health and yet may continue to bee a Swine 6. It also is plaine that it is very ill to be carelesse concerning thy nostrils for there be some that breath very loud through them and at times wipe them with their hands and then rub one hand against the other at other times they thrust their fingers into their nostrils and make Pellets of that they picke out even before every body that is present as in like manner some are wont to make cakes of the waxe which they picke out of their eyes and into this carelesenesse and slovenlinesse we have observed many to fall And much lesse ought any to use to take any thing in his hand that smels ill or may give a loathing and to put it to anothers Nose that hee may smell how it stinkes saying to him as you love your life doe but try how ill this smelleth but thou oughtest rather to endeavour he may not see it 7. Now even as all these and many other things of this sort doe offend the sence of smelling and of tasting together with the sence of seeing so the gnashing of the teeth and the grinding of hard stones one against another and scouring of Iron doe offend the eares and set the teeth on edge and a man ought as much as may be to take heede of them 8. A man of quality must also take heede he sing not especially alone if he have not a good and a tunable voyce of which thing few take any heede but it seemes that naturally those that have the worst voyces are least carefull of this and are wont to commend such men that sing much though very ill these are like those that make such a noyse in coughing and sneesing that they offend all that are present 9. Others there be that spit aloft in the Ayre who by undiscreetly behaving themselves in such actions doe sprinkell the faces of those that stand about them and we may finde in like sort some of them who in yawning make a great noyse like the noyse of a beast for that with their mouthes wide open they utter this voyce or to speake more properly make a noyse like a dumbe man in the middest of their speech or discourse if they be talking of any thing so that they cannot be understood but are an offence to all that heare them But a well behaved man must avoyd much yawning as much as he can and by consequence of the things before mentioned because he that so yawnes seemes to bee discontented and to wish himselfe else where out of that company and that the discourse and manner of it doth not like him And though it be true that you thinke it is not in any ones power to leave yawning yet notwithstanding all this if the thought be busy upon any thing be it in matter of delight or otherwise we never yawne because we never mind it but if it be idle then it thinkes on it and thus it comes to passe as we have seene it often fall out that when any one yawnes in the presence of those that be idle all of them will presently yawne and there is as it were a certaine agreement in gaping which appeares like a pastime amongst fooles which might have bin avoided if one of them had not called it to minde and to conclude for one to yawne is as much as to say he is transported or without memory it is requisite then for any one to shun this custome that is so unpleasing to the sight and to the hearing of others for in using it it is a token that we are of a sleepy and sluggish disposition which may make us to bee ill beloved of those with whom we converse 10. In like manner there is another ill custome to be taken notice of in some that doe blow their Noses very hard and doe in the presence of all make a pawse to looke into their hankerchiefs upon that they have blowed out as if that which were there were Pearles or Dyamonds that come out of their braynes 11. It is also an ill custome for any to put his Nose in the Platter or bowle of Wine or over the Meate which another is to eate in taking occasion to smell unto it or to looke upon it to give his opinion and I approve not that he tast more of it then he is himselfe only to drinke or eate for somthing may fall from his Nose which may cause a loathing to another although nothing in truth doe fall And to phansy a thing though it be not so is a great matter much lesse oughtest thou to give another drinke in the same Cup wherein thou hast drunke thy selfe except he be thy very familiar or thy servant nor to give any a Peare or an Apple of which thou hast bitten For in not taking good heed of these things though they seeme to be very triuiall they become reproachfull even like little stroakes or wounds which if they be often given or repeated may at last cause death unto thee 12. I can now tell you of a thing to this purpose which happened in Verona a City in Italy where was a very wise Bishop as well for his learning as policy who was called Don Juan Matheo Gilbert who amongst other his laudable customes was very curteous and bountifull doing honour to Gentlemen travellers by entertayning of them with such provision as was fitting for his quality and so it fortuned that a noble Knight called Count Richardo passing by that way aboad a few dayes with the Bishop and his family who were all of them curious neate and of excellent behaviour and because they found the count both in his behaviour and his discourse to be a discreete Gentleman and a most noble Courtyer they did much value and esteeme him only they found a small defect in his behaviour which the Bishop and his servants had presently espied And so he consulted carefully with them how they might tell and give him notice of it in such a way that he might take no distast at them so the count being to depart the next day when he had taken his leave and giving the Bishop thankes for his curtesy afforded him The Bishop call'd to him a discreete servant of his named Galateo of whom this booke tooke its name and bad him take horse and accompany the Count on his way and that when hee was on the way with him and saw his opportunity that he should in very smooth language tell him of the defect he had the servant took the businesse upon him and as he accompanied him being now ready to take his leave of him with a very cheerefull countenance did

but all humane meanes hee could use not sufficing hee excused himselfe to his Lord beseeching him that he would accept of his good will and intention but it was not accepted with the like minde But the Soldan was jealous that because he was a Christian therefore he was regardlesse of his recovery And commanded that they should put him into a Dungeon and ordeyned that if within eight dayes following he prescribed not a sufficient medicine to recover his sight that hee should be devoured of his Lyons The Physitian when he had bin seven dayes in the Dungeon and considering how neere death aproched to him determined to finde out a way how to prolong his life by entertayning the Soldan with faigned hopes and so desired he might be againe brought before him that he might try another medicine upon him When hee came into his presence after he had excused himselfe that hee had not all this time cured him he spake thus unto him That he had found out that there was one only cure for him but that hee must have patience for a few dayes wherein he must put off the cure but it should not bee long till hee might search out with diligence a yong man of a noble race valiant of a pure complexion faire wise and well esteemed of for with the blood and heart of such a one with the Powders and Herbs that he should adde he would recover his sight and that they must also appoint him a place to gather certaine Herbes for this purpose The Soldan approving his speech gave him liberty to walke freely up and downe his Court and possessed with this hope hee imparted his content to the Suleanesse his Lady and his beautifull Daughter Axa a Lady most famous for her wonderfull fairenesse and worth After the Soldan dispatcheth some of his Basha●s to divers Kingdomes that they might finde out a prisoner that might be fitting for to make the medicine to recover his sight promising great rewards to him that should performe this enterprise It fell out that as one of his Captaines touched with one of his gallyes at a port of the Kingdome of Naples and had there bin informed that certaine yong Cavalleeres were to passe that way a hunting they lay in ambush to take them at which very season it fortuned that the Prince of Naples went also that way to hunt who in the hard pursuing of his chase was severed from his company He was a yong man of three and twenty yeares old and endowed with all those qualities the Christian Physitian had mentioned who being assaulted by the infidells although he defended himselfe like a valiant cavalleere after he had slaine some of them and hurt many more was neverthelesse at last with much difficulty taken and put into the Gally and carried to the great Soldan and although they knew him not for a Prince yet they guessed by him that he must be a Cavalleere of great quality you may easily cōceive what sadnesse did possesse the King Queene of this Kingdom this Princes father all the subjects for the losse of the Prince and so leaving that to its proper time and place we will now speake of his voyage w ch was so prosperous that in short time they arrived in Persia where he was presēted to the Soldan who much pleased therewith called for the Christian Doctor to the end that this Cavalleere being such a man as hee had required to recover him withall he might put his medicine in practise The Physitian seeing himselfe thus cut off of his excuseand confounded in his plot spoke to the Soldan in part after this manner Great Sir I cannot deny but this yong man is a man fitting for the purpose to recover your sight but he is now troubled and his Spirits unquiet and it his humours bee not setled and his complexion reduced to its due temper his hart will not be usefull for our purpose hee must therefore repose himselfe a few dayes and a way be devised how this captive may receave content as by some vaine hope of freedome or such like meanes The Soldan thought well of this and tould it his Wife and his faire Daughter Axa who offered him if he would employ them in this service to make him such offers and promises of liberty that he should presently be pleased and contented Which offer the Soldan accepted of them Wherefore afterwards the Prince was brought to the lodging of the Soldana which was curiously seated and had a passage from it to the banke of a great River which not farre thence disburthened it selfe into the Ocean now he was employed for his greater grace in serving the faire Axa who of purpose and by the command of her parents made very much of him and shewed him extra ordinary favour In like manner the Doctor had order to enter when he pleased into the Chamber of the Empresse and the Princesse to observe when the Christian should bee at the height of his content that he might give the Soldan notice when it was a fit time to sacrifice him The Prince seeing the good entertainement they gave him could not imagine why on the suddaine he should bee thus cockered but suspected that they had discovered what hee was And hee being indeed very pleasing and a perfect Courtier knew so well to give content and to performe his service so readily to his new Lady the beautifull Axa that the faigned and purposely counterfaited observance shee made shew of was turned into a true and sincere love and the Prince was the meane while no lesse taken with her beauty Yet so warily and secretly they both carried their loves that when any beheld them it seemed to be all in jest The Doctor whose thoughts were not all this while idle seeing what hast was made devised a way how he might escape from them For it was resolved that the fift day following the Christian should be sacrificed and so he failing in his cure should bee devoured of the Lyons About the same time he went out one evening into the Orchard where the Soldana and her Daughter with the Christian were also walking together And as they walked the Prince and Princesse went aside and shee laying her hand upon his shoulder and looking wishly upon him conjured him by the great love she bare him to tell her who hee was promising to keepe it secret who moved with much confidence of her love and faith of her promise and with the sweet words this Lady gave him tould her the truth that he was the Prince and onely heyre of Naples beseeching her by all meanes not to discover him for the great difficulty he should thereby finde for his ransome But as soone as shee understood what hee was and the danger hee was in shee began to weepe bitterly yet for feare of her mother shee dissembled it as much as shee was able at this instant the Soldana winked upon the Doctor that he should come

continuall trouble and vexation which they receive by them they oftner complaine of them then of the other great ones And so it happens that most men complaine as ill of these troublesome men by reason of their carelesse cariage as upon those that are full of mischiefe and naughtinesse And therefore none can doubt but that he that frames himselfe to live be it not in hermitages or other solitary places But in Cities and Courts amongst much People to him I say it is a very profitable thing to know how to bee pleasing and acceptable in his manners and that he so temper his behaviour and dealings that they content not so much his owne will and liking as they be acceptable and pleasing to them with whom we converse withall I know well that in thy first age thou must passe through the beaten path of infancy passing it over in simplicity and childish exercises yet Seneca that was so wise as he was frō his youth passed not them so over but they report of him that two Romane Embassadors who held him wise went to Cordova of whence they say he was to see him and as they saw him playing at Chesse with other youthes of the same age they wondred much how being so wise he could do so and not believing it was he they went unto him and asked him what dost thou young man Seneca lifted up his head and answered them acutely I am heere bestowing upon Time that which is its own They stood astonished looking each upon the other and durst question him no further Let every age therefore observe his owne puntillioes According to this rule should I doe ill to draw thee from thy course indeed I am of a contrary opinion from it for it becomes not well a young man to be like an old man and no lesse for an old man to behave himselfe like a young man but that in every age a man yield and observe what is due to it But let this relish well to thee that from the time that thou beginnest to make use of thy reason and to enter into the state of youth thou observe and reade these things that so thou be not lothsome but mayst understand to give content And this must be done moderately for he that takes pleasure to doe things one upon the neck of another to please him that observes his doings may bee accompted a Jugler or perchance a flatterer rather then a modest Gentleman as he that takes no care either to please or displease him that heares him may bee rightly called a Clowne First thou must marke what belongs to thy office thou art in before thou come to quaintnesse Presuppose therefore that first before all other things men must take heede of the office charge and place wherein they are whence they have their lively-hood and to know well how to mannage an estate for in this a man is much esteemed For without this there is none that will accompt of these rules and instructions Now to be well esteemed and loved of men I will begin in giving thee this advise from what befell a discreete Citizen who treating of a marriage for one of his Daughters who was accounted rich and faire first of all they informed him that the man proposed to him was a gentleman of good parts spiritefull gratious discreete and very well esteemed of and finally such a one as I intend to decipher in this treatise who after he had attentively listened unto all his good qualities sayd unto them my Lords all this is very good and it will be as necessary for him to Dine and Sup after this also but you tell me not in what office hee lives and gaines his living what profit can be made of his person or what neede can we have of it only and so they were at a stand with all the virtues and good parts they had reckoned up And so now at length under this supposition in that which concerneth policy I say that our manner of conversation is more pleasing in taking heede how others relish us then in our owne proper conceipt esteeme of our selves 1. What things we must shun And if we desire to finde out what those things be which doe generally please most men and what those which offend them we may easily find in this treatise what things we must avoyd in our conversation and what things we are to make choyce of we say now that every act which is troublesome or offensive to any of the sences namely that doth distast us and offer it selfe in any ill manner to the phansy things that are beastly and loathsome ought not only not be done of us in the presence of the People but also not to be named nor called to minde by any motion or outward exercise 2. Ill properties which are accustomed to be done for want of taking heede From whence we may take notice that it is an ill quality of those that whilst they are talking with you doe so gaze and fix their eyes on your face as if they were to view some strange thing and I have seene some who whilst they are talking with one they cling so close unto him that they breath in his face and it is certain all doe loath to be breathed upon by others though they find noe ill savour come from them what will it be then if such a man that doth so have a stinking breath or sputters as he speakes as some doe and so doth sputter upon all that stand about him I say this is a sufficient cause to make a man abhorred And I have seene some so puffe and blow so vehemently in relating a discourse that they alwayes driveled before they could speak any thing 3. In like manner it is ill for any to hide his hands under his Coate or Cloake in the presence of any that thou art not well acquainted withall but thou must be carefull to let them be uncovered especially amongst persons of quality 4. As unseemely a thing is it that walking with others in the streete as it is a usuall thing to doe and seeing any deade Dog or any loathsome thing that thou shouldest turne to thy companion and shew it him asking him whether hee saw as he passed by that Dog but that he take heede he be not the first occasion that those that walke with him doe either see or receive a loathing from it 5. This is also an ill custome when by reason of thy full feeding or couldnesse of stomack thou hast a provocation to rasp wind for thee to doe it so carelessely and with such a noise that all must take notice of it but it ought to be done so privately that it may not be perceived and some are so civill that when they yawne or raspe winde they smooth their hand over their faces as if they were smoothing their beardes and at the same time doe cover their mouthes so that you cannot perceive them He did cleane