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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36779	Counsellor Manners, his last legacy to his son enriched and embellished with grave adviso's, pat histories, and ingenious proverbs, apologues, and apophthegms / by Josiah Dare.	Dare, Josiah, 17th cent.	1673 (1673)	Wing D247; ESTC R23852	61,733	166

hid under his Coat to gnaw out his own bowels But it is enough to discountenance this Vice that in the Gospel the Devil himself is called the envious Man LXIX As I would have thee shun Envy so likewise be thou sure to avoid malice and hatred he that hates another man is the Patient he that is hated is the Agent contrary to the sound of the words for the Hater is in torment the Hated in ease so that nothing in this World is so much to be hated as hate it self LXX Take heed of being vindicative for this as an Imposthume breaking forth commonly strangles and choaks a man with his own blood the Bee might keep her sting still and not live like a Drone did she not in her anger imploy it to envenom the flesh of him that puts her from him It is safer to forget an injury or smother it than to go about to avenge it if it were for nothing but this yet this were punishment enough that when thou goest about to avenge thy self upon any man all shall be sure to be laid open in Choler that can be remembered and his Tongue shall cast all thy faults in thy teeth If he were a Friend that offended thee saith Seneca he did that he meant not if an Enemy he did but what he well might be expected to have done If a wise man wrong thee endure him if a Fool forgive him Be not so foolish as to waste time in the pursuit of an Ignis Fatuus which burns only to light thee to some Bog or Precipice yet because thou mayst say that forbearance will make men presumptuous and a second wrong is provoked by digesting the first therefore I answer thou mayst revenge wrong but not by violence but by Law LXXI Yet avoid going to Law as much as possibly thou canst for be thy Cause never so good thou mayst nevertheless not only fear the packing and embracing of the Jury the suborning of false Witnesses the bribing of the Judge and those that are of Counsel with thee but also the quickness of the Wit the subtilty of the Rhetorick and the volubility of the Tongue of those that are fee'd to plead against thee There was a Lawyer that injuriously kept a poor mans Cow from him wherefore he went immediately and complained to the King who having heard his complaint told him that he would hear what the other could say to the matter nay then said the poor man If you hear him speak I shall surely lose my Cow for he thought that the smooth Speeches and eloquent Rhetorick of his Adversary would effascinate the Kings ears and lead him which way he pleased To this our purpose it is worthy the observation which Socrates said before the Judges in his own Defence touching his Accusers My Lords saith he I know not how you have been affected with mine Accusers Eloquence while you heard them speak for my own part I assure you that I whom it toucheth most was almost drawn to believe that all they said though against my self was true when they scarcely uttered one word of truth Avoid therefore I say once more the waging of Law especially I would not have thee go to the Lawyer for every toy or trifle for that will be to make him Rich and thy self a Beggar An honest Atturney gave an intimate Friend of his that had commenced a Suit at Law against another this counsel and truly he deserved a good Fee for it Make an end with the Lawyers before they make an end of thee The Courts of the Law saith my Lord Verulam in his Essays are like those Bramble-bushes whereunto while the sheep fly for defence and succour they are sure to lose part of their Fleeces There is an old Story that a blind man and a lame man went to travel together by the Sea side the lime man who was carried on the blind mans shoulders espyed an Oyster which he claimed because he espyed it the other claimed his share because he carried him to the place where he found it the case being doubtful they referred it to the next man they met who in the debating of the matter eat the Oyster and gave them the shells Thus it fareth with many who go to Law the Lawyers eat the fish and give them the shells that is they bleed their Purses and that in a little time cures the heat of their contentions as Phlebotomy cures Fevers and Inflammations Yet I would not have thee lose thy Right nor suffer thy self to be fooled wronged and cheated nor to let every Carrion Crow ride upon thy back and pick out thine eyes and to the end thou thy self mayst not run into the lapse of the Law I advise thee to live honestly to trespass no man wilfully and to render every man his due carefully LXXII It well becomes a Gentleman to make some inspection into the Laws of the Land which I advise thee to do that if thou bee'st commissionated to be in thy Country a Justice of the Peace all thy wit to manage that Office may not lye only in the Skull of thy Clark For as one of our modern Poets saith It is the Clark many times that makes the Justice of the Peace Many without skill in this particular have run into very dangerous Premunires but besides this will make thee know how to secure thy Estate against those who may endeavour to pick a hole in it He had need we say of a long Spoon that eats with the Devil And yet further this will discover to thee the knavery or honesty of thy Lawyer in the managery of thy Law-suits in case thou be so unhappy as to be involved in ●…ny But I would not have thee to study the Quirks of the Law for this may induce thee for thine advantage to be a Knave unless thou study them meerly to secure and defend thy self from them Briefly study to attain so much knowledge in the Law as may sufficiently inform thee of thine own Right but not so much as to make thee quarrelsom and contentious with thy Neighbour or Parson for this were to put a Sword into a Mad-mans hand It is great pity that it is so true which once I heard a wise man say That a good Lawyer is very seldom a good Neighbour LXXIII Avoid Duels there are some whose fingers itch to be dipt in blood and as among contentious men it is but a word and a writ so among swaggering Hectors it is but a word and a wound But thou wilt say I think it a stain to my Credit and a disgrace to my Name if I shall not answer him who having abused me in words hath sent me the length of his Sword and from whom I have received a proud Challenge to this I reply Wilt thou shew such a base esteem of thy self and set so low a rate on thy life as to stake it for a Brawl and a few rash words of an Enemy and yet wouldst be