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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00384	The praise of folie. = Moriæ encomium a booke made in latine by that great clerke Erasmus Roterodame. Englisshed by sir Thomas Chaloner knight.; Moriae encomium. English	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Chaloner, Thomas, Sir, 1521-1565.	1549 (1549)	STC 10500; ESTC S101685	94,709	162

hundred conclusions driuyng me to rec●●● that in case I refused so to doe than wolde they by and by denounce me for an heretike For that is the thunderbolt wherwithall they threten suche as stande not best in theyr fauour But surely although none other sorte of men dooe with lesse good will than these acknowlage my goodnesse vnto theim Yet can I proue these Doctours also to be more than one or two waies in my daunger beyng so propped vp with theyr owne Arrogance and Selflikyng as if thei dwelled amongꝭ the sterres or loked downe from aloft and in a maner toke compassion vppon other seely men lyke wourmes crepyng by the grounde Namely whiles thei are hedged in on all sides with suche a gard of Magistral diffinicions conclusions corollaries explicite and implicite proposicions with so many startyng holes as not Vulcanes nettꝭ were hable so fastly to holde theim but they wolde wynde theim selues out againe with Distinctions wherwith thei carue al knottes asunder as smothely as a rasour dooeth the heares of a mans beard Suche a noumbre of newfounde monstrous termes haue they thicke and threefolde inuented Also whiles thei expounde the secrettꝭ of scripture at theyr pleasure disputyng how the worlde was fyrst create and proporcioned by what chanels sinne was deriued into Adams posteritee what waies by what measure and in how short space Christ was complete in the wombe of Marie the virgin And how in the sacrament of the altare the accidentes of breade and wyne remaine whan the substance is goen but these questions are for euerie young beginner Other haue thei more mete for great and illuminate doctours whiche if at any tyme in disputacions or talkyng after diner they doe stumble vpon straight thei shake of theyr slepie noddyng and doe rowse theim selfꝭ As whether any instant was in the generacion of god the secounde person whether in Christ there be more filiacions than one whether this proposicion be possible God the father hateth the sonne or whether Christ might possiblie haue taken to hym the likenesse of a woman of a feende of an asse or of a goorde Or how that goorde shoulde haue preached doen miracles or been ●anged on the crosse Or what shoulde Peter haue consecrated if he had consecrated what time Christes body hunge on the crosse Or whether Christ beyng transformed so into a goorde might at the same tyme be called man also Or whether after the resurrection it be leefull for men to eate or drinke as who saith prouidyng for hungre and thurst afore hand Innumerable suche fine toyes haue they muche more subtile than these of Instantes formalitees quidditees and Ecceitees whiche no man I beleue could espie out vnlesse he were so clere eied as to see out in a deepe depe darkenesse those thingꝭ that be no where I maie adde also here to their sentences or sawes whiche are so estraunge and beyonde all expectacion as the verie Stoikes sentences called Paradoxes beyng compared to theyrs seme grosse and more than vulgar For exemple Lesse sinne is it saie they to slea a thousande men than one 's on a sondaie to clowte a poore mans shoe Or rather shoulde we let all the worlde goe to wreke bothe with dogge and catte as thei saie than ones to make a lesyng be the mattier neuer so lyght Now againe these theyr subtile subtilties doe 〈◊〉 make yet more subtile through so many sortes of Scholemen as thei haue So that easier you shall finde it to wind out of a mase then out of their intricate names of Reales Nominales Thomistes Albertistes Occanistes and Dunsmen yet these be not all but the principal onely But turne you to whiche sect of thē ye will and ye shall proue the same to be so cunnyng so difficult and so full of hiegh Misteries as I wene the apostles theim selues had nede to be enstructed by a new sprite in case vpon these matters they were compelled to argue with this new kynde of doctours Paule coulde expresse what faieth was yet whan he saied thus faieth is the substance of thynges to be hoped after and an euidence of thynges not yet appearyng This Diffinicion saie they was not Magistraliter idest doctour like sette foorth by hym And as Paule coulde verie well teache what was Charitee so did he not yet saie thei halfe lyke a Logicien either diffine or deuide the same in the fyrst epistle and .xiii. chapitte to the Corinthiens The apostles likewyse did holily and deuoutly enough consecrate the sacrament of Christes bodie and yet who so had apposed them in terminus à quo and t●rminus ad quem or in transubstanciacion or by what meanes the selfe same body of God may be in diuers places at ones or of the difference thei put nowe betweene Christes bodie as it is 〈◊〉 heauen as it was on the crosse and in the sacrament of the altare Or at what instant the transubstanciacion is made seyng the praier by vertue wherof it is made is euer passyng ouer as it is on saiyng These quaynt questions wene I the apostles woulde neuer haue soluted with lyke quickenesse of engin as our Dunsmen do●e bothe argue and diffine 〈◊〉 the same The apostles knew the virgin mother of Iesus● but whiche of them did euer expounde so clerkly how she was preserued from Originall sinne as our doctours doe Peter receiued heauen keies yea receiued theim at his handes saie they that woulde neuer haue committed the same to one vnwoorthie theim Now whether he knew so muche or no I can not tell but this I am sure of that he neuer touched this narow poinct how it cometh to passe that he also maie haue the keie of science who hath no science at all The apostles Baptized euery where and yet thei neuer taught what is the formal material efficient or finall cause of Baptisme nor euer made mencion of the character delible and indelible The apostles praied but praied in the sprite folowyng that saiyng of the gospell God is a sprite and who so woorship hym must worship all in the sprite and in tr●uthe But now it appeareth that it was not than reueled vnto theim how we ought with all one praier and lyke reuerence woorship an Image drawne perhaps with a cole on the wall as if the same were Christ hym selfe So it be made with .ii. blissing fyngers of the right hand streched out and a ball in the other with longe heare sheded and a coronet in maner of a platter vpon his noddle decked with thre sonnebeames For who is he so pregnant witted that might euer grope out these misteries vnles he had spent whole xxxvi yeeres togethers in studiyng the Physicals and Vltramundans of Duns and Aristotle The apostles also preached grace vnto the people but yet they neuer made so narow distinction betwene gratia gratis data and gratia gratificans They exhorted men to good woorkꝭ yet neuer put difference betwene opus operans and opus operatum Thei bydde vs in

tymes before Than sir whose happe it be to eate parte of the flesshe marie he thynkes verily to be made therby halfe a gentilman So therfore wheras these hunters through continuall chasyng and catyng of theyr venerie gaine nothyng but in a maner dooe them selfes also degenerate into wilde and saluage propretees ye maie see yet how through this errour of mine thei repute theyr lyues ledde in more than princely pleasure And lykewyse are not they most madly but natheles pleasantly occupied that wholy sette theyr study on buildyng to set vp and plucke downe againe now square now rounde now of this cast now of that neuer makyng ende till brought at last therby to extreme pouertee they haue not so muche lefte them as a cotage where to put in theyr headꝭ nor one crosse of comfort to bie theim breadde withall But what therof forsouth a few yeres haue they spent yet in great wanhope and pleasure Not farre vnlyke these Alcumistes or multipliers who by theyr newfound secrete science go about to chaunge metall into metall serchyng bothe by sea and by lande a certaine Quintessence These men are so enticed by an hope they haue to bringe theyr feate to passe as neither labour nor cost maie withdraw theim from the same but wittily euer they dooe deuise some new thyng wherwith to begyle theim selues againe till at last hauyng spent all they could make there remaineth not to theim so muche siluer as wherwith to bie bechen coles for their fornace Natheles they leaue not to dreame still of wonderous pleasant inuencions encourageyng others as muche as in theim lieth to the same trade of felicitee That whan at last all hope forsaketh theim yet haue they this prouerbe in theyr mouthes in steede of a great comfort and recompence Saiyng how in hiegh enterprises euin the good wyll alone is sufficient And than loe in theyr excuse accuse they the shortnesse of mans life whiche suffiseth not for the great waight of so depe a cunnyng to be fully serched out Moreouer these dyse plaiers though I doubt whether theyr madnesse be foolisshe or furious yet surely it is a foolissh and ridiculous sight to beholde many of theim so geuin to the plaie that as soone as they but here ones the sounde of the dysespringyng vpon the boorde Lorde how by and by theyr hertes beginne to lepe and throbbe in theyr belies Further through a certaine suckling hope of gaine hauyng made shipwrcke of all theyr goodꝭ whan theyr shippe strikes vpon the Dyserocke a daunger farre more perilous than is the race of Britaine theim selues hardely escaryng in theyr hose and theyr doubletꝭ yet sooner will they begyle theyr owne brother than hym that nycked theim of theyr money lest els perchaunce they might be counted foule gamesters Yea and beyng olde now and almost blinde yet plaie they still with glasen ere 's and lastly hauyng theyr fyngers so knobbed with the goute as rendreth them impotent yet hyre thei some other to cast the dyse for them In whiche kinde of madnesse I wen● thei myght passe theyr tymes right pleasantly if it did not for the most part burst into a rage and so pertaine rather to the Furies of hell than to me But those men no question are wholy of my retinew that put theyr sole delyte in tellyng or hearyng of these feigned miracles or verilier monstrous lies beyng neuer satisfied therwith as whan they feigne certaine terrible tales of gostes sprites fairies and dinels with thousande suche other old wyues inuencions whiche the further thei sounde from trueth are the gladlier beleued and more pleasantly dooe fede mens eares For surely suche fables are not onely doulcet to passe the tyme withall but gainfull also to theyr practisers suche as perdoners and limittours be Than againe next neyghbours to these are suche as haue a foolisshe but yet a pleasant perswasion to theim selues that what daie thei see a woodden or a peincted image of the geant saincte Christopher no nuschaunce shall betide theim Or if thei grete the grauen image of saincte Barbara with some praier prescribed for that vse they can not but retourne hurtelesse from the warres Or if vpon the sondaies they woorship saincte Erasmus with certaine tapers and Paternosters thei shall in short space become riche men For what speake I of others who with feigned Perdones and remissions of sinnes dooe pleasantly flattre theim selues takyng vpon theim to measure the space and continuance of soules abode in Purgatorie as it were by houreglasses settyng out bothe the yeres the monthes the d●●es the houres and the lest minutes without missyng as if they had cast it by Algrysme Or what of those that vnder confidence of certaine Magike praiers and charmelyke Rosaries whiche some deuoute deceiuour inuented fyrste either for his pleasure or his profyte dooe promyse theim selues all gladde thyngꝭ richesse honour pleasure good fare longe health lenger life greene age yea and the next seate in heauen to ged almightie whiche seate yet by theyr willes thei wolde not possesse to timely I meane that whan the pleasures of this life haue lefte theim muche against theyr willes yea holdyng theim backe as it were by the teeth than are thei at last content to haue those heauenly ioies succede in the others places And here now I maie bringe in the foolisshe wanhope imagine we of some vsurer or man of warre or corrupte iudge who castyng foorth one halfpenie of all his euill gotten goodꝭ will straight thynke that the whole hoorde of his former mislife is at ones forgeuin hym and that his periuries his lecheries his drunkennesses braulyngꝭ deceitꝭ trumperies and treasons whiche infinitely he by all his life committed are therby as vpon a Quitꝭ est redeemed yea and so redeemed as it maie be leefull for hym therupon to retourne a freshe to a new worlde of vices Further how foolisshe naie rather how happie are those good soules whiche in saiyng daily the .vii. verses pyked out of the whole Psaltier beleeue they can not mysse of too too great a good tourne at goddꝭ handes Whiche verses it is saied Sainct Bernard learned fyrst of a certaine mery conceited diuell yet lenger tounged than craftie for the poore wretche let Sainct Bernard begyle hym But as for the verses beyng in deede so balde and nothyng correspondent to the braue title they beare as welnere I my selfe am ashamed of theim yet are they allowed not onely of the people but also of my great presidentes of religion Moreouer sauoureth it not of the same saulce trow ye whan euerie countrey chalengeth a seuerall sainct for theyr patrone assignyng further to eche sainct a peculier cure and office with also sundrie waies of woorshippynge as this sainct helpeth for the totheache that socoureth in childbyrth she restoreth stolne goodꝭ an other aydeth shipmen in tempestes an other taketh charge of husband mens hogges and so of the rest for to longe were it to reherse all Than some sainctꝭ