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A14270	The casket of iewels contaynynge a playne description of morall philophie [sic], diligently and after a very easie methode declared by the well learned and famous author Cornelius Valerius: lately turned out of Latin into Englishe, by I.C.	Valerius, Cornelius, 1512-1578.; Chardon, John, d. 1601.	1571 (1571)	STC 24583; ESTC S119018	51,195	190

by my simple labour and industry to gratifie and please the good than by suppressing my attempt cowardlie to flee the busie braines of the naughtie and reprobate Certes the wicked are to be abandoned with their wickednesse but the good are to be loued and cherished for their godlinesse The studious sercher of wisdom will more seriouslie pursue the holsom and necessarie instructions for life then the exquisite situation of words and will rather couet fruitfull lessons and good admonicions than sugred sentences oratorial trickes and outlandish termes But the vnstedfast and vnstable minde of the vicious person I will speake of a thinge manifestlie and commonlie knowne had leiffer to espy some friuolous doubte to cauell and Question vpon than to folow any seemelie aduertisment perfectlie staking out the waie to laudable Vertue Such a Reader as hath his good wil fully addicted to pastaunces and vnhappie delites had rather I dare say bothe to see and reade the brutish bookes of VENVS plaies than to spend his time and busie his braine in such a Treatise which may instruct and teache him to liue Prudentlie iustlie valiauntlie and soberlie with the honest Reader I trust I shall purchase fauoure and iust commendation and to the other this little worke shal be sufficient to teache him for to vanquish and bridle his vnfauorie delite in bourding to mittigate his furious braide of reprehencion to asswage the combe of his insolente Arrogancie to appease the rage of his skornefull spirite and finallie to make him not onlie a fitte Disciple or hearer but also a profitable follower of Morall Philosophie Verelie all estates all degrees all ages haue presently laide before their Eies to looke on the Glasse of all Vertue for as in a Glasse they may easelie contemplate what is decent or els vnseemely in their parsonage and apparell so by fastening their mindes and vnderstandinges herevpon they may with no lesse facilitee ma●ke consider and beare away what is to be folowed in their whole course of life or vvhat is to be eschewed vvhat to be retained as good and profitable or vvhat to be reiected as vncōmodious and hurtefull Such vvhether they be noble or base riche or poore old or yong as haue al their delices and corporall delites as fleshfondinges and paumperinges of the vitall porcion subiecte to the renovvned victorious bondage of REASON such I say haue here to gather aduisements and instructions profitable and expediente to ratifie and confirme their liues and others vvho like EPICVRTENS are vanquished vvith gorgious fare and ouervvhelmed buried and drovvned in the bottomlesse Gulffes of innumerable vanities haue hereby to reform their insestuous conuersacions to amend their notorious faultes to banish their toublesome woodes of minde to expell and put away their accustomed doinges and by adorninge them selues with the flourishinge Braunches of Vertue by litle and litle to creepe to the Fountaine of that greatest Soueraintie For assure thy selfe gentle Reader that no man liuing can attaine vnto the vtterest good as ARISTOTLE the Prince of al Philosophers doth say vnlesse he shall first subdue his apetites bridell his desires Imprison his lusts and confound his mad and bestiall affections through which nature is enfeebled and he withdrawen from the fellowship of goodnesse and honestie And that I may not borowe thy pacience any lenger I doo instantly request that if any part of this my Transacion shall offend thine eares thou wilt courtously deale with me rather considering the proper worthinesse and sence of the Aucthor whiche is moste excellence then my basenesse and tennitie of Stile for the default of Eloquence ¶ Fare well ¶ Holsome Counsell for a Christian man. Geue almes to the poore dayly Endure affliction quietly Remember thy end stedfastly Vtter Gods word manfully In all thinges worke rightfully Serue God and thy Prince duely Call for grace howerly Loue thy neighbours freendly Yeld to the truth meekely Fauour learning earnestly Trust in Christs mercy faithfully Obtaine thou friendship perfectly No man oppresse Wrongfully Cornelius Valerius his Morall Description lately Englisshed Of the ende and Partes of Morall Science Cap. i. EThica Philosophia which in Latin is called De Moribus Moralis the philosophie of maniers Morall is a meane to liue well either a Science to iudge vprightly of conditions and of the Actions and duties of common lyfe The Philosophers onely imitatyng the light of Nature Reason as their Guide haue deliuered it vnto vs diligētly adorned whose whole industrie especially either is conuersaunt in the boultynge out and vnfoulding the perplexitie of Nature or els in the Doctrine of life and condicions Albeit perdy as CICERO writeth incontinent after a three parted kinde of Philosophie was receyued of PLATO the one of lyfe and Facions the other of Naturall and diffuse things the third of reasonyng and adiudgyng both what is true and what is false what is honest in talke or euill what is consonant what disagreable yet they haue pursued no member of Philosophy more exactly SOCRATES being the Author and Counsellour than that than which nothyng was more behoueable to passe humaine life delectably which traineth and fashioneth the properties of men and righteth all the operacions of lyfe by the Squire of Vertue that the way to liue honestly may be embraced that the opinions of men might be vprightly infourmed of commodious and hurtfull things honest filthy of matters to be desired auoided of thynges profitable and vnprofitable who oftentymes geuyng Sentence of these peruersly do preise good and euill not accordynge to their valuacion An vpright iudgement of diuine humain matters is the very gorgious reward of God For God both reising vp the brightnesse of our minde also the power of vnderstandinge darkened through the infectiue sicknesse of the body doth polish it with a new light eake redresseth our wil through his clemencie earst piteously depraued Wee being armed with these proppes may assaie to atchiue vnto the knowledge intelligence of trouthe There be some who deeme that the best proporcion of liuing ought rather to be gathered out of sacred Scriptures than out of prophane Philosophie which wee like wise would suppose to be more sure and certaine if those thinges were comprehended in those celestiall learninges vttred by the mouth of the Omnipotent which are descriued of Ethnical writers touching the Ciuill associacion of men among them selues the mainteining of the weale publike without whiche they who obey the precepts of God and the holy men are not of power to leade a peasible life Wherfore because the Philosophers ignorant verily of Christian Religion yet very studious of humain wisdom imitating that law of Nature engrauen from aboue in all mennes mindes haue geuen lawes profitable to leade the life vprightly and right excellent documents concerning maners with a constant and perpetual sentence of iust and wrongfull doinges and haue left vs graue sayings by which we may be encouraged to Vertue and terrified from vices and may

terme it Virtutem a Vertue by which a iuste and a trewe worship is geuen to god The which as of all vertues so likewise we shal wel cal it the ground and doubtles the Parente and Mother of Iustice Nothinge is more necessary than this vertue to preserue the common wealth and to lead the life egally and without couine amonge the Citizens sithe no strength may rather bannish men from all vnthriftinesse than if they shal perceaue that theare is affliction prepared of God for the transgressoures and a path made open vnto Heauen and vnto ●ternal felicity for suche as leade their ●ues godly and iustly There hath been ●et neuer any Nation so Barbarous which hath not fauoured som Religion although it were false and forbidden from working of iniury through the feare of som God wheras an Othe was accompted a most streight band to wring their faith together What is it expediente that Christians do to whome ●aithfulnesse is geuen the grounde of al ●eligion of Iesus Christ our Lorde and ●auiour and the holy Apostles and his ●uccessours so ratified that neither by any humayne force nor yet infernall rage it may be ouerthrowen I say what is it meete for them to doo vnto whom leading their liues with vertue God himselfe hath proposed a sure hope of blisful and sempiternal life through the confidence of whose promise what true godly man for sanctified religion will stagger to lese his breathe if neede shall require How easely might all iniurie be put to flight if that precept of God our sauiour maister were deeply grauen in all mens mindes Quod tibi fieri nolis alteri nefeceris What thou wilt not to be committed agaynst thy selfe thou shalt not do to another Which sentence wise felowes also dissenting from our religion haue so merueiled at that they esteemed nothynge more diuine that nothing coulde be deliuered more auayleable to maynteyne the fellowship of men Contrarious to Religion is supersticion a scrupulositie of holinesse which honoureth the Heauenly power not as it ought either a vaine and a foolish honour of God than which vice impietie towardes God and the contempte of reuerente dreade is surely a more detestable mischiefe by which all faith is turned vpside downe by which periury by which Sacrilegies are established Of Godlynesse Cap. xix IN the seconde place Pietie is rehersed of Cicero which although it be defined some whiles of him a Iustice towardes the Goddes that it should be the same whiche Religion is yet most commonly it is taken for Iustice towardes our progenitours or els for a thankefull good wil towardes our Parentes But in his bookes of Rhetorike Pietie is more absolutely defi●ed through which duetie and an earnest reuerence is geuen vnto Aliaunce and to them which are well willinge to theyr countrey And in like sort in another place Pietie is which geueth in charge to obserue duetie towardes our countrie our parents and others our kynsefolke This laste vertue is well coupled to Religion because the cheifest worship is to be geuen to God the next to the Parentes and next of kinne and especially to the countrey whiche one Cicero saieth comprehendeth all charitie Impiety is a contrary vice to Godlinesse towards such to whom beneuolence and loue is due Against this so detestable a wickednesse when as yet the title of murder was vnknowen it was not necessary to establish a lawe but afterwards when they began who violatyng the law of nature and more brutish than brute beasts did murther despoyle them of whom they had receiued life a most rigorous law was ratified of which declaration is made in the digestes vnder the title Ad L. Pompeiam de patricidus Of Reuerence Cap. xx REuerence is by which we honoure and worship thē who excel vs in age either in wisdome either in dignity or in any estimaciō For that God him selfe geueth in commaundment by the law of nature that with due obeysaunce and honoure we should reuerence our parentes and the Magistrates whom he woulde to rule ouer vs This vertue of obedience is so necessary that withoute it neither a house neither a Citie nor any fellowship can remaine How pernicious the vice repugnaunte to obedience is the gréeuous ruine of the first parentes of al mankind which hath tormented euery mothers Sonne hath geuen a lesson to vs This enormitye springeth of Pride and arrogancye and of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 through which any mā by ouerweening in him selfe to well and fauouringe his person maketh him self another cousin to God almighty Nothinge verely is more odious than pride both to God and men For at all seasons as the Latin Tragical writer recordeth Sequitur superbos vltor a tergo Deus God that taketh vengeaunce foloweth the lofty behinde their backes The fal of wicked Angels whiche cannot be repaired and than the which none hath bin more greuous at any time doth witnes the same Of Trouth Cap. xxi TRouth is saieth Cicero throughe whiche those thinges are sayde to be vnchaunged whiche are or haue been or els are aboute to come Either a right perfection of the minde wherby any man both telleth the truthe either in affyrmyng or els in deniyng and also pretendeth no subteltie whereof he may be called a true speaker It is a necessarie vertue to make bargaynes in whom faith ought to beare rule which is defined a constancie and a soothe of sayinges and doynges neither is truth any other thinge in contractes and accomptes than faith whiche if it be diligently obserued the proper office of duetie shal be fulfilled which is to yelde vnto euery man his owne A lie is a vice contrarie to veritie in like maner the malicious inuencions of Sophismes and all deceipte and dissimulacion and counterfaityng and also arrogancie A forged deuise is mischeuous and pernicious vnto the cōmon wealth for it wresteth a man from God which is true and the welspryng of al verity and purchaseth him freendship with the Deuill and bringeth euerlastyng death to the soule and violateth humaine societie with a false Merchaundise and incenseth hatreds and discordes through a leasyng tongue That bostinge especially foolish of some that are too glorious in their owne estate is irkesome to the learned Certes an alteration to be abandoned Clokyng also is vnseemely for an honest man who speaketh no otherwise then he thinketh he doth not commend him in presence whom he disprayseth in absence he counterfaiteth and worketh wilily not with male ingine but wittily if neede shoulde enforce Of Reuengement Cap. xxij REuengement is saith Cicero by whiche violence and iniurie and whatsoeuer at any time is like to discommodite may be repelled by defending or auengyng And it is defined a taking of punishment by which we put of from vs a dispight either by shunning hit or by repaying the like But this latter definition for this cause appeareth to vs littel commodious because it conteineth priuate reuengement likewise alowed of him in his first booke of Deuties