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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06162	An alarum against vsurers Containing tryed experiences against worldly abuses. Wherein gentlemen may finde good counsells to confirme them, and pleasant histories to delight them: and euery thing so interlaced with varietie: as the curious may be satisfied with rarenesse, and the curteous with pleasure. Heereunto are annexed the delectable historie of Forbonius and Prisceria: with the lamentable complaint of truth ouer England. Written by Thomas Lodge, of Lincolnes Inne, Gentleman.	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1584 (1584)	STC 16653; ESTC S109563	53,394	94

the vse of oblygations and the abuse of pawning Hatefull was this errour in Licurgus Common weale of Sparta whereas not onely the name was odious but also the thing it selfe was asperlye punished Agis King of the same Citie séeing the practises of the couetous to work so wōderfully as they séemed not onely punished the attemters of vnlawfull profite but also in the open market place hée burnt all the bondes and Oblygations of the rich Bankers in the Citie In Thebes it was by statute ●orbidden that anye man should be put in office that within tenne yeares before the election had practised any vnlawfull chaffering The Germanes in theyr tarations of antiquitie whereas they bounde the Théefe to restore double the thing he stole they ordeyned that the vsurer shuld make recompence foure folde for his iniurie And in borrowing the felicitie of all these Countries wée ar● not so happie as to abridge those errours that they most mislykt off But héere perhappes some curyous maintainer of vnnecessarie members will conclude that the state cannot anie wayes bée hindered by ani● these actions inferring that the dissolution of one familie is the setting vp of another which in as many vertues maye match and with as greate value imploie it selfe in the state as the other that is decayed Héerevnto I shape this aunswere that if it bée true that the nobilitie of the Father worketh in the childe I cannot sée howe these vpstartes maye anie waies employe themselues in honourable Actions when as neither their auncestours euer knewe more then their Beads or their Fathers other then vnlawfull gaines and howe canne it bée that where the minde onely worketh in seruile subiects it should anie waies be eleuated to attempt honourable exploits But be it these sorte of men are necessarie both in thēselues for their Countrie which cannot be concluded in that they be broken members yet must they conclude by the touchstone of truth the Scriptures that their necessarinesse in this world makes them vnnecessary for God by whose presidents if they should leuell their lawes I am afraid the graft wold be so stiffe in the bending that it would be rather thought more necessarie for the fewell then worthy the correction In the most happiest man y ● euer was whether philosopher or otherwise I find this y ● one onely blemish in his actions hath made them ben noted for an error now if these men shuld in their enterprises be ga●de into I feare me y ● as in the black Iet is séene no white in the deadlye poison is founde no preseruatiue in the sprouting iuie no fruite on the vnnecessarie thistle no grapes so in these men the mischiefe woulde be so manifest that the shew of vertue would be extinguished So that I can necessarily conclude this that both these sorte of men are vnnessarye for themselues vnméete for their countrey vnfit for a family yea conuenient for nothing but to present the painter with the true image of couetousnes For themselues how can they be profitable in destroying theyr soules and martering their bodies in consuming themselues with thought in deuising of newe attemptes to delude If they compare but their hearts sorrow with their excesse gain they shall finde this most certain that the encombrances of the minde are so peysant that they doo by oddes weigh downe their commoditie in the ballaunce What is it to get good and to loose happinesse to enioye much riches and little rest to haue manye Lordships and much hart-breake Alas what are the goods of fortune that they should entice or the plesures of the flesh that they should allure If our stately pallaices were to continue permanent if our worldly riches were to make our after yeares renowmed if euery thousand of our ducates were to benefit vs but with a hundred good precepts I wold beare with couetousnes with the best practise it with the most but since we sée that much hording cannot be without sinne much getting without griefe much profite without paine much increase of goods without decrease of vertues I cannot but conclude with the philosophers that the hoording vp of riches maketh many impressions of vices And that those that are no wayes profitable for themselues are not worthy the names of citizens in a state whereas when all things should be limitted by vertue how can vsury be winkt at when it is no way legitimate Our lawes in this state although they suffer a commoditie yet confirme not they taking concluding heerein a meruaylous pollicye to those haue in sight which is that leauing it euident that where neither Lawe of God can limit them nor disposing of right suffer them nor preuention of errours withdrawe them from punishing this error and not letting it slip they as willyng to pul away by péece-meales as to confound altogether like wise Surgions eate out the dead flesh by sundrye plaisters and no sodaine corosiue thereby wisely warning the wise to pull back by curtesie and the indurate by beholding their forbearance to feare the scourge when it shal come Yet some will héere adde and inferre though vnnecessarily that those whom I héere so asperlye reprehend are as religious as the best haunt the Church with the most at their buriall be as bountifull as the godliest and therefore it may not be thought that séeing so many goods they should follow the bad To whom I aunswere If they heare correction of sin by often haunting of sermons yet continue their wickednesse when they know what it worketh their actions are wicked their liues dissolute their endes desperate For theyr bountie at their burialls that is but their last action their best attempt but if we looke into the considerations of their benificence I doubt not but we shall finde whereas their shooe wringeth them If they are liberall to leaue them a memorie when they are gone alas they striue against the streame for this it will fall out perhaps they shal haue a few poore womēs praicrs for their blacke gownes but a thousande decayed Gentlemens curses for their high exactions If they be bounteous in hope to recompence y ● which is past alas it is as much as to cast water to stop a gappe or gather brambles to builde mannor houses If they be lookt into in this their penie doale we shall finde a kinde of impulsion in all thinges Truely truely I feare mée if Mas vsurer knewe he shoulde liue hée had rother haue a fayre pawne for his foure nobles then a thousand prayers of a poore woman and the forfaiture of a Lease for his xx poundes then the funerall Epitaph of the vniuersities for his last willes liberalitie Since therefore impulsion forceth them to be bounteous not frée will liberall we must accompt of them thus that both they are both vnworthie praise being vnwilling to be bountifull and little to bée estéemed of though their pretence bée neuer so perfect What praise deserueth he that will proffer medicines to a whole bodie