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A01949	The ephemerides of Phialo deuided into three bookes. The first, a method which he ought to follow that desireth to rebuke his freend, when he seeth him swarue: without kindling his choler, or hurting himselfe. The second, a canuazado to courtiers in foure pointes. The third, the defence of a curtezan ouerthrowen. And a short apologie of the Schoole of abuse, against poets, pipers, players, [et] their excusers. By Steph. Gosson, stud. Oxon.	Gosson, Stephen, 1554-1624.	1579 (1579)	STC 12093; ESTC S105684	72,417	199

slip downe ●pace without chewing and touch him at the quick without molesling thou shalt profite him pleasure his friends not hurt thy selfe reforme vice aduaunce vertue and giue a good push to the profession of a young Diuine Beleeue me sayd Philotimo if it be the propertie of a cunning Painter to giue life to a huge beast in a narrow paper of a towarde Souldier to turne a great horse in a little compasse and of a good scholer to couch many things in a fewe woordes for declaring of matters so rough aptly so confused orderly so redicus breefely I maye well call thee a new Protagenes a seconde Alexander and the very hatchet of Demosthenes And though I cannot commend thee sufficiently in thine owne presence without suspition of flatterie yet dare I not withholde the Garland from thee which thou deseruest for doing thee iniurie Very wel answered Phialo because you are a Philosopher and a Courtier in the one you attribute that vnto mee that is due to your selfe which is Socrates floute in the other I finde you very franke of good woords which is proper to the place wherein you liue Therfore giue me leaue to say that too you which Erasmus wrote of Henrie the eight a victorious King of Englande I am very glad sayth he and haue woonderfull cause to reioyce in hearte that I am so highly cōmended of so famous a Prince but much more shoulde I bee bounde to his maiestie if aduauncing my estate his highnesse vouchsafed to confirme that which he auoucheth I speake not this to compare you to King Henrie or my selfe to Erasmus for there is oddes Yet sith it hath pleased you to tickle mine eares with so high prayses I shoulde euer account my self your debtour if you would aswell further my studyes with your helping hand as you haue lifted them vp with a glosing toling For many thought Eras not to be so learned because he was bare And euery man will iudge me to be but a Duns when he sees me a begger Yet that worthy Prince which neuer suffred vertue to depart emptie hāded stayed vp the fame of Erasmus with his liberality and I trust when soeuer you commend me againe you wil open your lippes and your purse togither With this Philotimo began to smile and taking poore Phialo by the hand led him to the Table where they bothe placed them selues to supper which no doubt was passed ouer with little talke because they had tyered them selues before both beeing desirous to busie their teeth and their tounges otherwise The Supper once ended Phialo beganne to take his leaue for that night and withdrawe himselfe to his owne lodging for withholding Philotimo from his rest who could not chuse but be weary after such a iournie But the noble Gentleman taking so great pleasure in the conference of Phialo that hee had altogither forgotten his former trauel suffered not his friende to departe frō his side requesting him earnestly to keepe him company till hee returned towarde the Courte Phialo easie enough to bee intreated of so greate a friend stayed and spent the greatest parte of the night with him in talke The seconde Booke A Canuazado too Courtiers THe nexte day Philotimo was very desirous too vsite leraldi and stirring somewhat the earlier that he might both thank him for his curtesie towards Phialo and spend the time in some argument till dinner approached he set forwarde with Phialo to this Magnificoes house where they soūd the graue father very harde at his Booke They had no sooner embraced him and hee giuen courteous intertainment to them but Philotimo tolde him hee was sorie that it was his chaunce to come to his house at such a time as might rather hinder his studyes then pleasure him any way No Sir saide Ieraldi excepte you iudge me to be a Cato whose eyes were continually fixed on his Booke his mind asmuche busied in Ciuill gouernmente That which I reade is onely to shunne Idlenesse when I lacke such good company My learning is small my iudgement as slender in matters of weight therefore haue I chosen such a booke to peruse as rather delighteth mee with pleasant conceites than troubleth my wittes with construing of things beyond my reache Beholde Philotimo it is only a discourse which liuely discribeth the image of a Courtier fitter for you to professe then for me to reade Heere is a sweet stile pure phrase little affected and many good preceptes to be learned But you knowe howe easie a thinge it is to cutt a garment by an other mans patterne too builde when the foundation is layde to our hands or to add more of our selues to those things which are already inuented by other Though the writer of this discourse haue doone well yet in my opinion hee sawe farre and perceiued not all hee wrote much and let somewhat slippe that better deserued to be touched Wee see in this body of ours that one foote steppeth beyonde the other with the hande we reache farther than we stride with the toung we sounde farther than wee strike with the eare wee doe heare beyonde our voyce the sight of our eye peerceth beyond our hearing and the caste of the minde outstrips them all So shall you finde in the body of euery common wealth not euery thing so absolute in one particular member but something may bee wished for which it wanteth Euerye man in one poynte or other passing his fellowe and himselfe as much inferiour to them as they are to him whom he exceedeth Tullie was eloquent but fearefull too speake Crassus bolde but verye broade mouthed Menestheus in courage geueth place to Stenhelus Stenhelus to Diomed Diomed too Aiax and hee too Achilles Agamemnon was saide too bee a wise Prince yet gladde many times to bee counselled by Nestor Eurition shot best for Aeneas games but Acesta caried away the Prize because hee deliuered his arrowe with so cunning a loose that it caught fier as it flew consumed to cinders Andromacha Penelope were bothe chaste and both loyall too theyr Husbandes yet Penelope deserued the greater prayse The feete of Thetis were as brighte as siluer but the ankles of Hebe cleerer thē Cristall The armes of Aurora as ruddy as the Rose but the bres●es of Iuno as whyte as snowe Minerua was wise but Iuno was welthie Venus in beautie stayned them both Iewelles are all precious but not all of one price nor all of one vertue nor of like perfection The Adamant of nature draweth Iron but the stone Hematites dooth stoppe blood The Carbuncle in darknesse shineth like fire but the Topase is holp with the light of the Sunne Thus may you perceiue that all Riuers haue not their course into one Sea all fruite doth not grow vpon one tree all fishe is not taken in one streame all fashions are not cut out of one cloth all lawes are not made by one Solon al Countryes are not gouerned by one Prince al knowledge is

out the picture of Agamemnon likeneth his eyes and his head to Iupiter By which I gather that a Courtier ought too see so farre that his sight may reache from the East too the West and that his wisdome may shape out a new a Minerua From the Court in all ages hath learning been mainteined and men of excellent knowledge receiued too the seruice of princes So was Solon aduaunced by Craesus Demaratus by Philip Calisthenes by Alexander Plato by Dionysius and Seneca by Nero But if Courtiers begyn too despise knowledge and thrust theyr Philosophers out of the gates all wisedome al nurture all good maners al gouernment all honour and honestie goes too wracke Plato had not been one houre out of Dionysius fauour but euery one of his lessons was turned too a daunsing trick euery Gentlemans Pen set a work with the prayse of his Mistresse and euery Geometrical figure drawen in the botome of a Boule of Wine When suche things happen not onely the court is defaced by want of discipline the countrey deformed by foule disorder the learned discouraged for lacke of countenance good letters banished by discontinuance but the Courtier himself though his haire glister like the locks of Smerdia though his eyes peerce the Marble wall though his tongue be as soft as silke or as sweet as hony though his personage haue stolen away all that nature is able too bestowe yet hee is no better then a deepe streame bright in the toppe and blacke in the botome A kings Idole sound with out and finely gilded hollow within and filled with Lead a great Canon that geueth amonstrous cracke and shootes but paper a faire ship fraught with Balist and the shape of a man stuft with straw Isocrates thought it as necessary for Gentlemen to practise the good qualities of their parentes as too inherite their landes for Nobilitie riches quarteryng of Coates and suche like ornaments are lanternes vnto our posteritie which neither suffer theyr vertues nor their vices to be hid The auncient house of Sylla the noble Romaine was almost decayed and vtterly forgotten by the slouth of his progeny till himselfe renued it by learning and vertue Curious knottes shew wel when they re pounced but a great deale better embrodered in silkes and both are best on a Ladies backe Costly stones shine brauely when they are cut but brauer when they are set in Golde and both are most beautifull on a Princes finger Learning hath some grace in a meane person greater prayse in a Noble mind and both are most glorious in the court Therefore geue mee leaue Philotimo too entreate thee as a seruant too admonishe thee as a friende too commaund thee as Philosopher that seruing the Duke of Ferara in his court thy skil be as cleere as thy honor is bright thy maners as comely as thy personage thy vertues as noble as thy parentage thy lyfe as vnspotted as thy blood Oh howe many great men haue I read of in histories and seene in Italy which hauing no knowledge in the course of the heauens or the power of GOD in the weakenes of man or slipper holde of prosperitie at the least smile of fortune haue swelled in pride and forgot themselues as thogh shee were neuer able too frowne or their floorishing dayes coulde neuer chaunge Clitus because hee tooke three or foure shippes at the Sea called himselfe Neptune Demetrius for one good successe in all his affaires termed him selfe Iupiter sufferyng no forraigne Peeres too come to him of Embassage but holy interpreters to demaunde Oracles Lysimachus because be inuaded the borders of Thracia and conquered a Moulehil sayde hee touche Heauen with the poinct of his Launce if hee had stepped but one Inche further I beleeue hee would haue vaunted that he had let Iupiter blood in the heele Clearchus of Heraclia did beare a Thunderbolts and called one of his children by the name of Thunder Dionysius forgetting the doctrine of Plato affirmed himself to be the sonne of Apollo Iulius Caesar disfiguring himself to passe secretly into Affrick when the winde was against him the maister 〈◊〉 too returne back hid him goe forwardes for hee carried Caesar as though the name of an Emperour the title of a King or the shadow of a Courtier mauger the Seas were sufficient to passe But that Courtier that cōsidereth the Sunne too arise in the East with a firy garlande and fall in the West with Eclipse of his light that learneth by the Oracle of Apollo to knowe himself and acknowledge his maker in the same shal easily find that his state is vncertain and stay himself better by the fruite of knowledge And it behooueth a Courtier too bee learned because hee liueth in the place that thirsteth for skill so shoulde hee bee liberall because his God hath blest hym with plentie For moysture is not geuen vnto Springes that it shoulde remaine still in the place where they breede but be conueied by Conduites too sundry corners to the watering of euery dryer soile and the comfort of al that inhabite where Plato thinketh that nature at the first was deliuered of two daughters Plentie and Pouerty to this end that the one needing might craue that she lacked the other abounding supply all that wanted Aristotles appetitus ad bonum is nothing but this that God hath geuen a Paradise to all thinges in their kinde and naturally ingraffed in them a desire too seeke it out And I perswade me that all power all prefermentes all offices all the riches of euery coūtrey is locked vp in the court as the fittest Treasurie that euery man by seruice should fetch his desert and beg the thing there that hee hath neede of This ought the Courtiers of Ferara to consider that they haue the keies of the Cheste to distribute and wee are borne poore too flye vnto them that they are sweete Springes wee barren soyles vnable too yeelde anye fruite without theyr deaw they the heires apparant to Plentie we the ofspring of Pouertie that we by the will of GOD and the lawes of Nature hauing recourse vnto them for succoure mighte with submission acknowledge them our Lords our selues their vassailes them our good Patrons and our selues their beademen whereby they louing vs wee honouring them they delighted in giuing we cōforced in taking bothe in one might euer agree I speake not this to maintaine idle beggers or lazie Philosophers but too teach euery man firste to digge his owne grounde till he come to the Clay then if he finde not sufficient liquour to request some friendship at his neighbours well After this sorte when my selfe was puld from Sienna through want of abilitie hauing nothing after the death of my father to shore vp my studies I wrote certaine Rapsodia to a Courtier in Ferara hoping to finde some fauour with him because it was tolde me that he was learned but I lost my labour and at his

whether he had taken in the flagge of defiance againe or as vtterly vanquished yeelded himselfe this Gentlewomans prisoner because he withheld his speache so long seeming rather to geue grounde then to resist Syr answered Phialo these argumentes are couched together briefly but they were neuer so quickly gathered as they haue beene vttered Therefore I thinke it my duetie too consider the longer of them before I reply for questions are sooner propounded then they can hee answeared demaunded in fewe wordes scant absolued in many When one asked Zeuxis why he was so long in drawing a counterfaite hee said indeede that he was long but because he woulde haue it continue long I haue all this time withdrawne my selfe too beethinke me the better what to speake to woorke my colours in perfecte Oyle Where the enimie comes in a coate of Steele it is good for a Souldier to whet his swoorde The wrastler many times chaungeth his place but hee dooth it too seeke out footing Horatius fighting alone too three turned his backe to seuer his foes and afterwardes slewe them one by one If you see me go back it is but too choose a place too fight in perswade not your selfe that I meane to flye for the Ramme retyreth that hee might geue the greater shocke I am not so affraide of theyr reasons as astonished with theyr folly whiche builde vp theyr Fortresses on bryttle ground seekinge too washe the face of a blacke Moore white whose coulour no sope will take away or too make a silke purse of a Sowes eare that when it shoulde close will not come togeather Syr Philotimo is so bewitched with this Gentlewomans lookes and doteth so muche in Socrates loue that he thinks it impossible to find dustie corners in gallaunt houses counterfait stuffe in a faire stampe Wooden Swoordes in Iuory sheathes apishe deformities in cloth of Golde They whiche haue trauailed Germany finde that theyr best VVines grow on the hardest rockes I haue seene black earth beare a white flower the vnprofitable Thorne carrieth as trim a blosome as the Apple Thus ought wee not to iudge our Gold by the colour nor the qualities of women by theyr faces Whē any one of you seeth mee weare a faire shoe no man knowes where it wringes me but my selfe none feele the hardenesse of the flinte but he that strikes it none are able to iudge of womens qualities but such as trie them If you beholde the vertue of this Gentlewoman by her coūtenāce why do you not the like in goodly pictures for they are beautiful Haue you not learned that the substance of the minde cannot bee discerned by outwarde sense or that nothing but a minde can at any time bee arbiter of the minde then howe is it possible sir for you with the sight of your eye whiche reacheth no farther then her face to take an Anatomie of her conceite● Whē vertue woorketh I graunt you then she is knowne by her deedes as the tree by the fruite for when we perceiue the Magistrate too geue vnto euery man his owne wee say hee is iuste and when you haue seene this Gentlewoman gouerne her steppes by the lyne of vertue say shee is modest Geue not the praise of a iudge to his Scarlet gowne nor the cōmendation of women to the colour of their cheekes The Bay is euer greene but without fruit onely presenting a sweete sauoure to our nosthrills the gaye Platan tree spreedes a broade leafe and yeeldes nothing else but a shadow for Epicures Argeus hearing some commend the beautie of other mens wiues tolde them that they ought not so rashly to shoote their boltes for such shoulde be knowen too none but their husbandes Crates beholding the golden Idol of a strumpet set vp in Delphos said it was done to nourish the wātōnes of the Greeks Therfore I beseech you Philotimo to leaue the praise of this Gentlewomans face too such as are best acquainted with her conditions And if you perceiue that Nature hath bestowed some cunning vpon her moulde thinke it is done but to flatter the Venetians with her image Mustering togeather the examples of Pericles and Aspasia Hyperides his barlottes and I wote not whom you are like vnto him that wauing and tottering in a greate preace leanes vnto them too staye himselfe which are borne too the groūd as fast as he The Sonne sheweth greatest when we beholde him through a clowde he that looketh through a peece of redde glasse iudgeth euery thing that be viewes to be redde And Phisitions to the likenes of this affirme that corrupte vapors mounting from the body vp too the heade and distilling agayne from thence to the eyes when they haue there mingled themselues with the watrye crystall which receiueth the shadowes of thinges to be seene make all thinges appeare of the some colour which remains in the humor that ouerspreads our sight as if it be melancholik euery thing seemeth black if it be flegmatike white c. Then thinke not Philotimo but you shal be deceaued if you beholde the manners of women throughe the clowde of their beawtie the glasse of their brauery or the grosse humors of fancie that bleare your eyes If you doe but imagine that euery fatre face hath faire conditions because that Gratior est pulchro veniens è corpore virtus Vertue shines brightest in a gallāt face you bewraye that Eclipse in your wayning iudgement whiche Philosophers haue called The waking mans dreame for that many times doeth happen thus Men thinking verye earnestly of their friendes or any thing else that they haue seene or read when they are drowned in the bottome of this conceyte the minde plodding cōtinually on the sāe this vehement combate of imagination seareth the spirites which geue suche a pushe vntoo common sense that it flowes too the eie and planteth the Idol of the thing imagined before our sight Thus are Melancholicke louers in the middest of theyr dumps deceiued with the shadow of their Ladies perswading them selues for the time that they viewe the partie whom fancy enforced them but too dreame on Thus Geometers deeply considering of theyr proportions beleeue sometimes that they see them liuely drawne out in the aire And thus you coining to your self a Phaenix of Arabia that is vertue at no time separate frō beautie sodenly iudge that you see it in Polyphile You aledge for your purpose that the qualities of the minde agree with the constitution of the body which beeing thus construed that where choler aboundeth we are testie where melancholy madde and furious or that tender cōplexions are very melch harted I will not deny it but too saye that where ther is neuer a wemme in the cloath there can bee no deformitie in the wearer where the body hath no spot the minde is vtterly voyde of blurre I may t not alowe it Therefore throwe downe the loue of Socrates whose heastes are no lawes whose wordes are no Oracles whose

maister to be seruāts to pleasure that shoulde be our slaue too make that our blisse which Cooks which Phisitions which women may geue and which fortune at witch may take away Aristippus was iump of your opiniō seeking onely sweete meat for his belly a Saint for his bed wherein if we followe the print of his feete I finde that we differ not from sauage beastes They knowe eche other as well as we they vnderstād themselues likewise as well as wee they seeme too talke they seeme too laughe when pricking vp their eares lowing neying and fawning they expresse their ioy they seeke to their sexe for some encrease which is a token of mutuall loue they followe that which they knowe will profite them they flie from the thing that they finde to hurt them whereby they do shewe some sparks of reason making a difference betweene good and euill So suttle are they that wee finde them many times too craftie for vs so wise that they gather in Sommer too serue them in VVinter so cunning that the Spider in her webbe the birde in her nest may seeme too geue vs instruction of building so ciuill so obedient that we are no more diligent to serue one prince then euery hearde is readie too followe one leader euery swarme of bees to honour one king Elephantes are reported to be so curteous that they bring strayed passengers into theyr way so witty that they vnderstand the speach of those people with whom they liue so skillful in the moouing of the heauenly bodies that by bathing them selues in running waters they bewray the approch of the new Moone so mercifull that one of them in Rome catching a boy that had pricked his nose with abodkin tooke him vp presētly with his snowee shoke him aloft to put him feare laide him downe softly againe with out hurt last of al they seeme so attached with knowledge of God that eighteene of them beeing ●●ine at a triumph in the Theater of Rome the rest by running aboute the place with a pittifull rore mournfully tossed their snoutes vpp too Heauen as though they accused the crueltie of man or cryed for reuenge of their fellowes blood By what Cognisance then shall wee be knowen from beastes Plato did not think a man to be a reasonable creature consisting of a soule and a body but a reasonable soule vsing the body as his bondslaue Aske Aristippus why we are borne he will say for pleasure Demand Anaxagoras his answer shal be that we might looke vppon heauen the one followes that which is common to vs with bruite beastes the other robbeth blinde-men of their commodity because they are not able to see the starres Therefore taking the opinion of Plato That euery mans selfe is but his soule let vs acknowledge from whence we came that is from God the giuer of life And sath we haue receiued this benefit at his hāds it is our duetie to shew our selues thankefull by seruing him He hath made vs hee hath redeemed vs hee hath sanctified vs to his owne selfe whatsoeuer we are wee are the woorke of his hands the image of himselfe wee are altogeather his and not our own This is the marke we must beare in our forheades to be knowne from blockishe and brute creatures they seeke for nothing but that with is earthly wee must desire the thing that is heauenly they are sensible bodies we reasonable soules they serue their bellies we our god O Poliphile where is the life which you require what is become of Sabina which neuer dreaming of this but drowned in wantonnesse vsually bathed her selfe in the milke of fiue hundred shee Asses to preserue her beautie How is Galeriaes sight daseled with the pompe of this worlde which scorned the golden palace of Nero as not curious enoughe too shrowde her carkase Beware you seeke not so much to pranke vp your selfe that you forget god Cleopatra was thought of some writers not to bee slayne with venemous snakes but with the same bodkin that curled her heare Bridle the wantonnesse of your speech the ouerlashing of youthfull dayes Posthumia was accused of lewdenesse because she was seene but to be merrie in companie and although she had very wel cleared her selfe Minutius returned her home with this clause that her tongue shoulde neuer be woorse then her thought her gesture no wantonner then her life The women of Calcedon neuer shewed vnto strāgers any more then one cheeke the wife of Hieron was acquaynted with no bodies breath but her husbandes the women of Egypt did weare no shoes because they shoulde neuer bee gadders abroade the Damselles of Beotia that day they were married had the Axeltree of their coaches burnte at their doores that wanting the meane to carrye them out they might learne by the same too abide at home Lysander refused the riche Garmentes that were sente out of Sicilie to his daughters because hee feared suche a present wold be a greater spott to their minds thē an ornament to their bodyes disfigure them sooner than become them Beholde the sweete cuppes that haue made you drunke are kepte from their lippes that intend to be modest You vse your Glasse to turne vp your locks that you mighte please the gazers eye other stand tooting in them to this ende that if they be faire they blemish no iotte of the same with vice if they bee foule they amend it with vertue You like the moone shine brightest of all when the Sunne is away they glister most in their husbāds presence you are a glasse for euery Gallant smiling with them mourning with them frowning with them and what cheere soeuer you perceiue in their face representing the same in your hollowe lookes they only reioyce and weepe with them with whome they are growne into one fle she you are a shadowe to euery louer mouing with them from place too place and cleauing to no particular body they like true geometricall lynes are neuer pulde from their bodyes but by death neuer seene abrode without their stay neuer founde in the streetes without their husbandes You make your belly your God your luste your heauen your pleasure your blisse and hunt greedilie for suche delightes as though they bee drawn with a twine threed cānot be kept with a Cable rope for they houer like fethers in the wind are blown away like chaff with euery blast So dāgerous a sea is our delight that in euery calme we feare a storme in euery storme wee are swallowed quick in euery case wee looke for paine in euery paine we pine to death in euery peace we dout a broyle in euery broyle we goe to the potte Philip winning the garland at the games of Olimpia when tyding was brought him too encrease his ioy that the same day Parmenio his Captaine had foyled his enemies his Queene was deliuered of a young prince cast vp his hands vnto heauen desiring God to dash those pleasures but