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virtue_n	faith_n	godliness_n	temperance_n	4,219	5	11.6041	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18509	Delectable demaundes, and pleasaunt questions, with their seuerall aunswers, in matters of loue, naturall causes, with morall and politique deuises. Newely translated out of Frenche into Englishe, this present yere of our Lorde God. 1566	Landi, Ortensio, ca. 1512-ca. 1553. Quattro libri di dubbi.; Chartier, Alain, 15th cent, attributed name.; Painter, William, 1540?-1594.	1566 (1566)	STC 5059; ESTC S119276	122,665	210

the tune of Nero so many Musitians Bicause subiectes do alwaies geue their mindes to that which pleaseth their Prince ¶ Wherin did Vespasian most declare his wicked nature Bicause he surrendred the greatest offices into the handes of the greates Bribers that afterwardes he might haue their goodes confiscat ¶ Why did the Persians ordeine that he which procured to establishe newe lawes amonges them should be put to death That they might alwaies con●inue in their olde customes ¶ Howe may the Iuste and vniust be knowen By lawe and not by nature ¶ What is the foundation of Lawes Uertue ¶ Howe did Chrysippus pain●e Iustice In forme of a virgin hauing a seuere graue and fearefull countenaunce and yet neuerthelesse honorable Shamefast humble and full of maiestie ¶ What is Nobilitie without vertue It is a thing stuffed with pride and violence ¶ Shewe me I pray you what thinges are contrarie vnto vertue and which are like therevnto The contrarie of wisdome is folishnes and the like to it is subtiltie The contrarie of Constancie is inconstancie and his like is obstinacie Strength hath for his contrarie feoblenes of harte and hardines for his like Iniustice is contrarie to Iustice but crueltie is kinne to Iustice. ¶ Why would not Plato returne home to his citie although he was greatly required thervnto by the people Bicause they would not vnderstand iuste and reasonable causes and bicause he could not gette them by any meanes to acknowledge the same ¶ What is Innocencie It is a certeine nature so well ingrauen in the harte of a man that it ●●useth him that he can not nor may not do hurt to any man ¶ What is he that worthelie deserueth to be called happie He that goeth about moost of all to resemble God ¶ Which be the vertues that do conduct or bring vs to heauen Charitie fayth hope pietie Religion and godlines ¶ What thinges are contrarie to them Hatred incredulitie despaire impietie Hippocresie and wickednes ¶ Which are the morall vertues Prudence Iustice strength temperaunce magnanimitie magnificence liberalitie stoutnes of corage mekenes innocencie continencie grauitie fidelitie and Shamefastnes ¶ Which be the vices that are contrarie to the saide vertues Imprudencie Iniustice furie intemperaunce pride vaine glorie couetousnes fearefulnes choler noysomnes incontinencie rashenes infidelitie and boldenes ¶ Is vertue the soueraigne goodnes it selfe or the way to atteyne therevnto It is the Laddre to clyme therevnto ¶ May vices be tourned into vertues and vertues into vices by the varietie of the time places and customes or not Yea considering the diuersitie that is amonges the people in their maner of liuinges ¶ Maye a yonge man be wise Wisedome commeth not but by a longe space ¶ Nobilitie doeth it procede of vertue Yea and of nothing elles ¶ What is requisite in an Historie That it declare first the Counsels and after the deede and thirdely the issue called of the latin Aucthors Euentum ¶ Why were lawes established To bridle the wickednes of our mindes ¶ Which is the moste daungerouse Ignoraunce Not to knowe God and afterwardes not to knowe himselfe ¶ May a Capteine ouercome Fortune with prudence Uerye hardlie c●nsidering that Fortune is by the Poetes made a goddesse and placed in heauen ¶ Why is vertue so muche to be beloued or imbrased Bicause she is conformable to reason ¶ Why ought not wise men to feare deathe but rather to desire the same Bicause that this our lyfe is nothing els but a prison ¶ What Poetes are to be eschewed and chased Those that write onely to please and delight the cares and to corrupt youthe ¶ Wherin consisteth the force of an armie Some saye that it resteth in counsell others in the fortune of the Capteine some saye that it consisteth wholie in the hartes of the Souldiors others in strong holdes and some that the Souldiors be well armed and appointed ¶ What warres be lawefull Those that be made to obteyne peace ¶ Why was Octauian the Emperour estemed happie Bicause he reigned in peace .lvi. yeres ¶ Is it a fable or Historie that Gyges by vertue of a ringe that he had was made king of Lydia If it be true that Polycrates the Tyraunt by reason of a stone called a Sardone did auoide all daungers and yf it be credible that Appollonius did lyue a hundred and thirtie yeres alwaies as it were at the floure of his age by vertue of .vii. ringes that Iarcas gaue him and yf a man may beleue the two ringes forged by Moyses the one for loue the other for obliuion and yf the ringe of Bactus be true this historie of Gyges may also be beleued ¶ Why did they prepare Arkes and Pageantes of triumphe at Rome To sturre men to vertue ¶ What was the true meaning of the three Sirenes They were three harlotes which with deceiptes and with swetenes of their voice vsed to deceiue those that wer geuen to banquets pleasure ¶ Why was the Temple of Diana of Ephesus erected Some thinke that it was built by the will of God some saye that it was for religion or for the pryde of men ¶ Why is it saide that worldly pleasure is like to a Lab●rinth or mase Bicause the entrye therof is easie but the comming out very harde ¶ Why did Nature make Mercurie To make Alchimistes fooles and couetouse men poore ¶ Whereof procedeth it that the Philosophers of our time are for the most couetouse and of euell life and maners They tourne vertue into vice because they see princes to make nowe no accompte of those that be vertuouse ¶ Whereof procedeth the credite that Flatterers haue of Princes Princes for the most part be great louers of thēselues and therfore do loue those y t do praise thē in which point they do resemble certaine beastes which can scarce see at none daies and in y ● darke their eyes be very ●iere ¶ Whereof commeth it that dogges do alwaies barke at those that be ill apparelled ragged and torne like beggers Those are the dogges of the Cities accustomed only to see people richly and well apparelled and contrarywise the Countrye dogges do neuer barke at any peasant or begger ¶ Why is wine forbidden women in some countries Bicause it prouoketh lechery a thing very vncomely in women ▪ ¶ What meaneth this prouerbe Take away the light and euery woman is of like conditions Perhaps bicause they would be all nought if shamefastnes did not let thē ¶ Wherof commeth it that for the moste parte the learned haue very euil sight It commeth of the paper which they do oftentimes handle for there is nothing more hurtfull to the sight then whitenes Or els we mighte rather saye that muche Studie doeth coole the partes of the bodie speciallye those which are colde by nature as the braine the stomacke and hindreth digestion in such wise that by euel digestion Fleame ingendreth in the bodie and stoppeth the cundith then the eyes as partakers of suche passions are debilitated ¶

notable learned men yf they chaunce to erre do wander in more heynouse errors then those that be but meanely learned Bicause they trust so muche to the excellencie of their witte and so following their owne fantasies most commonlie be deceaued ¶ Wherof commeth it that yf a wise and well experienced man do geue him selfe to vnrighteousnes in that vice he surpasseth them that are of lesse experience That Iustice is most cruell which nedeth defence by force of armes ¶ Which be those that be wise men They that are not inclined to sinne ¶ Howe long is it lawefull for a man to desire to liue So longe as a man is out of hatred and necessitie ¶ Where ought true pleasure to be sought In our selues and not in other ¶ Why is moderation so much commended Bicause it encreaseth pleasure ¶ Why did Epaminondas make so litle preparation in a feaste that he made for certaine Ambassadours To declare that they that can both be rich and suffer pouertie may hardlye be corrupted with money if it be offered ¶ What made Alcibiades to be banished out of Athenes The enuie of the Citizens ¶ What was the cause that Abatonius beinge so poore was made a kinge His singuler goodnes which wise Alexander knewe right well ¶ Why was Hipparchus estemed Secretarye to the Goddes ▪ For the great knowledge that he had in the course of the starres ¶ What is most to be feared in a Citie Honger ¶ Howe may a man enriche him selfe By forsaking his appetites ¶ Howe may we liue ioyfullye By putting our trust in thinges that neuer shall haue ende ¶ How should a man be master ouer him selfe By amending that fault in him selfe which he espieth in an other ¶ What ought they to eschewe that are in prosperitie Hatred ¶ What is the propertie of a wise man To applie well his time ¶ Where lieth the felicitie of man In the quiet state of the minde ¶ What maner of thing is humanitie It is a vertue ioined with good affection or rather a beneuolence mixed and tempered with dexteritie ¶ Why were the Romanes accustomed in their base courte to place the cabinet of the graces To declare that the office of man is to ayde and pleasure one another ¶ What maner of thing is mercy It is an affection of the spirite ioyned with humanitie ¶ Howe did Licurgus bring his Citizens to humanitie By prouoking eche man not selfe but to do all thinges for common profite as Bees do ¶ Who be they that haue bene excellent in humanitie Alexander the great and after him Scipio and Cesar. ¶ Why was Cato reprehended of Inhumanitie Bicause he loued disagrement and discension within his house thinking by that meanes to profit the better ¶ What thing is facilitie It is a vertue which easely maketh a man to enter frendship with others and doth longe mainteine the same ¶ What did Antonius pius the Emperour to make him selfe euerye day better then other He toke aside the wisest of his familier frendes and asked of them what euill was spoken of him and if he perceaued that any euell was spoken of him iustly he amended ¶ What be they that were excellent in facillitie Philip and Alexander his sonne well shewing the same to Dimocrates the Architect ¶ What is faithe It is such a godly vertue that all other vertues withoute the same is nothing Without faith wisedome is follie Temperaunce is displeased Force is impacient and Iustice is turned into crueltie ¶ Of al y e Auncients who was most excellent in that vertue Sextus Pompeius son of Pompeius the great Alexander Scipio ¶ What thing did obliterat and blot the vertues of Brutus The treason that he vsed against Cesar. ¶ What is frendship It is a mutuall beneuolence of two or moe proceding of a certaine semblaunce in maners ¶ Can it not be otherwise described After the minde of Pithagoras it is a certaine agremente of Nature equall betwene two ¶ Amonges the Auncientes who was most excellent to get frendes Alcibiades but he could not kepe them ¶ What is to be required in frendship Asemblable wil grounded vpon vertue ¶ Howe many kindes of amities be there Plato maketh three that is to say Naturall Ciuile and Hospitall ▪ ¶ What is Pietie It is the honor that first we ●we vnto God then to our Country and afterwardes to our parentes and Maiestrates ¶ What is the office of Pietie To make the person amiable towardes his parentes and kinsefolkes and towardes his country ¶ Who were excellent in that vertue Many but aboue the rest Metellus surnamed Pius after him were these three Decius Ptolome Ariobarsanus and Seleucus ¶ And who were they that were contrary to that vertue Nicomedes whiche killed his father Darius Ptolome Philopater and Ptolome called Phiton ¶ Which is the true frendship After the minde of Epicurus that which is ciuile for it is alwayes ioyned with pleasure ¶ Ciuile amitie can it be perfect amonges moe then two That is very difficult for the conditions correspondent to such frendeship are seldome to be foūd for as Plato saith al things ought to be cōmon ¶ Why did Nature make man naked and vnarmed Nature hauing made man wise hath geuē him meanes inough wherby to arme himself at ●is plesure to vse at one time sundry kinds of wepōs ¶ Wherof commeth it that tall men commonly are not wise The length of the bodie commeth of great moistnes and heate but drynes engen●r●th wisedome in man ¶ Wherof procedeth it that Iudges and aduocates are more reuerenced of their Clientes the Phisitiās be of their pacients The gaine and hope of Clientes dependeth vpon the Iudges and Aduocates but the hope of the sicke dependeth not onely of the Phisitian but rather of God ¶ Why did the Auncientes call the falling euill the disease 〈◊〉 Hercules Bicause Hercules was subiect therevnto ¶ What is the office of a thristie man To remember that which is past and to thinke vpon that to come ¶ Why ought a man rather to chose losse thē dishonest gaine Bicause the euill chaunce of losse is but for a time but the other indureth for euer ¶ Howe maie a man liue godlie To thinke euery daie to be the laste daie of his life ¶ Why should a man take more care for his soule then for his bodie Bicause the perfection of the soule maketh the imperfection of the bodie and the beautie or force of the bodie maketh the soule neuer the better ¶ Where lieth the seate of our life In wisdome Strength and magnanimitie for there is neither wind nor tempest that can shake them ¶ What difference is there betwene diligent and curiouse Suche as is betwene Religiouse and Supersticiouse ¶ What difference is betwene affection and good will Affection is a generall inclination of the spirite which induceth a man to loue and maketh him sorie yf there chaunce any thing euill vnto him whom he loueth But good wil is shewed when being