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virtue_n	fortitude_n	justice_n	temperance_n	2,097	5	10.3230	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10138	The schoole of honest and vertuous lyfe profitable and necessary for all estates and degrees, to be trayned in: but (cheefely) for the pettie schollers, the yonger sorte, of both kindes; bee they men or women. by T.P. Also, a laudable and learned discourse, of the worthynesse of honorable wedlocke, written in the behalfe of all (aswell) maydes as wydowes, (generally) for their singuler instruction, to choose them vertuous and honest husbandes: but (most specialy) sent writte[n] as a iewell vnto a worthy gentlewoman, in the time of her widowhood, to direct & guide her in the new election of her seconde husband. By her approoued freend and kinseman. I.R.	Pritchard, Thomas, fl. 1579.; Wied, Hermann von. Brefe and a playne declaratyon of the dewty of maried folkes.; Kingsmill, Andrew, 1538-1569. Viewe of mans estate. Selections.	1579 (1579)	STC 20397; ESTC S115267	56,077	90

THE SCHOOLE of honest and vertuous lyfe Profitable and necessary for all estates and degrees to be trayned in but cheefely for the pettie Schollers the yonger sorte of both kindes bee they men or Women by T. P. Also a laudable and learned Discourse of the worthynesse of honorable Wedlocke written in the behalfe of all aswell Maydes as Wydowes generally for their singuler instruction to choose them vertuous and honest Husbandes But most specially sent writtē as a Iewell vnto a worthy Gentlewoman in the time of her widowhood to direct guide her in the new election of her seconde Husband By her approoued freend and kinseman I. R. Imprinted at London by Richard Johnes and are to be solde at his shop ouer against S. Sepulchers Church without Newgate Printed in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth Vide P. 41. To the worshipfull Maister Richard Euerard Thomas Pritchard wisheth continuance of health wealth and prosperitie IF benefites bountifullye beestowed may whet dulled senses or taste of receaued curtesies spurre the cowarde Knight to hazard him selfe I haue good cause occasion to venture the reproch of people rather than to suffer so lyberall a Micenas to lose deserued fame or my selfe to bee spotted with ingratitude the Mother of vices which the Romanes so spited and enuied at that they attached therwith were as fellones fully executed to death Supposinge therfore it to bee least approchfull to set foorth to the gaze of people my ignorance and to participate with the world my silly sentences than that my ingratefull acceptions of your liberalitie should either impaire so laudable a qualitie grafted in your mind or stop the same to my Successors Wherfore though that your Worships children bee so vertuously trayned vp that they neede not the instructions of so base a Booke yet J hope it may reclayme the rude rablement of people to lead a better more lawdable lot of life Whose reconciliacion to Vertue can not bee with out your condigne praise that disdayned not to patronise my trauell tendring the same Which though grosely fumbled vp yet your curtesie is such that you wil consider of my meaninge and weye good will more than this papers Pamphlet declaringe the same Alexander Kinge of Macedonia did not weye the cup of water which Synaetes imparted vpon him but his good wil so J trust my pretence wil bee accepted more than the thing J greete you with all And therupon I commit you to Gods good gouernment Yours to commaund Tho. Pritchard What is an honest lyfe of what it consistes and what it profiteth Chap. 1. AFter that Christe created all thinges for the behoofe of man as Brastes and Birdes fishe and fleshe in the precinctes of the wicked worlde Lastly our Sauiour made man gouernour of all and as a Stewarde to vse these his creatures to satisfie nature not lust to set forth his glorye and not to feede his gluttony to publishe and blaze abroade Christ his potencie and not like epicures impiously to abuse the same The better to busie him in his stewardship to the intente hée might giue iust accompt therof to his Creator hée hath neede of the habite of honestie to exile traiterous inuentions and to bathe him selfe in the Fonte of Vertue to abandon conspiring affections And hauing flighted the tumult of vices hurliburly of sinne and qualitied the flames of the fleshe to addicte him selfe to lawfull and honest lot of lyfe Which integritie of liuing is nothing els but in a trade of loyall lyfe to passe brutish creatures and to apply our selues to that which is to God gladsome and associate to Vertue Vertue is to flée vice and to kéepe your selues in the bandes and bulwarkes of honesty Sainct Austine teacheth vertue to bée the prescribed meane to liue well and godly Mantuan the Poet largely deciphereth what vertue is vttereth these wordes in her owne person I vigent vertue do dash the doome of fierce fortune the scourge of vices the banisher of iniquitie doo dight and trim the mortall with the fine and fresh hue of perpetuitie I lyst and exalte man made of dust and ashes to participate ioyes immortall The Sunne can do nothing with his bright beames and splendant goulden Banner the Moone with her light and christall clearenesse the Starres with their twinckling glances without my presence If I perishe mischiefe mounteth gluttonie gloryeth vice vaunteth pryde is pampred fayth infeebled religion contempned and finally for demure manners miraculous murders for pietie prauitie and for heauenly contemplation inuasion of wickednesse Plutarch in his Booke of bringing vp youthe showeth the effectes thereof defininge her vnder the habite and title of Philosophie sayinge that Vertue doth declare what is good and godly foule and fulsome how wée should behaue our selues towardes our Parentes our elders straungers Officers Magistrates fréends seruaunts and all others As to giue God duetifull reuerence to Parentes humble obeysance to Magistrates lawful obedience to bee modest to inferiors not puffed with pryde in prosperitie nor desperate in pouertie not prone to pleasure méeke and gentle still obseruinge the merry meane adiudged vertue Lucillius that passing Poet sayth that it is a vertue to know the good from the bad to decline from vicious and vnsatiable affections and to labour to attayne honour through newnesse of life and amendment of manners The deuision of Vertue CIcero that gay Gardener and cunning Arborer hath grafted vpon this Trée of Vertue foure braue branches out of which bud many springing sproutes very necessary and spectant to perfection and heale the miserable maymes of mans life That is Prudence Iustice Temperance and Fortitude which foure as in appellations diuerse so in proofe and practice dissonant Yet the true genitors of honest lyfe and meane methode of lyuing which Macrob. witnesseth in his Booke De somnio Scipionis particularly imparting to each of them a seueral goodly guist of action To Prudence polliticke conueiance and duetifull direction to wil that is good and godly sincere and sauery and to dissanull nought and noysome and with diuine prouidence to be prompte and ready to shunne iminent daungers To doughty Dame Fortitude it is as duety addicted not to feare fainting fittes not to be dismayde but with criminous assertions or fulsome factes not to bee lulled in the Cradell of Securitie in pleasaunt prosperitie nor yoked with misery to pant in pouertie This Fortitude is not mans might or stubberne strength of the armes onely but it must growe to the habite of vigent Vertue and bee garded and gouerned with preceptes of reason inuironed with the institutions of milde manners and merry meane which shall yéelde the possessor magnanimitie in countenaunce constancy in assertions and couenauntes bountiful magnificencie and vaunted valyantnesse To Lady Temperance is adioyned this sway in mans life that the possessor may not couet thinges worthy repentance nor perpetrat the desert of Peccaui inthraling his affections to the yoake of reason This loyall Lady hath to her associate and handmaydes

is Virilitie in Latten called vir to the whiche worde addinge a sillable tus Vertue is denominated as of Vir Vertue In this age Vertue must abounde for yeres yelde courage the minde is fit to further out Vertue In this age man must be fully clothed with the habite of Vertue as Prudence Iustice Temperance and Fortitude Prudence to instructe him to season his speeche there with to recorde déedes doone to dispose present affayres to suruey prudently all his businesse in his vocation to commendable ende For it is the parte of an vndeseréete man to say I had not wist or to prooue a Troian wise too late Terence saith in Adelph It is a poincte of wisdom not to looke to present but to foresee future casualties Iustice shal schoole him to pacience concorde humanitie faithfull dealyng the grounde of Vertues Temperance to obserue a meane in all enterprises sobrietie modestie and chastitie Fortitude not of body but of couragious minde and valiaunt stout stomacke to countenance forth the fury and fiercenes of fawning fortune with a goodly grace beeing pittifully pinched with pouerty especially to kepe vnder foote wicked wrath odious indignatiō of mad meaning mindes with rules of reason Plato adiudged him most valiaunte that coulde gouerne him selfe spurred to anger The last Caueat and rule rated for virilitie is so to behaue him selfe as he wisheth to bée estéemed of accompted and to labour to leade his life in loyall league of honestye hatinge accesse to the hatefull hue that dighteth man with dire defame and spiteful spots of stayned stem of liuing Olde Age béeing the sixt and last leaue taking for the excellent experience and trim tryall had in expired lot of life must be so furnished with the guiding gouernaunce of Prudence that they so compasse all and singuler their affaires in such wise and subtill forte as younge impes may be instructed therwith Cicero reporteth that olde men in his dayes were so expert and skilful in the common wealth that the guided and gouerned the same without any cause of strife or occasion of Warre Romulus the bountifull builder of Rome chose an hundreth olde Fathers whom of Senectus he called Senates to rule the same that their christall like lyuinge might bee an excellent example of prooued probitie to the youth thereof and they as Princely pictures and Images of honourable honesty had highted homage of surueyinge the same And although they knew this yrkesome age to bee rotten ripe to season and dounge the ground yet least the nature of man inthraled to the soueraignties of subtill Sathan shoulde bee blinded therewith they had ꝓrotrahed vppon their Iudiciall Seates this Posie Remember man that thou art but dust daily drawest on thertoo Further there was an olde withered wretch paynted resemblinge these bendinge backes to imbrace their Mother the ground ready to the graue that beholdinge it they might not choose but execute Iustice aright The view of olde age kept them backe from pinching the poore or iniuringe their Neighbours they followed Horace his good aduice for deprauinge them selues of worldly blisse they gyrded them to their Graues daily expecting the onset of dolefull Death What decencie is due to God and honestie towardes all men Chap. 4. THe true tutche of Vertue doth not consist in the knowledge and science therof but in exhibiting the same to reclaime the retchlesse or rather the gracelesse Groomes that flowrish the Flag of Vices and sinne And Cicero sayth in dooinge thereafter which maintayneth the stay and state therof Séeinge therefore that the excellent essence and beautifull béeing of vigent Vertue consisteth in action and daily déede of honesty I will shew how the actes of man haue their course or ought to bee directed towardes God and man and euery sortes of people Vertuous obeysance towardes God. HOnesty towards God martired for the wicked transgressions of spightful meaning man cruelly crucified rufully racked lothesomly lashed with stinginge stripes by lewde forlorne sinners consisteth in prayer and pietie towardes his personage in humble inthralment to his mercy crauinge at his handes to washe and mundises with the Well water of meare mercy our soule soncke by reason of the fraight of sinne and surge of sorrowes to the pit of Perdicion and gapinge gulfe of dread and dampnation To request with trickling teares as Dauid did that hee of his benignant beautie will rid vs of that heauy heritage and duetie due by our rufull race runned from the stocke of Adam Lactantius in his thirde Booke ascribeth vs a seconde duetie or seruice towardes our Sauiour That is to bée feruent in his cause reuealers of true Religion and publishers of practiced pietie For this onely cause and seruice to God were wee borne and created was learning inuented and all things fashioned and framed of Christ In this is wisedome as Liuie and Valerius witnesseth and as Paule teacheth and all other thinges vayne and transitorious ¶ Our dutie towardes man. CHriste in his Gospell saith Loue the Lorde thy God and thy Neyghbour as thy selfe By which we learne that the first duetie is to him wards The second towards mankinde Lactantius listning to the wordes of the Gospell affirmeth the first function of Iustice to be due to God the second to man which beeinge so if a man waxe cruell to his Brother or tirannously tire him with vexacions greefes or other anxieties of minde let him perswade him selfe to bee forsaken of God his Sauiour and to soiorne in the daungerous Denne of Dampnation least wee should be ignoraunt of our duetie Paule that precious Pearle of the Church and posting Preacher of God sheweth that wée must cloath the naked harbor the vagrant bury the dead féede the hungrie visite captiues with comfort giue drinke to the tirstie which forrunners of fayth bringeth blisse to the faithful soule of man In dooing these thinges wee should prooue our selues second Gods kinde and curteous amorous fortherers of firme and fast fréendship one to another abhorring fightinge brawlinge spite enuie mallice as prouokers of death and frying in the Fornace of Sathan Towardes our natiue Countrey PHilolius in his fourth Booke affirmeth that the olde Philosophers did set more by their natiue soyle than by their Parentes Therfore Plato sayd that our Countrey chalengeth part of our life for we are borne to prosite the same and that fiue wayes The first in trauelling for the honour and ryal renowne of the same The instinct and inclination of nature foretelleth the same For if wee come in place where our Countrey is defaced by twatlinge mates or detected of crime Nature aduersant to such assertions wil boyle in man and the fresh floish of blood appearinge in mooued moode will bewray the same and cause conflictes of parties as often times it hath beene knowen the like accidentes to come to passe Secondly in instructing the same with politicke councell which I take to be addicted as perticuler function to Preachers who of nature ought to labour therein for