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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

Modestie Shamefastnesse Abstinence Chastitie Honestie Moderation and Sobrietie To the péereles pearle Iustice is highted for gallaunt guift to contribute to euery man his owne from which bewtified braunch of Vertue these iolly Gemmes haue originall Innocencie Amitie Concorde Pietie Religion Affection and Humanitie Cicero the Father of fluent and filed Phrase of speakeinge attributeth to this vertue many pretty profitable properties First not to iniury any man without great adhibited cause and occasion Secondarily to vse things common commonly not diducting them to priuate profit or pleasure This accordinge to Tullie is grounded on Grauitie founded on Fidelitie and seasoned with Sobrietie Lactantius in his sixt Booke alotteth to Iustice double function first to annexe and to vnite vs to God through Religion Secondly with man through pure passions of pittie and humanitie The rewarde of Vertue or honest lyfe IF any dowltish dullarde bée so blinde and bleared of sight so incarcered in the Denne of darkenesse that hee can not see the bright beames and royall rewarde of vertuous and honest life I wish him to know the princely presence of Vertue and the honourable harbor of Honestie to bathe there tenante in the blisse of felicitie to aduaunce him by the goulden gay guifte of promotion in this worlde And as the péerelesse Poet Virgill sayth in the world to come to ascende the starry skie to haue perpetuall fruition of ioyes euerlasting Lactantius to the vertuous ascribeth this renowmed rewarde to bée able for to infring and repell the outragious onset of wofull wrath to moderate and bow backe with the bit of honesty the sore assaults of lecherous lust to dash the diuelish dint of dreadfull desires Plautus writeth that vertue excelleth all thinges lyfe libertie health wealth depende and haue their beeinge therof Claudianus extollinge vertue affirmeth that shée hath no néede of Torches or lightsome Linkes to bewray her splendant hue in the night nor store of glistering gould in the day to clime the stears of preferment but houering on the stately stages of dignitie and honour inuiteth her folowers to taste the blisfull fruite of their toyle and trauell Will not this hale the Howlets that delight in darkenesse to the embrasing of vertue and inspired with her verdure by litle and litle attaine the perfection therof Labour for light damne your darke delightes and toyle for this treasure The hinderance of vertue and how it is attayned Chap. 2. THe famous and learned trowpe of Philosophers discoursing of fclicitie composed of multitude of vertues as of singular simples haue interdicted the studentes of Dame Vertue of the contaminatinge contraries or extreames therof Among whom Cicero a princely piller of Philosophie commendinge Abstinence the freendly forderer of vertuous actions bountifully abandoneth and carefully condempneth poysoninge pleasures as baytes of vice and heaper of harmes and sayth the voluptuous man can not atchiue to the tipe of Vertue Valerius Max. sworne to Abstinence auoucheth that the Cittie cituated on pleasure drowned with delight can not long last nor maintaine her liberties and fréedomes Lactantius Chronicled in his fourth Booke thrée waies to come by Vertue the first to abstaine from lewde labours and wicked workes The second from wilful wicked wordes corrupting good manners The third from the muse and meditacion of mischéefe Hee that ascendeth the first steppe of these steares is adiudged iust the seconde vertuous the thirde sheweth his ascendent to haue the perfect patron of God his Creator Horace commending Abstinence sayth Vertue to bee nothing but abstaining from vice therfore leauing it a Guide to the Goddes vertue my Penne posteth to Patience as an instrument neate and necessary to accost this habite of Vertue and honest tried trade of life As the ruddy Rose odoriferous in swéete smell is growinge in brierie bushes harming the hand that catcheth thereat So is Dame Vertue placed in difficulte Dales and can not bee obtained without great labours sweates and tiringe trauels Which as Hesiodus witnesseth as the pearcing prickes of Briers perswade the lustned eyes to leaue the Rose for feare of hurt happeninge therby so continuall contemplation of goodnes still in conflict with vice laborious abstinence and the wirisomnesse of mind will insinuat the student to passe and poste to pleasures yea that few or none without curidus caueats of enchanryng enfisements can persist and perfeuer to arine in the puissant princely Porte of Vertue and heauenly hauen of Honestie In saylyng to this Harbour the Philosophers spent more Water than Wine addicted to due diet not to delicious delightes Laertius in his booke of the liues of Philosophers reporteth euerie discipline and royall regiment of lawfull life to want thrée thinges nature documents good practice that is to wit science and exercise First to discourse of witte and wise disposition Plato proueth that pregnant wit is an instrument of Vertue and that there is no parfect prudent parson but that excéedyngly excelleth all others And if you peruse the lawdable liues of famous Philosophers euen there shall yée finde princely prayse highted their personages and gallantly glorified for pregnancie of wit. Of which Lactantius appoynteth two fréendly functions the one to bewray falsehood and couert conueance the other to further fidelitie and truthe And by witte wée must differre from brutish beastlinesse whose heads heaped with humours respect only present pleasures Tully toyling to know and finde out the most apparant proofes of Vertue in man faith in his Tusculanes questions it to bee wit And if the Selles and Sellers of the remples of the Head be seasoned with the Odoriferous verdure therof the pure and perfit patterne of vertue must sprynge therefro The Philosophers would not almost admit to the Lore of learnyng any but sutche as by proofe passed and by triall had the trimme treasure of wit. Quintilian saith That if a man lacke this harbinger of Vertue preceptes and rules of discipline auayle as mutche as Tillage to bare and barren soyle whose frui●te and increase may not counteruayle the toyle and tranell therein Erasmus whom tracte of time made more suttle searcher of ingenious impes saith That the dull witted boye may by diligence whet it to attempte excellente exploytes of Discipline For it is apparant that Nature may be repelled though Horace holde the contrarie For Demosthenes blab and bleat of spéeche by puttynge of certayne stones into his mouthe to cure and fill vp the imperfection and mayme of Nature attayned to the vrterance and sugred spéeche of honored Orators through adhibited déede and diligence To mitigate and alaye the rayge of this colde comfort touchyng the sléepie pated persons wee reade that Isocrates had two schollers Ephorus and Theopompius the one ingenious and egre to attayne knowledge the other néedyng the spurre to aspier the attempted scope To conclude this tracte of witte and praysed promptnesse of conceiuynge by soundest sentence and by opinion of Philosophers I gather the soonest ripe to be sooner rotten and the hard headded felow hauing attained the

habitte of perfection and edge of excellencie to passe him whome firste I braued with bragges Erasmus highly had in honour for his knowledge and iollie iudgement in faculties by reason of brode blowen blaze of commendation had a boye of ripe witte presented by his fréendes to declayme beefore him The fréendely furtherers of the buysied boye expectynge his iudgement were answered by him Timely ripe timely rotten But the ouerthrow of ripe conceauinge commeth by securitie and ouer great confidence therein for trusting to the maturitie of wit they so longe linger in laysinesse that either they amit and quenche the qualitie thereof or with strayning it with extraordinarie meanes mayme and marre the same ¶ Of instruction AS an Horse or Coult be he neuer so tame and apte of nature cannot serue that vse of man without breaking So a man bée hee neuer so ingenious and inritched by wit and ripe conceauing without preceptes and institution can not scale nor ascend the high and haughtie Hil of Pernassus to bée acquainted with the Ladies of learninge nor climbe the craggie Cliffes and clymates of knowledge which position Cicero sincerely fortifieth saying That instruction doth corroborate and fortifie the gyfte of wit and nature and for that cause Gentilis commaunded first Schooles to bée errected in Athence a Cittie in Greece that the couente of youth might bee there instructed Aristippus a learned Philosopher compared the vnlearned to a stone and béeing demaunded by a foolish Father what learninge auayled his Sonne hee answered that a stone had no place in their Theators or place of preheminence meaning the vnlearned The Ethnickes studious of erudicion and knowledge kept an instructor in their houses to trayne vp their youthes in the pleasant pathe of Nurtur and knowledge which thing so well lyked the Athenians that it was as Law enacted that the children which were not traded vp in erudicion ought not to fauour their Fathers or tender curtesies to them inféebled with age To attaine the treasure of Vertue and gaine the gladfome guift of Discipline there bee two kindes of instructions one mute the other sowndable mute as when wee study our selues discoursinge without wordes the carued carracters and woorkes of others The other when the instructor or teacher with sounding voyce openeth the misteries and hidden hardnes of others labors This last manner of instructing the learned lore aboue others commend Pythagoras Empedocles Democritus and Plato his Peregrinations sayling ouer Surge and Sirtes of Seas to heare Lectures verifie the same who were not content to like of their priuate studies Least I should spend my winde in waste in discoursinge of instruction and passe the Campe in which youthes and others ought to bee trained vp I decipher them as foloweth Pithie Poemes heroyicall holsome Histories Princely Philosophie sacred and sincere Scripture the salue of sinfull sores and pathe to Paradice The gracious Grecians thought only Poets to be wise and therfore in honest Poetrie did first season the tender ingenie of Impes the better to aspire to furder felicitie of Science And Horace singularly séene in the art in his Epistles exhorteth Children to be first instructed in Poetrie as an Instrument necessary to pollice and file away the imperfection of lisping nature and that it soweth and planteth in their heedy heades the seede of Sapience wisedome and knowledge Diodorus sayde it was a fine and famous thinge for man by others crymes and faultes to cure him of that care and medicine and heale his infirmities which the reading of Histories Monumentes déedes of other men shall guide vs to doo Baeroaldus sayth that Histories inflameth a man to honestie enamoreth him with vertue reprooueth the wicked and exileth vice To stand vpon choyce of Philosophie the very Ecimologie of the worlde which wée interpret and conster a Louer of knowledge or imbracer of wisedome foretelleth all Bookes of that noble Science to bee spectant to surueye the lyfe of man As the Ethickes of Aristotle impugning the rebellion of vice brydling the frensie fits of flaming flesh with the bit of Nurture and manners The Pollitickes instructe vs called to the function of a Magistrate to minister Iustice to the exilement of vice and inhaunsing of Vertue Lactantius writ a worthy worke of Diuine institutions Erasmus of the institutinge of a christian Prince with infinit others commodious for the regiment of the lyfe of man. Lastlye fitly furnished and decently decked with institutions of the surueyed Sciences wee must imploy our selues to viewe the valleys of sacred Scriptures which teache vs to know our Sauiour and him onely to worshippe which as Lactantius writeth is the true Philosophie Pouertie impareth not Vertue EXperience hauing taught mée a silly sort of foolish fellowes to withdraw them selues from studie to heede handy craftes I thought by excellent examples and rated reasons to heale that passion of infirmitie and to fortifie their faynting fittes the better to abide the yoake of knowledge Apuleus sayth in his time none became famous but such as were annoyed with nakednesse and cloyde with carefull dyet from the houre of birthe And hee boldely blazeth this commendacion of Pouertie that in those dayes it was the builder of Citties the maintainer of Equitie and Science Wée reade a worthy example of Cleanthes a Philosopher who pinched with pouertie in youth in the night season haled vp water in Buckets which hée sould in the day to maintaine his studie If our English Fathers were so inflamed with the loue of Learninge no doubte our Realme royally ruled would bée a precious patron to all Europe Seneca sayth Vertue to haue a sting meaning labour which plucked awaye by sufficiencie of knowledge batheth the bier in blisse Here may rise a question whither the vnlearned may attaine Vertue or no the which question is resolued by Tullie in his Orations who saith that hee had societie with a multitude of men both godly honest and vertuous yea altogeather voyde of knowledge I annexed this Sentence to my matter least desperation should bee infixed gréeuously ingrafted in the harts of vnlearned dottrels Of vse and exercise IF a man bee armed with the fine furniture of bountifull Dame Nature beautified with the gaye Gownes of Witte and Disposition yet if Diligence bee dismiste and Practice put aside all is vaine for the beeinge and continuance of Vertue is in action and exercise Cicero whose doughty diligence aduaunced to dignitie and high calling among the Romaines instructeth vs in his Rhetorickes that preceptes and rules of disciplines anayle nothinge without daily diligence and paynefull practice therof Lactantius in his thirde Booke writeth that Artes bee learned and layde for that gotten agréeable practice and conuersation may arise therof For Tullie sayth it is a small praise to know Vertue and not to doo therafter Man mindefull of Vertue and studious thereof must imitate the busie Bées who in flagrante Sommer flee abroade tastinge of diuerse Flowers and of each pickinge reléefe store vppe and heape much Honny So