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A09173	The Lord Marques idlenes conteining manifold matters of acceptable deuise; as sage sentences, prudent precepts, morall examples, sweete similitudes, proper comparisons, and other remembrances of speciall choise. No lesse pleasant to peruse, than profitable to practise: compiled by the right Honorable L. William Marques of Winchester that now is.	Winchester, William Paulet, Marquis of, 1535?-1598.	1586 (1586)	STC 19485; ESTC S114139	64,844	115

wings to flie nor feathers to couer them nor any other thing to defende them and yet the mother in all this weaknes and pouertie forsaketh them not nor committeth them to any other but bringeth them vp hir-selfe how much more ought a christian woman to nourish and bring vp that with hir breasts which she once carried in hir wombe rather than commit it into the handes of another woman who bicause she bare it not can not haue the like tender care ouer it Children are neuer so wel beloued of their mothers as when they be nourished of their owne brests If women for excuse should say that they are weake tender and that they haue found a good nurse I answer that the nurse hath small loue to the childe which she nurseth when she seeth the vngentlenes of the mother that bare it for she alone doth nourish the childe with loue which did beare it with paine Aristotle saith that a childe at the most ought to sucke but two yeeres and at the least one yeere and a halfe for if he sucke lesse he is in danger to be sicke and if he sucke more he shall be alwaies tender All women are bounde to loue their husbandes since that willingly and not by compulsion they were not enforced to take them In like maner if the marriage please not the woman she hath not so much cause to complaine of hir husbande for asking hir as she hath reason to mislike with hirselfe that accepted him The wife to serue hir husband in his life time proceedeth oftentimes of fear but to loue him and honor him in his graue proceedeth of loue A woman cannot say euill of hir husband but she doth witnes dishonor to hirselfe I would counsell women not to presume to command their husbands and admonish husbands not to suffer themselues to be ruled by their wiues for in so doing I account it no otherwise than to eate with the feete and trauell with the hands to go with their fingers and to feed themselues with their toes There is an olde disease that happeneth to beautifull women that there be manie that defie them and mo that slander them It little auaileth man and wife that their goods be common and their wils priuate for if the man and wife in loue doe differ in their liues they shall neuer be quiet The want of magnanimitie in the female sexe is supplied with the excellencie of quicke conceite and inuention The reason why women for the more part exceed men in beautie and good complexion is for that they are an effect of a pure cause namely of man a creature polished and not formed as man immediately out of grosse earth After the creation of the worlde and mankind God preferred the companie of a woman as a comfort vnto man exceeding all others Good workes THey that be old and ancient ought to praise their good workes rather than their white haires for honor ought to be giuen for the good life and not for the white head To praise vertuous workes we greatly desire but to put them in vre we are very slow If I haue committed any euill it is impossible to find any that will do me good but if I haue done well no man shall be able to do me wrong Men are not bound to iudge others by the good nature they haue but by the good and euill workes which they do That man is perfite who in his own opinion deserueth not that he hath and in the opinion of an other deserueth much more than that he possesseth The vertuous ought to conforme their works to that they say and publish their words with their deeds There is nothing more infamous than to presume to be wise and desirous to be counted vertuous chiefly for him that speaketh much and worketh little Our euil worke sufficeth to deface many good works The world and worldly prosperitie THe prosperous estate whereupon the children of vanitie are set are founded of quicke sande in that sort that be they neuer so valiant prosperous and mightie a little blast of wind doth stirre them a litle calme of prosperitie doth open them sodenly death doth confound them Men seeing that they cannot be perpetual do procure to continue themselues in raising vp proud buildings leauing to their children great estates wherin I account them fooles no lesse than in things superfluous Admit the pillars be of gold the beames of siluer that those that ioyne them be kings and those which build them are nobles in which they consume a thousand yeers before they can haue it out of the ground or come to the bottom I sweare they shall find no steadie rocke where they may build their house sure not cause their memory to be perpetuall If men knew the world with his deceit why doe they serue him if they do not why do they follow him The world hath this condition to hide much copper vnder a litle gold vnder the color of one truth he telleth vs a thousand lies and with one short pleasure he mingleth ten thousand and displeasures Would ye not take the thiefe for a foole that would buy the rope wherewith he should be hanged and the murtherer the sword wherwith he should be beheaded and the traitor that should offer himselfe in place for to be quartered the rebell that should disclose himselfe to be stoned than are they I sweare more fooles that know the world and will follow it The ancients in times past did striue which of them could furnish most men haue most weapons and keep most horses but now a days they contend who hath the finest wit who can heape vp greatest treasure and who can keep most sheep They striued who should keep most men but in these days who can haue most reuenues Now it is so that one hauing mony to buy a lordship immediately he is made a knight and when he is made knight it is not to fight against the enimies in the field but more freely to commit vices and oppresse the poore at home What profiteth vs to desire much to procure much to attaine to much sith our days are so briefe and our person so fraile Men are deceiued that thinke that temporall goods shall remaine with them during life I see no greater mishaps to fall to any than vnto them which haue the greatest riches so that we may boldly say that he alone which is shut in the graue is in safegard from the inconstancie of fortune The earth is cold and drie the water cold and moist the aire hote and moist the fire hote and dry The wicked world is the euill life of the worldlings where the earth is the desire fire the couetice water the inconstancie aire the folly the stones are the pride the flowers of trees the thoughts the deep sea the hart The worldlings and their worldly liues are called the world for sinnes they be called the

what God was He answered Of al antiquitie God is the most ancient thing for all the ancients past neuer sawe him take beginning nor those that shall come after shall neuer see him haue ending He was asked what thing was most beautifull He answered The world bicause no artificiall painting could make the like Againe what was the greatest thing He answered Place wherein all things do stand for the place which containeth all must needs be greater than all Againe he was demanded what knew most He answered Time bicause time was the inuentor of new things and that which reneweth the old What was the lightest thing He answered The wit of man bicause without danger it passed the sea to discouer and compas the whole earth Againe what was the strongest He answered The man that is in necessitie for necessitie reuiueth the vnderstanding of the rude and causeth the coward to be hardie in perill What was the hardest thing to know He answered For a man to know himselfe for there should be no contentions in the world if man did know himselfe What was the sweetest thing to obtaine He answered Desire for a man reioiceth to remember the pains past and to obtaine that which he desireth present The life of Philosophers THe Philosophers liued in so great pouertie that naked they slept on the ground their drinke was cold water none amongst them had any house proper they despised riches as pestilence and labored to make peace where discord was they were onely defenders of the common wealth they neuer spake any idle thing and it was a sacrilege among them to heare a lie and finally it was a law inuiolable amongst them that the Philosopher should be banished that did liue idlely and he that was vicious should be put to death Onely Epicurus gaue himselfe to a voluptuous and beastly kind of life wherein he put his whole delite affirming there was no other felicitie for slothfull men than to sleepe in soft beds for delicate persons to feele neither heate nor cold for fleshly men to haue at their pleasures amarous dames for drunkards not to want any pleasant wine and the gluttons to haue their fill of all delicate meate for heerin he affirmed to consist all worldlie felicitie A principalitie of things THe taste of all tasts is bread The sauor of all sauors is salt The loue of all loues is from the father to the child The histories and liues of priuate men togither with the report of countries and townes PHalaris was deformed of face purblind and exceeding couetous neuer obserued any thing that he promised he was vnthankfull to his friend and cruell to his enimy Finally he was such a one that the tyrannies that were seuerally scattered in others in him alone were altogither assembled one onelie good thing was there in him that he was a fauorer of wise men And in 36. yeeres they neuer found that any man sate at the table with him spake vnto him or slept in his bed nor that any man saw in his countenance any mirth vnles it were some Philosophers or sage men with whom and to whom he liberally put his bodie in trust Perillus being borne in Athens and also being very excellent in mettals came to Phalaris the tyrant saieng that he would make such a torment that his hart should remaine reuenged and the offender well punished This workman made a bull of brasse wherin there was a gate by the which they put the offender in and putting fire vnder the bull it rored in maner as it had beene a liue bull which was not onely a horrible and cruell torment to miserable creatures that endured it but also it was terrible to him or those that saw it Phalaris therfore seeing the inuention of this torment whereof the inuentor had hoped great reward prouided that the inuentor of the same should be put within the bull and that the cruelty of the torment should be experimented on none other sauing in the inuentor shewing himselfe therein rather a mercifull prince than a cruell tyrant Rome that in times past was a receit of all the good and vertuous is now made a den of all theeues and vicious I feare me least in short time will haue some sudden and great fall Cornelia of Rome said You shal see iustice corrupted the common weale oppressed lies blowne abrode the truth kept vnder the Satires silent flatterers open mouthed the infamed persons to be Lords and the patient to be seruants and aboue all and woorse than all to see the euill liue in rest and contented and the good troubled and despised If thou wilt enioie rest in thy daies and keepe thy life pure and cleane thou must obserue these three things First honor God for he that doth not honor him in all his enterprises shall be infortunate Secondly be diligent to bring vp thy children well for a man hath no enimie so troublesome as his owne sonne if he be not well brought vp Thirdly be thankfull to thy good benefactors and friends for the man that is vnthankfull of all the world shal be abhorred And the most profitable of these three although most troublesome is for a man to bring vp his children well Rome neuer decaied vntill the senate was replenished with wise serpents and destitute of simple doues As thou hast by tyrannie made thy selfe Ladie of Lords so by iustice thou shalt returne to be the seruant of seruants Why art thou at this day so deere of merchandise and so cheape of follie Marcus to his schoolmaister said My dutie is to see that you be good and your dutie is to trauell that your disciples be not euill for yoong men on the one part being euill inclined and on the other euill taught it is impossible but in the end they should be vicious and defamed for there is no man so weake nor child so tender but the force which he hath to be vicious is ynough if he will to be vertuous For there is more courage required in one to be euill than strength is required in an other to be good for to the maister it is greater treason to leaue his scholler amongst vices than to deliuer a fort into the hands of enimies for the one yeeldeth the fort which is but of stones builded but the other aduentureth his sonne which is of his owne bodie begotten Aduersitie IF there could be found any estate any age any lande any nation realme or world wherein there hath been any man that hath passed this life without tasting what aduersitie was it should be so strange to heare of that by reason both the dead as liuing should enuie him In the end I find that he that was yesterday rich to morow is poore he that was yesterday whole is to day sicke he that yesterday laughed to day weepeth he that had his hartes ease I see him now sore afflicted he that was fortunate

voluntarily to vertue and sensualitie draweth men against their wils to vices Vices are of such a qualitie that they bring not with them so much pleasure when they come as they leaue sorow behind them when they go for the true pleasure is not in the daily vice which sodenly vanisheth but in the truth which euermore remaineth Wise men after 50. yeeres ought rather seeke how to apply their mindes how to receiue death than to seeke pleasure how to prolong life How happy may that man be called that neuer tasted what pleasure meaneth Men that from their infancie haue bin brought vp in pleasure for want of wisedome know not how to chose the good and for lacke of force cannot resist the euill which is the cause that noble mens sons oftentimes cōmit sundry hainous offences It is an infallible rule that the more a man giue himselfe to pleasure the more he is intangled with vices The rich men win with their labor and watching and their sonnes brought vp in pleasure do consume it sleeping Where there is youth libertie pleasure and mony there will all the vices of the world be resident The greatest vanitie that ragineth among the children of vanitie is that the father cannot shewe vnto the sonne his loue but in suffering him to be brought vp in the pleasures and vanities of this life I wish no greater penance to delicate men than in winter to see them without fire and in the sommer to want fresh shadow Why are there so many vices nourished in the pallace of princes bicause pleasure aboundeth and counsell wanteth Play as Seneca saith is compared to the propertie raging of a mad dog with whom if a man be once bitten vnles he hath present remedie foorthwith he runneth mad and the disease continueth with him vntil the houre of death for those that vse it hurt their consciences lose their time and consume their substance Marcus Aurelius saith if I knew the gods would pardone me and also that men woulde not hate me yet I assure you for the vilenes therof I would not sin in the flesh Aristotle saith all beasts after the deeds of the flesh are sorie sauing onely the cocke In carnall vices he that hath the least of that that sensualitie desireth hath a great deale more than reason alloweth I see no other fruits of carnall pleasure but that the bodie remaineth diseased the vnderstanding blinded memory dulled sence corrupted will hurt reason subuerted their good name lost and woorst of all the flesh remaineth alwaies flesh therefore fire is not quenched with drie wood but with cold water In the war honor by tarrieng is obteined but in the vices of the flesh the victory by fleeing is wonne Pride THe proud and disdainfull man for the most part falleth into some euill chaunce therefore it is a commendable medicine somtimes to be persecuted for aduersitie maketh a wise man to liue more mery and to walke in lesse danger What friendship can there be among the proud since the one wil go before and the other disdaineth to come behind Of Princes with their actes and sayings A Poore woman comming before Claudius the Emperour with weeping eies to craue Iustice the good prince being mooued with compassion did not onely weep as she did but with his own hands dried vp the teares Oftentimes those that come before princes do return more contented with the loue they shew them than with the Iustice they minister vnto them Antonius Pius was such a fauourer of poore widowes and Orphans that the porters which he kept within his pallace were not to let the entrie of the poore but to let and keep back the rich To a prince there can be no greater infamie than to be long in words and short in rewarding his seruants Couetous princes do not onely suspect their subiects but also themselues The diseases which God oftentimes sendeth to princes commeth not through the fault of humours but through the corruption of maners the which no medicine can resist nor any other thing remedy It is the chiefest thing that can belong to a prince or other person to be beloued for their gentle conuersation and for their vpright iustice to be feared It is necessary for Princes to be stout and rich for by their stoutnes they may gouerne their own and by their riches they may represse their enimies The prince which is too liberall in giuing his owne is afterward compelled by necessitie to become a tyrant and take from others If princes be proude greedie and ambitious after strange realmes it is most certaine that they need great treasures to accomplish their inordinate appetites but if they be reposed quiet vertuous patient peaceable not couetous of the good of another man what need haue they of great treasures Princes become not poore for spending of their goods vpon necessaries but wasting it vpon things superfluous High and noble harts that feele themselues wounded do not so much esteeme their owne paine as to see their enimies to reioice at their griefe It is better for a Prince to defend his countrey by Iustice than to conquere an other by tirannie The prince is in great danger of damnation of soule if in his gouernment he haue not always before his eyes the feare and loue of the supreme prince to whome we must render account of all our doings for there is nothing so puissant but tis subiect to the diuine power That prince hath great occasion to be vicious which for his vice thinketh not to be chastised Princes fearing neither God nor his commandemēts do cause their realme and subiects to fall into great miserie for if the fountain be infected it is impossible for the streame therof to be pure We see by experience that as a bridle mastreth an horse a sterne the ship so a prince be he good or bad will after him lead all his people If they serue God the people will also serue him if they blaspheme God the subiects will do the like for it is impossible that a tree should bring foorth other fruits than those that are agreeable to the roote Princes ought to resemble God more by vertuousnes than others Princes WHat shall vnhappy princes do which shall render al their account to God only who will not be deceiued with words corrupted with giftes feared with threatnings nor answered with excuses That prince is more to be magnified which reformeth two vices amongst his people than he which conquereth ten realms of his enimies O princes if ye knew how small a thing it is to be hated of men and loued of God ye would not cease night nor day to commend your selues vnto God for God is more mercifull in succouring vs than we are diligent in calling vpon him God did neuer create high estates to worke wickednes but placed them in that degree to the ende they should thereby haue more