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A18066	The voyage of the wandering knight. Deuised by Iohn Carthenie, a Frenchman: and translated out of French into English, by VVilliam Goodyear of South-hampton merchant. A vvorke vvorthie of reading, and dedicated to the Right worshipfull Sir Frauncis Drake, Knight; Voyage du chevalier errant. English	Cartigny, Jean de, 1520?-1578.; Norman, Robert, fl. 1590.; Goodyear, William.	1581 (1581)	STC 4700; ESTC S104901	93,834	138

do alter their intents Folly was busie earnest to force me forward in the prosecuting my purpose perswading me to put my selfe on the way and saieng that such good meanings and enterprises should presently and without nay be put in execution for feare of inconueniences that might ensue and that to meane a matter without dooing it was a reproch to anie person Whereto I aunswered that I would procéede whatsoeuer followed therevppon but my thought it was necessarie to haue companie and other prouision as apparell horses and armour fit for such a voyage My sonne quoth she I will take charge vpon mée wherevnto trust cast all care from thée let nothing torment thée be of good chéere sléepe at thy ease refuse no rest for I will within few daies bringe thée all such necessaries as thou shalt néede and séeing thou hast submitted thy selfe to me I will not faile thée Béeing glad of those wordes I rerefreed the whole matter to her discreation and tooke my case Then Follie was acquainted with an armourer named Euill Will whose companie she daylye frequented This armourer was not alwaies occupied in forging armours but also oftētimes he made shirts hosen doublets medled in all matters that his friend Follye appointed him to doe To this armourer Follye declared all my purpose and he at her request made me a shirt of lasciuiousnesse a doublet of lewde desire hosen of vaine pleasures armour of ignorauncie a corselet of inconstancie vanbraces of arrogancie gauntlets of idlenesse a gorget of lycorousnesse a helmet of lightnesse a bucklar of shamelessnesse a quilt cap of vaine-glorie a girdle of intemperaunce a swoorde of rerebellion a lawnce named hope of long lyfe Then Pride prepared me a galloping horse called Temeritie All these wicked weapons with this prodigall apparell and vnhonest armour Euill Will prepared me at Follies request And what better seruice canne hée doe séeinge he is depriued of truth and veritie For as good will is the worker of all goodnesse so is euill will of wickednesse Iesus Christ who cannot faile saith in the Gospell That of the abundaunce of the heart the mouth speaketh the good man of the good treasure of his heart deliuereth out good thinges but the euill man cleane contrarie For out of a sacke can nothing come but such as is in it and out of a cofer of precious pearles we must not looke for colebrands And therefore surelye séeinge I haue Euill will to my Tailer and Folly to my gouernesse how can I do other then euill ¶ FOLLY APPARAILETH AND ARmeth the wandering Knight The fourth Chapter WHiles Folly my Gouernesse and Euill will my Armourer prepared my appapell and other prouision I forgat not to cast all care behind me as Folly commanded For when I was a childe I did eate alwayes of the best meate dranke of the delicatest drinke I slept when I listed I laye as soft as silke I past my time in pleasures trusting to my gouernesse Folly in al my affayres After I passed thrée dayes in pleasure vppon a morning beeing in my golden sléepe Dame Folly came to my beds side accompanied with euill will and with them they brought all my necessaries When they sawe mée asleepe in my soft bed at that time of the daye tossing my selfe euerie waie wantonly they sayd What pretie one are you yet in bed It is late arise Ah my sweete friende quoth I I haue followed your aduice I haue cast all care away and taken mine ease in mine Inne but I wonder how you are so soone returned What man quoth Follye knowe not you howe diligent I am in mine affaires I neuer rest till all thinges bee brought about that I once take in hand Then she put on me my shirt of lasciuiousnesse most agréeable to my wanton will and then all my delight was to be delicatelye handeled pompeouslye apparailed and soft lodged After that on went my doublet of lewde desires alwayes enimie to the good spirit then my hosen of vaine pleasures tide together with pointes of delightes When I was full of lewde desires I tooke pleasure in nothing but vanitie and as my desires were dampnable so were my pleasures daungerous Then as I was making me readie Follye commaunded the Clarke of my kitchin called ill gouernement to prepare me my breakfast of light and delicate meates in dooing whereof my Cooke was more cunnning then euer Cicero was elloquent in speaking And thus as Folly and I were merrily discoursing together spending time till breakfast I tooke occasion to aske of what age shee was and also what iestes and fine feates she had what people she had gouerned and how she ruled them Shée sayd that question was asked and aunswered long agoe But as we rid on the waye she would declare all in the meane time she sayde that she was aboue fiue thousand yeares olde Howe can that be quoth I you doe not seeme to be fortie yeare olde Yes quoth she thou must vnderstande that I was borne at the present houre that the world was made and haue euer since stoode in strength alwayes in health and neuer sicke I shall neuer séeme olde though I liue till domes daye Fooles dye but Follye neuer dyeth Hauing euer bene in force I forceablye doe reigne in euerye corner of the worlde and doe gouerne as well Princes as poore people Now to the purpose after washing in swéete waters in came my breakfast so sumptuous that Partriges were estéemed palterie for Pages Phesauntes for common folke Breakfast finished on went mine armour but being once apparailed and armed I cared not for my soules health I had no desire to heare the worde of God no feare to followe his commaundementes or to doe anye thing fitte for a Christian towardes his saluation I did what I woulde I sayde what I pleased And after that I was couered with my stéele coate of ignorauncie and my corcelet of inconstancie I presentlye became inconstaunt and variable oftentimes altering my intent not for better but for worse out of one ill into an other I neuer ceased to acquaint my selfe now with one sinne then with an other dooing nothing that seemed good or honest For such is the nature of sinne that vnlesse it bée soone subdued it will drawe vnto it an other sinne as witnesseth Saint Paule in his first Chapter of his Epistle to the Romaines Then Follye put on my vanbraces of arrogancye which made me become carelesse and presumptious taking things in hand farre passing my capacitie strength and abilitie and not fearing to aduenture that which was aboue my reach but beeing armed with arrogancye vp went my curled haire I aduaunced my selfe ignorantlye aboue others then on went my gorget of gluttonye and lycorousnesse the bréeders of all fleshlye sinnes and chieflye of lecherye For when the bellye is full with lycorous meates and drinkes it warmes and heates the other members excéedinglye which by and by wrestle and striue against the good spirite But if the bellye were

brideled from gluttonye those rebellious members woulde bée subdued as sayth the Comicall Poet Sine Cerere Baccho Friget Venus That is to saye From Wine and good cheere thy belly restraine And lust of the flesh small heate will containe Upon all this Folly put me on an other armour called Vaine glorie which is of such a propertie that the greater it grewe the lesse I perceiued it then on went my girdle of intemperauncie which did let loose the bridle of lecherie and all other fleshlye affections To it was tyed my swoord of rebellion so that then I rebelled against God his holie commaundements and all Magistrates and superiours But if I had brideled my boldnesse reprehending my selfe my desires and affections and had rested in reason without rebellinge then had I serued God and obeyed my betters with all duetifull reuerence Dame Folly disguised mée with the helment of wantonnesse vppon the toppe whereof was put a Pecockes tayle so that then I might not suffer anye checke for anie fault but might and did mainteine my opinion against all men giuing place to none whatsoeuer learned or in authoritie After my gauntlettes of idlenesse were once on my handes I greatlye gloried of the giftes which were in mée vauntinge my selfe to bée more riche more wise more stronge more hardye more gratious and in all respectes better then I was Manye times I boasted of mine imperfections as of Dronkennesse Lecherie and such lyke After on went my bucklar of shamelesnesse which béeing about my shoulders I blushed not to commit anye vilanye I lead the lyfe of an Infidell rather then a Christian. Unshamfullye I despised both God and man nothing regardinge mine owne honour renowne or saluation Then I mounted vppon Temeritie my horse with a Lawnce in my hande called Hope of long lyfe O deceiptfull Lawnce more rotten then a Réede Howe manye proper youthes haue trusted vnto thée hopinge to haue béene safe and assured and were deadlye deceiued This Lawnce once béeing entered in me I interteined all vices it euer hindered me from imbracing repentaunce perswading me in this manner Thou art young make merrie whiles thou maist for when thou art olde all playe and pastime will bée past then it will bee time inough for thée to repent Béeing thus gouerned by Follye I thought neither of God nor the Diuell of lyfe nor death of heauen nor hell but liued at my pleasure dooing what I delyghted in At last Folye apparailed her selfe lightlye with a Cloake of feathers and mounted vpon a Iennet and opening her feathers and winges with the winde awaye she flewe and I also at a wilde aduenture sette the spurres to my horse and awaye we went both Thus you sée that Follye is my guide Temeritie my horse Now the first that shall repent this voyage must néedes bee my selfe as you maye euidentlye iudge and gather before hande ¶ FOLLY VPON THE VVAIE SHEVVETH THE wandering Knight many of her auncient proceedings and how many great and noble personages she had gouerned The fift Chapter AFter wée were so farre passed vppon our way that we had lost the sight of my house I called to my remembraunce the promise which Dame Follye had made mée in the morninge namelye that shée woulde tell mée of her exploytes past and what people shée had gouerned And thus with flattering frase I beganne My good Mistres my louing Ladye my heart my ioye my lyfe my lust my councell my hope my souereigne good I desire thée most earnestlye if it please thée to let mée vnderstande thine auncient procéedinges and to rehearse what people thou hast gouerned how they were ruled lead conducted and counselled Mine exploites quoth Follye are innumerable Ten dayes are not inough to repeate halfe of them Neuerthelesse to accomplish thy request and to ease the tediousnesse of the waye I will tell thee of the most principallest First the worlde and I came together and because I founde no man in the worlde I ascended vp into heauen and there assaulted the excellentest Angel of all the whole companie called Lucifer who at my present arriuall enterteyned and receiued me for his gouernesse and so dyd manie mo of his coequalls By my counsell he aduaunced himselfe to be fellowe mate with God for the which presumption both he and his were thrust out of heauen and throwne headlong into hel That was the first of mine exploites Shortly after God made man and of his ribbe fationed woman these two were husband and wife with them both I had much a doe because they were full of wisedome and reason I vsed the helpe and subtiltie of a Serpent to tempt the woman béeing the weaker who with his deceiptefull wordes wonne her to eate of the apple which God forbadde to bée eaten But after shee had eaten it in the presence of her husbande because he feared her sadnesse hée did also eate to fulfill her desire and lust wherein they both committed greate follye for the which they were depriued of innocencie of GODS grace and glorie yea they were banished the place appoynted by GOD for them to dwell in and made with all their posteritie subiect to eternall death it was my second principall exployt Then began my raigne in the world where I gouerned a number of fooles I gouerned Cain the first borne both of his father and mother by my counsell he kild his good brother Abel the innocent I gouerned the greatest Gyaunts that euer were of the séede of man as the daughters of Cain and the sonnes of Seth I made them trust in their owne strength not onely touching feates of warre but I caused them also to contemne the word of God and the knowledge of the same I perswaded them to vse their lybertie and to liue according to their lusts in lecherie and all other abhomination without regard of the vprightnesse of nature honestie or the feare of God When Noe had preched fortie yeres space of y e last destruction of the world these obstinate Gyaunts being nusseled in all wickednsse of life detestably turned all his admonitions and sermons to mockerie Whereat God was wroth and sent a great floud which drowned all liuing creatures sauing Noah and his thrée sonnes Sem Cham Iapheth and their wiues Then I thought to haue lost my raigne in the world but in short space they encreased wonderfully Then I counselled them to builde an high Tower which might reach as high as heauen that in despight of God they might saue themselues if againe he meant to drowne the world But God confounded their deuice and where before all the world spake in one language he deuided them so that the Tower remained vnfinished for the builders vnderstood not each others speach Then the posterities of Noah were dispersed throughout the world and I raigned amongst them euery where counselling many Nations to forsake the knowledge of God and to worship the hoast of heauen as the Sunne the Moone the Starres the Planets the Fire the

Water the Aire the Earth and to make Idols and honour them in the likenesse of men of beasts and birds and to worship them so that the true knowledge of God should be proper but vnto one people descended from the loines of Abraham and they are the Iewes Then I demaūded of Folly how Idolatry entred y e world wher she took place first My son qd she vnderstād y e Idolatrie hath bē brought into y e world by my means For Idolatry took hir first original beginning in Chaldea in y e citie of Babilō in y e region or country of y e Assyrians in y e raign of Ninus y e third king which was y e son of Bel Bel of Nemroth Nēroth of Chus Chus of Cham Cham of Noah so y e Ninus y e third king of Babilon was y e first man y t did ordein tēples set vp Altars to sacrifice vpō vnto his father Bel to Iuno his mother First he fashioned their standing Images set thē in y e midst of y e citie of Babilon that was y e first beginning of Idolatry other neighbours nations did as much the Aegyptians made y e like by Osiris surnamed Iupiter the true son of Cham of Rhea The same Osiris after his death was esteemed of y e Aegyptians for his vertue to be a God so y t the matter by my coūsell quod Folly turned to Idolatrie For they offered sacrifice vnto him honoured him in forme of an Oxe or a Calfe y e like also did y e childrē of Israel in the desart to their Idoll which afterwards was named Serapis But as yet Fraunce Germany wer not infected with Idolatry howbeit I did mine indeuour to make it more vniuersal ceased not til y t shortly after this pestilence had taken root For y e aboue named Ninus son of Bel king of Babilon maried Semiramis y t wonderfull woman who as it is written deuised y t all y e male children shuld be gelded of hir body begat he one son named Ninus y e second by another wife he had another son called Trabeta who by right of succession should haue enioyed y e crowne of Babilon but y t his mother in law kept him from it tooke y e gouernment rule vnto hir selfe kept it in y e behalfe of her young son Ninus Trabeta then fering his stepmother fled frō Babilon after long trauaile he arriued in Fraunce not far from the riuer of Rhene wher he founded a citie called it Treues which is yet a very ancient citie At that time was Gallia Belgica all the country about it which we call Low Almaine first infected poisoned w t Idolatry which was 1947. yeres before the incarnation of Iesus Christ. Ther Trabeta by my counsel made y e picture of his grandfather Bel y e son of Nemroth y e great Giant first Saturn of y e Babilonians to be worshipped in y e citie of Treues But afterwards Bauo who foūded y e citie Belges otherwise called Bauoy in Hainot had taken by force y e citie of Treues victoriously brought to Bauoy all y e tresure of Treues their Idols wherwith also he brought his own Idolls from Phrigia By this meanes the error of Idolatry was more authorised For by my counsell he built with y e spoils of his cōquest 7. meruailous mightie temples in his citie which had vii dores according to y e seauen planets they had also a thousād towres euerie one an hundreth cubites high xviii foote broad As for other nations they were euen no other then y e Babilonians the Aegyptians the Phrigians the French men the Germaines for y e good Patriarke Noah otherwise called Ianus hauing dwelt in Italy 82. years being 959. years olde .350 years or ther about after y e floud he dyed before y e incarnatiō .1967 years This good man was lamented bewailed through all y e world generally but chiefly of y e Italians then called Lanigenes of the Armenians ouer whome he first reigned These people presētly after they knew of Noahs death they honored him as a holy man For in those daies al holy men were counted Gods as it is often mentioned in the holy scripture Ego dixi Dij estis filij excelsi omnes that is I haue said ye are Gods yee all are children of the most high And which is more they made him temples alters as now a daies Idolaters do vnto y e saints of heauen I quoth Folly made y e simple people assure themselues that the soule was remoued into some of y e heauenly bodies for y e which cause they called heauen y e Sun the séede of the world the father of Gods y e greater lesser y e God of peace iustice holinesse y e driuer away of euil things the preseruer of good things Againe they called his successors Ianus Geminus Quadrifrons Enotrius Ogiges Vertumnus Iupiter Optimus Maximus Thē I perswaded y e people to offer sacrifice vnto him as vnto god by which déed they became al Idolaters for if they had estéemed thē no better thē holy mē they had not sinned in that for in déede he was a holy man Marke what Austen saith in the tenth booke of the Citie of God It is not lawfull saith he to offer any sacrifice to any Saint be it Man or Angell but onely to God After the destruction of Troye Aeneas came into Italy bringing with him his owne Idolls and the Gods of Troye héerevppon Idolatrie tooke force and increased more and more I thinke quod Folly that this which I haue tolde thée already may suffice to declare how Idolarie entred the world first Thou hast heard also how I gouerned Angells Nations Now thou shalt vnderstand how I haue ruled and ordered perticular persons After the floud I first ruled Cham Noahs sonne who being wholly giuen to the Magicall Art obtained and had the name of Zorastes He hated his father because he loued his other brother better then him In reuenge whereof vppon a daye he found his father Noah drunke lieng fast a sléepe vpon the ground vnhonestly he discouered his fathers priuities and by my counsell he presumed to touch those his secret parts and inchaunted them by his Magicall Arte so that euer after for want of abilitie he could not ioyne issue with any woman to beget children His Father being angry thereat abandoned him for a season After that he became the first King and Saturne of Aegypt insomuch as the holy Scriptures calleth Cham the first King of Aegypt Againe by my counsell he trained vp his people according to his owne nature in all villany and filthinesse openly affirming that men might lawfully vse and haue to doe with their owne mothers daughters and sisters as was the custome before the floud and also to commit many other

Rose trees Uines faire cléere fountaines of colde water running by and fragrant hearbes and flowres casting a comfortable sent The little pretie birds did sing round about vs as well in cages as on trées bushes Ther was plaieng piping singing dauncing leaping embracing kissing finally each louer with his lady was merrie and to be briefe euerie one did what liked him best and thought themselues happie to finde such felicitie But all my desire was to see the rest of the pallace wherefore I charged Ladie Voluptuousnesse with her promise which tooke effect insomuch that we went all along to a certeine place where I sawe the verie secret lodgings of Voluptuousnesse But what they wer for feare of offending the reuerent reader I meane not to rehearse then we went from Gallerie to Gallerie from office to office from chamber to chamber where I sawe euerie place furnished with so rich moueables and of such choice as nothing might bee wished more Amongest all these roomes one chamber excéeded in largnesse workmanship for costlye caruing in all other respects Ther I found a verie braue bed gorgeously trimmed insomuch that I commended the same highly Then Lasciuiousnesse said that she had charge of that chamber and if I listed to lye there that night I should Lust also promised to bring lady Venus to lye with me I hearing this my thought I felt the wound that Cupid gaue me as fresh as at y e first Then went we about the walls which were all of Iette thicke and stronge Uppon these walls were built seauen towres like ●nto stéeples and euerie towre had his owner In the first lodged Pride in the second Enuie in the thirde Wrath in the fourth Gluttonie in the fift Lecherie in the sixt Couetousnesse and in the seauenth Sloath. My purpose was to goe into them all one after an other And as I entered into the towre of Pride which was the fir●t I spide written this Posie ouer the Porch PRIDE IS THE PRINCE AND ROOT OF ALL SINNES For as a king is accompanied with a great traine of Seruitours euen so hath Pride a sort of sinnes for her subiects ouer whom she raignes Princelike Againe as Kings kéepe and holde their owne aright euen so doth Pride behaue her selfe towardes the proude It is a singular signe of a great reprobate and castaway when a man liueth longe in Pride For this same displeaseth God more then all other vices as humilitie pleaseth him more then all other vertues And because the proude aduaūce themselues aboue all other the diuell dealeth with them accordingly For as the Crow when he is not able to cracke a hard Walnut with his bill setteth his flight aloft right ouer some great stone letting it fall breaketh the same then alighteth to eate the kirnell euen so plaieth the Diuel with the proud for first he aduanceth thē aloft bringeth them to promotion in this world but when they are in the top of their happinesse and thinke vpon no daunger then euen then comes the diuell and hée throwes them downe headlonge with a mischiefe in-to hell The difference betwéene the humble and the proud may be knowne by that of corne and chaffe For as chaffe being light is puft vp aloft with the wind and is sodeinly consumed wheras contrariwise good corne lieng low is gathered from the ground laide vp in garniers and estéemed of euery body euen so it falleth out with the pride of the proud and the humilitie of the humble Unto pride do apperteine these vices following namely Arrogancie Presumption Wrath Contempt Heresie Hipocrisie Disobedience Vaine-glory Ambition and such like In the second tower lodged Enuie ouer whose entrie doore this deuise was written A FIRE-BRAND OF HELL AND THE DIVELS DARLING Now Enuie is a sadnesse heuinesse of hart for an others prosperitie This sin hath souereintie in y e bad as Charitie in y e good Charitie is a badge of saluation Enuie of damnation The enuious man differs not from the diuell in any degrée they are partners in gaine and in losse If y e diuell reape profit by doing euil the enuious man will be sure to follow his trade for lucre sake And as the enuious man grudgeth at an others profit and good name so doth he delight in an others losse ill report There cannot be a fowler more cruel sin then Enuie for she alwaies tormenteth and vexeth her fosterer I meane the enuious in whom she dwelleth He that seeketh to get good by others euil neuer amends in that mind And he y t planteth his pleasure vpon an others paine shall haue such fruit as he y t grafs figs vpon thornes or wold make fire to burne by powring water thereon Enuie is a disease hard to be healed because it lyeth hidden in y e hart where the Phisition cannot come to cure it There belongs vnto this vice Backbiting Treason Disdaine and others In the third towre dwelt Wrath ouer whose Porch this Posie was written THE VERIE MVRTHERER OF HOLY LOVE For as holy loue prepares y e conscience to dwell with God so doth Wrath prepare it to dwell with the diuell Wrath taketh away y e hearing of reason The wrathfull man will heare the counsel of none Ther is nothing resembleth the Image of God more then man being in perfect loue For God will be there where vnitie is kept where people be at peace and where countries be quiet which cannot be in a wrathful wretch A wrathful man is like vnto one possessed with y e diuel who is euer tormented vntil he hath vomited him out Wrath maketh men fight wrath causeth blasphemie by wrath the diuell conquereth countries wrath is like a musled dogge For when he cannot bite yet with snarling he makes others goe together by the eares And as the Fisher-man troubleth the water because y e fish should not see his nettes euen so the Diuell by wrath troubleth man to the ende he shoulde not vnderstande nor perceiue his owne destruction To the wrathfull man belongs inflaming of the heart indignation disorder blasphemie contention rankor reuengement murther and such like In the fourth towre dwelt Couetousnes whose Posie is this IDOLATRY AND A BOTTOMLESSE GOVLFE ARE INSATIABLE The couetous man is forsaken of God for he loues his gaine better then God he had rather loose God then goods For litle triflles that touch his profit he sweares lyes which is a thing most damnable The Faith Hope and Charitie which he should haue towards God Couetousnes turnes it to riches The couetous mans heart is all vppon his goods and not vppon God for where the heart is there is also a mans loue The couetous man offendeth in euill gettinge in euill vsing and in euill louinge his goods The couetous man is gouerned by the Diuell hazardinge his soule to eternall torment for the lewde loue of temporall toyes And as the Mouse is caught in the trappe whilest shée hopeth to gette the Baite euen so