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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

not to bee borne with which was so lothsome vnto the Husband as her beautie could be pleasaunt Bée aduised therfore least you finde that your handsome husband haue that which this man found in his faire Wife If you will not that your shoe wringe you measure him before you buy and iudge not of him by the colour but measure him rather within thē without least you wring for it afterwarde The goodly personage without wisedome and vertue what is it better then a paynted man Plato the wise Philosopher thus sayd to Alcibiades Hee that at any time hath loued Alcibiades body hath not loued Alcibiades himselfe but he that loueth thee loueth thy minde and soule And the wise Tully sayth Man is as his minde is and not that forme and figure which may be pointed at with the finger For man consisteth of two partes the one is the minde endued with reason and beareth the Image of God the other is the body which wee haue common with brute Beastes Dauid compareth that man that lacketh vnderstandinge vnto Horse and Mule and mée thinkes I may wel compare such lusty lads whose commendacion is only in their personage and lacketh learninge wit and honesty vnto Platoes man as Diogenes scoffingly termed For when that Plato in his Schoole had defined a man in this wise to be a lyuing and two footed creature made vpright and without any feathers Diogenes thinkinge that hee had not well defined or expressed the nature of man because hee suppressed that which was most propper to man and did concerne the minde and guift of reason hee plucked a Capon bare of all his feathers and turned him into the Schoole saying beholde Platoes man. Thus is a man if you consider not his minde a foole What is he but an vnfeathered fowle A man without manners what is hée better then a Capon without feathers wherfore if you meete any sutche in your dishe esteeme him as you list I haue tolde you the price Trust not to soone those faire faces which come like Capons vpon Soppes and Suger That braue apparrell what is it else but Peacockes feathers The good complexion the strength of the body the white hande the cleane leg what are they all but fadinge flatteringe flowers what but baytes to deceaue the foolish fishe All these doo serue but to please the eye to satisfie the fantacy of the flesh Consider that which is written in the sirte Chapter of Genesis The Sonnes of God saw the Daughters of men that they were fayre and they toke them Wiues of all that they Iyked Therfore the Lord sayd my spirit shall not alwaies striue with man c. Beholde that fleshly fancy euen of Mariage it selfe because therby they abused and polluted the holy ordenaunce of God is expressed there as one of the causes that prouoked God so to powre out the rayne of his wrath and to destroy all fleshe from the face of the earth Wherfore in this point I ende with the exhortation of Sainct Iohn in the seconde Chapter of his first Epistle Loue not the worlde neither the things that are in the world if any man loue the world the loue of the Father is not in him for al that is in the world as the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pryde of life is not of the Father but is of the world and the world passeth away and the lust thereof but hee that fulfilleth the will of God abideth for euer By these you may consider the true and sure way you haue to walke you haue the by wayes that may cause you to wander in some part stopped vp you may sée if it please yon the good and the bad although set forth but in a rude glasse Singe not now Medeas songe who sayd I see and allow the better but yet I follow the worse Giue not Venus your Apple but giue the vertuous your weddinge Ringe And then sée how you haue headed your Arrow sée the blessed state you stande in hee is yours for better for worser forritcher for poorer in sickenesse in health hée shal be to you an Husbande to your Children a Father to your fréendes a fauourer to your enemies a terror hee shall willingly beare parte of all your blowes and burdens hee shall double your prosperitie hee shal mourne whē you wéepe hée shal laugh when you are glad his loue is sure sealed euen ioyned by God him slfe Hée is not like the ritche of whom the Sonne of Sirache sayth in the thirtéenth Chapter If thou bee for his profit hee vseth thee but if thou haue nothing hee forsaketh thee Hée is not like the light louer of Beauty of whom the wise Plato saith Hee that loueth thee for thy fauour when that decayeth hee will giue thee ouer But hee shall bee one wit● you both body and soule hee shal walke forth with you all your Pilgrimage here on earth shall leade you the way to eternall rest Hee shal bée blessed in all his affaires for so saith Dauid in the hundred fourtéenth Psalme Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord and delighteth in his commaundementes the generation of him shal be blessed ritches and treasures shal be in his house and his righteousnesse shal indure And in the hundred twentie eyght Psalme hée sayth Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord and walketh in his wayes when hee eateth the laboures of his handes hee shal be blessed and it shal be wel with him his Wife shal be as the flourishinge Vyne on the sides of his house euen your Husbandes Wife shal bee such a one if your Husbande bee such a one This Dauid promiseth and in the spirit of God prophesieth and confirmeth it againe saying Loe surely thus shal the man be blessed that walketh in the wayes of the Lord and thus shall the Woman bee blessed that marryeth the man that feareth the Lorde You wil say peraduenture I would thinke my selfe well bestowed vpon such a man but the crafte is in the catching the doubt is in the obtayninge But goe you forwarde in your race of Vertue and then you shall not goe far before you meete with a méete matche It is an olde sayinge The like loueth the like The Sonne of Sirache sayth in the thirtéenth Chapter All flesh wil resort to their like and euery man wil kepe company with such as hee is himselfe A vertuous Woman saith hée in the sixtéenth Chapter is a good portion and a gyfte to be giuen to some iust ioseph or some true Tobyas You know that euery good gifte cōmeth from God as the Father and first founder therof and surely in this case God appeareth more euidente to strike the stroke to worke as it were immediatly within with his owne hande So sayth Salomon in the nynetéenth Chapter of his Prouerbes House and ritches are the inheritance of the Fathers but a prudent Wife is the speciall guisee of the Lorde Wherfore although there bee

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

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