❧
A
DISpraise
of
the
life
of
a
Courtier
,
and
a
commendacion
of
the
life
of
the
labouryng
man
.
M.DXLVIII
.
CVM
PRIVILEGIO
AD
IMPRIMENDVM
SOLVM
.
¶
Vnto
the
right
noble
William
Marques
of
Northhamton
,
Earle
of
Essex
&
lorde
Par
,
your
assured
louyng
frend
Fraunces
Briant
knight
,
one
of
the
kynges
most
honorable
preuy
Chamber
,
desireth
to
you
perpetuall
health
and
honor
.
IT
IS
not
long
agone
(
my
verye
synguler
good
lord
)
that
I
found
you
loking
in
a
lytell
boke
called
in
the
Frenche
language
Mesprise
de
la
court
,
et
lalouāge
de
la
vie
rustique
,
whiche
is
to
saye
in
Englishe
,
the
Dispraise
of
the
Courte
,
&
the
laude
of
the
rustical
life
.
And
when
I
demaunded
of
you
what
boke
it
was
,
after
your
accustomed
gentlenes
,
you
were
contented
that
I
should
for
the
tyme
haue
it
,
and
loke
on
it
,
and
I
so
doyng
:
after
that
I
had
in
part
ouersene
it
,
I
do
ensure
you
I
toke
great
pleasure
therin
,
and
not
without
good
reason
,
forasmuche
as
the
matter
was
not
onely
pleasaunt
and
fruitfull
,
but
also
full
in
euery
where
of
olde
auncient
stories
and
wyse
saiynges
of
the
noble
and
notable
Philosophers
&
clerkes
.
And
at
our
nexte
metyng
together
,
partly
at
your
request
I
promised
to
turne
the
same
out
of
Frenche
into
our
maternall
tong
,
whiche
you
right
wel
accepted
.
And
so
at
conuenient
laysure
(
as
ye
may
see
)
I
haue
finished
the
same
,
praiyng
your
good
lordship
to
take
my
pore
labor
in
gre
,
that
not
only
in
suche
a
trifle
as
this
is
,
but
in
any
thyng
els
that
I
may
do
you
seruice
and
pleasure
in
,
ye
shal
fynde
me
as
moost
bounden
,
euer
prest
and
redy
aswel
for
the
great
goodnes
shewed
vnto
me
by
your
moost
wise
father
duryng
his
dayes
whom
I
toke
as
a
special
patron
:
But
further
hauyng
respecte
to
your
most
noble
sister
,
my
most
good
and
gracious
lady
the
Quene
,
I
thynke
me
fortunate
to
employ
my
poore
engyn
to
that
that
to
her
highnes
or
to
your
good
lordship
should
seme
either
acceptable
or
agreable
.
This
litle
boke
then
,
lette
it
come
into
light
vnder
your
proteccion
.
And
in
suche
wyse
that
if
that
ye
thynke
I
haue
erred
in
the
translacion
,
not
to
impute
it
to
bee
so
dooen
for
lacke
of
good
wyll
and
louyng
heart
that
I
owe
vnto
you
,
but
for
lacke
of
knowlage
of
the
stories
,
which
I
do
professe
is
hard
for
to
vnderstand
for
one
of
no
greatter
litterature
then
I
professe
me
to
be
.
Thus
almightie
God
sende
you
well
to
fare
,
and
to
prospere
in
honor
more
&
more
to
the
conforte
of
al
your
frendes
,
and
me
,
that
to
my
power
ye
may
assuredly
nomber
me
among
that
sorte
.
To
the
right
reuerende
and
worthy
Prelate
my
lorde
Willyam
de
Prat
bishop
of
Cleremounte
,
Antony
Alaygre
sendeth
gretyng
.
IT
IS
not
many
daies
past
sithens
I
beyng
retyred
for
a
tyme
(
my
good
lord
)
into
the
village
,
and
there
takyng
the
commoditie
and
pleasure
of
the
fayre
swete
fieldes
,
a
certaine
frende
of
myne
sent
vnto
me
a
worke
in
the
Castilian
rong
of
the
lorde
Antony
of
Gueuera
bishop
of
Mondouent
,
&
Chronicler
of
the
Emperour
:
in
readyng
whereof
I
founde
great
pleasure
and
profite
.
The
title
of
the
boke
is
the
Disprailyng
of
the
Court
,
and
the
Praise
of
the
life
rusticall
,
dedicate
vnto
the
kyng
of
Portingal
in
suche
sort
,
that
the
better
to
kepe
and
to
hold
the
wise
sentence
&
erudicions
therin
conteined
,
I
employed
certaine
houres
after
supper
to
translate
the
same
into
Frenche
,
not
thinkyng
among
mine
other
simple
workes
euer
to
put
it
abrode
,
but
after
that
I
had
communicat
the
same
with
some
of
my
frendes
that
haue
knowledge
of
the
Spanishe
tong
,
to
leaue
it
in
a
corner
to
make
it
meate
for
Rattes
and
Mise
.
Now
for
trueth
,
the
first
exempler
was
so
euil
deuided
,
and
the
leaues
so
out
of
order
that
I
gaue
charge
to
the
Scriuener
that
was
my
nye
neighbour
to
copye
them
,
&
as
who
should
say
to
write
it
faire
and
in
order
,
the
whiche
so
euil
went
about
it
,
a●●●ough
by
ignorance
he
could
not
ensue
the
originall
,
yet
for
to
gette
a
litle
money
he
solde
where
his
pleasure
was
the
copies
so
vncumly
set
together
that
I
was
sory
and
repentant
that
euer
I
consumed
the
tyme
to
translate
it
,
till
at
the
last
moued
by
the
persuasion
of
Annas
Regyn
Vicar
generall
,
and
by
Peter
Cister
your
aduocate
,
by
them
twaine
my
great
frendes
,
I
thought
it
better
to
presente
to
the
eyes
of
all
men
this
euil
translated
,
then
to
suffre
lenger
those
euil
exemplers
so
corrupted
to
my
blame
in
the
handes
of
those
that
haue
no
right
iudgement
,
to
know
from
whom
the
faute
came
:
wherfore
my
good
lorde
,
vnder
your
prudent
fauor
&
correccion
I
do
aduenture
herein
my
name
and
fame
accordyng
to
my
knowlege
,
trustyng
assuredly
that
your
only
name
shal
suffise
to
vanquishe
and
set
aside
this
slaunder
,
the
whiche
slaunder
as
enemie
to
learned
men
,
sease
not
to
withdraw
those
that
haue
good
wil
and
minde
to
studie
:
I
say
this
that
as
me
semeth
it
is
well
worthie
that
worke
of
the
wyse
bishop
of
Spayne
be
presented
to
his
semblable
or
superior
in
learnyng
in
Fraunce
,
or
rather
aboue
him
in
knowlege
&
vertuous
maners
.
I
will
adde
to
to
this
,
that
the
graue
sentences
&
persuasion
to
vertuous
life
conteined
in
this
boke
deserue
to
be
offred
to
you
that
are
accustomed
to
vse
them
after
suche
sorte
the
euery
man
haue
plaine
opinion
of
you
that
ye
are
sent
of
God
to
be
protector
and
patron
of
vertue
,
troubled
&
dispised
.
Therfore
(
my
singuler
good
lorde
,
as
one
of
the
chiefest
of
the
best
sorte
)
I
dedicate
to
you
this
my
litle
laboure
,
not
that
I
thinke
it
worthy
to
cum
into
your
handes
,
but
for
to
be
a
perpetuall
witnes
that
I
do
owe
vnto
you
my
seruice
with
all
reuerence
,
to
the
whiche
most
humbly
I
recommende
me
.
From
your
cytie
of
Cleremonte
this
first
day
of
Maye
.
Anno.
M.D.xlii
.
A
dispraise
of
the
life
of
the
Courtier
,
and
a
commendacion
of
the
life
of
the
husbandman
,
composed
in
the
Castilian
toungue
by
the
reuerend
father
in
God
the
lord
Antony
of
Gueuera
bishop
of
Mondouent
and
Chronicler
to
the
Emperour
Charles
.
And
out
of
Castilian
drawen
into
Frenche
by
Antony
Alaygre
,
and
now
out
of
the
Frenche
toungue
into
our
maternal
language
,
by
sir
Fraunces
Bryant
knight
,
one
of
the
kynges
most
honorable
chambre
.
The
first
Chapiter
.
¶
Of
certaine
courtiers
whiche
ought
to
complaine
of
none
,
but
of
them selues
.
AFter
that
the
noble
prince
Philippe
of
Macedony
had
ouerrunne
the
Athenience
,
on
a
tyme
he
beyng
at
supper
amonges
certaine
of
his
Philosophers
,
asked
theim
whiche
was
the
greattest
thyng
in
the
worlde
?
One
of
them
answered
,
that
to
his
thinking
it
was
the
water
,
because
there
was
more
of
that
onely
then
of
any
other
thyng
vnder
the
skye
.
Another
sayd
it
was
the
Sunne
,
seyng
his
only
brightnes
doeth
suffise
to
geue
light
to
the
yearth
,
to
the
starres
,
and
to
the
water
.
Another
sayd
it
was
the
great
hill
Olympe
,
whose
heigth
passeth
the
cloudes
.
Another
sayd
it
was
the
most
renoumed
gyant
Athlas
,
on
whose
sepulcre
was
builded
the
feareful
mountain
Ethna
.
Another
sayd
it
was
Homer
,
that
in
his
life
was
so
much
praised
&
after
his
death
so
muche
bewailed
,
that
vii
.
great
cities
made
warre
amonges
them
selfes
for
the
recouery
of
his
bones
,
to
kepe
theim
as
a
relike
.
The
last
&
most
wise
Philosopher
sayd
,
that
nothing
in
this
world
ought
to
be
calledgreat
,
but
that
heart
whiche
estemeth
no
great
thinges
.
O
high
and
noble
sentence
,
since
that
by
that
it
is
geuen
vs
to
vnderstande
,
that
as
touchyng
the
riches
&
honor
of
this
worlde
,
more
is
the
glorye
of
him
that
settes
light
by
theim
,
then
he
that
hath
the
the
cast
for
to
get
theim
.
Titus
Liuius
praiseth
and
neuer
ceasseth
to
praise
,
the
good
consull
Marcus
Curius
in
the
house
of
whom
,
came
Ambassadours
of
the
Sannytes
for
to
recouer
certaine
landes
that
he
had
of
theirs
,
offeryng
to
him
for
the
same
plentie
of
golde
&
siluer
:
He
hauyng
in
his
hand
certain
herbes
to
put
in
his
pot
for
his
diner
,
answered
them
after
this
sort
,
ye
shuld
haue
offered
this
money
to
the
Capitaines
that
disdaines
to
dresse
their
owne
diners
,
and
not
to
me
that
desireth
no
greater
riches
them
to
be
lorde
ouer
their
lordes
.
Deserued
not
more
praise
this
Marcus
Curius
in
settyng
light
those
talentes
of
golde
of
the
Sannytes
,
then
the
Consull
Lucullus
for
robbyng
theim
of
Spartes
?
Deserued
not
more
glorie
the
wise
Crates
for
the
riches
that
he
cast
into
sea
,
their
the
kyng
Nabugodonoser
for
the
treasure
that
he
robbed
from
the
Temple
?
To
your
iudgement
,
did
not
they
of
the
Isles
of
Bariares
deserue
more
honor
,
agreyng
not
to
haue
among
theim
neither
golde
nor
siluer
,
then
the
couetous
Grekes
that
toke
by
force
&
pilled
the
mynes
of
Spayne
?
Was
not
more
greater
the
heart
of
the
good
Emperour
Augustus
in
setting
light
the
Empire
,
then
of
his
vncle
Iulius
Caesar
that
did
take
possession
?
It
is
nedeful
to
haue
wysedome
,
experience
to
order
it
,
cunnyng
to
set
it
furth
,
&
fortune
to
bryng
it
to
good
ende
:
but
to
vpholde
it
and
kepe
it
,
had
nede
of
great
strength
,
and
for
to
dispraise
it
,
a
good
heart
,
because
that
which
is
sene
with
the
eyes
is
more
esier
to
dispraise
,
then
that
thyng
whiche
we
haue
already
in
our
handes
.
It
hath
been
seen
that
many
noble
men
hath
had
fortune
so
muche
at
their
desires
that
thei
haue
enterprised
a
thing
almost
impossible
to
attaine
,
the
whiche
after
for
lacke
of
good
discrecion
wer
not
able
to
kepe
it
.
Wherby
it
is
to
be
vnderstande
that
the
greatnes
of
the
heart
doeth
not
consist
somuche
in
obteinyng
the
thing
that
we
desire
to
haue
,
as
it
is
to
set
light
,
&
contemne
that
that
one
loues
best
.
Apolonius
Thyaneus
,
did
he
not
dispise
his
owne
proper
countrey
&
trauailed
thorowout
all
Asia
for
to
go
to
see
the
Philosopher
Hyarchis
in
Y●●e
?
Aristotle
leauyng
the
familiacitie
he
had
with
Alexander
,
returned
to
his
owne
house
for
to
rede
Philosophy
.
N●●●●●s
nothing
extemed
the
treasure
that
the
great
king
Cyrus
gaue
him
for
to
folowe
him
in
the
warres
.
The
Philosopher
Anatillus
refused
thre
times
the
principalitie
of
Athenes
,
saiyng
:
he
had
rather
be
seruaunt
to
the
good
,
then
a
chastiser
of
the
euil
.
Cecilius
Metellus
a
valiaunt
capitaine
Roman
,
neither
would
accepte
the
estate
of
Dictator
that
to
him
was
geuen
,
nor
the
office
of
Consull
that
to
him
was
offered
:
saiyng
,
that
he
would
eate
in
rest
,
that
whiche
with
great
trauail
he
had
gotten
in
the
war
.
Themperour
Dyoclecian
(
as
it
is
manifest
)
forsoke
with
his
free
wyll
the
Empire
,
for
no
other
cause
,
but
to
fle
the
brute
of
the
common
speche
,
and
to
liue
in
rest
at
home
.
Worthy
is
he
to
be
praised
that
hath
the
harte
to
care
litle
for
an
Empire
or
a
realme
:
but
yet
more
is
he
worthy
that
can
sette
light
by
him selfe
and
not
to
be
gouerned
by
his
owne
will
:
for
there
is
no
man
in
this
worlde
,
but
that
he
is
more
in
loue
with
that
he
desireth
,
then
with
that
he
hath
:
but
howe
coueteous
or
ambicious
so
euer
any
man
be
,
if
he
trauail
x.
daies
for
that
which
he
hath
,
he
will
bestowe
an
hundreth
to
obtain
that
whiche
he
desireth
,
because
that
we
do
not
bestow
our
labor
as
we
shuld
,
but
we
stowe
it
after
our
desires
.
If
we
do
trauaile
,
if
we
be
troubled
,
if
we
cannot
slepe
,
it
is
not
for
necessitie
,
but
for
to
satisfie
our
wil
and
appetite
.
And
that
is
worst
of
all
,
we
not
contentyng
our selfes
with
that
we
can
:
do
procure
to
can
that
that
we
desire
.
O
how
many
haue
we
seen
in
the
court
of
princes
,
to
whom
it
had
been
better
for
them
that
thei
had
been
no
lordes
of
their
will
,
&
lesse
of
their
desires
,
because
sythens
they
did
that
they
might
&
desired
,
begon
to
do
that
thei
ought
not
to
do
?
If
the
man
the
offendes
vs
ought
to
aske
pardon
,
let
euery
man
aske
pardon
to
himself
before
any
other
,
for
in
my
life
I
found
neuer
none
that
hurte
me
so
muche
as
my self
,
I
haue
been
only
the
procurer
of
mine
own
hurt
.
Who
made
me
fall
into
pryde
,
but
mine
only
presumpsion
and
fondnes
?
Who
durste
haue
prisoned
my
sorowfull
heart
with
enuye
,
but
lacke
of
naturall
gouernement
?
who
durst
haue
inflamed
myne
inwardes
with
the
fyer
of
yre
,
if
it
had
not
been
my
great
impacience
?
what
is
the
cause
I
am
so
great
a
gurmander
,
but
that
my
bringyng
vp
was
to
delicate
?
what
is
the
cause
I
haue
not
departed
with
my
goodes
to
the
poore
and
nedye
,
but
the
excessiue
loue
I
had
to
my
riches
?
who
gaue
leue
to
my
flesh
to
rise
against
my
folish
desire
,
if
my
heart
had
not
been
fixed
in
voluptuous
pleasures
?
O
my
soule
,
of
all
this
domage
&
open
faultes
,
to
whom
do
you
lay
the
blame
,
but
to
myne
owne
sensualitie
?
Great
folly
it
is
,
the
thefe
beyng
within
the
house
,
to
seke
for
him
without
:
euen
so
it
is
with
vs
a
manifest
faulte
of
experience
,
when
seyng
in
vs
the
blame
,
and
yet
charge
another
with
the
occasion
:
by
this
we
ought
to
perceiue
that
we
shall
neuer
cease
to
complaine
vntil
the
tyme
we
begyn
to
amende
.
Oh
,
howe
often
&
many
tymes
hath
vertue
fought
with
the
botome
of
our
consciences
,
whiche
stirred
vs
to
be
good
,
and
our
sensulitie
resisted
,
whiche
is
vaine
frowardnes
,
by
the
which
battail
folowed
a
darke
corrupte
iudgement
:
but
to
conclude
,
we
of
oure selues
as
of
our selues
are
very
miserable
.
The
Poete
Ouid
reherseth
the
louyng
Philis
the
Rodian
complainyng
of
her selfe
&
sayeth
:
Oh
Demophon
,
if
I
had
not
bestowed
tyme
to
loue
the
,
and
siluer
,
and
shippes
,
for
thexpedicion
of
thy
voiage
,
thou
durst
not
well
to
haue
gone
,
nor
I
to
haue
bewailed
thy
departyng
,
in
suche
wise
that
with
my
own
wepons
was
my
bodye
wounded
.
If
we
beleue
Iosephus
in
that
he
did
wryte
of
Maryana
,
&
Homer
,
in
that
he
sayd
of
Helene
,
Plutarch
in
that
he
spake
of
Cleopatra
.
Virgil
of
the
quene
Dydo
,
Theophrast
of
Pollysene
,
Zantippe
of
Cammilla
,
Assenarius
of
Clodia
:
All
these
ladies
&
excellent
princes
neuer
founde
them selfes
so
deceiued
by
their
louers
as
thei
wer
by
beleuing
their
owne
proper
counsels
,
and
lightly
consenting
to
the
same
.
If
to
Suetone
,
Zantippe
and
Plutarch
we
will
geue
credite
&
beleue
those
thynges
that
they
declare
of
Pompe
,
Pyrrhus
,
Hannyball
,
&
the
Consull
Marius
,
of
the
Dictator
Caesar
,
of
Marke
Antony
&
many
others
we
shall
finde
they
blamed
not
fortune
so
muche
to
be
vanquished
by
others
,
as
in
their
prosperitie
they
wer
ruled
by
their
owne
aduise
and
counselles
.
It
is
true
,
that
often
tymes
the
opinion
of
our
kinne
&
frendes
maketh
vs
to
enter
into
busynes
out
of
the
waye
of
reason
,
not
caryng
but
for
a
folishe
auauncement
of
goodes
and
riches
.
And
at
the
ende
when
by
their
settyng
forth
one
hath
enterprised
a
certaine
busynes
of
importaunce
whiche
doeth
require
ayd
and
helpe
,
those
same
be
the
laste
that
sheweth
theim selues
helping
frendes
:
whiche
is
the
occasion
many
tymes
that
men
cannot
returne
from
enterprisyng
suche
thinges
as
neither
shall
growe
to
their
honor
nor
profite
.
Many
men
say
that
they
haue
enemies
,
recountyng
theim
often
without
findyng
number
:
Although
it
be
true
if
it
be
well
noted
,
that
none
haue
oftener
or
a
greater
enemy
then
him self
.
And
the
most
greatest
daunger
that
I
see
,
is
that
vnder
the
shadowe
to
preferre
&
make
better
my selfe
,
my selfe
is
the
cause
of
my
destruccion
.
The
Philosopher
Neotidas
on
a
tyme
beyng
asked
which
was
the
beste
counsell
that
a
manne
might
take
?
He
answered
,
the
counsell
of
others
with
the
dispraisyng
of
his
owne
:
and
he
sheweth
the
cause
,
for
that
the
corrupcion
of
man
is
suche
,
that
often
he
searcheth
in
him self
with
great
pain
,
that
whiche
in
the
head
of
another
,
he
fyndeth
with
great
ease
:
then
it
foloweth
,
that
in
the
best
tyme
of
our
life
our
owne
life
deceiueth
vs
,
the
euil
commeth
furth
on
euery
side
,
heuy
thoughtes
ouertaketh
vs
our
frendes
leaueth
vs
,
persecutors
tormenteth
vs
,
troubles
maketh
an
ende
of
vs
,
and
ambicion
burieth
vs
.
If
we
beholde
this
thyng
:
what
we
be
:
wherof
we
be
:
and
wherfore
we
be
,
we
shall
fynde
that
our
beginnyng
is
obliuion
,
our
middle
age
trauail
,
the
ende
sorow
,
and
altogether
an
open
errour
.
Then
se
how
heuy
is
the
courtiers
life
,
as
also
how
daungerous
the
waye
is
,
where
as
bee
stoones
to
stumble
at
,
myer
to
sticke
fast
in
,
yse
for
to
falle
on
,
pathe
wayes
for
to
lose
him
in
,
water
for
to
passe
thorow
,
thefes
for
to
be
afrayde
on
,
great
affaires
and
busynes
to
do
,
so
that
harde
it
is
for
any
to
goe
there
as
they
would
,
and
more
harder
to
ariue
there
as
they
desire
.
All
these
thynges
haue
we
sayd
,
to
the
entent
that
the
Courtiers
may
vnderstand
that
neither
I
nor
they
can
chose
the
good
waye
and
leaue
the
euill
,
voide
that
that
hurtes
vs
,
and
conserue
that
whiche
profiteth
vs
,
folowe
reason
and
plucke
awaye
the
occasion
:
but
if
by
chaunse
some
good
fall
to
vs
,
we
thanke
fortune
,
and
if
euil
come
to
vs
,
then
we
do
put
the
fault
in
her
.
The
.ii.
Chapiter
¶
How
that
none
ought
to
counsel
another
to
go
to
the
court
nor
when
he
is
there
to
come
from
it
,
but
euery
man
to
chose
the
life
that
best
he
liketh
.
ARistarch
the
great
Philosopher
of
Theban
,
sayd
that
tyme
and
man
was
so
diuers
,
that
hard
it
was
for
the
most
wisest
to
chuse
that
to
them
was
good
,
and
to
kepe
them
from
that
to
them
is
euil
.
There
is
nothing
more
true
,
for
we
see
dayly
,
with
the
same
that
one
is
healed
,
another
falleth
sicke
:
with
that
that
one
waxeth
better
,
another
waxeth
worse
:
with
that
that
one
is
amended
,
another
is
put
doune
:
and
to
conclude
,
with
that
litle
thing
that
one
is
content
withal
another
is
in
dispaire
.
The
lerned
Alchymus
was
by
his
Moecoenas
kyng
Demetrius
,
asked
wherein
specially
did
consist
the
greatest
trauail
of
the
worlde
?
He
answered
,
there
is
few
thinges
but
in
them
there
is
either
trauail
or
suspicion
,
but
aboue
all
the
mooste
excessiue
trauail
that
a
man
may
haue
,
is
neuer
to
be
satisfied
:
And
that
this
is
true
,
we
perceiue
that
when
a
litle
thing
contenteth
vs
,
how
lytle
soeuer
it
be
,
we
make
it
our
paradice
with
the
rest
of
our
life
:
whiche
seldome
chaunseth
to
fewe
men
,
because
that
liuyng
as
we
liue
,
not
beyng
contented
,
would
assaie
&
knowe
if
it
wer
good
to
be
a
kyng
,
a
prince
,
a
knight
,
a
maried
man
,
a
religious
or
a
marchaunt
,
a
laborer
,
a
shepeherd
,
or
of
some
other
estate
.
And
at
the
ende
,
when
al
is
proued
,
it
shall
be
harde
to
fynde
where
we
would
rest
,
so
vnconstaunt
is
the
lightnes
of
menne
.
The
wise
determineth
y●
to
chose
the
best
is
the
meane
.
A
simple
creature
is
lightly
contented
with
a
small
thyng
,
but
he
that
hath
a
great
harte
,
thinkes
that
pouertie
is
a
greuous
life
,
like
as
they
that
be
of
high
estate
feare
the
fall
of
fortune
.
Plato
was
in
his
yong
yeres
very
worldely
,
as
he
that
had
sene
muche
,
aswell
in
the
warres
as
in
offices
,
in
whiche
he
was
vsed
,
and
also
in
handy
craftes
.
On
a
tyme
it
was
asked
him
wherin
he
had
founde
most
quietnes
and
rest
?
He
answered
there
is
no
estate
of
life
wherin
is
not
mutabilitie
,
ther
is
no
honor
where
is
perill
,
no
riches
where
is
no
trauail
,
no
prosperitie
but
it
endeth
,
nor
also
pleasure
but
faileth
:
but
when
all
is
sayd
,
I
neuer
founde
so
muche
quietnes
of
mynde
,
as
since
I
left
myne
offices
in
Cities
,
withdrawyng
me
to
my
bokes
:
signifiyng
,
that
as
long
as
we
liue
seruauntes
of
the
worlde
,
we
desire
all
,
,
we
proue
all
,
we
procure
al
,
then
al
thinges
well
sene
&
tasted
,
all
thinges
do
anoye
vs
:
the
greatest
parte
of
our
disquietnes
commeth
hereof
,
that
the
aboundaunce
we
haue
,
semeth
to
vs
lytle
,
and
the
lytle
of
others
,
semeth
to
vs
muche
.
We
saye
that
our
wealth
is
trauail
,
and
that
the
euil
happe
of
others
is
rest
:
we
condemne
others
actes
and
we
allowe
our
owne
:
we
watche
to
gette
somewhat
,
and
sodenly
we
slepe
to
lese
it
again
:
we
immagyn
that
al
men
liues
content
,
&
we
alone
nedy
:
And
yet
the
worst
is
,
we
beleue
that
that
we
dreame
,
and
put
not
our
trust
in
that
that
we
se
before
our
iyen
.
What
waye
one
ought
to
folowe
or
what
estate
he
ought
to
chose
,
none
can
well
knowe
nor
counsell
,
because
the
thyng
is
so
troublesome
and
without
good
iudgement
,
by
whiche
many
is
deceiued
?
If
the
sailyng
on
the
sea
be
daungerous
,
so
is
the
walking
on
the
yearth
troubleous
.
As
touchyng
our
life
,
we
see
that
he
that
is
whole
,
daily
falleth
sicke
,
the
sicke
dyeth
,
some
other
scapeth
deadly
daungers
,
and
some
others
lyngers
forth
to
death
.
As
touching
the
walfaryng
men
,
assone
commeth
he
to
his
lodgyng
that
goeth
foftly
,
as
he
that
goeth
hastely
and
loseth
his
way
.
He
that
is
in
fauor
,
liuyng
in
slothfull
reste
,
had
as
muche
neede
of
vpholdyng
,
as
he
that
continually
sweates
in
trauail
.
Therfore
I
conclude
,
that
there
is
nothing
in
this
worlde
so
certain
,
as
that
all
thynges
is
vncertaine
.
Then
let
vs
returne
to
that
we
spake
of
:
It
is
sayd
that
it
is
fearefull
,
to
counsell
any
to
marry
,
to
study
,
to
go
to
the
war
,
or
to
take
vpon
him
any
other
thing
,
then
that
he
is
called
to
:
because
in
this
case
none
is
so
apte
to
receiue
,
that
to
him
is
sayd
as
he
is
to
receiue
that
whiche
he
is
naturally
inclyned
to
.
Plutarche
greatly
praiseth
in
his
boke
of
the
common
welth
,
the
good
Philosopher
Plato
(
and
not
without
cause
)
for
he
vsed
a
great
policy
,
which
was
that
there
was
no
yong
man
entred
into
his
schoole
,
but
first
he
would
proue
him
whether
he
was
enclined
to
lernyng
or
no
,
so
that
those
that
he
thought
not
apte
to
study
,
he
sent
theim
backe
,
causyng
them
to
vse
their
liues
in
the
common
welth
.
Alcibiades
the
Greke
man
be
a
sufficient
wytnesse
vnto
you
,
whiche
although
he
was
yong
brought
to
the
schoole
,
and
taught
of
a
discrete
maister
,
yet
notwithstanding
his
inclinacion
was
suche
,
that
he
professed
himself
wholy
to
the
warres
.
To
him
that
is
borne
to
weare
a
swerde
by
his
side
,
it
semeth
him
yll
to
wear
a
typpet
about
his
necke
,
and
he
that
loueth
to
kepe
slepe
,
the
court
is
nothyng
fitte
for
him
.
To
her
that
desireth
mariage
,
it
is
harde
to
kepe
her
chast
:
He
that
loueth
to
be
a
barber
,
why
should
he
be
made
a
Paynter
.
To
counsel
our
frend
to
learne
a
crafte
for
to
liue
by
,
is
but
wel
done
:
but
especially
to
appoint
him
what
crafte
he
ought
to
lerne
,
that
me
thynketh
worthy
to
be
reproued
:
which
brought
the
lawes
of
the
Lacedemonians
,
the
Lacedemonians
commaundyng
to
the
fathers
vpon
great
paynes
,
to
putte
none
of
their
chyldren
to
no
crafte
,
till
they
were
.xiiii.
yeres
of
age
to
see
that
in
the
age
of
discrecion
what
their
nature
was
enclined
to
.
Let
vs
leaue
this
long
communicasion
,
and
speake
of
that
we
ought
to
aduertise
the
redar
of
:
to
counsell
any
to
leaue
the
court
,
suche
counsel
I
thinke
not
best
to
geue
,
nor
yet
wisedome
for
other
to
take
,
seyng
that
there
is
doubte
to
counsell
any
in
that
they
ought
to
do
:
Howbeit
myne
aduice
is
,
that
the
sage
persons
chose
to
liue
in
a
quiet
state
,
and
to
dwell
in
suche
a
place
,
that
he
may
leade
a
life
without
reproche
,
&
christianly
to
dye
.
Oftentymes
men
do
remoue
from
one
countrey
to
another
,
from
one
toune
to
another
,
from
one
strete
,
from
one
house
,
from
one
companye
to
another
:
but
to
conclude
,
if
that
he
had
peine
in
the
one
,
he
doeth
complaine
himself
vtterly
of
the
wronges
of
the
others
:
And
this
is
the
reason
,
because
he
layeth
the
faulte
to
the
nature
of
the
countrey
,
which
nothing
els
is
but
his
owne
euil
nature
.
What
more
shal
we
say
,
but
in
Courtes
,
in
cyties
,
in
villages
,
and
in
other
places
,
is
seen
the
vertuous
and
the
discrete
corrected
,
and
the
vicious
not
blamed
.
The
wicked
with
their
wickednes
sercheth
by
all
meanes
to
make
themselues
worse
.
And
likwise
doth
to
the
vertuous
with
their
vertues
,
make
them selfes
better
in
what
state
soeuer
he
be
called
.
As
for
the
prelates
,
there
is
no
charge
in
the
Churche
so
daungerous
but
that
a
good
conscience
can
auoyde
it
,
but
a
weake
or
corrupt
conscience
may
sone
be
cast
great
lorde
,
he
wyll
say
that
he
hath
nothing
where
with
to
finde
him
:
If
we
aduise
him
to
be
a
religious
,
he
wyll
say
that
he
cannot
rise
early
,
if
to
marry
he
wil
say
it
wil
greue
him
to
here
his
litle
children
cry
and
wepe
,
to
goe
to
studye
it
would
trouble
his
braine
,
If
he
were
counsailed
to
withdrawe
him
to
his
house
,
he
would
saye
he
could
not
liue
without
company
.
Then
presuppose
that
whiche
is
said
,
that
none
ought
to
counsell
any
to
chose
the
life
he
will
take
concernyng
his
honor
&
the
wealth
of
his
life
,
because
afterwarde
he
wyll
more
complaine
him
,
of
the
counsell
that
he
hathtaken
,
then
the
euil
that
he
hath
suffered
.
The
.iii.
Chapiter
.
¶
Howe
that
a
Courtier
ought
to
leaue
the
Court
for
not
beyng
in
fauor
,
but
beyng
out
of
it
,
to
the
entent
of
that
beyng
out
of
it
be
more
vertuous
.
PVblius
Minus
sayth
in
his
Annotacions
that
we
ought
to
thinke
many
daies
on
that
whiche
we
entend
to
do
in
one
daie
.
The
kyng
Demetrius
,
soonne
of
Antigonus
was
asked
by
one
of
his
capitaines
named
Patroclus
,
wherefore
he
gaue
not
battail
to
his
enemye
Ptolome
,
seyng
his
strength
,
his
witt
and
his
nomber
of
men
?
He
answered
,
that
a
deede
ones
done
,
is
harde
to
call
backe
again
,
and
before
a
man
begyn
a
harde
enterprise
,
he
had
neede
of
long
counsell
.
Agiselaus
a
wise
capitaine
of
the
Lycaoniens
beyng
forced
to
answere
the
Ambassadors
of
the
Thebeans
sayd
:
Know
not
you
O
Thebeans
that
to
determyne
a
thyng
of
importaunce
,
nothyng
is
meter
then
long
studye
.
Plutarch
doth
greatly
praise
the
life
of
Sertoreius
in
that
he
was
not
rashe
in
determinyng
,
but
graue
in
enterprisyng
.
Suetone
sayeth
that
Themperour
August
was
neuer
hastye
to
gette
frendes
,
but
very
diligent
to
kepe
them
when
he
had
them
.
Of
these
ensamples
,
note
what
daungier
he
falleth
in
,
that
is
hasly
in
bussinesses
and
quicke
in
counsels
.
None
wyl
wear
a
garment
if
it
be
not
sowed
:
nor
eate
the
fruit
,
if
it
be
not
rype
:
nor
drynke
the
wyne
,
if
it
be
not
clere
:
nor
eate
the
flesh
if
it
be
not
dressed
:
nor
warme
him
with
wode
,
if
it
be
not
drye
:
Wherfore
then
do
we
counsell
vs
with
grene
counsel
,
whiche
soner
shall
smudder
vs
then
warme
vs
.
The
wise
man
ought
to
haue
before
his
iyen
a
sober
deliberacion
in
his
affaires
,
for
if
he
thynke
one
houre
of
that
whiche
he
would
say
,
he
had
nede
thinke
.x.
of
that
that
he
would
dooe
:
wordes
be
but
wordes
,
they
may
be
corrected
,
but
neuer
the
vnconsidered
dede
The
fault
of
this
,
is
that
euery
man
studyeth
to
speake
,
to
dispute
,
to
iudge
,
but
none
to
liue
wel
,
nor
yet
to
dye
vertuously
.
The
graue
persons
that
wyll
conserue
their
auctoritie
may
not
be
testie
or
stubburne
in
such
thinges
as
they
enterprice
nor
wilfull
in
that
they
take
in
hand
,
nor
fickil
in
that
thei
begyn
:
for
one
of
the
greatest
fautes
that
a
man
may
haue
,
is
not
to
be
founde
true
of
his
worde
,
and
inconstant
in
that
he
hath
begun
.
A
noble
harte
ought
to
foresee
that
he
is
charged
with
and
if
it
be
iust
and
reasonable
soner
to
dye
,
then
not
to
do
it
:
by
the
whiche
noble
hartes
are
knowen
.
It
it
were
a
thyng
harde
&
almooste
impossible
Achilles
to
slee
Hector
:
Agiselaus
to
ouercome
Brantes
:
to
Alexander
,
Darrius
:
to
Caesar
Pompeius
:
to
Augustus
,
Marcus
Antonius
:
to
Silla
,
Mythridates
:
to
Scipion
Hanniball
:
and
to
the
good
Troian
Dacebalus
,
these
noble
princes
had
neuer
been
so
muche
estemed
as
they
bee
,
but
that
they
vttered
their
noble
courage
.
Then
,
good
aduice
ioyned
with
a
noble
harte
,
ought
to
gouerne
great
enterprises
.
Then
to
our
purpose
,
my
maister
the
courtier
sayth
,
he
wyll
leaue
the
cursed
life
of
the
court
,
and
go
dye
at
home
,
saiyng
,
that
to
liue
in
suche
trouble
is
a
continuall
death
.
O
how
many
&
often
tymes
haue
I
hard
these
faire
wordes
,
that
neuer
were
folowed
,
excusyng
them
onely
by
the
desteny
of
the
court
,
in
the
whiche
they
were
fast
glued
.
When
that
a
courtier
lackes
money
,
that
any
man
doeth
him
displeasure
,
or
that
he
hath
lost
his
proces
:
God
knoweth
howe
many
othes
he
maketh
that
he
will
forsake
al
,
not
to
leaue
his
euil
condicions
,
but
because
that
his
busynes
goeth
backeward
:
but
long
his
purpose
lasteth
nor
,
for
if
our
courtier
happe
to
cum
to
welth
or
that
he
be
inhaunced
by
his
prince
,
ye
shall
see
his
former
promises
to
waxe
colde
,
his
wil
and
his
desire
to
remaine
there
in
suche
wise
the
ye
would
iudge
him
to
be
naturally
borne
ther.
Fauor
and
couetuousnes
guideth
the
Courtier
,
so
that
one
groweth
with
the
other
,
and
at
the
ende
conuerted
from
the
maner
of
Christians
to
courtiers
.
For
all
men
knoweth
that
the
court
is
a
place
wher
men
may
get
welth
,
and
likewyse
the
place
of
mens
vndoyng
:
We
haue
already
rehersed
the
occasions
why
men
do
withdrawe
theim
from
the
court
,
some
for
lack
of
mony
,
some
for
pouertie
,
or
not
beyng
in
fauor
,
or
for
age
,
all
these
thynges
be
of
necessitie
&
nothyng
of
free
wyll
,
nor
yet
praise
to
them
that
so
withdraweth
theim
for
the
causes
afore
sayd
:
but
the
true
leuyng
of
the
Courte
,
and
of
the
worlde
is
,
when
the
courtier
is
yong
,
strong
,
in
fauor
,
riche
,
&
in
helth
,
then
with
good
harte
to
leaue
the
courte
,
to
fynde
in
other
places
honest
rest
after
his
degre
:
this
is
sayd
,
to
the
entente
that
he
whiche
leaueth
the
court
,
shuld
leaue
it
merily
and
without
repenting
,
for
feare
that
after
his
sorowe
is
past
,
he
would
be
ashamed
to
returne
to
the
same
,
where
he
may
chaunse
to
haue
great
busines
.
The
proude
and
vnpacient
men
do
many
thinges
in
a
day
whiche
he
had
nede
to
mourne
for
all
the
daies
of
their
life
.
A
colloricke
heade
is
nothyng
mete
for
the
court
,
for
if
he
will
be
reuenged
of
the
shames
,
iniuries
,
craftes
,
&
wronges
,
that
in
the
court
he
shall
fynde
,
let
him
trust
that
he
shall
suffre
more
in
one
houre
,
then
he
shal
be
able
to
reuenge
in
ten
yere
:
whosoeuer
leaueth
the
court
let
him
leaue
it
for
euermore
:
because
that
if
he
wyll
returne
to
it
again
,
&
leaue
his
dwellyng
in
the
countrey
,
he
may
be
likened
to
him
,
that
hath
a
continual
Ague
:
he
that
sinnes
&
mendes
,
and
after
returnes
againe
to
synne
,
that
synne
is
more
greuous
then
the
first
.
In
lykewise
to
leaue
the
court
,
and
after
returne
to
it
,
is
so
open
a
faulte
that
it
cannot
be
hid
,
excepte
ye
will
say
,
he
goeth
to
sell
vertue
and
to
bye
riches
.
To
our
purpose
,
if
we
shuld
aske
of
an
auncient
man
,
what
hath
been
the
whole
course
of
his
life
,
and
that
he
would
answere
vs
,
he
hath
enterprised
muche
,
wandered
,
spoken
,
searched
,
founde
and
lost
.
&c.
We
would
saye
that
his
life
hath
been
a
dissemblyng
folly
.
What
shall
we
say
then
of
our
inconstant
Courtiers
that
dayly
do
the
same
thynges
?
whiche
forgettyng
themselfes
,
for
the
obteinyng
of
a
litle
fauour
,
do
against
nature
,
flatter
,
&
begge
.
Remember
aboue
all
thynges
gentle
reader
here
&
els
where
,
that
I
speake
not
but
of
the
vndiscrete
Courtiers
that
can
not
refraine
their
appetite
with
an
honest
cōtentacion
:
which
thing
most
chiefly
causeth
many
sage
&
discrete
persons
to
geue
ouer
the
Courte
,
because
to
refraine
the
wil
of
the
heart
,
is
a
greater
paine
then
to
content
the
body
:
for
the
bodye
is
soone
werye
of
sinnyng
,
but
the
heart
is
neuer
satisfied
in
desiryng
:
One
may
knowe
easily
the
compleccion
of
the
bodye
,
but
the
mynde
of
the
heart
neuer
,
and
to
contentyng
lesse
,
for
the
heart
at
euery
instaunt
requireth
nowe
one
thyng
now
another
,
and
within
a
lytle
tyme
after
forgetteth
all
.
O
dissemblyng
heart
that
vnder
a
pretence
to
be
clere
and
loyall
,
make
men
to
iudge
that
hypocrisy
is
deuocion
,
ambicion
nobilitie
,
auarice
husbandrye
,
crueltie
zele
of
iustice
,
muche
bablyng
eloquence
,
folishenes
grauitie
,
&
dissolucion
diligence
:
To
conclude
,
that
euery
man
ought
to
knowe
how
muche
he
may
do
:
If
a
man
know
himself
to
be
ambicious
,
impacient
,
&
couetous
,
let
him
go
hardely
to
the
court
:
And
contrary
,
if
the
courtier
fele
his
nature
content
,
peaceable
,
and
desiryng
rest
&
quietnes
,
let
him
be
dwellyng
in
the
village
,
and
he
shall
well
knowe
that
he
neuer
knewe
how
to
liue
,
til
he
had
drawen
him selfe
from
the
Court.
The
.iiii.
Chapiter
.
¶
Of
the
life
that
the
Courtier
ought
to
leade
,
after
that
he
hath
lefte
the
Court.
MYronydes
a
wyse
&
sage
Philosopher
,
capitaine
of
the
Boheciens
sayd
,
that
the
prudence
of
a
man
was
aswell
knowen
by
retiryng
from
the
euil
,
as
in
chosyng
of
the
good
,
forasmuche
as
vnder
the
euil
commonly
the
good
can
not
be
hid
,
but
vnder
the
pretence
of
good
muche
euil
may
be
dissembled
:
euen
muche
lyke
as
the
Antheme
that
begynnes
Persignū
crucis
and
endes
in
Sathanas
&
Barrabas
:
In
like
maner
the
great
euils
haue
their
beginnyng
by
sum
pretence
of
fained
goodnes
,
in
suche
sort
that
they
be
counterfeict
muche
lyke
Maskers
,
wrapt
in
swetenes
as
purgyng
pylles
,
and
gilte
as
is
the
Rubarbe
.
Ther
is
no
man
I
thinke
so
mad
that
kepeth
not
himself
in
asmuche
as
he
can
from
catchyng
euil
,
&
specially
from
open
euil
:
but
contrarywise
,
it
were
wysedome
to
kepe
him
from
that
whiche
is
not
altogether
good
.
Alexander
the
great
,
causing
himselfe
to
be
healed
of
certain
woundes
that
he
had
receiued
in
battail
,
was
reproued
of
his
great
minion
Parmeno
for
puttyng
himselfe
into
great
hazard
in
the
warre
:
To
whom
Alexander
sayd
,
assure
me
my
frende
Parmeno
of
those
that
be
dissemblyng
frendes
,
for
I
wil
be
ware
of
them
that
be
my
open
enemies
.
Alcibyades
,
Agiselaus
,
Pyrrhus
,
Antigonus
,
Lentulus
,
and
Iulius
Caesar
,
were
so
circumspecte
in
these
thynges
that
they
wer
alwayes
vanquishers
,
and
died
in
the
handes
of
their
frendes
,
and
specially
because
thei
chose
the
good
and
lefte
the
euil
.
Then
he
that
leaueth
the
court
ought
not
only
for
to
see
what
he
leaueth
,
but
also
what
he
taketh
,
consideryng
that
asmuche
or
more
harde
it
is
to
contente
him
hauyng
left
the
court
,
as
it
was
afore
in
the
desiryng
to
be
in
the
court
:
what
profiteth
it
to
leaue
the
court
wery
&
troubled
,
If
thy
harte
can
fynde
no
rest
in
the
place
whether
thou
resortest
?
Our
bodye
fulfilled
with
meates
is
led
where
one
will
haue
it
,
but
the
heart
is
neuer
satisfied
with
desiryng
,
and
would
(
if
he
might
)
be
in
fauor
with
princes
of
the
courte
,
and
on
the
other
side
at
his
ease
in
the
village
.
If
the
Courtier
dayly
haue
mynde
beyng
at
home
of
the
passions
&
affliccions
that
he
had
in
the
Court
,
it
had
been
better
for
him
neuer
to
haue
gone
from
it
,
because
that
in
remembryng
them
,
the
thinkyng
is
more
prickyng
,
&
the
mynde
weaker
to
resist
them
.
In
the
court
of
princes
chaunses
often
tymes
that
lacke
of
money
or
other
great
busynes
makes
a
manne
abstayne
from
doyng
euil
,
the
whiche
beyng
after
in
his
house
doeth
suche
dedes
vnsemely
to
a
gentleman
,
that
they
deserue
to
be
corrected
,
yea
,
and
bitterly
punished
.
There
be
also
another
sorte
of
men
that
forsakes
the
court
to
be
more
idle
at
home
:
And
suche
would
be
reiected
from
the
nomber
of
honest
menne
,
seyng
they
chose
the
tyme
for
their
purpose
to
sinne
in
the
village
,
fearing
to
be
infamed
or
dishonored
in
the
court
,
and
yet
beyng
in
the
countrey
liues
with
shame
forgettyng
all
reason
.
To
exchue
these
thynges
he
that
leaueth
the
Court
ought
to
leaue
his
percialitie
that
he
hath
folowed
,
&
to
forget
all
passions
:
otherwise
he
shal
lament
the
swete
bitternes
that
he
leues
,
&
wepe
the
life
that
he
hath
begunne
.
This
is
true
,
that
in
the
court
are
more
occasions
geuen
to
destroy
a
man
,
then
are
at
home
in
his
owne
house
to
saue
him
.
It
is
a
small
profite
to
the
courtier
the
chaungyng
of
his
dwellyng
,
onles
by
the
same
meanes
he
chaunge
his
condicions
.
When
the
courtier
sayth
I
wil
withdrawe
me
to
my
countrey
and
go
dye
at
home
,
that
is
wel
sayd
:
but
this
shall
suffice
that
he
honestly
withdrawe
him selfe
,
without
determyng
there
dye
.
This
mortall
life
is
to
vs
so
prescript
,
that
we
ought
not
to
pursue
it
with
sorowe
,
but
that
we
are
bounde
to
amende
it
.
When
Iob
sayd
Tedet
animam
meam
vite
mee
,
it
was
not
for
that
his
life
weried
him
,
but
because
he
did
not
amende
it
.
Whosoeuer
leaueth
the
court
may
be
bolde
to
say
that
he
goeth
not
to
dye
:
but
may
wel
thinke
he
hath
escaped
from
a
fayre
prison
from
a
confused
life
,
from
a
daungerous
sickenes
,
from
a
suspicious
conuersacion
,
from
a
great
sepulchre
,
&
from
a
meruail
without
ende
.
The
wysest
beyng
in
the
court
may
say
euery
day
that
they
dye
,
&
at
their
houses
in
the
countrey
that
they
liue
.
And
the
reason
is
:
that
beyng
in
the
court
,
those
necessary
thynges
that
are
to
be
done
in
the
worlde
,
cannot
be
done
as
they
wold
,
nor
when
thei
wold
,
for
lacke
of
libertie
.
Yet
I
will
not
say
,
but
many
in
the
court
do
their
deuor
to
do
as
they
would
,
but
I
dare
affirme
that
for
x.
pounde
weight
they
haue
of
honest
will
,
they
haue
not
halfe
an
ounce
of
honest
libertie
.
Likewise
,
let
him
that
forsakes
the
Court
sette
a
wise
ordre
in
suche
busynes
that
he
hath
to
do
,
callyng
to
minde
that
to
go
home
to
his
countrey
nedes
no
long
iorney
,
but
to
dispoyle
him selfe
of
the
euil
clothes
of
the
Court
nedes
a
wonder
long
tyme
.
For
like
as
vices
increase
in
a
man
lytle
and
lytle
,
so
is
it
mete
to
roote
theim
out
by
litle
and
litle
.
This
ought
the
courtier
to
do
that
myndes
to
rule
himselfe
,
plucke
vppe
by
lytle
pieces
the
most
notable
faultes
that
are
in
him
,
and
so
pretely
dispatche
himselfe
of
one
vice
to
day
,
&
from
another
to
morow
,
in
such
sort
that
when
one
vice
takes
his
leaue
and
is
gone
,
straight
way
a
vertue
do
entre
in
his
steade
,
so
that
in
proces
he
may
go
from
good
to
better
.
The
courtier
is
in
nothing
more
deceiued
then
in
liuyng
a
wilde
&
wanton
life
,
parauenture
the
space
of
.xx.
or
.xxx.
yeres
,
thinketh
in
a
yere
or
two
to
become
sage
&
graue
,
aswell
as
though
he
applied
all
his
life
in
a
sobre
and
sad
life
,
&
truely
that
happeneth
for
lacke
of
good
iudgement
,
for
it
behoueth
without
comparison
a
lenger
tyme
for
to
lerne
to
cast
away
vice
,
then
to
learne
vertue
:
consideryng
that
vices
enter
our
gates
laughyng
and
goeth
out
from
our
house
wepyng
&
lamentyng
.
O
how
muche
greueth
it
the
ambicious
courtier
,
when
he
can
not
commaunde
as
he
was
wont
to
do
?
then
it
may
be
sayd
,
that
to
forsake
the
court
is
requisite
to
a
good
heart
,
&
a
good
witte
to
obtain
rest
.
Those
that
leaue
the
Court
for
fainte
heart
,
be
of
that
nature
that
it
is
more
painfull
to
theim
to
see
theimselues
absent
from
the
Court
,
then
their
ioye
was
when
they
wer
in
the
court
:
whiche
sayd
persons
if
they
would
folow
myne
aduice
and
counsel
should
not
onely
leaue
the
court
,
but
forget
it
vtterly
for
euer
.
And
farther
,
the
courtier
ought
to
retyre
in
suche
maner
that
he
may
come
to
the
Court
againe
,
if
the
feare
and
study
in
orderyng
of
his
housholde
constraine
him
eftsones
for
to
desire
the
voluptuousnes
of
the
court
.
In
the
heart
of
the
prudent
courtier
that
forsaketh
the
court
,
when
there
falleth
bishoprickes
or
other
great
offices
,
the
affeccions
&
desires
of
the
mynde
ryngeth
alarme
,
when
he
shall
thynke
if
I
had
not
come
awaye
so
soone
,
that
office
or
that
dignitie
had
been
myne
:
but
he
again
remembryng
that
many
suche
thinges
hath
fallen
which
he
had
not
:
so
like
wise
might
he
haue
in
the
stede
of
ye
,
a
plain
nay
,
of
that
which
fell
when
he
was
gone
.
Then
,
is
it
not
muche
better
to
ouerse
and
trauaile
his
owne
house
then
to
haue
suche
a
shamefull
denial
in
the
court
?
Therfore
destinies
of
the
courtiers
are
so
prompte
and
ready
that
for
the
moste
parte
one
is
constrained
to
dispise
them
more
by
necessitie
,
then
by
wyll
,
and
in
that
meane
while
their
purpose
is
at
an
ende
before
they
themselues
beware
therof
,
For
when
the
Courtier
commeth
to
be
at
a
quiet
with
himselfe
,
aboue
all
thynges
it
is
necessary
that
he
take
hede
of
pesteryng
of
himselfe
,
for
if
he
did
liue
in
the
court
euil
willed
,
let
him
take
hede
that
in
the
village
he
dispaire
not
,
by
reason
of
charge
,
the
importunitie
of
his
wife
,
of
his
children
,
&
the
sautes
of
his
seruauntes
,
the
grudgyng
of
his
neighbours
may
parcase
make
him
astonyed
:
but
to
thinke
again
,
that
beyng
escaped
from
the
daungerous
golfe
of
the
court
,
he
may
repute
him selfe
halfe
a
God
.
And
besides
this
,
none
ought
to
thinke
that
he
dwellyng
in
a
village
in
the
countrey
shall
putte
awaye
all
troubles
and
displeasures
,
for
it
can
not
be
,
but
he
that
neuer
fell
in
the
croked
&
rough
way
may
happen
to
stumble
in
the
plaine
way
&
breake
his
necke
:
and
therfore
it
is
necessary
that
he
retiryng
from
the
court
,
take
the
tyme
as
it
shall
come
,
that
he
may
the
more
occupie
him selfe
in
vertuous
exercises
,
to
the
entent
that
to
much
rest
,
and
to
much
busynes
of
minde
let
him
not
from
the
great
good
that
commeth
of
this
,
to
be
well
contented
with
a
litle
.
Ioyne
vnto
this
also
that
there
is
none
so
muche
enemye
vnto
vertue
as
is
idlenes
,
of
the
which
idlenes
be
taken
in
the
beginnyng
thoughtes
superfluous
,
&
consequently
the
distruccion
of
men
.
To
the
purpose
,
hath
not
the
courtier
cause
to
complaine
,
that
occupieth
himselfe
in
nothyng
but
in
eatyng
,
drinkyng
,
&
sleapyng
,
and
in
the
meane
season
his
better
age
,
that
is
to
say
,
his
youth
consumeth
away
,
as
the
fume
of
smoke
,
which
procedes
of
idlenes
in
the
court
&
doyng
nothyng
?
where
contrarywyse
he
might
in
the
village
exercise
himself
to
his
honor
,
and
to
the
helth
of
his
body
and
profite
of
his
neighbour
.
In
like
maner
also
,
the
courtier
that
withdraweth
himselfe
shuld
vse
the
company
of
suche
as
be
graue
,
sage
and
honest
,
to
the
entent
that
in
the
stede
of
lyers
,
flatterers
,
&
triflers
whiche
he
was
associate
withall
in
in
the
court
,
he
may
be
accompanied
in
the
village
with
wise
and
sage
frendes
,
or
at
the
hardest
with
good
bokes
,
whereby
in
the
lokyng
of
theim
he
may
vertuously
imploye
the
residue
of
his
tyme
,
and
with
sobrietie
entertaine
euery
man
,
that
men
may
saye
he
is
come
from
the
court
to
please
the
good
,
and
not
to
rule
.
And
if
parcase
one
would
make
him
baylief
in
the
village
or
other
publique
office
I
would
counsail
him
to
take
hede
therof
as
he
would
of
the
pestilence
,
for
because
there
is
nothyng
so
troubleous
nor
so
harde
a
burden
to
the
mynde
as
to
take
charge
of
the
rude
&
symple
.
I
do
not
saye
naye
,
but
that
he
may
and
ought
to
help
the
poore
commons
of
the
village
with
suche
knowlege
as
he
hath
lerned
in
the
court
,
or
had
before
he
came
ther
,
when
they
shall
haue
nede
,
either
for
loue
or
for
money
.
Also
if
they
be
at
variaunce
,
healpe
to
appeace
them
:
if
they
be
euil
intreated
,
defende
them
.
And
this
doyng
,
he
shal
be
estemed
of
the
commons
&
praised
of
the
wise
and
prudent
.
Aboue
all
thynges
beware
of
prodigal
apparel
,
superfluous
bāquetes
,
and
delicate
meates
,
and
strong
or
precious
wynes
.
For
the
absenting
from
the
court
ought
to
be
to
none
other
purpose
but
to
liue
soberly
in
the
village
,
or
els
shall
he
make
of
the
village
the
court
,
whiche
should
make
of
the
court
,
the
village
.
And
the
courtier
retyred
from
the
court
ought
to
haue
in
singuler
commendacion
mercy
,
as
to
visite
hospytalles
,
succor
the
poore
,
counsel
the
orphans
,
vysite
the
prysoners
,
reade
the
holy
scripture
,
and
finally
that
he
study
to
dispose
his
goodes
vertuously
duryng
his
life
,
for
when
he
shal
be
dead
,
euery
man
wyll
clayme
his
goodes
,
but
none
will
or
can
discharge
his
solle
.
And
moste
chiefly
,
let
the
courtier
that
goeth
from
the
court
occupie
himselfe
vertuously
to
dye
.
All
these
thynges
that
I
haue
sayd
,
let
no
man
say
that
they
be
more
easy
to
reade
then
to
do
:
for
if
we
wil
enforce
our selfes
,
we
are
more
then
our selues
,
&
do
not
then
well
remembre
our selfes
.
The
.v.
Chapiter
.
¶
That
the
rustical
life
is
more
quiet
and
restful
and
more
beneficiall
then
that
of
the
court
.
THE
village
whereof
we
speake
and
the
demaines
therof
,
Put
we
the
case
that
it
were
all
free
and
not
subiect
to
any
lorde
(
as
certain
there
be
so
preuileged
)
that
euery
man
there
lyeth
in
his
owne
house
,
whether
it
be
by
succession
,
or
that
he
haue
bought
it
freely
without
doyng
any
homage
or
seruice
to
any
man
.
This
I
dare
say
,
the
courtier
hath
not
,
nor
is
not
in
suche
free
libertie
in
respecte
of
suche
as
be
of
the
village
,
forasmuche
as
of
very
necessitie
,
my
maister
the
courtier
must
wyn
the
Marshal
or
Harbengar
of
the
lodging
,
and
must
receiue
at
his
handes
the
billet
to
come
to
his
lodgyng
,
&
that
late
ynough
&
wery
to
his
host
,
breake
open
dores
,
beate
doune
walles
,
disorder
houses
,
burne
implementes
and
sometime
bet
the
good
man
,
&
defile
the
wife
.
O
how
happye
is
he
that
hath
wherewithall
to
liue
in
the
village
without
troublyng
bothe
of
himself
&
many
sondry
places
,
without
seking
of
so
many
lodgynges
,
without
assayes
of
so
many
straunge
occasions
of
straunge
men
,
without
weping
of
any
person
,
but
is
content
with
a
meane
estate
,
and
is
deliuered
of
al
suche
breake
braines
.
Another
benefite
of
the
countrey
is
this
,
that
the
gentleman
or
burges
that
there
doth
inhabite
maye
be
one
of
the
chief
or
chefest
,
either
in
bountie
,
honor
,
or
auctoritie
,
the
whiche
happeneth
seldome
in
the
court
and
in
great
cities
and
tounes
:
for
there
he
shal
se
other
go
before
him
,
more
trym
and
more
braue
and
gorgious
then
he
,
as
well
in
credite
as
in
riches
,
as
wel
in
the
house
as
without
the
house
.
And
Iulius
Caesar
sayd
to
this
purpose
that
he
had
rather
be
the
first
in
a
village
,
then
the
second
in
honor
in
Rome
.
For
suche
men
as
haue
high
hartes
and
mindes
,
and
base
fortune
,
it
should
be
to
them
muche
better
to
liue
in
the
village
with
honor
,
then
in
the
court
ouerthrowen
and
abated
,
and
out
of
fauor
.
The
difference
betwene
the
tariyng
or
abiding
in
a
litle
place
and
a
great
place
,
is
that
in
the
litle
places
are
founde
muche
people
poore
and
nedy
,
of
whom
men
may
take
compassion
:
and
in
the
great
place
many
riche
men
wherby
enuy
is
norished
.
Another
commoditie
in
the
village
is
,
that
euery
man
enioyeth
in
quiet
and
peace
suche
as
God
hath
geuen
him
,
without
to
haue
suche
to
come
to
their
houses
,
that
shal
constraine
theim
to
make
extraordinary
expenses
,
or
to
haue
his
wife
seduced
,
or
his
doughters
defiled
The
occasions
to
do
euil
be
put
away
by
reason
that
he
is
occupied
in
the
mainteinyng
of
his
housholde
,
in
trainyng
of
his
doughters
,
in
teachyng
of
his
sonnes
and
chastenyng
of
his
seruauntes
.
He
liueth
confirmed
to
reason
and
not
to
his
opimon
:
and
liues
hopyng
to
dye
&
not
as
he
that
loueth
to
liue
euer
.
In
the
village
,
thou
shalt
not
care
for
good
lodgyng
,
nor
for
lookyng
to
thy
Horses
and
Mules
,
nor
for
the
ladyng
of
suche
thinges
as
they
shall
cary
.
Thou
shalt
not
here
the
criyng
of
pages
,
the
plaintes
of
the
stuardes
of
the
house
,
the
babling
of
the
Cookes
,
nor
thou
shalt
not
feare
neither
Iudges
nor
Iustices
lest
they
should
be
to
sore
against
the.
And
that
whiche
is
muche
better
,
thou
shalt
haue
no
craftie
knaues
to
beguile
the
,
nor
women
to
betray
the.
Another
benefite
of
the
village
is
this
,
that
he
shall
haue
tyme
enought
to
al
thinges
that
he
will
do
,
so
that
the
tyme
be
well
spent
,
tyme
enough
to
study
,
tyme
to
visite
his
frendes
,
tyme
to
go
a
huntyng
,
and
layser
when
he
list
to
eat
his
meat
:
the
whiche
layser
courtiers
commonly
hath
not
,
forasmuche
as
they
employe
the
moste
part
of
their
tyme
in
making
of
shiftes
to
play
the
courtier
,
or
to
speake
more
plainely
,
to
wepe
and
lament
,
in
suche
sorte
that
one
may
say
of
them
that
whiche
the
Emperour
Augustus
sayd
of
a
Roman
a
great
busie
broker
the
same
day
that
he
dyed
.
I
wonder
sayd
he
,
seyng
the
tyme
failed
him
to
chop
and
to
chaunge
,
how
he
could
now
fynde
layser
to
dye
?
Another
commoditie
of
the
village
is
this
,
those
that
be
dwellers
there
may
go
alone
from
place
to
place
without
to
be
noted
to
fall
from
grauitie
,
they
nede
no
Mule
nor
Horse
with
afoote
clothe
,
nor
page
to
wayte
of
my
lorde
,
or
damosell
to
waite
vpon
my
lady
.
And
that
were
scorneful
to
do
in
the
court
alone
:
And
without
daunger
one
may
walke
from
neighbor
to
neighbor
,
and
from
land
to
land
,
and
not
therby
minish
any
part
of
his
honor
.
Another
benefite
is
,
that
men
may
go
whether
they
will
,
clothed
simply
with
a
staffe
in
his
hande
,
a
swearde
by
his
side
,
or
hacbut
in
his
necke
,
and
if
he
be
wery
of
pounsed
hosen
,
lette
him
wear
sloppes
,
if
he
be
a
colde
lette
him
take
his
furred
goune
for
all
is
one
there
.
A
good
Gentleman
dwellyng
in
the
village
and
hauyng
a
good
cote
of
clothe
,
an
honest
Spanishe
cloke
on
his
backe
,
a
paire
of
lether
shooes
,
goeth
as
wel
trymmed
to
the
churche
as
doeth
my
lorde
the
courtier
to
the
court
with
his
goune
furde
with
Marters
or
Sables
.
A
man
of
the
village
of
what
sort
soeuer
he
be
,
is
in
as
good
case
,
that
rydeth
to
market
or
to
the
faier
to
make
prouision
for
his
housholde
vpon
a
mare
or
a
nagge
,
as
a
lorde
of
the
courte
is
at
Iustes
vpon
a
great
courser
trapped
with
golde
.
And
(
when
all
is
sayd
)
better
is
the
poore
ploughman
on
a
poore
asse
,
liuyng
as
he
should
,
then
the
riche
man
well
horsed
,
pillyng
&
doyng
extorcion
to
pore
honest
men
.
The
.vi.
Chapiter
.
¶
That
in
the
village
the
dayes
seme
more
long
and
the
ayer
more
clere
and
better
,
And
the
houses
more
easy
and
testfull
.
ENsuyng
styll
the
commodities
of
the
village
,
we
ought
not
to
forget
that
he
whiche
dwelles
there
,
among
other
thynges
hath
commoditie
of
good
corne
,
and
consequently
good
breade
:
contrary
to
this
,
in
the
court
,
&
specially
ingreat
tounes
they
haue
bread
for
the
moste
parte
euil
baked
or
euil
leuened
or
not
leuened
at
all
,
&
the
cause
is
,
forasmuche
as
in
the
tounes
often
there
lacketh
good
corne
,
or
good
corne
milles
to
grinde
the
corue
,
and
holsome
water
,
wherby
often
hath
come
among
them
great
death
.
Another
commoditie
in
the
village
is
this
,
the
whiche
I
praise
mnche
,
he
that
dwelles
there
,
may
practise
and
labour
in
mod
thynges
and
better
imploy
the
tyme
then
in
the
court
or
in
the
great
tounes
:
in
whiche
places
it
behoueth
a
man
to
dissemble
,
to
say
litle
,
ful
of
reuengyng
and
enuyous
,
a
treder
of
stones
and
pauementes
,
&
must
vse
grauitie
,
&
seldome
to
come
out
of
his
house
,
and
incessantly
be
graue
.
O
half
a
God
,
that
dwelles
in
the
village
,
where
liberally
one
may
speake
what
he
will
and
iest
with
his
neighbours
before
his
gates
and
his
wyndowe
.
And
this
may
he
do
without
euer
to
chaunge
or
to
lese
any
of
his
mean
auctoritie
Another
commoditie
is
in
the
village
,
that
those
that
dwell
ther
,
be
without
comparison
more
helthfull
and
lesse
sicke
then
in
the
cities
and
in
the
courte
,
because
in
the
great
tounes
the
houses
be
more
higher
,
and
the
stretes
narower
,
and
more
croked
,
whiche
is
the
cause
that
the
ayre
is
corrupt
and
makes
men
very
euil
at
ease
.
In
the
village
the
houses
stand
more
at
large
the
men
more
better
disposed
,
the
ayre
better
,
the
sunne
more
clere
,
the
yearth
more
swete
,
the
priuate
goodes
or
commons
better
ruled
without
contencion
,
&
the
exercise
more
pleasant
,
and
the
company
much
better
:
And
aboue
all
thinges
the
thoughtes
lesser
,
and
the
pastyme
more
great
.
Another
commoditie
in
the
village
is
,
that
ther
are
no
yong
Physicians
,
nor
olde
sicknes
:
And
contrary
to
this
,
the
courtier
is
constrained
there
to
part
his
goodes
in
fower
partes
,
the
one
part
to
flatterers
,
the
other
to
men
of
lawe
,
another
to
pottecaries
,
&
the
fowerth
to
the
Phisicians
.
O
well
fortunate
village
,
forasmuche
as
in
the
,
seldome
or
neuer
is
the
Frenche
pockes
named
,
neither
the
pausy
not
yet
the
goute
:
fewe
or
none
there
knoweth
what
is
a
Iulep
,
a
Pyll
,
a
Sirup
,
or
a
Thysan
,
nor
no
sodain
sickenes
.
What
will
ye
that
I
shall
say
more
of
the
village
?
And
if
it
were
not
,
but
that
for
necessitie
,
they
are
compelled
to
builde
there
litle
pretie
houses
,
ye
should
scant
fynde
one
of
theim
that
knewe
what
to
do
with
morter
&
stoones
?
And
sometyme
they
are
very
well
pleased
with
cabons
made
of
small
stickes
well
fastened
together
.
Another
commoditie
in
the
village
is
,
that
thee
daies
there
seme
to
be
more
long
,
and
they
are
better
imployed
,
then
they
are
either
in
the
court
or
in
the
great
tounes
,
forasmuch
as
the
yeres
passe
awaye
there
or
one
be
ware
,
and
the
daies
without
any
enoiyng
of
them
.
And
howbeit
that
the
sportes
and
pleasures
be
more
in
the
village
then
in
the
tounes
,
yet
so
it
is
that
one
day
shall
seine
lenger
there
then
shal
a
moneth
in
the
court
:
&
the
reason
is
,
for
that
the
village
is
happye
and
fortunate
,
forasmuche
as
there
the
Sunne
semes
to
make
a
more
longer
day
,
the
mornyng
is
redy
to
shew
,
and
the
night
slow
to
come
.
Scarcely
one
can
perceiue
the
dayes
slyde
away
in
the
court
:
In
the
village
if
it
be
perceiued
,
it
is
bestowed
with
honest
busynes
,
whiche
cannot
be
done
in
the
court
.
In
the
village
also
is
muche
more
plentie
of
wood
then
in
other
places
:
hay
,
strawe
,
Otes
much
better
chepe
then
in
good
tounes
.
Also
in
the
village
a
man
is
at
libertie
to
eate
his
meate
where
he
will
,
&
when
he
will
&
with
whom
he
will
:
but
in
the
court
they
eat
late
,
the
meat
euil
dressed
and
colde
,
and
with
out
sauor
,
and
that
whiche
is
worst
of
al
,
for
the
most
parte
,
he
must
eate
with
his
enemies
,
where
as
the
good
felowes
of
the
village
liueth
at
their
pleasures
and
without
suspicion
,
keping
their
thre
good
fashions
that
belongeth
to
good
repast
,
that
is
,
first
he
erneth
his
meat
next
that
he
eateth
his
meate
merely
,
&
thirdly
he
eateth
with
good
company
.
Another
commoditie
is
that
the
husbandman
of
the
village
hath
how
to
occupy
themselfes
and
howe
to
be
mery
,
whiche
the
courtier
,
nor
the
citezen
hath
not
,
thathath
enemies
enough
to
feare
,
and
fewe
frendes
to
company
withall
.
O
recreacion
pleasaunt
of
the
village
,
to
fishe
with
nettes
,
and
with
hokes
,
to
catche
birdes
with
lyme
,
to
hunte
with
dogges
,
to
catche
Conies
with
ferrettes
,
&
hayes
,
to
shote
in
the
crosbowe
and
the
hacbut
at
stokdoues
,
at
Mallardes
&
at
partryges
:
and
se
folkes
labor
in
the
vynes
,
raise
diches
,
amende
hedgees
,
to
iest
with
the
auncient
laborers
,
All
these
pleasures
haue
they
of
the
villages
,
whereas
the
courtiers
and
citezens
desire
it
&
cannot
haue
it
.
The
.vii.
Chapiter
.
¶
That
commonly
the
inhabitauntes
of
the
villages
be
more
happy
then
courtiers
.
ANother
commoditie
of
the
village
is
,
that
thei
do
fele
the
trauailes
lesse
on
the
workyng
day
,
&
reioyce
merely
on
the
holy
day
:
where
the
courtier
continually
vexed
with
weightie
and
troubleous
affaires
,
neuer
knoweth
when
it
is
holy
day
.
O
village
,
it
is
not
so
in
the
,
wheras
on
the
feastful
daye
the
clerke
ceaseth
not
to
tolle
the
bell
,
to
make
clene
the
churche
,
to
make
redy
the
alters
,
the
people
honestly
apparelled
the
feastes
commaunded
to
be
obserued
,
the
curate
preacheth
the
gospel
,
&
after
diner
they
make
mery
with
a
thousande
honest
pastymes
.
In
the
great
tounes
the
holydaies
are
knowen
when
the
wyfes
goe
gaye
,
when
they
slepe
long
in
the
mornyng
,
when
thei
play
after
diner
:
and
generally
when
they
consume
the
day
involupteousnes
and
vanities
.
Another
commoditie
is
this
,
that
where
the
courtiers
vse
to
eate
fleshe
and
corrupt
venison
&
wildefoule
that
is
long
kept
,
they
of
the
village
haue
their
meate
freshe
and
freshe
,
tender
and
holsome
,
&
as
one
may
say
,
in
good
season
:
that
is
,
housdoues
,
Partrige
,
pullettes
,
stockdoues
,
wodcockes
,
Fesauntes
,
fatte
Capons
,
Conyes
,
Hares
,
and
innumerable
victayl
of
al
sortes
.
And
ouer
and
besydes
this
,
to
their
great
aduauntage
they
haue
shepe
that
beareth
woll
to
clothe
them
,
good
mutton
to
eate
,
dong
to
make
fatte
their
ground
,
and
Kyddes
and
Goates
also
,
with
Oxen
to
labor
in
the
plough
,
and
kyne
to
milke
and
make
butter
&
chese
:
and
hogges
to
make
bacon
of
,
Coltes
for
to
norishe
&
horses
for
to
serue
them
and
for
to
sell
when
nede
requireth
.
And
another
priuelege
of
the
village
is
this
,
that
the
good
shall
be
honoured
for
a
good
man
,
and
the
vnthriftie
person
knowen
as
he
is
,
whiche
is
not
so
in
the
court
,
for
ther
is
noman
praised
for
that
he
deserueth
to
be
praised
,
but
because
he
hath
auctoritie
and
riches
.
O
how
muche
is
the
wise
man
honored
in
the
village
for
his
wysedome
and
good
counsail
?
how
many
tymes
is
he
thākeo
and
how
many
presentes
hath
he
?
If
parcase
one
of
his
neighbors
haue
any
goodfruit
in
his
garden
,
a
good
melon
,
a
good
pear
,
or
a
good
muscadel
grape
gladly
they
wyll
present
him
therewith
,
as
to
him
that
hath
deserued
it
.
Another
preuilege
of
the
village
is
this
,
that
euery
man
may
marry
his
daughters
to
his
equalles
and
neighbours
,
that
thereby
dayly
he
may
receiue
bothe
pleasure
and
seruice
,
the
whiche
the
courtiers
cannot
do
that
marry
their
doughters
so
farre
from
theim
,
that
for
the
most
part
they
lament
theim
or
they
see
theim
.
O
happy
inhabitor
in
the
village
that
fyndes
at
his
gate
husbandes
for
his
doughters
,
and
wiues
for
his
sonnes
.
He
maryeth
theim
nigh
to
him
that
he
may
easly
see
his
sonnes
in
lawe
,
his
litle
nephues
&
his
posteritie
:
he
is
beloued
of
them
,
succoured
in
his
affaires
,
serued
&
norished
in
his
sickenes
,
and
great
conforte
to
him
in
his
age
.
Another
commoditie
is
,
that
they
are
not
to
muche
carefull
nor
yet
ireful
or
enuious
:
whiche
commoditie
they
of
the
court
and
the
citezens
litle
tasteth
or
emoyeth
:
for
the
courtier
many
times
lacketh
money
,
when
his
great
affaires
shuld
be
brought
to
passe
.
I
say
therfore
o
happy
man
of
the
village
,
that
nedes
not
to
go
at
ten
of
the
clocke
to
the
palice
to
beg
counsel
,
to
speake
fayre
to
the
vssher
,
to
waite
vpon
the
president
&
make
flectamus
ienua
to
the
lawyer
,
and
flatter
the
kyng
and
his
counsel
,
&
the
Magistrate
:
but
hath
in
stede
of
these
Idolatries
for
a
happy
solace
,
the
benefites
of
nature
and
the
pastimes
therof
,
to
heare
the
shepe
blete
,
the
Bulles
to
bray
,
the
Horse
to
nese
,
the
Nityngales
to
syng
,
the
Thrushes
to
warble
,
the
Lynets
to
mynse
their
songes
,
dogges
to
runne
,
Lambes
to
leape
,
Kyddes
to
gambolde
,
&
see
the
Pekockes
set
vp
their
tailes
like
a
whele
,
Hēnesto
kecle
,
kockes
to
crow
,
&
a
thousand
kynde
of
beastes
and
birdes
play
and
sporte
.
Another
commoditie
is
,
that
in
the
village
one
may
be
there
more
vertuous
&
lesse
vicious
then
in
the
court
or
in
the
great
citiees
,
and
the
reason
is
,
for
that
in
great
companyes
we
shall
commenly
fynde
a
M.
that
kepe
men
from
good
doyng
&
x.
M.
that
will
moue
vs
to
do
euill
.
And
in
the
village
euery
man
sanctifyeth
the
Sabboth
day
,
kepeth
the
feastes
,
heareth
the
sermones
,
and
by
this
meanes
with
great
labor
worketh
his
soule
health
assisted
by
grace
.
Wherfore
the
village
is
to
be
praised
for
that
the
occasions
of
euil
,
and
of
our
destruccion
are
not
so
plentifull
and
practised
there
,
as
they
are
in
the
court
&
in
good
tounes
,
no
cokes
houses
to
make
them
licorous
:
nor
there
are
no
great
estates
wher
by
enuy
shuld
arise
:
there
is
no
choppyng
nor
chaungyng
by
vsury
:
whores
to
quarell
and
fight
for
,
nor
courtiers
to
torney
in
armure
,
nor
wanton
and
lewde
places
to
corrupt
youth
withall
:
nor
Iustices
to
feare
them
,
ye
(
and
that
best
of
all
is
)
no
couetuousnes
whiche
shuld
swalow
vp
and
deuoure
them
.
Another
preuilege
there
is
,
that
there
one
may
well
gather
some
good
,
and
spende
muche
lesse
then
in
the
court
.
For
euery
man
knowes
well
what
excessiue
expences
are
accustomed
to
be
wasted
in
the
court
,
&
specially
in
these
dayes
,
that
the
great
apparellyng
of
bankettes
is
suche
that
they
be
well
worthy
to
be
reformed
.
O
peaceable
peysauntes
which
nedes
not
the
tapettes
of
Flaunders
,
linnyng
clothe
of
Holland
,
siluer
plate
,
garmentes
imbrodered
,
Parcement
lace
purfilde
,
nor
yet
cariage
,
Mulettes
,
varlettes
to
conduct
them
,
nor
other
superfluous
attyre
:
but
contrary
in
stede
of
that
,
is
contented
with
a
lytle
houshold
well
ruled
,
with
a
grosse
table
and
a
fewe
plaine
stoles
to
eate
his
meate
vpon
,
with
dishes
of
Peuter
&
a
mattres
for
to
slepe
on
,
two
gounes
,
one
for
sommer
,
another
for
wynter
,
one
geldyng
in
the
stable
,
one
varlet
,
one
chamberer
to
do
him
seruice
:
As
muche
happy
is
a
gentleman
and
as
muche
honored
with
his
lytle
companye
in
his
house
in
the
village
,
as
is
a
riche
lord
in
the
court
with
his
great
pride
,
and
ruflyng
traine
.
The
.viii.
Chapiter
¶
That
in
princes
courtes
the
custome
and
vse
is
to
speake
of
God
and
liue
after
the
worlde
.
IN
the
Court
,
euen
as
there
is
no
rigorous
iustice
,
no
father
that
chastiseth
his
soonne
,
no
frende
that
correcteth
one
the
other
,
none
that
loueth
his
neighbor
,
no
bishop
nor
curate
that
gouerneth
well
his
shepe
nor
teacheth
them
after
the
gospel
:
So
he
that
is
by
nature
good
,
hath
great
libertie
to
be
naught
.
In
the
court
if
one
wil
be
an
adulterer
,
he
shall
haue
felowes
.
It
he
wil
be
a
quareller
,
he
shal
haue
helpe
,
&
that
with
suche
as
will
drawe
their
swordes
.
If
he
be
disposed
to
banquetyng
,
euery
where
he
shall
fynde
gluttons
,
If
he
will
manifestly
&
shamefully
lye
,
he
shall
fynde
companions
ready
that
will
approue
his
lies
:
If
he
wil
steale
,
he
shal
fynde
theim
that
will
instructe
him
many
wayes
therto
:
If
he
will
play
,
there
is
so
many
cardes
and
so
many
dise
,
that
it
is
shame
to
see
it
:
If
one
will
be
falsely
forsworne
,
he
shal
fynde
theim
that
will
geue
money
for
forswearyng
:
Fynally
,
if
he
wil
vtterly
geue
himself
to
do
euil
,
in
the
court
he
shall
see
perfecte
examples
.
To
the
court
resorteth
menne
of
diuers
nacions
,
some
for
busines
,
some
to
plede
or
to
serue
or
to
shewe
theim selues
,
whiche
persons
to
bring
themselues
acquainted
are
forced
to
folowe
the
seruauntes
of
suche
as
be
in
auctoritie
,
to
flatter
them
,
&
speake
fayre
to
them
:
and
to
folowe
the
companies
&
felowship
of
the
taberers
,
the
Pypers
,
the
Musycians
,
the
flatterers
and
mery
iesters
,
and
at
the
ende
become
God
knowes
poore
and
nedy
gentlemen
,
in
suche
wise
that
by
very
necessitie
thei
be
compelled
to
demaunde
rewardes
,
newyeres
giftes
and
new
apparell
.
And
yet
to
this
euil
felowes
,
they
whiche
geue
vnto
theim
any
good
thyng
,
geue
it
rather
to
get
themselfes
a
name
to
be
called
ful
of
magnificence
then
for
any
charitie
at
all
.
In
the
Court
,
fortune
is
inconstant
,
in
that
she
promiseth
,
and
yet
more
in
that
which
she
geueth
,
for
at
one
instant
,
wher
one
ryseth
,
another
falleth
,
one
is
borne
,
another
dyeth
:
he
is
auaunced
that
is
vnknowen
,
&
the
faythful
seruaunt
forgotten
,
he
that
will
abyde
is
not
recciued
,
but
he
that
will
runne
away
is
taken
in
:
fooles
are
beleued
and
wisemen
belyed
,
opinions
be
folowed
and
reason
let
passe
.
With
these
thinges
and
other
semblable
thynges
that
we
assay
and
se
in
courtes
of
princes
,
euery
manne
may
bee
assured
that
fortune
will
knocke
at
his
doore
,
though
for
the
moste
parte
the
Courtiers
find
soner
their
graue
then
any
good
fortune
,
&
specially
suche
that
vnder
colour
to
be
discended
of
a
good
house
,
go
to
the
court
to
bragge
,
and
yet
neuerthelesse
are
so
folishe
and
ignoraunt
,
that
it
may
be
sayd
they
are
more
mete
for
the
cart
then
for
the
spere
,
so
that
they
serue
in
conclusion
to
be
a
daliance
to
the
mockers
&
iesters
.
And
one
great
mischiefe
is
in
the
court
,
that
there
is
euer
hatred
amonges
the
princes
,
enuye
among
familiars
,
contencion
among
officers
and
with
their
felowes
.
And
among
these
there
neuer
lacketh
medlers
&
busye
bodyes
,
whiche
profite
more
thereby
,
then
some
doctor
of
diuinitie
doeth
by
prechyng
.
In
the
court
all
is
suffered
,
all
is
dissembled
withall
,
all
is
inconstant
,
and
all
sortes
desyre
there
to
liue
:
and
forasmuche
as
al
suche
desire
there
to
liue
,
it
is
impossible
but
there
must
be
lyers
,
players
,
slaunderers
,
and
a
great
nomber
of
naughtie
persons
.
In
the
court
the
euil
foloweth
the
euil
:
The
brauler
fyndes
one
to
braule
withall
:
The
adulterer
one
that
he
may
sinne
withall
:
The
thefe
a
companion
&
receiuer
:
The
sophister
a
babler
:
&
all
rekened
together
,
one
ready
to
deceiue
another
.
In
the
court
euery
man
praiseth
&
commendeth
himselfe
of
holy
purposes
and
noble
thoughtes
.
One
sayeth
he
will
withdrawe
himself
from
the
court
.
And
another
sayeth
he
wil
forget
his
suites
.
Another
sayeth
he
will
quenche
enemitie
.
And
when
they
haue
all
sayd
,
all
is
but
wordes
,
for
the
heart
thinketh
of
nothyng
els
but
of
the
world
.
None
knoweth
there
the
one
the
other
:
The
men
of
armes
go
without
harnys
:
The
prelates
without
their
rotchettes
:
The
priest
without
his
porteaus
:
The
doughter
without
her
mother
:
The
wife
without
her
husband
:
The
clerke
without
his
bokes
:
The
thefe
without
a
spye
:
The
glutton
from
table
to
table
.
The
vacabonde
from
place
to
place
,
and
the
baude
from
doore
to
doore
,
and
from
harlot
to
harlot
.
In
the
court
there
be
bishoppes
to
confirme
curates
,
to
baptise
&
chaunge
names
:
For
he
that
is
glorious
gay
,
thei
name
him
honorable
,
he
that
spendes
all
,
full
of
magnificence
,
the
cowarde
wise
,
the
valiaunt
ouerhardye
,
the
foole
ioyous
,
the
wyse
an
hypocrite
,
the
malicious
subtle
,
the
scoffer
eloquent
,
the
adulterer
Amorous
,
the
coueteous
mesurable
,
and
he
that
talketh
litle
,
a
foole
and
an
ignoraunt
person
.
The
.ix.
Chapiter
.
¶
In
the
court
fewe
amende
,
but
many
waxe
worse
.
IN
the
court
it
profites
litle
,
menne
to
be
wise
,
onlesse
they
be
fortunate
,
forasmuche
as
good
seruice
is
sone
forgotten
:
frendes
sone
faileth
and
enemies
augment
,
the
nobilitie
doeth
forget
it selfe
,
science
is
forgotten
,
humilitie
dispised
,
trueth
cloked
&
hid
,
and
good
counsell
refused
.
The
beste
mine
and
the
richest
Alcumet
that
the
Courtier
may
haue
,
is
to
haue
wynde
at
will
to
sayle
with
,
that
is
,
to
be
in
fauorwith
them
that
be
fauoured
,
till
fortune
laugh
vpon
him
:
for
the
condicions
and
fashions
of
entretainment
chaungeth
dayly
and
hourely
.
To
proue
this
true
,
Plato
neades
not
to
speake
,
nor
Cicero
to
sweare
,
forasmuche
as
afore
our
eyes
we
see
the
foole
become
wyse
,
the
meke
,
become
proude
,
the
sobre
a
glutton
,
the
pacient
a
brauler
,
and
the
deuout
an
euil
christian
man
.
In
the
court
it
is
a
great
busynes
and
trauaile
for
to
fynde
vertue
,
and
greater
daungier
&
peril
to
kepe
it
.
Is
not
humilitie
lost
among
theim
that
be
in
honor
,
or
pacience
among
wrong
doers
,
or
abstinence
among
gluttons
,
or
chastitie
amonges
women
,
or
rest
amonges
busynes
,
or
charitie
amonges
euil
willers
,
or
peace
amonges
sedicious
,
or
silence
amongest
bablers
,
or
good
witte
where
is
so
muche
folly
?
In
the
court
no
man
is
content
,
euery
man
complaineth
either
because
the
kyng
geueth
him
nought
,
or
because
the
prince
healpeth
him
not
,
or
that
one
or
other
is
euer
betwixt
him
and
home
:
He
complaines
of
the
porter
he
wil
not
let
him
in
:
of
the
treasurer
that
he
payeth
him
not
:
of
his
crediture
whiche
taketh
away
his
goodes
:
or
of
one
or
other
that
that
doeth
him
wrong
in
the
court
.
If
one
rede
a
letter
of
pleasure
,
he
shal
reade
an
hundreth
of
displeasure
.
The
wife
shall
write
to
her
husband
and
praye
him
for
to
come
home
,
that
he
may
marry
his
doughters
beyng
of
age
,
or
that
his
children
be
disobedient
,
that
his
frendes
hath
forsaken
him
,
and
that
by
ingratitude
thei
render
euil
for
good
,
and
werines
doth
assayle
her
on
al
sides
,
that
her
tenauntes
cal
her
to
the
lawe
,
that
his
goodes
be
spent
?
surely
he
shal
heare
suche
newes
,
so
that
for
two
grotes
that
he
geueth
to
the
bearer
of
the
letters
,
he
wold
gladly
haue
geuen
more
to
haue
hard
no
suche
newes
In
the
court
a
manne
doeth
many
thinges
by
necessitie
,
that
to
dye
for
it
he
would
not
do
in
his
house
:
he
dynes
and
suppes
with
his
enemies
,
he
speakes
with
him
that
he
neuer
knewe
nor
pleaseth
him
not
,
defendes
him
that
helpes
him
not
,
foloweth
him
that
honoureth
not
him
,
lendes
to
him
that
payeth
him
not
,
dissembles
with
him
that
doeth
him
iniury
,
and
trustes
to
him
that
beguiles
him
.
O
vnhappy
&
sorowfull
courtier
if
by
chaunce
he
growe
to
be
a
poore
man
,
no
man
will
succour
him
,
and
if
he
fall
sicke
no
man
visites
him
,
and
if
he
dye
he
is
incontinent
forgotten
:
if
he
be
vertuous
no
man
commendes
him
,
and
if
he
be
out
of
credite
no
man
regardes
him
.
In
the
court
there
is
nothyng
more
rare
nor
more
deare
to
recouer
then
vertue
,
nor
more
esy
to
fynde
then
the
aboundaunce
of
thre
maner
of
people
.
That
is
of
tale
bringers
,
of
flatterers
and
of
lyars
.
The
lyers
deceiueth
the
princes
.
The
flatterers
the
riche
menne
.
The
tale
bringers
,
those
that
be
in
fauour
.
The
women
,
deceiueth
the
men
.
The
coueteousnes
,
the
olde
men
.
The
pompe
the
prelates
.
The
auaricious
,
the
priestes
.
The
libertie
the
religious
,
ambicion
,
the
presumptuous
,
the
wise
confidence
in
men
,
&
al
they
ioyned
together
be
deceiued
by
fortune
.
In
the
court
men
employe
the
tyme
so
euil
that
from
the
tyme
the
courtier
doeth
arise
,
tyl
he
go
to
bed
,
he
occupieth
him self
aboute
nothing
but
in
askyng
of
newes
,
iettyng
aboute
the
stretes
,
write
letters
,
speake
of
the
warres
,
entertein
them
that
be
in
fauor
,
counsell
with
baudes
,
make
as
he
were
in
loue
and
lese
alwayes
the
tyme
.
In
the
court
more
then
in
any
other
place
the
thinges
are
slow
.
For
one
rises
late
,
and
worst
of
all
amendes
his
life
late
.
All
thynges
there
is
variable
and
chaungeable
and
inconstaunt
.
The
estates
chaunge
,
The
litle
assende
,
the
great
fall
.
The
widowes
there
be
marde
:
The
maried
be
defamed
:
The
maydens
be
shamed
:
The
good
spirites
be
dulled
:
The
valiaunt
becommes
cowardes
:
The
prelates
waxe
worse
&
worse
:
The
sciences
are
forgotten
:
The
yong
leese
their
tyme
:
The
olde
vndone
:
This
is
the
courtiers
life
.
He
is
not
worthy
to
be
a
courtier
onlesse
he
be
in
debte
and
oweth
to
the
draper
for
clothe
,
to
the
Merser
for
silke
,
to
the
taylor
for
the
makyng
of
his
apparell
,
to
the
goldsmyth
for
iewels
for
my
lorde
the
courtiers
lady
,
to
the
Iudges
for
the
disputyng
of
processes
,
to
the
seruauntes
for
wages
,
to
their
hostes
for
their
spence
.
There
is
to
muche
euill
counsail
euen
suche
as
is
more
then
the
halfe
way
ledyng
to
damnacion
.
The
.x.
Chapiter
.
¶
That
a
man
cannot
liue
in
the
court
,
without
to
trouble
him selfe
or
some
other
.
A
Courtier
doeth
many
thinges
,
more
for
to
say
,
I
do
as
other
men
do
,
then
for
any
neede
he
hath
so
to
do
.
He
bankettes
with
euery
man
because
he
will
not
be
called
an
hypocrite
,
Playes
because
he
would
not
be
named
a
nigard
,
&
companyes
with
many
,
because
he
wil
not
be
named
a
solitarymā
and
geues
to
rascall
&
naughtie
persons
because
he
would
not
be
euil
sayd
of
them
.
A
man
in
the
court
is
full
of
pensiuenes
and
passions
:
For
it
is
trueth
that
it
is
appropried
to
theim
of
nature
that
folowes
the
court
,
to
be
incessantly
tormented
.
He
muste
praise
his
felowes
,
dispraise
straungers
,
&
loke
vnto
therin
that
do
well
,
and
blame
them
that
do
euil
,
and
spend
at
large
with
his
felowes
,
and
against
the
enemeys
spare
not
his
owne
proper
life
:
And
all
this
must
he
do
because
he
will
not
be
dispraised
.
In
the
court
commonly
one
professeth
to
wayte
of
one
maister
,
but
for
all
that
he
must
serue
at
the
taile
of
dyuers
others
lordes
.
O
broken
heart
of
the
poore
courtier
that
must
nedes
serue
suche
as
knoweth
him
not
,
and
make
reuerence
to
theim
that
deserue
not
to
haue
it
,
and
must
saye
to
my
maister
the
officer
an
hundreth
tymes
a
day
,
sir
and
if
it
please
you
.
And
he
shall
answere
when
I
am
at
leyser
?
tary
a
whyle
at
the
doore
.
And
yet
we
must
call
him
maister
that
deserues
it
no
more
then
the
hang
man
that
strangles
a
man
with
a
halter
.
O
what
pitie
is
it
to
se
a
poore
suiter
in
his
nedy
busynes
folowe
the
kyng
from
toune
to
toune
euil
norished
&
worse
lodged
?
The
kyng
hath
busynes
,
the
counseler
is
defe
,
the
Almoner
hath
no
hande
,
&
he
that
thou
knowest
hath
no
eyes
:
And
without
money
and
extreme
pain
,
the
fiue
wittes
of
nature
be
laine
.
In
the
court
,
albeit
that
one
hath
no
enemies
whiche
is
seldome
seene
,
yet
is
it
trueth
that
many
tymes
his
owne
frendes
putte
him
out
of
quiet
,
forasmuche
as
if
the
courtier
will
take
rest
in
his
lodgyng
,
they
grunt
at
him
because
he
wyll
not
go
see
his
frendes
and
prouoke
him
to
go
folowe
the
princes
in
the
court
,
saiyng
,
that
the
rascall
and
the
varlettes
mocke
at
him
,
that
he
goeth
not
thether
and
shewe
himselfe
free
and
liberal
:
and
when
he
is
ariued
at
the
court
,
whiche
is
a
naturall
enemye
to
rest
,
and
a
desire
of
nouelles
,
then
must
he
chaunge
,
as
doeth
the
Egipcian
,
whiche
euery
day
seketh
a
newe
countrey
,
a
new
lodging
,
newe
apparell
and
conuersacions
,
busynes
and
fashions
of
menne
.
Lo
my
frende
and
the
reader
of
this
:
This
is
the
life
of
the
courtier
as
it
is
here
discribed
:
and
also
of
him
that
liueth
in
the
village
the
whiche
sayd
life
of
the
peysauntes
shal
be
muche
praised
of
many
,
and
chosen
of
a
fewe
,
because
that
euery
man
readeth
bookes
enough
&
the
more
he
readeth
the
lesse
he
chaungeth
of
his
euil
customes
.
And
to
cal
to
reason
why
it
is
so
,
it
foloweth
that
the
court
of
princes
is
good
but
for
two
maner
of
menne
,
for
theim
that
be
in
fauor
,
&
for
the
yong
whiche
be
yet
of
a
weake
iudgement
.
And
those
that
be
in
fauor
,
&
doeth
waite
dayly
,
se
themselfes
so
riche
,
so
feared
,
and
so
wel
accompanied
that
thei
fele
not
the
paine
of
the
court
.
And
the
pleasure
they
gette
thereby
makes
them
for
conclusion
forget
themselues
,
yet
notwithstandyng
for
all
this
,
it
is
impossible
but
that
their
braines
must
be
troubled
,
because
they
be
to
much
occupied
,
for
their
houses
are
to
ful
of
people
,
their
eares
full
of
lyes
,
their
toungues
to
much
troubled
with
answering
of
euery
man
,
their
heartes
to
much
pressed
to
ayde
and
helpe
them
that
they
would
helpe
,
&
other
.
And
finally
the
greater
in
auctoritie
&
credite
they
be
,
ye
shal
se
them
the
more
pensiue
&
the
more
astonyed
,
and
for
the
most
part
sooner
complaine
then
reioyce
:
but
commaunde
who
commaunde
will
,
haue
credite
who
will
,
the
truth
is
,
none
can
take
pleasure
of
his
goodes
,
without
honest
rest
Beside
this
those
which
be
sayd
to
be
in
fauor
,
are
euer
in
feare
to
be
put
doune
from
their
auctoritie
:
And
by
that
meanes
are
in
continual
drede
and
torment
,
the
whiche
is
an
enemy
mortal
to
quiet
and
rest
.
And
the
yong
in
like
case
(
as
I
haue
sayd
)
that
be
without
iudgement
&
blynded
in
vices
,
do
not
knowe
nor
see
the
incommodities
of
the
court
,
nor
care
,
neither
for
fauor
nor
honor
,
but
bounden
&
drounde
in
volupteousnes
and
vices
,
passe
the
better
parte
of
their
daies
in
the
schoole
that
is
nothing
worth
,
vnder
the
maister
of
pardicion
.
The
.xi.
Chapiter
.
¶
That
in
the
court
those
that
be
graue
are
praised
and
well
estemed
,
and
the
other
that
doeth
the
contrary
not
regarded
.
THe
courtier
shuld
not
aquaint
himself
with
vaine
and
ydle
persons
,
that
he
be
not
reputed
to
be
suche
as
he
companieth
withall
.
For
it
had
not
been
enough
for
him
to
saye
he
must
nedes
do
there
asother
do
and
dissemble
as
other
dissembles
.
Neither
behoueth
it
him
not
to
cloke
his
naughtie
doyng
,
in
goyng
secretely
to
suche
as
be
naught
,
for
why
?
the
wittes
of
the
courtiers
are
so
fine
,
that
they
knowe
not
onely
what
one
sayeth
but
what
he
thinketh
.
There
is
neither
litle
nor
great
but
menne
spye
him
whether
he
goeth
,
from
whence
he
commeth
,
&
where
he
abideth
,
with
whom
he
talketh
,
in
whom
he
trusteth
,
and
what
he
wil
do
,
so
wel
,
that
the
curtens
may
hide
a
person
,
but
to
hide
the
vices
of
the
courters
is
impossible
.
The
courtier
also
ought
not
to
brag
and
crake
that
thynges
shal
be
as
he
would
,
he
may
not
presume
to
speake
to
the
kyng
and
require
audience
as
he
himself
lust
:
for
he
that
foloweth
the
court
muste
be
as
one
that
hath
no
mouth
to
speake
,
nor
handes
to
be
auenged
withal
,
beyng
well
assured
that
there
is
no
more
loue
in
the
court
,
then
are
clothes
vpon
a
bare
horse
.
For
he
that
is
in
the
court
,
and
is
not
armed
with
pacience
,
it
had
been
muche
better
for
him
not
to
haue
come
out
of
his
countrey
,
for
beyng
a
quareller
&
sedicious
felow
,
in
the
court
he
shal
be
hated
,
and
paraduenture
banished
from
thence
,
&
then
his
returning
shal
be
to
his
vtter
shame
.
Malice
&
displeasures
take
often
an
end
in
the
village
,
but
in
the
court
is
alwayes
an
ouerplus
of
theim
.
What
is
the
cause
?
Fortune
I
say
of
her
,
whiche
hath
the
rule
ouer
them
who
counteth
for
a
gooddesse
,
whiche
is
more
feared
of
a
folishe
opinion
,
then
for
any
power
she
hath
ouer
men
.
The
courtier
also
ought
not
to
condiscende
to
that
whiche
his
sensualitie
requireth
,
but
to
that
whiche
reason
doeth
persuade
him
vnto
,
forasmuche
as
the
one
demaundes
more
then
nedes
,
&
the
other
contentes
him
with
lesse
then
he
hath
.
Forasmuche
then
as
in
the
court
,
ther
is
so
many
tables
to
glutton
on
,
so
many
newe
founde
playes
to
play
at
,
so
many
quarelles
to
fight
for
,
so
many
matters
to
pleade
,
there
is
no
cause
to
meruaile
if
the
sage
be
cherished
,
and
the
dissolute
person
blamed
.
The
good
man
within
the
court
,
is
as
a
nutte
within
the
shale
,
&
mary
within
the
bone
,
&
a
perle
within
the
cokle
,
and
a
rose
among
the
thornes
.
I
do
not
say
reder
,
for
the
qualitie
and
quantity
of
the
malice
of
the
court
,
that
all
be
vicious
that
be
ther
:
God
forbid
that
it
so
shuld
be
,
but
when
I
call
to
remembraunce
we
be
all
mortall
men
,
I
thynke
it
in
maner
impossible
to
ariue
safe
into
the
porte
,
among
so
many
Syllas
and
Caribdes
.
Ye
will
say
that
the
wily
and
the
subtle
person
there
waxeth
riche
,
and
that
the
great
summes
of
money
be
there
:
I
confesse
it
,
&
I
would
say
your
saiyng
shuld
be
good
if
they
that
were
of
the
best
knowlege
&
the
most
verteous
nomber
wer
auaunced
for
their
prudence
,
as
the
other
be
by
hazard
and
chaunce
or
by
theft
,
for
the
reward
of
vertue
,
is
not
like
to
the
rewarde
of
fortune
.
Item
the
courtier
ought
not
to
geue
presentes
,
nor
lightly
take
,
for
why
?
for
to
geue
him
that
deserues
it
not
,
there
lackes
wysedome
.
And
to
receiue
of
him
that
one
ought
not
,
is
a
thyng
but
vile
.
Who
that
will
exercise
liberalitie
,
ought
to
considre
what
he
geueth
,
and
to
whom
he
geueth
:
for
it
shuld
be
but
folly
to
geue
that
whiche
one
may
not
,
&
that
whiche
he
himselfe
nedes
.
And
one
ought
to
considre
the
tyme
and
the
end
and
the
season
,
and
wherfore
he
geueth
.
And
if
the
courtier
geue
somethyng
ouer
liberalitie
&
without
iust
cause
of
recompense
of
him
whiche
is
out
of
credite
and
in
the
tyme
that
he
beginneth
to
declyne
.
Is
not
then
the
gifte
euil
imployed
?
is
it
not
to
be
lamented
that
one
geues
soner
to
the
flatterer
to
tel
some
feined
or
liyng
tales
,
or
to
a
iester
to
make
them
laugh
,
or
to
a
common
lyer
to
make
them
talke
,
or
to
a
pleasaunt
felow
to
inuent
a
lye
,
rather
then
to
a
trustie
seruaunt
that
hath
all
the
daies
of
his
life
deserued
to
haue
thanke
for
his
good
seruice
?
Yet
for
all
this
,
myne
entencion
is
not
to
persuade
great
men
that
they
shuld
not
geue
to
all
men
:
but
I
say
the
true
seruauntes
ought
to
be
preferred
,
because
it
is
more
meter
that
their
seruice
should
be
rewarded
,
then
the
presentes
of
straungers
considered
.
When
a
man
geueth
to
straungers
,
the
seruauntes
seyng
the
same
drawe
backe
:
ye
may
be
assured
that
they
not
only
murmure
at
that
whiche
is
geuen
,
but
also
accuse
him
of
his
vngentle
dede
,
and
become
a
mortal
enemy
to
him
that
the
thing
is
geuen
vnto
.
The
giftes
makes
a
man
muche
subiecte
that
receiueth
them
,
for
assone
as
any
man
doeth
take
of
another
an
horse
or
a
goune
,
or
often
sitte
with
him
at
his
table
,
he
bindes
himselfe
therby
to
beare
him
fauour
,
to
defende
his
quarel
,
to
kepe
him
company
,
to
take
his
parte
,
and
to
loue
that
that
he
loueth
.
And
reason
wil
,
that
sithens
one
feleth
profite
of
another
that
he
be
not
vnkynde
,
howbeit
let
a
manne
beware
to
bind
himself
so
muche
vnder
the
wil
of
other
men
,
that
he
therby
forgetteth
his
owne
honestie
.
Many
yong
children
discended
of
an
honest
house
go
to
the
court
&
take
with
them
a
good
parte
of
their
goodes
and
consume
the
same
plaiyng
,
eatyng
,
and
drinkyng
,
and
vsyng
baudry
&
adultery
vnder
colour
of
learnyng
their
behauior
:
and
resorte
to
the
great
mennes
houses
,
to
no
other
intent
,
but
to
be
much
made
of
of
them
wher
they
take
a
great
repast
,
and
afterward
so
play
the
yong
wanton
fooles
,
that
they
spende
rent
,
honor
and
all
.
And
when
the
purse
is
flat
,
their
office
is
to
go
all
the
day
in
the
stretes
to
the
churches
and
to
the
palaice
to
aske
newes
&
tidynges
,
only
to
pype
out
lyes
and
fables
at
the
lordes
boordes
,
&
all
for
to
go
scot
fre
.
And
ther
is
a
sort
of
yong
men
in
the
court
,
yea
I
may
say
to
you
,
of
those
that
haue
beardes
,
that
neither
haue
master
nor
entertainers
,
that
as
soone
as
a
straunger
commeth
to
the
court
,
straight
waies
thei
boorde
him
,
saiyng
that
they
wyll
shewe
him
the
fashions
&
maners
of
the
court
,
the
pleasures
of
the
palaices
,
the
maner
how
to
kepe
him
from
deceiptfull
felowes
,
and
to
entertaine
yong
gentlewomen
.
And
thus
the
newecome
courtier
that
is
yet
a
foole
,
in
the
meane
season
shal
be
handled
in
suche
wise
that
now
goeth
a
goune
,
now
a
coate
,
another
tyme
a
horse
,
&
sometyme
purse
and
all
.
And
there
is
another
sorte
of
men
in
the
court
that
busieth
themselfes
with
so
great
auctoritie
&
with
so
litle
wit
,
that
after
they
haue
vsed
the
company
of
some
great
lorde
,
thei
wil
send
him
a
lettre
by
their
page
,
saiyng
they
be
poore
gentlemen
,
kynsfolke
to
some
great
men
,
and
that
they
be
there
suyng
for
some
office
,
and
that
they
haue
a
payment
in
hand
,
wherfore
they
require
him
to
lende
him
a
certain
sum
of
money
:
And
yet
are
they
in
no
suche
necessitie
,
but
onely
to
get
somewhat
,
either
to
buye
a
gay
coate
,
or
a
horse
,
or
to
kepe
a
whore
.
There
is
another
sort
of
false
&
beggerly
courtiers
,
the
which
after
they
be
ones
vsed
to
the
court
,
they
go
from
churche
to
churche
to
aske
for
Gods
sake
,
saiyng
they
be
poore
suiters
&
that
thei
loue
better
to
begge
then
to
robbe
,
commending
themselve
to
the
priestes
to
begge
for
them
on
the
poore
parisheners
when
they
preache
,
&
so
take
against
reason
the
good
that
poore
men
should
haue
.
There
is
another
sorte
of
haunters
in
the
court
,
that
goe
from
one
house
to
another
of
the
great
estates
and
lordes
,
counterfaityng
to
be
diligent
seruauntes
,
flatteryng
the
steward
,
the
butler
,
and
the
cooke
,
&
liue
of
that
whiche
is
lefte
of
the
diners
,
and
goe
their
waies
with
their
pockettes
and
their
sleues
full
of
meate
for
so
suppe
with
all
.
And
ther
is
another
maner
of
sorte
that
go
two
and
two
&
thre
and
thre
together
in
a
mornyng
to
spye
and
see
if
there
be
any
thyng
euil
kepte
,
and
with
that
to
looke
and
to
prye
if
a
sworde
or
a
Spanishe
cloke
,
or
a
purse
be
fallen
aside
,
if
ther
be
,
thei
syng
in
a
mery
note
this
is
pro
nobis
.
Other
there
be
that
for
to
conduict
&
defend
a
whore
when
the
court
remoues
(
as
one
may
say
more
then
ruffians
)
they
liue
of
the
gaine
of
that
miserable
woman
.
Another
hath
falsdise
,
false
marked
cardes
for
to
deceiue
the
innocentes
,
wynne
their
money
,
&
lccse
their
owne
soules
.
And
ther
lackes
not
in
the
court
olde
women
&
wrinckled
trottes
that
after
their
haruest
is
past
,
cloke
the
synnes
of
other
,
and
beguile
those
that
be
chast
and
vndermine
such
as
be
maried
,
hurt
their
neigbours
,
sell
maydens
to
whoredome
for
lucre
,
and
do
norishe
them
therefore
,
wherof
folowes
that
these
olde
whores
sometyme
sell
wenches
better
chepe
then
fishers
do
lamperyes
.
O
beholde
the
company
of
the
court
,
the
holynes
,
the
religion
,
the
brotherhed
,
and
finally
the
foule
disorder
of
the
same
.
And
I
say
for
my
parte
,
go
to
the
conrt
who
will
and
there
abyde
,
and
triumphe
who
will
:
as
for
my selfe
I
do
remembre
I
am
a
christen
man
,
and
that
I
must
accompt
for
the
tyme
I
haue
lost
,
&
therfore
I
had
muche
rather
to
labor
and
dygge
&
delue
out
of
the
court
and
be
saued
,
then
to
be
nighe
the
kyng
,
my
conscience
not
cleane
nor
pure
.
The
.xii.
Chapiter
.
¶
That
in
the
court
of
princes
all
say
we
will
do
it
,
but
none
do
it
.
BY
as
the
great
Philosoper
of
great
renoume
amonges
the
Grecians
,
said
vpon
a
tyme
to
the
great
Alexander
Quiliber
in
suo
negotio
,
hebetior
est
quam
in
alieno
,
meanyng
,
that
commonly
euery
man
is
more
blinded
in
his
owne
affayres
then
in
another
mannes
.
And
he
so
sayd
by
very
good
reason
,
for
that
ther
be
menne
,
whiche
for
to
geue
a
wise
deliberate
and
sage
counsel
for
to
remedy
a
sodain
mischiefe
,
haue
excellent
wittes
,
so
that
it
be
in
another
mannes
matter
.
But
in
their
own
affaires
they
haue
neither
witte
to
gouerne
their
owne
houses
,
nor
stable
mind
to
couer
their
own
miserye
.
Cayus
Iulius
Caesar
,
Octauus
Augustus
,
Marcus
Antonius
,
Septimius
Seuerus
,
Marcus
Aurelius
,
and
other
in
great
nombre
,
that
were
estemed
in
their
priuy
busynes
,
that
is
to
say
,
in
the
rulyng
of
the
common
wealth
,
wonders
wittie
:
but
we
reade
that
they
were
so
negligent
in
gouernyng
their
owne
housholdes
,
their
wiues
&
their
family
,
that
it
is
muche
to
their
shame
and
reproche
:
therfore
suche
be
sene
often
to
be
good
to
rule
the
common
welth
,
that
be
nothyng
worth
to
gouerne
their
owne
,
and
had
nede
(
if
it
might
be
honestly
sayd
)
to
haue
a
ruler
to
rule
them
.
Plutarch
reporteth
that
the
noble
&
valiant
capitain
Niseas
neuer
lost
battell
,
but
onely
in
trustyng
to
muche
to
his
owne
witte
&
iudgement
.
And
if
we
beleue
Hiarcas
the
Philosopher
,
it
is
more
hurtfull
to
a
manne
to
stand
in
his
owne
conceipt
,
then
to
phansye
a
woman
:
for
in
louyng
a
woman
,
a
manne
hurteth
but
himselfe
:
but
in
stickyng
to
muche
to
his
owne
phantasy
,
it
may
redound
to
the
hurt
of
a
whole
common
weale
.
All
this
that
is
sayd
,
shal
be
to
admonish
them
that
tary
in
the
court
,
to
be
conuersant
with
the
graue
and
sage
persons
,
&
with
suche
as
be
learned
,
and
suche
as
haue
good
experience
:
For
the
graue
,
learnes
vertue
:
Scilence
is
a
certaine
guide
to
a
man
:
&
experience
,
is
the
consummacion
of
all
.
For
although
the
courtier
beyng
young
,
be
neuer
so
sage
,
graue
,
riche
or
in
fauor
,
he
shall
nede
a
father
to
counsail
him
,
a
brother
to
persuade
him
,
a
guyde
to
teache
him
the
way
,
and
a
maister
to
instruct
him
,
and
a
corrector
to
punish
him
:
because
the
mischiefes
,
craftes
,
&
wickednes
doeth
so
abounde
in
the
court
that
it
is
impossible
that
a
man
alone
may
defende
him
from
all
,
and
vtterly
resist
theim
.
For
in
the
court
there
is
none
so
high
awaye
to
destruccion
as
for
a
man
to
be
gouerned
onely
by
himselfe
,
&
haue
his
owne
swinge
.
The
court
is
a
perpetuall
dreame
,
a
botomelesse
whorlepole
,
an
inchaunted
phantasy
,
and
a
mase
:
when
he
is
in
,
he
cannot
get
out
till
he
be
morfounded
.
One
of
the
best
remedyes
that
the
courtier
may
get
against
so
many
euils
,
is
to
haue
a
faythfull
frende
that
flatters
him
nothyng
,
but
that
rather
will
correct
and
rebuke
him
if
he
goe
home
late
,
if
he
walke
by
night
,
if
he
be
a
false
player
or
whorehunter
.
But
where
shall
we
fynde
suche
a
frende
?
For
we
se
the
frendship
in
the
court
is
commonly
vsed
among
yong
courtiers
in
this
sort
,
that
so
sone
as
ii
.
or
.iii.
are
met
together
,
strayt
fall
they
to
quarellyng
,
fightyng
,
ryoting
,
so
that
there
is
rather
occasion
geuen
to
do
euil
,
then
good
counsail
to
refraine
.
Therfore
he
that
haunteth
the
court
,
it
wer
mete
that
he
had
some
frende
to
whom
without
feare
he
might
common
of
his
busynes
,
&
that
the
multitude
be
also
to
him
common
frendes
,
but
aboue
al
one
perfite
frende
.
I
would
also
he
should
kepe
himselfe
from
the
conuersacion
of
sedicious
persons
,
from
collericke
persons
&
vacabondes
,
for
the
rascall
sorte
will
slaunder
and
say
,
the
kyng
payeth
naught
that
those
be
in
fauour
haue
all
the
swynge
,
that
the
officers
are
proude
,
that
mens
seruice
is
euil
recompensed
,
&
the
good
vnknowen
:
With
these
wordes
&
suche
other
like
the
pore
courtiers
forgettes
to
serue
&
begynne
to
murmure
.
Also
the
good
christian
man
ought
not
to
ceasse
to
amende
his
life
,
for
that
he
hopeth
to
liue
long
:
although
those
that
be
olde
there
occupy
themselfes
rather
in
newe
pastance
,
then
to
correcte
their
olde
synnes
.
Ye
shal
fynde
theim
that
promise
euery
day
for
to
amende
themselfes
in
their
age
,
&
yet
neuertheles
dye
there
worse
then
deuils
:
the
cause
is
that
they
all
say
we
wil
do
and
yet
neuer
do
.
There
be
some
old
dotyng
fooles
,
whiche
shal
bragge
of
the
kinges
&
princes
whiche
they
haue
serued
,
of
the
chaungyng
of
offices
that
thei
haue
seen
,
and
of
the
warres
passed
,
and
of
the
great
mutabilitie
&
chaunge
of
fortune
.
And
yet
notwithstandyng
all
that
they
haue
seen
and
endured
,
they
be
as
gredy
of
gaine
,
and
delight
in
yong
and
foolishe
pastymes
as
though
thei
wer
newe
to
begyn
to
liue
.
Alas
miserable
men
that
in
perpetual
trauail
,
and
continuall
sorowe
,
and
infinite
trouble
haue
passed
their
liues
,
euen
from
their
fyrst
tyme
of
knowlege
(
whiche
is
,
xv
.
yeres
)
to
the
time
of
manhod
,
and
then
from
that
tyme
to
their
dotyng
age
,
&
all
to
haue
gained
riches
and
increace
in
renoune
:
not
in
all
this
tyme
once
remembre
that
in
the
steade
of
a
true
and
perfite
rest
,
they
prepare
for
theim selues
a
hell
both
for
body
and
soule
.
The
courtier
also
ought
not
lightly
to
complaine
of
aduersities
whiche
many
tymes
come
to
him
,
thinking
that
oftentymes
(
though
it
be
our
owne
faulte
)
we
do
complaine
of
thinges
whiche
should
complaine
of
vs
,
if
they
had
a
toungue
.
What
tyme
a
man
seeth
him self
base
and
is
litle
estemed
,
or
poore
&
forgotten
of
the
riche
,
and
deceiued
of
that
he
looked
surely
to
haue
,
incontinent
he
curses
his
fortune
and
lamentes
his
euil
:
In
the
meane
while
it
is
not
fortune
that
hath
thus
serued
him
,
but
him selfe
that
hath
serched
it
and
founde
it
.
Suche
a
manne
thinkes
to
be
quickely
riche
,
honored
&
estemed
,
that
shortely
after
seeth
him selfe
poore
,
ouerthrowen
,
dispised
,
and
blamed
of
all
men
,
and
cannot
reuenge
himselfe
,
but
onely
say
,
he
is
vnfortunate
&
vnhappy
to
the
worlde
,
&
that
it
is
mishap
:
whiche
is
not
so
,
but
his
owne
folly
that
makes
him
to
leaue
the
suretie
of
his
house
and
prepareth
himself
to
the
hazard
of
fortune
,
and
therfore
hath
no
cause
to
complain
but
of
himself
whiche
chose
the
waye
to
it
.
The
best
is
,
after
that
a
man
purposeth
himselfe
to
continue
in
the
court
,
that
then
paciently
he
awayte
and
tarye
the
tyme
of
auauncement
or
auauntage
that
he
looketh
for
:
or
els
if
he
cannot
paciently
dissemble
with
the
tyme
,
let
him
not
remaine
there
,
for
contentacion
consisteth
not
in
the
place
,
but
in
the
ambicious
heart
,
&
troubled
mynde
.
And
take
this
for
a
trueth
,
ye
that
be
courtiers
that
if
.ii.
or
.iii.
thinges
succede
to
your
purpose
prosperoussy
,
there
shall
come
a
hundreth
ouerthwarte
the
shynnes
,
either
to
you
or
to
your
frendes
.
For
notwithstandyng
that
the
courtiers
doynges
&
desyres
come
to
good
passe
,
there
shal
be
thinges
for
his
frend
or
felow
that
goeth
all
awrye
,
wherby
often
tymes
he
lamtēes
the
hurt
of
his
frende
,
&
that
whiche
is
denied
him
more
then
the
pleasure
he
hath
of
his
owne
happe
:
wherfore
there
is
alwayes
lacke
or
faute
of
contentacion
.
Wyll
ye
any
more
?
the
beyng
in
court
or
out
of
the
court
,
ye
shal
here
no
nother
matter
,
then
,
what
newes
at
the
court
?
what
doeth
the
kyng
?
where
is
he
?
where
is
the
counsail
?
and
where
lyeth
the
officers
of
the
houshold
?
and
this
is
most
true
,
that
they
which
desyre
to
here
suche
newes
,
are
as
desirous
to
see
newes
:
And
by
this
meanes
the
poore
wene
to
make
theimselues
riche
,
the
riche
the
more
to
commaunde
,
and
the
lordes
the
more
to
rule
.
O
what
a
pleasure
is
it
for
them
to
be
in
the
court
hopyng
that
the
kyng
may
knowe
them
,
that
those
that
be
fauor
may
dye
,
or
that
fortune
may
chaunge
,
and
that
they
come
forwarde
?
And
it
foloweth
,
that
in
tariyng
the
tyme
,
the
tyme
deceiueth
them
,
&
then
death
taketh
theim
vnware
.
The
.xiii.
Chapiter
.
¶
That
there
is
a
smal
nombre
of
them
that
be
good
in
the
Court
and
a
great
nombre
of
good
in
the
common
wealth
.
PLutarch
in
the
boke
intitled
De
exilio
telleth
of
the
great
Kyng
Ptolome
that
hauyng
on
a
daye
at
supper
with
him
seuen
Ambassadours
of
diuers
prouinces
,
moued
a
question
to
them
,
whiche
of
al
their
common
welthes
gonerned
them selues
with
best
lawes
and
customes
?
The
sayd
ambassadours
,
were
Romayns
,
Carthaginiens
,
Ciciliens
,
Rhodiens
,
Atheniens
,
Lacedemoniens
,
&
Cicioniens
:
among
whom
the
question
was
effectually
debated
afore
the
kyng
,
forasmuche
as
euery
one
of
them
beyng
affeccionate
to
his
countrey
aleged
the
wisest
reason
that
he
could
.
The
good
king
desirous
to
knowe
the
trueth
&
the
resolucion
of
the
question
commaunded
that
euery
one
of
the
Ambassadours
should
tell
of
the
beste
lawes
or
customes
that
were
in
their
common
welth
thre
pointes
,
and
that
therby
it
might
esely
be
sene
whiche
was
better
ruled
and
deserued
more
praise
.
Then
the
ambassadour
of
the
Romaynes
beganne
and
sayd
,
In
Rome
the
temples
be
honored
,
the
gouernours
obeyed
and
the
euil
chastised
.
The
ambassadour
of
Carthage
sayd
in
Carthage
the
noble
men
neuer
cease
to
prepare
to
the
warre
,
the
poore
people
to
traueil
,
and
the
Philosophers
to
teache
.
The
ambassadour
of
the
Ciciliens
sayd
,
In
Cicill
is
true
iustice
executed
,
trouth
is
beloued
,
and
equalitie
praised
.
The
Ambassadour
of
the
Rhodiens
sayd
,
In
Rhodes
the
olde
men
are
honest
,
the
yong
men
shamfast
,
and
the
women
meke
and
gentle
.
The
Ambassadour
of
the
Atheniens
sayd
,
the
Athenieus
do
not
consent
that
the
riche
should
be
parciall
,
nor
the
meane
people
idle
,
nor
the
gouernours
without
learnyng
.
The
ambassadour
of
the
Lacedemoniens
sayd
,
in
Lacedemony
enuy
raines
not
because
al
are
equal
nor
coueteousnes
because
all
is
common
,
nor
idlenes
because
all
men
traueil
.
The
Ambassadour
of
Cicioniens
sayd
,
in
Cicion
they
receiue
no
straungers
inuentors
of
newes
,
nor
Phisious
that
kyl
the
whole
,
nor
aduocates
that
makes
the
processes
immortall
.
When
kyng
Ptolome
and
his
companye
had
heard
these
so
good
and
holy
obseruaunces
,
he
praised
greatly
the
institucion
of
euery
of
theim
,
saiyng
,
that
he
could
not
iudge
whiche
was
the
best
.
This
historie
is
well
worthy
to
be
noted
,
and
better
to
be
folowed
:
And
I
beleue
if
in
our
dayes
so
many
ambassadours
shuld
mete
,
disputing
as
these
did
of
their
common
welthes
,
thei
should
finde
mo
thynges
to
blame
&
speake
euil
of
(
and
that
without
comparison
)
then
to
praise
&
commende
.
In
tymes
passed
the
kynges
houses
were
so
well
reformed
,
the
kynges
themselfes
so
wise
,
and
the
gouernours
so
moderate
,
that
litle
offences
wer
chastised
,
and
once
to
thinke
of
great
offences
forbidden
:
to
the
entent
that
the
chasticement
should
be
terrour
to
the
euil
,
&
the
prohibicion
a
plaine
aduice
vnto
the
good
:
It
is
not
so
in
our
common
welthes
,
where
is
done
so
muche
euil
,
and
committed
so
many
bitter
offences
&
vnhappynes
,
that
those
whiche
the
auncientes
did
chastice
for
deadly
sinnes
by
death
,
we
dissemble
theim
to
be
but
veniall
:
the
truans
and
wantons
be
so
entertained
as
though
we
lacked
theim
:
and
not
as
mete
to
be
chased
and
dryuen
away
.
My
lady
the
widow
or
my
masires
that
is
maried
,
if
they
fall
to
leude
and
wanton
liuyng
,
ye
shal
not
fynde
one
that
wil
say
madam
or
mastres
ye
do
nought
:
but
rather
sixe
hundreth
that
shall
procure
her
dishonor
.
This
is
in
our
tyme
,
suche
is
our
fashion
and
maners
which
causeth
euil
:
so
that
he
is
more
to
be
praised
whiche
may
be
called
good
in
our
common
welth
,
then
any
of
the
Consuls
of
Rome
,
because
that
in
the
olde
time
it
was
almost
a
monstrus
thing
to
fynde
one
euil
among
a
hundreth
,
&
now
it
is
a
great
chaunce
to
fynde
one
good
amongest
a
hundreth
.
The
holy
scripture
praiseth
Abraham
that
was
iust
in
Calde
,
Loth
that
was
iust
in
Sodom
Danyel
in
Babylon
,
Toby
in
Niniuie
,
and
Neemyas
in
Damasco
.
And
likewise
may
we
among
this
Cathalog
of
holy
men
nomber
the
good
courtiers
if
there
be
any
,
but
it
cannot
be
forasmuche
as
none
goeth
about
to
moue
the
courtiers
to
vertue
,
but
that
counsail
them
to
perdicion
.
There
is
in
the
court
so
many
vacabondes
,
so
many
players
,
blasphemers
,
&
deceiuers
that
we
may
be
abashed
to
see
suche
a
multitude
:
but
it
were
a
noueltie
to
heare
of
the
contrary
,
for
why
?
the
worlde
hath
nothing
in
hisrosiers
but
thornes
,
and
for
frutes
of
trees
,
but
leaues
,
for
vynes
but
bryars
,
&
in
their
garnerdes
but
strawe
,
and
in
their
treasures
,
but
Alcumyn
.
O
golden
worlde
,
O
world
desired
,
O
world
passed
:
the
difference
betwixte
you
and
vs
is
,
that
afore
you
litle
and
litle
the
worlde
passeth
,
but
afore
vs
it
is
quite
passed
.
In
the
O
worlde
euery
man
vndertaketh
to
inuent
,
to
do
,
to
begin
and
to
make
an
ende
of
that
he
will
:
and
that
whiche
is
worst
of
all
,
liueth
as
he
will
:
but
the
ende
is
right
doubtfull
.
There
is
litle
to
be
trusted
in
the
O
worlde
.
And
contrary
wise
litle
to
defende
,
litle
to
enioy
,
&
very
litle
to
kepe
.
There
is
many
thynges
to
be
desired
,
many
thynges
to
be
amended
,
&
many
thynges
to
be
lamented
.
Our
aunceters
had
the
Iron
world
,
but
our
worlde
may
wel
be
called
the
dirtie
worlde
,
because
it
kepeth
vs
continually
in
a
filthy
myer
,
and
alwayes
we
be
there
in
defiled
and
rayed
.
The
.xiiii.
Chapiter
Of
many
offaires
in
the
court
,
and
that
there
be
better
husbandmen
,
then
commonly
is
of
courtiers
.
THe
Poet
Homer
hath
written
of
the
trauels
of
Vlixes
one
of
the
princes
of
the
Grekes
:
Quintus
Curtius
of
Alexander
and
Darius
:
Moyses
of
Ioseph
,
And
of
them
of
Egipt
:
Samuel
of
Dauid
&
of
Saul
:
Titus
Liuius
,
of
the
Romaines
:
Thucidides
of
Iason
,
with
the
Minotaure
:
and
Salust
of
Iugurth
&
Cathelyne
.
I
then
willyng
to
folowe
these
good
auctors
,
haue
vndertaken
to
write
the
vnkynd
trauailes
of
the
court
that
the
courtiers
of
our
tyme
haue
which
haue
pacience
enough
for
to
suffre
them
,
and
no
wysedome
to
auoyde
them
:
then
it
is
not
without
a
cause
if
I
do
call
the
trauailes
of
the
court
vnkynde
,
for
they
be
accustomed
vnto
it
as
the
olde
horses
are
to
the
packesadle
and
to
the
plough
,
syth
that
the
courtiers
themselfes
do
suffer
them
so
muche
and
haue
no
profite
therof
.
Some
men
wil
say
that
I
am
euil
aduised
because
I
write
the
courtiers
haue
not
their
ease
,
seyng
that
he
that
may
attaine
to
be
in
the
courte
is
accompted
to
be
fortunate
.
But
he
abuseth
him selfe
,
if
he
thinke
that
al
suche
as
are
out
of
the
court
be
beastes
&
ignorant
persons
,
and
he
only
wise
:
they
rude
&
he
delicate
:
he
honored
and
they
vile
,
they
stāme
ryng
and
he
eloquent
.
If
it
were
so
that
God
would
that
the
most
perfite
men
shuld
be
in
the
court
,
it
shuld
be
to
vs
more
then
a
faulte
,
not
incontinently
to
be
a
courtier
:
knowing
that
ther
can
be
no
better
tyme
employed
,
then
that
whiche
is
bestowed
in
hearyng
the
wise
&
sage
men
:
but
when
all
is
sayd
the
places
doeth
not
better
the
men
,
but
the
men
the
places
.
God
knowes
(
for
example
)
how
many
gentle
and
good
honest
myndes
labor
in
the
villages
,
and
how
many
foles
&
lubbers
bragge
it
in
palaices
.
God
knoweth
howe
many
well
ordered
wittes
and
iudgementes
is
hid
in
the
villages
,
and
how
many
rude
wittes
and
weake
braines
face
and
brace
in
the
court
.
How
many
be
there
in
the
court
the
whiche
although
thei
haue
offices
,
dignities
,
estates
&
preeminences
,
yet
in
the
village
(
after
a
maner
of
speakyng
)
with
great
pain
they
are
not
able
to
rule
.x.
men
.
Howe
many
come
out
of
the
court
correctors
of
other
,
that
them selues
in
the
villages
should
be
corrected
?
O
how
many
thynges
is
sayd
amonges
the
poore
laborers
worthy
to
be
noted
?
And
contrary
,
spoken
afore
princes
worthy
to
be
mocked
?
O
how
many
is
in
the
court
that
make
theim selues
highly
to
be
estemed
,
not
for
to
be
honest
&
diligent
,
but
to
come
in
auctoritie
?
And
how
many
is
there
in
the
village
forgotten
and
not
sette
by
,
more
for
lacke
of
fauor
then
for
either
lacke
of
witte
or
diligence
:
The
princes
geue
the
offices
:
Those
that
be
in
fauor
haue
the
entry
:
nature
the
good
bloud
:
The
parentes
the
patrimony
:
and
the
deseruyng
,
honor
:
but
to
be
wise
and
sage
commeth
onely
of
God
,
and
menne
haue
not
the
power
to
take
it
away
.
And
if
it
were
so
that
princes
might
geue
good
witte
to
whom
they
would
,
thei
should
kepe
it
for
theimselues
,
seyng
they
neuer
leese
,
but
for
lacke
of
knowlege
.
I
take
it
for
an
euil
point
of
suche
as
newly
commeth
from
the
court
to
the
village
,
&
beyng
there
,
rather
vse
mockyng
then
tast
the
benefite
therof
.
But
in
the
meane
tyme
,
thou
seest
their
maner
of
life
,
that
is
,
to
go
to
bed
at
midnight
and
rise
at
x.
of
the
clocke
,
&
in
makyng
ready
till
noone
,
trimmyng
their
busshe
,
or
bearde
,
and
settyng
the
cap
a
wry
.
And
all
the
day
after
,
to
talke
of
his
darlyng
that
he
hath
in
the
court
,
or
of
the
battell
of
Granado
wher
he
did
meruails
.
And
some
there
be
of
them
that
will
lye
and
bragge
that
they
were
at
the
iorney
of
Pauay
with
the
capitaine
Antony
Deleua
:
at
Tunes
with
the
Emperour
:
or
at
Turron
with
Andrew
Doria
.
And
for
all
his
brabling
he
was
no
better
then
a
ruffian
or
a
zacar
of
Tholydo
,
or
a
knaue
of
Cordoua
.
We
haue
rehersed
these
thynges
before
written
,
to
cause
our
minion
friskers
to
leaue
mocking
of
the
poore
inhabitantes
of
the
village
,
estemyng
theim
to
be
but
fooles
&
lurdens
.
For
I
beleue
,
if
my
maister
the
Emperor
would
banishe
all
the
company
of
fooles
,
I
feare
me
he
were
like
to
dwel
alone
in
the
court
.
Let
vs
say
then
,
that
very
late
thei
of
the
court
know
themselfes
and
the
order
of
their
life
&
profession
,
I
meane
the
profession
of
that
religion
whiche
thei
kepe
straitly
,
the
whiche
consistes
in
this
:
thei
promise
to
please
the
deuil
,
and
to
content
the
court
,
and
to
folowe
the
worlde
:
They
promise
to
be
euer
pensife
,
sad
and
ful
of
suspicion
:
They
promise
alwayes
to
be
choppyng
and
chaungyng
,
full
of
busynes
,
to
bye
,
to
sel
,
to
wepe
,
to
sinne
,
and
neuer
to
reforme
themselues
:
They
promise
also
to
be
iagged
and
raggged
,
an
hungred
,
indebted
and
dispised
:
They
promise
to
suffre
rebukes
of
Lordes
,
theft
of
their
neighbours
,
iniuries
of
collerike
men
,
mockeries
of
the
people
,
reproche
of
their
parentes
:
and
finally
,
missyng
&
lackyng
of
frendes
.
Lo
this
is
the
profession
and
rule
of
the
obseruauntes
of
the
court
:
whiche
I
wyll
not
name
a
rule
,
but
a
confusion
,
not
a
order
but
a
disorder
,
not
a
monastery
,
but
a
hel
,
and
a
religion
not
of
brethren
,
but
of
dissolute
persons
:
no
pore
Hermites
but
coueteous
worldely
menne
.
O
pitie
,
O
lacke
of
good
iudgement
.
The
Oracle
of
Apollo
beyng
asked
by
the
Ambassadours
of
the
Romaines
where
lay
the
point
for
one
to
gouern
himself
wel
,
The
answer
was
,
for
a
manne
to
knowe
well
his
owne
estate
&
degree
that
therby
one
may
rule
his
desires
,
&
bridle
his
affeccions
.
The
courtier
desiryng
al
,
&
perceueryng
in
nothyng
,
shall
thinke
in
his
mynde
,
that
if
he
get
not
in
one
yere
some
fee
or
office
,
that
it
is
not
for
lacke
of
knowlege
:
but
as
a
person
ignorant
&
foolishe
blameth
his
fortune
,
and
curseth
the
hour
that
euer
he
came
thether
,
without
calling
to
mynd
that
the
court
is
as
the
Palme
tre
whose
rote
is
a
feadome
vnder
the
ground
,
before
that
he
shew
two
fyngers
brede
of
leaues
aboue
the
grounde
.
In
like
maner
,
a
man
must
be
long
in
seruice
before
he
be
promoted
:
yet
so
muche
resteth
that
the
perseueryng
&
abidyng
by
it
,
causeth
a
man
to
hope
:
For
to
say
the
trueth
,
it
is
seen
,
if
there
be
thre
whiche
deserue
more
then
thei
haue
,
there
be
thre
hundreth
that
haue
more
then
they
deserue
.
O
how
seldome
tymes
doeth
fortune
that
she
ought
for
to
do
?
And
how
many
tymes
fortunes
hazard
&
chasice
doeth
better
then
the
assurance
of
vertue
?
because
she
measures
her
merites
by
the
euil
length
of
opinion
,
and
not
by
reason
:
she
makes
the
water
burne
without
fyre
,
the
knife
to
cutte
with
out
stele
,
the
Candle
to
light
without
flame
,
the
myll
to
go
without
water
,
&
the
cause
is
only
her
inconstancy
.
If
she
laugh
in
the
court
of
any
,
it
is
but
with
her
eares
,
If
she
wepe
,
it
had
been
better
neuer
for
a
man
to
haue
come
out
of
his
house
:
If
she
lifte
any
vppe
aloft
,
it
is
to
throwe
him
doune
againe
lower
then
he
was
:
If
sometyme
she
dissemble
,
it
is
to
take
one
in
a
trap
.
Let
no
man
then
trust
of
fortune
,
for
she
is
so
variable
,
that
she
neuer
holdeth
her
promise
of
that
she
geueth
,
neither
by
worde
nor
yet
by
writyng
that
she
maketh
.
The
.xv.
Chapiter
¶
That
among
courtiers
is
neither
kept
amitie
nor
fayth
fulnes
:
And
howe
muche
the
Court
is
full
of
trauail
,
of
enuye
&
rancour
.
ONe
of
the
most
excessiue
trauailes
among
the
courtiers
is
,
that
none
is
resident
there
without
he
be
hated
or
at
the
lest
that
he
hate
:
that
is
not
pursued
or
els
doteh
pursue
,
that
doeth
not
mocke
or
els
is
mocked
.
And
one
vnhappy
thyng
is
in
the
court
,
many
there
be
that
will
do
of
their
bonette
to
you
,
that
gladly
would
se
your
heades
of
by
the
shoulders
:
And
suche
there
be
that
makes
reuerence
vnto
you
that
would
haue
his
legge
broken
to
se
you
dead
and
caried
to
your
graue
:
Is
it
not
a
great
pitie
to
be
conuersaunt
all
daye
together
,
to
laugh
&
make
merye
one
with
another
,
and
yet
haue
mortall
hate
?
Is
not
this
more
then
a
dissimulacion
,
to
honor
him
whom
they
would
be
glad
to
see
led
to
the
gallous
?
One
thyng
for
al
,
it
is
ambicion
&
to
muche
hope
of
sharpe
and
bitter
fortune
,
&
lacke
of
knowlege
,
of
this
,
that
amitie
well
obserued
,
is
muche
worth
to
moderate
a
manne
.
What
life
,
what
fortune
,
what
tast
may
he
take
that
seeth
himself
daily
present
in
the
court
,
wher
is
so
muche
theft
,
bribry
,
murders
,
poysoners
,
felons
,
&
traytours
ready
to
betray
and
sell
a
man
,
and
he
himself
betrayed
and
solde
?
And
contrarywyse
what
felicitie
is
it
to
be
in
the
companye
of
those
,
with
whom
a
man
may
faythfully
recreate
himselfe
fearyng
noman
?
In
the
court
,
there
be
gentlemen
so
rooted
in
vengeaunce
&
hatred
that
by
no
meane
,
request
,
nor
gentlenes
a
manne
may
direct
them
from
their
euil
ententes
,
in
suche
maner
that
they
be
glad
to
make
warre
with
their
owne
houses
,
to
chase
peace
from
them
selues
to
the
houses
of
their
enemies
?
Wherby
one
may
wel
presuppose
as
is
aforsayd
,
that
vnneth
one
may
hope
to
haue
frendes
in
the
court
,
and
lesse
trust
:
and
the
greater
menne
in
auctoritie
,
the
more
afrayde
they
be
to
fall
.
What
then
causes
a
man
there
to
tary
in
suche
trauail
?
I
haue
wonder
that
any
can
suffre
it
or
haue
a
heart
to
dissemble
it
.
O
how
fortunate
is
he
that
leadeth
his
life
in
the
village
,
with
the
meane
busynes
of
his
litle
possession
,
in
comparison
of
the
courtier
whose
estate
is
euer
vnhappy
&
of
al
partes
miserable
,
that
neuer
ceases
to
hope
of
thynges
vaine
,
in
procuryng
vniust
thinges
&
suche
thynges
that
neuer
can
be
determined
.
And
if
thoughtes
were
wynde
,
&
his
desires
waters
,
it
should
be
greater
daunger
to
saile
in
his
heart
then
in
the
maine
sea
.
In
the
court
is
one
thyng
I
wotte
not
what
,
&
one
thyng
I
knowe
not
howe
,
and
one
thyng
I
vnderstande
not
,
whiche
causeth
there
incessauntly
complaintes
,
and
continuall
choppyng
and
chaungyng
,
and
euermore
dispite
&
enuy
:
and
that
worst
is
there
is
no
libertie
to
depart
thence
.
The
yoke
of
the
court
is
hard
,
the
bondes
faste
tyed
and
the
plough
so
tedious
that
those
that
wene
to
be
the
first
to
tryumph
,
are
the
first
that
labor
&
drawe
the
weightie
burdens
.
And
suche
as
are
poore
&
ignoraunt
men
suffre
these
intollerable
trauailes
,
because
they
would
not
be
as
subiectes
in
their
owne
countreys
,
and
to
haue
a
greater
libertie
to
do
euil
.
But
God
knowes
what
suche
libertie
costeth
them
,
that
for
a
shorte
and
vaine
pleasure
purchase
to
theimselues
,
continual
trauail
and
perpetual
bondage
.
The
propertie
of
this
vicious
libertie
,
or
better
to
cal
it
,
this
mischeuous
subieccion
,
is
,
that
at
the
beginnyng
it
semeth
somewhat
pleasaunt
:
but
in
the
ende
al
conuertes
to
a
bitternes
,
sorow
,
and
lamentacion
,
chiefly
when
a
man
hath
experience
by
litle
&
litle
of
the
vice
that
this
life
conteyneth
.
For
if
he
accompany
with
women
,
he
must
flatter
them
,
serue
them
,
&
intreate
theim
:
And
if
money
lacke
,
then
must
there
be
some
deuilishe
shift
made
.
deuilishe
nede
.
For
why
,
when
one
commeth
new
to
the
court
,
my
lady
dame
gorgious
,
ledes
him
a
trayne
,
she
entertaynes
him
,
she
makes
muche
on
him
,
she
colles
him
:
but
when
she
spyeth
him
to
lacke
,
she
sendes
him
to
pasture
in
the
bare
fieldes
.
And
if
the
tyme
of
eatyng
come
,
the
courtier
must
often
tymes
fede
with
them
,
whom
he
would
see
eaten
without
sauce
▪
Nowe
,
if
his
turne
be
to
playe
,
therin
is
litle
profite
:
if
he
wyn
,
he
must
liberally
departe
with
the
gaine
to
those
that
stand
by
:
&
if
he
loose
,
they
restore
to
him
neuer
a
penny
.
And
if
the
courtiers
turne
be
to
iest
,
and
to
be
mery
,
therin
he
findeth
no
fruit
for
the
courtiers
playe
beginneth
in
fayre
wordes
,
&
endes
with
braulyng
,
chidyng
,
&
fightyng
.
And
forasmuche
as
it
is
the
worst
life
of
al
other
lyues
:
Let
vs
conclude
that
there
is
nothyng
worse
then
a
vaine
courtier
,
&
an
idle
husbandman
.
The
.xvi.
Chapiter
.
By
how
muche
the
comon
welthes
and
the
courtes
of
the
tyme
passed
wer
more
perfite
then
the
courtes
of
the
tyme
present
,
THe
kyng
Anchyses
did
lament
the
distruccion
of
the
proude
Troye
,
done
by
the
princes
of
Greece
:
The
Quene
Rosaine
bewailed
her
husband
Darius
,
when
he
was
ouercome
by
the
great
Alexander
.
Ieremy
the
prophet
complained
the
estate
of
Babylon
,
when
it
was
helde
captiue
.
Kyng
Dauid
lamented
his
soonne
Absolon
when
Ioab
kilde
him
.
The
lady
Cleopatra
thought
no
nother
but
to
dye
for
sorow
when
her
deare
&
welbeloued
Marcus
Antonius
was
vanquished
by
the
Emperour
Augustus
.
The
Consul
Marcus
Marcellus
lamented
the
citie
of
Syracuse
when
he
sawe
it
on
a
fyre
.
Salust
,
Rome
,
euil
gouerned
.
The
Patriarche
Iacob
his
soonne
Ioseph
:
The
kyng
Demetrius
his
good
father
Antigonus
when
he
founde
him
dead
at
the
battail
of
Marathone
.
It
shal
be
also
conuenient
that
amonges
these
wel
renoumed
princes
we
should
lament
the
miseries
of
our
tyme
,
in
the
whiche
we
see
thynges
so
merueilous
,
that
the
curious
auctours
of
the
tyme
passed
neuer
wrote
thynges
semblable
vnto
them
:
Nor
the
men
in
those
dayes
neuer
sawe
the
like
.
Truth
it
is
that
the
Chroniclers
in
those
dayes
wrote
what
they
would
,
In
our
tyme
scant
any
man
dare
speake
.
The
Philosopher
Ariminius
hath
written
of
the
aboundaunce
of
Egipt
:
Demophon
of
the
fartilitie
of
Arabia
:
Thucidides
of
the
treasures
of
Tyrus
:
Asclepius
of
the
Mynes
of
Europe
:
Dodrillus
in
the
commendacion
and
praisynges
of
Grece
:
Leonides
of
the
triumphes
of
Thebes
:
Eumenides
of
the
gouernement
of
Athens
:
Thesiphontes
of
the
order
that
is
kepte
in
the
court
,
and
of
the
princely
houses
of
the
Sicioniens
:
Pytheas
of
the
profite
that
came
by
the
lytle
speaking
of
the
disciples
of
Socrates
:
Apollinus
of
the
continencie
and
abstinence
that
was
kepte
in
schooles
of
the
diuine
Plato
:
Myronides
of
the
great
exercise
,
and
of
the
litle
rest
that
was
in
the
house
of
Hyarcas
:
Aulus
Gelyus
of
the
temperance
and
litle
eatyng
,
and
of
the
moderate
slepyng
of
the
disciples
of
maister
Fauorimus
:
Plutarch
of
the
wise
women
of
Greece
,
&
of
the
chaste
wyues
of
Rome
:
Dyodorus
,
how
those
that
were
inhabitantes
in
the
Isles
of
Balyares
caste
their
treasure
into
the
sea
for
feare
lest
the
straungers
for
coueteousnes
of
their
riches
shuld
make
them
warres
,
and
to
the
entent
also
that
no
parcialitie
shuld
grow
among
themselues
.
Hearyng
then
all
this
that
that
I
haue
sayd
,
I
demaunde
of
the
reader
his
aduise
what
my
penne
should
write
of
our
tyme
?
If
we
should
write
of
bountie
and
veritie
,
we
should
falsely
lye
:
If
of
riches
,
men
be
so
gredy
that
all
be
disposed
to
desyre
and
hunger
couetously
.
How
shal
we
then
praise
the
men
of
our
tyme
?
Shal
we
say
they
be
hardy
and
puissaunt
&
learned
,
and
we
se
that
thei
employ
their
myndes
to
nothyng
els
but
to
robbe
and
beguile
eche
one
the
other
?
How
shall
we
praise
theim
of
prosperitie
and
helth
,
seyng
that
the
pestilence
and
the
Frenche
pockes
more
then
common
is
among
them
?
How
shall
we
commende
their
continencie
&
abstinence
,
seyng
that
scant
in
fiftie
yeres
ye
shal
not
fynde
one
that
will
bridle
his
lust
and
desyre
?
Shall
we
praise
theim
of
litle
rest
and
of
muche
exercise
,
when
we
se
that
there
is
a
greater
nombre
that
geue
themselfes
to
idlenes
and
thefery
,
then
to
honest
trauels
&
paines
?
How
shall
we
praise
them
of
temperat
eatyng
,
when
we
see
in
our
dayes
the
belly
is
mennes
God
?
How
shall
we
commend
theim
for
hauyng
chast
women
and
obedient
,
seyng
that
there
is
nothyng
more
common
among
them
then
adultry
?
Shal
we
say
,
they
be
not
couetous
,
seyng
that
not
onely
men
serche
golde
and
syluer
in
depe
mynes
,
but
men
trauail
to
seke
it
as
farre
as
the
Indiens
,
of
a
vyneyarde
so
froson
,
of
a
tre
so
dry
,
of
fruit
so
vnripe
,
of
a
water
so
troubled
,
of
bread
so
euil
baken
,
of
so
much
false
gold
,
of
a
world
so
suspicious
,
what
shal
we
hope
any
other
thereof
but
euil
&
confusion
?
Let
vs
reade
that
is
written
of
the
courtes
of
the
princes
of
Siria
,
of
Percia
of
Macedonia
,
of
Grecia
,
and
finally
of
the
Romaines
:
And
let
vs
conferre
these
to
our
courtes
,
and
ye
shal
see
suche
euils
and
vicious
customes
in
our
common
welthes
,
that
the
auncientes
did
neuer
attaine
to
the
knowlege
how
to
committe
suche
abhominacions
,
nor
yet
(
I
say
)
to
inuent
such
euils
.
In
those
most
happy
times
&
golden
worldes
an
euil
condicioned
man
scant
durst
to
haue
shewed
himselfe
in
any
honest
company
:
but
now
alas
(
a
thing
to
be
lamented
)
the
worlde
is
so
replenished
with
dissolute
&
corrupt
liuyng
,
that
it
is
counted
but
a
small
faulte
to
be
euil
,
excepte
he
be
suche
a
one
as
is
past
al
shame
&
grace
.
The
courtiers
wil
not
deny
me
but
that
whiles
they
geue
attendance
for
the
vprisyng
of
their
maisters
,
they
tell
eche
one
the
other
what
pastyme
they
haue
had
the
night
before
,
how
they
haue
plaied
,
sworne
and
stared
at
their
game
,
of
their
laughynges
,
and
the
companies
they
haue
had
with
the
gentle
dames
:
which
of
them
was
fayrest
and
best
apparelled
?
and
sometyme
in
secret
of
those
that
they
haue
committed
adultery
withal
.
And
thus
,
as
the
worlde
is
newe
,
the
inuencions
are
newe
,
the
playes
new
,
the
garmentes
new
,
newe
speakyng
,
newe
maners
,
&
new
euery
yere
,
euery
moneth
ye
and
euery
day
,
&
euery
hour
:
we
see
vices
so
largely
delated
,
and
vertue
so
diminished
,
that
I
am
ashamed
to
write
it
:
And
the
true
cause
is
,
that
in
the
court
vertue
hath
many
controllers
and
enemies
,
and
vice
innumerable
vpholders
and
maynteiners
.
For
if
there
be
brought
into
the
court
one
laudable
custome
,
it
is
no
soner
come
,
but
furthwith
it
is
chased
awaye
:
And
on
the
other
part
,
vice
can
not
so
sone
appeare
,
but
it
is
as
soone
embraced
&
entertained
.
The
sage
lawyer
Lygurgus
did
defend
expressely
by
a
law
that
the
straungers
shuld
not
knowe
the
secretes
of
his
common
welth
nor
that
his
citezens
should
meddle
muche
abrode
,
for
that
purpose
as
is
said
,
that
in
medlyng
with
them
,
they
shuld
not
learne
their
vices
nor
their
barberous
condicions
.
In
the
tyme
when
Marcus
Portius
was
Consull
,
ther
came
an
excellent
Musician
out
of
Grece
into
Rome
,
whiche
for
because
that
he
put
one
stryng
more
on
his
harpe
then
was
accustomed
to
be
plaied
withall
,
he
was
by
the
consent
of
the
people
banished
from
Rome
&
his
harpe
burnte
:
Howbeit
in
this
our
tyme
,
we
could
well
agree
with
Musique
,
and
would
not
passe
how
many
stynges
the
harpe
had
:
so
that
men
might
agree
and
stay
theim selues
.
Plutarch
sayth
that
he
saw
once
at
Rome
a
priest
of
Grece
stoned
to
death
in
the
great
place
of
Campus
Marcus
,
because
that
he
did
sacrifice
to
the
Goddesse
Berecinthe
in
other
maner
then
they
were
accustomed
to
be
sacrificed
vnto
.
Suetonius
affirmeth
that
in
.iiii.
C.lxiiii
.
yeres
whiche
was
the
tyme
that
the
temple
Vierges
Vastales
endured
,
there
was
neuer
found
but
iiii
.
euil
liuyng
persons
,
whiche
were
Domicia
,
Rhea
,
Albina
&
Cornelia
,
the
whiche
for
their
offences
were
openly
buryed
quicke
.
If
at
this
daye
one
would
registre
the
names
of
suche
like
,
to
be
so
punished
,
I
leaue
it
to
your
iudgement
whether
there
shuld
lacke
hangmen
to
do
execucion
.
Trebelius
Publius
sayd
that
the
Emperoure
Aurilianus
Quintus
toke
a
gret
frende
of
his
from
the
office
of
Dictator
,
whiche
was
named
Rogerius
,
onely
because
he
had
daunsed
at
the
weddyng
of
Posteria
Auia
his
nigh
neighbour
saiyng
,
that
the
good
Iudge
should
not
leaue
his
grauitie
&
vse
suche
wilde
and
common
plaies
.
But
so
it
is
,
whatsoeuer
this
Emperour
sayd
,
In
our
tyme
we
will
geue
licence
to
iudges
to
remeue
their
feete
as
fast
as
they
will
,
so
that
they
holde
their
handes
stil
.
It
shal
make
no
matter
to
the
poore
pleader
whether
his
iudge
sing
or
daunce
,
so
that
he
ministre
iustice
with
expedicion
,
that
the
the
poore
man
come
not
often
tymes
and
geue
to
muche
attendaunce
.
In
this
case
it
were
very
good
to
rayse
the
Emperor
Domitian
,
whiche
as
Suetonius
writeth
made
a
lawe
,
that
whosoeuer
prolonged
the
proces
of
his
clyant
more
then
one
yere
,
that
he
should
for
euer
be
banished
Rome
.
If
this
holy
lawe
had
dured
to
this
daye
,
there
shuld
haue
been
more
banished
in
Rome
and
els
where
,
then
there
are
now
citezens
.
The
.xvii.
Chapiter
.
Of
diuers
noble
and
valiaunt
men
,
that
left
the
court
&
the
great
cities
and
drewe
theim
to
their
proper
houses
,
more
by
wil
,
then
by
necessitie
.
MArcus
Crassus
a
captaine
of
the
Romaines
,
was
greatly
commended
and
praised
for
that
he
was
valiaunt
in
the
warre
,
and
wise
in
the
busynes
of
his
housholde
:
This
is
that
Crassus
that
folowed
the
parcialitie
of
the
Consull
Silla
against
Marius
and
Iulius
Caesar
after
Dictator
.
It
chaunsed
on
a
tyme
that
by
the
fortune
of
the
sea
,
the
sayd
Caesar
was
prisoner
to
certain
pyrates
and
robbers
of
the
sea
,
and
he
sayd
boldly
to
ii
.
or
.
iii.
of
the
best
of
them
that
kept
him
fast
bounde
,
It
doeth
(
sayd
he
)
greue
me
muche
,
not
for
that
I
am
taken
prisoner
,
forasmuche
as
that
is
but
hazard
of
the
warre
,
but
of
the
pleasure
that
myne
enemye
Crassus
will
take
when
he
doeth
heare
of
the
newes
.
This
Crassus
was
Maister
to
a
Philosopher
named
Alexandrius
,
that
gouerned
him
as
a
father
,
counsailed
him
as
a
frende
,
and
taught
him
as
a
master
:
And
this
did
he
by
the
space
of
.xviii.
yeres
,
whiche
passed
,
then
he
demaunded
licence
to
returne
to
his
countrey
:
And
goyng
his
way
,
sayd
these
wordes
vnto
Alexander
:
I
aske
of
the
none
other
rewarde
for
my
payne
,
nor
for
my
labors
in
teachyng
of
thee
,
then
to
graunt
that
I
shall
neuer
returne
to
the
court
againe
:
&
when
I
am
gone
that
thou
wilt
neuer
write
vnto
me
of
thyne
affaires
,
for
that
I
am
so
wery
of
beyng
a
courtier
,
that
I
wil
not
onely
leaue
the
court
,
but
also
forgettt
all
that
euer
I
sawe
or
heard
in
it
.
Denis
of
Siracuse
,
albeit
that
he
was
a
cruel
tyrant
,
yet
notwithstanding
he
was
a
great
frende
to
the
Philosophers
,
and
a
honorer
of
wise
men
.
And
he
sayd
that
he
toke
muche
pleasure
to
heare
of
the
wise
and
sage
men
of
Grece
,
but
he
beleued
theim
not
,
because
their
teachynges
were
wordes
without
dedes
.
Seuen
of
the
moste
sagest
and
beste
learned
of
Grece
came
to
Siracuse
a
citie
where
the
sayd
Denys
was
resident
:
that
is
to
say
,
Plato
,
Chylo
,
Demophon
,
Diogenes
,
Myrtho
,
Pyllades
and
Surranus
the
whiche
medled
more
of
the
affaires
of
Denis
then
he
did
of
their
doctrin
.
Dyogenes
dwelled
a
xi
.
ycre
with
him
,
and
after
returned
to
his
countrey
,
where
he
beyng
&
washing
of
herbes
for
his
diner
,
another
Philosopher
sayd
to
him
:
If
thou
haddest
not
left
the
seruice
of
Denis
thou
needest
not
now
to
haue
taken
the
paine
to
washe
thyne
owne
herbes
and
make
them
redy
for
thy
dyner
.
To
whom
Dyogines
answered
:
If
thou
couldest
haue
been
content
to
haue
washed
&
eaten
herbes
:
thou
nedest
not
at
this
tyme
to
haue
been
in
the
court
of
Dionisius
.
Cato
the
Censor
of
whom
the
names
of
Cato
fyrst
began
,
was
estemed
for
one
of
the
wysest
of
the
Romaines
:
And
he
was
neuer
sene
in
.lxviii.
yeres
(
for
so
long
he
liued
)
not
once
to
laugh
nor
to
do
any
thing
repugnant
to
his
sage
grauitie
.
Plutarch
sayeth
that
he
was
in
speakyng
prudent
,
gentle
in
conuersacion
,
in
correctyng
sharpe
&
seuere
,
in
presentes
liberall
,
in
eatyng
sober
,
and
in
that
that
he
promised
,
sure
and
certain
,
&
in
executing
iustice
irreprehensible
.
After
the
age
of
.lv.
yeres
he
lefte
the
court
of
Rome
,
&
with
drewe
himself
to
a
litle
village
nigh
to
Picene
,
which
is
now
at
this
present
called
Puzol
:
&
there
he
passed
the
residue
of
his
yeres
in
quiet
and
rest
,
accompanyed
only
with
his
bokes
,
&
takyng
for
a
singuler
recreacion
for
to
go
twise
or
thrise
a
day
to
walk
in
the
fayre
fieldes
&
the
vines
,
&
himselfe
oft
to
labor
in
them
.
And
it
fortuned
on
a
day
when
he
was
absent
from
his
house
that
one
wrote
with
a
cole
vpon
his
doore
O
felix
Cato
,
tu
solus
scis
viuere
,
whiche
is
to
say
,
O
happy
Cato
,
thou
only
knowest
how
to
liue
.
Lucullus
Consull
and
capitain
,
a
Romain
,
right
valiant
,
brought
to
an
end
the
warre
against
the
Parthes
whiche
had
continued
by
the
space
of
.xvi.
yeres
,
wherby
he
gat
great
honor
of
the
citezens
of
Rome
,
&
immortall
renoune
for
himself
and
great
riches
for
his
family
.
And
it
is
sayd
of
him
,
that
he
onely
of
all
the
Romaines
did
enioy
peaceably
in
his
age
,
the
riches
that
he
had
wonne
in
his
youth
in
the
warres
.
And
after
when
he
came
from
Asia
&
saw
that
the
common
welth
was
in
deuision
betwixt
Marius
&
Silla
,
he
determined
to
leaue
Rome
&
make
a
house
in
the
countrey
nigh
to
Naples
vpon
the
sea
syde
(
nowe
at
this
present
tyme
called
the
Castel
of
Lobo
)
which
he
edified
and
liued
there
xviii
.
yeres
in
great
tranquilitie
.
His
house
was
haunted
with
many
people
,
specially
with
great
capitaines
that
went
into
Asia
,
and
with
Ambassadours
that
came
from
Rome
,
whiche
he
receiued
very
gently
&
benignly
.
One
night
when
his
seruauntes
had
made
ready
his
supper
with
a
lesse
dyet
then
he
was
accustomed
to
haue
,
they
excusyng
theimselues
that
they
ordained
the
lesse
because
he
had
no
straungers
:
He
sayd
vnto
theim
,
although
sayd
he
,
that
there
be
no
straungers
with
me
,
knowe
not
you
that
Lucullus
must
suppe
with
Lucullus
.
Plutarch
speakyng
of
this
valiaunt
mannes
exercise
that
he
did
after
he
was
retired
to
the
place
aforesayd
,
sayeth
that
he
delited
muche
in
huntyng
and
hawkyng
,
but
aboue
all
pleasures
he
most
delited
in
his
Library
,
there
reading
and
disputyng
incessantly
.
Helius
Spertianus
sayth
that
Dioclesian
,
after
that
he
had
gouerned
the
Empyre
xviii
.
yeres
,
forsoke
it
,
and
wente
to
take
his
pleasure
in
the
fieldes
,
there
in
quiet
to
ende
the
residue
of
his
life
,
saiyng
:
that
it
was
tyme
for
him
to
leaue
the
daungerous
estate
of
the
court
&
get
him
to
a
peaceable
life
in
the
village
.
Two
yeres
after
he
was
thence
retyred
,
the
Romaines
sent
vnto
him
a
solemne
Ambassade
to
inuite
and
desire
him
effectuously
that
he
would
take
pitie
of
the
common
welth
,
and
returne
,
promisyng
him
that
so
long
as
they
liued
there
should
none
haue
the
name
of
Emperour
but
he
.
Nowe
when
the
Ambassadours
ariued
at
his
house
,
they
found
him
in
a
litle
garden
wher
he
was
settyng
of
Lettys
and
Onyons
:
And
hearyng
what
they
sayd
vnto
him
,
he
answered
in
this
wise
:
Do
you
not
thynke
my
frendes
,
that
it
is
muche
better
for
him
that
can
sowe
his
Lettys
,
and
afterwarde
pleasantly
and
merely
to
eate
the
same
,
so
still
to
exercise
himselfe
,
then
to
returne
&
entre
into
the
goulfe
of
troubles
in
a
common
welth
?
I
haue
assaied
bothe
,
I
knowe
what
it
is
to
commaunde
in
the
court
,
and
what
it
is
to
liue
&
labor
in
the
village
,
wherfore
I
pray
you
suffre
me
here
to
abide
in
pacienee
,
for
I
desire
rather
here
to
liue
with
the
labor
of
my
handes
,
then
in
the
sorow
and
cares
of
an
Empire
.
Note
by
this
example
that
the
life
of
the
laborer
is
more
to
be
desired
,
then
the
life
of
a
prince
.
Cleo
and
Pericles
succeded
in
the
rulyng
of
the
common
welth
after
Solon
,
a
man
excellently
lerned
and
wel
estemed
,
and
taken
among
the
Grecians
for
half
a
God
,
by
the
reason
of
the
wyse
lawes
he
made
among
the
Atheniens
:
These
two
noble
gouernours
were
muche
be
loued
,
because
that
(
as
Plutarch
telleth
)
Pericles
whiche
.xxx.
yeres
had
the
administracion
of
the
busines
and
affaires
of
the
citie
,
was
neuer
sene
to
come
into
any
mans
house
but
his
owne
,
nor
yet
to
sit
in
any
open
place
among
the
common
people
,
suche
a
grauitie
was
in
him
.
Aboute
the
yeres
of
his
age
whiche
was
.lx.
he
went
from
Athens
to
a
litle
village
,
where
he
ended
the
rest
of
his
dayes
,
studiyng
and
passing
the
tyme
in
husbandrye
:
He
had
a
litle
small
gate
or
wicket
in
the
entryng
of
his
house
,
ouer
which
was
written
Inueni
portum
,
spes
,
&
fortuna
valete
.
That
is
to
say
,
forasmuche
as
now
(
and
before
I
haue
knowlege
of
vanitee
)
I
haue
founde
the
porte
of
rest
,
fye
of
hope
,
and
fortune
farewell
.
By
this
example
,
no
courtier
can
say
that
he
leadeth
a
sure
life
,
but
onely
that
courtier
whiche
doeth
as
this
wyse
captain
did
,
withdraw
himself
.
Lucius
Seneca
,
was
as
who
shuld
say
,
a
right
leder
to
good
maners
,
&
a
instructer
to
good
letters
to
Nero
the
sixt
Emperour
of
Rome
,
with
whom
he
taried
.xxiiii.
yeres
,
&
had
great
doynges
of
thinges
pertainyng
to
the
common
wealth
,
as
well
of
priuate
causes
as
otherwyse
,
because
he
was
sage
and
of
great
experience
.
And
at
the
last
,
commyng
to
great
age
and
weryed
with
the
continual
conflictes
&
busynesse
of
the
court
,
lefte
the
court
and
went
and
dwelt
in
a
litle
mancion
he
had
nigh
to
Nole
Campana
,
where
he
liued
after
,
a
long
tyme
as
witnesseth
his
bookes
De
officiis
,
de
Ira
,
de
bono
viro
,
de
aduersa
fortuna
and
other
bookes
whiche
were
to
long
to
reherse
.
At
last
(
fortune
and
mannes
malice
did
their
office
)
Nero
commaunded
him
to
be
slaine
,
not
for
that
he
had
committed
any
crime
worthy
to
dye
,
or
done
any
thing
otherwise
then
an
honest
manne
ought
to
do
:
but
onely
because
the
lecherous
Domicia
hated
him
:
Note
well
reader
this
example
,
that
sometyme
fortune
pursueth
him
that
forsaketh
the
court
,
aswel
as
the
courtier
.
Scipio
the
Affrican
was
so
estemed
among
the
Romaines
,
that
in
.xxii.
yeres
,
whiles
that
he
was
in
the
warres
he
neuer
lost
battell
:
And
yet
made
he
warre
in
Asia
,
Europ
,
and
Affrica
,
and
to
this
,
neuer
committed
acte
worthy
of
reproche
:
And
yet
he
wan
Africa
and
put
to
sacke
Carthage
,
brought
in
bondage
Numance
,
ouercame
Hannibal
,
and
restored
Rome
weakened
and
nere
destroyed
by
the
losse
they
had
at
the
battail
of
Cānes
.
And
yet
for
all
this
,
beyng
of
the
yeres
of
.
lii
.
he
withdrewe
him
from
the
court
of
Rome
to
a
litle
village
betwixte
Puzoll
and
Capua
,
where
he
liued
a
solitary
life
,
and
so
content
withal
,
that
whiles
he
taried
there
a
xi
.
yeres
space
,
he
neuer
entred
into
Rome
nor
Capua
.
The
diuine
Plato
was
borne
in
Liconia
,
and
was
norished
in
Egipt
,
and
learned
in
Athens
:
It
is
red
of
him
,
that
he
answered
the
Ambassadours
of
Cirene
that
required
of
him
lawes
to
gouerne
theim selues
in
sure
peace
,
in
this
wise
:
Difficilimum
est
homines
amplissima
fortuna
ditatos
legibus
continere
.
Which
is
to
vnderstand
,
that
it
is
hard
to
bryng
to
passe
to
make
riche
men
to
be
subiect
to
the
rigour
of
the
lawe
.
To
conclude
,
Plato
not
willyng
to
abide
longer
the
clamor
&
cry
of
the
court
,
went
and
dwelt
in
a
litle
village
two
myles
from
Athens
called
Academia
,
where
the
good
old
man
after
he
had
taryed
there
.
xiiii
.
yeres
,
teachyng
and
writyng
many
notable
doctrines
,
ended
there
his
moste
happye
dayes
.
After
the
memorye
of
him
,
the
auncientes
called
that
village
Academia
,
whiche
is
to
say
in
English
,
a
schole
:
The
conclusion
is
that
all
these
honourable
sage
princes
&
wise
menne
,
left
Monarchies
,
kyngdomes
,
cities
,
&
great
riches
,
and
went
into
the
villages
,
there
to
serche
a
pore
,
an
honest
,
&
a
peaceable
life
.
Not
that
I
will
saye
that
some
of
these
lefte
the
court
,
to
be
there
poore
and
banished
and
rebuked
,
but
of
their
fre
wil
and
fre
libertie
,
minding
to
liue
a
quiet
and
honest
life
or
they
dyed
.
The.
xviii
.
Chapiter
.
¶
The
Aucthor
complaineth
with
great
reason
,
of
the
yeres
that
he
lost
in
the
court
.
I
Wyl
demaunde
of
myne
owne
selfe
,
mine
owne
life
,
and
make
accoumpt
of
the
same
,
to
the
entent
that
I
will
conferre
my
yeres
to
my
traueiles
,
and
my
trauailes
to
my
yeres
,
that
it
may
appeare
how
long
I
lefte
of
to
liue
,
and
beganne
to
dye
.
My
life
(
gentle
reader
)
hath
not
been
a
life
,
but
a
long
death
:
my
daies
a
play
new
for
to
begyn
:
my
yeres
a
very
tedious
dreame
:
my
pleasures
Scorpions
:
my
youth
a
transitorie
fantasy
.
My
prosperitie
hath
been
no
prosperitie
:
but
properly
to
speake
,
a
painted
castell
,
and
a
treasure
of
Alcumyn
.
I
came
to
the
court
very
yong
,
where
I
saw
diuers
maners
of
offices
and
chaunges
,
euen
among
the
princes
that
I
serued
.
And
I
haue
assayed
to
trauail
by
sea
and
by
lande
,
and
my
recompence
was
much
more
then
I
deserued
:
and
that
was
this
,
that
sometyme
I
was
in
fauor
,
and
sometyme
out
of
fauor
.
I
haue
had
experience
of
the
somersautes
of
destines
:
I
haue
had
in
the
court
frendes
&
enemies
:
I
haue
had
false
reportes
:
I
haue
been
euen
nowe
glad
and
mery
,
and
furth
with
sadde
and
sory
:
to
daye
riche
,
to
morowe
poore
:
now
mounted
vpward
,
&
straite
throwen
dounewarde
:
This
hath
been
to
me
a
maskyng
,
where
I
haue
loste
both
money
and
tyme
.
And
nowe
I
saye
to
the
my
soule
,
what
hast
thou
gotten
of
this
great
iorney
?
The
recompence
is
this
,
that
I
haue
gotten
there
a
gray
head
,
fete
ful
of
the
goute
:
mouth
without
tethe
:
raines
full
of
grauel
:
my
goodes
layd
to
pledge
:
my
body
charged
with
thought
:
and
my
soule
litle
clensed
from
synne
.
And
yet
is
there
more
seyng
that
I
must
nedes
speake
,
that
is
,
that
I
haue
returned
my
body
so
wery
,
my
iudgement
dull
,
my
tyme
so
lost
,
the
best
of
my
age
so
passed
,
and
that
is
worst
of
al
,
I
founde
no
tast
in
any
thing
that
is
in
the
worlde
:
so
that
to
conclude
,
I
am
of
my selfe
al
wery
of
my selfe
.
What
should
I
more
tell
or
say
of
the
alteracion
of
my
life
,
and
of
the
chaunges
of
fortune
?
I
came
to
the
court
innocent
,
and
come
from
it
malicious
:
I
went
thither
true
and
meanyng
truth
,
&
returned
a
lyar
:
I
went
thither
humble
,
&
returned
presumptuous
:
I
went
thither
sobre
,
and
returned
a
gurmand
&
glutton
:
I
wente
thither
gentle
and
humaine
,
and
returned
cleane
contrary
.
Finally
in
goyng
thither
I
marde
my self
in
all
pointes
:
And
I
haue
no
cause
to
laye
the
faut
in
my
masters
,
for
the
vices
soone
learned
without
a
master
,
&
cannot
be
forgotten
without
a
corrector
.
O
miserable
that
I
am
,
I
kept
in
the
court
an
accompt
of
my
goodes
,
to
knowe
how
they
were
wasted
,
and
not
for
to
distribute
theim
to
the
poore
:
I
toke
hede
of
my
honor
for
to
encrease
it
,
not
for
to
better
my selfe
by
the
tyme
:
I
toke
care
of
them
that
shuld
pay
me
,
to
know
what
was
owyng
me
,
and
not
that
I
might
gette
to
profite
the
poore
withal
,
but
to
profite
in
riches
and
not
in
vertue
.
I
helde
an
accoumpt
with
my
seruauntes
,
to
none
other
purpose
,
then
to
know
how
long
thei
had
been
with
me
&
serued
me
,
&
not
to
enquire
what
life
thei
led
:
Finally
,
I
held
a
coumpt
of
my
life
,
but
it
was
more
to
conserue
it
,
then
to
correct
it
.
Lo
,
beholde
,
this
was
my
accoumpt
,
this
was
my
calculacion
,
this
was
the
Arsmetrique
that
I
learned
in
the
court
.
Let
vs
yet
go
a
litle
further
and
se
mine
exercises
.
I
neuer
was
yet
in
the
court
but
I
found
to
whom
I
bare
malice
,
or
els
that
enuied
me
.
I
was
neuer
yet
in
the
palaice
but
I
founde
a
window
open
,
and
a
courtier
murmur
.
I
neuer
yet
spake
to
princes
,
but
I
went
from
them
not
contented
in
my
mynde
with
some
parte
of
their
answere
.
I
neuer
yet
went
to
bed
without
complaint
,
nor
neuer
did
ryse
without
a
sigh
.
If
I
went
about
to
do
any
good
thing
,
my
great
affaires
hyndered
me
.
If
I
would
study
,
my
felowes
letted
me
.
If
I
went
to
take
any
honest
and
quiet
pastyme
,
myne
affaires
would
not
permit
me
.
If
I
kept
my selfe
solitary
and
from
companye
,
my
thoughtes
martyred
me
:
Finally
ther
was
neuer
any
thyng
that
so
vexed
my
heart
as
the
lacke
of
money
in
my
purse
.
And
yet
all
this
is
nothyng
,
remembryng
that
I
was
euer
enuyous
to
suche
as
were
myne
equalles
:
a
flatterer
to
my
superiors
,
and
without
pitie
to
mine
inferiors
:
&
where
I
phansied
one
,
I
bare
hate
almost
to
all
other
.
I
found
euery
man
worthy
of
reprofe
,
but
against
my selfe
I
could
not
suffre
a
worde
to
be
spoken
.
O
howe
forgetfull
haue
I
been
,
whiche
should
forget
or
a
morsell
of
meate
had
been
put
in
my
mouth
,
and
haue
talked
aloude
to
my self
alone
,
as
it
had
been
one
that
had
been
mad
?
O
how
often
hath
chaunced
me
that
in
commyng
from
the
counsail
wery
,
or
from
the
palaice
thoughtfull
,
I
would
not
heare
myne
owne
seruaunts
speake
,
nor
dispatche
suche
as
I
had
to
do
withall
?
O
how
many
tymes
haue
I
been
so
drouned
in
busynes
,
that
I
could
not
moderate
my
pensiuenes
,
although
my
frendes
did
counsail
me
to
the
contrary
?
O
alas
,
how
many
times
hath
my
mynde
pressed
me
to
leaue
the
court
and
the
worlde
,
and
to
yelde
my selfe
to
some
solitary
desert
,
as
an
Heremite
?
because
I
sawe
the
kyng
auaunce
him
and
him
,
and
I
put
backe
as
a
person
halfe
desperate
.
Moreouer
to
fulfil
my
trauailes
,
alwaies
I
wente
askyng
&
serchyng
newes
of
the
affaires
of
the
court
:
alwaies
harkenyng
what
one
sayd
of
another
:
alwaies
spiyng
and
watchyng
:
&
all
this
considered
,
I
found
by
myne
accoumpt
,
that
I
liued
in
heauynes
,
captiuitie
,
and
state
of
damnacion
.
Let
vs
yet
go
farther
:
If
I
were
riche
,
one
or
other
serched
some
meane
to
deuour
me
:
If
I
were
poore
,
I
found
none
to
succour
me
:
my
frendes
cryed
out
vpon
me
,
and
mine
enemies
sought
my
death
.
Ouermuche
bablyng
of
the
courtiers
brake
my
braines
:
and
muche
silence
made
me
to
slepe
,
and
the
solicitude
caused
me
to
be
sad
:
And
ouermuche
company
oppressed
me
:
muche
exercise
weryed
me
,
and
idlenes
confounded
me
.
To
conclude
,
I
so
burdened
and
vexed
my self
in
the
court
with
so
muche
trauail
in
naughtynes
,
that
I
durst
not
desire
death
,
although
I
had
no
desire
to
liue
.
The
.xix.
Chapiter
.
The
aucthor
maketh
accoumpt
of
the
vertues
that
he
lost
in
the
court
,
and
of
the
euil
customes
that
he
learned
there
,
BVt
nowe
to
procede
,
my
fortune
passed
,
my
frendes
dyed
,
my
force
decaied
,
and
my
first
fashions
failed
:
O
if
al
my
paines
had
been
ended
at
the
first
tyme
when
I
came
to
the
courte
,
howe
happye
had
that
been
for
me
?
but
nowe
all
consumed
,
I
complaine
singulerly
of
my
traitorous
hearte
,
which
would
neuer
cease
to
desire
vain
thinges
,
and
the
cursed
tong
to
speake
sclaunderous
thinges
.
O
gentle
reader
,
be
not
wery
,
if
I
tel
thee
in
fewe
wordes
the
difference
betwixte
him
that
I
was
when
I
went
first
to
the
court
,
&
that
I
am
nowe
since
I
haue
been
in
the
court
.
First
and
before
that
I
did
cast
my selfe
into
this
perilous
labyrinthe
(
which
is
to
say
a
prison
full
of
all
snares
)
I
was
a
good
deuout
person
,
gentle
and
fearefull
:
and
since
I
haue
lerned
to
be
a
mischieuous
felow
,
slowe
in
doyng
good
,
and
litle
or
nothing
regardyng
the
welth
of
my
soule
.
I
went
thether
beyng
very
yong
and
of
good
disposicion
,
and
came
from
thence
deffe
,
&
more
then
spurblynde
,
and
nomore
able
to
go
then
he
that
is
full
of
the
goute
:
And
briefely
and
olde
grysard
,
ful
of
ambicion
,
in
suche
wyse
,
that
I
am
so
variable
,
that
scant
I
knowe
on
what
grounde
to
set
my
feete
.
My
heart
was
of
so
depraued
a
sort
,
that
it
desired
to
be
discharged
of
all
accions
,
and
yet
for
all
that
founde
no
nother
but
peril
and
torment
.
Sondry
tymes
I
purposed
to
leaue
the
court
,
and
sodenly
I
repented
.
Sometyme
I
purposed
not
to
come
out
of
my
lodgyng
,
&
strait waies
I
was
enforced
to
trot
a
trot
to
the
court
.
Sometyme
I
purposed
not
to
come
to
the
palaice
,
and
or
I
were
ware
I
was
compelled
to
go
thither
sometyme
or
it
were
day
.
I
purposed
to
be
nomore
vexed
,
&
sodenly
my
passions
augmented
,
And
it
folowed
that
my
good
purposes
ceased
and
went
from
me
:
and
I
did
that
was
leude
&
naughty
.
Behold
how
I
liued
of
wynde
and
of
fooles
imaginacions
as
many
a
foolishe
courtier
doth
.
I
haue
phantasied
with
my self
(
in
the
court
sometyme
)
that
I
gouerned
the
kyng
&
the
princes
,
and
that
I
came
of
a
noble
house
and
auncient
stocke
,
excellent
in
science
,
great
in
fauor
and
beloued
of
all
men
,
sage
in
counsail
,
moderate
in
speaking
eloquent
in
writyng
,
prudent
in
seruice
,
and
conformable
to
all
.
But
when
I
waked
out
of
my
folly
as
from
a
dreame
,
and
looked
to
my
feete
,
I
knewe
easly
that
I
had
born
false
witnes
to
my selfe
of
this
golden
&
pleasant
imaginacion
,
&
sawe
of
truth
in
other
,
the
which
I
dreamyngly
imagined
of
my selfe
.
I
serched
the
waie
how
to
be
estemed
of
euery
man
,
holy
,
wise
,
gentle
,
content
,
&
of
a
good
zele
,
and
a
sea
of
sadnes
.
Lo
this
faulte
happeneth
to
courtiers
as
it
did
vnto
me
,
that
is
,
to
ioyne
folishe
libertie
with
vertuous
honor
,
whiche
be
two
thinges
that
cannot
agree
,
because
that
disordinate
will
is
enemye
to
vertue
and
honor
.
But
for
my
part
good
reader
,
I
geue
thankes
vnto
God
,
my
affeccions
be
somewhat
wasted
and
mortified
,
for
I
was
woont
〈◊〉
in
seruice
,
to
desire
daily
t●at
ᵉ
court
might
remoue
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
I
care
not
though
seldo●…
〈◊〉
neuer
I
come
from
my
h●se
I
had
a
speciall
lust
to
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
for
newes
,
And
now
I
care
n●●
for
them
at
all
.
I
saw
the
tyme
when
I
loued
not
to
be
out
of
company
,
And
now
I
desire
no
thyng
more
then
to
be
solitary
.
I
was
wont
to
delite
to
heare
,
to
see
iuglers
,
daunsers
,
lyars
,
and
daliars
:
And
now
so
to
do
,
wer
to
me
more
then
death
.
In
like
maner
I
was
wont
to
solace
my selfe
in
Fishyng
,
Hunting
,
shootyng
in
the
Hackbut
:
And
nowe
I
mynde
no
nother
but
to
bewaile
and
lament
the
tyme
I
haue
loste
:
and
call
to
minde
the
first
tyme
that
the
Emperor
toke
me
into
his
seruice
,
from
thence
where
I
was
norished
from
my
tendre
yeres
in
great
feare
,
&
not
knowyng
what
the
world
was
,
but
occupied
only
in
my
deuocions
and
lernynges
:
I
often
rose
at
midnight
,
I
comforted
the
sicke
,
I
red
the
gospell
and
other
good
bokes
of
good
doctrine
.
Briefly
,
euery
man
did
helpe
me
to
be
good
,
and
chastised
me
from
euil
:
If
I
did
well
,
I
was
praised
:
if
I
did
euil
,
I
was
corrected
:
if
I
were
heauye
,
I
was
comforted
:
if
I
were
angry
,
I
was
appeased
if
in
any
agony
,
my
frendes
praied
to
God
for
me
:
O
what
cause
haue
I
to
repent
out
of
measure
,
thus
to
haue
forsaken
rest
and
godly
liuyng
and
to
haue
enioyed
episcopall
dignitie
,
in
which
the
Emperor
set
me
:
forasmuche
as
a
verteous
life
is
the
hauen
of
all
good
,
and
the
Episcopal
dignitie
the
sea
of
all
daungier
.
Lo
how
I
haue
passed
my
good
yeres
without
emploiyng
my
tyme
wel
,
&
without
knowlege
what
my
fortune
should
be
.
I
do
therfore
admonishe
the
reder
,
to
do
better
then
I
haue
done
in
the
court
,
if
thou
be
there
,
or
els
to
forsake
it
in
a
better
houre
then
I
haue
done
:
for
so
doyng
thou
shalt
declare
thy selfe
,
that
thou
hast
determined
to
liue
sagely
and
well
aduised
.
The
.xx.
Chapiter
.
The
auctour
taketh
his
leaue
of
the
worlde
with
great
eloquence
.
FArewell
world
,
forasmuch
as
one
can
nor
may
trust
of
the
nor
in
the.
For
in
thy
hous
(
o
world
)
the
passage
is
paste
,
and
that
whiche
is
present
goeth
soone
away
,
and
that
whiche
is
to
begyn
,
commeth
wonderous
late
,
forasmuche
as
he
that
thinketh
himselfe
most
firme
,
sonest
doth
fall
,
the
moste
strongest
soonest
doeth
breake
,
and
perpetuities
soonest
decay
,
in
suche
sort
that
those
which
be
destinate
to
liue
an
hundreth
yeres
,
thou
sufferest
him
not
of
all
that
time
,
to
liue
one
yere
in
quiet
.
Farewell
worlde
,
forasmuch
as
thou
takest
,
&
renderest
not
againe
,
thou
weryest
,
but
comfortest
not
,
thou
robbest
,
but
makest
no
restitucion
,
&
thou
quarellest
,
but
doest
not
pacifie
,
&
accusest
before
thou
haue
cause
to
complaine
&
geuest
sentence
before
thou
hearest
the
parties
,
euen
till
thou
kill
vs
,
and
then
buriest
vs
before
we
dye
.
Farewell
worlde
forasmuch
as
in
thee
,
nor
by
thee
,
there
is
no
ioye
without
trouble
,
no
peace
without
discorde
,
loue
without
suspicion
,
rest
without
feare
,
aboundance
without
fault
,
honor
without
spotte
,
riches
without
hurte
of
conscience
,
nor
high
estate
but
he
hath
somewhat
that
he
complaineth
of
.
Farewell
worlde
,
forasmuch
as
in
thy
palaice
promises
are
made
&
neuer
kepte
,
men
serue
and
haue
no
rewarde
,
they
are
inuited
to
be
deceiued
,
they
labour
to
be
troubled
,
&
trauail
to
take
paine
,
they
laugh
and
are
beaten
,
thou
fainest
to
stay
vs
,
to
make
vs
fal
,
thou
lendest
.
to
pull
away
strait
again
,
thou
honorest
vs
,
to
defame
vs
,
and
correctest
without
mercy
.
Farewell
worlde
,
thou
flaunderest
them
that
are
in
credite
,
and
doest
auaunce
the
infamed
,
thou
lettest
the
traitors
passe
fre
,
and
puttest
true
menne
to
their
raunsomes
,
thou
persecutest
the
peaceable
,
and
fauorest
the
sedicious
,
thou
robbest
the
poore
&
geuest
to
the
riche
,
deliuerest
the
malicious
,
and
condemnest
innocentes
,
guest
licence
to
departe
to
the
wise
,
and
retainest
fooles
:
and
to
be
short
,
the
most
part
do
what
they
lyst
,
but
not
what
they
should
.
Farewell
worlde
,
forasmuche
as
in
thy
palaice
no
manne
is
called
by
his
right
name
,
for
why
?
they
call
the
rashe
valiaunt
:
the
proude
,
colde
harted
:
the
importune
,
diligent
:
the
sad
,
peaceable
:
the
prodigal
,
magnifical
:
the
couetous
a
good
husband
:
the
babler
,
eloquent
:
the
ignoraunt
,
a
litle
speaker
:
the
wanton
,
amorous
:
the
quiet
man
,
a
foole
:
the
forbearer
,
a
courtier
:
the
tyraunt
,
noble
.
And
thus
thou
worlde
,
callest
the
counterfeat
,
the
true
substaunce
,
and
the
trueth
,
the
counterfeat
.
Farwel
worlde
,
for
thou
deceiuest
all
that
be
in
thee
:
promisyng
to
the
ambicious
,
honors
:
to
the
gredy
,
to
come
forwarde
:
to
the
brokers
,
offices
:
to
the
couetous
,
riches
:
to
the
gluttons
,
bankettes
:
to
the
enemies
vengeance
:
to
the
thefes
,
secretnes
:
to
the
vicious
,
rest
:
to
the
yong
,
tyme
:
and
to
al
thing
that
is
false
,
assuraunce
.
Farewell
worlde
,
for
in
thy
house
fidelitie
is
neuer
kepte
,
nor
truth
maintained
:
and
also
we
may
see
in
thy
house
,
one
glad
,
and
another
afrayd
:
some
ouercharged
:
some
out
of
the
right
way
:
some
voyde
of
comfort
,
desperate
,
sad
,
heauy
,
ouerburdened
and
charged
,
&
more
then
lost
,
and
sometyme
bothe
.
Farewell
worlde
,
forasmuch
as
in
thy
company
,
he
that
wenes
himselfe
moste
assured
,
is
most
vncertain
,
and
he
that
folowes
thee
,
goeth
out
of
the
way
:
and
he
that
serues
thee
,
is
euil
payed
:
and
he
that
loues
thee
,
is
euil
entreated
:
&
he
that
contentes
thee
,
contenteth
an
euil
master
:
and
he
that
haunteth
thee
,
is
abused
.
Farewell
worlde
,
forasmuch
as
thou
hast
suche
mishap
,
that
seruices
done
and
presentes
offered
to
thee
,
profite
nothyng
,
nor
the
lyes
that
is
tolde
thee
,
nor
the
bankettes
made
to
thee
:
nor
the
faythfulnes
we
geue
to
thee
:
nor
the
loue
we
beare
to
thee
.
Farewell
worlde
,
forasmuch
as
thou
deceiuest
al
,
backbitest
all
,
&
slaunderest
al
,
chasticest
al
,
threttest
vs
al
:
achiuest
all
,
and
in
the
ende
forgettest
all
.
Farewell
worlde
,
sithens
in
thy
company
al
men
complain
,
all
crye
out
,
all
wepe
,
&
all
men
dye
liuyng
.
Farewell
worlde
,
sythens
by
thee
we
hate
eche
one
the
other
to
the
death
:
To
speake
till
we
lye
:
to
loue
,
till
we
dispaire
:
to
eate
,
till
we
spue
:
to
drinke
,
till
we
be
dronken
:
to
vse
brokage
to
tobbery
:
&
to
synne
,
till
we
dye
.
Farewell
world
,
for
beyng
in
the
,
we
forget
our
infancy
,
&
our
grene
age
,
with
out
experience
:
our
youth
,
in
vices
:
our
middle
age
in
turmoilyng
&
busynes
:
our
olde
age
in
lamentacions
,
&
all
our
tyme
counted
together
in
vaine
hopes
.
Farewell
worlde
,
for
in
thy
schoole
we
are
led
til
the
heere
be
white
:
the
eyes
blered
:
the
eares
deaf
:
the
nostrels
droppyng
:
the
forehead
wrinkled
:
the
fete
goutie
:
the
raynes
full
of
grauel
:
the
stomacke
ful
of
euil
humours
:
the
head
full
of
migrain
:
the
body
ful
of
sorow
,
&
the
mynde
full
of
passions
.
Farewell
worlde
,
for
none
of
thy
louers
come
to
good
profite
,
witnesse
those
that
daily
we
see
,
are
not
false
knaues
marked
in
the
face
?
theues
hanged
?
manquellers
headed
?
robbers
by
the
hye
wayes
,
sette
vpon
wheles
?
heritikes
brent
?
false
money
makers
boiled
:
killers
of
their
parentes
,
torne
in
pieces
,
&
other
diuers
punishementes
of
suche
as
are
great
in
fauor
with
thee
?
Farewell
worlde
,
forasmuch
as
thy
seruauntes
haue
no
more
pastyme
,
but
to
trot
by
the
stretes
,
to
mocke
one
another
?
to
seke
out
wenches
?
to
sende
presentes
:
to
beguile
yong
girles
:
write
amorous
letters
:
speake
to
baundes
:
play
at
the
dise
:
plede
against
their
neighbour
:
tell
newes
:
inuent
lyes
,
and
studye
newe
vices
.
Farewell
worlde
,
for
in
thy
palaice
none
will
do
good
to
other
:
for
the
Boare
fightes
against
the
Lyon
:
the
Vnicorne
against
the
Cocodril
:
the
Egle
against
the
Vultur
:
the
Elephant
against
the
Mynotaure
:
the
Sacre
gainst
the
Kyte
:
the
mastyf
,
against
the
Bull
:
One
man
against
another
,
and
al
together
against
death
.
Farewell
worlde
,
because
thou
hast
nothing
,
but
to
our
ruine
:
For
often
the
yerth
openeth
afore
our
feete
:
the
water
drounes
vs
:
the
fyer
burnes
vs
:
the
ayer
mistempers
vs
:
the
Wynter
doth
kyll
vs
:
the
Sommer
doth
chafe
vs
,
the
dogges
doth
byte
vs
:
the
Cattes
doeth
scrat
vs
:
the
Serpentes
doth
poyson
vs
:
the
Flyes
doeth
pricke
vs
:
the
Flees
doeth
eat
vs
:
&
aboue
al
,
worldely
busines
deuours
vs
:
Farewell
worlde
,
seyng
no
man
can
passe
thy
dominion
in
suertie
,
for
in
euery
pathe
we
fynde
stoones
to
stumble
at
:
bridges
that
brekes
vnder
vs
:
Snowe
that
letteth
vs
:
Mountaines
that
werye
vs
:
Thunders
that
feares
vs
:
Theues
that
robbe
vs
:
Encounters
that
hurtes
vs
,
&
euil
fortune
that
killes
vs
.
Farewell
worlde
,
forasmuch
as
in
thy
countrey
there
is
litle
health
:
for
some
be
lippers
,
and
some
haue
the
French
pockes
:
some
the
Canker
,
and
some
the
goute
:
and
some
haue
the
foule
euil
,
and
some
the
Sciatica
,
and
some
the
stone
,
and
some
Quotidian
feuers
:
some
wanderyng
feuers
,
some
tercian
&
quarten
feuers
:
spasmes
,
paulsies
,
&
the
moste
parte
sicke
offaire
folly
.
Farewel
worlde
,
forasmuche
as
there
is
not
a
manne
in
thy
house
but
he
is
noted
with
some
defaute
in
his
person
:
For
if
there
be
any
talle
man
,
the
rest
is
lubberlike
.
If
he
haue
a
fayre
face
,
his
iye
shall
be
too
blacke
:
If
he
haue
a
good
forehed
,
it
shal
be
wrinkeled
:
If
he
haue
a
welfauored
mouthe
,
he
shall
lacke
teethe
:
If
he
haue
faire
handes
,
he
shal
lacke
faire
heer
,
And
if
he
haue
faire
heer
,
he
shall
haue
a
foule
skynne
.
Farewel
worlde
,
forasmuch
as
the
inhabitauntes
in
thee
are
so
variable
to
maners
and
condicions
,
that
some
will
folowe
the
court
,
some
wil
sayle
on
the
sea
:
and
if
one
would
be
a
marchaunt
,
the
other
will
be
a
husbandman
:
If
the
one
will
be
a
hunter
,
the
other
will
be
a
fisher
:
If
one
wil
gouerne
a
Monarchy
,
the
other
vnder
pretence
of
that
,
will
pyll
&
poll
the
poore
people
.
Farewell
worlde
,
for
asmuche
as
in
thy
house
there
are
none
that
prepare
themselfes
to
liue
,
and
muche
lesse
to
dye
:
And
yet
we
see
some
die
yong
,
and
some
in
middle
age
,
some
in
old
age
,
some
dye
by
hangyng
,
and
some
by
drounyng
:
some
dye
for
hunger
,
&
some
in
eatyng
,
slepyng
,
and
restyng
,
and
some
or
they
beware
,
and
for
the
most
parte
or
they
loke
for
death
.
Farewell
worlde
,
forasmuch
as
we
can
neither
knowe
thy
disposicion
nor
condicion
:
For
if
one
be
wise
,
another
is
a
fole
:
If
one
be
fyne
,
another
is
of
a
grosse
witte
:
If
one
be
valiant
,
another
is
a
coward
:
If
one
be
geuen
to
peace
,
another
is
sedicious
:
And
if
one
be
of
a
gentle
spirit
,
another
is
very
froward
.
Farewell
worlde
,
seyng
noman
can
liue
with
thee
:
for
if
a
man
eate
to
lytle
,
he
becommes
weake
:
if
to
muche
,
he
waxeth
sicke
:
if
a
man
labour
,
straite
he
is
wery
:
if
he
be
idle
,
he
liueth
bestly
:
if
he
geue
litle
,
he
is
called
a
nigarde
:
if
he
geue
muche
,
he
is
called
prodigal
:
if
a
man
visite
his
frendes
often
,
he
is
called
importune
:
if
to
seldome
,
full
of
disdaine
:
If
a
man
suffre
wrong
,
he
is
called
false
hearted
:
And
if
he
do
reuenge
then
is
he
wilfull
:
If
he
haue
frendes
,
he
is
praised
:
If
enemies
,
he
is
pursued
:
if
one
tary
to
long
in
a
place
,
he
waxeth
wery
:
and
if
he
chaunge
to
oft
,
he
is
grudged
at
.
Finally
,
I
say
,
that
suche
thynges
as
displease
me
,
I
am
forced
to
folowe
,
and
that
which
I
would
,
I
cannot
come
by
.
O
worlde
vncleane
,
I
coniure
thee
thou
filthy
worlde
,
I
pray
O
thou
worlde
,
&
protest
against
thee
thou
worlde
,
that
thou
neuer
haue
part
in
me
,
for
I
demaunde
nor
desire
nothyng
that
is
in
thee
,
neither
hope
of
any
thyng
in
thee
,
for
I
haue
determinined
with
my self
that
posui
finem
curis
,
spes
,
et
fortuna
valete
.
I
haue
finished
worldly
cares
,
therfore
hope
and
fortune
farewell
.
FINIS
.
EXCVSVM
LONDINI
,
IN
AEDIBVS
RICHARDI
GRAFTONI
,
TYPOGRAPHI
REGII
.
MENSE
AVGVSTII
.
M.D.XLVIII
.
CVM
PRIVILEGIO
AD
IMPRIMENDVM
SOLVM
.