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
French
by
Anthony
Alaygre
,
&
now
out
of
the
French
tongue
into
our
maternall
language
,
by
sir
Fraunces
Bryant
knight
,
one
o
king
Henry
the
.viii.
most
honorable
chamber
.
The
first
Chapiter
.
Of
certaine
Courtiers
which
ought
to
complaine
of
none
,
but
of
them selues
.
AFter
that
the
noble
prince
Philip
of
Macedony
had
ouerrunne
the
Atheniens
,
one
a
time
he
being
at
supper
amonges
certaine
of
his
Philosophers
,
asked
them
which
was
the
greatest
thing
in
the
worlde
?
One
of
them
answered
,
that
to
hys
thinking
it
was
the
water
,
because
there
was
more
of
that
onely
then
of
any
other
thinge
vnder
the
skye
.
Titus
Liuius
prayseth
and
neuer
ceaseth
to
praise
,
the
good
Consull
Marcus
Curius
in
the
house
of
whome
,
came
Ambassadours
of
the
Sannites
for
to
recouer
certaine
landes
that
he
had
of
theirs
,
offering
to
him
for
the
same
plentie
of
Golde
and
siluer
:
Hée
hauing
in
hys
hande
certaine
hearbes
to
put
in
his
potte
for
his
dinner
,
answered
them
after
this
sorte
,
ye
should
haue
offered
this
money
to
the
Capitaynes
that
disdayne
to
dresse
their
owne
dinners
,
and
not
to
me
that
desireth
no
greater
riches
then
to
bee
Lord
ouer
their
Lordes
.
Deserued
not
this
Marcus
Curius
more
prayse
in
setting
light
those
talentes
of
Golde
of
the
Sannites
,
than
the
Consell
Lucullus
for
robbing
them
of
Spartes
?
Deserued
not
the
wise
Crates
more
glory
for
the
riches
that
he
cast
in
to
the
Sea
than
the
king
Nabugodonezer
for
the
treasure
that
hée
robbed
from
the
temple
?
To
your
Iudgement
,
did
not
they
of
the
Iles
of
Bariares
deserue
more
honor
,
agreing
not
to
haue
among
them
neither
gould
nor
siluer
,
than
the
couetouse
Greekes
that
toke
by
force
and
pilled
the
mines
of
Spaine
?
was
not
the
hart
of
the
good
Emperour
Augustus
more
greate
,
in
setting
light
the
Empire
,
than
of
his
vncle
Iulius
Ceasar
,
that
did
take
possession
?
It
is
nedefull
to
haue
wisdome
,
experience
to
order
it
,
cunning
to
set
it
foorth
,
and
fortune
to
bring
it
to
good
ende
:
but
to
vphould
and
kepe
it
,
it
had
nede
of
great
strengthe
,
and
for
to
disprayse
it
,
a
good
harte
,
bycause
that
which
is
séene
with
the
eyes
is
more
easie
to
dispraise
than
that
thynge
which
we
haue
already
in
our
handes
.
It
hath
bene
séene
,
that
many
noble
men
haue
had
fortune
so
much
at
their
desires
,
that
they
haue
enterprised
a
thing
almost
impossible
to
attaine
,
the
which
after
for
lacke
of
good
discrecion
,
were
not
able
to
kepe
it
.
Wherby
it
is
to
be
vnderstand
that
the
greatnes
of
the
heart
doth
not
consist
so
much
in
obtainyng
the
thing
that
we
desire
to
haue
,
as
it
is
to
set
light
,
Apolonius
Thyaneus
,
dyd
he
not
dispise
his
owne
proper
countrey
&
trauailed
thorowout
all
Asia
for
to
go
to
sée
the
Philosopher
Hyarchis
in
Ynde
?
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
:
saying
,
Rom.
chap.
7.18
.
Ephes.
6.12
.
Heb.
12.1
.
which
styrred
vs
to
be
good
,
and
our
sensualitie
resisted
,
which
is
vaine
frowardnes
,
by
the
which
battail
folowed
a
darke
corrupt
iudgement
:
but
to
conclude
,
we
of
oure selues
as
of
our selues
are
very
miserable
.
The
Poete
Ouid
reherseth
the
louing
Philis
the
Rodian
complaining
of
her selfe
&
sayeth
:
Oh
Demophon
,
if
I
had
not
bestowed
time
to
loue
thée
,
and
siluer
and
shippes
for
thexpedicion
of
the
voiage
,
thou
durst
not
wel
to
haue
gone
,
nor
I
to
haue
bewailed
thy
departing
,
in
suche
wise
that
with
my
owne
wepons
was
my
body
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
:
If
to
Suetone
,
Zantippe
and
Plutarch
we
will
geue
credite
and
beleue
those
thynges
that
they
declare
of
Pompe
,
Pyrrhus
,
Hannyball
,
and
the
Consull
Marius
,
of
the
Dictator
Caesar
,
of
Mark
Antony
&
many
others
we
shal
finde
they
blamed
not
fortune
so
much
to
be
vanquished
by
others
,
as
in
their
prosperitie
they
were
ruled
by
their
owne
aduise
and
counselles
.
It
is
true
,
that
often
times
the
opinion
of
our
kinne
&
frendes
maketh
vs
to
enter
into
busines
out
of
the
waye
of
reason
,
The
second
Chapiter
¶
How
that
none
ought
to
counsell
a●
other
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
wise
to
chuse
that
to
them
which
was
good
,
and
to
kepe
them
from
that
which
to
them
is
euil
.
As
touching
our
lyfe
,
we
sée
that
he
that
is
whole
,
dayly
falleth
sicke
,
the
sicke
dyeth
,
some
other
scapeth
deadly
daungers
,
&
some
others
lyngers
forth
to
death
.
Then
let
vs
returne
to
that
we
spake
of
:
It
is
said
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
,
The
.iij.
Chapiter
.
¶
How
that
a
Courtier
ought
to
leaue
the
Court
for
not
beyng
in
fauor
,
but
beyng
out
of
the
Court
already
that
he
ought
not
to
seeke
entertainment
there
againe
that
he
may
be
more
vertuous
.
PVblius
Minus
sayth
in
his
Annotacions
that
we
ought
to
thinke
many
dayes
on
that
which
we
entend
to
doe
in
one
day
.
The
kyng
Demetrius
,
sonne
of
Antigonus
was
asked
by
one
of
his
Capitaynes
named
Patroclus
,
wherefore
he
gaue
not
battail
to
hys
enemy
Ptolome
,
séeyng
hys
strength
,
his
witte
and
his
number
of
men
?
He
answered
,
Agiselaus
a
wise
Capitain
of
the
Lycaoniens
,
beyng
forced
to
answere
the
Ambassadors
of
the
Thebeans
said
:
Know
not
you
O
Thebeans
that
to
determine
a
thing
of
importaunce
,
nothing
is
mater
then
long
study
.
Plutarch
doth
greatly
prayse
the
life
of
Sertoreius
in
that
he
was
not
rashe
in
determinyng
,
but
graue
in
enterprising
.
Suetone
sayeth
that
Th
emperour
August
was
neuer
hasty
to
get
frends
,
but
very
diligent
to
kéepe
them
when
he
had
them
.
Of
these
ensamples
,
note
what
daunger
he
falleth
in
,
that
is
hasty
in
businesses
and
quicke
in
counsels
.
None
will
wear
a
garment
if
it
be
not
sowed
:
nor
eate
the
fruit
,
if
it
be
not
rype
:
nor
drinke
the
wyne
,
if
it
be
not
cleare
:
nor
eat
the
flesh
if
it
be
not
dressed
:
nor
warme
him
with
wood
,
if
it
be
not
drye
:
Wherfore
then
do
we
counsail
vs
with
grene
counsail
,
which
sooner
shall
smudder
vs
then
warme
vs
.
The
wise
man
ought
to
haue
before
his
eyen
a
sober
deliberacion
in
his
affaires
,
for
if
he
thinke
one
houre
of
that
which
he
would
say
,
he
had
néede
think
x.
of
that
that
he
would
doe
:
Hector
:
Agisalus
to
ouercome
Brantes
:
to
Alexander
,
Darrius
:
to
Caesar
Pompeius
:
to
Augustus
,
Marcus
Antonius
:
to
Silla
,
Mithridates
:
to
Scipion
Hanniball
:
and
to
the
good
Troyan
Dacebalus
:
these
noble
princes
had
neuer
béen
so
much
estéemed
as
they
bée
,
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
,
To
our
purpose
,
if
we
shuld
aske
of
an
auncient
man
,
what
hath
béen
the
whole
course
of
his
life
,
and
that
hée
would
answere
vs
,
he
hath
enterprised
muche
,
wandred
,
spoken
,
searched
,
founde
and
lost
.
&c.
We
would
saye
that
his
life
hath
béen
a
dissembling
folly
.
The
.iiii.
Chapiter
.
Of
the
life
that
the
Courtier
ought
to
leade
,
after
that
he
hath
lefte
the
Court.
MYronydes
a
wise
&
sage
Philosopher
,
Capitain
of
the
Boheciens
sayd
,
that
the
prudence
of
a
man
was
as
well
knowen
by
retiring
from
the
euill
,
as
in
chosing
of
the
good
,
Alexander
the
great
,
causing
himself
to
be
healed
of
certaine
woundes
that
he
had
receiued
in
battail
,
was
reproued
of
his
great
minion
Parmeno
for
putting
himself
into
great
hazard
in
the
warre
:
Alcibyades
,
Agiselaus
,
Purrhus
,
Antigonus
,
Lentulus
,
and
Iulius
Caesar
,
were
so
circumspecte
in
these
thinges
that
they
were
alwayes
vanquishers
,
and
died
in
the
handes
of
their
frendes
,
and
specially
because
they
chose
the
good
and
lefte
the
euil
.
Then
he
that
leaueth
the
court
ought
not
only
for
to
sée
what
he
leaueth
,
but
also
what
he
taketh
,
considering
that
as
much
or
more
hard
it
is
to
content
him
hauing
left
the
court
,
as
it
was
afore
in
the
desiryng
to
bée
in
the
court
:
what
profiteth
it
to
leaue
the
Court
wery
&
troubled
,
If
thy
hart
can
finde
no
rest
in
the
place
whether
thou
resortest
?
Our
body
fulfilled
with
meates
is
led
where
one
will
haue
it
,
but
the
heart
is
neuer
satisfied
with
desiryng
,
In
the
court
of
princes
chaunses
often
tymes
that
lacke
of
money
or
other
great
busines
makes
a
man
abstayne
from
doyng
euil
,
There
bée
also
another
sorte
of
men
that
forsakes
the
Court
to
bée
more
idle
at
home
:
Tedet
animam
meam
vite
mee
,
it
was
not
for
that
hys
life
weried
him
,
but
because
hée
did
not
amend
it
.
Whosoeuer
leaueth
the
court
may
be
boulde
to
say
that
he
goeth
not
to
die
:
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
greate
sepulchre
,
Likewise
,
let
him
that
forsakes
the
Court
set
a
wise
order
in
such
busines
that
he
hath
to
do
,
calling
to
minde
that
to
go
home
to
his
countrey
néedes
no
long
iorney
,
Those
that
leaue
the
Court
for
fainte
heart
,
be
of
that
nature
that
it
is
more
painefull
to
them
to
sée
themselues
absent
from
the
Court
,
then
their
ioye
was
when
they
were
in
the
court
:
which
sayd
persons
if
they
would
folow
mine
aduice
and
counsail
should
not
onely
leaue
the
court
,
but
forget
it
vtterly
for
euer
.
And
farther
,
the
courtier
ought
to
retyre
in
suche
maner
that
hée
may
come
to
the
Court
againe
,
if
the
feare
and
study
in
ordering
of
his
householde
constrayne
him
eftsones
for
to
desire
the
voluptuousnes
of
the
court
.
In
the
heart
of
the
prudent
courtier
that
forsaketh
the
court
,
Therfore
destinies
of
the
courtiers
are
so
prompte
and
ready
that
for
the
most
parte
one
is
constrained
to
dispise
them
more
by
necessitie
,
then
by
will
,
and
in
that
meane
while
their
purpose
is
at
an
ende
before
they
them selues
beware
therof
,
For
when
the
Courtier
commeth
to
be
at
quiet
with
himselfe
,
aboue
all
thinges
it
is
necessary
that
he
take
hede
of
pesteryng
of
himselfe
,
To
the
purpose
,
hath
not
the
courtier
cause
to
complayne
,
In
like
maner
also
,
the
courtier
that
withdraweth
himself
should
vse
the
company
of
such
as
be
graue
,
sage
&
honest
,
to
the
entent
that
in
the
steade
of
lyers
,
The
.v.
Chapiter
.
¶
That
the
rusticall
lyfe
is
more
quiet
and
restfull
and
more
beneficiall
then
that
of
the
court
.
THe
village
whereof
we
speake
and
the
demaines
thereof
,
Put
we
the
case
that
it
were
all
frée
and
not
subiect
to
any
Lord
(
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
fréely
without
doyng
any
homage
or
seruice
to
any
man
.
This
I
dare
say
,
the
courtier
hath
not
,
nor
is
not
in
such
frée
libertie
in
respecte
of
such
as
be
of
the
village
,
forasmuch
as
of
very
necessitie
,
my
maister
the
courtier
must
win
the
Marshall
or
Harbengar
of
the
lodging
,
and
must
receiue
at
his
handes
the
billet
to
come
to
his
lodging
,
and
that
late
ynough
and
wery
to
his
host
,
breake
open
dores
,
beat
downe
walles
,
Iulius
Caesar
sayd
to
this
purpose
that
he
had
rather
bée
the
first
in
a
village
,
then
the
second
in
honor
in
Rome
.
For
such
men
as
haue
high
hartes
and
mindes
,
and
base
fortune
,
it
should
be
to
them
much
better
to
liue
in
the
village
with
honor
,
then
in
the
court
ouerthrowen
and
abated
,
and
out
of
fauor
.
The
difference
betwéene
the
tariyng
or
abidyng
in
a
litle
place
and
a
great
place
,
is
that
in
the
litle
places
are
founde
much
people
poore
and
néedy
,
of
whom
men
may
take
compassion
:
and
in
the
great
place
many
riche
men
whereby
enuy
is
norished
.
Another
benefite
of
the
village
is
this
,
that
he
shall
haue
time
enough
to
al
thinges
that
he
will
do
,
so
that
the
time
be
well
spent
,
time
enough
to
studie
,
time
to
visite
his
frendes
,
time
to
go
a
hunting
,
and
layser
when
he
list
to
eate
his
meat
:
the
which
layser
courtiers
commonly
haue
not
,
Another
benefite
is
,
The
.vj
Chapiter
.
¶
That
in
the
village
the
dayes
seeme
more
long
,
and
the
ayer
more
clere
and
better
.
And
the
houses
more
easy
and
restful
than
in
the
court
.
ENsuing
still
the
commodities
of
the
village
,
wée
ought
not
to
forget
that
he
which
dwelles
there
,
among
other
thinges
hath
commoditie
of
good
corne
,
and
consequently
good
bread
:
contrary
to
this
,
in
the
court
,
&
specially
in
great
townes
they
haue
breade
for
the
most
part
euil
baked
or
euil
leauened
,
or
not
leauened
at
all
,
&
the
cause
is
,
forasmuch
as
in
the
townes
often
there
lacketh
good
corne
,
or
good
corne
milles
to
grinde
the
corne
,
&
holsome
water
,
whereby
often
hath
come
among
them
great
death
.
Another
commoditie
in
the
village
is
this
,
the
which
I
prayse
much
,
hée
that
dwelles
there
,
may
practise
and
labour
in
mo
thinges
and
better
imploy
the
tyme
then
in
the
court
or
in
the
great
townes
:
in
which
places
it
behoueth
a
man
to
dissemble
,
to
say
litle
,
to
be
ful
of
reuenging
&
enuyous
,
a
treader
of
stones
and
pauemontes
,
&
must
vse
grauitie
,
and
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
wil
,
and
iest
with
his
neighbours
before
his
gates
and
his
window
.
And
this
may
hée
doe
without
euer
to
chaunge
or
to
léese
any
of
his
meane
auctoritie
.
Another
commoditie
is
in
the
village
,
Another
commoditie
of
the
village
is
,
that
the
dayes
there
séeme
to
be
more
long
,
and
they
are
better
imployed
,
than
they
are
eyther
in
the
court
or
in
the
great
townes
,
forasmuch
as
the
yeares
passe
away
there
or
one
be
ware
,
and
the
dayes
without
any
enoying
of
them
.
And
howbeit
that
the
sportes
and
pleasures
be
more
in
the
village
then
in
the
townes
,
yet
so
it
is
that
one
day
shall
séeme
lenger
there
then
shall
a
moneth
in
the
court
:
and
the
reason
is
,
for
that
the
village
is
happy
and
fortunate
,
forasmuch
as
there
the
Sunne
séemes
to
make
a
more
longer
day
,
the
morning
is
ready
to
show
,
and
the
night
slow
to
come
.
In
the
village
also
is
much
more
plentie
of
wood
then
in
other
places
:
Another
commoditie
is
,
that
the
husbandman
of
the
village
hath
how
to
occupy
himselfe
and
how
to
be
mery
,
which
the
courtier
,
nor
the
citizen
hath
not
,
that
hath
enemies
enough
to
feare
,
and
fewe
frendes
to
companye
withall
.
The
.vij.
Chapiter
.
¶
That
commonly
the
inhabitaunts
of
the
villages
be
more
happy
then
courtiers
.
ANother
commoditie
of
the
village
is
,
that
they
doe
féele
the
trauayles
lesse
on
the
working
day
,
and
reioyce
merely
on
the
holy
day
:
Another
commoditie
is
this
,
that
where
the
courtiers
vse
to
eate
fleshe
and
corrupt
venison
&
wilde
foule
that
is
long
kept
,
they
of
the
village
haue
their
meate
fresh
and
fresh
,
tender
and
holsome
,
O
how
much
is
the
wise
man
honored
in
the
village
for
his
wisedome
and
good
counsail
?
how
many
tymes
is
he
thanked
and
how
many
presentes
hath
be
:
Another
preuilege
of
the
village
is
this
,
that
euery
man
may
marrye
his
daughters
to
his
equalles
and
neighbours
,
that
thereby
dayly
hee
may
receiue
both
pleasure
&
seruice
,
the
which
the
courtiers
cannot
doe
that
marry
his
daughters
so
farre
from
them
,
that
for
the
most
parte
they
lament
them
or
they
sée
them
.
O
happy
inhabitor
in
the
village
that
findes
at
his
gate
husbandes
for
his
daughters
,
and
wyues
for
his
sonnes
.
He
maryeth
them
nygh
to
him
that
he
may
easly
sée
his
sonnes
in
lawe
,
Another
commoditie
is
,
that
they
are
not
to
much
carefull
nor
yet
ireful
or
enuious
:
which
commoditie
they
of
the
court
and
the
citizens
litle
taste
or
enioye
:
for
the
courtier
many
times
lacketh
money
,
when
his
greate
affayres
shuld
be
brought
to
passe
.
I
say
therfore
O
happy
man
of
the
village
,
that
néeds
not
to
goe
at
ten
of
the
clocke
to
the
palice
to
beg
counsail
,
to
speake
fayre
to
the
vsher
,
to
wait
vpon
the
president
,
and
make
flectamus
ienua
to
the
lawyer
,
Another
commoditie
is
,
that
in
the
village
one
may
be
there
more
vertuous
and
lesse
vicious
then
in
the
courte
or
in
the
great
cities
,
&
the
reason
is
,
for
that
in
great
companyes
we
shall
commenly
finde
a
M.
that
kéepe
men
from
good
doyng
,
&
.x.
M.
that
will
moue
vs
to
doe
euil
.
And
in
the
village
euery
man
sanctifieth
the
Sabboth
day
,
Another
priuilege
there
is
,
that
their
one
may
well
gather
some
good
,
The
.viij
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
sonne
,
no
frende
that
correcteth
one
the
other
,
none
that
loueth
his
neighbor
,
In
the
Court
,
fortune
is
inconstant
,
In
the
court
euery
man
prayseth
and
commendeth
himselfe
of
holy
purposes
and
noble
thoughtes
.
One
sayth
he
will
withdrawe
himselfe
from
the
courte
.
And
another
sayeth
he
will
forget
hys
suites
.
The
.ix.
Chapiter
.
¶
In
the
court
fewe
amend
,
but
many
waxe
worse
.
In
the
court
it
is
a
great
busines
and
trauaile
for
to
finde
vertue
,
O
vnhappy
and
sorowfull
courtier
if
by
chaunce
he
growe
to
be
a
poore
man
,
In
the
court
men
employe
the
tyme
so
euil
that
from
the
time
the
courtier
doeth
aryse
,
The
.x.
Chapiter
.
¶
That
a
man
cannot
liue
in
the
court
,
without
to
trouble
himselfe
or
some
other
.
A
Courtier
doeth
many
things
,
In
the
court
,
albeit
that
one
hath
no
enemies
which
is
seldome
séene
,
yet
is
it
truth
that
many
tymes
his
owne
frends
put
him
out
of
quiet
,
forasmuche
as
if
the
courtier
will
take
rest
in
hys
lodgyng
,
they
grunt
at
him
because
he
will
not
goe
see
his
frendes
,
&
prouoke
hym
to
goe
folow
the
princes
in
the
courte
,
saying
,
that
the
rascal
and
the
varlettes
mocke
at
him
that
he
goeth
not
thether
and
shewe
himself
frée
and
liberal
:
and
when
he
is
ariued
at
the
court
,
which
is
a
naturall
enemy
to
rest
,
The
xi
.
Chapiter
.
¶
That
in
the
court
those
that
be
graue
are
praised
and
wel
esteemed
,
and
the
other
that
doe
the
contrary
not
regarded
.
THe
Courtier
shuld
not
acquaint
himself
with
vaine
and
ydle
persons
,
that
he
be
not
reputed
to
be
such
as
hee
companieth
withall
.
For
it
had
not
béen
enough
for
him
to
say
he
must
néedes
doe
there
as
other
doe
,
and
dissemble
as
other
dissembles
.
Neither
behoueth
it
him
not
to
cloke
his
naughtie
doyng
,
in
goyng
secretely
to
such
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
little
nor
great
,
but
men
spye
him
whether
he
goeth
,
from
whence
he
commeth
,
&
where
he
abideth
,
with
whom
he
talketh
,
in
whom
he
talketh
,
in
whom
he
trusteth
,
and
what
he
will
doe
,
so
well
,
that
the
curtens
may
hyde
a
person
,
but
to
hyde
the
vises
of
the
courtiers
is
impossible
.
The
courtier
also
ought
not
to
brag
and
crake
that
thinges
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
must
be
as
one
that
hath
no
mouth
to
speake
,
nor
handes
to
be
auenged
withall
,
Malice
and
displeasures
take
often
an
end
in
the
village
,
but
in
the
court
is
alwayes
an
ouerplus
of
them
.
What
is
the
cause
?
Fortune
I
say
:
which
hath
the
rule
ouer
them
who
count
her
for
a
goddesse
,
The
courtier
also
ought
not
to
condiscend
to
that
which
his
sensualitie
requireth
,
but
to
that
which
reason
doth
persuade
him
vnto
,
Item
the
courtier
ought
not
to
geue
presentes
,
nor
lightly
take
,
for
why
?
Who
that
wil
exercise
liberalitie
,
When
a
man
geueth
to
straungers
,
the
seruauntes
séeing
the
same
drawe
backe
:
yée
may
be
assured
that
they
not
only
murmure
at
that
which
is
geuen
,
but
also
accuse
him
of
his
vngentle
déed
,
and
become
a
mortall
enemy
to
hym
that
the
thing
is
geuen
vnto
.
There
is
another
sorte
of
false
and
beggerly
courtiers
,
the
which
after
they
be
once
vsed
to
the
court
,
they
goe
from
church
to
church
to
aske
for
Gods
sake
,
There
is
another
sorte
of
haunters
in
the
court
,
The
xii
.
Chapiter
.
¶
That
in
the
court
of
princes
all
say
wee
will
doe
it
,
but
none
doe
it
.
BYas
the
great
Philosopher
of
great
renoume
amonges
the
Grecians
,
sayde
vpon
a
tyme
to
the
great
Alexander
Quilibet
in
suo
negotio
,
hebetior
est
quam
in
alieno
,
meaning
,
that
commonly
euerye
man
is
more
blinded
in
his
owne
affayres
then
in
another
mannes
.
And
he
so
sayd
by
very
good
reason
,
Cayus
Iulius
Caesar
,
Octauus
Augustus
,
Marcus
Antonius
,
Septimius
Seuerus
,
Marcus
Aurelius
,
&
other
in
great
nomber
,
that
were
estéemed
in
theyr
priuy
busines
,
I
would
also
he
should
keepe
himself
from
the
conuersacion
of
sedicious
persons
,
Also
the
good
christian
man
ought
not
to
ceasse
to
amend
his
life
,
What
time
a
man
séeth
him self
base
and
is
litle
estéemed
,
or
poore
and
forgotten
of
the
rich
,
and
deceiued
of
that
he
looked
surely
to
haue
,
The
.xiij.
Chapiter
.
¶
That
there
is
a
smal
nomber
of
them
that
be
good
in
the
court
,
and
a
great
nomber
of
good
in
the
common
wealth
.
PLutarch
in
the
booke
intitled
De
exilio
telleth
of
the
great
King
Ptolome
,
that
hauing
on
a
daye
at
supper
with
hym
seuen
Ambassadours
of
diuers
prouinces
,
moued
a
question
to
them
,
which
of
al
their
common
wealthes
gouerned
themselues
with
best
lawes
&
customes
?
The
sayde
Ambassadours
,
were
Romayns
,
Carthaginiens
,
Ciciliens
,
Rhodiens
,
Atheniens
,
Lacedemoniens
,
&
Cicioniens
:
among
whom
the
question
was
effectually
debated
afore
the
kyng
,
forasmuch
as
euery
one
of
them
beyng
affectionate
to
his
countrey
aleaged
the
wisest
reason
that
he
could
.
The
good
king
desirous
to
know
the
truth
and
the
resolucion
of
the
question
,
commaunded
that
euery
one
of
the
Ambassadours
shuld
tell
of
the
best
lawes
or
customes
that
were
in
their
common
welth
thrée
poyntes
,
and
that
thereby
it
might
easilye
bee
séene
which
was
better
ruled
and
deserued
more
praise
.
Then
the
Ambassadour
of
the
Romaynes
began
&
sayd
,
In
Rome
the
temples
be
honored
,
When
kyng
Ptolome
and
his
company
had
heard
these
so
good
and
holy
obseruaunces
,
he
praysed
greatly
the
institucion
of
euery
of
them
,
saying
,
that
he
could
not
iudge
which
was
the
best
.
This
history
is
well
woorthy
to
be
noted
,
and
better
to
be
folowed
:
And
I
beleue
if
in
our
dayes
so
many
Ambassadours
should
meete
,
disputing
as
these
did
of
their
common
wealthes
,
they
should
finde
mo
thinges
to
blame
and
speake
euill
of
(
and
that
without
comparison
)
then
to
praise
&
commend
.
In
tymes
passed
the
kings
houses
were
so
well
reformed
,
This
is
in
our
time
,
such
is
our
fashion
and
maners
which
causeth
euill
:
so
that
he
is
more
to
be
praised
which
may
be
called
good
in
our
common
wealth
,
them
any
of
the
Consuls
of
Rome
,
because
that
in
the
olde
tyme
it
was
almost
a
monstrous
thing
to
finde
one
euil
among
a
hundreth
,
and
now
it
is
a
great
chaunce
to
finde
one
good
amongst
a
hundreth
.
The
holy
scripture
prayseth
Abraham
that
was
iust
in
Calde
,
Loth
that
was
iust
in
Sodom
,
Daniel
in
Babilon
,
Toby
in
Niniuie
,
and
Neemyas
in
Damasco
.
And
lykewyse
may
we
among
this
Cathalog
of
holy
men
nomber
the
good
courtiers
if
there
be
any
,
There
is
in
the
court
so
many
vacabondes
,
so
many
players
,
blasphemers
,
and
deceiuers
,
that
we
may
be
abashed
to
sée
such
a
multitude
:
but
it
were
a
noueltie
to
heare
of
the
contrarye
,
for
why
?
the
world
hath
nothing
in
his
rosiers
but
thornes
,
and
for
frutes
of
trées
,
The
.xiiij.
Chapiter
.
¶
Of
many
affaires
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
Greekes
:
Quintus
Curtius
of
Alexander
&
Darius
:
Moyses
of
Ioseph
,
And
of
them
of
Egipt
:
Samuel
of
Dauid
and
of
Saul
:
Titus
Liuius
,
of
the
Romains
:
Thucidides
of
Iason
with
the
Minotaure
:
and
Salust
of
●ugurth
and
Cathelyne
.
I
then
willing
to
folow
these
good
auctors
,
haue
vndertaken
to
wryte
the
vnkynd
trauayles
of
the
court
that
the
courtiers
of
our
tyme
haue
which
haue
pacience
enough
for
to
suffer
them
,
and
no
wysedome
to
auoyde
them
:
then
it
is
not
wythout
a
cause
if
I
doe
call
the
trauayles
of
the
courte
vnkynde
,
If
it
were
so
that
God
would
that
the
most
perfite
men
should
be
in
the
court
,
it
should
be
to
vs
more
then
a
fault
,
not
incontinently
to
be
a
courtier
:
knowing
that
ther
can
be
no
better
time
employed
,
then
that
which
is
bestowed
in
hearing
the
wyse
and
sage
men
:
but
when
all
is
sayd
,
the
places
doe
not
better
the
men
,
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
things
before
written
,
to
cause
our
minion
friskers
to
leaue
mocking
of
the
poore
inhabitantes
of
the
village
,
estéeming
them
to
be
but
fooles
and
lurdens
.
For
I
beleue
,
if
my
maister
the
Emperor
would
banish
all
the
company
of
fooles
,
Lo
this
is
the
profession
and
rule
of
the
obseruauntes
of
the
court
:
which
I
will
not
name
a
rule
,
The
xv
.
Chapiter
.
¶
That
among
courtiers
is
neither
kept
amitie
nor
faithfulnes
:
And
how
much
the
Court
is
full
of
trauail
,
of
enuy
and
rancour
.
ONe
of
the
most
excessiue
trauailes
among
the
courtiers
is
,
that
none
is
resident
there
without
he
be
hated
or
at
the
least
the
he
hate
:
that
is
not
pursued
or
els
doeth
pursue
,
that
doeth
not
mocke
or
els
is
mocked
.
What
lyfe
,
what
fortune
,
what
taste
may
he
take
that
séeth
himselfe
dayly
present
in
the
court
,
where
is
so
muche
theft
,
bribry
,
murders
,
poysoners
,
felons
,
and
traytours
ready
to
betray
and
sell
a
man
,
&
be
himself
betrayed
and
solde
?
And
contrariwise
what
felicitie
is
it
to
be
in
the
company
of
those
,
with
whom
a
man
may
faythfully
recreate
himself
fearyng
no
man
?
In
the
court
,
there
be
gentlemen
so
rooted
in
vengeaunce
and
hatred
that
by
no
meane
,
request
,
nor
gentlenes
a
man
may
direct
them
from
their
euil
ententes
,
in
such
maner
that
they
be
glad
to
make
warre
with
their
owne
houses
,
to
chace
peace
from
them selues
to
the
houses
of
their
enemies
?
Whereby
one
may
well
presuppose
as
is
aforesayd
,
that
vnneth
one
may
hope
to
haue
frendes
in
the
court
,
and
lesse
trust
:
&
the
greater
men
are
in
auctoritie
,
the
more
afrayde
they
bee
to
fall
.
What
then
causes
a
man
there
to
tary
in
such
trauail
?
I
haue
wonder
that
any
can
suffer
it
or
haue
a
heart
to
dissemble
it
.
The
yoke
of
the
court
is
hard
,
the
bondes
fast
tyed
,
For
why
,
when
one
commeth
new
to
the
court
,
my
lady
dame
gorgious
,
leades
him
a
trayne
,
shée
entertaines
him
,
shée
makes
much
on
him
,
shée
colles
him
:
but
when
shée
spieth
him
to
lacke
,
shée
sendes
him
to
pasture
in
the
bare
fieldes
.
The
.xvi.
Chapiter
.
¶
By
how
much
the
common
wealthes
and
the
courtes
of
the
tyme
passed
were
more
perfite
then
the
courtes
of
the
tyme
present
.
THe
king
Anchises
did
lament
the
destruction
of
the
proude
Troye
,
done
by
the
princes
of
Greece
:
The
Quéene
Rosaine
bewailed
her
husband
Darius
,
when
he
was
ouercome
by
the
great
Alexander
.
Ieremy
the
Prophet
complained
the
estate
of
Babilon
,
when
it
was
held
captiue
.
Kyng
Dauid
lamented
his
sonne
Absolon
when
Ioab
kylde
hym
.
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
fyre
.
Salust
,
Rome
,
euil
gouerned
.
The
Patriarche
Iacob
hys
sonne
Ioseph
:
The
king
Demetrius
his
good
father
Antigonus
,
when
he
found
him
dead
at
the
battail
of
Marathone
.
It
shal
be
also
conuenient
that
amonges
these
well
renoumed
princes
we
should
lament
the
miseries
of
our
tyme
,
in
the
which
we
sée
thinges
so
merueylous
,
that
the
curious
auctours
of
the
tyme
passed
,
neuer
wrote
thinges
semblable
vnto
them
:
Nor
the
men
in
those
dayes
neuer
sawe
the
lyke
.
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
praysinges
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
Siciomens
:
Pitheas
of
the
profit
that
came
by
the
litle
speaking
of
the
disciples
of
Socrates
:
Apollinus
of
the
continencie
&
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
Hyarcus
:
Aulus
Gelyus
of
the
temperance
and
litle
eating
,
and
of
the
moderate
sléeping
of
the
disciples
of
maister
Fauorimus
:
Plutarch
of
the
wyse
women
of
Greece
,
and
of
the
chaste
wyues
of
Rome
:
Dyodorus
,
how
those
the
were
inhabitants
in
the
Isles
of
Balyares
cast
their
treasure
into
the
sea
for
feare
lest
the
straungers
for
couetousnes
of
their
riches
should
make
them
warres
,
and
to
the
entente
also
that
no
parcialitie
should
grow
among
themselues
.
Hearyng
then
all
this
that
I
haue
sayd
,
I
demaund
of
the
reader
hys
aduyse
what
my
penne
should
wryte
of
our
tyme
?
If
we
should
write
of
bountie
and
veritie
,
we
should
falsely
lye
:
If
of
riches
,
men
be
so
gréedy
that
all
be
disposed
to
desyre
and
hunger
couetously
.
Shall
we
say
,
they
be
not
couetous
,
séeyng
that
not
onely
men
serch
golde
and
siluer
in
déepe
mynes
,
but
men
trauail
to
séeke
it
as
farre
as
the
Indiens
,
of
a
vyneyarde
so
frosen
,
of
a
trée
so
dry
,
of
fruit
so
vnrype
,
of
a
water
so
troubled
,
of
bread
so
euil
baken
,
of
so
much
false
golde
,
of
a
worlde
so
suspicious
,
what
shall
we
hope
any
other
therof
but
euil
and
confusion
?
Let
vs
reade
that
is
written
of
the
courtes
of
the
princes
of
Siria
,
of
Percia
,
of
Macedonia
,
of
Crecia
,
and
finally
of
the
Romaines
:
And
let
vs
conferre
these
to
our
courtes
,
and
ye
shal
sée
such
euils
and
vicious
customes
in
our
common
wealthes
,
that
the
auncientes
did
neuer
attaine
to
the
knowlege
how
to
commit
suche
abhominacions
,
nor
yet
(
I
say
)
to
inuent
such
euils
.
In
those
most
happy
tymes
and
golden
worldes
an
euil
condicioned
man
scant
durst
to
haue
shewed
himselfe
in
anye
honest
company
:
but
now
alas
(
a
thing
to
be
lamented
)
the
worlde
is
so
replenished
with
dissolute
and
corrupt
liuing
,
that
it
is
counted
but
a
small
faulte
to
bée
euil
,
except
he
be
such
a
one
as
is
past
al
shame
&
grace
.
The
cortiers
wil
not
deny
me
but
that
whiles
they
geue
attendance
for
the
vprising
of
their
maisters
,
they
tell
eche
one
the
other
what
pastyme
they
haue
had
the
night
before
,
And
thus
,
as
the
worlde
is
new
,
the
inuencions
are
new
,
the
playes
newe
,
the
garments
new
,
new
speaking
,
new
maners
,
In
the
tyme
when
Marcus
Portius
was
Consull
,
Plutarch
sayeth
that
he
sawe
once
at
Rome
a
priest
of
Greece
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
that
affirmeth
that
in
.iiij.
C.lxiiij
.
yeares
which
was
the
tyme
that
the
temple
Vierges
Vastales
endured
,
there
was
neuer
founde
but
iiij
.
euill
liuing
persons
,
which
were
Domicia
,
Rhea
,
Albina
and
Cornelia
,
the
which
for
their
offences
were
openly
buryed
quycke
.
If
at
this
day
one
would
register
the
names
of
such
like
,
to
be
so
punished
,
I
leaue
it
to
your
iudgement
whether
there
should
lacke
hangmen
to
doe
execusion
.
Threbelius
Publius
sayd
that
the
Emperour
Aurilianus
Quintus
toke
a
great
frend
of
his
from
the
office
of
Dictator
,
which
was
named
Rogerius
,
onely
because
he
had
daunsed
at
the
wedding
of
Posteria
Auia
his
nigh
neighbor
saying
,
The
.xvij.
Chapiter
.
¶
Of
diuers
noble
and
valiaunt
men
,
that
left
the
court
and
the
great
cities
and
drew
them
to
their
proper
houses
,
more
by
will
,
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
busines
of
hys
houshold
:
This
is
that
Crassus
that
folowed
the
parcialitie
of
the
Consul
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
certaine
Pyrates
and
robbers
of
the
sea
,
and
he
sayd
boldly
to
two
or
three
of
the
best
of
them
that
kept
him
fast
bound
,
It
doeth
(
sayd
he
)
gréeue
me
much
,
not
for
that
I
am
taken
prisoner
,
forasmuch
as
that
is
but
hazarde
of
the
warre
,
but
of
the
pleasure
that
myne
enemye
Crassus
will
take
when
he
doth
heare
of
the
newes
.
Seuen
of
the
most
sagest
and
best
learned
of
Greece
came
to
Siracuse
a
Citie
where
the
sayde
Denys
was
resident
:
that
is
to
say
,
Plato
,
Chylo
,
Demophon
,
Diogenes
,
Myrtho
,
Pyllades
and
Surranus
,
the
which
medled
more
of
the
affaires
of
Denis
then
he
did
of
their
doctrine
.
Diogenes
dwelled
a
xi
.
yere
with
him
,
and
after
returned
to
his
countrey
,
where
he
beyng
and
washing
of
herbes
for
hys
dinner
,
another
Philosopher
sayd
to
him
:
If
thou
haddest
not
lefte
the
seruice
of
Denys
thou
néedest
not
now
to
haue
taken
the
payne
to
washe
thine
owne
herbes
and
make
them
ready
for
thy
dinner
.
To
whom
Dyogines
answered
:
If
thou
couldest
haue
beene
content
to
haue
washed
&
eaten
herbs
the
needes
not
at
this
time
to
haue
béen
in
the
court
of
Dionisius
,
Cato
the
censor
of
whom
the
names
of
Cato
firste
began
,
was
estemed
for
one
of
the
wysest
of
the
Romaynes
:
And
he
was
neuer
séene
in
.lxviii.
yeres
(
for
so
long
he
liued
)
not
once
to
laugh
nor
to
do
anye
thing
repugnant
to
his
sage
grauitye
.
Plutarch
sayeth
that
he
was
in
speking
prudent
,
gentle
in
conuersacion
,
in
correcting
sharpe
and
seuere
,
in
presentes
liberall
:
in
eating
sober
,
and
in
that
that
he
promised
,
sure
and
certayn
,
and
in
executing
iustice
irreprehensible
.
Lucullus
Consull
and
capitayn
,
a
Romayn
,
right
valiaunt
brought
to
an
end
the
warre
agaynst
the
Parthes
which
had
continued
by
the
space
of
.16
.
yeres
,
whereby
he
gat
great
honour
of
the
citezens
of
Rome
,
and
immortall
renoune
for
him selfe
and
great
riches
for
his
family
.
And
it
is
sayd
of
him
that
he
only
of
al
the
Romaines
did
enioye
peaceablye
in
his
age
,
the
ryches
that
he
had
wonne
in
his
youth
in
the
warres
.
And
after
when
he
came
from
Asia
and
sawe
that
the
common
welth
was
in
deuision
betwixte
Marius
and
Silla
,
he
determined
to
leaue
Rome
&
make
a
house
in
the
countrey
nighe
to
Naples
vpon
the
Sea
side
(
now
at
this
present
time
called
the
Castle
of
Lobo
)
which
he
edified
and
liued
there
.xviii.
yeres
in
great
tranquilitie
.
His
house
was
haunted
with
many
people
,
specially
with
greate
Capitaynes
that
went
into
Asia
,
and
with
Ambassadours
that
came
from
Rome
,
which
hée
receyued
very
gently
&
benignly
.
One
night
when
his
seruauntes
had
made
readye
his
supper
with
a
lesse
dyet
than
he
was
accustomed
to
haue
,
they
excusing
them selues
that
they
ordayned
the
lesse
because
he
had
no
straungers
:
He
said
vnto
them
,
although
sayd
hée
,
that
there
be
no
straungers
with
me
,
know
not
you
that
Lucullus
must
suppe
with
Lucullus
.
Plutarch
speaking
of
this
valiaunt
mans
exercise
that
he
did
after
he
was
retired
to
the
place
aforesayd
,
sayth
that
he
delited
much
in
hunting
&
hawking
,
but
aboue
all
pleasures
he
most
delited
in
his
Library
,
Helius
Spertianus
sayth
that
Dioclesian
,
after
that
hée
had
gouerned
the
Empyre
xviij
.
yeares
,
forsooke
it
,
and
went
to
take
his
pleasure
in
the
fieldes
,
there
in
quiet
to
ende
the
residue
of
his
lyfe
,
saying
:
that
it
was
tyme
for
him
to
leaue
the
daungerous
estates
of
the
court
and
get
hym
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
return
,
promising
him
that
so
long
as
they
liued
there
should
none
haue
the
name
of
Emperour
but
hée
.
Now
when
the
Ambassadours
ariued
at
hys
house
,
they
found
him
in
a
litle
garden
where
he
was
setting
of
Lettys
and
Onions
:
And
hearing
what
they
sayd
vnto
him
,
he
answered
in
this
wyse
:
Doe
you
not
thinke
my
frendes
,
that
it
is
much
better
for
him
that
can
sowe
his
Lettys
,
and
afterwarde
pleasantly
and
merely
to
eate
the
same
,
so
still
to
exercise
him selfe
,
then
to
returne
and
enter
into
the
goulfe
of
troubles
in
a
common
welth
?
I
haue
assayed
both
,
I
know
what
it
is
to
commaund
in
the
court
,
and
what
it
is
to
liue
&
labor
in
the
village
,
wherefore
I
pray
you
suffer
me
here
to
abide
in
pacience
,
for
I
desire
rather
here
to
liue
with
the
labor
of
my
handes
,
then
in
the
sorow
and
cares
of
an
Empyre
.
Cleo
and
Pericles
succeded
in
the
ruling
of
the
common
welth
after
Solon
,
a
man
excelently
lerned
and
wel
estéemed
,
and
taken
among
the
Grecians
for
halfe
a
God
,
by
the
reason
of
the
wyse
lawes
he
made
among
the
Atheniens
:
These
two
noble
gouernoures
were
much
beloued
,
because
that
(
as
Plutarch
telleth
)
Pericles
which
xxx
.
yeres
had
the
administracion
of
the
busines
and
affaires
of
the
cittie
,
was
neuer
sene
to
come
into
any
mans
house
but
his
own
,
nor
yet
to
sit
in
anye
open
place
among
the
common
people
,
suche
a
grauity
was
in
him
.
About
the
yeres
of
his
age
which
was
lx.
he
went
from
Athens
to
a
litle
village
where
hee
ended
the
reste
of
his
dayes
,
studying
and
passing
the
time
in
husbandry
,
he
had
a
litle
smal
gate
or
wicket
in
the
entring
of
his
house
,
ouer
which
was
written
Inueni
portum
,
spes
&
fortuna
valete
,
That
is
to
saye
,
forasmuch
as
now
(
and
before
I
haue
knowledge
of
vanity
)
I
haue
found
the
port
of
rest
,
fye
of
hope
,
and
fortune
fare
well
.
By
this
example
,
no
courtier
can
say
that
he
leadeth
a
sure
life
,
but
onlye
that
courtier
which
doth
as
this
wyse
captayn
did
withdraw
him selfe
.
Lucius
Seneca
,
was
as
who
should
saye
a
right
leder
to
good
maners
,
and
a
instructer
to
good
letters
to
Nero
the
sixt
Emperour
of
Rome
,
with
whom
he
taried
.
xxiiii
yeres
,
and
had
great
doings
of
thinges
pertayning
to
the
common
wealth
as
wel
of
priuate
causes
as
otherwise
,
because
hee
was
sage
and
of
great
experience
.
And
at
the
last
,
comming
to
greate
age
and
weryed
with
the
continuall
conflictes
and
busines
of
the
court
left
the
court
and
went
and
dwelt
in
a
litle
mansion
he
had
nigh
to
Nolè
Campana
,
where
hee
liued
after
a
longe
time
as
witnesseth
his
bokes
De
offiicis
,
de
Ira
,
de
bono
viro
,
de
aduersa
fortuna
and
other
bokes
which
were
to
long
to
reherse
.
At
last
(
fortune
&
mans
malice
did
their
office
)
Nero
commaunded
him
to
be
slayne
,
not
for
that
he
had
committed
any
cryme
worthy
to
dye
,
or
done
any
thing
otherwise
then
an
honest
man
ought
to
doe
:
but
onely
because
the
lecherous
Domicia
hated
him
:
Note
well
reader
thys
example
,
that
sometime
fortune
pursueth
him
that
forsaketh
the
court
,
aswell
as
the
courtier
.
Scipio
the
Affrican
was
so
estéemed
among
the
Romaines
,
that
in
.xxii.
yeares
,
whiles
that
he
was
in
the
warres
hée
neuer
lost
battail
:
And
yet
made
hée
warre
in
Asia
,
Europ
,
and
Affrica
,
and
to
this
,
neuer
committed
acte
worthy
of
reproch
:
And
yet
he
wan
Affrica
&
put
to
sacke
Carthage
,
brought
in
bondage
Numance
,
ouercame
Hanniball
,
and
restored
Rome
weakened
and
nere
destroied
by
the
losse
they
had
at
the
battail
of
Cannes
.
And
yet
for
all
this
,
beyng
of
the
yeres
of
.lii.
he
withdrew
him
from
the
courte
of
Rome
to
a
litle
village
betwixt
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
,
&
learned
in
Athens
:
It
is
read
of
him
,
that
he
answered
the
Ambassadours
of
Cirene
that
required
of
him
lawes
to
gouerne
themselues
in
sure
peace
,
in
this
wise
:
Difficilimum
est
homines
amplissima
fortuna
ditatos
legibus
continere
.
Which
is
to
vnderstand
,
that
it
is
hard
to
bring
to
passe
to
make
rich
men
to
be
subiect
to
the
rigour
of
the
lawe
.
To
conclude
,
Plato
not
willing
to
abyde
longer
the
clamor
and
cry
of
the
court
,
went
and
dwelt
in
a
litle
village
two
miles
from
Athens
called
Academia
,
where
the
good
old
man
after
he
had
taryed
there
.xiiij.
yeres
,
teaching
and
writing
many
notable
doctrines
,
ended
there
his
moste
happy
dayes
.
After
the
memory
of
him
,
the
auncients
called
the
village
Academia
,
which
is
to
say
in
English
,
a
schole
:
The
conclusion
is
,
that
all
these
honourable
sage
princes
&
wise
men
,
left
Monarchies
,
kingdomes
,
Cities
,
and
great
riches
,
and
went
into
the
vyllages
,
there
to
serche
a
poore
,
an
honest
,
and
a
peaceable
lyfe
.
Not
that
I
will
say
that
some
of
these
lefte
the
court
,
to
be
there
poore
and
banished
and
rebuked
,
but
of
their
frée
wil
and
frée
libertie
,
minding
to
liue
a
quiet
and
honest
life
or
they
dyed
.
The
xviij
.
Chapiter
.
¶
The
aucthor
complayneth
with
great
reason
,
of
the
yeares
that
he
lost
in
the
court
.
I
Will
demaunde
of
mine
owne
self
,
mine
owne
life
,
and
make
accoumpt
of
the
same
,
to
the
entent
that
I
wil
conferre
my
yeares
to
my
trauailes
,
and
my
trauailes
to
my
yeares
,
that
it
may
appeare
how
long
I
left
of
to
liue
,
and
beganne
to
dye
.
My
life
(
gentle
reader
)
hath
not
béen
a
life
,
but
a
long
death
:
my
dayes
a
play
new
for
to
begyn
:
my
yeares
a
verye
tedious
dreame
:
I
came
to
the
court
very
yong
,
where
I
sawe
diuers
maners
of
offices
and
chaunges
,
euen
among
the
princes
that
I
serued
.
And
I
haue
assayed
to
trauail
by
sea
and
by
land
,
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
somer
santes
of
destines
:
I
haue
had
in
the
courte
frendes
and
enemyes
:
I
haue
had
false
reports
:
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
sée
myne
exercises
.
I
neuer
was
yet
in
the
court
but
I
founde
to
whom
I
bare
malice
,
or
els
that
enuied
mée
.
I
was
neuer
yet
in
the
palaice
but
I
founde
a
window
open
,
and
a
courtier
murmur
.
I
neuer
yet
spake
to
princes
,
Moreouer
to
fulfill
my
trauailes
,
alwaies
I
went
asking
&
serching
newes
of
the
affayres
of
the
court
:
alwayes
harkening
what
one
said
of
another
:
alwayes
spying
and
watching
:
and
all
this
considered
,
I
founde
by
myne
accompt
,
that
I
liued
in
heauynes
,
captiuitie
,
and
state
of
damnacion
.
Let
vs
yet
go
farther
:
If
I
were
rich
,
one
or
other
serched
some
meane
to
deuour
mée
:
If
I
were
poore
,
I
found
none
to
succour
mée
:
my
frendes
cryed
out
vpon
mée
,
and
myne
enemyes
sought
my
death
.
Ouermuche
bablyng
of
the
courtiers
brake
my
braynes
:
and
much
silence
made
me
to
slepe
,
and
the
solicitude
caused
me
to
be
be
sad
:
And
ouermuch
company
oppressed
me
:
much
exercise
weryed
me
,
and
idlenes
confounded
me
.
To
conclude
,
I
so
burdened
and
vexed
my self
in
the
court
with
so
much
trauail
in
naughtines
,
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
eull
customes
that
he
learned
there
.
BVt
now
to
procéede
,
my
fortune
passed
,
my
frends
died
,
my
force
decaied
,
and
my
first
fashions
failed
:
O
if
al
my
paynes
had
bene
ended
at
the
firste
tyme
when
I
came
to
the
court
,
howe
happy
had
that
been
for
me
?
but
now
al
consumed
,
I
complaine
singulerly
of
my
traitorous
hearte
,
which
would
neuer
cease
to
desire
vaine
thinges
,
and
the
cursed
tong
to
speake
sclaunderous
things
.
O
gentle
reader
,
be
not
weary
,
if
I
tell
thee
in
fewe
wordes
the
difference
betwixt
him
that
I
was
when
I
went
first
to
the
courte
,
and
that
I
am
nowe
since
I
haue
been
in
the
courte
.
First
and
before
that
I
did
cast
my self
into
this
perillous
labyrinth
(
which
is
to
say
a
prison
ful
of
snares
)
I
was
a
good
deuout
person
,
gentle
and
feareful
and
since
I
haue
learned
to
be
a
mischiuous
felowe
,
slowe
in
doing
good
,
and
litle
or
nothing
regarding
the
welth
of
my
soule
.
I
went
thether
being
very
yong
and
of
good
disposicion
,
and
came
from
thence
deffe
,
and
more
then
spur-blind
,
and
no
more
able
to
goe
then
hee
that
is
ful
of
the
goute
:
And
briefely
an
olde
grisarde
,
full
of
ambition
,
in
suche
wise
that
I
am
so
variable
,
that
skante
I
know
on
what
ground
to
set
my
fete
.
My
hart
was
of
so
depraued
a
sort
,
that
it
desired
to
be
discharged
of
all
accions
,
and
yet
for
all
that
founde
no
nother
but
perill
and
torment
.
Sondry
tymes
I
purposed
to
leue
the
court
,
and
sodenly
I
repented
.
Sometime
I
purposed
not
to
come
out
of
my
lodging
,
&
strait
wayes
I
was
enforced
to
trot
a
trot
to
the
court
.
Sometime
I
purposed
not
to
come
to
the
palayce
,
and
or
I
were
ware
I
was
compelled
to
go
thither
sometime
or
it
were
day
.
I
purposed
to
be
no
more
vexed
,
and
sodenly
my
passions
augmented
,
And
it
followed
that
my
good
purposes
ceased
and
went
from
me
:
and
I
did
that
was
leude
and
naughty
.
Behold
how
I
lyued
of
wynd
and
of
fooles
imaginacions
as
many
a
foolish
courtier
doth
,
I
haue
phantasied
with
my selfe
(
in
the
court
sometime
)
that
I
gouerned
the
King
and
the
Princes
,
and
that
I
came
of
a
noble
house
and
aunciente
stock
,
excelent
in
science
,
great
in
fauor
and
beloued
of
al
men
,
sage
in
counsail
,
moderate
in
speaking
,
eloquent
in
writing
,
prudent
in
seruice
,
and
comfortable
to
all
.
But
when
I
waked
out
of
my
folly
as
from
a
dreame
,
and
looked
to
my
féete
,
I
knew
easly
that
I
had
borne
false
witnesse
to
my selfe
of
this
golden
and
pleasaunt
immaginacion
,
and
saw
of
truth
in
other
,
the
whiche
I
dreamingly
imagyned
of
my selfe
.
I
serched
the
waye
how
to
be
estéemed
of
euery
man
,
holy
,
wyse
,
gentle
,
content
,
and
of
a
good
zeale
,
and
a
sea
of
sadnes
.
Lo
this
fault
happyned
to
courtiers
as
it
did
vnto
me
,
that
is
,
to
ioyne
folish
liberty
with
vertuous
honoure
,
The
.xx.
Chapiter
.
The
Auctour
taketh
his
leaue
of
the
world
with
great
eloquence
.
FArewell
world
,
forasmuche
as
one
can
nor
may
trust
of
thee
nor
in
thée
For
in
thy
house
O
world
the
passage
is
past
,
Farewel
world
forasmuch
as
in
thy
palayce
promyses
are
made
and
neuer
kepte
,
men
serue
and
haue
no
reward
,
Farewell
world
thou
sclaundereste
them
that
are
in
credite
,
Farewell
worlde
,
for
in
thy
house
fidelity
is
neuer
kept
,
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
,
and
more
then
lost
and
sometime
both
.
Farewell
world
forasmuch
as
in
thy
company
,
he
that
wenes
himself
moste
assured
,
is
most
vncertaine
,
and
hée
that
followes
thée
goeth
out
of
the
way
and
he
that
serues
thée
,
is
euell
payed
:
and
he
that
loues
thée
,
is
euel
entreted
,
and
he
that
contents
thée
,
contenteth
an
euell
maister
:
and
he
that
haunteth
thée
is
abused
.
Farewell
world
forasmuch
as
thou
hast
such
mishap
,
that
seruices
done
&
presents
offered
to
thée
,
profit
nothing
,
nor
the
lies
that
is
told
thée
,
nor
the
bankettes
made
to
thée
:
nor
the
faithfulnes
we
geue
to
thée
:
nor
the
loue
we
beare
to
thée
.
Farewell
world
,
forasmuch
as
thou
deceiuest
all
,
backbytest
all
,
and
slaunderest
al
,
chastisest
al
,
thretest
vs
al
,
achiuest
al
,
&
in
the
end
forgettest
al.
Farewell
world
,
sithens
in
thy
company
all
men
complayn
,
al
cry
out
,
al
wepe
,
and
all
men
dye
liuing
.
Farewell
world
,
sithens
by
thée
wée
hate
eache
one
the
other
to
the
death
:
To
speke
till
we
lye
:
to
loue
,
till
wee
dispayre
:
to
eate
till
we
spue
:
to
drinke
till
we
be
dronken
:
to
vse
brokage
to
robbery
:
and
to
sin
,
till
we
dye
.
Farewell
worlde
for
being
in
thée
,
we
forget
our
infancy
,
and
our
greene
age
,
without
experience
:
our
youth
in
vices
,
our
middle
age
in
turmoyling
and
busines
:
our
olde
age
in
lamentacions
:
and
all
our
time
counted
together
in
vayn
hopes
.
Farewell
world
,
for
in
thy
scoole
we
are
led
till
the
heire
be
white
:
the
eyes
blered
:
the
eares
defe
:
the
nostrels
droppyng
:
the
forehed
wrinckled
:
the
feete
goutie
:
the
raynes
ful
of
grauel
:
the
stomack
full
of
euell
humors
:
the
head
ful
of
migram
:
the
body
full
of
sorowe
,
&
the
minde
full
of
passions
.
Farewel
world
for
none
of
thy
louers
come
to
good
profit
,
witnes
those
that
daily
we
sée
,
are
not
false
knaues
marked
in
the
face
,
theues
hanged
?
manquellers
headed
?
robbers
by
the
hye
wayes
sette
vpon
wheles
?
heretikes
brent
?
false
money
makers
boyled
,
killers
of
their
parentes
,
torn
in
pieces
,
and
other
diuers
punishmentes
of
such
as
are
great
in
fauour
with
thee
?
Farewell
world
forasmuch
as
thy
seruauntes
haue
no
more
pastyme
,
but
to
trot
by
the
streates
,
to
mock
one
another
?
to
seke
out
wenches
?
to
sende
presentes
:
to
beguile
yonge
girles
:
write
amorous
letters
,
speke
to
bandes
:
play
at
the
dice
:
plede
agaynste
their
neighbour
:
tel
newes
:
inuent
lies
,
and
study
new
vyces
.
Farewel
world
for
in
thy
pallayce
none
wil
doe
good
to
other
for
the
bore
fightes
agaynste
the
Lyon
:
the
Vnycorne
agaynst
the
Cocodryl
:
the
Eagle
agaynst
the
Vultur
:
the
Elephant
agaynst
the
Mynotaure
:
the
Sacre
,
agaynst
ehe
Kyte
:
the
mastyf
,
agaynst
the
Bull
:
One
man
agaynste
another
:
and
al
together
against
death
.
Farewell
worlde
,
Farwel
world
seing
no
man
can
pas
thi
domynyon
in
suertie
,
for
in
euery
path
we
finde
stones
to
stumble
at
?
bridges
that
breakes
vnder
vs
?
Snow
that
letteth
vs
:
Mountaynes
that
wery
vs
:
Thunders
that
feares
vs
:
Theues
that
robbe
vs
,
encounters
that
hurts
vs
,
and
euil
fortune
that
killes
vs
.
Farewell
worlde
,
forasmuch
as
in
thy
country
there
is
litle
health
:
for
some
be
lippers
&
some
haue
the
french
pockes
:
some
the
Canker
,
and
some
the
goute
:
and
some
haue
the
foule
euell
,
&
some
the
Sciatica
,
and
some
the
stone
,
and
some
Quotidian
feuers
:
some
wandring
feuers
:
some
tercian
and
quarten
feuers
:
spasmes
,
palsies
,
and
the
moste
parte
sicke
of
fayre
folly
.
Farewell
world
,
forasmuch
as
there
is
not
a
man
in
thy
house
but
hee
is
noted
with
some
defaute
in
his
person
:
For
if
there
be
any
talle
manne
,
the
reste
is
lubberlyke
.
If
he
haue
a
faire
face
,
his
eye
shall
be
too
blacke
:
If
he
haue
a
good
forehead
,
it
shal
be
wrinckeled
:
If
he
haue
a
welfauored
mouth
,
he
shal
lacke
téeth
:
If
he
haue
fayre
handes
,
he
shall
lacke
faire
heire
,
And
if
hee
haue
fayre
heire
,
hee
shall
haue
a
foule
skinne
.
Farewell
worlde
,
forasmuch
as
the
inhabitauntes
in
thee
are
so
variable
of
maners
and
condicions
,
that
some
will
folow
the
court
,
some
wil
sayle
on
the
sea
:
&
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
and
poll
the
poore
people
.
Farewell
worlde
,
forasmuch
as
in
thy
house
there
are
none
that
prepare
themselues
to
liue
,
&
much
lesse
to
dye
:
And
yet
we
see
some
dye
young
,
&
some
in
middle
age
,
some
in
olde
age
,
some
dye
by
hanging
,
&
some
by
drowning
:
some
dye
for
hunger
,
&
some
in
eating
,
sleping
,
and
resting
,
and
some
or
they
beware
,
and
for
the
most
parte
or
they
looke
for
death
.
Farewell
worlde
,
forasmuch
as
we
can
neither
knowe
thy
disposicion
nor
condicion
:
For
if
one
be
wise
,
another
is
a
foole
:
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
world
,
seyng
no
man
can
liue
with
thée
:
for
if
a
man
eate
to
litle
,
he
becommes
weake
:
if
to
muche
,
he
waxeth
sicke
:
if
a
man
labour
,
strait
he
is
wery
:
if
he
be
idle
,
he
liueth
beastly
:
if
he
geue
litle
,
he
is
called
a
nigard
:
if
he
geue
much
,
he
is
called
prodigall
:
if
a
man
visite
his
frendes
often
,
he
is
called
importune
:
if
to
seldome
,
full
of
disdayne
:
If
a
man
suffer
wrong
,
he
is
called
false
hearted
:
And
if
he
doo
reuenge
,
then
is
he
wilfull
:
If
hee
haue
frendes
,
he
is
praysed
:
If
enemyes
,
he
is
pursued
:
If
one
tary
to
long
in
a
place
,
he
waxeth
wery
:
and
if
he
chaunge
to
ofte
,
he
is
grudged
at
.
Finally
,
I
say
,
that
such
thinges
as
displease
me
,
I
am
forced
to
folowe
,
and
that
which
I
would
,
I
cannot
come
by
.
O
world
vncleane
,
I
coniure
thée
thou
filthy
world
,
I
pray
O
thou
world
,
and
protest
against
thee
thou
worlde
,
that
thou
neuer
haue
parte
in
mee
,
for
I
demaund
nor
desire
nothing
that
is
in
thée
,
neyther
hope
of
any
thing
in
thee
,
for
I
haue
determined
with
my self
that
posui
finem
curis
,
spes
,
et
fortuna
valete
.
I
haue
finished
worldly
cares
,
therfore
hope
and
fortune
farewell
.
FINIS
.