The
Aucthor
to
his
frende
afflicted
with
the
troubles
of
the
ciuile
Warres
in
Fraunce
,
in
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
,
M.D.LXVII
.
THe
calamities
and
encombraunces
,
the
miseries
and
sorrowes
,
whiche
proceede
of
he
insolencie
into
the
whiche
the
people
of
this
tyme
is
plonged
in
this
age
of
Iron
(
Of
Iron
I
maie
saie
,
hardened
to
misfortune
)
hath
well
witnessed
to
vs
,
how
true
is
the
aunciente
Prouerbe
,
whiche
saith
:
That
Iupiter
is
slowe
to
visite
the
skinne
of
the
Gote
:
Yet
that
in
fine
,
he
permitteth
not
an
euill
facte
vnpunished
.
Wee
haue
seen
with
our
eyes
,
and
felte
by
effecte
in
oure
Fraunce
,
at
the
risyng
of
these
laste
troubles
,
fallyng
vpon
vs
like
tempest
of
a
Haile
vnlooked
for
.
The
whiche
,
as
commyng
out
of
the
Boxe
of
Pandora
,
or
out
of
a
broken
infected
Prison
,
was
so
spredde
emong
menne
,
and
hath
made
suche
ouerture
of
vice
and
mischief
,
that
all
sortes
of
euill
are
sette
at
libertie
:
Mars
the
Executour
of
the
wrathe
of
the
Goddes
,
hath
so
vomited
his
Choler
without
measure
,
that
the
burnyng
thereof
hath
chafed
theim
,
not
onely
to
sociall
Warres
,
but
to
all
Deuelishe
attemptes
,
more
then
Megarique
to
Robberies
and
Murthers
,
and
(
as
saieth
Cicero
)
to
Phalarismes
and
moste
cruell
inhumanites
,
Vulcan
leauyng
his
proper
Region
,
hath
folowed
these
miseries
,
and
searched
newe
habitations
,
to
exercise
these
operations
:
In
suche
sorte
that
it
is
easie
to
iudge
,
that
these
mishappes
are
fallen
emong
menne
,
to
putte
theim
in
memorie
of
their
synnes
,
founde
in
the
saied
Gotes
skinne
,
of
the
whiche
you
haue
paied
your
lotte
:
as
I
haue
knowen
by
the
complaintes
,
whiche
you
haue
made
for
your
greate
losses
of
money
and
menage
speiled
and
destroied
by
sackcage
,
and
pillage
also
of
your
Nobles
.
In
the
whiche
I
lamente
your
fortune
,
as
a
common
Shipwracke
:
But
pacience
m●●te
surmount
.
And
to
helpe
you
,
I
haue
none
other
meane
then
by
aduise
and
counsaile
:
you
knowe
that
all
my
life
,
I
haue
spente
little
tyme
in
hourdyng
of
richesse
,
and
thynges
caduke
.
And
that
rather
I
tooke
pleasure
to
content
my
Spirites
,
in
readyng
and
searchyng
of
suche
thynges
,
as
fewe
menne
haue
founde
.
Yet
not
to
refuse
the
helpe
a
freende
in
necessitie
:
and
vnderstandyng
that
there
yet
remaineth
vnto
you
,
fiue
or
sixe
hundreth
Frankes
,
whiche
you
haue
hidden
,
foreseyng
so
greate
a
mischaunce
,
it
seemeth
vnto
me
,
to
the
ende
that
you
in
nothyng
diminishe
your
state
of
liuyng
,
so
to
redresse
the
same
,
that
you
maye
easely
in
shorte
tyme
,
reenter
into
as
greate
and
ample
reuenewes
,
as
you
had
before
the
saied
troubles
.
Your
reuenewe
doubtlesse
consisteth
in
Housebandrie
of
all
sortes
of
cattaile
,
as
Beeues
,
Kyne
,
Mares
,
Sheepe
,
Foule
,
and
suche
other
thynges
as
reioyseth
theim
,
whiche
are
giuen
to
the
Countrie
life
.
I
can
bee
a
witnesse
how
your
Table
was
euer
readie
for
your
familiar
freendes
:
And
your
wife
and
daughter
were
of
worshipfull
estimation
,
and
of
carefull
prouision
for
you
famelie
,
entertained
by
honest
sparyng
and
frugalitie
,
requisite
in
due
tyme
and
season
.
At
whiche
tyme
also
you
were
well
estemed
,
for
your
liberalitie
toward
your
neighbours
and
freendes
.
But
seeyng
that
Fortune
hath
tourned
her
visage
(
as
she
is
accustomed
to
doe
,
when
the
tyme
agreeth
with
her
)
you
muste
needes
retire
,
and
not
suffer
her
to
remaine
with
you
in
like
regarde
as
before
.
And
therefore
you
muste
forgette
those
losses
,
and
thinke
of
a
Baine
to
come
:
To
the
whiche
you
shall
attaine
easely
,
with
this
little
summe
remainyng
,
if
you
will
emploie
it
,
as
I
will
aduertise
you
.
And
this
without
spotte
of
villanie
,
or
filthie
and
excessiue
gaines
.
Furthermore
,
your
Housebandrie
shall
florishe
,
and
your
name
shall
bee
more
knowen
in
Fraunce
,
then
was
emong
the
Greekes
,
the
name
of
hym
that
burnte
the
Temple
of
Diana
in
Ephesus
.
And
to
make
no
longer
discourse
:
aduise
your self
to
be
stowe
your
summe
of
money
in
buiyng
of
Hennes
:
not
Meleagrides
,
the
whiche
Bellomus
in
his
Peregrination
affirmeth
to
be
our
Hennes
of
the
Indies
(
beyng
the
true
granieres
of
Dtes
)
but
common
Hennes
of
our
Countrie
:
and
Housebande
or
employe
them
in
suche
sort
,
as
I
will
shewe
hereafter
.
And
bee
not
impacient
to
attende
the
conclusion
.
Firste
of
all
,
it
is
necessarie
to
haue
them
,
neare
vnto
the
Citée
of
Paris
,
famous
and
of
greate
renoume
throughout
all
the
worlde
,
to
bee
the
marte
and
seate
of
all
good
Artes
,
and
Sciences
,
and
populous
of
all
sortes
of
menne
,
if
there
bee
any
other
vnder
the
Sunne
.
There
consider
the
situation
of
some
commodious
place
well
builded
,
hauyng
good
roomes
and
Stables
,
with
a
Courte
or
yarde
inclosed
of
twoo
Acres
of
grounde
,
more
or
lesse
,
and
walled
of
sufficiente
height
.
With
also
twoo
other
Acres
inclosed
,
for
an
other
purpose
,
whereof
wee
will
speake
hereafter
.
Of
these
are
enowe
to
bee
founde
,
in
the
olde
rurall
buildynges
about
the
Citie
of
Paris
.
So
then
can
you
not
saie
,
that
you
are
staightly
lodged
.
For
Quintus
Cincinnatus
Citezine
of
Roome
(
so
named
for
wearyng
his
haire
combed
and
breaded
)
possessed
no
more
when
he
was
called
to
the
dignitie
of
Dictator
,
as
writeth
Valerius
Maximus
in
his
fowerth
booke
.
The
aforesaied
Mannour
place
or
Ferme
,
with
Yarde
or
Courte
inclosed
,
you
shall
take
by
Lease
for
certaine
yeres
,
paiyng
yerely
rent
for
the
dwellyng
of
you
and
your
famelie
.
You
shall
dispose
your
stables
commodiouslie
for
your
Hennes
and
Chickins
,
with
the
viewe
or
prospecte
towarde
the
Winter
Drient
,
that
the
Sunne
maie
giue
the
good
morrowe
to
your
Hennes
,
whiche
greately
delite
at
the
Mornyng
Sunne
,
as
noteth
Columella
in
his
ix
.
booke
of
Housebandrie
:
also
●arre
in
his
third
booke
.
The
Henne
houses
,
shall
bée
commodious
and
profitable
if
thei
bee
alone
or
solitarie
,
and
the
Plankes
well
couered
with
claye
,
because
the
Hennes
delite
to
pruine
and
toumble
them selues
in
duste
,
and
to
bee
kept
warme
.
And
therefore
boordes
or
plaister
,
are
not
conuenient
to
this
purpose
.
The
Lathers
or
Perches
muste
bee
from
the
grounde
twoo
foote
high
.
Also
flatte
,
and
not
rounde
,
because
the
Hennes
doe
not
bende
,
or
crooke
their
clawes
or
Talantes
as
doe
other
graspelyng
foules
.
The
saied
Henne
houses
also
,
in
the
daie
tyme
muste
bee
open
,
that
thei
maie
be
euented
with
Winde
and
Aire
.
And
that
the
Night
aire
maie
more
easely
transpire
and
breath
out
,
that
it
maie
cause
no
disease
by
close
ayre
,
whiche
in
shorte
tyme
causeth
putrefaction
,
and
diseases
thereof
proceadyng
.
Vnder
the
Henne
houses
,
and
all
aboute
the
Stables
,
shall
bee
hanged
many
Panyers
of
conueniente
bignesse
,
stufte
with
Haye
,
to
receiue
the
Hennes
when
thei
laye
.
For
Haye
in
this
case
,
is
muche
better
then
Strawe
,
because
it
is
softer
and
warmer
,
and
is
not
so
apte
to
engender
Lice
or
Woormes
.
I
dooe
not
meane
that
it
should
bee
so
deare
as
was
that
,
whiche
was
solde
for
fower
Attiques
the
handfull
,
for
menne
to
eate
,
at
the
tyme
of
the
greate
Famin
in
Ierusalem
,
as
writeth
Iosephus
in
his
seuenth
booke
of
the
warre
of
the
Iewes
,
the
fower
Attiques
amountyng
to
fowertene
Frenche
Soules
,
De
Asse
.
When
you
haue
thus
disposed
your
Henne
houses
,
and
made
theim
sure
and
saufe
against
all
hurtfull
beastes
and
Vermine
,
that
maie
enter
by
Daie
or
Night
,
and
haue
well
placed
the
Paniers
,
to
receiue
and
harbour
theim
,
you
shall
bestowe
the
summe
of
three
hundreth
Frankes
,
in
buiyng
of
good
Hennes
,
whiche
maie
cost
you
after
the
rate
of
fiue
Souses
(
whiche
is
vj.
d.
and
twoo-thirdes
)
the
peece
,
by
reason
of
the
dearthe
whiche
is
now
,
by
occasion
of
Warres
.
Whiche
shall
bee
twelue
hundreth
Hennes
,
after
xxv
.
Frankes
the
hundred
.
The
Countries
of
Angeou
,
Touraine
,
and
Lodunois
,
haue
been
the
Countries
with
Britaigne
,
lesse
troubled
with
the
saied
Ciuile
warres
:
And
therefore
Hennes
are
there
better
cheape
:
Also
verie
good
,
strong
,
well
membered
,
and
of
the
beste
race
to
make
your
emploite
.
You
shall
choose
the
youngeste
,
whiche
are
apter
to
laye
then
the
olde
:
and
the
common
,
more
then
thei
of
kynde
:
or
the
Blacke
,
Redde
,
and
Taunie
,
whiche
are
more
fruitefull
then
the
Graie
or
White
,
as
Aristotle
affirmeth
in
his
Historie
of
Beastes
in
the
firste
booke
,
the
firste
Chapiter
.
And
also
thei
whiche
haue
their
creste
or
combe
double
and
vpright
,
as
witnesseth
Plinie
in
his
naturall
Historie
.
Also
Palladius
and
Petrus
Crescensis
in
his
Booke
of
Housebandrie
.
Likewise
Carolus
Stephanus
a
man
of
our
tyme
,
&
a
diligent
gatherer
of
thinges
Economike
,
parteinyng
to
Housholde
and
Housebandrie
.
Thei
of
meane
bignesse
,
are
the
beste
,
hauyng
their
brest
large
,
their
bodie
well
fleshed
,
not
with
long
Spurres
like
vnto
Cockes
,
for
thei
commonly
breake
their
Egges
.
Take
héede
also
that
thei
bee
not
to
fatte
.
Witnesse
the
good
wife
whiche
beyng
in
loue
with
her
Henne
,
fedde
her
so
well
,
and
made
her
so
fatte
,
that
she
lefte
laiyng
,
as
rehearseth
Esope
in
his
Fables
.
You
ought
to
thinke
that
the
good
Woman
loued
her
Henne
no
lesse
,
then
the
Emperour
Honorius
,
sonne
of
Theo
dosius
loued
his
,
named
Rome
.
Who
vnderstanding
that
Alaricus
Kyng
of
the
Gothes
had
taken
Rome
,
(
whiche
was
the
aunciente
Citee
of
Rome
)
was
verie
sadde
,
supposyng
that
Alaricus
had
taken
his
Henne
,
whiche
he
so
muche
loued
,
as
Zonar
the
Greke
Historiographer
hath
written
,
in
the
life
of
Honorius
.
I
saie
the
aunciente
Rome
,
because
the
Emperours
of
the
East
partes
,
called
Constantinople
,
newe
Rome
.
In
like
maner
you
shall
buye
Cockes
,
to
sorte
or
matche
them
.
Sixe
score
Cockes
shall
suffice
for
the
twelue
hundreth
Hennes
.
To
knowe
them
well
,
you
shall
consider
the
Plumage
or
Feathers
.
The
Blacke
,
Redde
,
and
Taunie
,
are
the
beste
.
Also
thei
that
haue
their
Combe
or
Crest
vpright
,
and
double
or
diuided
.
Their
eyes
Redde
and
glisteryng
:
Their
becke
,
shorte
and
hooked
:
well
suprred
:
their
goyng
,
hautie
and
proude
:
Their
voice
strong
and
soundyng
:
And
suche
as
crowe
muche
,
representyng
suche
a
maiestie
,
as
did
the
Cocke
of
the
Persians
,
whiche
emong
them
was
reuerenred
,
and
honoured
for
a
Kyng
,
as
reciteth
Aristophanes
.
At
the
least
,
that
thei
shewe
a
certain
hardinesse
,
as
thei
whiche
the
Carians
,
people
of
the
lesse
Asia
,
bore
vpon
their
Morion
or
Helmet
,
goyng
to
battaile
:
As
Alexander
de
Alexandro
hath
written
in
the
xx
.
Chapiter
of
his
firste
booke
.
And
if
you
will
take
pleasure
in
Diuination
of
thynges
to
come
,
And
to
the
ende
that
you
shall
not
bee
ignoraunte
in
the
Theorike
,
or
speculation
of
the
saied
Diuination
,
I
will
shewe
you
a
certaine
practise
and
Prognostication
thereof
.
Certaine
greate
lordes
were
curious
to
knowe
,
who
should
bee
successour
to
the
Empire
,
after
Valens
,
fauourer
of
the
damnable
secte
of
the
Arrians
:
Praiyng
the
saied
Philosophers
to
giue
aunswere
,
accordyng
to
their
Arte
and
experience
,
whiche
thei
had
of
suche
thynges
.
Who
were
verie
diligente
to
satisfie
their
requeste
,
as
commonlie
menne
of
letters
are
not
ingrate
to
communicate
to
others
,
the
fruites
of
their
garden
.
Therefore
Iamblicus
,
and
Libanius
,
chose
a
place
verie
plaine
and
equall
,
of
conuenient
largenesse
:
and
caused
fine
pouder
,
or
ashes
to
bee
sifted
therein
.
In
the
whiche
pouder
,
thei
wrote
the
xxiiij
.
letters
of
the
Alphabet
equallie
distaunt
the
one
from
th'
other
,
one
little
cubite
asunder
,
whiche
is
a
foote
and
a
halfe
.
These
xxiiij
.
letters
so
written
and
ordred
,
made
a
figure
pentagon
,
or
of
fiue
angles
,
hauyng
fiue
equall
distaunces
.
Vpon
euery
of
the
whiche
letters
,
thei
laied
tenne
graines
,
one
of
Wheate
,
and
an
other
of
Barleye
.
The
figure
beyng
set
in
order
,
thei
toke
a
Corke
,
&
●aied
to
hym
these
wordes
:
Cocke
enuious
,
Cockeielous
,
Cocke
proude
:
Eate
the
grain
,
and
leaue
the
letter
.
Then
makyng
a
greate
whisperyng
,
in
maner
of
a
Charme
,
thei
lette
the
cocke
so
charmed
,
eate
certaine
of
the
graines
liyng
vpon
the
letters
.
The
which
letters
then
ioyned
togither
,
and
set
in
order
,
according
to
the
graines
whiche
la●e
on
them
these
letters
were
founde
.
T
,
H
,
E
,
O
,
D.
And
by
this
Diuination
by
the
Cocke
,
the
saied
Philosophers
gaue
aunswere
,
that
the
successour
of
the
Empire
,
should
bee
one
Theodosius
,
or
Theodorus
,
or
Theodoius
,
wherof
Valens
beyng
aduertised
,
was
greatly
displeased
,
fearing
least
his
children
should
bee
depriued
of
the
Empire
.
And
therefore
putte
to
death
all
the
greate
Lordes
,
whiche
were
so
named
Iambliucs
,
had
euill
fortune
,
and
shortly
after
was
poisoned
Vopiscus
,
Lampridius
and
Zonare
,
which
haue
written
the
liues
of
the
Emperours
of
the
Easte
and
Weste
,
will
make
you
wise
in
this
Prognostication
.
Not
without
reason
I
haue
rehearsed
vnto
you
this
little
Cubite
.
For
if
you
figure
Pentagon
were
directed
by
the
greate
Cubite
(
whiche
is
of
nyne
foote
,
accordyng
to
the
whiche
,
the
Arke
of
Noe
was
measured
,
as
some
Speculatours
haue
affirmed
,
)
you
might
faile
in
you
Diuination
,
and
shall
not
come
to
the
knowledge
of
that
you
desire
.
Neuerthelesse
,
for
asmuche
as
suche
Diuinations
,
be
deceptes
,
and
inchauntmentes
of
the
eyes
and
senses
,
hauyng
in
them
no
substaunce
of
truthe
,
but
rather
of
lyes
,
you
shall
giue
no
faithe
thereto
.
For
falshoode
is
euer
ouercome
by
by
truthe
:
as
by
example
allegorike
,
Iosephus
in
his
Historie
of
the
Antiquitie
of
the
Iewes
,
in
the
seconde
Booke
and
fifth
Chapiter
declareth
:
As
also
is
written
in
Exodus
.
Capit.
vij
.
Where
the
Rodde
of
Moises
,
was
by
the
finger
of
God
tourned
into
a
verie
Serpent
,
and
deuoured
the
fantastike
Serpentes
of
the
Magicians
of
Pharao
.
And
the
Authours
of
the
saied
Magique
,
finallie
receiued
their
rewarde
as
did
Iamblicus
:
and
as
did
Arphaxat
the
Magician
of
Persia
,
who
was
striken
with
a
Thumderbolte
:
As
was
also
the
Bailise
of
Mascon
,
whom
the
Deuill
caried
awaie
,
as
our
Chronicles
witnesseth
.
And
also
as
were
Mathotin
and
Hollere
,
Magicians
of
the
Gothes
,
whiche
were
ouerwhelmed
,
as
writeth
Olaus
Magnus
in
his
Historie
of
the
Northe
Regions
,
in
the
third
booke
.
Likewise
Oddo
a
Magician
of
Denmarke
,
who
was
drouned
.
And
infinite
others
came
to
the
like
euill
ende
.
But
now
to
retourne
to
our
Hennes
:
To
entreate
theim
and
gouerne
them
well
,
you
must
haue
fower
seruauntes
or
maides
,
with
large
eares
,
well
to
conceiue
,
and
vnderstande
your
commaundementes
:
And
the
feete
of
Hartes
,
with
diligente
expedition
to
execute
the
same
:
And
trustie
right
hande
,
to
bée
faithfull
,
loyall
,
obedience
,
and
of
fewe
wordes
.
For
(
as
saieth
the
Terentian
Parmeno
)
it
is
greate
faute
in
seruauntes
to
bee
babbelers
,
and
not
to
keepe
their
maisters
counsaill
.
Their
office
shal
be
to
bryng
the
Hennes
into
their
bouses
euery
daie
,
at
fiue
of
the
Clocke
in
the
Eueuyng
in
Sommer
:
And
at
three
of
the
Clocke
in
Winter
.
Also
that
thei
bee
diligente
to
close
the
entries
,
and
Windowes
of
the
Henne
houses
,
that
in
the
night
,
the
Foxe
(
naturall
enemie
to
Hennes
)
Weasells
,
or
Polecattes
,
maie
haue
no
accesse
.
And
in
the
Mornyng
,
to
open
the
entrees
and
windowes
,
that
thei
maie
come
foorthe
.
And
then
to
make
cleane
the
Pearches
and
Lathers
.
Also
to
refreashe
their
Pottes
and
Troughes
with
cleane
water
.
For
filthie
and
corrupte
water
,
engendereth
the
pippe
,
and
other
sicknesses
.
In
the
daie
also
,
the
saied
seruauntes
muste
be
myndfull
,
to
visite
the
Paniers
if
thei
be
furnished
with
Haye
,
and
to
refreshe
them
if
neede
bee
.
The
whiche
muste
be
doen
euery
weeke
,
for
engenderyng
of
Life
,
Wormes
,
and
Vermine
,
whiche
make
the
Hennes
leane
,
and
cause
them
to
scrache
.
In
like
maner
thei
muste
bée
diligente
,
in
gatheryng
the
Egges
.
And
by
accompt
to
deliuer
them
to
a
woman
,
whiche
shall
laye
them
in
older
vpon
faire
wheate
strawe
,
in
a
place
of
large
and
free
ayre
,
to
bée
kept
freshe
and
cold
.
The
same
seruauntes
,
after
that
in
the
Mornyng
,
thei
haue
giuen
them
their
feadyng
of
Barly
and
Otes
,
and
sometyntes
also
Fetches
,
or
Tares
,
shall
caste
●mong
theim
some
drie
Horse-dounge
,
to
the
ende
that
the
Hennes
maie
labour
the
more
,
to
searche
their
meate
with
serapyng
.
For
sucke
exercise
,
is
wholsome
for
theim
.
Then
aboute
Noone
,
thei
shall
feede
them
againe
,
callyng
them
with
loude
voice
,
that
thei
maie
be
acquainted
wi●h
the
call
of
their
kepers
,
whom
thei
will
sone
knowe
,
as
did
the
Sparrowe
of
Lesbia
Ca●●lli●●a
:
The
Parratte
of
Corinna
Ouidinna
:
The
Thrustle
of
Agrippina
the
wife
of
the
Emperor
Claudius
:
The
Rauen
of
the
Shomaker
of
Roome
,
whiche
gaue
the
good
Morowe
to
the
Emperours
Tiberius
,
Germanicus
,
and
Drusur
.
And
was
bought
for
xx
.
Sesterns
,
amountyng
to
the
summe
of
v.
hundreth
crounes
of
our
money
,
by
the
supputation
of
Budaus
,
after
the
rate
of
xxv
.
crounes
one
Sesterne
.
And
in
like
maner
shall
thei
doe
a
little
before
thei
bryng
them
to
rouste
.
If
your
yarde
containe
twoo
Acres
inclosed
,
you
maye
thereof
Plowe
halfe
an
Acre
in
some
corner
,
where
the
Hennes
maie
sometymes
in
the
daie
scrape
the
grounde
,
and
tomble
them selves
in
the
duste
or
sande
,
wherein
thei
take
greate
pleasure
.
You
shall
Plowe
or
hardle
the
saied
lande
,
once
in
the
moneth
,
that
it
become
not
to
hard
,
that
the
Hennes
maie
easely
raise
it
,
without
hurtyng
their
clawes
.
You
maie
also
caste
certaine
seedes
vppon
the
Plowed
ground
,
and
couer
it
with
the
hardle
,
that
the
Hennes
maie
take
both
more
pleasure
and
labour
,
in
discoueryng
it
.
For
the
Hennes
through
idlenesse
,
become
grosse
and
heauie
,
and
will
cease
from
laiyng
.
When
your
Housebandrie
shall
bee
thus
well
ordered
,
you
muste
practise
in
the
Citée
of
Paris
,
with
ten
or
twelue
Phisitions
,
dwellyng
in
sundrie
places
of
the
saied
Citée
.
Not
of
the
beardlesse
and
delicate
Apollinaries
,
whiche
care
for
nothyng
but
glorie
,
and
ciuill
flatterie
,
to
get
riche
Wiues
.
But
of
the
bearded
AEsculapians
,
suche
as
was
the
Famous
Florentine
,
a
man
of
singuler
knowledge
and
experience
in
his
doughter
,
pursued
by
the
vnchaste
loue
of
Ladislaus
kyng
of
Naples
and
Hungarie
.
Suche
auncient
Phisicions
will
easely
permitte
the
necessities
of
Nature
,
and
confirme
the
wholesome
Edicte
of
the
Emperour
Claildius
:
who
(
as
witnesseth
Suetonius
)
permitted
in
banquettes
and
compargnies
,
freely
and
without
shame
,
to
lette
scape
the
winde
of
the
bealie
,
knowyng
that
certaine
shamefatte
persones
,
subiecte
to
the
Collicke
,
haue
died
for
holdyng
the
saied
ventositie
:
As
also
Cicero
in
the
xxij
.
booke
of
his
Epistles
,
saith
that
fartyng
ought
to
be
as
free
as
belchyng
,
after
the
opinion
of
the
Stoikes
.
You
shall
giue
theim
to
vnderstande
,
that
you
can
daiely
furnishe
their
Pacientes
with
new
laied
Egges
,
euery
mornyng
without
faile
.
You
shall
also
aduertise
theim
,
of
theim
that
haue
the
sellyng
,
and
distribution
of
them
.
You
shall
also
take
heede
,
that
you
haue
not
to
deale
with
suche
Phisitions
,
which
haue
nought
els
to
doe
them
to
walke
their
Mules
,
as
thei
were
whiche
were
obserued
by
Maister
Francis
Rables
Pentagruell
,
to
departe
out
of
their
lodgyng
at
sixe
of
the
clocke
in
the
mornyng
,
and
to
returne
at
Noone
without
strikyng
of
stroke
.
For
suche
are
the
verie
paciences
of
impacience
,
by
the
vnderstandyng
of
Epoptiques
and
Acromatiques
of
Aristotle
and
Alexander
his
Disciple
,
whiche
thei
thought
onely
worthie
to
bee
read
,
as
writeth
Quintus
Curtius
.
In
like
maner
you
muste
bee
acquainted
with
xv
.
or
xx
.
Gainsellers
,
or
Regraters
,
suche
as
can
chatte
and
babble
beste
,
and
walke
aboute
all
the
streates
,
&
the
fower
corners
of
the
citée
,
and
the
moste
famous
places
of
the
same
:
as
the
Burse
,
the
Pallaice
,
the
greate
Haules
,
the
Portes
,
and
other
places
of
greate
resorte
:
Assuryng
theim
to
furnishe
them
daiely
of
a
number
of
newe
laied
Egges
,
whiche
thei
shall
sell
and
distribute
to
your
profite
,
agreyng
with
theim
for
reasonable
price
and
wages
,
as
shal
be
saied
hereafter
.
Hauyng
kepte
this
order
,
you
shall
bee
carefull
and
diligent
,
to
cause
your
Egges
daiely
to
bee
caried
to
the
Gainfellers
,
or
women
that
shall
sell
them
again
in
the
mornyng
of
the
daie
followyng
.
You
maie
carie
them
best
vpon
Asses
.
For
whiche
purpose
,
that
Beaste
is
verie
proper
,
because
of
his
slowe
goyng
,
that
he
breake
not
the
Egges
.
But
take
héede
that
thei
eate
no
Figges
,
leaste
you
bruste
for
laughyng
,
as
did
the
Philosopher
Chrysippus
,
as
writeth
Diogenes
Laertius
,
in
his
booke
of
the
liues
of
Philosophers
.
The
like
also
thaunced
to
Philomenes
,
as
writeth
Valerius
Maximus
,
in
his
Chapiter
of
rare
kyndes
of
Death
.
Now
it
resteth
to
make
you
vnderstande
the
profite
,
that
shall
come
vnto
you
daiely
of
your
summe
:
all
charges
and
expenses
deducted
:
the
rente
of
your
house
paied
,
the
wages
of
your
seruauntes
,
the
Gainsellers
contented
,
the
charges
of
the
Asse
,
his
kéeper
compted
,
and
also
the
graine
or
corne
wherwith
your
Hennes
are
sedde
.
For
of
the
sale
of
Egges
is
taken
no
custome
,
or
imposition
,
as
was
in
the
tyme
of
Ihon
Ducas
Emperour
of
Comstantinople
,
and
successour
of
Theodosius
Lascaris
,
who
was
so
excessiue
,
that
in
a
fewe
daies
,
the
Croune
of
Irene
the
Empresse
,
was
thereby
marueilousty
enriched
in
precious
stones
and
iewelles
,
as
Nephorius
hath
left
in
writyng
,
in
the
third
booke
of
the
Historie
Bizantine
,
in
the
chapiter
,
of
the
famine
of
the
Turkes
.
You
shall
fell
,
or
cause
to
be
solde
,
euery
newe
laied
egge
easely
for
sixe
Frenche
pence
the
péece
.
How
many
Gentlemenne
and
Gentlewomen
are
there
,
whiche
greatly
desire
in
the
Mornyng
,
to
eate
a
newe
laied
Egge
:
How
many
are
there
of
Citezins
,
and
their
wiues
,
touched
with
the
like
desire
:
How
many
old
folkes
wearie
of
Fleshe
,
could
for
their
Dinner
bée
contente
,
with
a
newe
laied
Egge
or
twoo
:
For
you
must
knowe
that
an
Egge
,
is
naturally
of
good
nourishemente
,
wholsome
,
delicate
of
easie
digestion
,
and
maketh
good
bloud
,
as
writeth
Alexander
Aphrodiseus
in
his
seconde
booke
,
and
xxviij
.
question
of
his
Problemes
.
Likewise
Albertus
Magnus
writeth
,
that
an
Egge
engendereth
in
manne
,
as
muche
good
blood
,
as
is
the
bignesse
of
the
yolke
,
whiche
tourneth
almoste
all
into
bloud
.
I
haue
yet
made
no
memorie
of
sicke
folkes
,
whiche
of
necessitie
haue
nede
of
new
laied
Egges
,
by
the
ordinaunce
of
the
Phisitions
,
whose
freendship
you
shall
entertaine
for
the
same
purpose
.
The
number
of
the
whiche
sicke
folkes
,
I
am
sure
in
the
saied
Citée
,
will
daiely
surmounte
a
thousande
persones
:
without
speakyng
of
them
that
kéepe
a
certain
diet
,
as
well
to
encrease
the
lustes
of
their
pleasures
in
Venerie
,
as
also
to
restore
that
which
somtyme
by
excessiue
wantonnesse
,
thei
haue
diminished
of
their
strengthe
and
health
.
For
these
also
shall
haue
neede
of
your
marchandize
.
You
maie
therefore
by
this
deduction
,
bée
assured
of
the
vent
and
sale
,
and
deliueraunce
of
your
Egges
daie
by
daie
as
muche
as
your
Hennes
shall
doe
their
endeuour
,
orderly
to
furnishe
your
Customers
.
Now
lette
vs
retourne
to
our
accompt
.
You
can
gather
no
lesse
euery
daie
of
your
xij
.
hundreth
Hennes
,
then
eight
hundreth
Egges
:
whiche
are
twoo
terces
or
thirde
partes
of
the
number
:
Leauyng
the
other
terce
or
thirde
parte
of
your
Hennes
,
in
the
meane
tyme
to
reste
and
repose
theim selues
.
For
the
season
is
not
euery
daie
agreable
for
all
Hennes
to
laye
:
Specially
in
the
middest
of
Winter
,
and
other
tymes
neare
vnto
that
.
But
you
shall
then
helpe
them
in
giuyng
them
Fenegreke
,
commonly
called
the
dredge
of
Horses
.
And
also
Barly
halfe
sodde
.
For
these
thinges
kéepe
them
in
naturall
heate
,
and
cause
them
to
laye
.
Eight
hundreth
Egges
,
by
supputation
Arithmeticall
,
Let
vs
diuise
the
charges
.
And
that
whiche
then
remaineth
,
wée
will
call
the
gaines
and
profite
.
For
the
Lawiers
saie
,
that
wée
call
nothyng
profite
,
sauyng
what
remaineth
after
the
charges
deducted
:
as
the
famous
Lawier
acon
hath
well
defined
in
the
xxiij
.
boke
of
the
Pandectes
,
vnder
the
title
of
repetition
of
dowrie
after
the
mariage
dissolued
.
First
for
the
pension
of
the
woorke
man
,
For
fower
Seruauntes
or
maides
,
xx
.
Souses
the
daie
,
which
is
for
eche
of
them
for
wages
,
meate
and
drinke
,
fiue
Souses
to
finde
theim selues
:
amountyng
in
the
yere
to
the
like
summe
of
thrée
hundreth
thrée
score
and
fiue
Frankes
.
AEneas
Syluius
in
the
xlij
.
Chapiter
of
his
Historie
of
Boheme
.
For
the
charges
of
the
twoo
Asses
(
although
Thistles
growe
euery
where
aboundantly
)
wée
will
allowe
v.
Souses
daie
:
amountyng
to
fower
score
and
twelue
Frankes
,
The
Emperour
Augustus
Caesar
after
the
victorie
Actium
against
Antonius
,
iniured
by
the
loue
of
Cleopatra
Queene
of
Egipte
,
goyng
to
sée
the
Shippes
captiue
,
found
sodainly
an
Asse
keper
,
and
asked
hym
what
was
his
name
:
Who
aunswered
that
his
name
was
Fortunatus
:
and
the
names
of
his
Asses
,
Victorious
.
Thereby
gratulating
the
victorie
of
the
Emperor
.
You
maie
féele
the
profite
of
your
Asses
with
like
congratulation
,
and
hope
of
good
Fortune
and
victorie
,
against
them
that
would
haue
throwen
you
into
miserable
pouertie
:
if
you
folowe
your
businesse
with
requisite
diligence
as
did
the
saied
Emperor
Augustus
his
warres
:
Auoidyng
suche
delices
&
pleasures
,
as
Antonius
vsed
with
Cleopatra
.
For
meate
or
féedyng
for
the
Hennes
,
shall
suffice
for
the
daie
twoo
quarters
of
Paris
measure
,
as
well
in
Barly
as
in
Otes
,
Fitches
,
or
Tares
:
and
in
Winter
,
As
touchyng
the
Phisitians
,
some
of
theim selues
shall
haue
néede
of
your
marchandice
:
as
thei
that
haue
a
Famely
,
and
many
little
children
:
whom
you
must
visite
wéekely
with
certain
quarterons
of
newe
laied
Egges
,
brought
on
Thursdaie
for
Fridaie
&
Saterdaie
.
At
Easter
also
with
certaine
Red
Egges
to
present
to
their
neighhours
,
as
the
reuenue
of
their
practike
.
But
suche
as
haue
no
familie
,
and
seke
for
wife
and
house
,
followyng
the
precepte
of
Xenophon
in
his
Oeconomiques
,
you
may
to
(
gratifie
then
)
shewe
them
the
increase
of
your
Housebandry
,
and
recite
vnto
them
the
pleasure
whiche
you
receiue
therein
,
to
hasten
them
to
caste
theim selues
into
the
nette
of
happie
Mishap
,
and
yet
in
the
meane
tyme
honour
them
with
some
pretie
Presentes
.
And
if
you
haue
the
meanes
to
recouer
Pullettes
,
or
Chikens
of
the
race
of
he
Henne
,
whiche
engendered
them
perfectly
formed
,
scrapyng
and
pepyng
,
and
followyng
the
Henne
,
as
sone
as
thei
bee
out
of
the
Egge
(
as
rehearseth
Apuleius
in
his
booke
of
the
golden
Asse
)
you
maie
thereby
giue
argument
of
high
Philosophie
of
noueltées
,
vpon
the
doubte
whiche
thei
make
,
if
the
round
Egges
bryng
forthe
Cockes
,
and
the
long
Egges
Hennes
.
Wherein
Albertus
Magnus
the
Ape
of
Aristotle
,
doeth
contrary
his
Maister
,
in
the
sixth
booke
of
Beastes
.
But
in
the
resolution
of
this
question
,
you
shall
finde
them
no
lesse
trouble
,
then
in
this
:
whiche
is
,
why
there
are
moe
Shéepe
then
Wolues
:
Seyng
that
one
Shéepe
commonly
engendereth
not
but
one
,
or
seldome
tymes
twoo
,
whereas
the
Wolfe
bryngeth
forthe
eight
or
nyne
.
Againe
,
in
consideration
that
for
one
Wolfe
that
is
killed
,
a
thousande
or
twoo
thousande
Shéepe
goe
to
the
slaughter
.
For
the
reason
whiche
Herodotus
bryngeth
in
his
thirde
booke
of
his
Muse
of
Thalia
,
(
where
he
saieth
,
that
Nature
hath
made
fierce
and
cruell
Beastes
more
fruitfull
,
speakyng
of
the
multitude
of
Serpentes
and
Vipers
,
whiche
in
Arabia
kéepe
the
Trees
of
Frankensence
)
can
not
bée
applied
to
Wolues
,
whiche
are
fierce
and
rauenyng
.
But
to
retourne
to
our
charges
.
For
the
entertainemente
of
the
saied
Phisitians
,
Valerius
Maximus
maketh
mention
in
his
vij
.
booke
.
To
the
Gainsellers
,
Then
the
supputation
or
compte
beyng
made
vppon
xx
.
And
when
your
laiyng
Hennes
shal
be
no
more
then
sixe
hundreth
a
daie
,
leauyng
the
other
sixe
hundreth
in
reste
to
abide
their
season
,
yet
shall
remaine
vnto
you
xv
.
Frankes
by
the
daie
:
and
by
the
yere
,
thre
thousande
,
Whiche
séemeth
to
me
an
honest
gaine
and
profite
,
vpon
the
emploiyng
of
so
little
a
summe
,
and
that
,
without
all
filthie
Vsurie
:
By
the
meanes
also
whereof
,
you
maie
feaste
your
fréendes
,
and
leade
a
ioyfull
life
:
I
saie
not
prodigall
,
as
of
AEsope
the
Tragike
,
with
his
platter
of
small
Birdes
,
whereof
Plinie
maketh
mention
in
the
tenth
booke
of
his
Naturall
Historie
.
Neither
so
daintie
or
gluttonous
as
of
Apitius
,
that
was
in
the
tyme
of
the
Emperour
Tiberius
.
Neither
yet
so
sumptuous
&
magnificent
,
as
that
of
Lucullus
noted
of
Plutarche
(
in
his
booke
of
the
liues
of
famous
men
)
for
the
Bankett
whiche
he
made
vpon
the
sodaine
,
for
Pompeius
and
Cicero
:
the
expense
whereof
was
no
lesse
then
xij
.
hundreth
and
fiftie
Crounes
,
commyng
to
L.
Sesternes
Romaine
.
Or
that
of
Pomponius
Atticus
.
Againe
on
the
other
parte
.
I
meane
not
that
your
liuyng
shal
be
so
streight
,
in
frugalitie
or
sparyng
.
as
was
that
of
Curius
Dentatus
,
who
liued
with
Radishe
rootes
.
Or
of
Pertinax
who
would
be
serued
tenne
times
with
one
salet
.
Neither
so
vile
or
sparyng
,
as
was
Epaminondas
a
greate
Lorde
of
Thebes
,
who
kepte
his
chamber
while
his
apparell
was
amendyng
,
because
he
would
haue
no
chaunge
.
But
temperate
and
modeste
,
as
that
of
the
kynges
of
Egipte
,
who
before
thei
fell
to
their
meate
,
disputed
of
modestie
and
sobrietie
,
takyng
pleasure
in
bankettes
,
more
ioyefull
,
then
sumptuous
or
exquisite
.
And
so
shall
you
not
faule
into
the
penaltie
of
the
Lawe
Numerall
of
Iulius
,
who
prefined
a
Taxe
to
be
paied
of
the
charges
,
made
in
greate
feastes
and
bankettes
.
And
for
as
muche
as
it
maie
seme
a
thyng
vndecent
,
that
a
man
should
make
profession
of
an
Art
,
or
trafique
of
marchaundize
,
whereof
he
hath
no
knowledge
,
beyng
ignorant
of
the
natures
and
temperatures
of
the
thynges
whiche
he
hath
in
hande
:
I
will
not
faile
to
aduertise
you
of
the
diseases
,
whiche
come
to
Hennes
and
Cockes
,
and
of
their
remedies
,
and
when
it
shal
bée
néedefull
to
chaunge
them
,
and
put
others
in
their
places
,
to
th'
ende
that
your
number
doe
not
diminishe
:
as
you
knowe
that
by
surrogation
,
the
kyndes
of
all
thynges
are
preserued
in
their
beyng
,
and
so
remaine
perpetually
:
as
Diuine
Diotimus
taught
Socrates
in
the
seconde
booke
of
the
feast
of
Plato
.
Their
common
disease
is
the
Pippe
,
whiche
is
a
disease
of
the
tongue
,
the
ende
whereof
is
thereby
hardened
,
in
maner
of
a
gristle
.
And
thereby
also
the
Henne
loseth
her
taste
bothe
in
eatyng
and
drinkyng
:
and
infecteth
the
other
Hennes
,
specially
within
the
house
,
and
place
of
their
feding
.
This
disease
proceedeth
,
either
of
beeyng
long
without
drinkyng
of
cleane
and
freashe
water
,
or
by
drinkyng
of
foule
and
stinkyng
water
.
And
to
heale
it
,
you
muste
take
the
Henne
,
and
take
awaie
the
superfluitie
,
which
groweth
on
the
tongue
hardened
at
the
ende
.
And
then
washe
the
tongue
and
beake
with
Oile
,
in
the
whiche
shall
bée
tempered
a
hedde
of
Garlike
.
And
putte
emong
their
meate
Staphisacre
:
and
to
rubbe
the
tongue
wel
with
spettle
or
Vineger
,
first
tempered
in
the
mouthe
of
the
seruaunt
.
An other
disease
,
is
the
Catarre
or
Rheume
,
whiche
is
a
fluxion
of
colde
Humours
in
the
hedde
of
the
Hennes
,
makyng
them
to
hang
their
winges
,
and
their
crestes
or
combes
.
The
remedie
is
,
to
trauerse
or
ouerthwart
ther
nosethrilles
with
a
Feather
put
through
them
,
to
open
the
Fluxion
or
Rheume
that
is
stopped
,
and
maketh
them
blinde
.
It
shall
also
bée
good
to
warme
their
drinke
in
Winter
:
Because
suche
diseases
procéede
of
cold
,
or
drinkyng
of
Frosen
water
,
or
liyng
vnder
that
Moone
,
the
mother
of
al
moistnesse
.
Against
the
Lice
and
vermine
,
whiche
make
them
leane
,
féeble
,
and
vnfruitfull
,
I
haue
shewed
you
the
remedie
.
But
when
the
disease
is
now
come
,
the
remedie
is
to
bathe
them
with
a
little
Wine
,
or
drinke
,
in
the
whiche
shall
bée
sodden
some
Comin
or
Staphisacre
,
commonly
called
the
death
of
Lice
,
appliyng
it
to
the
heddes
of
little
children
,
with
oyntmentes
.
If
you
doubt
,
how
I
knowe
this
,
not
alledgyng
any
Authour
for
the
proofe
:
you
shall
vnderstande
that
I
haue
learned
it
,
by
practize
of
the
common
people
,
in
like
maner
as
the
wise
men
emong
the
Hebrues
,
named
Cabalistae
,
and
the
like
emong
the
Gaules
named
Druydes
,
learned
their
Seiences
by
tradition
,
from
mouthe
to
mouthe
,
and
from
hand
to
hande
without
Letters
.
Whereby
is
come
to
passe
,
that
in
our
Feaunce
,
the
gouernmente
is
more
by
customes
not
written
,
then
by
written
lawes
:
As
Iulius
Caesar
hath
written
in
his
Commeutaries
,
of
the
conquest
of
the
Gaules
or
Frenchemen
,
in
his
sixte
Booke
.
The
auncientes
haue
written
certain
remedies
,
to
kepe
the
Hennes
from
the
Foxe
,
as
Palladius
in
his
Booke
of
Housebandrie
,
teacheth
how
to
rubbe
the
walles
of
the
Hen
house
,
with
the
gaule
of
a
Foxe
and
to
cutte
in
little
peeces
the
fleshe
of
a
Foxe
,
and
to
mingle
it
with
the
Hennes
meat
to
cause
the
Foxe
to
abhorre
to
come
neare
it
,
by
feelyng
the
death
of
his
proper
kynde
,
whiche
nature
can
not
abide
,
as
writeth
Plinie
in
the
xxix
.
booke
of
his
Naturall
Historie
.
But
the
moste
soueraigne
remedie
,
is
to
kéepe
faste
and
close
the
doores
and
windowes
in
the
Night
.
And
that
in
the
Daie
.
you
seruauntes
often
tymes
come
,
and
goe
in
all
places
and
corners
of
your
close
.
And
that
neare
vnto
it
,
or
the
Henne
house
,
bée
no
heapes
of
woodde
,
bushes
,
or
stones
,
where
suche
beastes
maie
bée
hidde
or
harboured
.
For
,
the
beastes
whiche
liue
by
rapte
,
haue
euer
a
certaine
feare
ioyned
with
their
craftinesse
,
and
desire
of
rauenyng
.
Aboute
the
tyme
of
Autumne
,
you
shall
euery
yere
draw
a
hundred
or
twoo
hundred
of
the
eldest
of
your
Hennes
,
and
suche
as
haue
their
clawes
longest
,
and
grossest
.
In
place
of
the
whiche
,
you
shall
put
yonger
of
suche
sorte
or
qualitie
,
as
I
haue
before
described
.
If
peraduenture
you
be
of
opinion
,
to
kepe
your
Egges
of
one
season
for
an
other
,
you
must
laye
them
in
order
vpon
sheaues
or
strawe
verie
freshe
,
with
the
sharpe
ende
vpward
or
to
laye
them
in
Paniers
in
like
maner
.
And
that
thei
bée
well
couered
with
strawe
,
that
thei
bee
not
tourned
by
too
muche
heate
,
or
cold
.
And
if
you
wil
chose
the
beste
for
your
fréendes
,
take
Candida
.
Longa
,
Noua
(
that
is
)
White
,
Long
,
and
New
,
folowyng
the
opinion
of
the
Schoole
of
Salerne
.
The
other
twoo
Acres
whiche
remaine
aboute
youre
yarde
,
courte
,
or
place
inclosed
,
shall
be
commodious
to
sow
Barly
,
whiche
is
a
graine
verie
proper
for
the
noriture
of
Hennes
.
And
if
you
can
recouer
Barly
of
the
sede
of
AEthiope
whereas
dwell
the
Iewes
of
the
ligue
of
Dan
,
Nephthalin
,
Gad
,
&
Asser
,
neare
to
the
riuer
of
Sabbatique
(
whiche
Moises
affirmeth
to
bee
the
Riuer
in
the
holie
scripture
called
Gozan
)
it
shall
bee
singuler
good
,
because
one
graine
thereof
bryngeth
forthe
an
hundred
,
as
Eldad
Damus
the
Hebrewe
hath
written
in
his
brief
Historie
of
the
Empire
of
the
Iewes
inclosed
in
AEthiope
.
I
will
write
vnto
you
more
amplie
of
the
other
profites
,
whiche
concerne
the
noriture
of
Hennes
,
and
of
what
properties
thei
are
,
and
what
one
maie
drawe
of
their
substances
.
But
my
ende
hath
been
none
other
,
then
to
giue
aduise
,
how
for
a
little
summe
of
money
,
&
little
trauaile
,
you
maie
gette
greate
profite
:
to
the
ende
that
you
maie
the
more
easely
forgette
your
losses
,
and
accustome
your self
to
the
noise
and
cluckyng
of
your
Hennes
:
and
not
to
seeme
more
delicate
,
then
was
the
good
Philosopher
Socrates
,
who
bore
it
easely
,
because
thei
laied
hym
Egges
:
as
he
bore
paciently
the
murmuryng
and
scoldyng
of
his
wife
Xantippe
,
because
she
bore
hym
children
.
You
maie
euery
daie
see
your
menage
,
or
Housebandrie
.
And
(
as
did
the
Peripatetici
)
walke
aboute
the
closes
,
and
other
places
:
and
consider
the
endeuour
of
your
seruauntes
.
Whom
also
by
this
meanes
,
you
shall
make
more
carefull
and
diligente
:
and
your
Hennes
better
intreated
,
accordyng
to
the
Apophthegme
whiche
saieth
:
That
the
eye
of
the
maister
,
maketh
the
seruaunt
prompter
,
and
the
horse
fatter
:
as
also
Aristotle
maketh
mention
in
his
firste
booke
of
Oeconomikes
.
But
how
so
euer
it
bee
,
directe
your
Housebandrie
in
suche
order
,
that
bones
bee
not
giuen
to
Asses
,
and
Thistles
to
Dogges
.
The
Maide
seruaunte
,
or
Chamberlaine
of
Prometheus
(
named
Experience
)
who
serued
hym
,
after
that
he
hadde
brought
from
Heauen
the
liberall
Sciences
,
and
to
whom
when
he
drewe
neare
to
death
,
he
gaue
them
by
Testament
,
maie
in
short
tyme
assure
you
,
either
to
continew
this
marchandize
and
trafique
,
or
to
leaue
it
.
For
she
(
Experience
I
meane
)
is
one
of
the
chief
Seruauntes
,
whiche
you
muste
haue
,
with
other
diligence
compaignie
.
You
ought
not
to
take
it
gréeuously
,
to
leaue
your
dwellyng
place
,
and
accustomed
pleasaunte
ayre
,
or
your
neighbours
,
cousins
,
or
frendes
.
For
you
knowe
well
the
incommodities
whiche
ciuill
warre
bringeth
,
the
whiche
(
as
writeth
Cicero
to
Marcus
Marcellus
,
in
the
fowerth
booke
of
his
familer
Epistles
)
is
no
lesse
lamentable
,
then
the
victorie
gotten
by
sheadyng
of
domesticall
bloud
.
And
therefore
not
without
reason
saieth
the
Prouerbe
,
That
warre
is
pleasaunte
to
suche
,
as
hath
no
experience
thereof
.
The
whiche
saiyng
,
Erasmus
,
a
rare
man
in
all
kinde
of
learnyng
hath
in
his
Chiliades
,
dilated
by
many
examples
:
As
you
maie
also
easely
iude
at
this
present
.
You
knowe
also
that
the
Marchaunt
to
flie
pouertie
,
hazardeth
hym self
by
lande
and
sea
,
and
leaueth
his
natiue
Ayre
and
Countrie
.
And
for
the
doubte
that
you
maie
haue
,
not
to
bee
assured
in
peaceable
possession
of
your
inclosed
ground
,
against
the
violence
of
Théeues
or
Souldiers
:
I
would
wishe
you
for
the
garde
thereof
,
either
the
wakyng
Serpente
,
whiche
kept
the
Gardens
of
Hesperides
(
famous
for
the
golden
aples
)
slaine
by
Hercules
of
Thebes
,
or
the
furious
Bulles
,
whche
kepte
the
Golden
Fléese
in
the
Ile
of
Colchos
,
vnder
kyng
AE●●tas
the
Father
of
Medea
,
whiche
were
ouercome
and
tamed
by
Iason
of
Thessalia
,
at
the
voiage
of
the
Argonau
tae
.
Haue
recourse
to
the
Metamorphoses
of
Ouid
,
in
the
fowerth
and
seuenth
booke
.
But
better
then
all
this
,
shall
serue
for
your
securitie
,
a
Tablet
of
three
flower
de
Liees
(
the
Kynges
Seale
)
autorised
by
the
kyng
:
whiche
shall
bee
of
greater
efficacie
,
then
any
other
saucgarde
that
you
can
desire
.
For
finall
counsail
,
I
praie
you
continue
in
the
loue
and
feare
of
GOD
,
obeisaunce
to
your
Prince
,
and
his
Magistrates
,
reuerence
to
all
superious
,
with
pacience
of
your
losses
,
to
occupie
your
trade
without
fraude
,
and
you
shall
finde
multiplication
of
all
your
goodes
.
And
then
(
as
saith
Iuuenal
in
his
thirde
Satyre
)
you
maie
say
,
that
your
are
the
sonne
of
a
white
Henne
.
But
when
you
shall
bee
knowen
to
doe
seruice
,
to
so
excellent
a
common
wealthe
,
as
is
the
Citée
of
Paris
(
whiche
surmounteth
all
those
that
haue
been
Famous
emong
the
Greekes
)
and
that
you
haue
giuen
the
firste
entrie
,
and
(
as
saieth
the
Prouerbe
)
broken
the
Ise
to
others
,
I
suppose
your
enemies
shall
bee
repulsed
,
as
were
thei
of
Furius
Cressinus
Citezin
of
Roome
,
enuied
of
his
neighbours
,
because
that
of
a
little
he
raised
more
Gaine
,
then
thei
d.
d
of
muche
Tillage
.
For
the
whiche
thei
imputed
vnto
him
,
that
he
vsed
Witcherafre
,
and
Inchauntmente
.
Who
bringyng
forthe
his
Instrumentes
of
Housebandrie
,
his
diligent
seruauntes
,
and
also
his
owne
Daughter
moste
skilfull
in
menage
,
was
discharged
of
all
suche
suspicious
,
and
of
all
men
greately
commended
,
as
writeth
Titus
Liuius
.
And
furthermore
,
your
felicitie
and
prosperitie
,
shal
be
a
passion
to
your
enemies
,
as
chaunceth
to
all
enuious
persones
.
I
knowe
other
experiences
verie
prompte
.
But
of
no
greater
gaine
then
sixe
Frankes
the
daie
,
Peraduenture
some
will
thinke
this
Counsaill
verie
straunge
and
ridiculous
,
and
perhaps
of
difficult
execution
.
To
thinke
it
straunge
,
there
is
no
greate
reason
,
considering
that
nourishyng
of
Hennes
for
honest
gaines
,
is
no
newe
or
straunge
thing
,
if
we
beleue
that
whiche
Celius
Rhodoginus
,
a
worthie
Autor
,
hath
written
in
his
14.
booke
of
Antiquities
:
That
in
the
Ile
of
Delos
(
otherwise
called
Ortygia
for
the
abundance
of
Qualies
)
beyng
one
of
the
moste
famous
of
the
Cyclades
in
the
sea
Aegaeum
,
were
founde
many
that
made
estate
and
trafique
of
the
nourishement
of
Hennes
,
for
gaine
and
profite
.
Who
were
so
well
exercised
herein
,
and
in
the
knowledge
of
their
Hennes
,
that
onely
vpon
the
sight
of
an
Egge
,
thei
could
easily
iudge
what
Hen
it
came
from
.
Therefore
,
that
sellyng
of
Egges
hath
euer
been
a
thyng
commonly
vsed
:
haue
recoursed
to
the
Impost
,
which
was
in
the
tyme
of
the
Emperour
Honorius
,
as
is
saied
heretofore
.
As
touchyng
mockers
,
no
man
can
establishe
any
thing
so
good
,
or
well
ordered
,
that
the
Mocker
shall
not
bite
,
when
Enuie
hath
made
impression
in
his
foolishe
Braine
,
and
hath
there
taken
vp
his
sod●yng
,
to
torment
his
Hoste
.
And
to
resolue
you
of
suche
difficulties
,
let
vs
take
holde
of
the
saiyng
of
Agathon
a
yong
gentleman
,
in
the
Oration
whiche
he
made
of
Loue
in
the
feaste
of
Plato
,
saiyng
:
That
we
ought
more
to
feare
the
iudgement
of
a
fewe
wise
men
,
then
of
many
ignoraunt
fooles
and
mockers
.
For
Wisemen
slowlie
giue
the
loose
bridle
to
their
congues
,
but
vse
their
wordes
with
iudgemente
:
as
also
writeth
Cicero
in
his
Oration
for
Plancius
,
saiyng
:
That
the
iudgemente
of
tenne
wise
and
graue
men
in
one
Citée
,
importeth
more
then
the
iudgemente
of
all
the
common
people
,
who
for
the
moste
parte
,
iudge
without
counsaill
or
reason
.
If
any
maune
shall
saie
,
that
the
inuention
of
this
counsaile
is
old
:
I
confesse
vnto
you
,
that
I
am
not
the
firste
reacher
hereof
,
as
was
Carbilius
of
the
firste
letters
at
Rome
,
or
the
firste
Schoolemaister
:
yet
hath
it
not
been
practised
in
our
tyme
.
And
as
writeth
the
Poet
Horatius
,
Many
thinges
are
renewed
,
whiche
tyme
hath
deuoured
,
and
buried
as
deade
,
the
whiche
againe
in
tyme
,
shall
bee
drouned
in
the
riuer
of
Obliuion
,
and
shall
againe
retourne
to
their
estate
by
course
,
as
doe
in
maner
all
worldly
thinges
,
as
wise
Salomon
also
witnesseth
.
Assure
your self
my
deare
fréede
,
that
Magnifico
Megret
,
or
any
other
Alchimiste
,
haue
not
with
their
Fornaces
and
Alembikes
,
drawne
more
profite
by
the
Philosophers
Stone
,
then
you
shall
drawe
out
of
the
bealie
of
your
Hennes
,
if
you
will
ioyne
pleasure
with
paine
.
And
so
shall
you
bée
out
of
the
daunger
,
into
whiche
suche
Alchimistes
fall
,
who
oftentymes
consume
their
Patrimonie
,
and
blowe
it
awaie
with
Bellowes
.
But
euer
beware
the
Foxe
.
In
the
meane
tyme
,
you
shall
receiue
of
your
fréende
this
little
gift
suche
as
it
is
,
in
hope
hereafter
to
recouer
of
hym
some
better
thyng
,
when
occasion
doeth
serue
:
whiche
(
occasion
)
you
must
take
by
the
haire
before
,
that
it
scape
not
from
you
.
Now
therefore
,
for
the
ende
of
this
accompte
,
you
must
arme
your self
with
pacience
,
when
affliction
is
sent
,
and
auoide
pouertie
(
the
enemie
of
all
good
maners
)
by
exercise
of
honeste
and
profitable
frugalitie
in
vsyng
the
thynges
,
whiche
you
haue
gotten
by
your
labour
:
and
therewith
also
a
reputation
not
bulgare
,
whiche
shall
bée
bruted
through
all
Fraunce
,
for
the
noueltie
of
your
enterprise
.
Whereof
some
will
take
suche
pleasure
,
as
maie
moue
the
seuere
Catoes
to
laughyng
,
and
raise
the
Melancholike
Milte
of
wéepyng
Democrites
.
And
finally
,
you
shall
herewith
receiue
the
contentation
of
your
louyng
fréende
,
with
this
pleasaunte
present
,
to
mitigate
the
sorrowes
of
these
Cloudie
tymes
,
and
to
put
you
in
good
comforte
of
better
hope
in
tyme
to
come
.
Hatchyng
of
Egges
without
Hennes
,
as
writeth
Ioannes
Porta
in
his
seconde
Booke
of
Magike
Naturall
.
TAke
the
dounge
of
Pigeons
or
Hennes
,
beaten
into
pouder
,
and
finely
Sifted
.
Then
laye
the
Egges
in
suche
sort
,
that
one
touche
not
an
other
for
breaking
.
And
sée
thei
bée
well
couered
with
the
saied
dounge
,
bothe
vnder
and
aboue
,
in
close
Panniers
or
Coopes
,
commodious
for
the
purpose
,
so
that
the
rounder
or
bigger
ende
of
the
Egges
bée
dounwarde
.
But
firste
,
you
muste
laie
a
bedde
of
Hennes
feathers
,
and
thereon
the
dounge
:
and
likewise
an
other
ranke
or
bedde
of
feathers
vppon
the
dounge
that
couereth
the
Egges
.
This
doen
,
you
shall
euery
xxiiij
.
houres
tourne
the
Egges
,
that
thei
maie
equally
receiue
the
heate
.
Thei
must
thus
bée
kept
,
in
a
place
of
temperate
heate
.
And
when
twentie
daies
are
paste
,
if
you
shall
perceiue
that
the
chickins
strike
the
shell
with
their
billes
,
harken
if
thei
péepe
.
For
often
it
chaunceth
,
that
for
the
thicknesse
of
the
skinne
or
filme
,
thei
can
not
breake
foorth
.
Then
helpe
them
with
takyng
of
the
shell
.
And
immediatly
bryng
the
Henne
vnto
them
.
The
like
maie
be
doen
in
a
warme
Ouen
,
tempered
to
the
measure
and
proportion
of
Natural
heate
.
Likewise
also
in
hotte
horse
dounge
,
with
like
diligence
of
measuryng
,
and
conseruyng
the
heate
,
with
adding
of
newe
and
pure
dounge
euery
seuenth
daie
.
Cardanns
in
his
xij
.
booke
De
Subtilitate
,
writeth
muche
in
like
maner
:
But
saieth
that
you
muste
firste
make
twoo
Cusshions
or
Pillowes
,
filled
with
Hennes
dounge
,
beaten
into
fine
pouder
and
sifted
.
Then
by
sowyng
,
or
other
meanes
fastenyng
on
the
Pillowes
,
Hennes
fethers
,
bothe
great
and
small
of
good
thickenesse
,
and
laye
the
Egges
betwene
theim
in
a
warme
place
&c.
as
before
.
He
writeth
that
in
the
greate
Citie
of
Alkair
or
Babilonia
Noua
in
Egipte
,
thei
vse
thus
to
hatche
Egges
in
greate
multitude
.
Finis
.